Charity Watcher

Food For the Poor is one of the largest interdenominational relief and development organizations in the United States. It was founded in 1982 by Ferdinand Mahfood and is now led by Robin Mahfood. Aside from feeding the poor in 17 Caribbean and Latin American countries, Food For The Poor provides health care, education, housing, and emergency relief to these countries. The organization has stable funding. According to a 2012 survey by Forbes Magazine, Food For The Poor is the 6^th largest recip...

Oxitec is a UK-based biotech company that pioneered a whole new way of dealing with the deadly dengue fever. About 50 to 100 million people worldwide suffer from dengue every year, it is known as one of the major causes of sudden death everywhere in the world. In the last 50 years, the number grew 30-fold. The major issue lies in controlling Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, the carrier of the deadly disease.

Aside from dengue, Oxitec is also dealing with agricultural pests that destroy farmers’ c...

Anand Charity is a U.S. based non-profit, non-religious, and non-political organization committed to bringing high quality education and healthcare through launching and maintaining projects in India. It is fully run by a team of dedicated volunteers who are hoping to help alleviate the different forms of struggles dealt with by the less fortunate people in their nation of focus.

The charity’s name came from the Hindi word ‘anand’ which means happiness or joy. Thus, it is committed t...

Our lives are intertwined by family relationships, health, leisure, recreation and lifestyle. However, in these modern times, the quality of our living is dependent on how we are able to balance the difficulties of daily life. This is where Science Inc. provides its greatest contribution. Science provides advice and helps transform similar companies who share Science’s ambitions – to provide accessible solutions to the true problems of mankind that impact daily lives, such as time manag...

The founder and Chief Executive Officer of re:char, Jason Aramburu is a great force to reckon with in the field of social entrepreneurship. At the age of 27, he has built and distributed carbon-negative power plants that generate energy from wastes and replenishes soil in farming villages in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa.

A graduate of Princeton University, as a cum laude with a degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Aramburu has obtained extensive research experience in both l...

Many people spend their youthful years trying to make the most out of life through partying, buying the hottest items available in the market, travelling around the world and countless other You-Only-Live-Once-themed activities. But for Hugh Evans, it’s an entirely different story.

Born in Melbourne, Victoria, Evans puts his resources into good use by transforming the world into a better place, especially for the underprivileged and marginalized. He is the brains behind the Global Pover...

With the rising concern on climate change, the spotlight is on the business enterprise since they have the capacity and clout to make the earth a greener planet.  In 2002, 1% for the Planet (1% FTP) was launched by Yvon Chouinard and Craig Matthews with the idea that companies should be sensitive to their environmental impacts and contributions. 

With 1% FTP, businesses contribute 1% of their sales to an environmental group of their choice.  The first wave of the project invited twenty-...

Imagine a classroom that literally has no walls, where materials are what the earth offers and students are taught about leadership, survival skills and respect for environment.  In 1965, American mountaineer Paul Petzoldt imagined and wanted such classroom that he founded the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS).  He was already an instructor at the Colorado Outward Bound School during that time but felt like there should be a school that focuses on molding leaders and educators major...