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Pro Mujer (main offices in New York City and La Paz, Bolivia) is a microfinance network that offers credit, access to savings accounts, healthcare and training to poor women entrepreneurs in Latin America. Since the charity was established in 1990, Pro Mujer has disbursed over $327-million in small loans to poor women to help them increase their [...]

Global Action For Children (GAC) is a nonprofit formed in 2003 to raise money and support for orphans and other vulnerable children in poor countries around the world. Angelina Jolie is the Honorary Chairperson of GAC, and helps in lobbying governments in wealthier countries around the world (including the USA) to provide aid to needy [...]

Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) (based in Cambridge, MA) is a nonprofit that has been working for 20 years to organize health professionals to promote health, dignity, justice, and human rights all over the world.
PHR shared the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to ban landmines, and is now working in Sudan documenting the atrocities and genocide [...]

Save Africa’s Children (SAC) is a charity that has assisted over 350 orphan care and support programs in Sub Saharan Africa, reaching over 90,000 AIDS affected children. SAC was founded in 2001 by Bishop Charles E. Blake, pastor of the West Angeles Church of God in Christ in Los Angeles, California.
Denzel Washington, Ray Romano, Natalie [...]

American-based charity, The Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF), was formed in 1991 to provide humanitarian and medical aid to Palestinian youth in the Middle East, including Lebanon, Syria, Israel, including the West Bank and north, south and cental Gaza areas. The main objective is to provide specialized surgery in the Middle East to every child [...]

The “American Idol Gives Back” program in 2007 has raised over $75-million for American and world aid (mostly to Africa).
Ever wonder which organizations receive these funds?

Berkeley, California-based Global Health Access Program (GHAP) focuses on providing medical and health support to Burma’s refugees in Thailand as well as those still living in Burma (also called Myanmar by current government).
In 1989, GHAP’s founder Ben Brown worked with local doctors and mobile mission medics on the Thai-Burma border to provide medical aid to [...]

The Smiles Forever Foundation is an American - Bolivian charity that offers the rare service of preventative dental hygiene in Bolivia. And what’s just as unique is that Smiles Forever now offers a 2-year dental hygiene training program for young homeless women in a Bolivia shelter program who are lifted from life on the streets to careers [...]