YouthAIDS is an international nongovernmental, nonprofit education, funding, and health initiative of Population Services International (PSI) that provides humanitarian assistance and brings global awareness to the proliferation of HIV/AIDS. The organization is based in Washington, D.C. and reaches out to 600 million youth (ages 15–24) in over 60 countries through the delivery of information, products, and social services. Methods used to address issues include film, television, and radio; celebrity spokespersons; pop culture initiatives; theatrical productions; music; and sports. Actress and humanitarian Ashley Judd serves the organization as their Global Ambassador. Population Services International and YouthAIDS partners with nongovernmental organizations and corporate entities throughout the world to develop HIV/AIDS training and awareness programs, along with opportunities for humanitarian service on global scale.
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YouthAIDS | Introduction
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Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum, Patrick Wilson, Miranda Richardson, Minnie Driver, and Jennifer Ellison.
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"James Bond" and "Carry On"
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She is also a singer and songwriter.
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Rossum released her debut album, "Inside Out". She also released a Christmas EP the same year, titled "Carol of the Bells". In 2013, she released a follow-up album called "Sentimental Journey".
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Rossum was a YouthAIDS ambassador and was signed as the spokesperson for Pinkitude, an apparel line inspired by the Pink Panther character, to help raise breast cancer awareness.
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It is an international nongovernmental, nonprofit education, funding, and health initiative of Population Services International (PSI) that provides humanitarian assistance and brings global awareness to the proliferation of HIV/AIDS
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On holiday in South Africa she became aware of the scale of mortality being caused by the disease AIDS in the country and realised that the work and strategies she had put in place in her Romanian campaign could be applied to the rest of the world. This led her to create the YouthAIDS campaign in 2001. Kate Roberts founded YouthAIDS in 2001 as an educational and prevention campaign for the charity Population Services International (PSI). YouthAIDS is based in Washington, DC, while being active in around 70 countries.
Kate Roberts (YouthAIDS) | Early career
Kate Roberts is a British human rights advocate and humanitarian. She works on a global scale to develop programs and services which target malaria, child survival, HIV/AIDS, gender equality, reproductive health, and non-communicable disease. She is best known as the founder of YouthAIDS and Five & Alive, subsidiaries of Population Services International (PSI), where she serves as Vice President of Corporate Marketing and Communications.
Kate Roberts (YouthAIDS) | Introduction
YouthAIDS is an international nongovernmental, nonprofit education, funding, and health initiative of Population Services International (PSI) that provides humanitarian assistance and brings global awareness to the proliferation of HIV/AIDS. The organization is based in Washington, D.C. and reaches out to 600 million youth (ages 15–24) in over 60 countries through the delivery of information, products, and social services. Methods used to address issues include film, television, and radio; celebrity spokespersons; pop culture initiatives; theatrical productions; music; and sports. Actress and humanitarian Ashley Judd serves the organization as their Global Ambassador. Population Services International and YouthAIDS partners with nongovernmental organizations and corporate entities throughout the world to develop HIV/AIDS training and awareness programs, along with opportunities for humanitarian service on global scale.
YouthAIDS | Introduction
Five & Alive was established by Kate Roberts in 2007, as a subsidiary program of Population Services International, where she serves as Vice President of Corporate Marketing and Communications. The health program is a collaborative initiative of YouthAIDS, an HIV/AIDS education and prevention program of PSI. YouthAIDS and Five & Alive serve to increase awareness of health crises primarily facing the African continent, the Global South and developing world, while providing practical support and programming to save the lives of poor and vulnerable children. Five & Alive is an awareness, marketing and fundraising campaign of PSI that focuses on the global health crisis facing children under the age of five and their families.
Five &amp; Alive | Organizational overview
In the early 1990s, YouthAIDS founder, Kate Roberts, moved to Moscow, where she focused on launching the Russian version of "Cosmopolitan Magazine". Her work took her to Romania, where she created a global HIV/AIDS prevention marketing campaign that, Roberts said, "increased condom use by 100 percent in the first year". In 1999, while on vacation in South Africa, Roberts became aware of the high mortality rate in the country, due to HIV/AIDS. One in four girls in the country were found to have contracted HIV or AIDS by age 14. Roberts recognized that the strategies that she had put in place in her Romanian campaign could be successfully applied on a global scale.
YouthAIDS | History
He established TeenAIDS-PeerCorps (also known as TeenAIDS and TA-PC in 1994) and registered it as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in 1997. He promoted the idea of a global network of trained youth volunteers to spread the message of HIV prevention to their peers, hence the name PeerCorps, which was registered as a service mark in 1997. He boasted that he had a volunteer group of hundreds of thousands of teenagers but could never produce any such records.
John Chittick | Career in Youth HIV/AIDS
The charity though started in Drogheda in 2003 with Des Grant and Bob Jones its founding chairmen, the charity takes it roots from East European Aid, a charity founded in Belfast by Robert (Bob) Jones in the early 1990s. The charity is now headquartered in Belfast.
Medaid4kids | Origins
It was founded in by Hani Masri who grew up in the Balata refugee camp. He is currently based in the US and known for his advocacy of the Middle East peace process and children's issues.
