On April 3, the Youth Action Project will hold its third annual Cesar Chavez Day of Service in San Bernardino, California. With the help of community volunteers, the Youth Action Project holds a clean-up project for a community park as part of their annual commemorative community service event; this year’s project will benefit the Provisional [...]
Based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the Indigenous Language Institute is performing an invaluable service for American Indian communities across the United States. The Indigenous Language Institute is working urgently to help preserve American Indian cultural identity by providing teaching tools to American Indian communities for what is possibly the most important element in the [...]
For the NBA and St. Jude Children’s Hospital, the first week of March marked Hoops for St. Jude Week; a week in which NBA players, coaches and fans joined together in efforts to raise funds and awareness for the work of St. Jude Children’s Hospital in Memphis, TN. Hoops for St. Jude Week was part [...]
On February 22, the Louisiana-Haiti Sustainable Village Project sent a barge filled with earthquake relief supplies bound for the Port of Jacmel on the south coast of Haiti. With the help of local residents and volunteers, 100,000 total cubic tons of supplies donated to the Louisiana-Haiti Sustainable Village Project’s warehouse in Elmwood, Louisiana were sorted [...]
Founded in 1971 by a French group of doctors and journalists, Doctors Without Borders is a leading nonprofit organization in providing urgent medical care internationally at no cost to patients in need. Doctors Without Borders works to provide relief where shortages of medical care exist due to natural disasters, widespread plague, military conflict or exclusion [...]
The recent 8.8 earthquake that struck in Chile near the city of Concepción is the latest emergency response effort of the nonprofit organization Direct Relief International. Direct Relief International works to provide disaster relief in coordination with local organizations best suited to provide for the needs of the community. Direct Relief International has been involved [...]
Immediately following the magnitude 8.8 earthquake which struck on February 27, 2010 just off the coast of Chile near the city of Concepción, the U.K.-based nonprofit humanitarian organization, Oxfam International was among the first to step up to the obligation for assistance. Despite being a developed country with more than its share of past experience with earthquakes—including [...]
Through networking with numerous community outreach organizations NBA Cares has made it possible for players, employees and even fans to become more directly involved in taking positive action in the well-being of a vast number of communities. A recent example of the community outreach efforts of NBA Cares took place on January 25, 2010, the morning [...]
As with many institutions and organizations serving the public of New Orleans, Bridge House of New Orleans was faced with a critical situation in which none could afford to consider any failure to step up to meet the needs of the population in the wake of the devastation that followed Katrina. A situation already plagued [...]
In less than five years after its founding in 2005 by Bob and Suzanne Wright, Autism Speaks has grown to become the largest organization for autism advocacy in the United States. The efforts of Autism Speaks have made unprecedented progress in raising awareness and funding for autism research, and in providing support for families of [...]
