By David on Aug 30, 2008 in World | 0 Comments
The Batey Relief Alliance (BRA), founded in 1997, is a nonprofit organization (Brooklyn, New York) that provides health care, development and humanitarian programs for people severely affected by poverty, disease and hunger in the Caribbean.
Batey unites grassroot groups, faith-based organizations, government agencies and international organizations in strategic partnerships. In 2003, the government of the Dominican [...]
By David on Aug 28, 2008 in Featured, USA | 0 Comments
Harvard is the top ranked national university in U.S. News & World Report’s 2009 ranking of American colleges.
The rankings are based on surveys of college officials, graduation rates, retention rates, financial resources, student selectivity, educational resources and other factors. The top national schools in this survery are listed below:
1. Harvard
2. Princeton
3. Yale
By David on Aug 27, 2008 in Africa | 0 Comments
The Anti-Poverty Initiative (API) works to reduce poverty for women in Senegal (West Africa) through micro-enterprise training, micro-loans and savings initiatives that empower women and promote self-reliance. Future plans include expanding the programs to other African countries.
API, founded in 2004, is a nonprofit organization that has an office in Indianapolis, Indiana and another office in [...]
By David on Aug 26, 2008 in World | 0 Comments
Places of Hope (POH) is an American nonprofit (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida) that was founded after Senior Pastor Tom and Donna Mullins led a Christ Fellowship Church trip to Romanian orphanages in 1993.
Soon after Place of Hope USA was formed as a faith-based community organization to provide residential care in the USA for children who [...]
By David on Aug 25, 2008 in Africa, Featured | 0 Comments
Shoe4Africa has a unique program for collecting gently used running shoes for its missions of empowerment through sports and education, creating unique health initiatives and promoting AIDS awareness in Africa.
The nonprofit volunteer organization was founded in 1995 by Toby Tanser, a top Icelandic runner, who currently lives in New York city. Actor Anthony Edwards (Doctor [...]
By David on Aug 23, 2008 in World | 0 Comments
Voices of Women (VOW) is an American (based in California) nonprofit organization that raises awareness and takes action on global issues, and advances the cause of non-military solutions to global conflicts. VOW, founded in 2001, also helps organizations around the world that help women and children in difficult conditions.
Projects include documentary films, panel discussions, dramatic theater [...]
By David on Aug 22, 2008 in Africa | 0 Comments
Zangala is a California-based nonprofit that works to preserve, validate and honor the unique culture of the Dagara people of Burkina Faso in Sub-Saharan Africa.The traditions and culture of the Dagara are slowly being eroded in recent times, and Zangala has a focus to not only preserve their culture, but to provide material aid as [...]
By David on Aug 21, 2008 in Featured, USA | 0 Comments
“Minorities, now roughly one-third of the U.S. population, are expected to become the majority in 2042″, says the U.S. Census Bureau in a report issued in August, 2008.
If you look at only children, more than 50% of children of the children in the USA will be minorities by the year 2023, and 62% of the [...]