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The Scholar Rescue Fund is a program of the Institute of International Education (New York, NY) that works to help threatened scholars anywhere in the world find safe haven and continue their work … shining a light on those who terrorize and preserving the intellectual capital of humanity.
A special Iraq Scholar Rescue division has been [...]

Read three primers on ‘global waste’, commit by email to pursue them (on the honor system), and Hinkle Charitable Foundation will make a $100 donation in your name to the Solar Electric Light Fund (up to the first 1000 responders).  The Solar Electric Light Fund (see previous article) is an American nonprofit that provides solar [...]

Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF) is a nonprofit (Washington, DC) that brings solar power and modern communications to rural villages in the developing world… for improving health, education and economic well-being. Founded in 1990 by Neville Williams, a consultant to the U.S. Department of Energy during the Carter administration, SELF has worked in China, India, [...]

InterConnection (Seattle, WA) is a nonprofit, founded in 1999 to develop and donate websites to nonprofits in developing countries, and has now has a core mission to deliver recycled low cost computers (and technology training) to underserved local and international communities.
Windows and Office can be provided in foreign languages. Recipient organizations must work in the [...]

Academy for Educational Development (AED), founded in 1961 (Washington, DC), has over 250 programs in 150 countries with a focus on improving education, health and economic opportunities for the least advantaged in the USA and developing countries around the world.
AED’s annual budget of over $335-million provides assistance in projects related to HIV/AIDS, education, economic development, [...]

Mali Health Organizing Project (MHOP) is a nonprofit (Westminster Station, VT) that works to help slums in Mali create their own health care solutions and advocate for themselves at the local government levels … “When community committees learn to design, implement, and evaluate their own projects, they invest in health and ask their governments to [...]

On April 18, United Kingdom Prime Minister Gordon Brown awarded two USC (University of Southern California) students as winners of their Click for Change: Educate Africa contest, which challenged students to communicate the importance of supporting education in Africa using new media. 72 million children in Africa are not enrolled in school.
Katrina Chan’s website … www.oneclickforchange.org … won [...]

HealthCare Volunteer (HV) is a American-based non-profit (Los Angeles), founded in January, 2006, that was founded by a medical student and a dental student (frustrated by their own efforts to find volunteer opportunities) to connect trained and untrained volunteers and job seekers interested in health-related volunteering around the world. In 2006 alone, HV was accessed by [...]