Alight, the Glossary
Alight, formerly the American Refugee Committee (ARC), is an international nonprofit, nonsectarian organization that has provided humanitarian assistance and training to millions of beneficiaries over the last 40 years.[1]
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98 relations: Afghanistan, Agriculture, Aquifer, Asha-Rose Migiro, Bagh District, Balochistan, Pakistan, Ban Vinai Refugee Camp, Borehole, Cambodia, Capacity building, Côte d'Ivoire, Charity Navigator, CharityWatch, Chicago, Darfur, Delmas, Haiti, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, Emergency management, Emergency medicine, Food distribution, Food security, Gender-related violence, Gulu District, Haiti, HIV/AIDS, Humanitarian aid, Humanitarian assistance, Immunization, Indonesia, Infection, Infrastructure, Internally displaced person, Iraq, Juba, Kajo Keji, Karen people, Khao-I-Dang, Latrine, Liberia, Logistics, Malakal, Mardan, Micro-enterprise, Microcredit, Microfinance, Midwife, Minneapolis, Money (financial website), Myanmar, ... Expand index (48 more) »
- Charities based in Minnesota
- Organizations based in Minneapolis
- Refugee aid organizations in the United States
Afghanistan
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia.
Agriculture
Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries, and forestry for food and non-food products.
Aquifer
An aquifer is an underground layer of water-bearing material, consisting of permeable or fractured rock, or of unconsolidated materials (gravel, sand, or silt).
Asha-Rose Migiro
Asha-Rose Mtengeti Migiro (born 9 July 1956) is a Tanzanian politician and diplomat who was the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations from 2007 to 2012.
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Bagh District
Bagh District (ضلع باغ) is a district of Pakistan-administered Azad Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region.
Balochistan, Pakistan
Balochistan (بلۏچستان; بلوچستان) is a province of Pakistan.
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Ban Vinai Refugee Camp
Ban Vinai Refugee Camp, officially the Ban Vinai Holding Center, was a refugee camp in Thailand from 1975 until 1992.
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Borehole
A borehole is a narrow shaft bored in the ground, either vertically or horizontally.
Cambodia
Cambodia, officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country in Mainland Southeast Asia.
Capacity building
Capacity building (or capacity development, capacity strengthening) is the improvement in an individual's or organization's facility (or capability) "to produce, perform or deploy".
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Côte d'Ivoire
Côte d'Ivoire, also known as Ivory Coast and officially known as the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country on the southern coast of West Africa.
Charity Navigator
Charity Navigator is a charity assessment organization that evaluates hundreds of thousands of charitable organizations based in the United States, operating as a free 501(c)(3) organization.
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CharityWatch
CharityWatch, known until 2012 as the American Institute of Philanthropy, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in Chicago, created in the United States by Daniel Borochoff in 1992, to provide information about charities' financial efficiency, accountability, governance, and fundraising.
Chicago
Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.
Darfur
Darfur (Fur) is a region of western Sudan.
Delmas, Haiti
Delmas (Dèlma) is a commune in the Port-au-Prince Arrondissement, in the Ouest department of Haiti.
Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, Congo-Zaire, or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country in Central Africa.
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Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations
The deputy secretary-general of the United Nations is the deputy to the secretary-general of the United Nations.
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Emergency management
Emergency management (also disaster management) is a science and a system charged with creating the framework within which communities reduce vulnerability to hazards and cope with disasters.
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Emergency medicine
Emergency medicine is the medical speciality concerned with the care of illnesses or injuries requiring immediate medical attention.
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Food distribution
Food distribution is the process where a general population is supplied with food.
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Food security
Food security is the state of having reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food.
Gender-based violence includes any kind of violence directed against people due to their gender or gender identification.
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Gulu District
Gulu is a district in the Northern Region of Uganda.
Haiti
Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of The Bahamas.
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HIV/AIDS
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a retrovirus that attacks the immune system.
