Charity
(General)Catholic
Charities Catholic
Charities USA is the membership association of one of the nation's largest social
service networks. Catholic Charities agencies and institutions nationwide provide
vital social services to people in need, regardless of their religious, social,
or economic backgrounds. Catholic Charities USA supports and enhances the work
of its membership by providing networking opportunities, national advocacy and
media efforts, program development, training and technical assistance, and financial
support. Society of St. Vincent de Paul USA www.svdpusa.org The
Society of St. Vincent de Paul is composed of women and men who seek their personal
holiness by works of charity. This is one essential way that the Society, therefore,
differs from other charitable associations or agencies. Their principal objective
is not the spiritual advancement of their members as such, but the doing of good
for someone. Like its founder, Frédéric
Ozanam, the vision of the Society of St. Vincent de
Paul "is to embrace the world in a network of charity."
Society of St. Vincent de Paul
(Juneau) www.ptialaska.net/%7Epaulm/svdpframe.htm Catholic Community Service www.ccsjuneau.org Catholic
Community Service of Southeast Alaska advocates
and offers social service opportunities for all Southeast Alaskans, emphasizing
social justice and compassion. We accomplish this mission by fostering the self-sufficiency
and dignity of individuals and families affirming diversity in culture, faith
and way of life. Food for the Hungry America’s Second Harvest www.secondharvest.org America's Second Harvest—The Nation's Food Bank Network
is the nation's largest charitable hunger-relief organization. Bread for the World www.bread.org Bread
for the World is a nationwide Christian movement that seeks justice for the world's
hungry people by lobbying our nation's decision makers. CARE www.careusa.org CARE
works with poor communities in more than 70 countries around the world to find
lasting solutions to poverty. We look at the big picture of poverty, and go beyond
the symptoms to confront underlying causes. With a broad range of programs based
on empowerment, equity and sustainability, CARE seeks to tap human potential and
leverage the power of individuals and communities to unleash a vast force for
progress. Heifer Project International www.heifer.org Heifer’s
mission is to work with communities to end hunger and poverty and to care for
the earth. Heifer’s strategy is to give
families a source of food rather than short-term relief. Participants to “pass on the
gift.” As people share their animals’ offspring with others – along with
their knowledge, resources, and skills – an expanding network of hope, dignity,
and self-reliance is created that reaches around the globe. This simple idea of
giving families a source of food rather than short-term relief caught on and has
continued for almost 60 years. Today, millions of families in 128 countries have
been given the gifts of self-reliance and hope. Mercy Corps www.mercycorps.org Mercy Corps exists to alleviate suffering, poverty and oppression by helping people
build secure, productive and just communities. The agency's programs currently
reach 7 million people in more than 35 countries. Since 1979, Mercy Corps has provided over $1 billion in assistance
to people in 81 nations. Mercy Corps is a nonprofit organization with headquarters
in Portland, Seattle, Cambridge, Washington, D.C. and Edinburgh,
Scotland. Catholic Relief Services www.catholicrelief.org Catholic
Relief Services (CRS) was founded in 1943 by the Catholic Bishops of the United States. Our mission is to assist the poor and disadvantaged, leveraging
the teachings of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to alleviate human suffering, promote
development of all people and to foster charity and justice throughout the world.
As the official international relief and development agency of the US Catholic
community, CRS is also committed to educating the people of the United
States to
fulfill their moral responsibilities toward our global brothers and sisters by
helping the poor, working to remove the causes of poverty, and promoting social
justice. Drink to the Thirsty Lifewater International www.lifewater.org Lifewater International
(LI) is a Christian training organization with water development goals. We understand
the basic need in our world for safe water, improved hygiene, and adequate sanitation.
We believe that the solutions to these problems can be addressed through the development
of local communities. Qualified Lifewater Volunteer
Trainers (VTs) travel to developing countries to train nationals to
improve local drinking water supplies and community health. National crews are
able to continue working and training others after VT's return home. They share
the gospel message of living
water with communities as they help break the cycle of disease and
poverty.
