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Jim Gordon (politician)	In 2005, he served as Honorary Co-Chair of the Sudbury Samaritan Centre, a facility designed to help residents in need, including the homeless, with services that include a soup kitchen, drop-in mission, health centre and a support program to help people re-establish themselves in the community.
Brian Schneider	In 2008, Brian Schneider's Catching for Kids Foundation was established to support children and their participation in sports by providing funding and creative programming.
Viter Juste	The 1974 collaboration between Walsh and Juste resulted in the creation of the Haitian-American Community Association of Dade, which was one of the first social service organizations founded specifically to cater to the needs of the Haitian community in Miami.
Richard A. Cody	In 2013, he was appointed to the Board of Trustees of New York Institute of Technology in Old Westbury, N. Y. General Cody serves on the Advisory Council of Hope For The Warriors, a national non-profit dedicated to provide a full cycle of non-medical care to combat wounded service members, their families, and families of the fallen from each military branch.
Jake Shimabukuro	Following the dissolution of the Music Is Good Medicine program, Shimabukuro founded his own non-profit organization, the Four Strings Foundation, in 2013.
Bernt Carlsson	The Bernt Carlsson Trust -- otherwise known as One World Action -- was founded by Glenys Kinnock on 21 December 1989 (the first anniversary of the Lockerbie air disaster) in memory of Carlsson.
Stephanie Lemelin	Since 2002, she has regularly volunteered with Los Angeles-based Free Arts for Abused Children, and she is a regular volunteer for Best Friends Animal Society, including for its Pup My Ride program, which transports small dogs from high-kill animal shelter s to other parts of the US where there's a greater demand for small dogs.
Larry H. Miller	In November 1995, he formed Larry H. Miller Charities, whose mission statement is,'' We give back to our communities by focusing our united service and corporate giving on youth and children with an emphasis on health and education.''
Patrick Cusick	In 1971, Cusick was named president of the Greater Hartford Community Development Corporation, a newly formed not-for-profit organization privately financed by members Hartford's business community tasked with finding out what people wanted in their city, developing new education, health, living, and transportation systems, and building three 30,000-person communities.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver	A longtime advocate for children's health and disability issues, Shriver was a key founder of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), a part of the National Institutes of Health, in 1962, and has also helped to establish numerous other health-care facilities and support networks throughout the country.
Jeremy Griffith	The World Transformation Movement was founded by Griffith in 1983, as the Centre for Humanity's Adulthood, an organisation dedicated to developing and promoting understanding of the human condition.
Charles Royer	As President of the National League of Cities in 1983, he became a spokesperson for American cities on housing, healthcare, civil liberties, and the needs of children.
Phyllis Newman	In 1995, Newman founded The Phyllis Newman Women's Health Initiative of The Actors' Fund of America.
G. Anne Richardson	Also in 2006, Anne Richardson launched Restoring Nations International, a ministry whose mission is'' to restore honor and human dignity by facilitating reconciliation and bringing healing to Native American and other indigenous nations around the world through ministering God's love, purpose and destiny for those nations.''
Park Won-soon	In 2002, Park stepped down from PSPD to run The Beautiful Foundation, a philanthropic group that promotes volunteerism and community service and addresses issues of income inequality.
Christopher Minko	In 2011, Minko commenced planning for a women's wheelchair basketball program to aid impoverished women with disabilities in Cambodia -- women who were victims of landmines, polio, physical abuse and violence.
Jim Brandenburg	Jim and Judy Brandenburg, with the help of dedicated supporters in Luverne, Minnesota, established the Brandenburg Prairie Foundation in 1999.
Jeffrey R. Immelt	He has been with GE since 1982 and is on the board of two non-profit organizations, one of which is the Robin Hood Foundation, a charitable organization which attempts to alleviate problems caused by poverty in New York City.
Sharon Matola	She is the founding director of the Belize Zoo and Tropical Education Center, a zoo which was started in 1983 to protect native animals that had been used in a documentary film in Belize.
Rami Ranger	in November 2012, Rami Ranger was asked to join the Princes Trust Enterprise Fellowship.
Mary Edwards Wertsch	In 2006, Army brat and filmmaker Donna Musil completed a documentary film significantly based on subject areas initially explored in Wertsch's book, and funded by several grants and hundreds of small monetary contributions from military brats to her non-profit organization, Brats without Borders.
Miri Ben-Ari	In 2006, she co-founded Gedenk (Yiddish for'' remember''), an organization dedicated to promoting education about the Holocaust in the United States.
Chitresh Das	Since 2003, Das has worked closely with the New Light Foundation, a Kolkata-based NGO that works to free the children of red-light district workers from the cycle of prostitution and abuse through support services, education and care.
