Group Category: Health & Medicine

Makassed Foundation of America (MFA) is a non-profit philanthropic foundation created in 1999. Its mission is to advance education, empower women, and provide…

Founded in 2018, Black Men Heal is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide access to mental health treatment, psycho-education, and community…

Founded in 2017, Music against Malaria (MAM) is a Malawi-based organization with a mission to improve child healthcare and use the performing arts to promote the rich and diverse Malawi culture. MAM aims to supplement governmental efforts and the donor community on malaria intervention by promoting doable actions to prevent malaria incidents and improving hospital infrastructure.

A 2019 grant from the Cultures of Resistance Network helped MAM purchase medical equipment for the malaria department at Chikwawa District Hospital.

Molham Volunteering Team is a relief organization designed to help internally displaced Syrians inside Syria and refugees in countries of asylum. The team works in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey through a network of 170 volunteers in four different areas: medical, urgent cases, orphans, and education.

A 2019 grant from the Cultures of Resistance Network provided scholarships to 100 college students at Idlib University in Syria.

Soft Power Health provides primary and preventative healthcare and health education to Ugandans living in rural communities. It works to help improve people’s overall health and quality of life by increasing their access to health education and affordable medical care, especially for common health issues such as malaria, malnutrition, and family planning. The organization uses a comprehensive approach combining education, prevention, and treatment, aiming to leave people in a much better position to help themselves.

At work in over forty countries and twenty-six US cities, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and gain control of their future. When an emergency arises, the IRC arrives on the scene within seventy-two hours with urgently needed supplies and expertise that protect people caught in the midst of chaos. The organization commits to stay as long as it is needed, helping survivors to heal, recover, and rebuild their communities to be stronger, more stable, and more democratic.

The Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth. Since its inception in 1998, Trevor has worked to save young lives by providing support through its free and confidential crisis programs including Trevor Lifeline, TrevorChat, TrevorSpace, and TrevorText, as well as its education, outreach, and advocacy resources. The mission of The Trevor Project is to end suicide among LGBTQ young people.

Al Awda Hospital, established in 1997, is the first-line hospital in the Gaza Strip and provides health services to all inhabitants in the northern part of the region. Al Awda is the main provider of maternity services in the northern part of the Gaza Strip and is the only provider of Fluoroscopy services. It is also authorized as an educational hospital from some universities in the Gaza Strip to train nursing students.

CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. CARE places special focus on working alongside poor women because, equipped with the proper resources, women have the power to help whole families and entire communities escape poverty. CARE has been working in the West Bank and Gaza since 1948 (with a short break from 1984–1994), initially implementing programs to help refugees after the Holocaust and delivering direct services such as CARE Packages®. Today, CARE is one of the largest nongovernmental organizations working in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Founded in 1968, the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) is a national humanitarian organization. Since its establishment, it has catered to the health and welfare of the Palestinian people and others in need in the occupied Palestinian territories and the Diaspora. It has 4,200 employees in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and Iraq, in addition to its volunteer network of more than 20,000 people.