NGO´S

By: Pablo Maeso, Ángela Mansilla, Paola Fraile, María Angelina and Victoria Ruiz

MAIN OBJECTIVES:

WHAT IS AN NGO?

INDEX:

• To promote studies and investigations related to social science and human activity

• To exchange knowledge between professionals and students→ psychology, sociology, healthcare...

• To promote the investigations of programs related to healthcare

• To improve individual life quality and social development

• To create study groups → elaborating reports

• To spread knowledge and advances of psychology and sociology all around the world

- What is an NGO

- NGOs we have chosen:

• Save the children

• Cure Violence

• Spanish Association of Psychological and Social Studies

• Non-profit organization

• Local, national or international

• Vital roles in human rights standards

SPANISH ASSOCIATION OF PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL STUDIES

CURE VIOLENCE

BASIC INFORMATION

Cure Violence is guided by clear understandings that violence is a health issue, that individuals and communities can change for the better, that community partners and strategic partnerships are keys to success, and that rigorous, scientific, professional ways of working are essential for effectiveness.

• It was created the 9th of January of 1988

• Javier Garcés Prieto

• Located in Zaragoza

• 321 volunteers and 400 cooperative partners

• Projects in common with international institutions

• Mission
• Goals
• Vision
• Work
• History
• Accolades

The Work of Cure Violence

ACCOLADES

Results

• Highlighted by the award winning movie The Interrupters in 2011
• Ranked 17th among the Top 500 Global NGOs; first among organizations dedicated to reducing violence.
• Named the “approach that will come to prominence” by The Economist.
• Featured on the cover of the New York Times Magazine
• Cited in A Path Appears as an organization changing the world
• Helped to organize an Institute of Medicine

Cure Violence History

• Founded by Gary Slutkin 2000
• Location: University of Illinois-Chicago School of Public Health
• Launched in West Garfield Park
• Was quick to produce results, reducing shootings by 67% in its first year
• 2000-2008, Cure Violence focused its activities in the United States
• 2008 began its first international adaptation of the methodology (Iraq)
• Since then, international programs have been added in many more countries

• Violence prevention
• + 50 cities and organizations - US
• 8 countries ranging form Canada to South Africa to Syria
• Focusing - United States,Latin America and Middle East/North Africa

VISION

• Imagine a world without violence

• Focus more on prevention

• Violence as a disease

• Cure

MISSION / GOALS

To reduce violence globally using disease control and behavior change methods

1. Implement the Cure Violence model in urban areas around the world

2. Shift the thinking, policy, and practice as it relates to violence such that it is seen primarily as health issue

PROJECTS

• Integration of isolated people
• Help people with problems related with drugs
• Psychology studios - teach people to live in a better way
• Health programs for young people
• Promote the rational use of medicine
• Teach young people to use the new technologies in a responsible way

ABOUT THE COLLECTED MONEY

This organization doesn't pay anyone working in it

Almost all of the money goes to activities:

• 63%→ social programs and activities
• 25%→courses and investigation activities
• 12%→ other programs of social integration

Where the money come from?:

• 74%→ income from activities
• 14%→ public subsidy
• 12%→ income from associates and donations

• Leading a movement to treat violence as a health problem
• CHANGE - violence as moral corruption or human failing that applies punitive strategies to address the issue, to one that includes an understanding and addressing of violence as a health problem (a contagious epidemic)
• What we do to do it successfully?

Why have we chosen this NGO?

• We need to be physically and mentally healthy
• Money is not the only necessary thing for helping people
• Everybody deserves a second chance
• "Prevention is better than cure"

HISTORY

• Founded by Gary Slutkin in 2000
• Located in University of Illinois- Chicago School of Public Health
• Launched in West Garfield Park
• Quick to produce results, reducing shootings by 67%
• 2000-2008 focused its activities in the US
• 2008 began its first international adaptation of the methodology (Iraq)
• Since then, international programs have been added in many countries

Why have I chosen this NGO?

• Most active NGO
• Their labour is crucial

Work and goals

• Worldwide
• Provide lifesaving supplies and emotional support.
• Improve children’s lives
• Secure a good quality education
• Protect the world’s most vulnerable children
• Work in the poorest countries to help families out of the poverty cycle, so they can feed and support their children

SAVE THE CHILDREN

When and by whom was founded?

• Founded 1919
• Eglantyne Jebb
• England
• WWI

Save the children's objective

To inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lifes.

ACCOLADES

RESULTS

• Highlighted by the award winning movie The Interrupters in 2011
• Ranked 17th among the Top 500 Global NGOs; first among organizations dedicated to reducing violence
• Named the "approach that will come to prominence" by The Economist
• Featured on the cover of the New York Time Magazine
• Cited in A Path Appears as an organization changing the world
• Helped to organize an Institute of Medicine.