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The Newburyport Howard Benevolent Society, established in 1819, gives financial assistance to people in serious need. Recipients must be residents of Newburyport. Assistance is, in general, not meant to continue indefinitely.
A short application form establishes particular financial needs and eligibility, as well as giving authority to verify information and share it with other charities that may be able to help. Call 978-462-4158 for an application.
If you, or a Newburyport friend or family member, may need such assistance, please call. We would rather avoid problems by helping early, than hear about them only after the bills are overwhelming. But even if they are, please call.
Together, we can save a life.
The American Red Cross of Northeast Massachusetts has held its Charter since May 20, 1933. As a unique part of the American Red Cross, the country's largest humanitarian organization, our Chapter provides a number of vital services including:
Amnesty International's Merrimac Valley Local Group 708 meets on the 3rd Thursday of every month at the First Religious Society, Unitarian Universalists Church, 26 Pleasant Street, Newburyport, MA from 7-8PM Local groups are community-based volunteers who work as a team for the promotion of human rights. They are representatives of Amnesty International in their communities. They work with local media, lobby public officials, produce events, work in coalition with other organizations, and raise money for AIUSA. Local groups work on AI's human rights campaigns, action files, and also adopt cases of individual prisoners of conscience.
Amnesty International was founded in London in 1961. Amnesty International is a Nobel Prize-winning grassroots activist organization with over 2 million members worldwide. Amnesty International undertakes research and action focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom from discrimination, within the context of its work to promote all human rights. Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) is the U.S. Section of Amnesty International.
Our Mission: BEADS mission is to enhance the status of women in the community and to promote environmental awareness with a goal of preserving natural resources. BEADS programs provide school scholarships for African girls, promote business development for African women and support conservation through education.
Defending Dignity, Fighting Poverty
CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. We place special focus on working alongside poor women because, equipped with the proper resources, women have the power to help whole families and entire communities escape poverty. Women are at the heart of CARE's community-based efforts to improve basic education, prevent the spread of HIV, increase access to clean water and sanitation, expand economic opportunity and protect natural resources. CARE also delivers emergency aid to survivors of war and natural disasters, and helps people rebuild their lives.
In 1977, a Seattle judge conceived the idea of using trained community volunteers to speak for the best interests of abused and neglected children in court. So successful was this program that soon judges across the country began utilizing citizen advocates. In 1990, the US Congress encouraged the expansion of CASA programs with passage of the Victims of Child Abuse Act.
Today, we have grown to a network of more than 50,000 volunteers that serve 225,000 abused and neglected children through 900+ local program offices nationwide. Our advocates, also known as volunteer guardians ad litem in some jurisdictions, are appointed members of the court. Judges rely on the information these trusted advocates present.
In the business of caring since 1965.
Community Action, Inc empowers individuals, families and communities to overcome poverty through education, training, advocacy and prevention, and services to meet basic human needs. We offer hope and assistance with respect and understanding.
Foundation Movement members; Eroc, Optimus, and DJ El are a diverse group of young artists with origins from Puerto Rico, Liberia, and Guatemala, who all met in Boston and united to form the group. This cultural fusion, as well as their experiences growing up in Boston, has influenced The Foundation’s music. Not another rap group with watered down lyrics, and messages of misogyny and materialism.
The Grace Race Fund Inc. is an all-volunteer, non-profit organization based in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. We have been raising funds for the last four years to build a combined orphanage, school, and vocational training facility in the town of Naivasha Kenya.
Enriching the life of every homeless preschool child in Greater Boston and beyond.
We help children learn how to play, to share, to read, and to enjoy exploring their worlds. We help parents learn how to be nurturing and involved in the growth and development of their children, and help them learn and grow through job training, GED and college courses. We help to stabilize families so that they can weather any crisis, and thus help to break the cycle of homelessness that too often occurs.
Since 1994, more than 1,000 children have been served by the Community Children's Centers. We have recruited and trained more than 8,000 volunteer Playspace Activity Leaders since 1990, giving thousands of children living in family shelters in Greater Boston the opportunity to play, learn and to just be kids. We have training sessions for service providers in Massachusetts and participate in local and national conferences. We work with public officials in state and federal government to increase the resources available to young homeless children and to change the conditions that lead to family homelessness.
