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a national hotline

Founded in 1959 by Sara O’Meara and Yvonne Fedderson, Childhelp(R) is a leading national non-profit organization dedicated to helping victims of child abuse and neglect. Childhelp’s approach focuses on prevention, intervention and treatment. The Childhelp(R) National Child Abuse Hotline, 1-800-4-A-CHILD, operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and receives calls from throughout the United States, Canada, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and Guam. Childhelp’s programs and services also include residential treatment services (villages); children’s advocacy centers; therapeutic foster care; group homes; child abuse prevention, education and training; and the National Day of Hope(R), part of National Child Abuse Prevention Month every April … (full text about).

Homepage; HOTLINE;
Programs; Statistics; Stories; Chapters; Events; Take actions; Contribute; Volunteer;
Address: Cild Help.org, 15757 N. 78th Street, Suite #B, Scottsdale, Arizona, 85260, USA;
Postal: Child Help.org, P.O. Box 360, Hollywood, CA 90028, USA;
Contacts.

Help for Kids – You Should Know:  Continuer la lecture de « Child Help.org »

knowledge, skills and stategies for professionals (See also our first small presentation of July 1, 2006: NGO Management School).

Linked with Essentials of NGO Management – Course on Bohol Island, Philippines.

Managing and leading an NGO is becoming increasingly complex and sophisticated. More and more NGOs are coming to realize that a widening range of knowledge, skills and strategies are necessary to achieve results, to enhance their impact and to remain effective in the work they do. The NGO Management School (NMS) provides training for professional and effective NGO management. Together with local partner organisations, we bring management courses nearby to you and make training easily available to NGOs and other civil society organisations. We jointly organise and deliver courses that can be adapted to the needs of the participants and their organisations. NMS is a non-profit institution … (full text Homepage).

Course News; Course dates; Learning Methods; Library; Benefits; Downloads;
Address: NGO Management Association, 3 ruelle de la Repentance, 1269 Bassins, Switzerland;
Contacts.

Who we are: The NGO Management School was set up in 2007 by a group of people in Switzerland and the Philippines in response to a growing demand by NGOs and individuals for training in NGO management and organisational development. The School is a nonprofit institution. Continuer la lecture de « NGO Management School NMS, Switzerland »

• The Child Abuse Hotline is a 501(C)(3) Charity # 20-355-3474
• The Child Abuse Hotline has been providing free information for abused children and spouces for nearly a decade. Over the prior 9 years we have never recieved any funds to make this free service available. We are now forced to ask you for your kind assistance in helping us to keep this service online. Your donations of any amount will helpThe Child Abuse Hotline stay online for another decade.
• The Child Abuse Hotline in order to provide you with the most up to date services must have your support.
• … (full text Homepage).

Sitemap;
Hotline report; Who is a child abuser; What is a child abuser; Partners;
Contact.

About us: The Child Safe Network’s mission is to protect our nations most valuable asset, our children! Continuer la lecture de « The Child Abuse Hotline.com »

Community Legal Resources, with the assistance of private attorneys, provides pro bono legal representation to Michigan nonprofit organizations that are working with disadvantaged communities and individuals and are unable to pay for traditional legal services. Since our inception in 1998, Community Legal Resources’ volunteers have contributed an estimated $8,000,000 in pro bono legal services to over 800 nonprofit organizations building affordable housing, attracting new businesses, feeding and sheltering the homeless, and mentoring youth throughout Michigan. (Homepage /Accueil).

Community Org Info; Projects; Volunteer Attorney; Resources, Links; Contributions;
Address: Community Legal Resources, 615 Griswold, Suite 1400, Detroit, MI 48226, USA;
Contact. Phone US: (313) 962-3171, fax US: (313) 962-0797, e-mail.

About: Community Legal Resources delivers free legal services to nonprofit organizations building neighborhoods in Detroit and throughout Michigan. Continuer la lecture de « Community Legal Resources »

Do the mean awful angries keep creeping up on your family?

Talk, Trust & Feel Therapeutics provides innovative toys and books to help parents, teachers and therapists teach children to express uncomfortable feelings, take responsibility for their own behavior and learn positive social skills. Our commitment is to develop products to help children feel good about identifying and breaking into their acts of power and replacing them with acts of love. Our unique mission is to help children and adults learn how to deal with their anger and express it in safe, constructive ways. Our philosophy is that changing our world is possible when adults approach children’s misbehavior with love and compassion and teach them better ways to act. We are a mom, pop company determined to make a difference on the planet … (about 1/2 /who we are).

Homepage;
Grownups; Kids; Parents; Couples; Teachers; Violence in families; Catalog; Newsletter;
No contact (see about 2/2).

About 2/2 /Lynne Namka: … Lynne Namka Ed. D. developed most of the anger release products after years of working with angry children in groups and with families with anger problems. Continuer la lecture de « Angries Out Center – Get Your Angries Out »

The mission of the ILCU Foundation is to alleviate poverty in developing countries by supporting credit unions, their representative bodies and other co-operative type organisations as a means for socio-economic development through the provision of financial and technical assistance … (about 1/2).

Homepage; Sitemap;
Projects; Recent developments; Case studies; Get involved; Links;
Address: ILCU International Development Foundation LTD., 33-41 Lower Mount Street, Dublin 2, Ireland;
Contacts.

About 2/2: … Irish credit unions have been contributing to the work of the ILCU Foundation since 1980, when at the ILCU Annual General Meeting (AGM) it was decided that credit unions should be invited to contribute towards a fund to be administered by the ILCU « to provide aid, financial or otherwise, to developing countries with particular emphasis on credit union and other co-operative projects ». Continuer la lecture de « ILCU Foundation »

Linked with Michigan Legal Services.

