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Overview of charities in Europe and the US

In this article, I would like to turn to various charitable organizations in Europe and the United States and briefly describe some of them.

1. Make a Wish Foundation International

http://worldwish. org/Wishes

Mission: Fulfill the wishes of children suffering from life-threatening diseases; to give hope, strength and joy to a seriously ill child.

The organization was founded in Phoenix, Arizona in 1980 and is now one of the leading international charities for children. In 1993, Make-A-Wish Foundation® International became an international organization. The organization currently serves children from 47 countries on five continents. Since 1980, thanks to the generosity of sponsors and the help of 30,000 volunteers, the organization has fulfilled over 270,000 wishes of seriously ill children from all over the world.

3 Ford Foundation

http://www. ford foundation. org/

The Ford Foundation is an international organization supporting outstanding leaders and organizations fighting for human rights, democratic change, educational opportunities and more.

4. Listen Charity

http://www. listencharity. org/

The purpose of this international charity is to convince global community listen to the rights and needs of children.

5. Charities Aid Foundation

www. cafonline. org

CAF is an international non-profit organization whose goal is to make philanthropy effective. The organization seeks to increase the volume of donations, works to create favorable conditions for the development of charity, provides assistance to charitable organizations and those who support them.

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6. Action for Children

www. actionforchildren. org. UK

Action for Children is one of the UK's largest charities dedicated to caring for weak and abused children, adoption, guardianship, return to school, special education and support for children. The organization has been in existence since 1869, working in partnership with the Methodist Church for 140 years.

7. Rainbow Trust Children's Charity

www. rainbow trust. org. UK

The Rainbow Trust Children's Charity provides emotional and financial support families with children who are in a life-threatening or terminal stage. Founded in 1986, the organization supports around 1,000 families a year, at home, across the UK. “We cannot cure, but we can help” is the motto of the organization.

8. Save the Children

www. save the children. org. UK

An international charity that helps children in distress as a result of disasters, natural disasters and wars in the United States and around the world (120 countries). The organization works in alliance with the local community, non-profits and other public organizations while remaining independent of religious beliefs and political views. Over 80 million children benefit from Save the Children's work each year.

9. Barnardo"s

www. barnardos. org. UK

Barnardo's is one of the leading charities for children in the UK. Its motto is "Believe in children!" Its goal is "Give children back their future!"

provides for the adoption or adoption of children, guardianship and support for orphans

helps children and adolescents to get rid of sexual exploitation

supports those children and adolescents who have to take care of sick family members

helps children living in poverty

Supports children of alcoholics and drug addicts

Supports child victims of violence

10. Varietythechildren"sCharity

www. variety of children. org

The work of the Variety the Children's Charity is dedicated to protecting and improving the health and well-being of children around the world. There are more than 43 branches in 13 countries. Variety the Children's Charity offers financial support, services and education to children with special needs and organizations, who serve children with similar problems.

11. operationsmile

www. operationsmile. org

Operation Smile is an international organization that provides free surgery to correct cleft lip and other facial anomalies, as well as speech rehabilitation and education for children around the world. The organization was founded in 1982; works in 60 countries of the world. Thanks to this charitable organization, over 200,000 cleft lip surgeries have been performed free of charge in children and adolescents.

12. President" s Choice

www. presidentschoice. ca

President's Choice – a special program by one of Canada's largest retailers to promote the health and well-being of children across Canada. The program operates in the 4 largest provinces, allocating special grants for the organization of healthy school breakfasts and lunches (especially for children with physical disabilities). The organization is the main national sponsor of the Breakfast for Study program because it believes that a full-fledged healthy eating children and adolescents is necessary for the full assimilation school material. In addition, the organization runs special financial sponsorship programs to provide specialized equipment for children with handicapped and rehabilitation classes that enable children with disabilities to regain their independence, dignity and freedom.

13. The Children's Society

www. childrens society. org. UK

The Children's Society includes more than 27 children's centers in the UK, works in partnership with 40 local authorities. The society was organized in late XIX centuries, together with the Anglican Church to help homeless and poor children.