Jim Brandenburg	In 1991, for his work with the Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center, his creation of the Concerts for the Environment non-profit organization, his work with the Nature Conservancy, and other numerous achievements, Jim Brandenburg was awarded the Global 500 Environmental World Achievement Award.
Alan Page	In 1988, Page and his wife Diane founded the Page Education Foundation.
Eddie Perez (politician)	In 1999, Perez became the President of the Southside Institutions Neighborhood Alliance, an organization sponsored by Trinity College and Hartford Hospital.
Devin Harris	In 2009, Harris received the NBA's Community Assist Award for his work with his charitable foundation'' 34 Ways to Assist.''
Wade Smith	With a deep desire to establish a community presence and uplifting programs, Smith founded org The Wade Smith Foundation (WSF) in 2012 in Dallas, TX, to address and support the many educational and health issues of children in his hometown.
David Mayer de Rothschild	In 2006 he launched the website'' Mission Control'' in order to present his expeditions and environmental efforts to children and the youth.
Dani?l Termont	On his initiative came in 1979, a private room, community center De Vuist, a non-profit organization whose president is still Termont.
Sunday Omony	She has modeled for Italian Vogue, Old Navy and the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada Omony started the non-profit organization Immigrant Youth Empowerment Society in 2004.
Gideon Greif	Since 1995 he also works for the'' Survivors of the Shoah'' (Visual History Foundation) in Los Angeles where he plans and manages further education seminars for the scientific staff of the foundation, in particular for interviewers of Holocaust survivors.
Manvendra Singh Gohil	In 2000, Manvendra started the Lakshya Trust, of which he is chairman, a group dedicated to HIV / AIDS education and prevention.
Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva	Her first charitable organization'' You are not alone'' was set up in 2002 to improve the situation in the country's orphanages, protect the rights of orphaned children, providing them with better opportunities for getting comprehensive education.
Margaret Hassan	Hassan joined humanitarian relief organisation CARE International in 1991, the aid group having established itself in Iraq during that year.
Ayub Thakur	Thakur was a self-appointed Trustee of the UK-based charitable organisation, Mercy Universal, which he had founded in 2000.
Millard Fuller	In 1968, after giving up their wealth to refocus their lives on Christian service, Fuller and his wife, Linda, moved with their children to an interracial farming community in southwest Georgia.
Chris Hughes	He is the Executive Director of Jumo, a non-profit social network organization which he founded in 2010, which'' aims to help people find ways to help the world''.
Kazi Zulkader Siddiqui	Since his return to Pakistan in 1995, Zulkader has been involved in a number of activities and has contributed to support social sector and educational programs.
Jeff Merritt	In 2005, he founded Grassroots Initiative, a nonprofit organization that seeks to'' provide easy political access for underrepresented groups and other political outsiders.''
Jim Stynes	In 1994, Stynes co-founded (with film director Paul Currie) The Reach Foundation and became a prominent youth worker in Victoria.
John Lehr	In 2010, Lehr signed on as a supporter of Alley Cat Allies, a nonprofit advocacy organization dedicated to transforming communities to protect and improve the lives of cats, joking that `` As a feral human, I feel a deep connection with these animals.''
Joanna Lumley	Joanna has been patron of The Friends of Kadzinuni since it was established in 2003, a small charity based in Keyworth, Nottinghamshire, UK which is enabling the village of Kadzinuni, (40 km north of Mombasa, near Kilifi) to be transformed into a self-sufficient wealth creating community by focussing on facilitating community-led developments for Healthcare Education and Agriculture.
Oprah Winfrey	In 1998, Winfrey created the Oprah's Angel Network, a charity that supported charitable projects and provided grants to nonprofit organizations around the world.
Laura Bozzo	In 1998, she organized the organization Solidaridad de Familia (Family Solidarity) as a charitable foundation to assist people from Peru and other Latin America n nations with legal, medical, and psychological problems ; which has been under much criticism for increasing suspicion of being funded by former president Alberto Fujimori.
Pam Allyn	Allyn founded the program Books for Boys in 1999 at The Children's Village, the nation's largest residential treatment center for foster care children.
Terry Gou	Gou founded an educational charity organization with Lin in 2000 and intends to eventually give away one third of his wealth to charity.
Ted Kennedy (priest)	While he was priest at Redfern, South Sydney Uniting Church donated property to the Black Theatre and the Sisters of Mercy gave property to the Redfern Aboriginal community in 1978 in which the Aboriginal Medical Service was established.
Ezell Brown	Brown has pursued a number of philanthropic endeavors and has donated money to various charitable organizations, educational causes and community outreach programs through the Ezell Brown Foundation, established in 2008.
Sabrina Bryan	In 2008, it was announced that Bryan would be partnering with Mission Foods as the spokesperson for the Healthy Kids Challenge.
