Choosing a charity to contribute to is no
easy thing. There are very many out there. They all have slightly different
objectives, different ways of achieving those objectives, different people with
differing experiences running them, different regions which they address and
differing levels of overhead expenses required for manner they choose to
operate, ... Below is a somewhat random collection of information and links
about charities in general and specific charities that may be of some help or
may simply add to the confusion. This page is strictly put together out of a
personal interest and with no affiliation with any organization. This page is
updated from time to time. Most of the summary texts are direct excerpts from
the "about sections" of the web site listing.
Note, there are unfortunately a large number
of scams where organizations claiming to be charitable exercise questionable
practices in terms of bringing benefits to those they claim to be helping.
Better
Business Bureau – Wise Giving Alliance
The BBB Wise Giving Alliance (the Alliance) helps donors make informed giving
decisions and advances high standards of conduct among organizations that
solicit contributions from the public. The Alliance was formed in 2001 through
the merger of the National Charities Information Bureau with the Council of
Better Business BureausC- Foundation (which housed the Philanthropic Advisory
Service.) The merger partners offer over a century of combined experience in
charity evaluation. The Alliance produces in-depth evaluative reports on national charities based on comprehensive Standards for Charity Accountability and publishes a quarterly magazine, the Wise
Giving Guide. National charities that meet the standards can apply to
participate in the AllianceC-s National Charity Seal program.
Charity
Watch
The American Institute of Philanthropy (AIP) is a nationally prominent
charity watchdog service whose purpose is to help donors make informed giving
decisions. Charity watch publishes a Charity
Rating Guide and Watchdog Report.
Charitable
Choices
An easy-to-use guide to more than 240 accountable charities you can support
directly, through the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) or through the
GuideStar
A National Database of Nonprofit Organizations Connecting people with nonprofit
information since 1994, GuideStar offers basic, in-depth, and customized data
services. Which level
of information is right for you? The choice is yours.
International
Service Agencies
International Service Agencies (ISA) is a coalition of the
nation's leading international relief and development organizations. ISA's mission is to help people overseas and in the
Idealist
- Action Without Borders
Action Without Borders is independent of any government,
political ideology or religious creed. Our work is guided by the common desire
of our members and supporters to find practical solutions to social and
environmental problems, in a spirit of generosity and mutual respect.
Charity Wire
Charity Wire is a place to find news and information about the top charities in
Catalogue For Philanthropy
Designed to be the nucleus of several
interrelated and mutually reinforcing elements, engaging all constituencies of
philanthropy, in a comprehensive, institutionalized system for promoting
philanthropy itself. These elements originally included the Generosity Index, to which was later added
this website, a statewide system for Venture Philanthropy, a second system for "Special Projects", and the Massachusetts Forum for New Foundations. The
constituencies are charities, grant makers, community foundations as a group,
fundraisers, donors, the media, scholars, and financial and philanthropic
advisors.
AERDO
AERDO is a professional forum for non-profit Christian agencies and individuals
engaged in relief and development work. AERDO exists to promote excellence in
professional practice; to foster networking, collaboration and information
exchange; and to enable its membership to effectively support the Church in
serving the poor and needy.
Americas
Promise - The Alliance for Youth
Founder, General Colin Powell:
Chairty
Guide
CharityGuide is the website for busy people who want to make a difference, but
need some additional ideas or motivation.
Fidelity
Charitable Gift Fund
Our mission is to bring charitable giving to a broader audience. Thanks to the
generosity of our donors, we are now
State of California -
Charitable Trusts
Many Californians make generous donations to charities each year by
volunteering time or through their checkbooks. This web site offers information
to assist you in evaluating solicitations and choosing wisely when responding
to charities and commercial fund-raisers who must register with the Attorney
General's Registry of Charitable Trusts and report financial activities
annually.
Charity Navigator,
American
Institute of Philanthropy
The American
Give
The Alliance reports on
nationally soliciting charitable organizations that are the subject of donor
inquiries. These reports include an evaluation of the subject charity in
relation to the voluntary BBB
charity standards.