Humanitarian aid
Humanitarian aid is material and logistic assistance, usually in the short-term, to people in need.
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Humanitarian assistance
Humanitarian assistance is aid and action designed to save lives, alleviate suffering, and maintain human dignity during and after man-made crises and disasters.
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Immunization
Immunization, or immunisation, is the process by which an individual's immune system becomes fortified against an infectious agent (known as the immunogen).
Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans.
Infection
An infection is the invasion of tissues by pathogens, their multiplication, and the reaction of host tissues to the infectious agent and the toxins they produce.
Infrastructure
Infrastructure is the set of facilities and systems that serve a country, city, or other area, and encompasses the services and facilities necessary for its economy, households and firms to function.
Internally displaced person
An internally displaced person (IDP) is someone who is forced to leave their home but who remains within their country's borders.
See Alight and Internally displaced person
Iraq
Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia and a core country in the geopolitical region known as the Middle East.
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Juba
Juba is the capital and largest city of South Sudan.
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Kajo Keji
Kajo Keji, also spelled Kajokaji, Kajukeji, Kajo-keji and Kago Kaju, is a town in South Sudan.
Karen people
The Karen, also known as the Kayin, Kariang or Kawthoolese, are an ethnolinguistic group of Tibeto-Burman language-speaking people.
Khao-I-Dang
The Khao-I-Dang (KID) Holding Center (เขาอีด่าง, ខៅអ៊ីដាង) was a Cambodian refugee camp 20 km north of Aranyaprathet in Prachinburi (now Ta Phraya District, Sa Kaeo Province, Thailand).
Latrine
A latrine is a toilet or an even simpler facility that is used as a toilet within a sanitation system.
Liberia
Liberia, officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast.
Logistics
Logistics is the part of supply chain management that deals with the efficient forward and reverse flow of goods, services, and related information from the point of origin to the point of consumption according to the needs of customers.
Malakal
Malakal is a city in South Sudan, serving as the capital of Upper Nile State in the Greater Upper Nile region of South Sudan, along the White Nile River.
Mardan
Mardān (Pashto and; Urdu; Pashto) is a city in the Mardan District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan.
Micro-enterprise
A micro-enterprise (or microenterprise) is generally defined as a small business employing nine people or fewer, and having a balance sheet or turnover less than a certain amount (e.g. €2 million or PhP 3 million).
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Microcredit
Microcredit is the extension of very small loans (microloans) to impoverished borrowers who typically lack collateral, steady employment, and a verifiable credit history.
Microfinance
Microfinance is a of financial services targeting individuals and small businesses who lack access to conventional banking and related services.
Midwife
A midwife (midwives) is a health professional who cares for mothers and newborns around childbirth, a specialization known as midwifery.
Minneapolis
Minneapolis, officially the City of Minneapolis, is a city in and the county seat of Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. With a population of 429,954, it is the state's most populous city as of the 2020 census. It occupies both banks of the Mississippi River and adjoins Saint Paul, the state capital of Minnesota.
Money (financial website)
Money is an American brand and a personal finance website owned by Money Group — and formerly a monthly magazine first published by Time Inc. (1972–2018) and later by Meredith Corporation (2018–2019).
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Myanmar
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma (the official name until 1989), is a country in Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. It is bordered by Bangladesh and India to its northwest, China to its northeast, Laos and Thailand to its east and southeast, and the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal to its south and southwest.
Natural disaster
A natural disaster is the very harmful impact on a society or community after a natural hazard event.
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Nimba County
Nimba County is a county in northeastern Liberia that shares borders with the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire in the East and the Republic of Guinea in the Northwest.
Nimule
Nimule is a city in the southern part of South Sudan in Magwi County, Eastern Equatoria.
Non-governmental organization
A non-governmental organization (NGO) (see spelling differences) is an organization that generally is formed independent from government.
