Charity Watcher

One of the greatest ways to change the world is not only to give people a hand, but to give them a means to change their lives forever.  This change can be facilitated through education, training, or the right tools.  However, there is something else that is often missing: proper financing.  Any businessperson knows that the best-laid plans can collapse without capitalization.  Opportunity International saw this need in developing countries and created financial vehicles that provide the me...

Considered a nondenominational evangelical Christian humanitarian organization, Samaritan’s Purse was founded in 1970 by Bob Pierce. He met Franklin Pierce who thereafter became the president of the organization after Pierce’s death in 1978.

Pierce, who founded the World Vision in 1950, envisioned Samaritan’s Purse “to be in crisis areas and meet emergency needs through existing national churches and evangelical mission agencies”. True enough, the organization started their lar...

Since its founding in 1979, Feed the Children has helped out the less fortunate around the world. In fiscal year 2011 alone, the group has distributed more than 104 million pounds of food including other essentials to families and children. They don’t limit their works to the 50 states but they have also done their charitable deeds internationally.

They have continued on working on their mission “to provide hope and resources to those without life’s essentials” together with the...

Access to educational facilities is a major burden for the developing world.  Many children in Africa are unable to attend schools for lack of classrooms.  In 2002, a high school student from Harvard, Massachusetts named Kyla McKenna decided she would do something about this situation.  She put her plan into action and Build a School in Africa was born.  The organization’s initial goal was to build a single school.  They have long since surpassed that, building ten schools over the past d...

In 1877, the Reverend Willard Parsons ...

Christine Stevens, known as the Mother of the Animal Protection Movement, founded the Animal Welfare Institute in the year 1951. Its main goal is to alleviate the fear and pain caused by humans to animals. They started their campaign with tending to the needs of those animals used for experimentation. Later on, they expanded their works to include other areas of animal suffering that the foundation can address.

With the help of the Society for Animal Protective Legislation, their legisla...

Cástulo de la Rocha has led AltaMed Health Services Corporation as President and CEO since 1977. The nonprofit organization provides quality health and dental care and a range of other services to a primarily Latino population in underserved areas of Los Angeles and Orange Counties in Southern California. Under Cástulo de la Rocha’s direction, the health care provider has grown from one clinic in East L.A. to 44 clinics and senior care centers, and from three paid employ...

• Health, HIV and AIDS
• Agriculture and Food Security
• Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
•  Resettlement and
• Women’s Empowerment

They have reached out and helped families in 35 countries with their over 2,500 project...

They started with the mission of granting wishes for kids with life threatening conditions and since its founding in 1997, they have created additional programs to help kids worldwide. Dedicated to pr...