TOP TEN CHARITIES CHANGING THE WORLD
They're big and global, with budgets exceeding $100 million and net assets of at least $65 million. Yet these 10 charities manage to do exceptional work throughout the country and overseas, all while maintaining stellar financial management and transparency. See full report and how to get involved: http://cnb.cx/1PrHOLt
Natural Resources Defense Council
The focus of the Natural Resources Defense Council is singular: Earth. The organization works to restore the integrity of the elements that sustain life — air, land and water — and to defend endangered natural places.
United States Fund for UNICEF
The U.S. Fund for UNICEF supports UNICEF's work around the world through fundraising, advocacy and education in the United States. Forty years ago UNICEF figured out that promoting simple, low-cost interventions like hand-washing and breastfeeding could save millions of lives, and its mission has helped children in more than 190 countries and territories.
Compassion International
Holistic child development starting with prenatal care through young adulthood is the mission of Compassion International. The organization partners with more than 6,500 Christian churches in 26 countries to offer sponsorship, physical and spiritual development and leadership training for millions of children in poverty around the world.
Institute of International Education
The Institute of International Education is among the world's largest and most experienced international education and training organizations. The organization was started in 1919 with the mission of promoting closer educational relations between the people of the United States and those of other countries.
Samaritan's Purse
Through its ministry, Operation Christmas Child, the organization delivers more than 8 million shoe box gifts to poor children in more than 100 countries each year. Its World Medical Mission sends doctors, equipment and supplies to underprivileged countries. Community development and vocational programs in impoverished villages and neighborhoods around the world help people break the cycle of poverty and give them hope for a better tomorrow.
The Rotary Foundation
One of its biggest initiatives aims at eradicating polio through its PolioPlus program, launched in 1985. Since then, Rotary and its partners, including the World Health Organization and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, have immunized more than 2.5 billion children, reducing the incidence of polio by 99 percent and eradicating it from all but three countries.
United Nations Foundation
The United Nations Foundation was created in 1998 with a $1 billion gift from entrepreneur Ted Turner to support United Nations causes and activities. The organization acts as an advocate for the UN, and a platform for connecting people, ideas and resources to help the United Nations solve global problems.
Catholic Medical Mission Board
Providing health care for the world's poor is the mission of Catholic Medical Mission Board (CMMB), a leading faith-based NGO. It accomplishes this by building healthy, sustainable communities through local engagement and partnerships and by focusing on the leading causes of mortality for mothers and children in targeted communities throughout Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.
MAP International
MAP International is a global Christian health organization that partners with people living in conditions of poverty. Its mission is to save lives and develop healthier families and communities. Founded in 1954, it provides medicine, helps to prevent disease by improving water supplies, and promotes health to create hope and lasting change in more than 115 countries.
Direct Relief
Founded in 1948, Direct Relief is California's largest international humanitarian nonprofit organization. The organization provides medical assistance to improve the health and lives of people affected by poverty and disaster, both in the U.S and throughout the world.