Kane fm 103.7
United KingdomArts/Culture
Kane fm is a unique community radio station mostly run by volunteers. Kane fm provides a platform for new musical talent; addresses inclusion and engagement of young people with numerous special needs by encouraging them to join in, even if only listening. Kane fm aims to reduce anti-social behaviour of groups or individuals living in the borough by encouraging participation and opportunities for volunteering. Kane fm's programmes aim to improve technical, social, cultural and artistic skills, appreciation and opportunities of the arts; teach or mentor music production, journalistic and broadcasting skills; build confidence, team skills and self-esteem to all involved improving employability and other life chances. Kane fm aims to build the capacity of Kane's community to be sustainable and represent the widest cross section of the community. All revenue from advertising, funding appeals and fund raising events go back into the running of kane fm and it's projects.
Kansallinen Lastenliitto
FinlandChildren/Education
Kansallinen Lastenliitto ry, a Finnish national organization was established in 1972. Our main target group is Finnish children and adolescents under 15 years. Kansallinen Lastenliitto is interested in all topics concerning children and youth. Our aim is to promote life control, tolerance and responsibility among children and youth. We value healthy lifestyle, good manners, creativity, active citizenship, strong self-respect, cooperativeness, sustainable development and international responsibility. Kansallinen Lastenliitto promotes the Rights of the Child. We take an active role in political discussion to promote the wellbeing of children, youth and of families with children. We want to support parenthood and to help parents combine the demands of the working life with the demands of the familylife.
Kansas City Starlight Theatre
United StatesArts/Culture
Starlight Theatre has been a Kansas City landmark since the 1950's. Over the years the venue has brought the city hundreds of spectacular Broadway shows, amazing concerts and wonderful community outreach programs. Starlight Theatre is the premier entertainment treasure of the heartland, where performing arts share center stage with education. Everything from Broadway shows to live concerts perform on the stage where thousands of guests can watch, listen and enjoy what they see. Starlight Theatre has been a fixture in the Kansas City community since its inception. We are proud to continue to give back to our hometown through our community ticketing program and club/ organization Fund Raising volunteer opportunities. Starlight also welcomes community members who wish to volunteer their time to support theatre activities and events through our Ambassadors program.
KARE
IrelandCommunity/Family
KARE was established in 1965 to support families especially those who look after an older relative and to assist vulnerable older people living alone. This is done by providing home help and meals on wheels services. These services enable older people to live as independently and as safely as possible in their own homes. The catchment area for providing the home help and meals on wheels services is Killester, Artane, Raheny and Edenmore in North Dublin. KARE staff and volunteers are dedicated and committed to providing home help, meals on wheels and citizens information in a friendly, impartial and independent manner. KARE is a voluntary organisation which is funded both by private donations and state funding.
Karim Rida Said Foundation
United KingdomChildren/Education
We prioritise disadvantaged children and young people, in particular those who are disabled or have no – or limited – access to education. The Further Education Programme works primarily through the provision of grants or scholarships to individuals from the target countries that are able to demonstrate their commitment to the future development of the region. The Child Development Programme provides grants to organisations (mostly NGOs) that are already active at local level and which address the needs of our priority beneficiary groups. In Syria, the Foundation implements its own projects that focus on children with disabilities.
Karl Kübel Stiftung
GermanyCommunity/Family
Karl Kübel Stiftung für Kind und Familie is a secular, charitable trust with its headquarters in Bensheim/Germany. It was founded by Karl Kübel, a former industrial entrepreneur. We want to initiate a change in the general attitude towards families and children. We are convinced that the family environment is decisive for the future way of life. We support parents to give their children security and love. Within the family environment, the adult of tomorrow should be able to develop towards a responsible and independent citizen. To realize this vision, we encourage various initiatives of parents and self-help-initiatives. We are concerned about improving the conditions for families, society and the environment.
Karmyog
IndiaChildren/Education
Karmyog was formed in the year 1998, the people involved are veterans in social service having worked for the last fourteen years with neglected and destitute children for putting back smiles on their hapless faces. The purpose of setting up the Trust was the realisation that once the girls turned 18 they had to leave the safe confines of the home and step into the world. Being orphans and destitutes they found it difficult to earn a living and establish themselves. They lacked vocational training. 'Karmyog' observed their desire and need to lead a more meaningful life and decided to sponsor girls to train them so that they become entrepreneurs themselves.
