enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. List of wealthiest charitable foundations - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wealthiest...

    This is a list of wealthiest charitable foundations worldwide. It consists of the 50 largest charitable foundations, private foundations engaged in philanthropy, and other charitable organizations such as charitable trusts that have disclosed their assets.

  3. Wordplay (film) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wordplay_(film)

    The movie focuses on the following crossword solvers: Ellen Ripstein: editor living in New York City and 2001 ACPT champion. She is also known for her baton twirling. Trip Payne: professional puzzlemaker living in South Florida and three-time ACPT champion. He held the record as the youngest champion after winning the tournament in 1993 at the ...

  4. Food for the Poor - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_for_the_Poor

    Food for the Poor aids the poor through donations of money and supplies, mostly from the United States. A majority of the organization's revenue is from donated goods. Champions For The Poor is a personal fundraising program that was founded in 2009 and lets supporters create webpages to raise funds for the poor in the Caribbean and Latin America.

  5. Comic Relief USA - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_Relief_USA

    Comic Relief USA was a non-profit charity organization whose mission was to raise funds to help those in need—particularly America's homeless.It has raised and distributed nearly US$50 million toward providing assistance—including health care services—to homeless people throughout the United States.

  6. Cinnamon Trust - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnamon_Trust

    The Cinnamon Trust is a UK charity providing support for elderly and terminally ill people with pets. The organization relies on volunteers to walk dogs, transport pets, and foster pets whose owners have difficulty caring for them. [2]

  7. Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_for_Improving...

    The organization was consistently opposed to "gratuitous charity", meaning charity efforts which were not tied to moral reformation, such as free soup kitchens and missions which provided shelter to all without regard to their character. It particularly disdained governmental efforts to alleviate the plight of the poor, as opposed the work of ...

  8. Comic Relief - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_Relief

    Comic Relief was launched live on Noel Edmonds' Late, Late Breakfast Show on BBC1, on Christmas Day 1985 from a refugee camp in Sudan. The idea for Comic Relief came from the charity worker Jane Tewson, who established it as the operating name of Charity Projects, a registered charity in England [8] and Scotland.

  9. Children International - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_International

    Santa Paula Community Center in Tonalá, Jalisco, México. Known in its earlier years as "Holy Land Christian Mission," Children International was founded in 1936. [23] The organization distributed food baskets to widows and poor families, provided early childhood education [24] and operated a small medical clinic as well as a children’s home for orphans.