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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. In many countries, asset disclosure is not legally required or made public. Only nonprofit foundations are included in this list.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of America; Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada; Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City; Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Bilqees Sarwar Foundation; Blessing Bethlehem; Bloomberg Philanthropies; Bluey Day Foundation; Born This Way Foundation; Boys & Girls Clubs of America; Bread for the World
Paul Newman – founder of Newman's Own and the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp for seriously ill children; major donations to other charities; Paul Walker – founder of the charity Reach Out Worldwide; Peter Cooper – set up a free college in New York City to help poor people ambitious to improve themselves; Thomas Edison was an early alum [46]
The charity provides formerly homeless people with a home and work, usually collecting, sorting and reselling donated furniture and household goods. Emmaus UK acts as a central resource to local Emmaus Communities across the UK. [3] As of September 2016, there are 28 Emmaus Communities operating in the UK, with others under development.
Furnitureland South in Jamestown, North Carolina is the largest retail furniture store in the United States [1] with 1.3 million square feet and $180 million in sales as of 2004.
The World Giving Index (WGI) is an annual report published by the Charities Aid Foundation, using data gathered by Gallup, and ranks over 140 countries in the world according to how charitable they are. The aim of the World Giving Index is to provide insight into the scope and nature of giving around the world.
The following lists ways of hunting or finding templates of Wikipedia markup-language (or markup macros) [1] by searching for related words. Also note that the word "template" has another connotation, mainly used by Wikipedia system admins, as a verb to refer to issuing a canned message to users, based on putting templates on user talk-pages.
The Gates Foundation [a] is an American private foundation founded by Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates.Based in Seattle, Washington, it was launched in 2000 and is reported to be the third largest charitable foundation in the world, [6] [7] holding $69 billion in assets as of 2020. [4]