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Holy Land Foundationfor Relief and Development. The Holy Land Foundation ( HLF) was the largest Islamic charity in the United States. Headquartered in Richardson, Texas, [1] and run by Palestinian-Americans, it was originally known as Occupied Land Fund. [2] The organization's mission was to "find and implement practical solutions for human ...
National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services set up the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) in 1988 to compensate individuals and families of individuals injured by covered childhood vaccines. [3] The VICP was adopted in response to concerns over the pertussis portion of the DPT vaccine ...
The Hurricane Sandy New Jersey Relief Fund was a relief fund created by Mary Pat Christie, the wife of Governor of New Jersey Chris Christie, to assist the victims of Hurricane Sandy, the major storm that devastated coastal communities in New Jersey in October/November 2012. Mary Pat Christie responded by taking a 3-month leave of absence form ...
International Development and Relief Foundation (IDRF) is a Canadian non-profit organization dedicated to linking Canadian and Muslim communities with overseas development projects, both humanitarian emergency assistance and long term development projects in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and the Americas, based on Islamic principles of human dignity, self-reliance, and social ...
Website. www .idrf .org. India Development and Relief Fund (IDRF) [1] is a Maryland, US-based 501 (c) (3) tax exempt, non-profit organization (EIN: 52-1555563) [2] that supports impoverished people in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka. IDRF's programs span all over India from Jammu and Kashmir to Tamil Nadu, and from Gujarat to Arunachal Pradesh ...
World Relief was founded as a Commission in 1944 by the National Association of Evangelicals to send clothing and food to victims of World War II. [5] After the war, evangelical leaders decided that the War Relief Commission should continue working in post-war Europe and around the world. In 1950, the agency was renamed World Relief and began ...
Islamic Relief Worldwide is a faith-inspired humanitarian and development agency which is working to support and empower the world's most vulnerable people.. Founded in the United Kingdom in 1984, Islamic Relief has international headquarters in Birmingham and a network of national offices, affiliated partners, registered branches and country offices spread over more than 45 countries.
The Irish loan funds [a] were microcredit organizations that operated in Ireland between 1720 and 1915. They were run by local associations that made small loans to the industrious poor, and were often very successful. At peak there were about 300 loan funds. Some of the funds were set up in the 18th century, and many more in the 19th century ...