An organization or organisation (read more about -ize vs -ise) is a formal group of people with one or more shared goals. The word itself is derived from the Greek word ὄργανον (organon) meaning tool. The term is used in both daily and scientific English in multiple ways.
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Amida Trust - Features group gathering a corps of people seriously interested in developing humanitarian projects on Buddhist principles to help overcome suffering in the world.
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Buddhist Peace Fellowship - The Buddhist Peace Fellowship, founded in 1978, brings together Buddhist teachings with progressive social action. Programs include peace and justice work, prison work, Buddhist Alliance for Social Engagement, and the magazine Turning Wheel.
Buddhist Relief Mission - Buddhist Relief Mission is a 501(C)3 non-profit organization supporting Buddhist projects worldwide, particularly in remote areas.
Dharma Access Project - Brailled Buddhist prayers are provide for free upon request - bound Brailled copies of The Four Immeasurables and the Prayer of Shantideva to any Dharma center or member who would like one for a family member or friend who is blind.
Dharma Gaia Trust - Project with a mission to nurture awareness of the complementarity of Buddhism and ecology.
Earth Sangha - Buddhist environmental nonprofit organization founded on the premise that the Buddhist way of looking at life can play a major role in healing the planet's environmental crisis. Formal mission to practice Buddhism in ways that help people become better stewards of the planet, and to do the practical environmental work that good stewardship demands.
Meta Description: [ The Earth Sangha is a Buddhist environmental nonprofit. Our organization was founded on the premise that the Buddhist way of looking at life can play a major role in healing the planet's environmental crisis. ]
Himalayan Kingdom Foundation Trust - A private non-profit organization based in Nepal, sponsoring projects marketing Nepali goods to benefit the educational, social, medical, artistic and spiritual needs of the Nepalese people.
Meta Description: [ Hkft promotes handicrafts, wholesale for wholesalers, tibetan & nepali services related to buddhism, free tibet, asia shopping ]
Jamyang Choling - An innovative education project for Himalayan women with buddhist orientation.
Metta Welfare Association - Singaporean organization working for welfare of the poor, the elderly, the disabled and the terminally ill.
Meta Description: [ We provide Charity, Donation, Welfare, Austistic, Mild Intellectuall Disabled, Student Care, Vegatarian, Disability, Medical, Special School, Social Enterprise, Buddhist, Events, Metta Hospice, hospice, Medical Care ]
Multicultural Buddhists for Peace - Buddhist people of color multicultural interfaith message board and speakers bureau sponsoring diversity in the heart of Americans to achieve peace, religious tolerance, heal racism, end violence, and alleviate poverty.
Meta Description: [ Buddhist people of color commentary, multicultural interfaith discussion groups, and speakers bureau sponsoring diversity in America are offered to achieve peace, tolerance. ]
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Network of Engaged Buddhists UK - Politically and socially engaged Buddhists in the UK.
Rokpa - An international family of charities helping the hungry, sick, orphaned and poor.
Meta Description: [ ROKPA INTERNATIONAL is a charity that helps in Nepal, Tibet, Zimbabwe. It was founded in 1980 by its President Dr. Akong Tulku Rinpoche, a Tibetan meditation master and doctor and by Ms. Lea Wyler, its Vice-President, a Swiss actress, together with her father, the well-known Swiss lawyer, Dr. Vei... ]
Rokpa UK - Non-sectarian non political approach to raising money to build schools and clinics in some of the poorest areas of the world. RokpaUK Charity is based at Samye Ling Tibetan Centre in the boorders of Scotland.
Meta Description: [ Rokpa is an international family of charities helping the hungry, sick, orphaned and poor throughout Tibet, Nepal and many other countries ]
Rokpa USA - Works in the areas of basic and further education, health care, relief of hunger, preservation of culture, self-help and ecology.
Strawberry Dragon Zendo - A Buddhist outreach program supporting peaceful social action in places such as prisons, hospitals and with our Native American people.
Meta Description: [ The Strawberry Dragon Zendo is a Buddhist outreach program supporting peaceful social action in places such as prisons, hospitals and with our Native American people. ]
The Anand Society (Steuncomité Anand) - This group of enthusiasts invites visitors to the Buddhist holy sites, and to Bodhgaya in particular, to really practice the concepts of metta and karuna by supporting the Jeevan Deep network of education projects for Bodhgaya's communities of untouchables
The Karuna Trust - UK based Buddhist organization that has education, health and cultural projects for poor people in India of any religion. Also helps fund Buddhist activities.
Meta Description: [ Since 1980 Karuna has worked closely with members of India’s Dalit community, oppressed by a caste system that has designated them as 'untouchable'. Now Karuna also assists India’s marginalized tribal (Adivasi) communities. ]
Tzu Chi Foundation - Taiwanese compassionate relief organization.
Tzu-Chi Foundation: Northern California Chapter - The Buddhist Compassion Relief, Tzu-Chi Foundation is a non-profit organization whose objective is to provide charity, medical treatment, educational development, and cultural promotion to the needy and the society worldwide
UWTC - Taiwan Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation, Collegiate Association, Seattle Chapter
Zaltho Foundation - Promotes peace and nonviolence in and among individuals, families, societies and countries. It supports all efforts to attain this goal through whatever peaceful and non-violent means are available.
Zen Environmental Studies Center - Formed in 1992 to coordinate Zen Mountain Monastery's activities in the areas of environmental education, recreation, research, and protection. Information on activities and philosophy.
Meta Description: [ Zen Environmental Studies Institute is part of the MRO of Zen Buddhism and is a not-for-profit religious corporation that exists to provide training, education and practice of Zen Buddhism and its relationship to the environment ]
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