Washington, DC
Web Site: http://www.aed.org
Independent and non profit, AED is committed to solving critical
social problems through education, research, training, social marketing,
and policy analysis. Major areas of focus include health, education,
youth development, the environment, and leadership development.
Geneva, Switzerland
Web Site: www.akdn.org
The Aga Khan Foundation is a nondenominational, international development agency established in 1967 by His Highness the Aga Khan. Its mission is to develop and promote creative solutions to problems that impede social development, primarily in Asia and East Africa. The Aga Khan Development Network focuses on health, education, culture, rural development, institution-building, and the promotion of economic development.
Nicosia, Cyprus
Web Site: http://www.mawared.org
The general aim of the Arab Resource Collective (ARC) is to cooperate with community-based organizations, working throughout the Arab world, in identifying the needs and challenges they face, and in developing their human resources. ARC's immediate objectives are: to produce and disseminate relevant knowledge through written and audiovisual materials, to help in developing needed skills through training on the production and use of resources, and to promote and practice networking among organizations and workers at the grass-root level.
Manila, Philippines
Web Site: http://www.adb.org
ADB is a non profit multilateral development finance institution dedicated to reducing poverty in Asia and the Pacific. It helps improve the quality of people's lives by providing loans and technical assistance for a broad range of development activities. ADB focuses on the promotion of pro-poor, sustainable economic growth, social development, protection of the environment, promotion of gender and development, private sector development, and regional cooperation.
Olney, Maryland
Web Site: http://www.acei.org
The mission of ACEI is to promote and support in the global community the optimal education and development of children, from birth through early adolescence, and to influence the professional growth of educators and the efforts of others who are committed to the needs of children in a changing society. With more than 150 branches worldwide, ACEI provides support to more than 11,000 members.
The Hague, Netherlands
Web Site: http://www.bernardvanleer.org
The foundation seeks to enhance opportunities for children growing up in circumstances of social and economic disadvantage, with the objective of developing their innate potential to the greatest extent possible. The concentration is on children 0-7 years because scientific findings have demonstrated that interventions in the early years of childhood are most effective in yielding lasting benefits to children and society.
New York, New York
Web Site: http://www.childrensaidsociety.org
From adoption and foster care to health services and education, The Children's Aid Society is on the front lines of services to underserved children and families, providing cutting-edge programs in community centers, camps, public schools, family courts, and even in children's own homes. The goals of the society are: to ensure the physical and emotional well being of children and families, and to provide each child with the support and opportunities needed to become successful, healthy, and contributing adults.
London, United Kingdom
Web Site: http://www.crin.org
The key objectives for Children's Right's Information Network (CRIN) are to improve the lives of children by meeting the information needs of organizations and individuals working for child rights, supporting and promoting the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and developing networking tools that enable effective information exchange among members of CRIN.
Richmond, Virginia
Web Site: http://www.christianchildrensfund.org
The Christian Children's Fund creates an environment of hope and respect for needy children of all cultures and beliefs in which they have opportunities to achieve their full potential, and provides practical tools for positive change to children, families, and communities.
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Web Site: http://www.ecdgroup.com
The Consultative Group on Early Childhood Care and Development, is a diverse consortium of agencies, donors, NGOs, and foundations that links with regional-based Early Childhood Care and Development networks comprised of individuals and organizations involved in programming, research, policy-advocacy, monitoring, and evaluation for young children (0-8) at risk in the Majority World.
Geneva, Switzerland
Web Site: http://defense-for-children.org
Defense for Children International (DCI) is an independent non-governmental organization set up during the International Year of the Child (1979) to ensure ongoing, practical, systematic, and concerted international action specially directed towards promoting and protecting the rights of the child.
London, United Kingdom
Web Site: http://www.eur-child-trust.org.uk
The aim of the European Children's Trust is to help reform child care systems and structures and to develop local capacity in central and southeastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. The Trust provides policy advice, seed funding, technical assistance, training for local staff, and program management. The Trust supports initiatives which pilot community-based services to support parents in fulfilling their primary role as carers of children, and which pilot family-based services for children who are in need of public care.
Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada
Web Site: http://www.freethechildren.org
Free the Children is an international network of children helping children through representation, leadership, and action. Free the Children has two main purposes: To free children from poverty, exploitation, and abuse, and to give children a voice, leadership training, and opportunities to take action on issues which affect them from a local to an international level. Free the Children is dedicated to eliminating the exploitation of children around the world, by encouraging youth to volunteer in, as well as to create programs and activities that relieve the plight of underprivileged children. Free the Children is registered in more than 20 countries.
Ypsilanti, Michigan
Web Site: http://www.highscope.org
High/Scope, an independent non profit research, development, training, and public advocacy organization located in Ypsilanti, Michigan, was founded in 1970. The Foundation's principal goals are to promote the learning and development of children worldwide from infancy through adolescence and to support and train educators and parents as they help children learn. In a High/Scope program, students learn through active involvement with people, materials, events, and ideas.
Berkeley, California
Web Site: http://www.icrichild.org
Since 1981, ICRI has been providing services for families and children locally and around the world. ICRI makes a difference by providing technical assistance and consultation to a wide variety of national and international organizations, businesses, governments, non profits and others interested in such children's issues as child care, child abuse prevention, child survival, maternal and child health, placement alternatives for abandoned and traumatized children, and the promotion of children's rights.
