charity organizations
Benevolent aid societies
Charity organizations are groups established to raise and distribute funds or services for humanitarian, educational, religious, or other benevolent purposes.
They operate as nonprofits, relying on donations and volunteers: She supports several charity organizations focused on hunger relief.
The term often appears in discussions of tax-deductible giving and philanthropic work.
- food banksDonation-based hunger relief centers
- scholarship fundsMoney awarded for education
- donationVoluntary charitable gift
- hospice careEnd-of-life medical comfort
- orphan careSupport for parentless children
poverty alleviation · volunteerism · helping hands · disaster relief · medical missions · tutoring programs · mental health services · free clinics · 501(c)(3) · annual appeal · matching gift · rehabilitation centers · Red Cross · adult education centers · social justice · mentorship programs · human rights organizations · shelters
- nonprofitsnonprofit, nonprofits, charities, mutual aid societies, NGOs
- Support Networkssupport networks, peer support, social workers, counselors, therapists
- welfare historypoor laws, poorhouse, poorhouses, workhouse, workhouses
- philanthropydonations, donate, give, giving, donor
- povertypoverty line, poor, poverty rate, impoverished, generational poverty
- Latin American JewsJewish immigration, immigration history
charity organizationsbusinesses
Commercial enterprises collectively
commercial enterprises · multinational corporations · hedge funds · investment banks · corporations
charity organizationsloan sharks
Illegal high-interest lenders
pyramid schemes · sweatshops · criminal enterprises · war profiteers · price gougers