General Health

The mission of The Center for Disease Control and Prevention, based in the United States, is to promote health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability.

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HIV/AIDS

The Body's mission is to:
1. Use the Web to lower barriers between patients and clinicians;
2. Demystify HIV/AIDS and its treatment;
3. Improve patients' quality of life;
4. Foster community through human connection.


The AIDS Nutrition Services Alliance was formed out of a desire on the part of member agencies to network with colleagues, pool resources, share collective wisdom, and form a unified voice to educate and advocate for the nutritional needs of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWAs). The mission of ANSA is to enhance the quality of life of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWAs) by strengthening the capability of community-based nutrition support programs.

Population

United Nation Population Information Network

POPIN's objectives are to identify, establish, strengthen and coordinate population information activities at international, regional and national levels; to facilitate and enhance the availability of population information in collaboration with the regional commissions, the specialized agencies and the NGO population community; and to provide a forum for the exchange of experiences among developed and developing countries on population information issues.

Family Planning

The mission of Planned Parenthood, is: to provide comprehensive reproductive and complementary health care services in settings which preserve and protect the essential privacy and rights of each individual; to advocate public policies which guarantee these rights and ensure access to such services; to provide educational programs which enhance understanding of individual and societal implications of human sexuality; to promote research and the advancement of technology in reproductive health care and encourage understanding of their inherent bioethical, behavioral, and social implications.

Racism

The mission of Anti-Racism.Net is to provide an information and technical support site that will serve as an Internet portal on race and diversity related issues for antiracism advocates.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is the oldest, largest, strongest and most effective civil rights organization in America. The Principal objective of the NAACP is to ensure the political, educational, social and economic equality of minority group citizens among the citizens of the United States.The NAACP is committed to achieving this objective through non-violence and relies upon the press, the petition, the ballot and the courts, and is persistent in the use of legal and moral persuasion even in the face of overt and violent racial hostility.

Recovering Racists Network was founded as a step to help in ending racism. Among its aims are to give support to people who believe and are ready to admit that by growing up in a racist culture, there is no way they could have avoided becoming racists themselves.

Crosspoint Anti-Racism is a search engine comprised of anti-racism sites. It is designed so that the user can search by country or by minority group.

Homelessness

National Alliance to End Homelessness
"Our mission is to mobilize all sectors of society in an alliance to end homelessness. No American should have to be homeless." The National Alliance to End Homelessness is a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to solving the problems of homelessness in the United States and to preventing its continued growth.

The National Coalition for the Homeless is an American advocacy network of homeless persons, activists, service providers, and others committed to ending homelessness through public education, policy advocacy, grassroots organizing, and technical assistance.

Violence

Guns

Domestic Violence

Drug Abuse

The Partnership for a Drug-Free America is a private, non-profit, non-partisan coalition of professionals from the communications industry. Best known for our national, anti-drug advertising campaign, our mission is to reduce demand for illicit drugs in America through media communication. "More than $3 billion in media exposure and some 500 ads have been donated to the Partnership's national campaign, making our effort the single, largest, public service ad campaign in history. Our work focuses on 'unselling' drugs to children through media communication, and that's what the Partnership is all about - preventing drug use among kids."

Join Together, founded in 1991, supports community-based efforts to reduce, prevent, and treat substance abuse across the United States.

Education

The FamilyEducation Company's mission is to help parents help their children succeed. "We provide parents with the information and resources they need to actively participate in their children's learning process. Today's parents want to ensure that their children get the best education available. And today's schools want an easy way to reach out to parents and the community to make that possible. The FamilyEducation Company can help both groups by providing tools and support to develop an internet information service that brings local, state and national education resources together in one place -- free of charge to both parents and schools. Then, we will be able to build a future in which everyone who cares about children - parents, teachers, administrators, children's advocacy groups, and government officials - will work together to teach our country's children."


The National Eduaction Association is America's oldest and largest organization committed to advancing the cause of public education. NEA is a volunteer-based organization supported by a network of staff at the local, state, national, and international level.

Religions

The World's Major Religions and Belief Systems. While religious beliefs are of great importance to those who hold them, the less formalistic belief systems -- variously referred to as animist or tribal religions, and adhered to by peoples all over the world -- have proven somewhat enigmatic to Western minds. This site deals only with those religions that most Westerners have at least a peripheral acquaintance with, ones that employ certain readily identifiable tenets, beliefs, and doctrines.

Allfaiths

Islam

Sikhism

Buddhism

Hinduism

Hare Krishna

Taoism

Zoroastrianism

Bahà'i

Shintoism

Jainism