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Education

Cans For Charity would like to donate to Teachers without Borders

Teachers Without Borders works to close the education divide through teacher professional development and community education. We work primarily, but not exclusively, in developing countries, in order to build self-reliance, health, and capacity.

Teachers are the largest single group of trained professionals in the world AND the key to our children's future. However, teacher training is often uneven, protracted, or unsupported. Teachers need our assistance; otherwise, we are left with poverty, lack of development, and a gaping digital, educational, and economic divide. If the key to economic development and our young people's future is education, then teachers should have resources, tools, and access to the Internet, as well as each other.

Teachers Without Borders is a non-profit 501(c)3 non-denominational, international NGO founded in 2000. We are supported entirely by individual donors and corporate/foundation grants. TWB is governed both by Local Trustees and an International Advisory Board. We operate with a small staff of Country Coordinators and experts. The by-laws and Board statutes of Teachers Without Borders forbids us to engage in any political lobbying or advocacy. We are not allowed to join any unions or Labour Congresses of any kind, for to do so threatens our non-profit status, as determined by the United States tax-exempt code. Coordinators, working on behalf of Teachers Without Borders, may not engage in such activities.

India December, 2001 Read the full page on India Teachers Without Borders. Teachers Without Boarders held a teachers' conference under the banner: "Shall We Stay The Same?" Comprised of government and private-school teachers, Hindus and Moslems, the conference focused on educational reform in India, connection to teachers around the world, and the need for professional development. Teachers Without Boarders formed a partnership with SEWA (Self-Employed Women's Association); INTWOT (Indian National Trust for the Welfare of Tribals) and other organizations focusing on girls' education and economic capacity-building. Teachers Without Borders  also developed plans for the launch of our Certificate of Teaching Mastery, to be launched in November, 2002.

On a smaller scale, Teachers Without Boarders consulted for and helped a program by which which East Indian information-technology professionals living outside India can adopt their homeland high-schools, thus providing financial and distance mentorship. Teachers Without Borders call it: Adopt-A-School. Adopt-A-School projects involve Indian information technology expatriates living in the United States, who reach out to their local high schools in India. Teachers Without Borders assisted the Vishal Himalaya Foundation to provide computers to a school in Akola, India; and local companies are assisting with technical support. Teachers Without Borders work with the donor to access and send equipment, assist with training, make the connections, get local support, provide feedback and support, and communicate regularly about how to sustain progress and expand services, especially those that can help teachers and students learn the technology and build local capacity.

Contact Us
Headquarters - Seattle, Washington
2880 74th Avenue, S.E.
Mercer Island, Washington 98040
USA
p.011 (206) 230-8126
f. 011 (206) 236-2826
info@teacherswithoutborders.org
www.teacherswithoutborders.org

　

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Volunteers of America

Volunteers of America, established in 1896, is one of the nation's oldest, largest and most comprehensive human service charitable organizations. Serving the needs of the elderly across the country... Our fund raising event for this cause is to support independent and assisted living.  To help senior citizens live comfortably in the community.

Volunteers of America, Massachusetts is private non-profit human service organization serving youth, their families an the elderly in Massachusetts since 1986.

• Youth Services
• Recovery Services
• Elder Services
• Community Services

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Homelessness

Cans For Charity would like to donate to Friends of Shattuck Shelter, which has been doing wonderful work in supporting the homeless since 1983.

History
In 1983, Governor Michael Dukakis opened an emergency shelter on the grounds of the Lemuel Shattuck Hospital. Twenty-four years later, the shelter has grown into a comprehensive homeless service agency helping over 3,500 men and women annually find recovery, employment, housing, and hope.

Emergency Shelter
The Shattuck Shelter houses more than 110 people each night, providing a safe place to sleep, nutritious meals and an integrated case management program that ensures each guest receives individually targeted services, including mental health, substance abuse, employment and housing.

The Transition out of Homelessness
Stabilization Services
Since 1987, the Stabilization Program (24 beds) has provided four to six weeks of intensive substance treatment specifically targeted to individuals who have had great difficulty remaining drug and alcohol free.

Work Contracts Program
This program (30 beds) offers employed individuals living in the Shattuck Shelter the opportunity to receive enriched case management services and maintain employment. The goal is to move these individuals into housing within six months.

Transition to Independent
Living Program (TIL)
The TIL Program is a long term residential program (35 beds) that focuses on employment, substance abuse and mental health treatment, education and daily living skills. Comprehensive case management helps prepare these individuals for the successful transition back into the community.

HIV/AIDS and Wellness
The Green Door Project
The program goal is to ensure homeless individuals have access to information about HIV testing, HIV testing itself and referral for the medical and social services they may need. Green Door provides services at sites throughout the Boston community.

Life Lines
Working with over 150 agencies statewide that serve homeless men and women, Life Lines provides educational training for staff and consumers; local, regional and statewide capacity building for HIV/AIDS services, and distributes critical harm reduction materials to homeless individuals and the programs that serve them.

If you wish to learn more about the Lemuel Shattuck Hospital, please visit their website at:

www.hopefoundboston.org

The Shattuck Shelter contact number is: 617-971-9339

　

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