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Founded in 1976, Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health (MassCOSH) engages youth and adult community members as leaders in promoting safe, secure jobs and healthy communities throughout eastern Massachusetts. Through education, leadership development and coalition-building, youth and adults gain the skills and support to address dangerous work conditions and prevent work-related diseases and disabilities. MassCOSH has a special focus on immigrants and other lower-income adults, and young people of color who often work in jobs that are the most unsafe and unhealthy.

Pope Francis Children's Home and School, Mercy to the Poor,located in Ghana West Africa is an organization with its members being passionately invested in the total well-being of the children. Those living and working with the children will have a total commitment to protect, to care,to nurture,and to create an academic environment of learning,providing a Gospel-driven atmosphere so that the children knows God loves them.PFCHS's goals include encouraging strong,independent minded young people who will be prepared to enter the adult world and succeed in family life,work life,and have a strong spiritual foundation.PFCHS locally and internationally will develop a network of individuals and organizations of goodwill who are willing and ready to help the mission of serving the underserved children of the Volta Region.

Our mission is to ensure that refugee families are provided access to an education sufficient to prepare them to become economically self-sufficient and robustly engaged in American civic life.

To educate women and girls in Nigeria about good health, to empower them with different skills acquisition and support them financially to have a good lifestyle. To build health care centers for pregnant women and destitute homes to affect women lives in positive ways. To provide good foods to the poorest communities and also educate them on advantages for eating healthy foods. And advantages for going to health centers for health care and vaccines for children. To advocate for free healthcare, free vaccines and free medicines for girls, women and children to reduce death rate and to keep them alive. To advocate that pregnant women should be given a free medical attention till after delivery of their babies.

COMMUNITY HEALTH, HOUSING AND SOCIAL EDUCATION (CHHASE), TAMIL NADU Background Community health, housing and social education (CHHASE) NGO is involved in social work for Scheduled castes, Scheduled tribes, other backwards classes and under privileged. Team of youth, who have passion in social service and compassion towards the sufferings of the disadvantaged sections of the society, came together and formed CHHASE. Our team have clear insight in the socio-economic, education, health and environment issues faced by the downtrodden, under privileged and marginalized segments of the communities. CHHASE NGO India is a non-governmental, non-profit, social service voluntary organization working for an integrated development of women and children of downtrodden segment of the society. CHHASE NGO believes that all human beings are equal and has the right to have good health, shelter, food and minimum standard of living. CHHASE NGO has touched new heights by Regular Activities to fulfil the mission of organization. Our executive committee oversees all the organization's efforts. The committee meets regularly to ensure that all of our teams perform efficiently and to facilitate cross-functional connections. CHHASE NGO have excellent staff, volunteers & members, who are dedicated, are available for any social cause (s) always. They are our real strength to carry the noble cause of uplifting the downtrodden. CHHASE NGO was registered in the year 2001 under TN Societies Registration Act, 25 of 1976. It is also registered under the FCRA, 12A & 80G of Income Tax Exemption Act, 1961. CHHASE NGO is completed due diligence norms and listed with CREDIBILITY ALLIANCE, & GUIDE STAR INDIA. CHHASE NGO has been collaborating with foreign donor agencies, corporate, national donor agencies both governmental and non-governmental towards making meaningful interventions for the cause of poor and needy sections of the society.

Founded in 1993, the Health Services Foundation of the South Shore resulted from a merger of the South Shore Regional Hospital Foundation and the Fishermen's Memorial Hospital Society. According to it's by-laws, the Foundation's purpose, is to "raise money in an orderly, continuing, and coordinated way for the South Shore Regional Hospital and Fishermen's Memorial Hospital." The Foundation responds to the needs of the hospital, but is accountable to the donors and the community, whose gifts make its work possible. Many gifts are designated to a specific program or service. Assuring that the wishes of the donor are carried out, is a responsibility the Foundation takes very seriously. The affairs of the Foundation are guided by a Board of Directors, composed of volunteers with diverse interests and expertise, from various county communities.

To promote and implement a social development programme for the Anglican Church in Southern Africa for the improvement of the Spiritual, Physical and Emotional Well Being of the Poor and Oppressed People of Africa on a non-denominational basis. Our Vision is to empower communities through an integral Mission including Health, Opportunity, Partnership, and Employment. Our Strategic Objectives are to: -- Understand the needs of the communities -- Develop capacity of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa to respond to the needs -- Create a support mechanism for life-long community development. Our Programmatic Focus going forward include: -- Community Sustainability: Creating a sustainable agenda for the communities we work with. -- Food Security: Ensuring equitable production distribution and sharing or resources for community sustenance. -- Public Policy: Building societies where individuals live and interact with their environment and one another by fulfilling their responsibilities as active citizens. -- Socio-Economic Justice: Mutual respect of Human dignity, rights, and taking responsibility towards a creation of a holistic, comprehensive response that aims to repair, restore and balance the relationship between human being and the environment.