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United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) http://www.unifem.org/ [ Edit ] Site Reviews(12)
...UNIFEM is the women's fund at the United Nations. It provides financial and technical assistance to innovative programmes and strategies to foster women's empowerment and gender equality. Placing the advancement of women's human rights at the centre of all of its efforts, UNIFEM focuses its activities on four strategic areas: (1) reducing feminized poverty, (2) ending violence against women, (3) reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS among women and girls, and (4) achieving gender equality in democratic governance in times of peace as well as war. The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) has its headquarters in New York City and works worldwide out of 15 regional offices and two country programme offices. A dedicated group of volunteers and friends also provide valuable support to UNIFEM's work, including the National Committees for UNIFEM and the NGO Committee on UNIFEM. ...
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Paper Calculator http://www.papercalculator.org [ Edit ] Site Reviews(3)
...Why do paper choices matter? By choosing the right paper, you can save wood, water, and energy, and cut pollution and solid waste. The Paper Calculator shows the environmental impacts of different papers across their full lifecycle. Compare different papers. Enter the grade of paper you use and how much, and see how using less paper, increasing recycled content, or making other changes can reduce impacts. Compare individual papers or groups of papers. See the environmental benefits. Save the results in an easy-to-read report, to help your company, community, school, non-profit or other organization measure the benefits of better paper choices. The Paper Calculator is based on research done by the Paper Task Force, a peer-reviewed study of the lifecycle environmental impacts of paper production and disposal. The underlying data is updated regularly. A Project of Environmental Defense at www.environmentaldefense.org ...
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Ashoka - Innovators for the Public http://www.ashoka.org [ Edit ] Site Reviews(1)
...ASHOKA identifies and supports leading social entrepreneurs around the world. These practical visionaries have the entrepreneurial drive and creativity to transform the systems in their respective societies in order to bring about large-scale social change....
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Environmental Change and Security Project (ECSP) http://www.wilsoncenter.org [ Edit ] Site Reviews(1)
...The ECSP acts as a neutral, non-partisan forum for researchers, practitioners and interested individuals to meet, exchange ideas and concerns, and develop cross-disciplinary dialogue....
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Child Labor and Society http://members.tripod.com/~sadashivan_nair/childlabourandsociety/index.html [ Edit ] Site Reviews(2)
...Are children forced by their parents to go to work? If yes why?...
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Global Environment Facility (GEF) http://www.gefweb.org/ [ Edit ] Site Reviews(0)
...The Global Environment Facility (GEF), established in 1991, helps developing countries fund projects and programs that protect the global environment. GEF grants support projects related to biodiversity, climate change, international waters, land degradation, the ozone layer, and persistent organic pollutants. ...
Added: Jul 29, 2006 Last Update: Jul 29, 2006 Category: Organizations and Foundations Hits In: 1 Hits Out: 949

One Earth, One Mission http://oeom.org/ [ Edit ] Site Reviews(3)
...Mission Statement: Everything on this planet is symbiotically connected-plants, animals, humans and the Earth itself. The purpose of One Earth, One Mission is to facilitate a better understanding of this connection through the presentation and discussion of ecological issues, and to offer courses of action which will best address our ecological concerns of today in order to ensure a healthy tomorrow. As individuals we care about many different causes, but in our concern for the fate of our children and our Earth, we are united. We share one home-Earth. It's our mission to save it. ...
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Helen Keller International http://www.hki.org/ [ Edit ] Site Reviews(2)
...Helen Keller International works to assist organizations and institutions in countries where the need is great to protect the eyesight of children within their borders and provide quality eye care to their people. Founded in 1915, Helen Keller International (HKI) is among the oldest international nonprofit organizations devoted to fighting and treating preventable blindness and malnutrition. HKI is headquartered in New York City, and has programs in 25 countries around the world. HKI builds local capacity by establishing sustainable programs, and provides scientific and technical assistance and data to governments and international, regional, national and local organizations around the world. HKI programs combat malnutrition, cataract, trachoma, onchocerciasis (river blindness) and refractive error. The goal of all HKI programs is to reduce suffering of those without access to needed health or vision care and ultimately, to help lift people from poverty. ...
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IUCN - The World Conservation Union http://www.iucn.org [ Edit ] Site Reviews(3)
...The world's largest conservation-related organization The World Conservation Union is the world�s largest and most important conservation network. The Union brings together 82 States, 111 government agencies, more than 800 non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and some 10,000 scientists and experts from 181 countries in a unique worldwide partnership. The Union�s mission is to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable. The World Conservation Union is a multicultural, multilingual organization with 1000 staff located in 62 countries. Its headquarters are in Gland, Switzerland. ...
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LEAD International, Inc. http://www.lead.org/ [ Edit ] Site Reviews(3)
...LEAD International, established in 1991 by the Rockefeller Foundation, is an independent, non-governmental and non-profit organization with the basic mission of capacity building for selected future leaders whose actions will contribute to the decisions made about 14 and development issues in most parts of the world....
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