With 25 years of experience, HOUSE OF RUTH understands the factors that lead to homelessness and abuse and the best ways to help women, children, and families by stabilizing the crisis they are experiencing, implementing intervention services, and actively helping them attain stability and independence. Each person can enter at any stage of need and progress through an individualized recovery plan. At House of Ruth, we strive to treat the sustained trauma that the woman, children, and families have experienced. Through this approach, we are able to alleviate the underlying problems that have resulted in their homelessness or abusive relationships.
From inspiring young people around the world to make a real difference in their communities to addressing the needs of chimpanzees orphaned by the bushmeat crisis in Africa, Dr. Goodall is involved through the Jane Goodall Institute in a wide range of projects that benefit people, animals, and the environment.
COMIC RELIEF was founded by writer-producer Bob Zmuda in 1986 as a non-profit organization to help America's homeless. As the homeless population has grown, so have the efforts of Comic Relief. The first live televised Comic Relief program appeared on HBO in 1986, hosted by Billy Crystal, Whoopi Goldberg and Robin Williams. Forty-seven comedians appeared on that telecast, yukking it up and bringing in $2.5 million in pledges. That was just the beginning...
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Project Angel Food provides free home-delivered daily meals and nutritional counseling for men, women and children disabled by HIV/AIDS, and living throughout Greater Los Angeles. Our meals, prepared by professional chefs and volunteer assistants are attractive, nutritious and always made with the freshest ingredients. We invite you to learn more about our organization.
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In 1972, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, U.S. Senator Robert Taft, Jr. and Sam Beard founded the American Institute for Public Service, a 501c3 public foundation, to establish a Nobel Prize for public and community service - The Jefferson Awards. The Jefferson Awards are presented on two levels: national and local. National award recipients represent a "Who's Who" of outstanding Americans. On the local level, Jefferson Awards recipients are ordinary people who do extraordinary things without expectation of recognition or reward. Whoopi is a member of the Board of Selectors, which is made up of leaders in every field of endeavor: government, the arts, education, entertainment, sports and business.
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The Academy of Achievement is like no other organization in the world. For more than 40 years, this unique non-profit entity has sparked the imagination of students across America and around the globe by bringing them into direct personal contact with the greatest thinkers and achievers of the age. The annual International Achievement Summit has provided thousands of outstanding students with an unforgettable, life changing experience – one in which young people whose dreams will determine our collective tomorrow draw inspiration, courage and strength from those individuals who have shaped our world of today. It is in this spirit, and to further these ends, that the Academy has established the International Achievement Summit, as well as outstanding programs such as Achievement TV and its Museum of Achievement in Washington, DC. Yet the heart of the Academy experience – that distinctive feature, found nowhere else, which truly sets it apart – remains the International Achievement Summit.