Tomorrow's Youth Organization | History
IsraAID was founded as an umbrella organization consisting of Jewish and Israeli search and rescue, medical and relief groups that provide aid worldwide to people in need, regardless of race, religion, nationality or disability. Today, it is an independent humanitarian aid agency and has worked on emergency response and long-term development projects in more than 50 countries worldwide. The group's CEOs are Yotm Polizer and Voni Glick, and its global chair is Meira Aboulafia. IsraAID is privately funded by individual Israeli and North American donors.
IsraAid | Structure and funding
Njideka Françoise Harry is the Founder of Youth for Technology Foundation (YTF). She is a World Economic Forum Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship Fellow.
Njideka Harry | Introduction
To help fund his research and that of other scientists — and because the CDC were dismissive of his expertise and uninterested in his assistance — Sonnabend contacted his friend Mathilde Krim to ask for help to fund his research. With Krim and others they established the AIDS Medical Foundation (AMF) in 1983. This organisation would later become amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research, one of the world's leading nonprofit supporters of HIV/AIDS research, prevention and advocacy. A pioneer of community-based research in the absence of effective government efforts, Sonnabend also helped to establish the nonprofit Community Research Initiative (CRI, later renamed CRIA, then ACRIA) in New York in 1987.
Joseph Sonnabend | Role in founding AIDS organisations
Dr. Karen Hein is a pediatrician and health policy expert who founded the first HIV/AIDS program for adolescents in the world.
Karen Hein | Introduction
The HOW Foundation is a nonprofit founded in 2016 by Herbert O. Wigwe as a social enterprise managed from inception by current COO, Antonia Ally, it was set to make meaningful contributions to global development through unconventional focus on leadership, health and youth empowerment.
HOW Foundation | Origin
Each year, YouthAIDS honors individuals that have provided exceptional humanitarian service that brings awareness to the reality of HIV/AIDS. Past recipients of the YouthAIDS Outstanding Achievement Award have included Sir Richard Branson, Sir Elton John, Annie Lennox, Judy McGrath, Nancy Pelosi, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Senator Mary Landrieu, Senator Richard Lugar, and Bob Geldof.
YouthAIDS | Introduction
endPoverty.org was founded in 1985 out of the vision of Paris Reidhead, an American missionary in Sudan, to equip poor entrepreneurs to help themselves and their families out of poverty. The organization's former names include Enterprise Development International and Transformation International.
EndPoverty.org | History
The Founder of the foundation, Rolando J. Bermúdez, thought of creating the organization when he was a freshman at UC, Berkeley. The idea came from his nontraditional experience of growing in the United States as an immigrant. The business plan for the organization was initially written during the year of 2009 but was finalized on May, 2010. The organization still going under development to register as a 501(c)(3).
Bermúdez Scholar Foundation | Background
In regards to founding this organization, Seyyed Ruhollah Khomeini said that:
The Student Basij | Introduction
In 1993, Gapiya-Niyonzima founded the National Association of Support for Seropositive and AIDS Patients (ANSS). It was the first civil organisation in the country to provide support and treatment, including anti-retroviral therapy, for people with HIV and AIDS within the country. The ANSS promotes the prevention of the transmission of HIV/AIDS and provides support for those with the infection, however it was transmitted, and their families. In 1996, whilst Burundi was under a trade embargo, Gapiya-Niyonzima fought for the right of patients to continue to access medicines, which were being sold at exorbitant prices. In 1999 she established the "Turinho" centre within the ANSS which provides overall support and care for those infected and affected.
Jeanne Gapiya-Niyonzima | Activism
"The work which began in 1897 with Magnus Hirschfeld, who established the world's first homosexual rights organization, is now being carried forward by countless people on every continent – often at great personal risk. The Hirschfeld-Eddy Foundation also aims to raise awareness of, and counteract, this threat to human rights advocates through international publicity campaigns. The name of FannyAnn Eddy symbolizes this brave dangerous struggle against oppression which often puts the lives of those involved at risk."
Hirschfeld Eddy Foundation | Aims, idea and concept
In 1986, a group of 84 volunteers came together to provide services to 100 people with AIDS. Gathering in Center City Philadelphia, these volunteers acted; and ActionAIDS was founded. Rev. Jim Littrell became the first administrator of the new organization, with Bob Schoenberg as the first board president, and Anna Forbes as the first staff member. In 1991, ActionAIDS developed "Dining Out for Life," an annual fundraising event to raise money and awareness for the organization. Five years later the agency sold the newly formed non-profit "Dining Out For Life International" for $1 in an effort to expand the idea to other cities.
Action Wellness | History
Youth United was started as an oral organization, with Society welfare in view, by few students of Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. Jyotindra Nath, the founder of Youth United, with Rohan Aneja, Kunal Gulati, Saurabh Verma, Ritoban Chakrabarti, Saloni Bajaj, Neelima Walia, Sabiha Basur, Parul Sood, Aurobind Vidyarthi and Sukhmani Khanna founded the organization as an oral body in February, 2007. It was an oral body until February, 2008, when it became a registered Society, under the Indian Societies Registration Act of 1860, one of the three kind of Indian NGOs.
Youth United | Visionaries and founder members
Khadidiatou Diallo, born in Senegal is the founder of the Groupe de femmes pour l'Abolition des Mutilations Sexuelles (GAMS) in Belgium.
