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...

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There are many organizations that aim to protect and preserve the environment. However, few have made a big difference. The Nature Conservancy is an organization that has successfully advocated on behalf of the environment. One notable aspect about Nature Conservancy is that  – while other organizations engage in inflammatory rhetoric to get support – it seeks to accomplish political engagement by proposing workable solutions.

The organization deploys a science-based approach for solving ...
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