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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 ...

Conservation Fund: Protecting Landmarks and the Environment

Posted by Charity Watcher on Tuesday, July 8, 2014, In : Environment

Another strong advocate of environmental protection is the Conservation Fund. This American environmental non-profit organization also champions in the arena of economic development. Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, this charitable institution has been around since 1985.

Working with communities and government leaders, the organization, since its inception has already protected more than seven million acres of land and water in all states in the country. Included in their protection move...

The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund: Protecting Your Right to Read Whatever You Want

Posted by Charity Watcher on Tuesday, May 20, 2014,

The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) is a US non-profit organization established in 1986 with the aim of protecting the First Amendment rights of the comics medium. CBLDF's work takes the organization into classrooms, libraries, conventions, and courtrooms across the country where it provides education, legal aid, and advocacy in an effort to protect the First Amendment rights of all creators, retailers, librarians, publishers, and readers of graphic novels, manga, and comics. Since its ...

The Breast Cancer Fund: Funding and Finding a Way to Cure Breast Cancer

Posted by Charity Watcher on Friday, May 9, 2014, In : Health

The Breast Cancer Fund functions to connect the association between breast cancer and levels of exposure to radiation and chemicals found in everyday environments. By translating a growing body of scientific works that link breast cancer to environmental exposure, the Breast Cancer Fund is able to create advocacy campaigns and public education sessions that are aimed at not just reducing risks of breast cancer but protecting the overall health as well of all individuals. By aiding in the tran...

Tearfund: Helping the Needy in the Name of Christ

Posted by Charity Watcher on Saturday, December 14, 2013,

Working in 50 countries, UK Christian relief and development agency Tearfund is the founding member of both the Disasters Emergency Committee and the Micah Network. The organization’s calling is to go places where help is badly needed to assist in rebuilding poor communities and end poverty.

The group was created out of the United Nations’ Evangelical Refugee Fund and the Evangelical Alliance (EA). It originally started as The Evangelical Alliance Relief Fund Committee with George Hoffman...

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...

United States Fund for UNICEF: Working towards Zero Avoidable Child Deaths

Posted by Charity Watcher on Tuesday, October 8, 2013, In : human rights

Thousands of children around the world die every year due to reasons that may have been avoided. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) works hard to radically reduce this amount by providing vaccines, healthcare, and educational support to millions of children and their families around the world. UNICEF is supported by other charitable organizations. In the US, the United States Fund for UNICEF is one of the largest charitable organizations that support the advocacies of UNICEF throug...

AIDS Fund: Developing AIDS Awareness in Philadelphia

Posted by Charity Watcher on Friday, September 20, 2013, In : Health

HIV/AIDS is one of the modern society’s major concerns. The prevalence of this virus in the society and the impact it has in communities are mainly due to the lack of awareness. Thus, the AIDS Fund works with communities and local authorities in Philadelphia to increase public awareness about HIV/AIDS.

AIDS Fund is a non-profit charitable organization established in 1989. The organization was founded when members of the local gay and lesbian center organized a Walk-A-Thon in 1987 which was ...

Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund: Defending Our Law Enforcers

Posted by Charity Watcher on Friday, September 6, 2013,

In a democratic society, we have been taught since early childhood that nobody is above the law – not even law enforcers. Like anybody else, law enforcers can at times get into situations wherein they would have to defend their actions in the line of duty in front of a court of law. Unfortunately, the cost of enlisting specialized defense counsels can be a bit more than a law enforcement officer can afford.

The Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund (LELDF) was founded by David Henderson Martin ...

The Fund for Global Human Rights: Achieving Human Rights Victories World Wide

Posted by Charity Watcher on Tuesday, September 3, 2013, In : human rights

In the highly developed world that we live in today, it can sometimes be unimaginable that human rights violations would still exist. Unfortunately, they do and a good part of the population living in advanced, protected, and highly sophisticated communities and countries can often forget that there are people on this planet who are being subjected to human rights violations every single minute of every day. It is also saddening that some of the supposedly civilized individuals and groups are...