The organization runs 77 programs around the country to help children and adolescents cope with difficulties. Everyday life, provides comprehensive support to children and families, including free legal assistance. Overall, more than 45,000 children were assisted.

14. children"sCancerCenter

www. childrenscancer center. org

Children's Cancer Center (CCC) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to help children suffering from cancer and malignant blood diseases. The organization provides educational and financial assistance and the emotional support needed to cope with life-threatening illnesses in children. 25 programs have been developed, assistance is provided to 830 families (at the same time, assistance is provided not only to children, but to the whole family). While other organizations are looking for ways to find a cure, CCC is committed to helping families get through this painful and tragic time day by day.

15. Local Independent Charities of America

http://www. lic. org

Local Independent Charities of America is a federation of over 700 local, non-profit charities that help children, the poor, the disabled, the elderly, the homeless, and more in local communities.

Introducing the elite club of the world's rich - 15 businessmen who have donated over $1 billion to charity.

On October 30, 2012, Walt Disney announced the purchase of Lucasfilms, a company founded by billionaire director George Lucas. For his life's work, Lucas will receive about $4.05 billion in cash and Disney stock. At the same time, after the closing of the deal, Lucas is going to donate most amount received for charity. Lucas is a longtime philanthropist. Back in 2010, he signed a contract with Bill Gates and Warren Buffett's Giving Pledge, promising to donate at least half of his fortune to this charitable foundation after his death.

Donated: $28 billion

Wealth: $66 billion

Gates has previously given money to Harvard computer research, libraries, an aerobatics school, and a charitable foundation in Seattle.

In 1999, he founded a family charitable foundation (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation), donating $16 billion worth of Microsoft shares to it. Soon, thanks to the constant contributions of Gates and his friend Warren Buffett, the organization he created became the largest charitable foundation in the world. Among the main plans of the organization for the next 10 years: vaccination programs against malaria and meningitis, which will cost $ 10 billion. In America, the Gates Foundation invests in the education and training of teachers. In April 2012, Gates' wife Melinda announced that she was going to spend $1.1 billion to make contraceptives available worldwide.

Donated: $17.25 billion

Net worth: $46 billion

For years, Buffett insisted that he would give all his money to charity after his death, but not before.

However, acquaintance with Gates gave its “charitable” results: Buffett promised to invest more than $39 billion in the Gates Foundation over 20 years. Moreover, in 2010, together with Gates, he founded the Giving Pledge company, which encourages wealthy people in the United States to give away most of their wealth to charity.

Donated: $8.5 billion

Net worth: $19 billion

Since 1979, Soros has given out $8.5 billion for completely different needs: from a needle sterilization program in a California hospital, ending with scientific research in Russia and Eastern Europe(by the way, Vladimir Putin claimed that the leadership of Georgia under Mikhail Saakashvili received a salary “from Soros”) and help to the gypsies. His latest initiative is $150 million to ensure transparency in governments around the world and $100 million to overcome social barriers for African Americans.

Donated: $5 billion

Wealth: $4.8 billion

The Intel co-founder donated $5 billion worth of shares in the company to the Gordon and Betty Moore family charitable foundation in 2000. The foundation is dedicated to investing in science, environmental protection and nursing education. The latest idea came from Moore's wife, Betty, who once suffered from an incorrect injection (the wrong drug was given) given to her by a nurse. Moore is also funding the construction of the world's largest telescope in Hawaii.

Donated: $4 billion

Wealth: $69 billion

The richest man in the world has publicly stated that he feels much more needed when he creates jobs than when he does charity work. However, he did donate $2 billion in 2006 and another $2 billion in 2010.

Most of this money went to education and health programs. Together with the Gates Foundation and the Spanish government, Slim spent $150 million on nutrition and disease prevention in Central America.

Donated: $3.5 billion

Net worth: $6.3 billion

Broad, who made his fortune in the construction industry (Kaufman & Broad), has recently focused on philanthropy. He tried to reform education by giving awards to the best teachers.

