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Support the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Search and Rescue team which conducts search and rescue missions within Santa Clara County and beyond through mutual aid requests.
Care for Children is a global children’s charity with a vision and mission to see children across the world moved out of orphanages and into local families. We provide specialised training and support to orphanages, enabling them to set-up and run their own foster care programmes, as a safe and positive alternative to institutional care. This means that local authorities can start moving children out of orphanages and into local, loving families, where each child can be nurtured to reach their potential.
In partnership with the local church, Okoa Refuge exists to glorify Christ through stabilizing the family unit and transforming entire communities through healthcare, childcare, church planting, bible training, skill training for the disabled, relationships, and humanitarian outreach.
APPEAR is a non-profit organization based in Portland, Oregon. Founded by a group of diverse professionals and artists who are passionate about India, APPEAR is dedicated to supporting children, youth, education, environment, and the arts in India. Through a variety of activities, APPEAR strives to make a positive impact on the lives of people in India.
Our Mission: To equip, educate, and empower each man, woman, and child in Congo to bring about cultural change, both individually and as part of a community, to enrich and provide opportunities for growth for future generations
Books for Development addresses the book famine that prevents children and adults in many developing countries from learning to read. We do this by building library collections since we believe that the best contribution you can make to people’s development is to promote their literacy. As a non-profit, we take donated books, use volunteers to sort them and then ship them to poor countries to create libraries. We leverage our efforts--using free labor and donated books that might otherwise be dumped in a land fill. Books for Development was formerly known as Good Steward Global Initiative.
The Foundation for the Children of the Californias is a tri-national collaboration with Canada, the United States, and Mexico, endeavoring to improve the health and nutrition for the children of the mega-region of San Diego and Baja California through the operation of Hospital Infantil de las Californias, a model pediatric specialty medical and education complex, located one half mile into Baja California, Mexico
International Orphan Care (IOC) provides education, financial support, food assistance, medical care, and resettlement services to orphans, children from impoverished families, refugees, and other vulnerable populations. Our mission is to uplift lives, break the cycle of poverty, and empower individuals to create a better future. International Orphan Care (IOC) is committed to implementing its mission and goals by providing a range of vital services. Our organization focuses on the following key areas: 1. Education: We offer vocational and academic education to orphans, children from poor families, internally displaced families, and refugee families. By empowering these individuals through education, we strive to break the cycle of poverty and provide them with opportunities for a brighter future. 2. Financial Support: IOC provides monthly financial assistance to widows with children and desperately poor families. This support aims to discourage child labor and encourage children's attendance in school, ensuring they have access to essential resources and can focus on their education. 3. Food Distribution: We operate food distribution programs that cater to families without the means to purchase food. By ensuring access to nutritious meals, we alleviate hunger and contribute to the overall well-being of vulnerable populations. 4. Medical Care: IOC offers medical care to orphans and children from impoverished families who lack the resources to afford necessary healthcare services and medicine. Our goal is to improve their health outcomes and provide them with the care they need to thrive. 5. Resettlement Services: We provide essential resettlement services for at-risk refugees, enabling them to safely immigrate to countries where they can find security, attend school, and build productive lives as valuable members of their new communities. 6. Collaboration: IOC actively collaborates with other organizations that share similar goals. By forming partnerships and engaging in Fiscal Sponsorship Agreements, we strengthen our collective impact and amplify our efforts to support vulnerable populations worldwide.
Founded in 2004, the Nanubhai Education Foundation (NEF) is dedicated to promoting access to higher education for marginalized students. Our Nanubhai Scholars program provides college scholarships to financially vulnerable girls from rural India. We offer financial, social, and emotional support during a Scholar's program, and offer job placement preparation as they near graduation.