Khadidiatou Diallo | Introduction
The president and founder of the organization is Kenneth Uwadi. Uwadi is a popular socio political crusader from Imo state of Nigeria
Youths For Human Rights Protection And Transparency Initiative | Leadership
The concept of Humanity First originates from a desire to provide aid on the basis of need alone, irrespective of race, religion, colour or political allegiance. The organisation was established in London, UK and registered in 1994 by then worldwide head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Mirza Tahir Ahmad. Ahmadiyya is a global reform movement within Islam, with 20 million followers, one of its objectives is "establishing peace at all levels of society and to protect the basic human rights of all people".
Humanity First | 1994 Origins
UYDO was founded by Espen Berg in 2008. Berg was studying at Bournemouth University in the UK when he became aware of the challenges facing disadvantaged young people in developing economies. He was inspired to start an organisation focusing on utilising the skills and talents of young people globally to add value to the situation of young people living in poverty in sub-saharan Africa. UYDO has been discontinued in late 2010 due to funding challenges. Funds donated before September 2010 for Youth Business International entrepreneurs have been donated to Youth Business International as of 30 April 2011. Funds donated since September 2010 have been reimbursed to donors as of 30 April 2011.
UYDO | History
Piya Sorcar (born 1977) is an American social entrepreneur and researcher. She is the founder and CEO of TeachAIDS, and is a lecturer at Stanford University.
Piya Sorcar | Introduction
IsraAID was founded in 2001 by Mully Dor , Shachar Zahavi and Meira Aboulafia with the purpose of bringing together Israeli and Jewish aid organizations with expertise in the fields required to provide humanitarian aid in the wake of a disaster. The organization's stated goal is to "improve and expand international humanitarian assistance activities provided from Israel through cooperation between Israeli aid organizations."
IsraAid | Purpose
Youthforce was an international youth network founded in 1999 to raise visibility around the impact of HIV/AIDS on youth. Youthforce was one of two youth partners who initiated the Youthforce, a self-sustaining international brand and umbrella under which youth from around the world partner with global stakeholders to raise their voice on HIV/AIDS. Each Youthforce creates its own identity and gives space to youth to be heard. The highlight of Youthforce was an "MTV Ask the Leaders" session featuring former president Bill Clinton, actor Rupert Everett and Peter Piot of UNAIDS. One of the first sessions of its kind, it was broadcast worldwide as part of MTV's Staying Alive Campaign.
Youth Against AIDS | Introduction
In 2000, the organization received its first official grant from the Three Guineas Fund. In the next few years, the list of donors expanded to include the Levi Strauss Foundation, the Draper Richards Foundation, and various private donors. Nikki Cicerani served as the organization's President and CEO from 2009-2018, leading the organization's expansion from two metropolitan areas to four, and launching online, virtual services. She currently serves on the organization's Board of Directors.
Upwardly Global | Beginnings
Hivos Foundation was founded in 1968 by the Humanist Association, the Association and Humanitas Weezenkas. Hivos is a humanist organization and it was established also in response to the dominance of religious organizations working in the field of development in The Netherlands.
Hivos | History
The founder is Jaime Fletcher.
IslamInSpanish | Introduction
For the international schools movement he suggested the Hague Circle and, in order to serve as an international perceptive and support organisation, he founded the Friends of Waldorf Education in 1971
Ernst Weissert | Founding initiatives
She has also published video tutorials about setting up a charity with the 'KnowHow NonProfit StudyZone', which is part of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations.
Msizi Africa | Founder
This organisation was founded by Suhas Chakma.
Asian Centre for Human Rights | Introduction
Ifrah Ahmed (, ) is a Somali-Irish social activist. She is the founder of the United Youth of Ireland non-governmental organization and the Ifrah Foundation.
Ifrah Ahmed | Introduction
The Humanitarian Organization for Migration Economics was founded by Bridget Tan in September 2004. Tan had previously co-founded and led the Roman Catholic Archdiocesan Commission for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People (ACMI), but left that organization due to a lack of support from the Church. Tan used $60,000 from her retirement funds to launch HOME. Jolovan Wham who is a human rights activist in Singapore, was its Executive Director since its inception.
Humanitarian Organization for Migration Economics | Founding
The organization was co-founded in 2004 by Marc Brownstein, bass player for the popular electronic rock band The Disco Biscuits, and his friend Andy Bernstein, author of The Pharmer's Almanac, a series of books about Phish. As of July 2019, Peter Shapiro serves as Chairman of the Board, Bernstein is Executive Director of the organization, and Brownstein is a board member with the title “Founder, Chairman Emeritus.”
HeadCount | Origins
The foundation was established in September 2003 by Elena Franchuk, the daughter of Leonid Kuchma, the 2nd Ukrainian President. In 2010 the Foundation changed its name to the Elena Pinchuk Foundation, as Elena Franchuk divorced her first husband, Igor Franchuk, and married Viktor Pinchuk (in 1997). In 2010 Elena Pinchuk entered UNAIDS High Level Commission on HIV Prevention In 2011 the Foundation launched a competition to develop social media and mobile phone projects for HIV prevention.
