Behind the Scenes is the charity for all the people who make the magic happen without your ever seeing them – the people who work behind the stage and behind the camera – on concerts and shows, films and TV, at theme parks and almost anywhere you can think of where you go to be entertained.

The mission of Enders Island is to proclaim in word and deed the Gospel of Jesus Christ in the light of the Catholic faith. A Catholic Retreat Ministry that provides three principal activities: Recovery, Sacred Art and Spiritual Retreats. Each year, thousands of people of all faiths are welcomed to participate in programs of spiritual renewal and recovery.

Logout is a leading European mental health NGO focused on providing psychological help, support, information and treatment to young video gamers, streamers, victims of online abuse, young influencers and crypto traders and their parents as well. With an award winning program Logout&Restart organization provided help to more than 1400 individuals in 10 years of existence. Logout is dedicated to improving digital wellbeing of all people especially youngsters, by providing treatment, help, information, education and raising awareness on balanced and healthy use of media and technology.

No Longer Bound is addiction treatment that works. We are relentless for real transformation. As a long-term, faith-based, clinical and residential treatment program for men in addiction, there are few places like us in the world. Located in Cumming, Georgia, we provide one full year of residential treatment, vocational training and family therapy, and we are one of the cheapest in the industry! That is because our financial model allows donors to invest in changing lives. We are addiction treatment that works.

Pathways Vermont’s mission is to end homelessness in Vermont and provide innovative mental health alternatives.

To provide through Christian ministry: Food, clothing, shelter and other basic needs and offer the rehabilitative teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Southern CC Inc. is a non-profit Organization whose sole mission is to empower veterans service member and the community by rebuilding and revitalizing. We provide a network of support to assist veterans who suffer from financial difficulties and mental strains.

The Actors Fund fosters stability and resiliency, and provides a safety net for performing arts and entertainment professionals over their lifespan.

APOPO addresses global issues through research, development and deployment of scent detection technology at its training and research center in Tanzania and seven other countries 59 countries and states suffer from the blight of hidden landmines. APOPO’s landmines detection rats ignore scrap metal and only detect explosive scent, making them much faster at finding landmines than metal detectors. Detecting tuberculosis remains one of the biggest challenges facing medical professionals. APOPO’s TB detection rats can check 100 samples for tuberculosis in 20 minutes; the same task would take a lab technician up to 4 days. Suspect samples are re-checked using LED fluorescence microscopy.

Our mission is to find and promote the most effective ways to help animals. To accomplish this, we pursue three main programs: Research & Evaluation, Education & Outreach, and Fundraising & Grant-making. Annually, we conduct comprehensive evaluations and recommendations of impactful animal advocacy charities working around the globe to reduce animal suffering. Ultimately, our vision is a world in which no individual is given less than full moral consideration on the basis of any morally irrelevant feature of their identity, including species membership.

Animal Equality is an international organization working with society, governments, and companies to end cruelty to farmed animals.

To improve the lives of animals and people by providing resources, care, and protection.

Coral Restoration Foundation™ (CRF) is the world’s largest non-profit marine conservation organization dedicated to restoring coral reefs to a healthy state, in Florida as well as globally. Headquartered in the Florida Keys, CRF was incorporated in 2007 in response to the widespread loss of the dominant coral species on the Florida Reef Tract, the third largest barrier reef in the world. CRF’s core mission is to restore coral reefs, to educate others on the importance of our oceans, and to use science to further coral research and coral reef monitoring techniques.

Dedicated to the welfare and protection of dolphins worldwide. As seen in the Academy Award® Winning Documentary, THE COVE.

FOUR PAWS is the global animal welfare organization for animals under direct human influence, which reveals suffering, rescues animals in need, and protects them.

Forgotten Animals is the closest to being an ASPCA for Russia as it gets. Neglecting and abusing dogs, cats and wild animals, and treating them as commodities, is still a widely common cultural norm in former Soviet countries. There are hundreds of traveling dolphinaria, animal circuses, petting zoos and no wildlife sanctuary to rescue those animals to. When you find animals in need, there is usually nowhere to take them, no number to call for help, like there is in the western countries. There is no supporting infrastructure and unless you can afford to take the animal to the vet, pay the bills and look for a new home, there is usually nothing you can do, besides just watching them suffer. We are changing the culture where people treat animals as things that are there for them to keep or use as entertainment until it suits them, and to get rid of, when they’ve had enough of them, often inhumanely kill or simply abandon. Forgotten Animals does this through: 1. Neutering of cats and dogs, reducing the number of unwanted litters and abandonment. 2. Making veterinary services available where there are none and helping create and sustain the needed infrastructure 3. Educating the population through social ads and humane education 4.Lobbying for a legislation change, including drafting a variety of actual law proposals 5.Rehabilitating orphaned bear cubs and releasing them back to the wild 6. In 2021 we will start building the country’s first real wildlife sanctuary, where we can rescue abused wild animals to and finally start shutting down the industries, that are torturing animals for profit and so-called entertainment. The work we do alleviates and prevents suffering and deaths and improves the lives of animals and people. Instead of merely fighting the consequences, Forgotten Animals targets the root causes by bringing the best practice and expertise from around the world to remote places in need. With deep understanding of the local culture and mentality and by keeping our overheads low, we work efficiently and effectively, where it is needed the most.

