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Children’s Defense Fund: A Child Advocacy Group

Posted by Charity Watcher on Friday, July 11, 2014, In : Youth

Embracing the motto of “Leave No Child Behind”, Children’s Defense Fund has been championing their advocacies of ensuring a level playing field for all children. It was Marian Wright Edelman, who founded this charitable organization in 1973.

The organization today is registered as an American child advocacy and research group. Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) strongly believes that improving the lives of these children will also change everyone’s life. The founding of the organization ...

Child in Need Institute: Giving a Brighter Future to India’s Women and Children

Posted by Charity Watcher on Tuesday, June 3, 2014, In : Youth

India is one of the countries that, although the economy is growing, is still in dire need of assistance for the development, protection and empowerment of their women, children and adolescents. Several countries have answered this call in the form of charitable institutions. One of the many organizations aimed at helping the country is the Child in Need Institute.

Child in Need Institute or CINI is also commonly referred to internationally as Child in Need India. As an international humanitar...

The AFCA: Joining the Battle Against HIV and AIDS to Give Children a Healthier Future

Posted by Charity Watcher on Tuesday, April 15, 2014, In : Health

The American Foundation for Children with AIDS (AFCA) is a non-profit geared towards helping children and their guardians in sub-Saharan Africa who have contracted AIDS or are HIV positive and do not have access to the medical care they need. As of 2008, sub-Saharan Africa represents over two-thirds of new HIV infections in the world and the number keeps growing. To help in the battle against HIV and AIDS, the AFCA provides critical antiretroviral medicine and other medications, medical suppl...

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital: Saving Children for Over 50 Years

Posted by Charity Watcher on Tuesday, March 25, 2014, In : Health

As a pediatric research and treatment facility, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital started out in 1962 and has since then consistently made great strides in catastrophic diseases in children like cancer. Situated in Memphis, Tennessee, the facility is categorized as a non-profit medical corporation under IRS regulations. With research and treatment being offered under one roof, St. Jude is home to some of the most gifted researchers in the field today.

Guided by the idea that "no child shou...

Global Action for Children: Improving the Lives of Children in the Developing World

Posted by Charity Watcher on Wednesday, March 12, 2014, In : Youth

The Global Action for Children or GAC was a results oriented coalition committed to improving the lives of highly vulnerable children and orphans in developing nations. Founded in 2003, it advocated for improved policies as well as expanded investments in proven interventions and programs. It also worked to help increase effectiveness of initiatives and make for efficient spending of taxpayer dollars to serve children better. GAC led advocacy initiatives that ensure access to life-saving yet...

Save the Children Fund: Protecting the Rights of Children

Posted by Charity Watcher on Friday, November 29, 2013, In : Youth

Established in 1919 in the United Kingdom, Save the Children Fund is a non-governmental organization that is also active internationally. This charitable organization is focused on the promotion of the rights of children.

The group provides relief and assistance to children in various developing countries through health care, better education, economic opportunities, aid in natural disasters, various conflicts and war. There are about 30 national groups that functions under the Save the Child...

African Children’s Educational Trust (A-CET): Developing Africa through Education

Posted by Charity Watcher on Tuesday, September 17, 2013, In : Education

Founded in 1997 by David Stables, the African Children’s Educational Trust (A-CET) aims to develop Africa by providing their youth with a means to education. The A-CET Board of Directors recognizes the lack of educational opportunities for Africa’s youth and works to provide them these opportunities by arranging for suitable donors for the Trust. A-CET is a charitable institution that works directly with a non-government organization in Ethiopia, the Ethiopia Youth Education Support, to c...

American Childhood Cancer Organization: Supporting Children with Cancer

Posted by Charity Watcher on Friday, September 13, 2013, In : Health

The American Childhood Cancer Organization (ACCO) is a non-profit charitable institution that focuses on providing support to families of children diagnosed with cancer. The organization is also involved in funding research projects that target the prevention of the disease.

The ACCO was established in 1970 by parents of children who had survived cancer. Based in Washington, D.C., the organization’s initial focus was to create awareness in the government and to lobby for more resources to...

Local Business Supports Pioneering Audiology Research

Posted by Charity Watcher on Friday, August 31, 2012, In : Health

A family enterprise that has grown to become one of the most successful furniture retailers in the nation, Hank's Fine Furniture opened its first store in Sherwood, Arkansas nearly forty years ago. Stocking a thoughtfully culled selection of merchandise for the home and office, the company’s Founder and current President Hank Browne quickly established himself as a local business leader thanks to his uncompromising standards of excellence regarding product quality and customer service. As t...