Non-Profit Organizations and Foundations

Non-Profit Organizations and Foundations

The following is a possible list to guide the learners when completing their simulation question. They were taken from the Web-site http://www.guidestar.org  and chosen from many different categories.  Learners can choose other non-profits or foundations if they are interested in their cause, and their mission statement can be found on the same site.

• Make-A-Wish Foundation: To grant the wishes of children aged 2 ½ to 17 with life-threatening illnesses.
  
  
• Children Affected By AIDS Foundation: To provide funding and support to non-profit organizations nationwide that provide direct care, assistance and services for children who are affected by HIV/AIDS.
  
  
• Greenpeace International, Inc.: To expose global environmental problems and to face solutions through nonviolent, creative confrontation.
  
  
• Amnesty International USA, Inc.: Works to free all prisoners of conscience detained anywhere for their beliefs or because of their ethnic origin, sex, color, or language who have not used or advocated violence; ensure fair and prompt trials for political prisoners; abolish the death penalty, torture and other cruel treatment of prisoners; end extra-judicial executions and disappearances.
  
  
• Feed the Children, Inc.: Providing physical, spiritual, educational, vocational/technical, psychological, economic and medical assistance and other necessary aid to children, families, and persons in need in the U.S. and internationally.
  
  
• Broadway Theatre Guild: Advance knowledge and awareness of dramatic and musical arts through sponsorship of professional and theatrical performances.
  
  
• Association for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: Exists to promote humane principles, prevent cruelty and alleviate pain, fear, and suffering in animals by working to provide leadership in education, public awareness, government affairs, shelter, support, animal medical services, animal placement, counseling, investigations by law enforcement, and legal support.
  
  
• Little League Baseball, Inc.: To bring adult baseball down to child size.
  
  
• Children of Domestic Violence, Inc.: Provide shelter, food and clothing to children who are victims of domestic violence.
  
  
• Communities United Against Drugs and Crime Foundation, Inc.: To provide support for, and where appropriate, establish programs related to promotion of drug-free and crime-free schools and communities.
  
  
• International Child Art Foundation: Strives to make all children more creative, imaginative and artistic, while encouraging and supporting child artists through a variety of programs.
  
  
• Compass Sexual Assault Education Prevention and Support: To meet the needs of an under-served population: victims of rape and sexual assault.
  
  
• American Heart Association: Reduce disability and death from cardiovascular disease and stroke.
  
  
• Southern Poverty Law Center: Combats hate, intolerance and discrimination through education and litigation.
  
  
• Pop Warner Little Scholars, Inc.: Provides youth sports opportunities.
  
  
• American Cancer Society: To accomplish its mission of conquering cancer, the American Cancer Society collaborates with health agencies, community organizations, business leaders, legislators and educators, at the national and grassroots levels to identify and address nationwide and local cancer issues through education, patient service, research and advocacy issues.
  
  
• Axis Foundation: To introduce audiences and presenters locally, nationally, and internationally to a new form of contemporary dance by bringing to the stage an exciting and impressive body of work.  Described as a “visual and physical discovery, creating fascinating works of movement art,” Axis offers audiences a unique experience in dance.
  
  
• National Junior Basketball: Community youth sports-basketball.
  
  
• Music Outreach-Learning Through Music, Inc.: Brings quality and enrichment programs to children in their formative years of growth and development through a series of Children’s Enrichment Workshops linked with School-Day Orchestral Concerts. The organization has developed creative approaches to learning and teaching that tap into children’s strengths and natural abilities.
  
  
• Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation: Raises funds to support organizations in the fight against AIDS. Contributions are made to organizations delivering direct care to AIDS patients, conducting AIDS research, and delivering AIDS education and research to the public.