We save bonobos and their rainforest home.

The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation (FTPF) is an award-winning international nonprofit charity dedicated to planting fruitful trees and plants to alleviate world hunger, combat climate change, strengthen communities, and improve the surrounding air, soil, and water.

The goals at Hope For Paws are to rescue neglected and abandoned animals, to find them loving forever homes, to educate people on the importance of companion animals in our society, to reduce euthanasia rates at shelters, increase adoption rates, and inspire people all over the world to take action in order to end animal abuse, neglect, and homelessness.

To Rescue, Reunite, Re-Home, Rehabilitate and Repair any retired working dog that has served mankind in some capacity.

Muttville’s mission is to give senior dogs a second chance at life. We rescue them, give them the care they need, find them loving homes, and spread the word about how WONDERFUL they are!

In many areas of the country, especially in the South, the situation for animals is desperate: Chained outside and starving, homeless and running loose, or just simply no longer wanted and abandoned in an overburdened and underfunded facility that can’t possibly take another. For these animals, there is not much hope…except to look in the night sky for the North Star, their only way out. We are a group of passionate volunteers committed to saving these innocent dogs and finding them a new forever home.We are 100% dedicated to operating in a safe, transparent, and ethical manner, and to ensuring the best veterinary practices are followed with regards to the care and transport of our animals. NorthStar Pet Rescue is a IRS 501(c)(3) charitable organization (EIN: 81-5348036).

A nonprofit organization founded in 2000, Ocean Defenders Alliance (ODA) uses boats or works from shore to remove man-made debris ranging from every kind of abandoned fishing gear to plastic trash.

Orangutan Outreach’s mission is to protect orangutans in their native forests of Borneo and Sumatra while providing care for orphaned and displaced orangutans until they can be returned to their natural environment. If they cannot be released, we will do everything in our power to ensure they have a life of dignity and the best possible long-term care. We seek to raise funds and promote public awareness of orangutan conservation issues by collaborating with partner organizations around the world.

Over and Above Africa was created after Founder, Kerry David attended a Los Angeles fundraiser for elephants that outlined the total devastation poaching and the human/animal conflict (population growth pushing animals into smaller and smaller areas) is having on Africa’s vulnerable wildlife. The presentation was informative and beautiful, it had been filmed from a drone flying high over Africa’s unique landscape effectively protecting the animals below – that’s how we got our name “Over and Above Africa” but the visuals were devastating. As an animal advocate, she had no idea how dire the situation was but was struck by the idea that raising global funds through micro financing to support the people and organizations she had met while researching in Africa could be of great service. What makes us unique is that we then film the funds we donate to each project and create mini-documentaries for you, our Over and Above Family. We feel this is something that empowers our donors and members to share with friends and family to further the message that these animals and communities need our help. Over and Above Africa’s team share a mutual vision that many of the challenges these animals face can be addressed with a global community’s awareness and involvement

Re:wild protects and restores the wild to build a thriving Earth where all life flourishes

Sea Shepherd UK is an international non-profit, marine wildlife conservation organization… Established in 1977, our mission is to end the destruction of habitat and slaughter of wildlife in the world’s oceans in order to conserve and protect ecosystems and species. We use innovative direct-action tactics to investigate, document, and take action when necessary to expose and confront illegal activities on the high seas. By safeguarding the biodiversity of our delicately balanced ocean ecosystems, Sea Shepherd UK works to ensure their survival for future generations.

We practice responsible and innovative ways to reduce animal overpopulation in shelters, rescue and rehabilitate critically injured and neglected animals, and connect the community to services that enable animals to remain in their homes. Together we are advocates, rescuers, and educators. Together we make a difference. Why do we do what we do? Because They Matter.

Sky Mountain Wild Horse Sanctuary creates healthy ecosystems for wild horses and provides sanctuary for vulnerable wild horses where they roam free forever.

