An overview of charitable organizations in Europe and the USA. Charitable foundations of millionaires, where you can ask for financial assistance What are the charitable organizations in the world
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 of the amount received to 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
Starting in 1979, Soros gave out $8.5 billion for completely different needs: from a needle sterilization program in a California hospital to scientific research in Russia and Eastern Europe (by the way, Vladimir Putin claimed that the Georgian leadership under Mikhail Saakashvili received a salary “from Soros ”) and help 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 fund is engaged in investing in science, protection environment and education of nurses. 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 planning permission for the new Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, which is scheduled to open in 2014.
In 2007, Broad gave $26 million to an 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 is an 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 foundation he created (George Kaiser Family Foundation, GKFF), based in Tulsa (Oklahoma), invests in early childhood education and medicine, building schools for the poor, issuing grants for education and 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.
In 2011, the Azim Premji Normal University opened in India.
Donated: $2 billion
Net worth: $100 million
The founder of American Century Investments, James Stowers hasn't been on the top 400 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 for genetic research aimed at treating cancer, diabetes and heart disease.
Donated: $1.65 billion
Wealth: $25.5 billion
A Hong Kong billionaire (No. 11 on the Forbes world list), who is now chairman of the board of directors of Cheung Kong Holdings, one of the largest Asian conglomerates, 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 has also founded several rights and freedoms groups engaged in scientific research, especially in the field of diseases that affect people with low incomes.
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.
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Until recently, the largest charitable organizations in the 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 currently unites more than 400 of the largest charitable foundations in Europe. The statistics collected by the center in 2010 confirmed the effective results of European philanthropists:
There are more than 110,000 charitable organizations in Europe;
the funds employ about 1 million employees;
annually about 100 billion euros are allocated to charity in Europe.
Focusing on the amount invested in charity, 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, 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 development of the branch of architecture and interior design. 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.
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 to finance research activities aimed at ensuring the protection of human life, as well as animals.
This fund has practically put on professional basis charity in Europe, becoming the largest and most authoritative. The organization offers a large number of grants for scientific research, educational programs for medical professionals.
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 directions charity - the allocation of funds for international programs (in particular, dedicated to internationalization).
An important feature of the philanthropic movement in Europe is the cooperative work of foundations - the association individual organizations in order to strengthen 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 charity much more effective, but also influences 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, over the years it has become 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);
Income (assistance to large and low-income families);
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. The leading activities are the dissemination of knowledge about the Arab history of culture, investment in the construction and development of cultural projects in Dubai.
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 that supports 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 the world community to listen to the rights and needs of children.
5. Charities Aid Foundation
www. cafonline. org
CAF - 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 largest charities in the UK dedicated to caring for the weak and vulnerable children, adoption, guardianship, return to school, special education and child support. 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 to families with children in life-threatening or terminal stages. we can cure, but we can help” - this 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 around the world. 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- international organization which provides free surgical operations to correct cleft lip and other facial anomalies; and 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 of school material. In addition, the organization provides special financial sponsorship programs to provide specialized equipment for children with disabilities, as well as rehabilitation classes that allow children with disabilities to regain 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 at the end of the 19th century in conjunction with the Anglican Church to help homeless and impoverished children.
The organization runs 77 programs throughout the country to help children and adolescents cope with the difficulties of 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, as well as the emotional support necessary to cope with diseases, life-threatening children.25 programs have been developed and 830 families are being helped (not only for children, but for the whole family).While other organizations are looking for ways to find a cure, CCC aims to help families survive this day by day painful and tragic time.
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.
In life, circumstances sometimes arise that can only be solved with the help of material means. Some people in our country are familiar with situations when a rather large amount of money is required, and there is no one to turn to. This question is especially relevant in the case when one of the relatives is seriously ill, and only expensive treatment can help. Or a talented child from a poor family cannot get a proper education. It is to solve such problems that various charitable foundations are created, as a rule, they belong to very wealthy people. Any charitable organization own resource in the Internet. Therefore, charitable sites that can send me money is the main topic of our essay.
