The Waterloo Foundation - TWF
United KingdomMicrofinance
TWF is an independent grant-making Foundation created in 2007, and based in Cardiff, Wales. We give grants to organisations in both the UK and world-wide. We are most interested in projects that help globally particularly in the areas of the disparity of wealth and climate-related issues.
The Well Foundation
United KingdomResearch/Dev
Unsafe water and lack of sanitation is now the single largest cause of illness worldwide. Unless we act now, by 2025 the number of people who lack access to clean water could increase to 2.3 billion. Half the people in developing countries are suffering from water-related diseases. Affecting immensely peoples health, sanitation, time and quality of life. Polluted water is the world's biggest killer of children under five. The Well Foundation raises money to build wells, install hand pumps and establish health and sanitation programme's to provide accessible clean water to the stricken regions of the world.
The Westminster Schools
United StatesChildren/Education
Welcome to The Westminster Schools, where each day our students and teachers come together for the joy of discovering, sharing, and growing together. For over 50 years, Westminster has committed itself to the highest standards of education, seeking, in the words of our mission statement, "to develop the whole person for college and for life through excellent education." Our aspirations are ambitious: to concern ourselves with the whole person and not just the academician, to pursue preparation for life and not just for college, and to commit to true excellence in a world where that word is often used all too casually.
The White House Project
United StatesWomen
In 1998, Wilson founded The White House Project in recognition of the need to build a truly representative democracy - one where women lead alongside men in all spheres. Since its inception, The White House Project has been a leading advocate and voice on women's leadership. When you add women, you change everything. You get new voices, new ideas, new results. You get richly diverse, genuinely representative democracy. You get a nation that responds to challenges by drawing on the strength and wisdom of all its people, women and men. You get leadership in every sphere–political and social, cultural and economic–that is fully responsive.
The Whitgift Foundation
United KingdomCommunity/Family
The Whitgift Foundation is a local charity based in Croydon and founded in 1596 to provide education for the young and care for the elderly. Our mission in the twenty-first century remains committed to both these central aims; to broaden access to the three Foundation schools for talented young people, particularly through the provision of significant financial assistance, and to promote the range of welfare options and provide high quality care homes and sheltered accommodation to the elderly in the town of Croydon and the surrounding area. The Whitgift Foundation has also established The Carers' Information Service as a provider of information, advice, support and training to carers of those who need help due to frailty, illness or disability.
The Wild Aid Foundation
United KingdomAnimals/Wildlife
The Wildaid Foundation Trust (Wildaid) is a charity registered in England and Wales (registered charity No. 1001595). It was set up in 1990 with the name Staffordshire Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre by Jonathon Hodges and his family to rescue, care for and rehabilitate animals in need. Originally the organisation ran a wildlife hospital and sanctuary for rescued zoo animals based in the Churnet Valley, near Stoke-on-Trent. In 1997 the charity’s name was changed to Wildaid and and we started supporting the work of other groups through a grant-making programme called Wildaid Challenge.
The WILD Foundation
United StatesAnimals/Wildlife
As the hub of the global wilderness conservation movement, WILD is the only international organization dedicated entirely and explicitly to wilderness protection around the world. WILD works to protect the planet’s wild places and the wildlife and people who depend upon them, because wilderness areas provide essential social, spiritual, biological and economic benefits. We believe that intact wilderness areas are an essential core element of a healthy modern society.
The Wilderness Society
United StatesAnimals/Wildlife
Since 1935, The Wilderness Society has led the conservation movement in wilderness protection, writing and passing the landmark Wilderness Act and winning lasting protection for 107 million acres of Wilderness, including 56 million acres of spectacular lands in Alaska, eight million acres of fragile desert lands in California and millions more throughout the nation.
The Wildlife Ark Trust
United KingdomAnimals/Wildlife
The Wildlife Ark Trust is a registered charity. The Wildlife Ark Trust is in favour of any conservation measure that will help the red squirrel and the water vole such as habitat management, supplementary feeding, scientific research etc. but we believe that the control of alien pest species' numbers must be a priority. We also support the view that the immediate development of a vaccine to combat the effects of the squirrelpox virus in the red squirrels is vital.
The Wildlife For All Trust
United KingdomAnimals/Wildlife
We manage our own nature reserves in Sussex and South Africa. Our no-nonsense education focuses on the need for a deeper approach to nature conservation. We all purposely work as non-paid professionals. As we don't waste money paying ourselves, all donations are spent on genuine needs such as buying land for nature. We are unusually successful and work on the principle: "Actions speak louder than words."
The WISH Centre
United KingdomCommunity/Family
The WISH Centre provides support and opportunities for women,youth and children who are survivors of abuse, violence and neglect and for young people who self harm. WISH is a community of creative innovators responding to real needs, developing new ways of working and making social change happen. WISH are leaders in supporting young self harmers into recovery and have a peer led approach. We provide counselling, groupwork, peer mentoring, youth projects and training.