Foundation
Source
We provide all the elements required for an efficient, well-run foundation,
including the foundation structure, back-office administration, grant
management, communication tools, and expert advice on foundation rules and
philanthropic development.
Giving
Capital
We partner with leading financial service companies to provide philanthropic
solutions to their clients.
Just Give
JustGive is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to connect people with
the charities and causes they care about and to increase overall giving.
National Center for Charitable
Statistics
The national clearinghouse of data on the nonprofit sector in the
Network
for Good
Network for Good is a website where you can give to your favorite
charity/charities and have all your donation records stored and accessible at
any time. Our website is safe and secure; we meet the BBB Wise Giving Alliance
standards for charity accountability.
Reading is
Fundamental
Founded in 1966,
Teachers Without Borders
Teachers Without Borders is a non-profitB 501(c)3,B non-denominational,
international NGO founded in 2000, devoted toB closing the education divide
through teacher professional development and community education.B We work
primarily, but not exclusively, in developing countries, in order to build
self-reliance, health, and capacity.
Susan G.
Komen Breast Cancer Foundation
For more than 20 years, the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation has been a
global leader in the fight against breast cancer through its support of
innovative research and community-based outreach programs. Working through a
network of
Child Family
Health International
More than 125 dedicated physicians throughout the world host and train some 500
CFHI students each year. In return, CFHI reimburse them for their time and
expertise as precptors to our students. CFHI funding helps these doctors expand
and improve access to quality healthcare for an ever-increasing number of
people. CFHI shipped more than $900,000 worth of supplies to partners abroad in
2003 alone, with donations totaling $2.4 million since 1995.
Schwab
Charitable
The Schwab Fund for Charitable Giving is a public charity established to
increase charitable giving in the
T. Rowe Price
Program for Charitable Giving
The T. Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving
helps investors simplify their giving, maximize their tax savings, and help
others. The Program is a national donor-advised fund that lets you concentrate
on your favorite causes now and in the future while the Program takes care of
administration.
Touch DC
In November 2002, a broad coalition of funders, nonprofit umbrella
organizations, and media partners came together to encourage citizens in the
Washington region to become regular donors to local nonprofit organizations
providing critical services here in our community. Through TouchDC.org, powered
by Network for Good, donors will to be able find out about the great work of
our local nonprofits, and will have a safe and convenient way to give and to
volunteer.
About.com
on Non-Profit Charitable Organizations
Family Care Foundation (FCF) operates projects and provides support and training for grassroots organizations in developing countries. FCF's slogan "Caring for Today ... Investing in Tomorrow" is enacted via our global relief and development network which provides both emergency services and sustained development for communities, families and children in 50 countries.
Board
Net USA
This site is designed to be a common technological platform for a national
collaborative network of communities working locally to enhance nonprofit board
governance. This growing network of Community
Partners work together on common themes of populating board rooms as well
as individually developing services tailored to their local market.
Fundsnet
Services Online, Welcome to our site
Fundsnet Services brings
you one of the most extensive philanthropy sites on the web today. Located in Puerto Rico, Fundsnet provides our visitors with
over 700 funding resources free of charge. Our membership section contains
perhaps the most extensive philanthropy section on the web with over 1,550
funding sources.
Library - Top 40 - Internet Nonprofit Center
This page has been developed with the
intention of providing basic information about the largest charity
organizations in the
Catholic
Charities USA
Catholic Charities is in the work of
transforming lives. The organization strives to empower the working poor to
move beyond basic survival living to a state of meaningful, quality living
through economic, family and emotional stability. Catholic Charities assists
individuals and families to establish in their lives the anchors required to
break the cycle of poverty. These anchors include housing, employment,
education and emotional health.
Disability
Resources On these pages, you will find lists of many disability
related resources. There are literally hundreds of well-organized links (at
last count over 2000). These lists will continue to grow. Individual pages are
updated on a weekly basis.