Nador utca 23. IV/1
H-1051
Budapest, Hungary
Contact: Liana Ghent , Executive Director
Phone: (361) 354-3923
Fax: (361) 354-3925
Web Site: http://www.issa.nl
E-mail: lghent@issa.hu
International Step by Step Association (ISSA) is a membership organization that connects professionals and organizations working in Early Childhood Development (ECD). Established in the Netherlands in 1999, ISSA’s network today stretches across the globe. While ISSA offers general membership and information-sharing to all interested individuals and organizations, ISSA’s core members are non-governmental organizations, located in Central, Eastern and Southeast Europe and Central Asia.
ISSA’s overarching goal is to promote inclusive, quality care and education experiences that create the conditions for all children to become active members of a democratic knowledge society. ISSA accomplishes this through: raising awareness of the importance of quality care and education, developing resources, disseminating information, advocating, strengthening alliances, and building capacity to create conditions where all children thrive.
Portland, Oregon
Web Site: http://www.mercycorps.org
Mercy Corps is a not-for-profit organization that exists to alleviate suffering, poverty, and oppression by helping people build secure, productive, and just communities. The agency now operates in more than 25 countries reaching 5 million people worldwide. Since 1979, Mercy Corps has provided more than $575 million in assistance to 73 countries. Mercy Corps is known nationally and internationally for its quick-response, high-impact programs. Over 95 percent of the agency's resources are allocated directly to programs that help those in need.
Istanbul, Turkey
Web Site: http://www.acev.org
Mother Child Education Foundation aims to empower people by means of education and enable them to improve the quality of their lives. Among their goals is to implement, evaluate, and provide consultation on the Foundation's various programs such as Mother Child Education, Functional Adult Literacy, Women's Empowerment, and Father Enrichment Programs. They also work to raise public awareness on early childhood, literacy, empowerment, and adult education issues.
Berkshire, United Kingdom
Web Site: http://www.omep-international.org
OMEP is an international, non-governmental organisation, founded in 1948 to benefit children under the age of eight years throughout the world. OMEP is currently represented in 70 countries and co-operates with other international organisations with similar aims. OMEP's aim is to promote the optimum conditions for all children, in order to ensure their well-being, development, and happiness, both within their family unit and the wider communities in which they live.
Paris, France
Web Site: http://www.oecd.org
The OECD groups 30 member countries sharing a commitment to democratic government and the market economy. With active relationships with some 70 other countries, NGOs, and civil society, it has a global reach. Best known for its publications and its statistics, its work covers economic and social issues from macroeconomics, to trade, education, development and science, and innovation.
Surrey, United Kingdom
Web Site: http://www.plan-international.org
Plan is a humanitarian, child-focused organization working with families and their communities to meet the needs of children around the world. Non-political, and with no religious affiliations, Plan aims to build a better world for children, now and in the future by setting up long-term development projects in their communities. Each year, Plan funds more than 20,000 new projects and thousands of ongoing ones. Plan projects can be grouped into five key areas: building relationships, education, housing, health, and livelihood.
Westport, Connecticut
Web Site: http://www.savethechildren.org
Save the Children is the leading independent organization creating real and lasting change for children in need in the United States and around the world. It is a member of the International Save the Children Alliance, comprising 27 national Save the Children organizations working in more than 100 countries to ensure the well-being of children.
Paris, France
Web Site: http://www.unesco.org
The main objective of UNESCO is to contribute to peace and security in the world by promoting collaboration among nations through education, science, culture, and communication in order to further universal respect for justice, for the rule of law, and for the human rights and fundamental freedoms which are affirmed for the peoples of the world, without distinction of race, sex, language, or religion, by the Charter of the United Nations.
New York, New York
Web Site: http://www.unicef.org
UNICEF is mandated by the United Nations General Assembly to advocate for the protection of children's rights, to help meet their basic needs and to expand their opportunities to reach their full potential. UNICEF is guided by the Convention on the Rights of the Child and strives to establish children's rights as enduring ethical principles and international standards of behavior towards children. This organization is also committed to ensuring special protection for the most disadvantaged children - victims of war, disasters, extreme poverty, all forms of violence and exploitation, and those with disabilities.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Web Site: http://www.uusc.org
With more than 25,000 members and supporters, the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee is a nonsectarian organization that promotes human rights and social justice worldwide. Through a potent combination of advocacy, education, and partnerships with grassroots organizations, UUSC supports programs and policies that empower women, defend the rights of children, and support the struggles of indigenous people and oppressed racial and ethnic groups. UUSC also provides financial and technical support when disasters strike impoverished areas.
Washington DC
Web Site: http://www.worldbank.org/children/
The World Bank has three main goals: To fight poverty with passion and professionalism for lasting results; to help people help themselves and their environment by providing resources, sharing knowledge, building capacity, and forging partnerships in the public and private sectors; and to be an excellent institution able to attract, excite, and nurture diverse and committed staff with exceptional skills who know how to listen and learn.
Geneva, Switzerland
Web Site: http://www.wvi.org
Founded in 1950, World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization, serving the world's poorest children and families in nearly 100 countries. World Vision helps transform the lives of children and families in need around the world, without regard to religious beliefs, gender, race, or ethnic background. World Vision's partners help demonstrate God's love and hope and share His blessings by helping transform the lives of children and families with things like clean water, nutritious food, health care, and education.
