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The mission of the American Diabetes Association (the Association) is to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes. Diabetes is a disease in which the body does not produce or properly use insulin.  Insulin is a hormone that is needed to convert sugar, starches and other food into energy needed for daily life.  The cause of diabetes continues to elude the medical community, although research has shown that both genetics and environmental factors such as obesity and lack of exercise appear to play roles.

The Military Police Fund for Blind Children was founded in 1957 and specializes in assisting visually impaired Canadian children up to the age of 21. The fund is operated entirely by Canadian Military Police volunteers.

The CTV Good Neighbour Fund is a registered non-profit charitable organization that has operated quietly and efficiently in Edmonton and North Central Alberta since 1993. The volunteer Board of Directors gathers monthly to review applications for assistance. There are few criteria except that the applicant must have exhausted all other avenues of funding through existing sources and they must show that they have some level of financial stability. Most applications come to the Good Neighbour Fund from social workers familiar with the system, who understand the limitations of existing funding sources, and who recognize that help from the CTV Good Neighbour Fund would move this individual or family forward and lead to their future success as strong, contributing members of our community.

Every 14 seconds, a child is orphaned by AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. Nyumbani serves these abandoned children in Kenya, providing a loving home, medical services and community-based care in the slum communities of Nairobi. Nyumbani Village is a self-sustaining community to serve orphans and elders who have been left behind by the "lost generation" of the AIDS pandemic.

Our mission is to help find the cure for diabetes through research programs and until that goal is achieved, to provide the aid and education needed to combat the detrimental and life-threatening complications of this terrible disease.

What is the philosophy of Conductive Education? Conductive education is neither therapy, treatment nor cure. It recognizes motor disorders as chronic conditions which result in problems of learning or relearning which will respond to appropriate teaching. Conductive Education fully acknowledges that children or adults with motor disorders may have continuing medical needs, which will benifit from appropriate medical intervention. This does not deny the needs for teaching and learning. Conductive Education asserts that there is much more to living and development than the medical and the social. There is the phycological too and, as in every sphere of human life, this is best addressed by education in its wildest sense. Further, as in all excellent education, the goal of Conductive Education is to create autonomous learners who go on to learn, adapt and develop under their own direction, because that is how they now are.