MichUHCAN Expands the scope of our Mission to include include advocacy for equitable health outcomes. Watch this clip to learn more about health equity and creating healthy communities. (Homepage, and MichUHCAN’s 5th Annual HCH Dinner, June 11, 2010).

Health Care Resources; National view;  Calendar; Blog; Donate; Links;
Address: MichUHCAN, 15687 Surrey, Livonia, MI 48154, 734-812-0664, USA;
Contact online /get involved, e-mail, phone 734-812-0664

About: MISSION: Michigan Universal Health Care Access Network (MichUHCAN) is a state-wide network that promotes comprehensive health care for all and improved health outcomes by addressing the social determinants of health through education, strategy development and advocacy. Continuer la lecture de « MichUHCAN »

… and United Community Housing Coalition’s Property Tax Foreclosure Prevention Project 2009

Linked with MichUHCAN.

Michigan Legal Services is a nonprofit legal services organization dedicated to eliminating systemic causes of poverty in the areas of housing, health, public benefits, and community economic development through impact-oriented legal services and support for community organizations engaged in efforts to rebuild low-income communities.  Michigan Legal Services has been serving low-income communities across the state for nearly thirty years.  For the past decade, it has focused its efforts in the metropolitan Detroit area where the organization is based … (about 1/2).

Homepage;
Services; Resources;
Address: Michigan Legal Services 220 Bagley, Suite 900, Detroit, MI 48226, USA;
Contacts online with staff.

About 2/2: … In order to accomplish this mission, MLS currently operates two core programs:  Continuer la lecture de « Michigan Legal Services »

promoting health and environmental literacy

World Information Transfer, Inc., (WIT) is a not-for-profit, non-governmental organization in General Consultative Status with the United Nations, promoting environmental health and literacy. In 1987, inspired by the Chornobyl nuclear tragedy, WIT was formed in recognition of the pressing need to provide accurate actionable information about our deteriorating global environment and its effect on human health. (About).

Homepage;
Board; World ecology report; Conferences; Internship;
Address: World Information Transfer, Inc., 475 Park Ave., South, 22nd floor, New York, NY 10016, USA;
Contact.

WIT Statement in English: Education brings choices. Choices bring power: WIT is a not-for-profit, non-governmental organization in General Consultative Status with the United Nations, promoting environmental health and literacy. Continuer la lecture de « World Information Transfer WIT »

Life Extension is a global authority on nutrition, health and wellness as well as a provider of scientific information on anti-aging supplements and therapies. We supply only the highest quality nutritional supplements, including minerals, vitamins, herbs and hormones

• The Life Extension Foundation is a nonprofit organization, whose long-range goal is the extension of the healthy human lifespan. In seeking to control aging, our objective is to develop methods to enable us to live in vigor, health and wellness for an unlimited period of time. The Life Extension Foundation was officially incorporated in 1980, but its founder has been involved in antiaging research since the 1960s.
• The Life Extension Foundation is the largest organization dedicated to investigating every method of extending the healthy human life span. When seeking methods to slow aging, The Foundation often uncovers potential anti-aging supplements to treat conditions associated with aging … (full text about).

Homepage; Sitemap;
Longevity; Anti-Aging; Supplements; Health concerns; Questions, comments; Membership; Join; News; Newsletter;
Address: Life Extension Foundation, P.O. Box 407198, Ft. Lauderdale FL, 33340–7198, USA;
Contact.

What is LEF: The Life Extension Foundation is the world’s largest organization dedicated to finding scientific methods for addressing disease, aging, and death. Continuer la lecture de « Life Extension Foundation LEF »

Linked with Meeting at Children Ward.

• HERALDING human rights analysis as our framework and norm in our research and delivering services, currently we focus on, first, helping resolve the problems of the migrant workers from Indonesia who are mostly working in Asia Pacific and Middle Eastern countries; second, conducting trainings of public budgetting analysis for indigenous people but also local councillors of Lembata district in East Nusa Tenggara.
• Earlier we helped improve city poor people’s participation in making public decisions, and lastly, we conducted similar activities focusing on malnutrition and hunger phenomenon in Indonesia with a deep down case study in E. Nusa Tenggara … (what we do 1/2).

Homepage and News;
Blog in english; Ask the wind; Donate; No address and contact found in english.
In Indonesian language: Beranda; Daftar Isi; Busung Lapar; Penggusuran; Miskin Kota; Buruh Migran.

What we do 2/2: …The first round of the first two programs are finishing soon. As we have concluded a review and assessment of what are the tasks of migrant worker attaches in Singapore and Malaysia we are looking forward to push through a proposed scheme of improved protection for the Indonesian migrant workers, particularly with serious problem of un-documentation.   Continuer la lecture de « The Institute for ECOSOC rights »

Save Africa’s Children (SAC) provides direct support and care to orphans and vulnerable children affected by HIV/AIDS, poverty and war throughout Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean. SAC partners with individuals, churches, grassroots organizations, government and corporate sectors, endeavoring to build a dynamic, diverse movement to restore hope and a future for Africa’s children … (about 1/2 /mission).

Homepage;
News; Newsletter; Programs; Take action; Volunteer; Partners; FAQs; Donate;
Address Headquarter: Save Africa’s Children, 3045 Crenshaw Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90016, USA;
Contact.

About 2/2 /how we work: … Founded in 2001 by Bishop Charles E. Blake, Save Africa’s Children (SAC) directly supports children affected by HIV/AIDS, poverty and conflict throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. Continuer la lecture de « Save Africa's Children SAC »