ANTIAIDS Foundation | History
William C. Olson, Ph.D., then-dean of the School of International Service at American University, who served as its first president. Also among the group was Theodore Couloumbis, Ph.D., who determined the society's Greek letters and identity.
Sigma Iota Rho | Founding
Hazrat Abdul Wahab Siddiqi was the Founder of the International Muslim Organisation a political body to unite Muslims in different countries to highlight Islamic Values, Civilization, forming Islamic Centres, opening schools, constructing mosques and forming research centres. It has branches in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Canada, Trinidad, Australia and Sri Lanka.
Abdul Wahab Siddiqi | Founder of International Muslim Organisation
Awqaf Africa was founded, while studying Postgraduate Degrees in Damascus early 1990s by Sheikh Abu-Abdullah Adelabu, PhD (Damas), a West African Muslim scholar and cleric of Nigerian origin who is the international organization's first al Amir (i.e., president).
AWQAF Africa | Origin
The organization was at the time, the only organization dealing with migrant issues. Hidayah did not complete her graduate degree, because of her involvement in founding Migrant Care.
Anis Hidayah | Early life
Mentor International (Mentor Foundation) is an international youth development NGO working in the field of drug use and substance abuse prevention. It was founded in 1994 by Queen Silvia of Sweden in collaboration with the World Health Organisation. Current trustees include Yvonne Thunell, current Chairman, Stefan Persson, Chairman of H&M and Bertil Hult, CEO and founder of EF Education First. Honorary board members include Queen Noor of Jordan, Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg and Talal bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud and Turki bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud of the Saudi Royal Family.
Mentor Foundation | Introduction
Joseph in Greenwich Village. The founders were Nathan Fain, Larry Kramer, Lawrence D. Mass, Paul Popham, Paul Rapoport and Edmund White. They organized the formal, tax-exempt entity, which was incorporated on June 30, 1982. At the time it was the largest volunteer AIDS organization in the world. Paul Popham was chosen as the president. Rodger McFarlane began a crisis counseling hotline that originated on his own home telephone, which ultimately became one of the organization's most effective tools for sharing information about AIDS. He was named as the director of GMHC in 1982, helping create a more formal structure for the nascent organization, which had no funding or offices when he took on the role.
Gay Men's Health Crisis | 1980s
Phill Wilson is an American activist who founded the Black AIDS Institute in 1999, and served as its CEO, and is a prominent African-American HIV/AIDS activist.
Phill Wilson | Introduction
Jeanne Gapiya-Niyonzima (born 12 July 1963, in Bujumbura) is a human rights activist from Burundi. She is the chair and founder of the National Association for Support for HIV-Positive People with AIDS (ANSS) and was the first person from the country to publicly admit they had HIV.
Jeanne Gapiya-Niyonzima | Introduction
Lisette Nieves (born c. 1970), is the founder of "Atrevete Latino Youth, Inc.", an organization which focused on the educational and leadership training of young Latinos.
Lisette Nieves | Introduction
L. was founded by Talia Frenkel, a photojournalist, who worked for organizations such as the United Nations and Red Cross. Frenkel’s coverage of women's lack of access to reproductive rights and the effects of HIV/AIDS on young girls drove her to provide a sustainable solution to improving access to prevention. L. works with female entrepreneurs that distribute donated health products in Kenya, Uganda, Sierra Leone, Swaziland, Rwanda, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo, South Africa, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Ghana, Guatemala, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Ecuador, Nepal, Cambodia, India, Papua New Guinea, and Lebanon. L. is funded by Y Combinator. L.
L. Inc. | History
The non-profit organization was founded in 1978 by theologian David Bruenning, who traveled internationally to train pastors in the Christian faith. He was introduced to local communities and felt the need to assist populations living in poverty. The organization relies on a network of pastors in local villages to identify the greatest needs in their immediate communities. The International Children's Fund relies primarily on volunteers to carry out its work. More than 40 volunteers now process more than $8 million and $10 million in donated goods annually from American contributors, which are shipped to 10 countries throughout the African continent.
International Children's Fund | Organization history
Cordaid was founded in 1999 in The Hague, with the aim of helping people in distress and fighting structural poverty. It is a merge of three Dutch Catholic development organizations: Memisa Medicus Mundi (created in 1925), Mensen in Nood (People in Need, created in 1914) and Lenten Campaign/Bilance. The history of these organizations goes back to the beginning of the 20th century when they were active in the area of shelter and (missionary) care for refugees, providing direct aid in the event of disasters, medical care and direct improvement of the social and economic position of poor people. The merger allowed the newly created NGO to benefit from broader resources, rationalized management and organization and aimed at coordinating actions and projects.
Cordaid | History
The organisation was founded in 2014 by feminist and LGBTQI+ activists that had in common the fight against heterosexism, homophobia, biphobia, transphobia and sexism or any other form of discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity and expression and sexual characteristics.
Mawjoudin | History
FXB International, also known as Association François-Xavier Bagnoud, is an international development organization aimed at providing support for communities affected by AIDS and poverty. The organization was founded in 1989 by Albina du Boisrouvray.