Other Disability
Organizations
The
Global Fund for Women
The Global Fund for Women is a grant making foundation supporting women's human
rights organizations around the world working to address critical issues such
as gaining economic independence, increasing girls' access to education and
stopping violence against women.
CARE
care is an international consortium of
12 member countries, dedicated to the worldwide reduction of poverty. care is
one of the largest international relief and development organization, employing
more than 12,000 staff worldwide.
Heifer
International
Heifer animals (and training in their care) offer hungry families around the
world a way to feed themselves and become self-reliant. Children receive
nutritious milk or eggs; families earn income for school, health care and
better housing; communities go beyond meeting immediate needs to fulfilling
dreams. Farmers learn sustainable, environmentally sound agricultural
techniques.
The
Carter Center
The
United Nations World Food Programme
The
Hunger Site Home - Donate Food for Free to Give to Feed Hungry People in the
World
Facts about hunger. Includes an animated world hunger map
World
Hunger Year
A website that promotes the mission of World Hunger Year (WHY), which is to
support and promote innovative, long term solutions to hunger through
self-reliance, economic justice, community building and food security
World
Hunger Notes Homepage
The mission of World Hunger Education
Service is to undertake programs, including Hunger Notes, which: Inform the
community of people interested in issues of hunger and poverty, the public, and
policymakers, about the causes, extent, and efforts to end hunger and poverty
in the United States and the world. Further understanding which integrates
ethical, religious, social, economic, political, and scientific perspectives on
hunger and poverty. Facilitate communication and networking among those who are
working for solutions. Promote individual and collective commitment to
solutions to the hunger and poverty which confront hundreds of millions of the
people of the world. This site is organized along four categories, responding
to four types of publics interested in hunger, an index of all our links, and a
simple introduction to issues of hunger and malnutrition.
America's
Second Harvest
24 Hours Food for All - The Passover Project
Every year Jewish people throughout the
world discard food from their pantries, replacing it with food which is
specifically labeled (Kosher for Passover). Many donate these foods to food
banks and other charities in need. We are extremely happy that the Jewish
community can be such a great source for their fellow man. Our intention is to
create an awareness to those that are not in the habit of seeing the
contribution they can make to others, by seeing to it that the foods being
discarded get into the hands and mouths of people in dire need.
Salvation
Army
What is the Salvation Army? It's an
international, evangelical branch of the Christian Church that now operates in
over 100 countries. But what really is the Salvation Army? It's an orphan
hugged, a derelict reclaimed, a battered woman sheltered, an addict renewed, a
runaway restored, a starving family fed. It's an expression of God's love to
suffering humanity - that's The Salvation Army!
American
Red Cross
The American Red Cross, a humanitarian
organization led by volunteers, guided by its Congressional Charter and the
Fundamental Principles of the International Red Cross Movement, will provide
relief to victims of disasters and help people prevent, prepare for, and
respond to emergencies.
United Jewish
Communities
United Jewish Communities
represents and serves 156 Jewish federations and 400 independent Jewish
communities across
U.K.
Charity Websites
A great collection of UK Charities websites.
World
Alliance of YMCAs
A world-wide Christian, ecumenical, voluntary
movement for women and men with special emphasis on and the genuine involvement
of young people and that it seeks to share the Christian ideal of building a
human community of justice with love, peace and reconciliation for the fullness
of life for all creation.
American
Cancer Society
The American Cancer Society is the nationwide
community- based voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer
as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives, and diminishing
suffering from cancer, through research, education, advocacy, and service.
PBS Online
A private, non-profit media enterprise owned
and operated by the nation's 349 public television stations. A trusted
community resource, PBS uses the power of noncommercial television, the
Internet and other media to enrich the lives of all Americans through quality
programs and education services that inform, inspire and delight. Available to
99 percent of American homes with televisions and to an increasing number of
digital multimedia households, PBS serves nearly 100 million people each week.
Boy
Scouts of America
The mission of the Boy Scouts of America is to
prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by
instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath and Law.