With an emphasis on intervention, prevention and innovation, Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center (formerly The Women's Crisis Center) works with area social service organizations, institutions, and community leaders to end family violence and strengthen families as well as our communities. We also engage in social justice advocacy to raise awareness and provide consulting services to create institutional change.
Labels Are For Jars is trying to remove the "hungry" label in two ways. We want to remove the societal label... and we want to feed hungry people in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
The Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless (MCH) works to address the broad economic and social issues that lead to homelessness.
Created by an association of grassroots organizations in 1981, MCH is the country's oldest statewide homeless advocacy organization. MCH's policy and organizational work involves the annual participation of over 700 volunteers, over 800 faith communities, 1300 service providers and regional advocacy groups, and hundreds of families and individuals who have experienced homelessness.
Merrimack Valley Habitat for Humanity is a non-profit homebuilder and ecumenical Christian housing organization. Merrimack Valley Habitat for Humanity works in partnership with people in need to build and renovate decent, affordable housing. The houses then are sold to those families in need at no profit and with no interest charged.
Communities served by Merrimack Valley habitat include: (in Massachusetts): Amesbury, Andover, Boxford, Bradford, Byfield, Georgetown, Groveland, Haverhill, Lawrence, Merrimac, Methuen, Middleton, Newbury, Newburyport, North Andover, North Reading, Salisbury, West Boxford West Newbury; (in New Hampshire): Atkinson, Plaistow, Salem.
For more information, please visit our website.
FRIENDS for PEACE... supporting diversity and tolerance.
Friends for Peace, Inc. is non-profit organization whose mission is to the raise funds for the City of Newburyport's diversity initiates in order to promote inclusion, tolerance and diversity and end discrimination in our community.
The mission statement of the Pettengill House is to support and coordinate community services in the greater Salisbury community empowering people of all ages through advocacy, prevention education and direct services.
Building upon this goal, the Pettengill House implements the Massachusetts Department of Education School Link Service model "to ensure that all children come to school ready to learn." In this regard we support a strong community partnership with a wrap around service model, to support children and families within area schools and their community.
The basic social services developed by William Booth have remained an outward visible expression of the Army's strong religious principles. In addition, new programs that address contemporary needs have been established. Among these are disaster relief services, day care centers, summer camps, holiday assistance, services for the aging, AIDS education and residential services, medical facilities, shelters for battered women and children, family and career counseling, vocational training, correction services, and substance abuse rehabilitation. More than 30 million a year are aided in some form by services provided by The Salvation Army.
Humanitarian - Education and Training - Environmental Protection - Microfinance
The Shalupe Foundation was born on December 2nd of 2000 due to the circumstances our country the Democratic Republic of the Congo encountered during the war. By definition, Shalupe means lifeboat, as a non-profit organization.
We hope to become that lifeboat of a drowning and sinking country, whom no one seems to care about.
We want to reach out to orphans, homeless kids, widows, victims of war, HIV infected people, teenage mothers, women victims of violence. In brief we want to reach out every deprived person in the Democratic Republic of Congo; the poor, the hungry, the sick, the naked, the hopeless, the homeless and the crying and give them a lifeboat. The Shalupe Foundation is a registered Non profit organization in the USA, France and in the DRCongo with offices.
Founded in 1982, VFP is a non-profit membership organization. We do not have any political or religious agenda. We are partner to a large network of similar organizations worldwide. Our goal is to work toward a more peaceful world through the promotion of International Voluntary Service (IVS) projects, historically known as International Workcamps, and the exchange of volunteers. Through our international alliances, we work together to help communities meet local needs and some of the goals of the UN's Millenium Goals.
Our Lives Protecting Wildlife
WildlifeDirect is a joint program of WildlifeDirect Inc., a US registered non for profit organization, and Africa Conservation Fund (UK), a UK registered charity. Both charities are founded and chaired by African conservationist Dr Richard Leakey, who is credited with putting an end to the elephant slaughter in Kenya in the 1980s.
Throughout Africa conservationists are carrying out critical work to protect wildlife and habitats, under difficult, isolated and often dangerous conditions. WildlifeDirect was established to provide support to these conservationists via the use of blogs – this enables anybody, anywhere to play a direct and interactive role in the survival of some of the world’s most precious species. We believe that the Internet provides an unprecedented means of bringing the remarkable efforts of these dedicated people to the attention of the world.
This website was designed by Tatiana Hamboyan Harrison.
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