The Womanity Foundation
SwitzerlandWomen
We work towards a world where all women and men have equal access to education, healthcare, full economic participation and political citizenship in their communities, enabling these communities to thrive. Set up in 2005, the Womanity Foundation presently supports and develops projects in Afghanistan, Brazil, India, Israel, Morocco and the Palestinian Territories. Focussed on empowering women to enable them to attain financial independence, these projects encourage young girls and women to gain access to education, training and employment. The Womanity Foundation is based in Switzerland and registered in the UK.
The Women's Council
United KingdomDisability
Over 70 years of Friendship, Understanding and Co-operation between women of Asian countries and the United Kingdom. Over 30 years of joint fund raising to train women working in child welfare. Now focuses on the care of the disabled child in community education. Supported by Patrons from 25 Asian Embassies and High Commissions at the Court of St. James.
The Yellow-Eyed Penguin Trust
New ZealandAnimals/Wildlife
In the 1980s research on the Otago Peninsula showed that the yellow-eyed penguin population had declined severely due to severe predation and loss of habitat and the yellow-eyed penguin was now considered to be an endangered species. This unique penguin is found only along New Zealands south islands’ eastern coastline, as far north as Banks Peninsula and as far south as Stewart Island and beyond to Campbell Island. So it was in 1987 that Dunedin conservationists formed the Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust with the aim of saving the penguin by restoring coastal forest and controlling predators. The Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust is a conservation organisation highly respected by the Department of Conservation and the Ministry of Conservation for its work in the preservation of the rare and endangered yellow-eyed penguin.
The Yuri Shtern Foundation
IsraelHealth/Medical
The late MK Dr. Yuri Shtern passed away at the age of 57 on January 16, 2007, after a long and courageous battle with cancer. He was at the height of his political career, working tirelessly for the advancement of the Jewish people and the State of Israel. Yuri was the founder of the Soviet Jewry Information Center and the Christian Allies Caucus in the Knesset. He was an idealist with a keen interest in literature and a brilliant parliamentarian who stood out as an exceptional figure on the local political scene. This memorial website is dedicated to Yuri Shtern’s fascinating life story, and presents a gallery of pictures, his poetry and eulogies, all of which honor and remember his life. But this website does not only commemorate the past. It is also a focal point for future activism. The Yuri Shtern Foundation, established by Yuri’s family and friends, will continue to promote his public activities, based on the firm belief that this is the best way to keep Yuri’s memory and legacy alive.
Theatre For Life Trust
South AfricaArts/Culture
The Theatre for Life Trust is a human rights-based, democratic, non-sexist, non-racist, non-profit educational organisation, whose beneficiaries are the young people in South African schools who constitute the trust’s audiences. It creates applied theatre productions which travel to schools nation-wide, providing complimentary, social life-skills education to school-going learners for the promotion and development of self-efficacy and resilience in relation to sexuality and relationships, and the attendant attitudes, behaviours, values and views that are inherent therein.
The Asthma Foundation
New ZealandResearch/Dev
The Asthma Foundation is New Zealand's not-for-profit sector authority on asthma and other respiratory illnesses. We advocate to government and raise awareness of respiratory illnesses, fund research for better treatments and educate on best practice. We provide resources and support our 18 affiliated asthma societies in providing education, support and advice services. We are committed to finding new solutions for people with asthma and respiratory diseases through contributing to the development of public policy, education and funded research. We continue to advocate on behalf of all people with respiratory conditions and increase awareness of respiratory conditions in New Zealand.
Thembalethu
South AfricaCommunity/Family
Thembalethu Home Based Care was set up in 1999 in response to the AIDS epidemic in the Nkomazi Region, Mpumalanga. It operates directly in 22 villages through 300 field workers with an approximate outreach of 250,000. We also have an outreach program into Swaziland and Mozambique with whom we share borders. The purpose of our organization is to teach and equip people to care for dying AIDS patients, counsel traumatized families, take care of orphans, engage youth in life changing programs to combat HIV infection and to empower the local community to become self-sufficient. Thembalethu’s philosophy is to offer a holistic solution to the existing pandemic by introducing appealing intervention programs which will result in a better life for those we serve.
Theodora children's trust
United KingdomChildren/Education
The Theodora Foundation was founded by Jan and André Poulie in 1993 in memory of their mother, Théodora. The Foundation is active every week in 42 hospitals throughout Switzerland, with 43 clowns visiting over 70,000 young patients per year. In addition, there are 88 Theodora clown doctors working in 8 countries, visiting over 150,000 children in 42 hospitals every year. The Foundation is committed to making the clown doctor programme available to hospitalised children around the world. The work of Theodora Children’s Trust, the UK charity, is inspired by the philosophy shared by this international network of clown doctor programmes and is enriched by their wide-ranging experience.
THERA TRUST
United KingdomHealth/Medical
Thera supports tenants at home, including those with profound and multiple complex support needs. Thera supports around 700 people with a learning disability and employs over 1200 staff all over the country, working with 13 local authorities. Thera Trust started in 1998, supporting 5 individuals with a learning disability in Cambridgeshire.