Damon Runyon finds the most brilliant and promising scientists and provides them with funding to pursue innovative research that will eliminate cancer as a deadly disease. We focus on the rising stars of science, emerging leaders who have great potential to achieve breakthroughs in how we diagnose, treat and prevent cancer. Our goals are to Recruit the best and brightest early career scientists into cancer research; Accelerate the translation of scientific discoveries into new diagnostic tools and treatments and Enable risk-taking on bold new ideas. The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation funds the rising stars of science, recruiting the best new minds into cancer research and seeding their bold ideas.

The history of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is a timeline of progress, innovation, and compassion in the fight against cancer. Since its founding in 1947, Dana-Farber has been committed to providing cancer patients with the best treatment available today while developing tomorrow's cures through cutting-edge research.

We support people involved in dance; students, teachers, choreographers, performers, presenters, researchers and writers. We make connections, plant seeds, offer options, identify possibilities, advocate, broker and suggest directions. Our role is in stimulating and empowering people for the creation and presentation of dance. DANZ has been a registered charitable organisation since 1997. DANZ is a membership organisation for those involved in the professional, education and recreation sectors of New Zealand dance.

Dance for a cure, is a community-driven and volunteer- based organisation committed to fighting cervical cancer to save lives. We can substantially reduce the impact of this cancer by promoting health within all communities in South Africa, through advocacy and the sustainable facilitation of research, prevention, early detection and care. With the funds raised we vaccinate children, educate them about how one develops cervical cancer, why we are vaccinating them and how to look after their bodies as well as to know their bodies. The Abraham Kriel Home has been our first orphanage and we have built and will continue to build relationships with many homes to continue reaching as many children as we can.

dance4life is an international initiative set up to involve and empower young people all around the world to push back the spread of HIV and AIDS. Young people are the future and they have the power to halt the spread of HIV and AIDS. By uniting all over the world and demanding change, they can make a difference. dance4life provides them with this opportunity. It teaches them the important life skills they need to protect themselves but more than this, it inspires them to go out there and actually do something about it, to become actively involved - an agent4change.

Driven by the vision of Artistic Director and Resident Choreographer Michael Trent, Dancemakers draws on the diverse talents and individual strengths of its artists to create contemporary dance works that provoke and entertain. For almost four decades Dancemakers has been on the leading edge of dance in Canada and in 2002 established its current home in the Distillery Historic District. At the Distillery, Dancemakers built a state-of-the-art 98-seat performance venue and a second rehearsal studio named after the late composer Michael J. Baker. In its new home, Dancemakers founded The Centre for Creation, a place where creativity and creative exchange are fostered and nurtured, where dynamic encounters between artists and public enrich and develop contemporary dance.

Our work is based on a Christian view of humanity with respect for every individual’s rights and equal worth. DanChurchAid is rooted in the Danish National Evangelical Lutheran Church, but is active wherever we find the need is highest, regardless of religion, gender, political beliefs, race, national or ethnic origins, handicaps or sexual orientation. We implement our own humanitarian mine action programmes and in some cases emergency aid activities, but in most cases we work through local partners who are often members of the ACT Alliance. Ensuring high quality, capacity building and organisational development of local partners is an important cross-cutting component of DCA’s work.

The Danish Association of the Hard of Hearing protects the interests of more than 800,000 Danes with sound and hearing disorders. The association has local branches in all the Danish municipalities. The local branches work on a political and social level. Through guidance, networking and information the Danish Association of the Hard of Hearing spreads knowledge on ear diseases, sound and hearing disorders and hearing aids. Furthermore the association helps members coping with their sound and hearing disorders. The Danish Association of the Hard of Hearing works to prevent noise damages.

More than 32,000 Danes are diagnosed with cancer every year. The cause of the cancer is unknown in many of these cases but there is every indication that almost 80% of all cancer is related to lifestyle or environmental factors. The Danish Cancer Society focuses on how to improve the rehabilitation of cancer patients. Cancer patients in need of rehabilitation and treatment of long-term sequelae must have their needs systematically assessed and should be offered a plan for rehabilitation and treatment of long-term sequelae.

Danish Demining Group (DDG) is a Humanitarian Mine Action Unit in the Danish Refugee Council (DRC). DRC is a non-profit organisation that works worldwide to help and protect refugees, internally displaced- and other conflict-affected persons. Danish Demining Group is widely recognised as provider of efficient and community-oriented solutions to human security problems caused by landmines, unexploded ordnances and other remnants of war. We work with and within communities in some of the worlds most conflict affected countries to improve their livelihoods and enable economic and social development.

Construction of Hostel for 116 village and tribal hamlets Jamunamarathur Hills based school going children regarding:

Respected Sir

          Greetings to you from Village Women Development Society.

          In an effort of special way Village Women Development Society intends to check school dropout stagnation and continue students schooling, we feel that the barrier of their education should be removed by construction of hostel for both sex that will be easy access to go to school. Further the program removes physical pain of tribal children the school children will go to school without absenteeism.

