Non-profit Organizations That We have Chosen
This blog is dedicated to my mother Noris Rivera who has always been a great example of how a good Steward should be.
Hello Everyone!
Thank You all for visiting my site and for reading my blog.
I would like to bring some clarity as to why you should decide to book your next travel with us, whether it is for pleasure or business.
My wife and I got involved in the travel business because we knew how exhilarating this industry could be for us. My vision or business plan was to be able to combine the most lucrative industry in the world which was travel and donating.
I want to be very comprehensible with everyone so that their will be no misunderstanding. The reason to book travel through my site is because you will get the contentment of knowing that when you decide to take some time of for leisure, you are also being able to help some one across the world who is truly in need of help.
A portion of our company's proceeds will be going to a variety of different non-profit organizations. I have done diligent research as to what organizations we would donate to. My decision process was based on the effect that the organization was having throughout the world.
Here are some examples and also their objectives of the non-profit organizations that my wife and I have chosen to donate to when you book your travels through us. You also have the right choose your own charity to donate to by calling us at (347)738-6777
(A) World Vision-
Who We Are:
World Vision is an international Christian humanitarian organization serving the world's poorest children and families.
How to Help
This organization is seeking funds from contributions and grants. These funds will be used for unrestricted operating expenses and special projects.
Year Founded: 1950
MISSION AND PROGRAMS
Mission
Dr. Bob Pierce, a Christian leader and filmmaker, in response to the needs of Korean War orphans, founded World Vision in 1950. World Vision is an international partnership of Christians whose mission is to serve the poor and oppressed through meeting their basic needs, promoting human transformation and seeking justice.
Programs
Every year, World Vision and its partners serve tens of millions of people in nearly 100 countries, including over one million people in the United States. World Vision's assistance extends to all people, regardless of religious beliefs, gender, race or ethnic background.
World Vision provides emergency relief efforts to bring assistance to victims of both war and natural disasters. Depending on the situation, aid may include food, clothing, and shelter to health care, potable water, and construction of sanitation facilities. Additional projects deal with reducing barriers to progress through improvements to agricultural and nutrition practices, micro enterprise loans, and initiation of literacy, vocational training, and other educational programs. In addition, World Vision is working in Africa, Asia and The Caribbean to help address the needs of widows and orphans in response to the AIDS pandemic through its Hope Initiative.
Adapting to the individual needs of the areas where it works, World Vision coordinates programs for its sponsored children that - along core services, such as medical and dental care, supplemental food and vitamins, and grants and scholarships for school fees and other educational expenses are designed over many years to help make families and communities self-sustaining. According to World Vision, the total number of children being sponsored by U.S. donors is over 700,000.
In the United States, World Vision teams with churches, community organizations, and other volunteer groups. Projects target issues in such areas as tutoring youth, mentoring youth-at-risk, affordable housing, job training and placement, and small business development. Food commodities, medicines, clothing, and other gift-in-kind items (received from governmental sources and private donors) are distributed both through World Vision run projects and ministries affiliated with other organizations. Outside partner ministries receiving gifts from World Vision share similar ideals as overall guiding principles. To educate Americans about the needs of the poor, World Vision produces magazines and other broadcast and print resources, and annually organizes the 30 Hour Famine program for youth to increase their understanding of life in developing countries.
(B) St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital-
Who We Are
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, located in Memphis,Tennessee is one of the world's premier centers. The institution's mission is to find cures for children with catastrophic diseases through research and treatment.
Also Known As: St. Jude
332 N Lauderdale
Memphis, TN 38105
How to Help
This organization is seeking funds from contributions and grants. These funds will be used for unrestricted operating expenses, special projects, building improvements and endowments.