Rehydration Project www.rehydrate.org Rehydration Project
is a private, non-profit, non-sectarian, international development group. We aim
to work within the health framework of developing countries to help them achieve
and maintain high levels of immunization, improve access to clean water and safe
sanitation, support breastfeeding and promote hygiene education. We also show
these countries how to promote oral rehydration theraphy
(ORT) and its effectiveness and how to develop educational programs to encourage
widespread usage; in short, new ways to promote, produce
and provide ORT. International Baby Food Action Network www.ibfan.org/english/issue/overview01.html The International Baby Food Action Network, IBFAN, consists of public interest
groups working around the world to reduce infant and young child morbidity and
mortality. IBFAN aims to improve the health and well-being of babies and young
children, their mothers and their families through the protection, promotion and
support of breastfeeding and optimal infant feeding practices. IBFAN works for
universal and full implementation of the International Code and Resolutions.
Baby Milk Action www.babymilkaction.org Baby Milk Action is a non-profit organization which
aims to save lives and to end the avoidable suffering caused by inappropriate
infant feeding. Baby Milk Action works within a global network to strengthen independent,
transparent and effective controls on the marketing of the baby feeding industry.
Sheltering the Homeless The National Coalition for the Homeless www.nationalhomeless.org The
National Coalition for the Homeless, founded in 1984, is a national network of
people who are currently experiencing or who have experienced homelessness, activists
and advocates, community-based and faith-based service providers, and others committed
to a single mission. That mission, our common bond, is to end homelessness.
Habitat for Humanity www.habitat.org/default2.aspx Habitat
for Humanity International is a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian housing ministry.
HFHI seeks to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world, and to
make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.
Habitat invites people
of all backgrounds, races and religions to build houses together in partnership
with families in need. Jesuit Refugee Service www.jrsusa.org
The mission of the Jesuit Refugee Service is to accompany, serve and defend
the rights of refugees and forcibly displaced persons in over fifty countries
around the world. JRS provides assistance to refugees in refugee
camps, to people displaced within their own country, to asylum seekers in cities
and those held in detention centers. International Rescue Committee www.theirc.org At
work in 25 countries, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) delivers lifesaving
aid in emergencies, rebuilds shattered communities, cares for war-traumatized
children, rehabilitates health care, water and sanitation systems, reunites separated
families, restores lost livelihoods, establishes schools, trains teachers, strengthens
the capacity of local organizations and supports civil society and good-governance
initiatives. Welcoming the Stranger US Conference of Catholic Bishops Migration and Refugee Services www.usccb.org/mrs/ Migration and Refugee Services carries out the commitment of
the Roman Catholic bishops of the United States to serve and advocate for immigrants,
refugees, migrants, and people on the move. This commitment is rooted in the Gospel
mandate that every person is to be welcomed by the disciple as if he or she were
Christ himself and in the right of every human being to pursue, without restraint,
the call of holiness. Catholic Legal Immigration Network Inc. www.cliniclegal.org/ The
Catholic Legal Immigration Network advocates for transparent, fair and generous
immigration policies. It represents one expression of the Catholic Church's commitment
to the full membership of migrants in their chosen society. CLINIC and its member
agencies serve the most vulnerable migrants, such as refugees, asylees, detainees, families in need of reunification, laborers
abused in the workplace, victims of domestic violence, and survivors of human
trafficking. Human Trafficking.Org http://www.humantrafficking.org/ Human
Trafficking.Org is a web source for combating human trafficking.