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Nong Samet Refugee Camp
Nong Samet Refugee Camp (ค่ายผู้อพยพหนองเสม็ด, also known as 007, Rithisen or Rithysen), in Nong Samet Village, Khok Sung District, Sa Kaeo Province, Thailand, was a refugee camp on the Thai-Cambodian border and served as a power base for the Khmer People's National Liberation Front (KPNLF) until its destruction by the Vietnamese military in late 1984.
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Nonprofit organization
A nonprofit organization (NPO), also known as a nonbusiness entity, nonprofit institution, or simply a nonprofit (using the adjective as a noun), is a legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public or social benefit, as opposed to an entity that operates as a business aiming to generate a profit for its owners.
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Nonsectarian
Nonsectarian institutions are secular institutions or other organizations not affiliated with or restricted to a particular religious group.
Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Nowshera (نوښار, pr. Nowkhār) is the capital city of Nowshera District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
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Obstetrics
Obstetrics is the field of study concentrated on pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period.
Operation Rah-e-Nijat
The Operation Rah-e-Nijat ("Path of Salvation"; آپریشن راہ نجات) was a strategic offensive military operation by the unified command of Pakistan Armed Forces against the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and their extremist allies in the South Waziristan area of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas that began on June 19, 2009; a major ground-air offensive was subsequently launched on October 17.
See Alight and Operation Rah-e-Nijat
Osh
Osh (Kyrgyz and Ош) is the second-largest city in Kyrgyzstan, located in the Fergana Valley in the south of the country and often referred to as the "capital of the south".
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Pakistan
Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia.
Peshawar
Peshawar (پېښور; پشور;; پشاور) is the sixth most populous city of Pakistan, with a district population of over 4.7 million in the 2023 census.
Phuket (city)
Phuket (or ภูเก็ต) is a city in the southeast of Phuket Island, Thailand, and the capital of Phuket province.
Port-au-Prince
Port-au-Prince (Pòtoprens) is the capital and most populous city of Haiti.
Primary health care
Primary health care (PHC) is a whole-of-society approach to effectively organise and strengthen national health systems to bring services for health and wellbeing closer to communities.
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Ranong
Ranong (ระนอง) is a town (thesaban mueang) in southern Thailand, capital of the Ranong Province and the Mueang Ranong District.
Reader's Digest
Reader's Digest is an American general-interest family magazine, published ten times a year.
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Refugee
A refugee, conventionally speaking, is a person who has lost the protection of their country of origin and who cannot or is unwilling to return there due to well-founded fear of persecution. Such a person may be called an asylum seeker until granted refugee status by a contracting state or by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) if they formally make a claim for asylum.
Refugee camp
A refugee camp is a temporary settlement built to receive refugees and people in refugee-like situations.
Rwanda
Rwanda, officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of Central Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge. Located a few degrees south of the Equator, Rwanda is bordered by Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Rwandan genocide
The Rwandan genocide, also known as the genocide against the Tutsi, occurred between 7 April and 19 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War.
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Safety
Safety is the state of being "safe", the condition of being protected from harm or other danger.
Sanitation
Sanitation refers to public health conditions related to clean drinking water and treatment and disposal of human excreta and sewage.
Savings and loan association
A savings and loan association (S&L), or thrift institution, is a financial institution that specializes in accepting savings deposits and making mortgage and other loans.
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Second Liberian Civil War
The Second Liberian Civil War was a civil war in the West African nation of Liberia that lasted from 1999 to 2003.
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Sexual and reproductive health
Sexual and reproductive health (SRH) is a field of research, health care, and social activism that explores the health of an individual's reproductive system and sexual well-being during all stages of their life.
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Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone, (also,; Salone) officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa.
Site Two Refugee Camp
Site Two Refugee Camp (also known as Site II or Site 2) was the largest refugee camp on the Thai-Cambodian border and, for several years, the largest refugee camp in Southeast Asia.