Gates Foundation (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation)
The notorious "forefather" of Microsoft is known not only for his disdain for luxury, but also for his good deeds. Together with his wife Melinda in 2000, Bill founded a charitable foundation with an authorized capital of 106,000,000 US dollars. The main activities of the Gates Foundation:
Help for the seriously ill;
- support for healthcare and education;
- work with the poorest sections of society.
The authorized capital of the fund consists not only of money donated by the Gates family, but also of donations from other patrons. For example, the second richest man on the planet after Bill, Warren Buffett, donated 10,000,000 shares of his company to the fund. The fund's total budget is more than $40 billion, and about $2 billion is donated to charity every year.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
One of the brightest stars of his time, Howard Hughes, who is not only an entertainment magnate, but also a successful filmmaker and aviator, organized a charitable foundation in the early fifties of the twentieth century. The institute's budget is not as large as that of the Gates Foundation, but 15 billion US dollars is enough for annual research funding in the field:
medicine;
- genetics;
- molecular biology;
- Immunology.
"Wellcome Trust" (British charitable foundation)
Founded in 1936, the charitable foundation began its work in London. The authorized capital of the organization was originally money donated by the British pharmaceutical magnate Henry Welcom. The Foundation finances scientific research:
In medicine;
- pharmaceuticals;
- other fields of science.
In addition, with the money of the fund, operations are carried out on seriously ill patients, and they are also saved from
death animals. The fund's budget is one of the largest in the world, reaching $25 billion.
"Lilly Endowment" (charitable foundation)
This organization appeared in the first third of the twentieth century, as a division of a large American pharmaceutical company. The fund was organized by the owner of the company, Josian Lilly Senior, along with his offspring. The main areas of financing by the fund:
healthcare;
- spiritual sphere;
- education.
Get funding from this fund it will be quite problematic for a resident of our country, since the Lilly Endowment is considered the largest local fund. Nearly 90% of funded projects are located in the foundation's home state of Indiana.
"Ford Foundation" (charitable foundation of Henry Ford)
Founded, like many of the most famous charities in the first third of the twentieth century, the Ford Foundation has a multi-billion dollar charter capital. Funds from the Ford Foundation budget are allocated to a large number of activities in various areas:
Democracy support;
- improvement of education;
- economic development;
- the eradication of poverty;
- support of mass media;
- stimulation of young artists, musicians, poets and composers;
- protection of human rights.
Almost anyone in need can receive money on the Ford charity website. Of course, if he really falls under one of the programs sponsored by the organization, and is not a scammer.
For effective control over personal finances, use the site. The function of the "Calendar" service ensures the timeliness of making recurring payments. SMS, e-mail reminders, synchronization with Google Calendar - help to avoid fines and commissions for late payments.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Johnson Foundation)
This fund was founded in the 1930s by the son of the founder of Johnson & Johnson. Robert Wood Johnson was not only the owner successful business, but also to the military with the rank of general, who took part in the Second World War. A fairly large authorized capital of the fund annually finances:
Improving the health of people with chronic diseases;
- the fight against the dependence of people on pharmacological preparations;
- fight against alcoholism and drug addiction.
W. K. Kellogg Foundation (Kellogg's charitable foundation)
One of the richest businessmen of the 20th century, William Kellogg, always believed that a person himself can become the master of his own happiness, if he has a little help financially. So he set up a foundation authorized capital sponsored by:
Assistance to victims of natural disasters;
- restoration of buildings and structures;
- Support for the poor.
On the website of the organization, you can fill out a special form in which you need to describe your problem. If the fund staff decide it is worthy of attention, then the charitable organization will certainly help.
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (Hewlett Foundation)
The founder of Hewlett-Packard, a well-known company in our country, William Hewlett, together with his wife, opened a charitable foundation. The main goal of the foundation is to improve the environment and the health of people around the world. In addition, grants are given for research and community service in various areas:
Treatment of HIV-infected people;
- development of technologies for cleaning the environment from pollution;
- payment for the education of talented children from poor families.
We looked at some of the largest and most famous charities in the world. Naturally, each of them has its own website, which you can contact with your problem. There are many cases when these funds helped the inhabitants of our country to gain health or get a decent education. Therefore, if you think you are in a hopeless situation, the only solution to which is financial assistance, then try contacting the charities described above. The likelihood that you will be helped is quite high.
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