Harvest Children’s Home (HCH) is a real home for 50-70 orphaned children. They sing, play, dream and hope, but 1 thing they don’t have to wonder about any more is: “where do I belong?” Before HCH these children were destitute, lacking the most basic necessities of life. Now they have nutritious meals, clean water, spiritual care, a good education and plenty of love! Their hope is restored!At HCH, we provide orphans with a new family – a multitude of “brothers” and “sisters,” and a caring staff to see that they’re loved and well supervised; a new hope – security, stability and a Christian faith they can build their lives on; and a new future – far different than before - receiving education, skills training and all that they need to succeed.
Mission statement The mission of Plant-for-the-Planet is to empower children and young people worldwide to engage in global solutions to fight the climate crisis. Our core focus is on the planting of trees as a generation-spanning, peace building activity, providing hope and buying us time to reach net-zero emissions. To that end, Plant-for-the-Planet is supporting global reforestation and ecosystem restoration efforts. Description Our adventures began in 2007, when at the end of a school presentation 9-years-old Felix Finkbeiner called on children of the world to plant a million trees in each country on Earth. This idea soon became an initiative backed by thousands. Plant-for-the-Planet was born! In the following years, Felix attended major conferences and events to invite children from all over the world to join his initiative as Climate Justice Ambassadors and to mobilize people around the globe to plant trees. In 2011, Felix spoke at the United Nations in New York, and called mankind for planting of a trillion trees. Only a few month later, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) handed over to us their Billion Tree Campaign - and with it the official World Tree Counter. This Billion Tree Campaign we soon expanded to become the Trillion Tree Campaign. Our claim is “Stop talking. Start planting.” In 2015, Plant-for-the-Planet Foundation in collaboration with Plant-for-the-Planet A.C. in Mexico started its own restoration site on the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. Here we contribute to the global goal by planting the trees donated to us and thus restore degraded forests in one of the most threatened ecosystems of the world. As we embark on the restoration journey ourselves we can also provide all organizations worldwide with adequate support based as well on science and experience. Our vision and goals Plant-for-the-Planet has two central objectives: to support ecosystem restoration efforts globally as well as educate and prepare today’s children and youth to face the challenges of the climate crisis. For the children and young people it is about nothing less than their future on this planet. To support restoration and reforestation, Plant-for-the-Planet has developed different technical tools. One of these is the Plant-for-the-Planet platform, which favors the collaboration of people worldwide by helping restoration organizations throughout the world to get funds to finance the work of restoration in their countries. A spearheading innovation is the TreeMapper App. This App allows restoration organizations throughout the world to document and monitor their work directly on the field. All collected data are matched on the Plant-for-the-Planet platform so that the donors can track the progress of planting just from the sofa. To empower children and youth worldwide to make themselves heard Plant-for-the-Planet supports them in multiple ways. First of all with the Plant-for-the-Planet Academies, one-day-workshops during which children learn from their peers and train to become Climate Justice Ambassadors in their turn. In these academies, the children experience in a vivid way how the climate crisis threatens their future and the lives of people around the world. In working groups, they develop initial ideas for their actions they can take to mobilize for their future.. This is aimed at familiarizing them with social and climate justice, as well as their own civic duty. To date, 1,656 Academies in 75 countries have taken place and 92,837Climate Justice Ambassadors have been trained. The Ambassadors can then further their education and involvement by following online-workshops offered by Plant-for-the-Planet and held by individual experts and coaches or e-learning materials. We also enable our Climate Justice Ambassadors to hold speeches at events to raise awareness about the climate crisis and inform others about the mission of Plant-for-the-Planet. The impact of COVID-19 The global pandemic has had an impact on our activities. While our Plant-for-the-Planet international offices employees were able to work from home - thanks to digital communication tools and well prepared workflows - in Mexico our forest restoration team cannot. However, we are happy to report that we are able to continue working on our planting site and thanks to the implementation of measures ensuring the safety of our workers. Regarding our Academies, we had to move to an online format to ensure the safety of the participants and their family. Transparency and monitoring If you wish to learn more about how our organization operates, you can find our latest reports on our website.