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Small business
Small businesses are types of corporations, partnerships, or sole proprietorships which have a small number of employees and/or less annual revenue than a regular-sized business or corporation.
South Sudan
South Sudan, officially the Republic of South Sudan, is a landlocked country in East Africa.
Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia is the geographical southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Australian mainland, which is part of Oceania.
Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, historically known as Ceylon, and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia.
Sudan
Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa.
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Swat District
Swat District (سوات ولسوالۍ), also known as the Swat Valley, is a district in the Malakand Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
Taliban
The Taliban (lit), which also refers to itself by its state name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is an Afghan militant movement with an ideology comprising elements of Pashtun nationalism and the Deobandi movement of Islamic fundamentalism.
Thailand
Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Indochinese Peninsula.
Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB), also known colloquially as the "white death", or historically as consumption, is an infectious disease usually caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) bacteria.
Uganda
Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa.
United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.
Vocational education
Vocational education is education that prepares people for a skilled craft as an artisan, trade as a tradesperson, or work as a technician.
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Water supply
Water supply is the provision of water by public utilities, commercial organisations, community endeavors or by individuals, usually via a system of pumps and pipes.
Worth (magazine)
Worth is an American financial, wealth management, and life-style magazine founded in 1986 and purchased by Clarim Holdings in 2019.
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Yei River County
Yei River County is an administrative area in Central Equatoria with a large population of people who settled in that particular county.
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2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
On 26 December 2004, at 07:58:53 local time (UTC+7), a major earthquake with a magnitude of 9.2–9.3 struck with an epicentre off the west coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia.
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2005 Kashmir earthquake
An earthquake occurred at on 8 October 2005 in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, a territory under Pakistan.
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2010 Haiti earthquake
The 2010 Haiti earthquake was a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake that struck Haiti at 16:53 local time (21:53 UTC) on Tuesday, 12 January 2010.
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See also
Charities based in Minnesota
- AdoptAClassroom.org
- Alight
- Bush Foundation
- CaringBridge
- Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction
- Center for Victims of Torture
- Children's Cancer Research Fund
- College Possible
- Global Volunteers
- Henge of Keltria
- Kids In Need Foundation
- Newborn Foundation
- Smile Network International
- Somali Institute for Peace and Justice in Minneapolis
- Wheels For Wishes
Organizations based in Minneapolis
- Alight
- Artspace Projects
- Better Futures Minnesota
- Compassionate Action for Animals
- District 202
- Honor the Earth
- Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
- McKnight Foundation
- Minnesota Family Council
- Minnesota Freedom Fund
- Minnesota Public Interest Research Group
- National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition
- New Union Party
- Nice Ride Minnesota
- Northcountry Cooperative Development Fund
- Organization for Human Brain Mapping
- Phyllis Wheatley Settlement House
- Reclaim the Block
- Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory
- Sons of Norway
- The Minikahda Club
- Woodswomen, Inc.
- Zepol
Refugee aid organizations in the United States
- Ads Up Refugee Network
- Agency for New Americans
- Alight
- American Federation of Jews from Central Europe
- Boat People SOS
- Church World Service
- Emergencybnb
- Every Campus a Refuge
- Exodus Refugee Immigration
- Faith in Action
- Freedom Flights
- Global Refuge
- HIAS
- Hello Neighbor (organization)
- Immigration Equality (organization)
- International Refugee Assistance Project
- International Rescue Committee
- Iskashitaa Refugee Network
- Jesuit Volunteer Corps
- Just Bakery of Atlanta
- Kino Border Initiative
- List Project
- Near East Foundation
- New York Association for New Americans
- NuDay
- Polish American Immigration and Relief Committee
- Rainbow Railroad
- Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services
- Refugees International
- Tent Foundation
- Tibet Fund
- U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants
- United Service for New Americans
- VOLAG
- Welcome.US
- Window Shop
- Women's Refugee Commission
- World Relief
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alight
Also known as American Refugee Committee.
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