American
Lung Association
The American Lung AssociationC is the oldest
voluntary health organization in the
March of
Dimes
March of Dimes
researchers, volunteers, educators, outreach workers and advocates work
together to give all babies a fighting chance against the threats to their
health: prematurity, birth defects, low birthweight.
Muscular
Dystrophy Association
The Muscular Dystrophy Association is a
not-for-profit oganisation which was formed in the early 1970's by a group of
the people who were affected by the disease.
Redwings
Horse Sanctuary
To educate the public about the care and plight of equines and to
protect them from abuse and slaughter. Redwings provides permanent sanctuary
for equines in need. Each animal is evaluated for their physical, emotional
spiritual needs. Once an animal comes to us and makes a friend...they are kept
together for the rest of their lives.
National
Greyhound Foundation
The National Greyhound Foundation provides a rescue and adoption sanctuary for
Retired Racing Greyhounds in the
Prevent Animal Abuse
One of the goals of the Strawberry Patch is to try to send along the message
that animal abuse is wrong. Humans were the species that domesticated
animals like dogs and cats; why do humans then try to bring forth the demise of
these animals? They have no way of telling us their fears. Please
be their voice, and do what you can to help them.
Below are some excerpts from Global Impact http://www.charity.org/ with some estimates on agency overhead:
Global Impact Member Agencies
Member Agencies
Global Impact raises
funds for the most distinguished American charities serving the needs of the
world community. Each participating agency is certified as a member yearly to
ensure it is upholding Global ImpactC-s membership criteria.
Global Impact member agencies must:
Global Impact
66
Toll Free: 800-638-8079
Phone: 703-548-2200
Fax: 703-548-7684
Your
support helps provide disaster relief and brings education, health care and
economic opportunities to the poorest of the poor through programs that promote
self-sufficiency.
Agency overhead: 6.3%
ACCION International
Fax: 617-625-7020
Our mission
is to help people work their way out of poverty by providing them with small
loans and training to grow their small businesses.
Agency overhead: 15.8%
Africa-America Institute
380
Toll Free:
800-745-3899
Phone: 212-949-5666
Fax: 212-682-6174
Promotes
enlightened engagement between Africa and
Agency overhead: 21.3%
African Medical and Research Foundation
(AMREF)
19 West 44th St.,
Suite 710
Fax: 212-768-4230
Works to
research and alleviate
Agency overhead: 13.8%
Africare
440 R Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 Phone: 202-462-3614
Fax: 202-387-1034
Develops
self-help programs in
Agency overhead: 16.7%
American Ireland Fund
Toll Free:
800-IRL-FUND
Phone: 617-574-0720
Fax: 617-574-0730
Through
contributions, primarily from the
Agency overhead: 6.9%
American Jewish World Service
989 Avenue of the
Toll Free:
800-889-7146
Phone: 212-736-2597
Fax: 212-736-3463
Provides
nonsectarian, sustainable development assistance, technical support and
emergency relief to people in need in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle
East,
Agency overhead: 13.8%
American Leprosy Foundation
(Leonard Wood Memorial for the Eradication of Leprosy)
Fax: 301-770-0580
Leprosy,
one of the world's oldest diseases, afflicts approximately 2-4 million people worldwide.
Our goal is to eradicate this devastating disease through scientific research.
Agency overhead: 9.5%
American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA)
1522 K Street, NW,
#202
Washington, D.C. 20005 Phone: 202-347-2558
Fax: 202-682-1637
Water,
education, health care, economic opportunities; with you, we bring these to
poor families, children and communities in the West Bank,
Agency overhead: 8.0%
American Refugee Committee
Toll Free:
800-875-7060
Phone: 612-872-7060
Fax: 612-607-6499
Works for
survival, health and well-being of refugees and displaced persons and seeks to
enable them to rebuild productive lives of dignity and purpose.
Agency overhead: 9.2%
AmeriCares
(AmeriCares Foundation, Inc.)
