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California Diabetes Foundation is a Southern California based non-profit organization, established with the aims of creating awareness of the emerging national epidemic of the new millennium - Diabetes among the general population. It is rightly said,“ the diabetic who knows most lives longest”. Diabetes Mellitus has taken epidemic proportions in USA in the last decade. Our mission is to educate Americans about Diabetes to create awareness and help in the prevention of this disease.

We will do this through health promotion, illness prevention, service, teaching and research. The Grand Bend Area Community Health Centre is a non profit community governed organization that provides multidisciplinary health care utilizing the services of: Family Physicians Nurse Practitioners Diabetes Educators Physiotherapist Occupational therapist Registered Nurse and RPN's Health Promotor Healthy Lifestyle Counsellor Registered Dietitians Social Workers A donation to the centre would go towards unfunded programs and services for the community or compassionate funding for those in need.

The Total Health Lifestyle Center is a life-changing health retreat center where guests are treated with education in the area of health and wellness comprised of a healthy balance of physical, mental and spiritual components for each persons life. Whether you are wanting to prevent, or actually dealing with a disease such as diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, high blood pressure, weight management or a range of other health issues, our lifestyle center is a place you can "call home" while you rest, rejuvenate and heal in a caring, peaceful and accepting environment.

Violence Against Women Services Elgin County offers safety, support and hope to women and their children who have been abused. In our 35-year history, we have helped to save the lives and to change the futures of tens of thousands of women and children; with a 24-hour help line, community based counselling to help manage the hurt of abuse, specific counselling services for sexual abuse, and 24-hour safety at our Women's Place emergency shelter. We also work to prevent violence in our next generation through education programs in area schools, partnerships with social services, workplaces and service groups, and counselling for children aged 4 to 18 whose moms have been abused. Each year, we help over 2,000 people.

On April 1, 2008, the Northern Cancer Research Foundation and the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Foundation joined forces to become Northwestern Ontario's most effective fundraising organization. The integrated foundation represents more effectively the needs of patients and their families, with efforts encompassing all areas of healthcare delivery as well as medical research and disease prevention. The new Health Sciences Foundation features three specialty funds: the Northern Cancer Fund, the Northern Cardiac Fund and the Health Sciences Discovery Fund. Each fund represents an area of high activity and high need in our community: in Northwestern Ontario, Cancer and Cardiac Disease are responsible for the vast majority of deaths, while medical research is the single most significant area of growth and promise in our community. Donors are able to designate their gifts to either fund or can support any area of care within the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre.

IAMAT is a non-profit organization dedicated to travel health. Our goal is to help you plan a healthy trip and provide more access to trusted medical and mental health practitioners around the world. As an advocate for travellers’ health since 1960, our focus is on prevention. We believe in being well informed about potential health risks during travel. We also believe that trusted and affordable medical assistance should be available to all travellers. IAMAT’s work relies on donations. This allows us to provide impartial information and recruit qualified independent medical practitioners around the world without compromising medical ethics. Our vision is to live in a world where peace and understanding can be attained through international travel. The friendships gained while travelling often bring about a sense of solidarity and evoke a spirit of cooperation. Our motto Ut Unum Sint - 'Let All Be One' in Latin - expresses the dream of working together for the common good.

The NCWC Education fund works closely with the National Council of Women of Canada, which represents over 750,000 Canadians through its 24 Nationally Organized Affiliated Societies, Provincial Councils in 6 Provinces and 15 Local Councils of Women. Joint research has been done and public education programs held over the past 10 years on: *Young Women and Violence Prevention *Securing Our Future-the Economics of Later Life action plans/curricula developed to help young women plan for a healthy economic future *'Canada's Water'07 AGM panel re water shortages,impacts of mega dams, drought, mining, a need for a National Water Strategy *'The Water/Energy Connections Project' 08-10 i.e. NCWC Education Fund AGM programs re Great Lakes, Nuclear,'Soft' Water/Energy Paths,Climate;Public Meetings, Newsletters, Web site, Cross -Canada Survey on water/energy use & public opinion on government energy and water policies (*Project funded by the Walter & Duncan Gordon Foundation)

THE BLINDNESS FOUNDATION works in Burma/Myanmar,Cambodia, Laos, the Philippines & Thailand. Our mission is: "HELP US,HELP OTHERS, HELP THEMSELVES" -working with local eye Doctors in these SE Asian countries to help prevent & cure blindness. This is achieved through education, training and mission supply for outreach cataract surgery programs to the rural & urban poor . To date for example we have over the last two decades, contributed lens implants that have been implanted in over 65,000 patients' eyes to help them see again -curing their blindness. Ongoing training and education, upgrades the knowledge and skill -sets of young Eye Doctors in training so that they can treat their own people better, without reliance on outside Ophthalmologists. This builds their health care systems closer to modern world standards. We respond to specific requests for assistance in placing young Eye Doctors in residency & Fellowship programs out of country , Also supply of anti-fungals for the Burmese fishermen with corneal infections after the Nargis Cyclone hit the Irawaddy delta region of Myanmar. Our goal is sustainable self-sufficiency for eye care in these developing nations. We have annual missions that incorporate training & lectures at university based teaching hospitals where possible to assist their development. During these missions we process requests for equipment, traing and supplies and coordinate with industry in the US to raise supplies. Your funding helps develop the third world and truly ,you do ,indeed, "make a difference" Thank You, CHRISTOPHER LYON, MD PhD Director THE BLINDNESS FOUNDATION