FXB International | Introduction
Youth2000 was started in response to Pope John Paul II's invitation to the youth to take an active part in the Decade of Evangelization leading up to the Great Jubilee Year 2000. In his address at World Youth Day in Santiago de Compostella in Spain in 1989, Pope John Paul II asked young people to evangelize each other by coming together, learning about and experiencing the love of God, saying "It is up to you young people that the task first falls of bearing witness to the faith and bringing into the Third Millennium the Gospel of Christ, who is the Way, the Truth and the Life" Ernest Williams, a twenty-six-year old IT specialist from England, was moved by the challenge and came up with the idea of Youth 2000, formally founding the organization in Medjugorje in 1990.
Youth 2000 | Beginnings
Co-founders Gayle Lynds and David Morrell are the organization's first co-presidents. Its membership includes David Baldacci, Steve Berry, Dale Brown, Sandra Brown, Lisa Gardner, Brian Garfield, David Liss, Lee Child, Lincoln Child, Clive Cussler, David Dun, Joseph Finder, Tess Gerritsen, Raelynn Hillhouse, Gregg Hurwitz, Faye Kellerman, Jonathan Kellerman, John Lescroart, Katherine Neville, Ridley Pearson, Kira Peikoff, Douglas Preston, M. J. Rose, R. L. Stine, M. Diane Vogt, and Stuart Woods, among others.
International Thriller Writers | Founders and participants
The organization was founded by Natalia Veselnitskaya. The HRAGI hired lobbyists, including former Representative Ron Dellums, to lobby against the Magnitsky Act. Dellums denied involvement with the group. Robert Arakelian was the listed as the President, treasurer, secretary, and director of the Foundation. Though Arakelian is listed as the incorporator of the foundation, he told the FBI that Ed Lieberman and BakerHostetler actually oversaw the incorporation.
Human Rights Accountability Global Initiative | Staff
As many of the organisation's original aims began to be achieved (e.g. abolition of Section 28 and equalising the age of consent for gay men), the group decided to focus on youth support, and representation to ensure homophobic legislation such as that brought about by the Conservative government of the 1980s should not be re-enacted. The first president of the organisation was David Joseph Henry, who stepped down in August 2005 to make way for new president Greg Justice, with Katherine Parlour taking over as Vice President.
Queer Youth Network | Founding
The foundation started raising funds for their operations through volunteer donations and a GoFundMe account. Maman currently serves as the president of the foundation. In August 2015, Gill Rosenberg, the first female foreigner to join YPJ forces fighting ISIS joined the organization as a volunteer.
The Liberation of Christian and Yazidi Children of Iraq | History
Founder of the Institute of Services to the Nation (ISN), a private funded civic organization registered in the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, ISN teaches and organizes population for change from a Judeo Christian perspective. Professor Méndez team teaches History of Religion in Universidad Francisco Marroquín, Guatemala.
Guillermo W. Méndez | Introduction
In February 2001, the Student Global AIDS Campaign and its parent organization, Global Justice, were founded simultaneously by students at Harvard and the Kennedy School of Government who saw the untapped potential of students to advocate political and social change on global HIV and AIDS and other issues of global justice. Global Justice became officially incorporated as a 501 (c)(3) organization, with the Student Global AIDS Campaign as its first campaign. The first conference was a New England regional conference hosted by Harvard in the fall of 2001. That spring and the next fall regional conferences were also held at Indiana University, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and Williams College.
Student Global AIDS Campaign | History & founding
Reese and Samuel founded the non-profit through the generous support of friends. This departed from other asylum programs which are typically under institutions such as universities. The original money raised was spent on providing housing, medical benefits and a living stipend for a writer. The organization’s first author resident was Huang Xiang, a Chinese poet who was placed in death row. Huang Xiang was involved with the Democracy Wall Movement. He and his wife, Zhang Ling were granted asylum in the United States through City of Asylum.
City of Asylum | Early Beginnings
In 2001, with a handful of PSI supporters, the YouthAIDS campaign was established as an initiative of Population Services International. In 2005, YouthAIDS partnered with Aldo Shoes to produce a public awareness and marketing campaign, entitled "Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil". Through the sale of empowerment tags and lapel pins featured in ads with celebrities, ALDO has generated more than $10 million through this campaign, reaching 1.5 billion people in 25 countries. The print campaign encompassed black and white images of well-known individuals photographed by Peter Lindbergh. Celebrities that have participated in the print campaign include Christina Aguilera, Salma Hayek, Cindy Crawford, Penélope Cruz, LL Cool J, Elijah Wood, Josh Lucas, and Ashley Judd.
YouthAIDS | History
In April 2010, Mathison founded HomeAid.net, an annual campaign and event to benefit America's homeless, with Ken Kragen, who was instrumental in producing "We Are the World". Mathison is on the board of directors of HomeAid America, which builds and renovates multi-unit shelters for America's temporarily homeless families and individuals, and Speakers Without Borders, an international non-profit organisation created to support professional speakers who are committed to inspiring the human spirit in under-served communities though the power of the spoken word. Mathison, through bethemedia.org, takes an active role in such issues as media ownership, cable provider franchise agreements and net neutrality.
David Mathison | Philanthropy and activism
In 1987, the World Health Organization (WHO) dedicated December 1 to raise awareness for of HIV and for the AIDS pandemic. As a partner of WHO, IPSF organisations across the globe organise every year an HIV/AIDS campaign aimed at spreading awareness about HIV, how it is transmitted as well as the methods of prevention.
