Americorps
AmeriCorps is a network of national service programs that engage
more than 50,000 Americans each year in intensive service to
meet critical needs in education, public safety, health and
the environment. AmeriCorps members serve through more than
2,100 nonprofits, public agencies and faith-based organizations.
They tutor and mentor youth, build affordable housing, teach
computer skills, clean parks and streams, run after-school
programs and help communities respond to disasters. Created
in 1993, AmeriCorps is part of the Corporation for National
and Community Service, which also oversees Senior Corps and
Learn and Serve America. Together these programs engage more
than 2 million Americans of all ages and backgrounds in service
each year.
(Description taken from http://www.americorps.org/whoweare.html.)
Habitat for Humanity
Habitat for Humanity International is a nonprofit, nondenominational
Christian housing organization. We welcome all people to join
us as we build simple, decent, affordable houses in partnership
with those who lack adequate shelter. Since 1976, Habitat has
built more than 50,000 houses with families throughout the
United States and another 100,000-plus houses in communities
around the world. Now at work in 92 countries, we are building
a house every 26 minutes. By 2005, Habitat houses will be sheltering
1 million people. Local Habitat affiliates coordinate house
building and select partner families.
(Description taken from http://www.habitat.org/how/tour/1.html.)
National Children’s Facilities
Network
The National Children's Facilities Network works to generate
federal resources to support the development and improvement
of early childhood facilities in underserved communities nationwide.
The network's public policy initiatives are undertaken in collaboration
with other children's advocacy leaders concerned with addressing
the inadequate supply and quality of early childhood facilities
across the country. The Public Policy Committee guides the
network's advocacy efforts, coordinates outreach to Congressional
staff and organizes legislative briefings on childcare facility
financing strategies and issues. The Committee also tracks
the progress of legislation that promotes a more supportive
environment for childcare facility financing and development.
(Description taken from http://www.ncfn.org/pp.htm.)
Save the Children
The history of Save the Children is a story of positive change
and people - millions of people in thousands of communities
around the globe - working together to create opportunities
for the world's children to live safe, healthy and fulfilling
lives. In January 1932 in a small room in New York City, a
group of concerned citizens gathered to respond to the needs
of the proud people of Appalachia hard hit by the Great Depression. From
this early effort in the hills and hollows of Harlan County,
Kentucky, grew a self-help philosophy and practice still at
work today in more than 45 countries: providing communities
with a hand up, not a handout.
This approach - working with families to define and solve the
problems their children and communities face and utilizing a
broad array of strategies to ensure self-sufficiency - is the
cornerstone of all Save the Children's programs. Through the
decades, we have evolved into a leading international relief
and development organization. Countless events and achievements
have shaped the development of our organization and helped change
the lives of the children we serve.
(Description taken from http://www.savethechildren.org/mission/index.asp.)
Women’s Environment and
Development Organization
WEDO is an international advocacy organization that seeks to
increase the power of women worldwide as policymakers at all
levels in governments, institutions and forums to achieve economic
and social justice, a healthy and peaceful planet and human
rights for all.
(Description taken from http://www.wedo.org/.)
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