Joel Garnier Records: non-profits
World Food Programme
In emergencies, we get food to where it is needed, saving the lives of victims of war, civil conflict and natural disasters. After the cause of an emergency has passed, we use food to help communities rebuild their shattered lives.
WFP is part of the United Nations system and is voluntarily funded.
WFP is part of the United Nations system and is voluntarily funded.
Yayasan Bumi Sehat
We are a not for profit organization of committed families, teachers, midwives, doctors, nurses and caring citizens from many countries. We advocate for the reproductive rights of displaced, marginalized, low- income women, of all cultures and their children.
In Bali we are achieving a higher standard of maternal and child health through culturally sensitive prenatal, post-partum, birth services and the support of breast feeding.
By promoting natural family planning we empower families who may have no access to pharmaceutical methods of birth control.
We work hand in hand with the communities we serve in order to establish sustainable health care, educational projects, and HIV/ AIDS prevention programs. In this way we nurture a more peaceful world on a grass-roots level.
Send checks EARMARKED FOR BUMI SEHAT to
Sakthi Foundation
1507 Lone Oak Circle,
Fairfiled, Iowa 52556
In Bali we are achieving a higher standard of maternal and child health through culturally sensitive prenatal, post-partum, birth services and the support of breast feeding.
By promoting natural family planning we empower families who may have no access to pharmaceutical methods of birth control.
We work hand in hand with the communities we serve in order to establish sustainable health care, educational projects, and HIV/ AIDS prevention programs. In this way we nurture a more peaceful world on a grass-roots level.
Send checks EARMARKED FOR BUMI SEHAT to
Sakthi Foundation
1507 Lone Oak Circle,
Fairfiled, Iowa 52556
Yayasan IDEP Foundation
Yayasan IDEP is an Indonesian non-profit NGO (Non-Governmental Organization). Innovative and effective, IDEP encourages program sharing with other grass roots projects through media and curriculum development.
We are committed to developing self-sustainability and directly empowering local communities to improve their own situations. We believe that permanent results can be achieved through local empowerment.
We are committed to developing self-sustainability and directly empowering local communities to improve their own situations. We believe that permanent results can be achieved through local empowerment.
Robin Lim Support Organization
“Ibu” (grandmother) Robin Lim is a Certified Professional Midwife, a respected author and a world-class poet, with a passion for delivering babies with modern methods while at the same time respecting ancient rituals and traditions.
Her Yayasan Bumi Sehat (Health Mother Earth) Foundation has for years operated a birthing and mother-baby health clinic in Bali, Indonesia.
In 2004 her organization responded to the Indian Ocean tsunami, which inundated the coastal regions of Aceh province in Indonesia, which was one of the worst natural disasters of all time.
Since then, she runs two mother/baby and emergency medical clinics, 1,000 miles apart. She has received regional and global recognition, and remains committed to changing the world through the gentle birth of one baby at a time.
Her Yayasan Bumi Sehat (Health Mother Earth) Foundation has for years operated a birthing and mother-baby health clinic in Bali, Indonesia.
In 2004 her organization responded to the Indian Ocean tsunami, which inundated the coastal regions of Aceh province in Indonesia, which was one of the worst natural disasters of all time.
Since then, she runs two mother/baby and emergency medical clinics, 1,000 miles apart. She has received regional and global recognition, and remains committed to changing the world through the gentle birth of one baby at a time.
Sakthi Foundation
Sakthi Foundation extends its charity work to support a world-renowned mother & child welfare project, the "Yayasan Bumi Sehat" (Healthy Mother Earth) project in Indonesia, whose inspiration and head is Robin Lim.
geek corps
IESC Geekcorps is an international 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that promotes stability and prosperity in the developing world through information and communication technology (ICT). Geekcorps’ international technology experts teach communities how to be digitally independent by expanding private enterprise with innovative, appropriate, and affordable information and communication technologies.
trickleup - http://www.trickleup.org/
MISSION
Trickle Up empowers people living on less than $1 a day to take the first steps out of poverty, providing them with resources to build microenterprises for a better quality of life. In partnership with local agencies, we provide business training and seed capital to launch or expand a microenterprise, and savings support to build assets.
Trickle Up believes in people and their capacity to make a difference. We empower the world's poorest people to develop their potential and strengthen their communities. We pursue this goal in a way that encourages innovation and leadership, maximizes resources, and promotes communication and cooperation among all Trickle Up constituencies.
STRATEGIC PLAN
Trickle Up recently completed a five-year plan to double the number of people we serve by 2012 and enhance the programs we offer to very poor people.
HISTORY
Trickle down economics was a political selling point in 1979 and Glen and Mildred Robbins Leet weren’t buying it. Frustrated that huge sums of money allocated to top levels of society never reached the world’s poorest, the Leets decided to reverse the equation — from the bottom-up. In 1979, the Leets founded Trickle Up as an empowering response to global poverty.
Trickle Up outreach began when the founders traveled to one of the Caribbean’s poorest nations, Dominica. The Leets recognized what other poverty alleviation programs were missing: that even the world’s lowest income people have entrepreneurial potential. The model they created was simple, but effective.
With the assistance of local agencies and $1000 of their own money, Glen and Mildred gave ten people grants of $100 to launch their own micro-enterprises. The Leets provided them with Trickle Up business plans and reports to track business expenses and earnings. New business activities ranged from building blocks to selling eggs, jams, and school uniforms. Some of those businesses are still operating today! Results were overwhelmingly positive in terms of quality of life improvements for our entrepreneurs. Like this, the Trickle Up program was born.
Twenty-eight years later, Trickle Up is a still critical vehicle for poor people's social and financial empowerment. Trickle Up has helped start or expand over 150,000 businesses as a way out of poverty, which has benefited the lives of over half a million people.
