San Jose Museum of Art
United StatesArts/Culture
Established in 1969, the San Jose Museum of Art is a distinct voice in the San Francisco Bay Area arts community. The Museum is recognized for its contemporary collection, which reflects the West Coast contextualized by national and international visual art. The collection exhibits the unique evolution of the institution from a small civic art gallery to a museum in the tenth largest city in the United States. The San Jose Museum of Art is the only museum in San Jose accredited by the American Association of Museums, a recognition given to only 750 of the nation's 8,000 museums. A public benefit 501(c)3 organization located in downtown San Jose, SJMA serves 200,000 people a year. 55,000 are children, nearly 40,000 of whom participate in our locally applauded Studio Arts Education programs. SJMA is the leading institution dedicated to visual culture in Silicon Valley. It is a community anchor, ensuring artistic excellence and access for an extraordinarily diverse populace.
Sanchetana
IndiaCommunity/Family
Sanchetana was started in 1982 on the conviction that the poor slum dwellers have been neglected and exploited by various means, which keeps them in a state of perpetual poverty. Sanchetana’s efforts have been to make the urban poor conscious of these causes of their plight and organize them into cohesive groups, rising above parochial considerations of caste, creed and gender, so that they are able to assert their right to live a dignified and humane life. Founded by Dr. Hanif Lakdawala, Sanchetana was registered as Public Charitable Trust that facilitates intensive health programs, which aims at strengthening collective actions at the community level so that the poor slum dwellers are able to stand together against exploitation and discrimination.
Sands Manukau
New ZealandCommunity/Family
Sands Manukau was set up in April 2008 to support parents and their families in the Manukau region following the death of a baby in pregnancy, at birth or shortly after birth. We also support parents facing the heartbreaking choice following a poor prognosis during pregnancy. We are all volunteers who have experienced the death of a baby/babies and want to reach out and support other parents going through a similar experience.
Sandy Pines Wildlife Centre
CanadaAnimals/Wildlife
Sandy Pines Wildlife Centre has been in operation for 15 years. We work closely with the Napanee Humane Society. In 2009, over 1300 mammals and birds were admitted to the Centre, and most were released successfully. When animals are admitted, they receive a physical examination to determine what injury has occurred and their health status. We then decide on a course of treatment based on medication, nutrition, and proper environment. Their length of stay depends on the complexity of the treatment and can range from a few days to several months. Orphaned wildlife may require extended care depending on the species, until they have learned the skills necessary to survive in the wild. A successful rehabilitation results in the release of the animal, in the area where it was originally found. SPWC is a registered charitable wildlife welfare organization supported by donations and fund raising.
SANE
United KingdomHealth/Medical
SANE was established in 1986 to improve the quality of life for people affected by mental illness, following the overwhelming public response to a series of articles published in The Times entitled The Forgotten Illness. SANE's vision has remained consistent throughout its twenty five year history: to raise public awareness, excite research, and bring more effective professional treatment and compassionate care to everyone affected by mental illness.
SANE Australia
AustraliaDisability
SANE Australia is a national charity working for a better life for people affected by mental illness – through campaigning, education and research. SANE conducts innovative programs and campaigns to improve the lives of people living with mental illness, their family and friends. It also operates a busy Helpline and website, which have thousands of contacts each year from around Australia. Headed by Executive Director Barbara Hocking OAM, SANE is a leading independent NGO campaigning for the one in five Australians affected by mental illness every year.
SANLAAP- New Delhi
IndiaHuman Rights
SANLAAP is a development organization that works towards correction of social imbalances, which manifest in gender injustice and violence against women and children. We work against trafficking of women and children for commercial sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and prostitution. SANLAAP runs four shelter homes and we provide a safe heaven for children living in the Red Light Areas. We carry out awareness generation programs on the issue of safe migration, trafficking, commercial sexual exploitation, violence against women in a structured and a phased manner at the community level.
Sansum Diabetes Research Institute
United StatesResearch/Dev
Sansum Diabetes Research Institute is a research center devoted to the prevention, treatment and cure of diabetes. Dr. William D. Sansum founded the non profit organization in 1944 and brought renown to Santa Barbara in 1922 as the first physician in the U.S. to administer life-saving insulin to patients with diabetes.
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
United StatesAnimals/Wildlife
Founded in 1941, SBMA has developed a unique identity. Influenced by the community as a whole and by individual collectors of major importance, the holdings of the Museum have taken on a character specific to this institution. SBMA's strong education and outreach program is multi-faceted: docent-led tours for children and adults, classroom slide talks, family days at the Museum, teacher workshops, lectures, adult education classes, and studio art classes for all ages at the Ridley-Tree Education Center at McCormick House.
Santa Clara University
United StatesChildren/Education
Santa Clara is California's oldest-operating institution of higher education, with more than 150 years of history. As a Jesuit, Catholic university, we are committed to faith-inspired values and educating leaders of competence, conscience, and compassion who will help fashion a more just, humane, and sustainable world. The University's leadership oversees Santa Clara's strategic direction and plans for academic, financial, organizational, and physical development. Santa Clara University cherishes its diverse community and respects and welcomes people of all origins, without regard to religion, race, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation.
Santa Fe Institute
United StatesResearch/Dev
The Santa Fe Institute is a private, not-for-profit, independent research and education center founded in 1984, for multidisciplinary collaborations in the physical, biological, computational, and social sciences. Understanding of complex adaptive systems is critical to addressing key environmental, technological, biological, economic, and political challenges. Renowned scientists and researchers come to Santa Fe Institute from universities, government agencies, research institutes, and private industry to collaborate in attempts to uncover the mechanisms that underlie the deep simplicity present in our complex world. Our complex systems research attempts to uncover and understand the deep commonalities that link artificial, human, and natural systems. By their very nature, these problems transcend any particular field, for example, if we understand the fundamental principles of organization, we will gain insight into the functioning of cells in biology, firms in economics, and magnets in physics. This research relies on theories and tools from across the sciences. Part of the rise of the complex systems research agenda can be tied to the use of theoretical computation as a new way to explore such systems.
