| Some Representative Charities | |||
| 1. Overseas Assistance | |||
| Bread for the World | www.bread.org | Ending world hunger | |
| Bright Hope International | www.brighthope.org | Specializing in helping the abject poor - people surviving on less than one dollar a day. | |
| Doctors Without Borders, USA | www.doctorswithoutborders.org | Medical staff serving in difficult and dangerous settings | |
| Doctors of the World-USA | www.dowusa.org | Promotes global health through the advancement of human rights | |
| International Women's Health Coalition | www.theirc.org | Promoting and protecting the health and rights of girls and women worldwide | |
| MAP International | www.map.org | Health and hope for a hurting world (medical assistance) | |
| Millennium Relief & Development Services | www.mrds.org | Delivering intelligent compassion to people in complex situations | |
| Pathfinder International | www.pathfind.org | Focuses on reproductive health | |
| Project HOPE | www.projecthope.org | Multi-level health care | |
| Synergos Institute | www.synergos.org | Working with partners to reduce poverty and increase equity around the world | |
| USA for UNHCR | www.usaforunhcr.org | Supports the work of UN High Commissioner of Refugees | |
| Water For People | www.water4people.org | Working for the huge need for clean water | |
| Water Missions International | www.watermissions.org | Changing lives through sustainable water systems | |
| Women for Women International | www.womenforwomen.org | Helping women in war-torn regions rebuild their lives | |
| Women Thrive Worldwide | www.womenthrive.org | Shaping U.S. policies that help women lift themselves and their families out of poverty | |
| 1a. Microenterprise | |||
| FINCA International | www.villagebanking.org | Helping entrepreneurship in poor countries via micro-loans and other financial services | |
| Global Fund for Children | www.globalfundforchildren.org | Small grants in support of innovation helping children | |
| HOPE International | www.hopeinternational.org | Poverty alleviation through microenterprise development | |
| Unitus | www.unitus.com | Innovative solutions to global poverty | |
| 2. Combined domestic and international work | |||
| Global Impact | www.charity.org | Coordinates the work of 50 major charities | |
| Global Volunteers | www.globalvolunteers.org | Major practitioner of volunteer vacation concept | |
| Save the Children | www.savethechildren.org | Creating lasting change for children | |
| 3. Domestic Assistance | |||
| America's Second Harvest | www.secondharvest.org | The nation's food bank network | |
| Volunteers of America | www.voa.org | Major volunteer program at national level | |
| 4. Domestic Assistance for Children | |||
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of America | www.bbbs.org | Mentoring children | |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of America | www.bgca.org | Mentoring children | |
| Children's Defense Fund | www.childrensdefense.org | Lobbying for and support of children’s rights | |
| Children's Literacy Initiative | www.cliontheweb.org/index-main.html | Helping children develop literacy at an early age | |
| National Center for Missing & Exploited Children | www.missingkids.com | Helping prevent child abduction and sexual exploitation | |
| Parents Television Council | www.parentstv.org | Monitoring children's TV content | |
| Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network | www.rainn.org | The nation's largest anti-sexual assault organization | |
| 5. International Assistance for Children | |||
| Children of the Nations | www.cotni.org | Caring for orphaned and destitute children | |
| Christel House International | www.christelhouse.org | Food, education and, health care and life skills training for children | |
| Family Violence Prevention Fund | www.endabuse.org | Working to prevent violence against women and children | |
| Global Fund for Children | www.globalfundforchildren.org | Advancing the dignity of children and youth worldwide | |
| Human Rights First | www.humanrightsfirst.org | Protecting and defending the dignity of each individual | |
| Room to Read | www.roomtoread.org | "World change starts with educated children" | |
| United States Fund for UNICEF | www.unicefusa.org | Helping children, world-wide | |
| 6. Arms Control and other Major Policy Issues | |||
| Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation | www.armscontrolcenter.org | Analysis of peace and security issues | |
| International Peace Institute | www.ipacademy.org | Promoting the prevention and settlement of armed conflicts between and within states | |
| Physicians for Peace | www.physiciansforpeace.org | Building peace and international friendships through medicine | |
| Federation of American Scientists | www.fas.org | Promoting humanitarian uses of science and technology (and nuclear weapons monitoring) | |
| Union of Concerned Scientists | www.ucsusa.org | The science of major policy issues from invasives to global warming | |
| United Nations Association of the USA | www.unausa.org | Helping the UN help the world | |
| Environmental Defense Fund | www.edf.org | Large and sophisticated organization addressing environmental problems | |
| 7. Christian Organizations | |||
| Feed My Starving Children | www.fmsc.org | Feeding God's starving children hungry in body and spirit | |
| Food For The Poor | www.foodforthepoor.org | Ministering to spiritually renew impoverished people | |
| Gleaning for the World | www.gftw.org | Providing life-saving support to communities in critical need throughout the world | |
| American Family Association | www.afa.net | Supporting family values, particularly in the media | |
| Alliance Defense Fund | www.alliancedefensefund.org | Defends religious liberty, and particularly for teachings of the Bible | |
| Family Research Council | www.frc.org | Defends the rights of the family | |
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