Human trafficking refers to transportation of persons for
forced labor, sexual exploitation or other illicit activities. It is estimated
that more than 1 million people are trafficked annually around the world; some
experts say it could be double that. Human trafficking has become a global business
that generates huge profits for traffickers and organized criminal groups. Because
of its clandestine nature, human trafficking is likely to remain an increasingly
underreported crime; therefore, establishing reliable statistics on human trafficking
remains a challenge worldwide. Trafficking in Human Beings http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/trafficking_human_beings.html From Himalayan villages to Eastern European cities, people – especially
women and girls – are attracted by the prospect of a well-paid job as a domestic
servant, waitress or factory worker. Traffickers recruit victims through fake
advertisements, mail-order bride catalogues and casual acquaintances. Conferencia del Episcopado Mexicano www.cem.org.mx/ La Conferencia del Episcopado Mexicano (CEM), institución de carácter permanente, es el organismo de los Obispos mexicanos, para ejercer
colegialmente algunas
funciones pastorales, para promover, conforme a las normas del Derecho, el mayor bien que la Iglesia
proporciona a los hombres,
sobre todo mediante
formas y modos de apostolado convenientemente acomodados a las peculiares circunstancias de la
nación mexicana en la actualidad. Philippine Migrants Rights Watch www.pmrw.org The
Philippine Migrants Rights Watch is a registered civil society
network that was established in 1995 to encourage the recognition, protection
and fulfillment of Filipino migrants’ rights - both in the Philippines and abroad during the entire migration process.
World Mission
Magazine “Beyond Borders, Beyond Margins:
Filipino Migration and Its Challenge to Doing Mission” Gemma Tulund Cruz www.worldmission.ph/3Marcho4/MarchSpecial.htm Visiting the Imprisoned Paulist National Catholic Evangelization Ministries Prison Ministries www.prison-ministry.org/ PNCEA Prison Ministries serves the spiritual and religious needs of Catholic
inmates in our nation’s prisons, as well as other inmates seeking to know about
the Catholic faith and way of life. We provide this service through the chaplains
and volunteers ministering in correctional facilities who receive the Bibles,
newsletters, prayer cards, and other Catholic religious materials we supply for
use in their work. Our material is available at no cost in both English and Spanish.
Prison Fellowship www.pfm.org Founded
in 1976 by Chuck Colson, Prison Fellowship partners with local churches across
the country to minister to a group that society often scorns and neglects: prisoners,
ex-prisoners, and their families. Kairos Prison Ministry http://www.kairosprisonministry.org/ Kairos is a Christian,
lay-led, ecumenical, volunteer international prison ministry, in which men and
women volunteers bring Christ’s love and forgiveness to incarcerated individuals
and to their families. Visiting the Sick Malaria Foundation International www.malaria.org/ Children are most vulnerable to malaria. This disease also severely affects
pregnant women and non immune individuals. There are hundreds of millions cases
of malaria annually in over 90 countries, which result in several million deaths
each year. The Malaria Foundation International is a 501(c)(3) non profit organization that has been dedicated to the
fight against malaria since 1992. The MFI works in partnership with many individuals
and groups who have since joined this cause. The MFI’s goals are to support awareness, education, training,
research, and leadership programs for the immediate and long term development
and application of tools to combat malaria. SightSavers International www.sightsavers.org/ For
over 50 years, Sight Savers International has been working with local partners
to combat blindness in developing countries and support people who are blind.
During this time, we have helped restore sight to more than five million people
and treat over 70 million for potentially blinding conditions. Through partners,
we support people who are blind, providing education, counseling
and training. National Catholic AIDS Network www.ncan.org The
purpose of the National Catholic AIDS Network is to reach out with compassion
and hope to those who are living with HIV/AIDS. We help make spirituality and
faith a powerful, transformative resource for those who suffer from HIV/AIDS...
and for their loved ones and caregivers. International Campaign to Ban Landmines http://www.icbl.org/ Mine deaths and injuries over the past decades now total in the hundreds of
thousands. It is estimated that there are between 15,000 and 20,000 new casualties
caused by landmines and unexploded ordnance each year. In recognition of its achievements the International
Campaign to Ban Landmines was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997, together
with its then coordinator, Jody Williams. American Leprosy Missions www.leprosy.org Founded
in 1906, American Leprosy Missions (ALM) provides care to people around the world
with leprosy and with Buruli ulcer and related disabilities. ALM is a non-denominational Christian ministry
of hope and restoration for those suffering with these diseases. |
