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More than 2.2 billion people are living without access to safe water. In 2010, the UN General Assembly explicitly recognized the human right to water and sanitation. Everyone has the right to sufficient, continuous, safe, acceptable, physically accessible, and affordable water for personal and domestic use.

NGOsource spoke to four NGOs that are certified in the NGOsource repository and asked each one to reflect on how COVID-19 has changed their work the past year.

Founded in 1969, Rajkot Cancer Society provides quality cancer care and treatment to all patients, regardless of socioeconomic status. With more than 250 staff and a hospital bed capacity of 160 patients, the organization's prevention and treatment work is vital to its community.   

Associação Data Privacy Brasil de Pesquisa and NGOsource

NGOsource is proud to support NGOs like Tiny Totos Kenya Limited, which is transforming the way organizations serve their communities during a pandemic. Tiny Totos first went through the equivalency determination (ED) process in 2020, when the David Weekley Family Foundation requested its ED. Now that Tiny Totos has been certified, its ED will remain on file in the NGOsource repository, where additional grantmakers can search and find it, creating new opportunities for funding. 

Each year on December 1, World AIDS Day provides people the opportunity to unite in the fight against HIV, show support for people living with HIV, and commemorate those who have died from an AIDS-related illness. This year, to recognize World AIDS Day 2020, NGOsource is sharing just a few of the incredible organizations in our repository that have used the equivalency determination process to receive funding and continue their work in HIV/AIDS awareness, support, and care.  

STOPAIDS

In this three-part series, TechSoup’s General Counsel provides an overview of "due diligence" in the charitable sector. Part I examines the meaning of the term, with an overview of how it applies specifically to U.S. funders and international grantees.

Contributed by Selma Moreira, Executive Director, Baobá Fund for Racial Equity

Promoting racial equity is one of the main challenges of the 21st century: now it is the time to put an end to injustices perpetuated by the past centuries that keep a significant portion of humanity in the margins of the society.

It feels like there is very little to celebrate in the world right now as we find ourselves in the midst of a global pandemic, systemic oppression of the Black community, and a climate crisis. Now, more than ever, it is vitally important for actors in the social sector to come together and support those who need it most.

As discussed in a previous post, a nonprofit organization that is organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes may be deemed a public charity (and not a private foundation) under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) in one of three principal ways.

Based in Netanya, Israel, itworks was created in 2006 after its founder Ifat Baron noticed the systemic problem that highly-qualified individuals from diverse communities lacked access to high-level positions in Israel's tech industry. Baron established itworks to narrow these employment gaps and increase diversity in Israel's high-tech sector.