SanWild
South AfricaAnimals/Wildlife
SanWild is a rehabilitation and emergency rescue centre specializing in wild animals. The reserve is also used as a release site for wild animals from other rehabilitation centres. All animals rescued, treated or hand raised are released into the SanWild Wildlife Sanctuary. Both the wild animals and the land are protected in perpetuity under the SanWild Wildlife Trust and wildlife may never be sold, traded or hunted.
SANZAF
South AfricaCommunity/Family
The South African National Zakáh Fund (SANZAF) is a religious, socio-welfare and educational organisation that strives to facilitate the empowerment of needy families through the efficient collection and effective distribution of Zakáh (compulsory annual poor tax) and other Sadaqát (voluntary charity) – in a proactive and cost effective way through projects – with dignity, sincerity and a shared responsibility. SANZAF's Welfare Projects are designed to assist needy families and individuals with their short term poverty alleviation requirements as well as their long term empowerment.
Sarasota Opera
United StatesArts/Culture
The Sarasota Opera is an internationally respected producer of the highest quality professional opera. It fosters artistic excellence, diversity, and vitality in the Sarasota area by producing opera as a living art form through performances and composition. We offer a stage for American-trained principal artists by producing high-caliber Apprentice and Studio Artist programs. We own, maintain, and operate the Opera House as a year-round facility and we promote and increase public knowledge and appreciation of opera. In addition to striving for artistic excellence, Sarasota Opera directs itself toward becoming accessible to all segments of the greater community. Coordinated artistic, educational, informational, and social outreach programs to accomplish this accessibility. We entertain, enrich, and educate our communities, as well as patrons from across the state and around the world. We take this commitment very seriously. Through a multitude of education and outreach programs we provide opportunities for all members of our community to share our passion for the operatic art form.
SASAPD
South AfricaDisability
We want to enable the sport to grow at all levels, grass roots, seniors, juniors and elite, by providing more opportunities for athletes to develop their full potential. Disability classification is the method used throughout the Paralympics movement to create and administer equitable athletic competitions. The mission of Paralympics sports is to be as inclusive as possible regarding athletes who possess one of a broad range of physical and intellectual disabilities. It is the equity of the classification process that is an asset of the Paralympics movement, which seeks to promote elite athletic performance within an ever-expanding range of events.
Savannah Education Trust
United KingdomChildren/Education
The name of the charity reflects the area in which we are working: the savannah landscape of northern Ghana. When the Trustees visited northern Ghana in 2003 they met many children like the boy featured on our home page. But it was the local community in the village of Bagri, as well as the Baptist churches, that asked them to consider help. The Trust is working closely with government, represented by the Ghana Education Services (part of the local District Assembly). The Trust is making funds available for a meal each day for pupils while they are at school. It is shocking to realise that, without this provision, village children will often miss school during the hungry (i.e. dry) season to scavenge for food (rats, mice, birds, and fruits) in the bush.
SAVE
South AfricaEnvironment
SAVE is an association of concerned people who wish to protect and maintain the integrity and ecology of the Vaal River and its environs in the short and the long term. SAVE is an acronym for Save the Vaal Environment, a non-profit organisation which, in terms of clause 2.1. of our Constitution has, principally, among its objectives "To protect and maintain the environmental integrity of the Vaal River and its environs for current and future generations with specific focus on the area between Letaba Weir and the Barrage."
SAVE Foundation of Australia
AustraliaAnimals/Wildlife
Since its creation in 1987, the SAVE Foundation of Australia (Inc.) has been committed to saving Africa's endangered species from extinction. During the past 23 years, the main focus of our activities has been the conservation of the African Black Rhinoceros in Zimbabwe. There had not been any rhino poaching since February 1994, but, sadly, many have been killed since early 2003. The SAVE Foundation has donated more than $3.2 million worth of field equipment, including 11 four wheel drive vehicles, 15 motor bikes, 15 outboard motors, 10 reconditioned engines and gearboxes, numerous sets of radios and tons of spare parts for all of the above.
Save Happy Valley Coalition
New ZealandEnvironment
Happy Valley is a stunning landscape of rocky pavement, native bush, and fragile wetlands on the West Coast of New Zealand, home to many threatened species including the Great Spotted Kiwi and a large native Patrickensis land snail, and it is under attack from state-owned coal company Solid Energy! Solid Energy's open-cast coal mine — a planned 96 metre deep pit — would completely obliterate this pristine valley, and pollute local rivers with heavy metals and acid mine drainage. We must make a stand now to stop the creation of more coal mines and coal-fired power stations in Aotearoa. We need to stop the burning of fossil fuels before it’s too late.
Save India's Tigers
IndiaAnimals/Wildlife
The best ways of saving Indian tigers are through information websites or non-profit organisations which educate people about the Panthera Tigris Tigris. Our goal is to encourage and invite those lovers of India's tigers to publicly, privately donate, sponsor P.t.tigris on some of these sites. We believe in this way they can increase in numbers and be saved. Project tiger started with 9 tiger reserves in 1973 now it has 27 with around 1576 Indian tigers, which is almost half of India's whole tiger population. The rest of the remaining tigers are in the other zoos, sanctuaries or in the wild remote areas of India.