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Built in 2007, the Angel Network is one of the largest projects focused on transforming young lives. O Ambassadors, as it is called, has empowered 10,000 students to become truly global citizens.
Founder: Oprah Winfrey
Area of Interest: Education, Social leadership, Women empowerment, Children, Poverty, Disaster relief
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About Philanthropic Institutions
Institutions of Philanthropy is an informational resource that examines the meaning and origination of philanthropy as a word, a deed, and a continual practice. To this effort, Institutions of Philanthropy has compiled profiles of philanthropic organizations, everything from nonprofit activist groups to corporate and family philanthropy foundations.
What is an Institution of Philanthropy?
Philanthropic institutions are charitable organizations that raise or donate money, time, and resources to nonprofit organizations, institutions, causes, families, or individuals. Philanthropy Foundations raise money for everything from children's needs to poverty to homelessness to medical research. Some philanthropic institutions focus on particular issues while others are more diverse.
Philanthropy Foundations are varied in nature. They can be both large and small. Sometimes they represent the efforts of one individual or family unit. Other times they are the accumulated efforts of a corporation or institution with many members, volunteers, and contributors. Some philanthropy foundations are decades old while others are newly formed. The amount that foundations give to research, social programs, and charity also vary, sometimes by project, person, size, and reach, and also from foundation to foundation. Many philanthropy foundations services only a local areas or particular causes while others can be international and broad in scope.
The word "philanthropy" comes from Greek. The root word "anthrop" means "human" while "phil" or "philo" is aligned with "love." As such, philanthropy is a gesture of an organization's love for humanity. In practice, philanthropy has the goal of influencing the well-being of humankind through charitable efforts and the act of giving to the community.
This website examines the influence, efforts, and categorization of philanthropy institutions across the country. This website provide information about positive acts, selfless giving, and social responsibility in the hopes of encouraging continued acts of giving.