Location(s) Served
- National
- International: Brazil, Chile, Venezuela, Middle East, China and Russia
MISSION AND PROGRAMS
Mission
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital was founded by entertainer Danny Thomas and opened in 1962. It is supported primarily by funds from volunteer contributions raised by ALSAC. The national fund-raising organization established by Danny Thomas for the purpose of funding St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. St. Jude also receives assistance from federal grants (mainly through the National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute), insurance and investments. St. Jude, located in Memphis, Tennessee, is one of the world's premier research centers. The institutions mission is to find cures for children with catastrophic diseases through research and treatment. Research efforts are directed at understanding the molecular, genetic and chemical bases of catastrophic diseases in children, identifying cures for such diseases and promoting their prevention. Research is focused specifically on cancers, acquired and inherited immunodeficiencies and genetic disorders. The current basic and clinical research at St. Jude includes work in gene therapy, bone marrow transplant, and chemotherapy, the biochemistry of normal and cancerous cells, radiation treatment, blood diseases, and resistance to therapy, viruses, hereditary diseases, influenza, pediatric AIDS and psychological effects of catastrophic illnesses.
Programs
More than 4,900 patients are seen at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital yearly, most of who are treated on a continuing outpatient basis as a part of ongoing research programs. The hospital maintains 60 beds for patients requiring hospitalization during treatment. To date, St. Jude has treated children from all 50 states and more than 70 countries - from Argentina to China. Patients are accepted by physician referral when the child or adolescent is newly diagnosed or suspected of having a disease under research and treatment by St. Jude staff. The mission of St. Jude is to find cures for catastrophic diseases of childhood through research and treatment. Some programs at St. Jude include bone marrow transplant, gene therapy, pediatric AIDS, genetic disorders and various cancer programs.
(c) Covenant House
5 Penn Plaza
New York, NY 10001
How to Help
This organization is seeking funds from contributions and grants. These funds will be used for unrestricted operating expenses, special projects, building improvements and endowments.
Year Founded: 1972
MISSION AND PROGRAMS
Mission
Covenant House provides a community of hope and healing to homeless young people in need of a safe haven. For kids who have run away from or been forced out of their family home, fallen through the cracks of the foster care system, or aged out of foster care, Covenant House provides a temporary home and a trusted community of friends and mentors. Founded in 1972, Covenant House has reached more than one million young people with immediate assistance and the support necessary to transition from a life on the streets to a life with a future.
Programs
Covenant House Crisis Centers provide emergency shelter from the streets. They offer food, shelter, clothing and counseling. Depending on need, they also offer emergency medical care, legal assistance, and job training/referrals. These Centers provide a safe place where young people can take their first step off the street to a place where these battered and abused kids can learn to trust again. The Rights of Passage program is a transitional living program that prepares homeless young people to live independently as functioning members of society. Through intensive counseling and motivational programs, young people are provided with the support, educational opportunities and skills training necessary to live on their own. Volunteers also work in the Rights of Passage Program by serving as mentors to the residents.
The Covenant House 1-800-999-9999 youth is a nationwide crisis hot line offering immediate assistance to young people and their caregivers. This 24/7 toll-free hot line is staffed by trained professionals who provide parent-youth crisis counseling and referral services to some 31,000 social service organizations.
(D) Global Hunger Project dba the Hunger Project
Also Known As: THP
5 Union Square West
7th Floor
New York, NY 10003
Who We Are
THP is committed to the end of world hunger. It empowers people to achieve self-reliant progress in health, education, nutrition and the status of women.
Year Founded: 1977
MISSION AND PROGRAMS
Mission
The Hunger Project is a global, strategic organization committed to the sustainable end of world hunger. In Africa, Asia and Latin America, it works to empower local people to create lasting society-wide progress in health, education, nutrition, family incomes. It uses a two-prong strategy: mobilizing grassroots people for self-reliant development, and mobilizing committed local leadership to clear away obstacles, cut red-tape and mobilize resources to enable grassroots action to succeed. Its highest priority is the empowerment of women.
Programs
In more than 22,000 villages in 13 developing countries, THP implements integrated, bottom-up, gender-focused strategies for development that are mobilizing more than 30 million rural people to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. These strategies - specific to each region - have proven to be affordable, replicable and sustainable.
Additional Comments from the Organization
THP is funded almost entirely by committed individuals who consider themselves "investors" in a new future. THP does not give handouts. THP investors are co-equal partners with hungry people in a global movement for the end of hunger.
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