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Slip free of daily concerns... Rejuvenation and health are closer than you think! Derived from ancient Buddhist theory, Puti Meditation provides a unique method to free the spirit and renew the mind. It offers a space to find relief from stress and return to a state of natural tranquility, improving mental clarity and overall health. Puti Meditation applies traditional practices to the challenges of the modern day world. The result is a uniquely effective self-cultivation technique that dissolves stress, grounds the spirit, dispels illness and holistically enhances both body and mind. These self-cultivation techniques are accessible and practical, yielding results quickly. As such, they are particularly well-suited to the pressures of modern life… and the health issues that accompany those pressures. In its mere 17 years of availability to the public, Puti Meditation has already benefited millions of people.
At The Conservation Fund, we combine a passion for conservation with an entrepreneurial spirit to protect your favorite places before they become just a memory. A hallmark of our work is our deep, unwavering understanding that for conservation solutions to last, they need to make economic sense. Top-ranked, we have protected nearly 7 million acres across America. www.conservationfund.org(http://www.conservationfund.org/)
AIR was established in 1993 with the mission of implementing environmental education programs, Sustainable Farming methods, building efficient stoves and planting millions of trees with low-income rural families in Central America. The impact of this mission is to prevent lung disease, reduce soil erosion, improve food crops and nutrition, prevent deadly mudslides, while sequestering carbon and protecting the gift of the Earth.
ABC Head Start provides a proven program that helps preschool children develop the critical thinking, language, social/emotional and physical skills they need to be ready for school and achieve success in learning and life. Our early learning program integrates skills development with health nutrition and other community supports for children. We provide wrap around services for vulnerable families to help them support their child’s learning and development, promote a healthy family and address issues such as poverty, employment, settlement, English as a second language, mental health, isolation, family violence, and many more complex issues. ABC Head Start works with a wide range of community partners to meet the needs of children and families.
American Conservation Experience (ACE) is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing rewarding environmental service opportunities that harness the idealism and energy of a volunteer labor force to help restore America’s public lands. ACE is grounded in the philosophy that cooperative labor on meaningful conservation projects fosters cross-cultural understanding and operates on the belief that challenging volunteer service unites people of all backgrounds in common cause.
HATN works with communities in Mali, West Africa, and in Bolivia, South America. Among our recent activities are: - construction of two community health centers/hospitals and related support (financial, equipment, medical know-how); - implementing free medical/dental clinics and check-ups; - construction of a maternity centre and related support; - support of 3 schools with two more school construction projects in progress; - implementation of numerous water filtration systems, public latrines and educational programs on hygiene/sanitation practices; and, - education programs on irrigation and livestock management. A volunteer-based organization having no employees, HATN has been able to achieve low administration costs without sacrificing organizational effectiveness. In 2012, administration costs were less than 5% of total expenditures. To learn more, please visit www.hatn.org.
ACCESO International promotes greater access to all levels of education in Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada. It is an incorporated non-governmental organization that is completely volunteer-operated. ACCESO International works in partnership with locally-based and Canadian affiliated organizations to provide support for marginalized children, youth and women so that they can study in their own country, in their own culture and in their own language. ACCESO International provides educational resources to daycares, schools, homework centres, orphanages, libraries and women’s human rights workshops. It also provides individual bursaries for primary, secondary and post-secondary students; the bursaries cover the costs for uniforms, supplies, shoes, packsacks, tuition, transportation, nourishment, health care and lodging. As a testament to our commitment to accountability, ACCESO International ensures that all receipted donations are allocated directly to its education projects.
StandWithUs Canada was launched in 2013. Since its founding in 2001, StandWithUs has supported, trained, and provided resources to college students across North America. Over the years, the campus department has grown to include a sizeable team of campus professionals and lay leaders who are dedicated to supporting students’ efforts to promote and defend Israel amid the virulent anti-Israel movement on college campuses. Our activity on campuses includes activism training, financial assistance for programming, educational campaigns, and informational material to support pro-Israel student groups and efforts. In the face of increasing BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions against Israel) activity on college campuses, StandWithUs provides support and guidance to student groups opposing BDS efforts by anti-Israel groups. Furthermore, elite student leaders on college campuses across North America are invited to apply for the prestigious StandWithUs Emerson Fellowship each year.
Our mission is to conserve, protect and restore North America's coldwater fisheries and their watersheds. TU is a national organization with about 300,000 members and supporters organized into over 400 chapters and councils from Maine to Montana to Alaska. This dedicated grassroots army is matched by a respected staff of lawyers, policy experts and scientists, who work out of more than 30 offices nationwide. These conservation professionals ensure that TU is at the forefront of fisheries restoration work at the local, state and national levels. The organization remains committed to applying "the very best information and thinking available" in its conservation work and has developed cutting-edge tools such as the Conservation Success Index (CSI), a sophisticated framework for assessing the health of coldwater fish species throughout their native range. The CSI enables TU to measure its progress in achieving the bold goals laid out in its mission and vision. These goals require the organization to work at increasingly larger scales, and to collaborate with other conservation interests, local communities and state and federal partners to begin to rebuild the natural resiliency of watersheds. Such efforts are crucial if North America's trout and salmon are to survive climate change and the host of threats facing them at the start of the 21st century. Nearly 50 years after its founding, no other conservation organization is as well placed as TU to make a difference for the nation's coldwater fisheries.
Founded in 1945 as the Unitarian Service Committee of Canada, USC is a voluntary organization working to promote strong, healthy, and just communities in developing countries. We work with partner organizations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America to strengthen community livelihoods, promote food security, and support peoples’ actions for social justice and equality. In Canada, we build awareness and support for international social change through public education and policy dialogue.
Isha Foundation is a non-profit corporation established in the USA and a charitable trust founded by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev in India in 1992. The foundation serves as an educator, catalyst and resource for yoga science and natural health. Isha Foundation conducts various public welfare programs to advance physical, mental and spiritual development through the intergration of body mind and spirit. The foundation improves the quality of life for the impoverished through humanitarian and social outreach programs such as "Action for Rural Rejuvination," medical and disaster relief for the poor, student scholarships for destitute children and prison yoga programs entitled "Inner Freedom for the Imprisoned". A significant amount of the foundation's efforts involve Mobile Health Clinics for rural villages in India and facilitating Yoga Programs to help individuals regain health, find peace within and become responsible to the world around them. Through humanitarian programs and other advanced yoga programs, Isha Foundation provides the potential and process for individual transformation, helping to establish a peaceful and prosperous global society.
Vipassana is a logical process of mental purification through self-observation. Although springing from the teachings of the Buddha, this non-sectarian technique is open to everyone regardless of background or belief.