These top 5 high impact nonprofits work throughout the country and the world. Charitable givers should feel confident that these national institutions put their donations to good use.
1. Oxfam: Oxfam International is a confederation of 13 like-minded organizations working together and with partners and allies around the world to bring about lasting change. Oxfam works directly with communities and seeks to influence the powerful to ensure that poor people can improve their lives and livelihoods and have a say in decisions that affect them.
2. The Meals On Wheels Association of America : The Meals On Wheels Association of America (MOWAA) is the oldest and largest organization in the United States representing those who provide meal services to people in need. MOWAA’s mission is to provide visionary leadership and professional training and to develop partnerships that will ensure the provision of quality nutrition services to seniors in need.
3. ONE: ONE is a grassroots campaign and advocacy organization backed by more than 2 million people from around the world and every walk of life who are committed to the fight against extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa.
4. Kiva: Kiva’s mission is to connect people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty. Kiva is the world’s first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs in the developing world.
5. Poverty Free Alliance: Poverty Free Alliance is a San Francisco based global, non-profit, strategic organization committed to the sustainable end of the world poverty. Initiated as a Harvard University project, it played a central role in creation of the Social Justice program for the Work and Pension Department of the United Kingdom which was approved by the Parliament in 2012. After successful implementation and impressive outcomes of the Social Justice program in the United Kingdom, the Poverty Free Alliance has expanded the social justice program in the United States, Africa, Asia and Latin America.