Karori Wildlife Sanctuary
New ZealandAnimals/Wildlife
The establishment of the Trust in 1995 was a major breakthrough in the conservation and recovery of native wildlife on mainland New Zealand, reversing a decline that has lasted for at least 700 years. It was a radical idea that turned out to be a major breakthrough in the conservation and recovery of native wildlife on mainland New Zealand. The sanctuary comprises 225 hectares (approximately one square mile) of regenerating lowland forest and wetlands protected by a unique 8.6 km predator-proof fence, specially designed to exclude non-native mammals ranging from hedgehogs to possums. It is the most accessible of New Zealand’s celebrated mainland conservation islands and is a safe haven for some of our most iconic and endangered native animals, including tuatara, little spotted kiwi, saddleback, hihi and giant weta.
Kartwheels In Motion
United StatesDisability
Since February 2001, Kartwheels has been operating its recreational, afterschool programs for children and young adults who face physical, emotional, and cognitive challenges. In addition to providing an important recreational venue for our participants, Kartwheels offers numerous other benefits to those involved. In fact our activities offer a safe and fun opportunity for a diverse population of children and young adolescents to benefit from the therapeutic effect of gym and pool recreation. Kartwheels' locations are convenient to families throughout metro Boston.
Karuna, India
IndiaAnimals/Wildlife
Karuna for animals in distress-Mumbai, is a non profit-non governmental charity organization working for the benefit of mute & innocent animals. The NGO is involved in a wide spectrum of animal welfare activities, having more concentration on Free onsite medical and surgical treatments for strays. On an average 250 animals get benefited by this service per day through “karuna” Mobile clinics in areas of Mumbai like Mulund, Thane, Virar and Andheri. The organization makes concrete efforts for rescue and treatment of animals in trouble.
Kashmir Orphans Relief Trust
United KingdomChildren/Education
Kashmir Orphans Relief Trust (K.O.R.T) started after the devastating earthquake that happened on the 8th October 2005 in Pakistan and Azad Kashmir. In addition to providing general aid, we began collecting financial aid and within five days had collected over £100,000. With this money we bought 300 tents, food, blankets, quilts, medicine and other aid. We then personally flew out to Pakistan and managed to organise eleven trucks to distribute the aid around the worst hit areas of Kashmir. To ensure aid was distributed equally and fairly we helped to distribute it, to the people that needed it the most. It is our aim that by December 2010 we would have constructed a building which will be able to house 1000 orphans, our own school and other facilities so that we can take on further responsibilities for the orphans of this devastating earthquake.
Katherine Delmar Burke School
United StatesChildren/Education
One hundred years ago, Katherine Delmar Burke founded her school to fill an obvious need: young women who wanted to be educated enough to attend college faced often-insurmountable barriers. Schools like Burke's, founded by a remarkable generation of women, provided what the next generations needed in order to rise to positions of responsibility. Today, Burke's provides a rigorous academic program in an environment that cherishes each girl for who she is. At the core is our commitment to building an inclusive community in which each girl can participate fully and knows that there is a special place for her at Burke's.
Kathmandu Animal Treatment Centre
United KingdomAnimals/Wildlife
The Kathmandu Animal Treatment Centre (KAT Centre) was first conceived after Jan Salter, the founder of KAT, went to visit ’Help in Suffering’ (HIS) in Jaipur, India. Impressed with the way HIS had managed the difficult dog problem in Jaipur by implementing Animal Birth Control and Anti-rabies programmes, creating a rabies free dog friendly city, Jan came back to Nepal convinced that what had been achieved in Jaipur could also be done in Kathmandu. There are considered to be over 35,000 street dogs in the Kathmandu Valley. They are commonly afflicted with severe skin problems, open sores with maggot infections, grotesque tumours, whelping (birth complications) and infectious ailments. Some dogs also carry rabies and other dangerous diseases which can put the human population, especially children who often play in the streets, at risk. After decades of poisoning dogs, it has been shown that this method is ineffective in the long term as the fertile stray population quickly recover their numbers.
Kaufman Center
United StatesArts/Culture
With its renowned concert hall, its community arts school and its innovative public school for musically gifted kids, Kaufman Center is the creative community for listeners, learners and performers – people who want music in their lives.