In 2010, he received permission to build a new Museum contemporary art in Los Angeles, which is scheduled to open in 2014.

In 2007, Brod allocated 26 million for Art Museum at the University of Michigan. In October 2012, Brod donated 19 paintings from his collection to him. The foundation he created also helps fund medical research. So, he gave more than half a billion dollars to Harvard and the University of Massachusetts for stem cell research.

Donated: $3.3 billion

Wealth: $10 billion

George Kaiser - American businessman, who inherited the Kaiser-Francis Oil Company from his father in 1969. In 1990, Keisner bought the Bank of Oklahoma, making him one of 400 the richest people in the world.

The fund he created (George Kaiser Family Foundation, GKFF), based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, invests in preschool education and medicine, building schools for the poor, giving grants for education and medical treatment. Every year GKFF allocates about $7.5 million for the needs of the poor: the purchase of food, clothing, treatment for drug addiction, etc.

Donated: $2.8 billion

Wealth: $25 billion

Bloomberg has invested in 850 different charities. He supports anti-smoking organizations, the National Gun Law Foundation, and the New York Institute of the Arts.

He also donated $200 million to his alma mater, Johns Hopkins University.

In 2011, he donated $330 million to the Sierra Club, conservation, Alliance for the Arts and suicide prevention groups.

Donated: $2.1 billion

Wealth: $15.9 billion

The head of IT company Wipro, Azim Premji, founded the Azim Premji Charitable Foundation in 2001. The fund's initial investment was $125 million. In 2010, it transferred another $2 billion to help build public schools, train teachers, and improve the curriculum.

Opened in India in 2011 Pedagogical University named after Azim Premji.

Donated: $2 billion

Net worth: $100 million

The founder of American Century Investments, James Stowers hasn't been on the 400 richest list since 2000, when he invested $1.2 billion of his own money in the Kansas City Medical Research Institute.

Since then, he and his wife Virginia have given the institute millions of genetic research aimed at treating cancer, diabetes and heart disease.

Donated: $1.65 billion

Wealth: $25.5 billion

Hong Kong billionaire (No. 11 in the world Forbes list), who is now chairman of the board of directors of one of the largest Asian conglomerates Cheung Kong Holdings, Lee founded his own charitable foundation in 1980. In 2005, he sold his stake in CIBC Bank and gave away $1 billion to charity. In 2006, Lee stated that a third of his wealth would go to charity overall. Over the years, his money has helped children's centers, churches. He also helped those with hepatitis and bird flu. He financed the construction of a new building for the Medical University of California, which is named after him.

Donated: $1.5 billion

Net worth: $150 million

Sandler sold his loan company Golden West in 2006 before the crisis and received $ 26 billion for it. Since then, Sandler has given most of the money to charity.

One of Sandler's most famous creations is the investigative journalism group ProPublica. ProPublica has won the Pulitzer Prize twice, in 2010 and 2011. The Sandler family also founded several rights and freedom groups engaged in scientific research, especially in the field of diseases that affect people with low level income.

Donated: $1.5 billion

Net worth: $2 billion

Businessman and founder of the American television channel CNN Ted Turner was perhaps the first media person to give $1 billion to charity. However, during the construction of his television empire, Turner campaigned for millionaires not to give away money while they were young and full of ideas and energy.

In 1998, he announced that he would donate $1 billion to the UN over the course of several years. to date, the amount of his annual contributions to this organization is $ 916 million.

Donated: $1.45 billion

Wealth: $15 billion

A $26 million gift to Washington State University by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen in 2011 made Allen appear on this list. For an article in Forbes magazine, he said that funding science has become the priority of his life.

Poll Alain is interested in neurology. He even created an entire institute for the study of the brain (Allen Institute for Brain Science), in which he invested about $ 500 million. He directed his first charitable $ 100 million to create a computer model of how genes work in the mouse brain. The next $100 million is for a similar model of the human brain. Now a team of scientists hired by Allen is working to isolate types of brain cells and understand how they develop.

