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The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It provides world class information services to the academic, business, research and scientific communities and offers unparalleled access to the world's largest and most comprehensive research collection. The British Library's collections include 150 million items from every era of written human history beginning with Chinese oracle bones dating from 300 BC, right up to today's newspapers.
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The Children's Society is a leading national charity, driven by the belief that every child deserves a good childhood. Our network of projects helps over 50,000 children and their families each year. Through our pioneering research and influential campaigning, we defend, safeguard and protect the childhood of all children.
We support children in trouble with the law, guiding them away from a cycle of crime and custody. We work with children who are forced to run away from home or care, protecting them from abuse, crime and prostitution on the street. We ensure that disabled children have a voice and are given the choices that other children enjoy. And we help refugee children rebuild their lives in new communities, surrounded and supported by friends. We are also expanding our work with young careers, traveller children and children whose parents misuse alcohol or drugs.
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In 2006, Guide Dogs is celebrating 75 years since the first working guide dog partnerships appeared on the country's streets. Three-quarters of a century later, the charity's dedicated team of staff, volunteers and supporters continue to provide freedom, mobility and independence for blind and partially sighted people through 4,700 guide dogs.
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Established around 1756, the Natural History Museum is the UK's national museum of nature, and a centre of scientific excellence in taxonomy and biodiversity. For hundreds of years it has maintained and developed a range of collections and used them to promote discovery, responsible use, understanding and enjoyment of the natural world. The museum launched its first Web site in July 1994 and was the first major UK museum to go online. Popular with natural history experts and enthusiasts worldwide, the Web site welcomed over 700,000 unique visitors in March 2004.
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Established in 1884, the NSPCC is the UK’s leading charity specialising in child protection and the prevention of cruelty to children. Its wide range of work includes 180 community-based projects throughout the UK and Northern Ireland, a 24 hour child protection helpline, public education campaigns, parliamentary campaigns, child protection training and advice, research, information resources and fundraising through individual and corporate sponsors.
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Founded in 1967, OCLC Online Computer Library Center is a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world's information and reducing information costs. More than 45,000 libraries in 84 countries and territories around the world use OCLC services to locate, acquire, catalog, lend and preserve library materials.
Researchers, students, faculty, scholars, professional librarians and other information seekers use OCLC services to obtain bibliographic, abstract and full-text information when and where they need it.
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The original Tate Gallery, at Millbank in London, opened in 1897. Its official name was in fact the National Gallery of British Art, but it at once became popularly known as the Tate Gallery, after its founder Sir Henry Tate. It was built on the site of Millbank Penitentiary, demolished in 1892, and was designed to house the collection of nineteenth-century British painting and sculpture given to the nation by Sir Henry Tate, together with some British paintings transferred from the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square. At that time its responsibilities were specifically for modern British art, defined then as artists born after 1790. However in 1917 the gallery was also made responsible for the national collection of international modern art and for British art going back to about 1500. Today, what was the Tate Gallery has become Tate, a family of four galleries: Tate Britain and Tate Modern in London, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives.
Tate now ranks with the National Gallery, British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum as one of the great museums of Britain. It continues to develop its dual role as the national collection of British art and as the national collection of international modern and contemporary art.
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TechSoup.org is the technology web site for nonprofits created by CompuMentor. Each month, the site receives almost 300,000 visits from people who are looking for nonprofit tech know-how to achieve their missions. TechSoup.org features more than 400 how-to articles on 17 technology topics, 15 community discussion forums, a technology news section, and the TechFinder service provider directory. TechSoup.org's technology product philanthropy service, TechSoup Stock, has distributed more than 1.3 million technology product donations from companies such as Cisco, Intuit and Microsoft to over 45,000 nonprofit organizations and freed up over $343 million for other uses.
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