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Charity

The voluntary giving of money, materials, or help to people in need.

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Charity

Peter Hodes - stem cells courier

Non-profit organizations; Charity

Peter Hodes is a British citizen who has been interested in charity and donor issues. He first donated a kidney to one of his friends, became a blood donor and then subsequently a platelet donor. ...

Goodwill Industries

Non-profit organizations; Charity

Founded in 1902 in Boston by Rev. Edgar J. Helms, a Methodist minister and early social innovator, Goodwill Industries is a nonprofit organization that provides job training, employment placement ...

famine relief

Non-profit organizations; Charity

Famine relief is an organized effort to reduce starvation in a region in which there is famine. A famine is a phenomenon in which a large proportion of the population of a region or country are so ...

Burroughs Wellcome Fund

Non-profit organizations; Charity

The Burroughs Wellcome Fund is a private, independent biomedical research foundation based in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. BWF was founded as the corporate foundation of the Burroughs ...

Cancer Research UK

Non-profit organizations; Charity

Cancer Research UK is a cancer research and awareness charity in the United Kingdom, formed by the merger of The Cancer Research Campaign and the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. Its aim is to reduce ...

CARE

Non-profit organizations; Charity

CARE is a major international humanitarian agency delivering broad-spectrum emergency relief and long-term international development projects. CARE is nonsectarian, impartial, and non-governmental. ...

Carter Center

Non-profit organizations; Charity

The Carter Center is a nongovernmental, not-for-profit organization founded by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn Carter. In partnership with Emory University, The Carter Center ...

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