PilotLight enables small, ambitious charities working to alleviate disadvantage to help a greater number of people, more effectively by managing teams of senior business people to coach charities through the process of building measurably more sustainable and efficient organisations.
http://www.pilotlight.org.uk/
We Are What We Do started in 2004 by bringing together 100 simple, everyday actions that can improve our environment, our health, and our communities and make our planet and the people on it much happier. They believe that if enough of us do these actions we will start to make an impact on some of the biggest problems we are all facing.
http://www.wearewhatwedo.org/
Jo’s Trust is the UK’s only charity dedicated to women, their families and friends affected by cervical abnormalities and cervical cancer, offering a range of support and information both online and face to face including: a helpline, online forum, local support groups, ‘Let’s Meet’ events, a range of information materials and an ‘Ask the Expert’ service.
http://www.jostrust.org.uk
The House of Illustrationwill be the world’s first centre dedicated to the art of illustration in all its forms; for the first time, there will be a home for illustration past and present, international and British, where visitors will be able to see and experience illustration in new and in a wide variety of ways. It will be a unique cultural centre and is due to open in central London in the autumn of 2012.
http://www.houseofillustration.org.uk/
The Funding Network (TFN), founded in 2002, enables individuals to join together to fund social change projects.
http://www.thefundingnetwork.org.uk/
SellAVenture is an initiative of the Centre for Innovation in Voluntary Action.
http://www.sellaventure.co.uk/
The Opera San Francesco per i Poveri helps the homeless in Milan.
http://www.operasanfrancesco.it/OSF/
The Stockholm City Mission is a school for underprivileged youths who due to personal tragedies, substance abuse and other traumas have fallen behind or struggled with their education. The Stockholm City Mission School is a school run by a foundation and is composed of three programmes - a 6th form school, a high school and IV-programme (a tailored educational plan for those under 20 who have not manage to pass the core subjects, e.g. Swedish, mathematics and English). There are a total of 330 students enrolled at the three different programmes.
http://www.stadsmissionen.se/zino.aspx/