Donated: $1.25 billion

Wealth: $5.5 billion

Together with four colleagues who came from IBM, Hopp founded a giant company software- SAP. In 1995, Hopp gave 70% of his shares to the non-profit organization he created, which is now one of the largest in Germany and Europe. Hopp's main focus is on youth sports, cancer research and the treatment of childhood diseases.

Until recently, the largest charity organisations world were concentrated exclusively in the United States. According to 2013 data, the annual amount of funds provided by US funds reached $30 billion.

This was before the emergence and development of the European Foundation Center, which this moment unites more than 400 largest charitable foundations in Europe. The statistics collected by the center in 2010 confirmed the effective results of European philanthropists:

• more than 110,000 charitable organizations operate in Europe;
• the funds employ about 1 million employees;
• annually about 100 billion euros are allocated to charity in Europe.

Focusing on the amounts invested in, we can name the three largest funds in the world according to 2013 data. Among them: the Dutch Stichting INGKA Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Wellcome Trust from the UK.

Stichting INGKA Foundation

The fund's assets are estimated at 36 billion dollars, and at the moment it is the largest charitable organization in the world. Its founder is the founder and owner of IKEA, the Swedish businessman Ingvar Kamprad, who owns 207 branches of the company around the world.

The Foundation was established in 1982 primarily to support modern solutions and the development of the architecture and interior design industry. At the same time, a significant part of the fund's assets is spent not on charity, but on investing in projects. The amount exactly charitable assistance is about 10 million dollars annually.

Bill&Melinda Gates Foundation

The fund's assets are more than 33 billion dollars. The organization was founded by Microsoft owner Bill Gates together with close people - his wife and father (later the founders expanded). Although the date of creation is relatively recent - 1994 - the organization almost immediately outstripped the oldest charitable foundations in the world in terms of the amount of capital invested in charity.

The fund was created primarily to help the poor, finance the search for new methods of dealing with serious diseases, support programs in the field of health and education. Every year, the foundation spends almost $2 billion on charity.

Wellcome Trust

The fund's assets amount to more than 22 billion dollars. The London-based charity was founded in 1936 in memory of Henry Wellcome, the pharmaceutical magnate. The main purpose of the fund is financing research activities aimed at protecting the lives of people as well as animals.

This foundation has practically put charity in Europe on a professional basis, becoming the largest and most authoritative. The organization offers a large number of grants for scientific research, educational programs for professional physicians.

A little about charity in Europe

European funds finance a variety of industries - from science and medicine to help vulnerable people. In the last 15 years, the number of funds and the amount allocated to charity have increased several times. According to statistics, every month a new fund is created in Europe. Germany is the leader in this direction.

One of the most promising areas of charity is the allocation of funds for international programs (in particular, those dedicated to internationalization).

An important feature of the philanthropic movement in Europe is the cooperative work of foundations - the unification of individual organizations in order to strengthen their positions, exchange experience, expand cooperation with business structures and government organizations. It is this position that makes it possible to popularize charitable organizations in the world and solve global international problems.

Another trend is the division of funds into specialized funds operating in separate sectors. As an example, Europeans cite DAFNE (European Network of Donor Associations), which includes 22 associations of charitable organizations. The network already has its own standards of work, and management is built on the principles of self-regulation.

The creation of such global structures not only makes philanthropy much more effective, but also influences the state social policy: in particular, some organizations acted as lobbyists for bills submitted by public organizations.

The largest number of branches

We talked about the three largest philanthropic organizations on the planet - but these are far from all the charitable foundations in the world that donate billions of dollars to social causes. It is worth mentioning the organization, whose representative offices operate in 46 countries - the charitable foundation United Way Worldwide, whose budget exceeded 5 billion dollars. The organization employs about 3 million volunteers, almost 10 million people donate money to charity.

