Nonprofit causes tagged with Human Rights

  • 100cameras

    100cameras identifies children living in unjust conditions and gives them cameras to document their lives. 100% of the money from the children’s purchased prints is given back to their community to meet physical needs and empower sustainable growth.

    100cameras.org

  • Aid for Africa

    Aid for Africa works with its partners on the ground in Africa to find solutions to the education, health, development, and wildlife challenges facing the region. Whether we are distributing books to school children, introducing medical strategies to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS, supporting small businesses for women, or finding new approaches to protect endangered elephants and lions, Aid for Africa is working to build a better future for Africa’s children, families, and communities.

    aidforafrica.org

  • Children's Rights Institute (CRI)

    The Children's Rights Institute (CRI) was founded in 2007 by its director, Brooke Goldstein, a New York based attorney, activist, author and award-winning filmmaker. CRI's mission is to raise awareness about and legally combat violations of children's basic human rights as occurring throughout the globe. CRI has a special focus on the incitement and recruitment of children to become suicide-homicide bombers, child soldiers and human shields.

    childrensrightsinstitute.org

  • Darfur Peace and Development Organization (DPDO)

    Darfur Peace & Development Organization (DPDO) was founded in 2002 by a group of Darfurians in the United States. DPDO is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit, non-governmental organization dedicated to a peaceful Darfur that is justly governed and developed in a sustainable manner.

    darfurpeace.org

  • Enchanted Makeovers ™

    Enchanted Makeovers’ mission is to transform shelters for women and children into an environment that inspires psychological and behavioral change. A haven is created where women and children rebuilding their lives are reminded everyday they hold the ''golden ticket'' to transforming their dreams into reality. Our unique makeovers, projects and programs supplement the shelter’s efforts, building a stronger foundation for success and improved outcomes.

    enchantedmakeovers.org

  • Firelight Foundation

    Our mission is to improve the well-being of children made vulnerable by HIV, AIDS and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. We support grassroots organizations that help families and communities meet the needs of their children.

    firelightfoundation.org

  • Foster Angels of Central Texas Foundation

    Foster Angels of Central Texas is a nonprofit public foundation that helps improve the lives of foster children of all ages. Its mission is to improve the lives of children in foster care-ensuring that each child has his or her basic needs met, and to provide life-enriching and life-enhancing experiences whenever possible.

    fosterangelsctx.org

  • Global Fund for Women

    The Global Fund for Women advances women's rights by mobilizing resources and making grants to creative, women-led organizations that provide high-impact solutions to local, regional and international human rights

    globalfundforwomen.org

  • Kids Change the World

    Since its founding in 2007, Kids Change the World has grown to be the world's leading youth-led organization dedicated to the vision of a global community of young leaders, achievers, and doers creating a better world for youth by engaging kids in service to provide basic keys to success to other youth around the world.

    kidschangeamerica.org

  • Lord's Legacy Life Ministries

    Lord’s Legacy Life Ministries, a non-profit organization, was founded to assist individuals with intellectual disabilities, physical limitations, and other related developmental disabilities and their families. LLLM's foundation is designed to empower these individuals with supports and life coaching skills necessary to secure a future of inclusion in their own communities. They offer many supports including residential housing, an adult day program, respite care, supported employment, and community living support.

    lordslegacyministries.org

  • Mandala House

    MANDALA HOUSE provides self-directed healing programs to post-conflict populations. Specifically, we are focused on survivors of SGBV & ex-combatants. Working with a trauma-sensitive yoga & breath awareness model in a group dynamic, we teach mind/body awareness tools that our practitioners can take into their lives--healing themselves & others.

    mandalahouse.org

  • Partners In Health

    Partners In Health is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation based in Boston, Massachusetts, and active in the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, Russia, and the United States. Its mission is to provide a preferential option for the poor in health care.

    pih.org

  • Roots of Hope/Raíces de Esperanza

    Raíces de Esperanza means “roots of hope." It is a network of more than 3,000 students and young professionals across the U.S. and abroad focused on empowering Cuban youth.

    raicesdeesperanza.org

  • The Enough Project

    Enough is a project of the Center for American Progress whose mission is to build an educated constituency dedicated to ending genocide and crimes against humanity.

    enoughproject.org

  • The Seeing Eye

    Founded in 1929, The Seeing Eye, Inc. is the oldest existing dog guide school in the world. Twelve times a year, as many as 24 students at a time visit the Morristown, N.J. campus to discover the exhilarating experience of traveling with a Seeing Eye® dog.

    SeeingEye.org

  • Vanavevhu - Children of the Soil

    The mission of Vanavevhu – Children of the Soil is to provide support to and advocate for child-headed households in the low-income neighborhoods in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second largest city. Vanavevhu provides for children orphaned by AIDS the resources that a parent would otherwise provide: food, education, health care, and shelter. Vanavevhu is dedicated to the financial self-sufficiency of child-headed families and seeks to contribute to the development of this youth community by providing education and training that will ensure a measurable improvement in their lives. Vanavevhu gives these youth the chance to overcome the obstacles they face as a consequence of the AIDS pandemic, economic crisis, and political turmoil. Vanavevhu nurtures and empowers these youth, as they are the future of Zimbabwe. Our investment strengthens and supports these disadvantaged families and prepares its young participants to become individuals committed to the success and growth of their immediate communities, thus benefiting the nation as a whole.

    vanavevhu.org

  • Women for Women International

    Women for Women International provides women survivors of war, civil strife and other conflicts with the tools and resources to move from crisis and poverty to stability and self-sufficiency, thereby promoting viable civil societies.

    womenforwomen.org