Society

Discusses foundation group history and goals, including strategies for charitable giving (children and Jerusalem cultural and civic programs) and for investments.

pursues a strategy of "service, advocacy, and empowerment" for meeting basic human needs and promoting democratic participation for people around the globe.

Objectives are to strengthen education leadership, improve after-school learning opportunities, and expand participation in arts and culture. Gives information on strategies, finances, results, and employment.

Orlando, Florida. Includes mission, history, staff, description of programs and services, success stories, and volunteer spotlight.

Christian hunger ministry that salvages fresh produce and delivers it to soup kitchens and food banks across the United States. Descriptions of gleaning programs, special projects, stories, and testimonials.

An organization committed to caring for needy peoples in North Africa, the Middle East, the Caucasus and Central Asia.

Swiss NGO which looks at quality and effectiveness of development cooperation projects in the third world in order to improve their effectiveness.

Nonprofit organization which seeks to increase the availability of health and population control products/services in low-income areas of the world.

Provides free air transportation to patients who need treatment at distant medical facilities. [Michigan]

Learn how to volunteer, donate, or apply for an affordable home.

Non-profit Christian organization where volunteers and donors build homes for low income families.

A chapter of FMCA whose owners volunteer their time and talent, working with local Habitat for Humanity affiliates to build simple, decent, and affordable houses.

Works with moderate income families to create safe, decent, affordable housing. An ecumenical Christian ministry, to people of all faiths, serving Lucas and Fulton counties, including Toledo, Ohio.

A local affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International. Habitat for Humanity works in partnership with people in need to build and renovate decent, affordable housing.

Overview of activities and events, volunteer opportunities, news, and directions to homes under construction.

Offers low cost lodging and support for families of critically ill patients. Includes history, facilities, services, newsletter, fundraisers, and contact information. [Pennsylvania]

Nonprofit. Offers home-like accommodations for transplant patients and their caregivers in Rochester. Amenities, how to arrange a stay, costs, newsletter (in PDF), wish list. [Minnesota]

About the organization, its services, and press releases.

A Belgian non-profit organization with a mission to efficiently support small and medium-sized charitable institutions and projects located exclusively in Belgium.

Formed by YMCA National Councils. Works with YMCA movements in 120 countries worldwide. Headquarters located in Geneva, Switzerland.

Human services organization dedicated to developing women, girls, and their families. Located in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Features information about senior services, domestic violence programs, child care services and a community calendar.

Includes information about their educational, empowerment and training, children's rights, development and community based programs.

Works to empower women and eliminate racism by offering services through their rape crisis, domestic violence, counseling and family services, youth services, child care and social and racial justice programs.

Provides consulting services and partnerships to foster the application of business solutions to social problems.

Social investment in small businesses in Africa to enable sustainable employment creation.

A non-profit venture philanthropy fund that invests in social entrepreneurs.

Lists currently available international dental volunteer opportunities. Sponsored by the American Dental Association.

Faculty profiles and information on the various philosophy laboratories operated at this Japanese institution.

Department of Philosophy - Tel Aviv, Israel. In English and Hebrew.

Brief historical survey of ordinary language philosophy by Garth Kemerling.

Professional organization supporting philosophy inspired by continental European traditions. Call for papers, events calendar, and organization information.

Article from The Encyclopedia of Informal Education exploring the related notions of dialogue and conversation in the thinking of Hans-Georg Gadamer, Paulo Freire, Jürgen Habermas, and David Bohm.

Portal to this philosophy. Includes an anthology of texts.

Chapter from a book by Sanderson Beck. Discusses the life story and teachings of each of these classical Chinese thinkers.

Feminist Epistemology critically analyses the bias of gender and social hierarchies on knowledge production; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by Elizabeth Anderson.

A bibliography compiled by Martin Kusch.

Refereed journal on social epistemology (edited by J. Leach). The contents and abstracts are available (through Igenta).

A non-profit affiliated with the University of Texas, dedicated to teaching environmental ethics, with a focus on the Environmental Ethics journal.

Ted Honderich on how freedom and determinism are really related, with special attention to Richard Double's views.

Thomas D. Senor reviews this collection of essays edited by Matthias Steup. From Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.

Essay on the pre-Socratics by C.D.C. Reeve of Reed College

Essay by Philip Schaff.

Introductory essay from the Catholic Encyclopedia.

Free, refereed electronic philosophy journal, edited by philosophy faculty at the University of Michigan.

Journal focusing on the continental tradition, published twice yearly. Articles available in PDF format.

Quarterly international journal of moral, political, and legal philosophy. Edited by John Deigh, and published by the University of Chicago Press. Includes contents from current and past issues.

A critique of the view that quantum theory disproves determinism, and an argument that freedom is simultaneously compatible and incompatible with determinism. By Prof. Ted Honderich.

An overview of theories of free will and the problems that they raise. By Timothy O'Connor.

Resources on the development of ontology, especially in the twentieth century.