International Pharmaceutical Students' Federation | ▪︎HIV/AIDS Awareness Campaign
The main FAD objective was to mobilize citizenship to aid youngsters to overcome drug addiction at a time when heroin was wreaking havoc in Western countries. Apart from trying to alleviate the effects of drugs and repress its trafficking and consumption, its founder wanted society to give teenagers strong moral backup to repel them and to be brave enough to answer “No thank you” if tempted, as could be read on their posters during their first publicity campaign.
Manuel Gutiérrez Mellado | Last years
The National Youth Organisation (, ; Acronym: NYO), is a youth organisation active in Pakistan. It was founded by Asfandyar Wali Khan in 2013 and its first meeting was held on 1 June 2013; the members of the meetings were notified as core committee/central advisory body for drafting constitution and manifesto. Its current President is Khushal Khan, son of Afrasiab Khattak who was elected by the Central Council on 7 June 2014 for period of 2 years.
National Youth Organisation (Pakistan) | Introduction
The Elena Pinchuk ANTIAIDS Foundation is the first and only charity foundation in Ukraine, that is functioning thank to private funds. The main aim of the Foundation is to control the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Ukraine.
ANTIAIDS Foundation | Introduction
Tibbetts co-founded the non-profit She's the First in 2009. She's the First fights gender inequality through education by supporting girls who are the first in their family to graduate high school and by training students everywhere to be global citizens. She's the First has more than 225 chapters in high schools and colleges across the US and in 10 countries.
Tammy Tibbetts | She's the First
Metro TeenAIDS (MTA) was founded in 1988 by a group of doctors at Children’s National Medical Center who called for a community-based response, as well as a medical response, to the HIV epidemic. They formed the Washington Area Consortium on HIV/AIDS In Youth (WACHIVIY), and began offering HIV prevention education services to District youth in 1989 under the leadership of Dr. Lawrence (Larry) D’Angelo, Director of the Burgess Clinic at Children’s National Medical Center. WACHIVIY began doing business as Metro TeenAIDS in 1992, changing its name in order to better reflect its client base. In 1990, after the death of Ryan White, Metro TeenAIDS established the Ryan White Youth Service Awards, “to recognize notable contributions in the fight against adolescent HIV/AIDS.” In 1997, Second Lady of the United States, Tipper Gore, joined MTA on World AIDS Day to present the award to Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Donna Shalala.
Metro TeenAIDS | History
Ajmera founded The Global Fund for Children in 1994, when she was 25 years old. The inspiration came from a trip she took to India on a Rotary Fellowship a few years earlier. While waiting for a train she saw a group of children being taught by a teacher on a train platform. Ajmera learned that these children were students in a Train Platform School for impoverished children who could not attend school. Moved by what she saw, instead of attending medical school Ajmera started classes at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy; with facilities provided by Duke and professor William Ascher she applied for and won a seed grant from Echoing Green.
Maya Ajmera | Career
The organization was founded on May 8, 2006 by Nguyễn Tiến Trung, a Vietnamese student while studying overseas in France. The precipitant was a letter sent to the Ministry of Education seeking redress for the heavy ideological load within the Vietnamese education curriculum. Trung proposed a full reform of the system, eliminating the preeminence of Marxist-Leninist thinking. For the THTNDC, the objectives set forth are:
Assembly of Vietnamese Youth for Democracy | Founding
At the initiative Abolfazl Zanjani and Fathollah Banisadr, and through personal contacts and friendship circles, the organization was founded in fall 1977 n the house of Karim Sanjabi. The headquarter was in a house next to Hosseiniyeh Ershad, first under cover of a legal firm owned by Ahmad Sayyed Javadi and Asadollah Mobasheri, and then officially as the ICDFHR office.
Iranian Committee for the Defense of Freedom and Human Rights | Establishment
This concern led him to found the PWA Health Group with Michael Callen and Thomas Hannan in 1986. This non-profit organisation was the first and largest formally recognised AIDS buyers' club, which aimed to widen access to promising AIDS therapies not yet approved by the FDA; the PWA Health Group went on to become an important source of AIDS treatment education and advocacy. In 2000, DAAIR, Direct Aids Alternative Information Resources, merged with the PWA Health Group, but the organisations have since been superseded by the New York Buyers' Club.
Joseph Sonnabend | Role in founding AIDS organisations
The foundation was started by Stephen Lewis, a veteran Canadian politician and former Canadian ambassador to the United Nations. He first proposed the idea in an interview published in "The Globe and Mail" newspaper on January 4, 2007, citing the crisis of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. Several readers responded with financial donations, the first of which arrived before the foundation had been formally established. By the time the foundation's first cheques were mailed out in June 2003 for projects, the donations totalled $275,000. As of 2014, the foundation's website indicates that it has disbursed over $80 million to more than 1100 initiatives in sub-Saharan Africa.