Toll Free:
800-486-4357
Phone: 203-966-5195
Fax: 203-972-0116
With a 1%
overhead, AmeriCares is the first to bring help and hope when disaster and
famine bring homelessness and hunger.
Agency overhead: 1.0%
CARE
(Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere, Inc. (CARE))
151 Ellis Street, N.E.
Toll Free:
800-422-7385
Phone: 404-681-2552
Fax: 404-577-6271
Promotes
effective solutions to poverty. We save lives, provide economic opportunity, promote
self-help and seek a world of hope, tolerance and social justice.
Agency overhead: 9.2%
Catholic Relief Services -- USCC
(
Toll Free:
800-235-2772
Phone: 410-625-2220
Fax: 410-685-1635
Since 1943,
in over 80 countries, a leader in international relief and development, helping
people in need, supporting self-help programs, restoring and preserving human
dignity.
Agency overhead: 8.1%
Childreach
(Plan International USA, Inc.)
Toll Free:
800-556-7918
Phone: 401-738-5600
Fax: 401-738-5608
A global,
nonprofit, child-centered development organization without religious, political
or governmental affiliation helping needy children and their families in
developing countries since 1937.
Agency overhead: 22.7%
Children, Inc.
Toll Free:
800-538-5381
Phone: 804-359-4562
Fax: 804-353-7541
An
international organization providing long-range assistance to needy children of
all races and creeds worldwide. Administers to their physical, mental and
spiritual needs.
Agency overhead: 15.7%
Children International
Toll Free:
800-888-3089
Phone: 816-942-2000
Fax: 816-942-3714
A
nonprofit, humanitarian organization providing program benefits and services
including medical care, educational assistance and material aid to
poverty-stricken children and families in ten countries.
Agency overhead: 15.3%
Christian Children's Fund
Toll Free:
800-776-6767
Phone: 804-756-2700
Fax: 804-756-2719
An
international humanitarian organization dedicated to the development and
survival of children worldwide regardless of race, nationality, gender or
religion.
Agency overhead: 20.7%
Christian Reformed World Relief Committee
(CRWRC)
2850
Grand Rapids
Toll Free:
800-55-CRWRC
Phone: 616-246-0740
Fax: 616-224-0806
Works with
families and communities to improve leadership skills, food production, income
earning, health education and literacy.
Agency overhead: 24.7%
Church World Service (CROP)
(National Council of the Churches of Christ in the
P.O. Box 968
Toll Free:
800-297-1516
Phone: 574-264-3102
Fax: 574-262-0966
Helps end
hunger near and far. Assists refugees and disaster survivors. Provides tools of
hope for grassroots development: food, water, education, healthcare,
reforestation and self-reliance.
Agency overhead: 21.0%
Doctors Without Borders
6 East 39th Street,
8th Floor
Toll Free:
800-DWB-0-DWB
Phone: 212-679-6800
Fax: 212-679-7016
An
independent international medical relief organization that sends volunteer
health professionals to aid victims of war, epidemics and natural disasters in
over 80 countries.
Agency overhead: 12.1%
Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization -
ECHO, Inc.
North
Phone:
941-543-3246
Fax: 941-543-5317
Fights world
hunger by helping people help themselves. Provides training, information and
seeds to agricultural workers and missionaries working with subsistance farmers
in 130 countries.
Agency overhead: 19.5%
FINCA International
(FINCA, Inc.)
Phone:
202-682-1510
Fax: 202-682-1535
In 20
countries, our Village Banking? programs give the working poor capital loans to
finance self-employment activities, improve family income and achieve financial
independence.
Agency overhead: 15.8%
Freedom from Hunger
Phone:
530-758-6200
Fax: 530-758-6241
Our Credit
with Education program assists the poorest families with two of the world's
most powerful resources ever created: money and information.
Agency overhead: 17.3%
Goodwill Global, Inc.