Jenny Jones (presenter)	Jones established The Jenny Jones Foundation in 2005 as a means to provide assistance to those in need.
Charles Wang	_ r 3 & Wang is an active philanthropist and in 1999 established the org/charles _ b_wang_foundation_a_delaware_non-for-profit_corp / Charles B. Wang Foundation with the goal of donating to numerous charities that focused on bettering the lives of children and the disenfranchised.
Mike Stone (musician)	In 2007, he signed on as an official supporter of Little Kids Rock, a nonprofit organization that provides free musical instruments and instruction to children in underserved public schools throughout the United States.
Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber	MBI Al Jaber is the founder, sole patron and Chairman of the MBI Al Jaber Foundation, founded in 2002, which is a UK registered charity governed by a Board of Trustees chosen for their areas of expertise in the Middle East, including Lord Young of Graffham and Sir Tim Lankester.
Ian McKellen	In 2007, he became a patron of The Albert Kennedy Trust, an organisation that provides support to young, homeless and troubled LGBT people.
Rosario Dawson	thumb | Dawson at the 2008 Willow Awards Dawson is involved with the Lower East Side Girls Club and supports other charities such as environmental group Global Cool, the ONE Campaign, Oxfam, Amnesty International, Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, Stay Close.
Bruce Paltrow	In 2007, his widow, in cooperation with The Oral Cancer Foundation, set up a fund in his name to address oral cancer issues in the United States.
Tom Monaghan	In 1983 he established the Mater Christi Foundation, today known as the Ave Maria Foundation, to focus on Catholic education, Catholic media, community projects and other Catholic charities.
Dave Liebman	In 1989, he founded the International Association of Schools of Jazz (IASJ), an organization dedicated to networking educators and students from international jazz schools through periodic meetings, exchange programs and newsletters.
Jimmy Carter	Carter and his wife Rosalynn founded the Carter Center in 1982, a nongovernmental, not-for-profit organization that works to advance human rights.
John Mayer	In 2002, Mayer began the'' Back to You'' Fund, a nonprofit organization that focuses on fundraising in the areas of health care, education, the arts, and talent development.
James Smith (boxer)	Deeply committed to helping impoverished fighters, Smith was a guest at the Ring 10 Veterans Boxing Foundation 2nd Annual Fundraiser in 2012 where he expressed his support of initiatives to better provide for those in need.
George Hook	Hook is also the patron of Comber Foundation, an Irish charity working in Romania since 1991, of which his daughter Michelle McGill is a trustee.
Renzo Rosso	In 2008, Rosso launched the Only The Brave Foundation, a not-for-profit organization and foundation.
Chandra Levy	For example, Levy's parents quickly turned for help to the Carole Sund/Carrington Memorial Reward Foundation, That foundation, which offered the Levys staff support and contributed towards a cash reward for information about Chandra's disappearance, was merged into the Laci & Conner Search and Rescue Fund in 2009 ; Susan Levy had previously participated in the efforts to find Laci Peterson, another missing woman from Modesto.
Avel Gordly	In 2008, while serving as senator, OHSU opened the Avel Gordly Center for Healing, which provides mental health and psychiatric services.
Adnan Oktar	In 1995, Oktar founded Foundation for Protection of National Values (FPNV or in Turkish Millî Değerleri Koruma Vakfı), through which he networks with other conservative Turkish nationalist organizations and individuals based on the ideology of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey.
Alphonso Theodore Roberts	Named after Roberts, The Alfie Roberts Institute is an independent non-governmental organisation based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, founded in 2001.
Laurie Baker	His initial commitment to India had him working as an architect for World Leprosy Mission, an international and interdenominational Mission dedicated to the care of those suffering from leprosy in 1945.
Markus Merk	The religious Merk is active helping slums in India, providing basic dental care for the poor since 1991.
Fred Shuttlesworth	Shuttlesworth founded the'' Shuttlesworth Housing Foundation'' in 1988 to assist families who might otherwise be unable to buy their own homes.
Margaret Maden	Margaret Maden (1999), `` Education Reform and Children'' The State and Children Tunstill, J, (ed) Cassell Maurice Kogan and Margaret Maden (1999) The Impact of OfSTED on Schools, Joseph Rowntree Charitable Foundation Margaret Maden.
Wade Davis (American football)	In February 2013, Davis joined the Advisory Board for You Can Play, an organization dedicated to fighting homophobia in professional sports.
Silvio Mondinelli	Notable summits In 2001, Mondinelli was among the founders of the'' Amici del Monterosa'', the non-profit organisation that deals in developing the living conditions of the Nepal ese people.
John Alvheim	He also devoted much of his life to help less fortunate kids in developing countries, even building an orphanage for children in Bangladesh in 1979.
