The Carter Center helps to fund water filters, education, medical care and mobilizing community health workers.
Rachel Maryles helps direct the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding's health care program, which trains providers to offer religiously and culturally sensitive care for patients of all backgrounds.
The most money is usually spent on kitchens, bathrooms and flooring, according to BDX, the marketing-services and technology company behind the Envision online design center that helps customers select options.
Now he helps bolt together the rear and center sections of massive 777 jets.
Bill Stallworth, executive director of the Hope Coordination Center in Biloxi that helps rehouse Katrina victims, said he's astounded that the supplies were given away.
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Tourism to the Lamanai Outpost jungle lodge, in the wild heart of Belize, helps fund the Lamanai Field Research Center (LFRC) -- a not-for-profit venture established in 1992 to promote sustainable land use and tourism in the Central American country.
So far the most concrete product to come out of the center is a shoe that helps alleviate the effects of arthritis.
Our "First Stop Veterans' Resource Center, " FSVRC, helps with emergency financial aid, referrals, VA-SSA benefit information, employment assistance, and more, regardless of where the veterans live or service members are stationed.
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The teens also make and sell products at the center's bakery, which helps fund the program, and the foundation offers micro-loans to help them start their own businesses.
Xie Shuying, an activist at the Migrant Worker Center, a Shenzhen-based group that helps educate workers on their rights, said the group has been harassed by the local government for the past year.
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He helps staff the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine's center that provides 24-hour consultations for in-flight emergencies for the airlines studied and that fields an average of one call per hour.
According to Duplease and Sperry, moving around the operations center during each day's 12-hour shifts helps get the troops more comfortable with their presence and encourage them to reach out for help.
This information helps doctors, said John Eadie, director of the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Center of Excellence at Brandeis University.
While the Center is distinguished for its work in stroke rehabilitation, it also helps victims of spinal cord, brain, traumatic brain and orthopedic injuries, as well as cancer.
Last year she ran away from an arranged marriage and genital cutting to the Tasaru Rescue Center in Kenya, a safe haven for young women which also helps them with an education.
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The project also helps sari-sari stores gain access to loans, with capital provided by the Center for Agriculture and Rural Development, or CARD, a microfinance institution that has partnered with the Hapinoy program.
Rob Gardos, chief executive of GridApp Systems, a company that helps automate the deployment, configuration and management of databases, says that one large data center he encountered took 18 months to fully install an Oracle quarterly security patch across the enterprise.
Generations of immigrants have faced similar challenges, but luckily Alaa found a public-private partnership that helps people like him gain financial stability: the San Diego International Rescue Committee (IRC) Financial Opportunity Center.
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