(Goodwill Industries International)
9200 Rockville Pike
Toll Free:
800-741-0186
Phone: 301-530-6500
Fax: 301-530-1516
Supports
development of organizations, business alliances and innovative enterprise
collaborations worldwide that create work opportunities to increase self-sufficiency
of people who have few vocational opportunities.
Agency overhead: 14.0%
Health Volunteers Overseas
Suite 310
Phone:
202-296-0928
Fax: 202-296-8018
American
health care professionals volunteer to improve global health in 25 developing
countries by teaching new techniques and donating educational materials and
essential medical equipment.
Agency overhead: 10.0%
Toll Free:
800-422-0474
Phone: 501-376-6836
Fax: 501-907-2602
Helps poor
families worldwide become self-sufficient by providing food- and income-producing
animals, community development training and environmentally-sound farming.
Agency overhead: 23.6%
Helen Keller Worldwide
(Helen Keller International)
Phone:
212-532-0544
Fax: 212-532-6014
Works in
developing nations in Asia, Africa and the Americas to treat and prevent
nutritional blindness, onchocerciasis, cataract and trachoma. Educates and
rehabilitates incurably blind.
Agency overhead: 19.6%
International Eye Foundation
Phone:
240-290-0263
Fax: 240-290-0269
Saves sight
worldwide. Programs to control vitamin A deficiency, "river
blindness," trachoma and cataracts. Provides local health worker training,
technology transfer, eye surgery, equipment, medicine.
Agency overhead: 11.4%
International Orthodox Christian Charities
Phone:
410-243-9820
Fax: 410-243-9824
Provides
aid through emergency relief, community and enterprise development solely on
the basis of need.
Agency overhead: 6.3%
International Relief Teams
3547 Camino
Phone:
619-284-7979
Fax: 619-284-7938
Sends
volunteers to assist disaster victims worldwide; conducts medical, surgical and
health training programs to promote self-sufficiency in Latvia, Lithuania,
Armenia, Ecuador, Mexico and Fiji.
Agency overhead: 2.3%
International Rescue Committee
Toll Free:
877-733-8433
Phone: 212-551-3000
Fax: 212-551-3179
Emergency
relief, protection and resettlement services for refugees. Health, water, food,
shelter, education and self-reliance programs in 28 countries in Africa, Europe
and the
Agency overhead: 6.0%
International Youth Foundation
Toll Free:
800-770-8710
Phone: 410-347-1500
Fax: 410-347-1188
Supports
effective programs in 34 countries that are improving the conditions and
prospects for disadvantaged youth where they live, work and play.
Agency overhead: 11.5%
Lutheran World Relief
Toll Free:
800-597-5972
Phone: 410-230-2700
Fax: 410-230-2882
Provides
emergency relief and development projects in health care, food production,
water supplies, environment and education for families in 50 countries.
Agency overhead: 5.9%
Mercy Corps International
Toll Free:
800-292-3355
Phone: 503-796-6800
Fax: 503-796-6844
A nonprofit
organization that exists to alleviate suffering, poverty and oppression by
helping people build secure, productive and just communities.
Agency overhead: 5.5%
Opportunity International
Toll Free:
800-7WE-WILL
Phone: 630-645-4100
Fax: 630-645-1458
Empowers
poor entrepreneurs in developing countries by providing small loans and basic
business training to start or expand their own businesses and become
self-supporting.
Agency overhead: 16.9%
Near East Foundation
Phone:
212-867-0064
Fax: 212-867-0169
Works with
local organizations to address needs and create self-sustaining projects. We
provide technical assistance and customized training related to agriculture,
health, literacy and income-generation.
Agency overhead: 10.3%
Oxfam America
26
Toll Free:
800-77-OXFAM
Phone: 617-482-1211
Fax: 617-728-2594
An
international development agency that funds long-term economic development and
humanitarian assistance projects in 30 countries throughout Africa, Asia, the
Agency overhead: 17.6%
Pan American Development Foundation
Phone: 202-458-3969
Fax: 202-458-6316
Works with
non-governmental organizations, municipalities and community groups to help the
least advantaged people in Latin America and the
Agency overhead: 12.7%
Planned Parenthood - World Population
(Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc.)