Stephen Lewis Foundation | History
In 1997, Aronson founded Worldwide Orphans Foundation (WWO). WWO's mission is to transform the lives of orphaned children and it accomplishes this through programs that address the medical and developmental conditions of children living in orphanages abroad. WWO was the first NGO to provide HIV+ orphans in Ethiopia and Vietnam with ARVs and has a medical mentoring program that ensures follow up treatment. WWO's major programs are in Bulgaria (Early Intervention Programs), Ethiopia (Family Health Clinic with AIDS Healthcare Foundation, the WWO Academy, an elementary school for orphans and community children, and summer camp), and in Vietnam (Early Intervention, Camp, and soon, integrated services as a USAID/NPI grantee).
Jane Aronson | Worldwide Orphans Foundation
In 2008, Espen founded the United Youth Development Organization, a charity that focuses on utilizing the skills and talents of young people globally to raise funds and capacity to invest in micro loans to disadvantaged youth entrepreneurs. In 2010 UYDO was discontinued due to funding challenges.
Espen Berg | UYDO
The Institute for Community Studies (ICS) was set up by Michael Young in 1954. The ICS was an urban studies think tank which combined academic research and practical social innovation. In 2005, it merged with the Mutual Aid Centre and was renamed The Young Foundation, in honour of its founder, Michael Young. In both current and previous incarnations, The Young Foundation has been instrumental in leading research, driving public debate, and implementing social innovation in the UK and abroad, with an emphasis on combining research and practical application. The Young Foundation is still based in Bethnal Green, where the ICS started.
Young Foundation | History
Founding members include Australians David Madden and Jeremy Heimans, co-founders of international activist groups Avaaz and Purpose, and Win Back Respect; and Amanda Tattersall, co-founder of Labor for Refugees.
GetUp! | Structure
Magloire is the founder of the Jamaal Magloire Foundation, which is committed to improving the lives of at-risk youth by helping them to obtain academic and social skills through the arts and sport. The foundation is currently guided by inspirational 2 objectives, including "Help Turn Potential into Possible" and "Youth Deserve a Chance to Dream".
Jamaal Magloire | Jamaal Magloire Foundation
In 1945 Charles Templeton of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and Torrey Johnson met with a number of youth leaders from around the United States at Winona Lake, Indiana. Their agenda was to form a working group that would become an organization known as "Youth for Christ International" which was born in 1946. Torrey Johnson was elected as its first president. Popular youth events such as Bible quizzing, which is now embraced by many Christian denominations, were originally begun as Youth for Christ activities.
Youth for Christ | Formation of Youth for Christ International
New IT Centre in Guyana US Affiliation & Registration UK School Donor to HF Sierra Leone youth affiliation US Charity Directory listing Haiti team from HF UK Haiti team from HF Canada
Humanity First | References
IYR was founded in December 2009 by Seung Woo Son of the Suzhou Singapore International School. The first inaugural conference was held June 2010 at Soochow University in China. In 2010, International members were recruited through UNICEF's Voices of Youth blog to represent their country and collaborate as an International NPO. The organization aims to centre all activities around an annual theme. Annual themes have included Corporal punishment in the home and in school settings, Universal Primary Education, and children's health care. The organizations currently has members in 21 countries, including: Egypt, Nigeria, Cameroon, Uganda, Rwanda, The Gambia, Kenya, Madagascar, South Africa, Ghana, United States, Mexico, China, Japan, Vietnam, India, Pakistan, Yemen, Belgium, Germany, and Albania.
International Youth Rights | History
John Chittick (February 27, 1948 – April 5, 2017) was a youth HIV/AIDS specialist known for his series of Global AIDS Walks to fight the spread of HIV by educating youth. He worked in over 85 countries providing outreach to young people at the grassroots level. A former lecturer on AIDS at Harvard School of Public Health, he spoke about adolescent HIV/AIDS nationally and internationally at conferences. He was the executive director and founder of TeenAIDS-PeerCorps, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit youth AIDS advocacy organization with its headquarters in Norfolk, Virginia. His latest initiative was conducting live public HIV testing of youth in the U.S.
John Chittick | Introduction
Initially known as "Swiss International Humanitarian Organization (SIHO)", UniRef was created by Yvelyne and Bryan Wood in 2013, with the aim to support victims of armed conflicts. The first mission of the organization, in Burundi, was named UniRef – University for Refugees –, and intended to offer access to tertiary education for refugees. The name of the mission remained, becoming the name of the organization. According to UNESCO, the access to education, and particularly to higher education, entails a strategic challenge for the resolution of humanitarian crises. Tertiary education is not only a factor for development but also a crucial agent of integration for young refugees.
UniRef | Origins of the Organization
Youth Literacy Organisation (YouLI) is a non-profit NGO registered in the Republic of Rwanda, founded by Gilbert Rwabigwi in 2009. Its mission is to advance literacy and learning.
Youth Literacy Organisation | Introduction
Philanthropy and Charity Organizations: Maria Matovu is an advocate at Safer an organization in San Luis Obispo that Spreads awareness against sexual violence and domestic abuse. Matovu is also the Founder HIV Survivors. A non-profit organization aimed at helping people living with HIV and AIDs. The organization raises funds to build schools in remote areas in Uganda for children who can not afford to pay for a full education.
Mariah Matovu | Charity
The organization was created after Julie wrote the self-help novella POPULATION OF 1, an inspirational adult fairy tale, published 2006.