Teresa Heinz	In 1990, she co-founded the Alliance To End Childhood Lead Poisoning (now the Alliance for Healthy Homes), through the first environmental grant of the Vira I. Heinz Endowment.
Mstislav Rostropovich	Rostropovich and his wife, Galina Vishnevskaya, founded the Rostropovich-Vishnevskaya Foundation, a publicly supported non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization based in Washington, D. C., in 1991 to improve the health and future of children in the former Soviet Union.
Robert Hamblin	In 2011, as part of his activist work, he assisted in founding a support group for transgendered sex-workers at a Cape Town non-profit organisation called org.
Sebastian Kneipp	In 1891, he founded Kneipp Bund, and organization that promotes water healing.
Sanduk Ruit	com) Dr. Ruit's work in Nepal was featured in episode 5 of the BBC documentary series Human Planet On 18 May 2007, Ruit was appointed an Honorary Officer of the Order of Australia,'' for service to humanity by establishing eye care services in Nepal and surrounding countries, and for his work in teaching and training surgeons, and technical innovation''.
Gerald Durrell	In 1989, Durrell and his wife Lee, along with David Attenborough and cricket er David Gower helped launch the World Land Trust (then the World Wide Land Conservation Trust).
Mitch Landrieu	In 2009 Mitch Landrieu became a supporter of The Jazz Foundation of America.
George Kotsiopoulos	In 2003, Kotsiopoulos co-founded the annual'' Bag Lunch'' charity event for P. S. ARTS, a non-profit organization dedicated to restoring arts education to the public school system of which he is on the Board of Directors.
Boland T. Jones	In 1998, Boland founded the Boland T. Jones Family Foundation with his wife Andrea.
Lawrence Funderburke	While an active player in 2000, Funderburke and his wife founded the Lawrence Funderburke Youth Organization, a non-profit organization dedicated to help at-risk children, through a variety of services.
Charles Loring Brace	Brace's vision of migrating children to live with the western Christian farming families was widely supported by wealthy New York families -- the first $ 50 was given by Mrs. John Astor in 1853.
Steve Poizner	In 2001, Poizner co-founded EdVoice, an educational non-profit organization dedicated to improving public schools and serving the interests of K-12 children in California.
Gautam Adani	In 1996, Gautam Adani set up the Adani Foundation as the Corporate Social Responsibility arm of the Adani Group for undertaking activities to ensure sustainable development and create harmony with people residing in the neighborhood of the Group's operations.
Lucy Faithfull, Baroness Faithfull	In 1993 she founded the Lucy Faithfull Foundation, which works as a child protection agency helping sexually abused children and their families.
Michael Sobell	In addition, he used his great wealth to set up the Sobell Fund in 1977 which provided financial support to a variety of benevolent causes including medical, educational, and fitness endeavors.
Elena Rostropovich	Russia 2013 : Elena Rostropovich is currently developing a new pilot program in Russia : creation of children's choirs in orphanages in the Moscow area with the participation of over 300 children.
Quinton Carter	In 2008, he started Serving Others through Unity and Leadership (SOUL) to help kids in need through football camps and other programs.
Robert Steadward	Renamed The Steadward Centre for Personal and Physical Achievement in 2000, the facility is a disability research centre which offers physical activity and sport programs for adults and children with disabilities.
J. R. Richards	In 2013 The City of Los Angeles awarded J. R. a Proclamation for Dedication to Enhancing Lives of Families Living in Extreme Poverty for his work in El Salvador with 20k Watts (details below).
Iqbal Quadir	In 2004, he founded, with his siblings, the Anwarul Quadir Foundation to promote innovations for Bangladesh.
Sheela Murthy	In 2001, Murthy and her husband established the MurthyNayak Foundation to channel their financial resources into socially transformative projects designed to improve the lives of women, children and immigrants in their native India and in their adopted homeland, the United States.
John Holland (engineer)	He himself was involved in various causes, including the board of the Royal Melbourne Hospital, the Bone Marrow Foundation, a co-founder of the National Stroke Foundation, the Voluntary Euthanasia Society, chairman of the Sir Edward Dunlop Memorial Committee and, from 2000, as patron of the Children First Foundation.
Hans Rey	In 2005 Hans Rey has founded Wheels4Life, a non-profit charity that provides bicycles to people in Third World countries in need of transportation.
Guy Harvey	The Guy Harvey Ocean Foundation was founded by Harvey in 2008 to `` help ensure that future generations will enjoy and benefit from a naturally balanced ocean ecosystem where fish and other marine wildlife flourish.''
Mark Zuckerberg	In December 2012, Zuckerberg donated 18 million shares to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, a community organization that includes education in its list of grant-making areas.