At the moment, it is not the largest, but remains the most developed - the organization was founded in the United States in 1887, having grown over the years into a global international non-profit non-governmental structure. At the moment, the organization, which includes two funds (United Way of America, as well as United Way), works in three directions:

education (reducing the number of children dropping out of school);

health (increase in the number of healthy population by 1%).

Among the world's leading philanthropists

Howard Hughes Medical Institute is a foundation founded by tycoon Howard Hughes in 1953. The organization's current budget exceeds $19 billion. The main areas of charity are funding research in the field of molecular biology, immunology, and genetics.

The Ford Foundation is a non-profit charitable organization founded in 1936 by Edsel Ford, son of the legendary Henry Ford. The value of the fund's assets exceeds $11 billion. Modern organization has nothing to do with the Ford family or the company of the same name. Main activities: financing programs to combat serious diseases (in particular, AIDS), educational programs, assistance in the economic reform of developing countries.

Charity in the world: the largest foundations in Europe and Asia

The Robert Bosch Foundation is a foundation founded in 1969 in Germany. The budget of the organization is about 7 billion dollars. The founder of the foundation is Robert Bosch. The main capital of the organization is the shares of the company of the same name (about 92%). Charity areas: raising the level of education, funding historical research, grants for medical activity, humanitarian aid.

Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation is an organization founded in the UAE in 2007 with a budget of around $10 billion. Leading areas of activity - dissemination of knowledge about Arabic history culture, investment construction and development of cultural projects in Dubai.

To help sick children, support sports organizations, as well as theaters and museums. This year, the fund spent about 13.75 billion rubles on the implementation of various projects. Funding sources are Usmanov's personal funds, as well as money allocated by companies controlled by him.

The Sistema Charitable Foundation was established in 2003 for the charitable activities of the corporation of the same name and its subsidiaries. The main areas of activity of the foundation include science, culture and art, sports and social development. Every year, the fund spends about three billion rubles to support more than 50 projects. Funds for the fund come from commercial organizations, as well as from individuals.

The Russian Aid Fund (Rusfond) was established in 1996 by the Kommersant publishing house to support readers of the Kommersant newspaper in need of help. The founder and head of Rusfond is journalist Lev Ambinder. In the first half of this year, the fund managed to raise almost 607 million rubles, for last year- more than 1.7 billion. Rusfond specializes in helping seriously ill children, promoting development civil society, introduction of high medical technologies. - Individuals and organizations.

The Volnoe Delo Foundation was founded in 1998 by Russian businessman Oleg Deripaska. The Foundation is engaged in supporting projects in the field of science, education, culture, territorial development, healthcare and animal protection. In 2014, for fund projects. According to Expert magazine, the fund is financed from the personal funds of Oleg Deripaska and deductions from the Basic Element group of companies.

The Mikhail Prokhorov Charitable Foundation, which became the first charitable organization in Russia with a regional work strategy, was established by businessman Mikhail Prokhorov in 2004. — systemic support of culture in the Russian regions. For 10 years of work, the fund's budget has exceeded two billion rubles. There is no exact funding.

The Elena and Gennady Timchenko Charitable Foundation was established in 2010. The main activity of the foundation is the implementation of programs: "Older Generation", "Family and Children", "Sport", "Culture". For the first three years of operation, the fund's budget was $330.2 million. The main source of funding for the fund is the personal funds of the Timchenko Family

The Gift of Life Foundation was founded in 2006 by actresses Chulpan Khamatova and Dina Korzun. The scope of the fund is to help sick children. In 2015, the fund raised more than 326 million rubles. Funding sources are Russian, international and foreign organizations, individuals in Russia and abroad, as well as "stateless persons".

The Victoria Children's Charitable Foundation was founded in 2004 by Nikolai Tsvetkov, President of the Uralsib Corporation. The Foundation specializes in helping children left without parental care and who find themselves in a difficult life situation. Expenses for charitable programs in 2013 amounted to more than 184 million rubles. There are no more recent data. According to the data for 2013, the sources of financing are also personal funds of Nikolai Tsvetkov, income from endowment, fundraising, funds of Uralsib Bank.