Julie Ow | Introduction
He is a Senior Fellow of Humanitarian Initiatives at Harvard University, USA, full Member of ALNAP and a member of the Civil Society Advisory Committee of Commonwealth Foundation, UK and Author to IPCC’s special report on extreme events. He is also founding member of International Humanitarian Studies Association, Netherlands.
All India Disaster Mitigation Institute | About the Founder
that was founded by Jose P. Rizal in Paris, France.
Julio A. Llorente | Early years and education
Rakitha first started working with people affected by HIV/AIDS in 2011, when he visited slum areas to teach sciences to the children of people living with HIV. In 2012, he founded HAMZTER ideanerd Sri Lanka, which encourages schoolchildren to get involved in scientific research, and promotes an innovation culture. So far, it has helped more than 50,000 students all over the country. In 2015, Rakitha co-founded United Youth Consortium to raise awareness of sexual reproductive health issues, and provide support and counseling to families living with HIV. His movements including fighting with the government to bring justice to HIV positive children who were banned to attend local schools.
Rakitha Malewana | Activism
Support! International Foundation was founded in 2014 by Joseph Wan. Joseph was inspired to start his own non-government organisation because of his father's successful rise from humble beginnings. He told "South China Morning Post", "My dad grew up very poor in Hong Kong...His parents could only afford education until secondary school. But my dad really loved learning, and didn’t want to give up so soon. So, he worked hard in factories and construction sites until the age of 23, when he could finally afford just one year at university in the UK. He ventured off to the UK and worked a night job just to get by.
Support! International Foundation | History
A.m.A.S.S.I. or AmASSI (The African, American Advocacy, Support-Services & Survival Institute) was founded in 1989 by Manago. It aims to end "health disparities, self-concept and inter-group conflict among diverse people of African descent." Since its foundation in 1989, it has become one of the replicated organizations in the United States, making Manago an early provider the AIDS movement of culturally specific HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention services for African-Americans using a psychosocial, mental health model.
Cleo Manago | AmASSI Health and Cultural Centers
Lucie Chevalley (née Sabatier; 27 July 1882, Le Petit-Quevilly – 1 October 1979) was the founder of social d'Aide aux Emigrants known as one of the international aids which provides services for refugees in France. She devoted and dedicated her life to serve for humanitarian organizations she also has a patient of helping refugees. She spent decades helping refugees in her country France and across Europe as well. She also worked as a member of the Council of State in France for refugees and stateless people. In summer 1942 she worked for saving the lives of others and also established the underground organization Entraide Temporaire (Temporary Mutual Assistance) toiled day and night to rescue life of 500 Jewish children.
Lucie Chevalley | Introduction
This was the beginning of the Youthforce movement. Barcelona Youthforce was a partnership between of Youth Against AIDS, Student Global AIDS Campaign with Family Health International and Advocates for Youth.
Youth Against AIDS | Barcelona Youthforce, 2002
Amongst the founders were the couple Giora and Senetta Yoseftal, both of whom were later members of the Knesset, with Giora serving in several ministerial portfolios.
Gal'ed | History
Natalie and Pavey found support in the American Friends Service Committee as well as the Wellesley College and Donald Watt, the founder of the World Learning's Experiment in International Living. The biggest support and inspiration came from Paul and Edith Geheeb, the founders of the Freie Schulgemeinde, Odenwaldschule and the Ecole d'Humanité, which still has a big connection with LPC.
Luethi-Peterson Camps | History of the organization
FIAFED (French: Filles d'aujourd'hui, Femmes de demain; "Girls of today, women of tomorrow"), founded June 16, 2000 by Irène Maloba Kayembe, is a non-governmental organization based in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The organisation's goals consist of bringing free education, affordable health care and job training to thousands of families living in several remote villages in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Fiafed | Introduction
"RAGS International" was founded by Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi in 1980, and renamed in 2000 as Messiah Foundation International. The first centre for MFI was established in London, which is the headquarters of MFI. MFI has grown to include centres in Canada, USA, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Japan, Australia, India, Greece, Thailand, Bangladesh, Taiwan and Pakistan and Nepal.
Younus AlGohar | Messiah Foundation International
Among many groups, these are some of NGO's founded or co-founded by Bishop Labayen, OCD:
Julio Xavier Labayen | Founder of NGO's
Dosanjh started an NGO called "Saanjh Foundation" focusing on underprivileged children and seniors, contributing to orphanages and old age homes. It also endeavours youth empowerment with issues like self-confidence, well-being, anti-bullying, mentoring, and career development. It takes its name from the second part of Dosanjh's last name, which loosely translated means "amity". He launched this organisation on his birthday in 2013.
Diljit Dosanjh | Philanthropy
Youth Time International Movement was founded in 2010 by Julia Kinash, Ondřej Kafka and Petra Metijaković. The idea to form the orgnisation started after the founders took a part in one conference and realized how little the young people were involved in important debates about the society and its problems in general. International partners and funders of the organisation include Eurasia Foundation, Anglo-American University, BRICS international forum, Dialogue of Civilizations, SIEMENS, several international business schools, Embassy of Indonesia, University of Iceland, City of Reykjavík, Czech Centre, European Youth Press, and others. The organisation stated the following goals: fostering collaboration between young people, promotion of intercultural dialogue as a means of social change, and helping young people to develop social leadership skills.
Youth Time | History