Trickle Up empowers people living on less than $1 a day to take the first steps out of poverty, providing them with resources to build microenterprises for a better quality of life. In partnership with local agencies, we provide business training and seed capital to launch or expand a microenterprise, and savings support to build assets.
Trickle Up believes in people and their capacity to make a difference. We empower the world's poorest people to develop their potential and strengthen their communities. We pursue this goal in a way that encourages innovation and leadership, maximizes resources, and promotes communication and cooperation among all Trickle Up constituencies.
STRATEGIC PLAN
Trickle Up recently completed a five-year plan to double the number of people we serve by 2012 and enhance the programs we offer to very poor people.
HISTORY
Trickle down economics was a political selling point in 1979 and Glen and Mildred Robbins Leet weren’t buying it. Frustrated that huge sums of money allocated to top levels of society never reached the world’s poorest, the Leets decided to reverse the equation — from the bottom-up. In 1979, the Leets founded Trickle Up as an empowering response to global poverty.
Trickle Up outreach began when the founders traveled to one of the Caribbean’s poorest nations, Dominica. The Leets recognized what other poverty alleviation programs were missing: that even the world’s lowest income people have entrepreneurial potential. The model they created was simple, but effective.
With the assistance of local agencies and $1000 of their own money, Glen and Mildred gave ten people grants of $100 to launch their own micro-enterprises. The Leets provided them with Trickle Up business plans and reports to track business expenses and earnings. New business activities ranged from building blocks to selling eggs, jams, and school uniforms. Some of those businesses are still operating today! Results were overwhelmingly positive in terms of quality of life improvements for our entrepreneurs. Like this, the Trickle Up program was born.
Twenty-eight years later, Trickle Up is a still critical vehicle for poor people's social and financial empowerment. Trickle Up has helped start or expand over 150,000 businesses as a way out of poverty, which has benefited the lives of over half a million people.
mercy corps
Mercy Corps works amid disasters, conflicts, chronic poverty and instability to unleash the potential of people who can win against nearly impossible odds. Since 1979, Mercy Corps has provided $1.5 billion in assistance to people in 106 nations. Supported by headquarters offices in North America and Europe, the agency's unified global programs employ 3,500 staff worldwide and reach nearly 16.4 million people in more than 35 countries.
Public Library of Science - PLoS
PLoS is a non-profit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource.
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1. Open access. All material published by the Public Library of Science, whether submitted to or created by PLoS, is published under an open access license that allows unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
2. Excellence. PLoS strives to set the highest standards for excellence in everything we do: in content, style, and aesthetics of presentation; in editorial performance at every level; in transparency and accessibility to the scientific community and public; and in educational value.
3. Scientific integrity. PLoS is committed to a fair, rigorous editorial process. Scientific quality and importance are the sole considerations in publication decisions. The basis for decisions will be communicated to authors.
4. Breadth. Although pragmatic considerations require us to focus initially on publishing high-impact research in the life sciences, we intend to expand our scope as rapidly as practically possible, to provide a vehicle for publication of other valuable scientific or scholarly articles.
5. Cooperation. PLoS welcomes and actively seeks opportunities to work cooperatively with any group (scientific/scholarly societies, physicians, patient advocacy groups, educational organizations) and any publisher who shares our commitment to open access and to making scientific information available for the good of science and the public.
6. Financial fairness. As a non-profit organization, PLoS charges authors a fair price that reflects the actual cost of publication. However, the ability of authors to pay publication charges will never be a consideration in the decision whether to publish.
7. Community engagement. PLoS was founded as a grass-roots organization and we are committed to remaining one, with the active participation of practising scientists at every level. Every publishing decision has at its heart the needs of the constituencies that we serve (scientists, physicians, educators, and the public).
8. Internationalism. Science is international. PLoS aims to be a truly international organization by providing access to the scientific literature to anyone, anywhere; by publishing works from every nation; and by engaging a geographically diverse group of scientists in the editorial process.
9. Science as a public resource. Our mission of building a public library of science includes not only providing unrestricted access to scientific research ideas and discoveries, but developing tools and materials to engage the interest and imagination of the public and helping non-scientists to understand and enjoy scientific discoveries and the scientific process.
Direct Relief International
Women and children are disproportionately affected by poor health outcomes in developing countries and here in the United States. Direct Relief places a high priority on improving the health of these most vulnerable populations by working with programs emphasizing maternal and child health. Direct Relief also focuses on providing assistance for primary care health clinics, combating HIV/AIDS through strengthening the health infrastructure and capacity of health partners worldwide, furnishing assistance for special initiatives, and responding to disasters.
NPSL: Nonprofits in Second Life
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Share-A-Pet
Pet Assisted Therapy has become the latest breakthrough in therapy for elderly, children and the otherwise restricted in hospitals, nursing homes and children's centers around the world. Many studies show a strong correlation between increased well-being and exposure to friendly, loving animals.
In the last three years we have seen amazing and encouraging results on a sustained basis with the people we have had the privilege to serve. From getting unprecedented responses from handicapped children, to bringing smiles to the elderly of 100 years and older, the power of love from our Pet Assisted Therapy Teams provides an enriching, healing and often life transforming experience.
Sachin Mayi
Share-A-Pet Executive Director
In the last three years we have seen amazing and encouraging results on a sustained basis with the people we have had the privilege to serve. From getting unprecedented responses from handicapped children, to bringing smiles to the elderly of 100 years and older, the power of love from our Pet Assisted Therapy Teams provides an enriching, healing and often life transforming experience.
Sachin Mayi
Share-A-Pet Executive Director