Browsing Archive: November, 2014
Posted by Charity Watcher on Friday, November 28, 2014,
Everybody is a consumer. Such
fact makes the work of
Public Citizen Foundation of great importance in modern
society particularly in the United States.
Public Citizen Foundation, a
non-profit organization, prides itself on being one of the premier consumer
rights advocacy groups and leading think tanks in the country. Its pride rests
not just on its accomplishments in the protection of consumer rights but also
on its fierce independence - the organization neither participates in partisan
pol...
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Posted by Charity Watcher on Tuesday, November 25, 2014,
Who would have thought that
moustaches can be used for noble advocacies? But such is the case with Movember Foundation, a non-profit
foundation that conducts an annual event designed to raise awareness of issues
related to men's health including prostate cancer.
Why Movember? It is a portmanteau
of "mo", the Australian-English slang for moustache, and
"November", the month when the foundation conducts its ever-growing
annual charity event. It also helps that Movember sounds like "move memb...
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Posted by Charity Watcher on Friday, November 21, 2014,
The case of Brittany Lauren Maynard, an American with
terminal brain cancer who ended her own life and was one of the well-known
advocates for the legalization of assistance in dying, put a face to the fight
of
Compassion & Choices for those who have yet to hear of it.
Compassion & Choices, a non-profit organization,
advocates for and ensures access to options regarding the right to die with
dignity especially in terminal cases and progressive diseases. Basically, its
members work toward the...
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Posted by Charity Watcher on Tuesday, November 18, 2014,
The fight for reproductive rights continues and the
Planned
Parenthood Action Fund is at the front lines. The national non-profit
organization is both the political arm and non-partisan advocacy group of the
Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) that, in turn, is the
International Planned Parenthood Federation's (IPPF) affiliate in the United
States. Both the PPFA and the IPPF obviously provide for effective and
efficient reproductive health services as well as maternal and child he...
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Posted by Charity Watcher on Friday, November 14, 2014,
In the non-government industry, the best funds use 5-10
percent of their contributions and donations for overhead expenses. In this
case, donors and contributors have another reason to place their money at the
Proven Impact Fund (PIF) - its operator, Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA),
a poverty intervention research organization, uses 100% of all the fund donations
in supporting and expanding effective and efficient interventions to many of
the world's most pressing issues.
The fund is ut...
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Posted by Charity Watcher on Tuesday, November 11, 2014,
Easy access to safe potable water and to deworming services
are the flagship programs of
Evidence Action, a non-government organization
that runs sustainable, cost-efficient and scale-effective programs designed to
lessen the diseases and deaths brought by these two aspects of modern life in
developed countries. Indeed, these are two things that many people take for
granted but many more people in Kenya, Uganda and India, among other countries,
are in urgent need of for their enjoyment of a b...
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Posted by Charity Watcher on Friday, November 7, 2014,
The Quaker community has a reputation for being good
Christians, such as in feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, and visiting the
sick. The Quaker Homeless Action is just another manifestation of the
tight-knit communities' dedication to putting Jesus Christ's mission for the
marginalized of society.
The national charity was established in the mid-1960s when a
group of Quakers opened a Christmas soup facility to offer food, friendship and
cheer to homeless people in Central London. The ...
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Posted by Charity Watcher on Tuesday, November 4, 2014,
Social change is a gradual process mainly because of the scope of the
changes involved, said changes of which can be an alteration of the
order, behaviour, and relations in society. But the first step toward
social change is taking it one step at a time - or in the case of
SkyWorks Charitable Foundation, one film at a time.
SkyWorks, established in 1983 as a nonprofit documentary organization,
prides itself on its adoption of a three-pronged approach toward social
change - as a cataly...
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