Keep America Beautiful
United StatesCommunity/Family
Keep America Beautiful, Inc. is the nation's largest volunteer-based community action and education organization. With a network of nearly 1,000 affiliate and participating organizations, KAB forms public-private partnerships and programs that engage individuals to take greater responsibility for improving their community's environment.
Keep Australia Beautiful NSW
AustraliaEnvironment
Established in 1975, Keep Australia Beautiful NSW is the premier not for profit organisation working to preserve, protect and enhance this state's unique and diverse environments. Our programs educate and motivate individuals, councils, community groups and businesses to take up environmentally sustainable practices which result in myriad positive outcomes for the whole community - now and in the future.
Ken-Mar Rescue
United StatesAnimals/Wildlife
Ken Guild and Martie Petrie have had dogs all of their lives. Since 2007, when they opened Ken-Mar Rescue, they have saved hundreds of dogs’ lives. They’ve developed a track record of effective adoptions. They’ve cultivated hundreds of Foster Parents, to care for the dogs as they wait to be adopted, including many Fosters who have ultimately adopted their dogs. Ironically, it took Martie losing one of her own dogs for rescue dogs to come into focus for Ken & Martie. When one of Martie’s Pomeranians, the frailest, skinniest and deaf, Moxie, got loose the reality of losing a dog to the “system” became all too real. After posting “lost dog” signs, Martie moved her search to a list of 18 dog places in the Silver Lake area. One such place was a pet store with an overriding holistic spirit. The owner recommended that Martie immediately visit a shelter in the area. The owner was so insistent and spoke with such conviction that Martie went directly to that shelter. It was there, among crates of dogs with high-end collars and tags, that Martie discovered that most shelters were not even trying to reconnect dogs with their owners. When she asked for help from the staff, to find Moxie, she was told “Your dog ain’t here.” Undeterred, she went cage by cage, for two and a half hours, searching for her dog. She showed every person at the shelter a picture of Moxie and finally, the one helpful volunteer took her in the back where she found her dog. Moxie had been labeled “defective” because of her deafness and was slated for euthanization. Finding Moxie gave Martie a cause to follow. She signed up as a volunteer at a shelter and discovered that hundreds of dogs are killed each week. She and Ken created a plan to network homeless dogs via the Internet to help find homes for adoptable dogs that would otherwise be killed. By focusing on one or two dogs at a time, they could transport the dogs to interim homes where they could “buy time” for the dogs until adopted. This gave both Martie & Ken a satisfaction that lead them to file for 501c3 to become a bona fide animal welfare non-profit organization. Ken-Mar Rescue was born.
Kenafayim Arts Center
IsraelArts/Culture
Kenafayim - Because Art has No Boundaries is an non-profit association founded in 2004 with the goal of establishing a unique arts center, the first if its kind in Israel, that will serve as a paying workplace for artists with special needs. The association was founded by Rina Padua and Dalit Sharon, artists with extensive and rich experience in their fields, and in working with people with special needs. The association’s Chairperson is Mr. Yossef Habas. We believe that a person facing emotional problems or an artist with special needs, has the right, just like any other person, to realize his/her talents and to work in a challenging, satisfying and suitable environment. Kenafayim Center includes a theatre and dance studio, a theatre hall, rehearsal rooms with musical equipment, studio spaces for painting and sculpture, and an active art gallery for people with special needs.
Kennedy Center
United StatesArts/Culture
The Kennedy Center, located on 17 acres overlooking the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., is America’s living memorial to President Kennedy as well as the nation’s busiest arts facility. Since opening in 1971, the Kennedy Center has continued its efforts to fulfill his vision by producing and presenting an unmatched variety of theater and musicals, dance and ballet, orchestral, chamber, jazz, popular, world, and folk music, and multi-media performances for all ages. Every year the institution that bears President Kennedy's name brings his dream to fruition, touching the lives of millions of people through thousands of performances by the greatest artists from across America and around the world. The Center also nurtures new works and young artists, creating performances, broadcasts, and touring productions while serving the nation as a leader in arts education.
Kent Kids Miles of Smiles
United KingdomChildren/Education
Kent Kids is a charity founded in 1993 to care for sick and disabled children, since then the charity has grown and now runs Footprints a care home for Kids aged 3 - 17 years old, and has recently opened Redwalls a care home for 18+ year olds.