Charity organizations

Charitable organizations are companies involved in generous work that benefit the public. These organizations are exempt from federal income tax. They are an important part of society because they spearhead causes to change society for the better and make an impact on the lives of the disadvantaged.

There are many types of charity organizations.

• Children• Disabilities• Educational• Elderly• Environment• Community service• Animal• Hunger/poverty

The most important charity organizations around the world

• Children: UNICEF

Environment: Greenpeace

• Greenpeace exists because this fragile earth deserves a voice. It needs solutions. It needs change. It needs action.

• Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning organization that acts to change attitudes and behaviour, to protect and conserve the environment.

Animal: World wildlife fund

AIMS:

To stop the degradation of the planet's natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature, by:• conserving the world's biological diversity.• ensuring that the use of renewable natural resources is

sustainable.• promoting the reduction of pollution and wasteful

consumption.

Hunger/ poverty: ONE

• ONE is a grassroots advocacy and campaigning organization that fights extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa, by raising public awareness and pressuring political leaders to support smart and effective policies and programs that are saving lives, helping to put kids in school and improving futures.

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