The REAL Bark is proudly known as a Non-Profit Rescue that takes on the most difficult of cases. The Paralyzed, and Traumatized have a safe spot with us as we do lengthy rehabilitation with a regular rotating number of special ‘Project Pups.’ From the streets and shelters of Los Angeles, to International dogs in dire need, we humbly – and for years – have been taking discarded, abused, and forgotten lives into our own – healing them – and gently placing them back on a path toward a NEW Protected + Celebrated Life. The “REAL” in our Team name stands for: RESPONSIBLE – ETHICAL – ANIMAL – LEAGUE.

Third Millennium Alliance (TMA) is dedicated to protecting and regenerating the most threatened tropical forest on Earth in collaboration with local communities. Working in the last remnants of Ecuador’s coastal forest we promote a culture in which communities recognize both the practical and intrinsic benefits of forest stewardship and help them gain the capacity to manage the land accordingly. Our primary tools used to achieve this goal are land purchase and regenerative cacao agroforestry.

Wild Tomorrow Fund is dedicated to the protection of threatened and endangered species and the habitats they depend on for survival. We are creating a wildlife corridor for elephants, rhinos and other threatened species in South Africa to give them a fighting chance against extinction, and communities a better quality of life.

At Wildlife SOS, we focus on protecting India’s wild animals in their natural habitats as well as on rescuing and caring for orphaned, injured and exploited wildlife. We operate two rescue centers for elephants, five for bears, one for leopards, and one for birds and primates.

The Wolf Conservation Center (WCC) is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit environmental education organization working to protect and preserve wolves in North America through science-based education, advocacy, and participation in the federal recovery and release programs for two critically endangered wolf species – the Mexican gray wolf and red wolf.

Wolf Trap Animal Rescue (WTAR) focuses efforts on rescuing puppies & kittens who have a high-risk of euthanasia in kill shelters . WTAR rescues animals primarily from Mississippi, where young animals are euthanized by the hundreds each and every day due to overpopulation. Lack of spay-neuter laws and large sections of rural land allow for free-roaming animals to reproduce, leading to a surplus of neglected, homeless, and starving puppies and kittens. These animals are then found and brought to local animal shelters, which simply cannot provide the care or homes these pets need in order to survive. Ultimately, they get euthanized for space or for illnesses contracted at the shelter. WTAR rescues these pets by operating a life-saving transport, foster, and adoption program in Northern Virginia. WTAR finds the pets who need us the most by employing a full-time transport coordinator on the ground in Mississippi (WTAR South), with the goal of working directly with these shelters and communities to be a resource before they euthanize for space. Rescued animals are then scheduled and placed on emergency transport with WTAR to Northern Virginia. These transports operate weekly, relieving the shelters and communities from overcrowding and needless euthanasia. Upon arrival, they undergo an extensive veterinary intake evaluation and then are placed in foster homes until find their forever homes through private Meet & Greets.

Though the needs of the world are nothing new, the remedies of World In Need are unique. All of its programs and services are self-perpetuating, fortifying, and drawing on the resources of those in need. Like a pebble dropped into a pond, the effects of World In Need’s assistance continues long after World In Need has moved on to other villages, communities and countries.

Wright-Way Rescue has been a pioneer in the field of animal welfare for over 17 years when we began rescuing homeless animals from poor, rural areas and finding them loving forever homes. The problem of pet overpopulation in Rural America is dire and virtually undocumented, and we believe that helping these remote communities is critical to the national No-Kill movement. We work with over 100 rescue partners throughout the rural Midwest, South, and Southeast to save well over 5,000 lives every year on approximately 10% of the budget of similarly sized organizations. We are committed to stretching every donated “dollar” as far as it can go. We drive over 100,000 miles every year to save the lives of homeless pets who are at risk of euthanasia, abandonment, or worse. Our robust transport program was once criticized by industry insiders but is now talked about as the future of rescue. We have always believed that More Is Possible, and we wholeheartedly agree with Orville Wright’s statement, “If we worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, then there would be little hope for advance.” Wright-Way Rescue operates on a unique model to save lives. Animals come to our Admissions Center located in Southern Illinois where they receive complete medical care before travelling to our main adoption center in Chicago. Our program is founded on strong shelter medicine, and, to that end, we run a Critical Care Center near our Admissions Center that is designed to address highly contagious but treatable diseases such as parvovirus, distemper, and sarcoptic mange. We have a satellite adoption center located at Lambs Farm, a non-profit dedicated to helping adults with disabilities lead happy and productive lives. We also have a small adoption center at our Admissions Center, and we are in the process of developing foster programs in two other states. In addition, we engage thousands of volunteers every year as fosters, dog walkers, cat entertainers, and much needed shelter helpers. To us, animal welfare is foundational to building compassionate communities, and that is our dream. Won’t you join us?