          The Hostel checks children from being supplementary income source to clear off parents debts and also relieve the parents from availing loan from local money lenders on exorbitant interest 60% because they buy loan to meet out food, dress, education cost of children, now they freed from the burden. Kindly do accept and acknowledge our request for the educational development of Hilly based tribal children.

Yours Sincerly

Josephine Raja

Secretary VWDS

Established in 2005, Danish Muslim Aid is an independent, non-governmental organisation, impelled by our own agenda. We carry out our efforts both independently and in close cooperation with other relief agencies. Our purpose is to supply relief aid and resources for those who are in need of such, regardless of any ethnic, religious or political background. We also strive to ensure an increased public awareness of their plight.

Danish People's Aid was established on July 31st 1907 as Arbejdernes Samariter Forening (The Labour’s Samaritan Association). Today, it is a national, voluntary, humanitarian organisation providing aid and assistance to vulnerable people in Denmark and abroad. Danish People's Aid is represented nationwide in 5 regions and by 50 branches in Denmark and Greenland. The activities of the organisation are mainly based on voluntary work carried out by more than 3 000 individual members and a large number of trade unions, collectively representing approx. 1.5 million members.

The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is a humanitarian, non-governmental, non-profit organisation founded in 1956 that works in more than 30 countries throughout the world. DRC fulfils its mandate by providing direct assistance to conflict-affected populations – refugees, internally displaced people (IDPs) and host communities in the conflict areas of the world; and by advocating on behalf of conflict-affected populations internationally, and in Denmark, on the basis of humanitarian principles and the Human Rights Declaration. DRC is an umbrella organisation consisting of more than 30 members broadly representing civil society organisations in Denmark committed to the refugee cause.

Danita's Children is a non-profit organization with the intent of rescuing and caring for orphaned children, meeting their needs spiritually, physically, academically, emotionally. Founded by Danita Estrella in January 1999, the organization began with a small house and fourteen children in Ouanaminthe, Haiti. Currently Danita's Children has 133 orphans living in two homes. A school provides an education to nearly 550 children and 18,000 meals are fed each month through the feeding program. A church and congregation of 500 Haitians provides a place of spiritual hope and a medical center and hospital for children are currently under construction.

The series presented by Danse Danse, a non-profit organization, aims to promote and increase the visibility of contemporary dance, both new creations and repertory works. By presenting major works from here and abroad, Danse Danse is helping to develop the art of choreography. To increase public awareness and appreciation, Danse Danse publishes or posts Internet information on the companies, artists and works on its program, and organizes audience awareness activities.

DARA - Development Assistance Research Associates - is an independent, international, non-profit organisation, which works to improve the quality and impact of development and humanitarian interventions. We do this through research, evaluations, promoting learning and knowledge sharing. DARA carries out a variety of evaluations in the humanitarian and development sector and also develops its own independent initiatives, such as the Humanitarian Response Index, and the Disaster Risk Reduction Initiative. DARA's organisational and institutional capabilities allow us to respond to needs quickly, efficiently and with flexibility. DARA starts from the principle that all evaluations should add value, have a clear impact and promote change. We use the lessons learnt from our evaluations to identify gaps in the system that require further action, and develop appropriate, self-initiated projects to answer this need.

In 2000, Anne Lee, now Darkness to Light's President and CEO, developed and implemented a strategy for a non-profit primary prevention program with the mission of reducing the incidence of child sexual abuse through public awareness and education. Today we have more than 2,500 Facilitators who teach the program in 48 states and 10 additional countries and more than 200,000 copies of the Stewards of Children curriculum have been distributed and the program is also available in Spanish and Icelandic.

Dartmouth is a student-centered undergraduate and graduate College, with three leading professional schools: Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business. But we're more than just a collection of schools–we're a community like no other. Our alumni, faculty, students, and staff share a passion for this institution that is unparalleled. At Dartmouth, people are forging close connections, intense involvement in athletics, service, and other activities fosters collaboration and camaraderie. Our students enjoy personal contact with faculty both in and out of the classroom. Undergraduates have the opportunity to conduct original research and work one-on-one with faculty who are at the leading edge of their fields. This unique level of personal interaction and the opportunity to create new knowledge is a signature of our graduate and professional programs as well.

The DataCenter is committed to reflecting our social justice values in all of our organizational practices. In particular, we’ve been engaged in defining, implementing and sustaining concrete practices to dismantle systems of oppression and increase our accountability to communities on the ground. In order to tackle challenges and dysfunction endemic to social justice-minded non-profits, over the last year we have been developing long-term sustainable leadership, in particular by people of color and working class people, by sharing it across the organization. By building on transformative work in the movement, knowledge from people of color communities, and on our own thirty year organizational history of participatory decisionmaking, organizational culture work and anti-oppression work, we’ve successfully piloted and are launching a multiracial structure of sustainable non-profit leadership.