Toll Free:
800-829-7732
Phone: 212-541-7800
Fax: 212-247-6416
Provides
training, supplies and assistance to locally-managed family planning and
educational programs to improve the lives of people in the poorest and most
underserved countries.
Agency overhead: 23.0%
Population Communications International
777 United Nations
Plaza
Toll Free:
877-724-7627
Phone: 212-687-3366
Fax: 212-661-4188
We produce
radio and television soap operas that motivate people to adopt new attitudes
and behaviors that foster reproductive health, gender equality and environmental
protection.
Agency overhead: 19.7%
Project HOPE
(People-To-People Health Foundation, Inc.)
Toll Free:
800-544-4673
Phone: 540-837-2100
Fax: 540-837-1813
Provides
services to improve community health through education and medical humanitarian
assistance in 30 countries, with ninety-three percent of revenues spent on
programs.
Agency overhead: 7.8%
Rotary Foundation of Rotary International
Fax: 847-328-8554
Our Polio
Plus program provides vaccines and mobilizes communities, volunteers and
resources in support of international efforts to immunize children and
eradicate polio worldwide.
Agency overhead: 12.0%
Salvation Army World Service Office
(SAWSO)
Phone:
703-684-5528
Fax: 703-684-5536
Assists the
poor with health services, HIV/AIDS, education, institutional development and
reconstruction assistance with heart to God and hand to man.
Agency overhead: 0.8%
Save the Children
(Save the Children Federation, Inc.)
Toll Free:
800-728-3843
Phone: 203-221-4000
Fax: 203-222-1067
Provides
child- and family-focused self-help education, health, food security and
microfinance community-based programs designed for sustainability in the
Agency overhead: 15.6%
TechnoServe, Incorporated
49 Day Street
Toll Free:
800-99-WORKS
Phone: 203-852-0377
Fax: 203-838-6717
Helps the
developing world's entrepreneurial poor build profitable businesses that create
income, opportunity and economic growth for their families, their communities
and their countries.
Agency overhead: 18.3%
UNICEF, U.S. Fund for
(
333 East
Toll Free:
800-FOR KIDS
Phone: 212-686-5522
Fax: 212-922-2572
Works in
over 160 countries and territories to provide children with life saving
medicine, better nutrition, clean sanitation, education and emergency relief.
Agency overhead: 16.3%
Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
Toll Free:
800-766-5236
Phone: 617-868-6600
Fax: 617-868-7102
Works
internationally with grassroots partners to support human rights, particularly
those of oppressed indigenous, racial and ethnic groups, women's empowerment
and children's rights.
Agency overhead: 17.4%
United Methodist Committee on Relief
(United
475 Riverside Drive,
Room 330
Toll Free:
800-841-1235
Phone: 212-870-3816
Fax: 212-870-3748
Outreach
program focuses on alleviation of hunger and poverty, disaster relief and
refugee assistance. Provides leadership training, housing improvement, local
crafts, agriculture and industry development.
Agency overhead: 4.4%
United Seamen's Service
Phone:
212-269-0711
Fax: 212-269-5721
Provides
overseas health and welfare services to the American Merchant Marine and
seafarers of allied nations and a 24-hour hotline for emergency family
assistance.
Agency overhead: 18.4%
World Relief Corporation
(World Relief Corporation of National Association of Evangelicals)
Toll Free:
800-535-5433
Phone: 443-451-1900
Fax: 410-451-1995
Provides
emergency relief and community-based solutions to alleviate hunger and poverty
in 35 countries and provides resettlement assistance to refugees in the
Agency overhead: 13.4%
World Vision
Toll Free:
800-777-5777
Phone: 253-815-1000
Fax: 253-815-3242
Responds to
natural disasters and conflicts that affect children, families and communities.
Helps rebuild lives by providing safe water, food, medicine, education and
small-business development.
Agency overhead: 16.8%