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Convoy of Hope was founded as a nonprofit organization in Sacramento, California, in 1994 by Hal, Steve, and Dave Donaldson. [3] [4] The Donaldsons were spurred to start the charity because of the kindness shown to their family after their father was killed and their mother seriously injured in a 1969 car accident caused by a drunk driver. [5]
International Disaster Emergency Service (IDES) is a 501c3 non-profit organization based in Noblesville, Indiana, United States that seeks to meet the physical and spiritual needs of suffering people around the world in the name of Jesus Christ. The organization is primarily funded by Christian Churches and Churches of Christ. Much of its ...
Holden Karnofsky – co-founder and board member of the charity evaluator GiveWell and the executive director of the Open Philanthropy Project; Howard Ahmanson Jr. – multi-millionaire philanthropist and financier of the causes of many conservative Christian cultural, religious and political organizations
Weekly attendance figures may be lower than the number of registered parishioners, and the differences in the way the churches operate and the way attendance is counted are given as reasons for not including Catholic churches in lists of megachurches. [3] Membership numbers of the following churches give only a very rough indication of size.
Lutheran World Relief (LWR) is an international non-governmental organization that focuses on sustainable development projects and disaster relief and recovery.The organization was founded in 1945 to collect and send aid to people living in post-World War II Europe. [2]
A church may have a significant number of people associate themselves with the church on a regular basis, even if the church does not have a traditional established list of individual members. [54] In order to qualify as a tax-exempt church, church activities must be a significant part of the organization's operations. [55] [56]
ECFA members are located across the U.S. and U.S. territories and range from the very large national ministries to smaller local ministries and churches." [7] Members are required to annually submit a renewal document which includes the recent copy of the audited financial statement (some smaller organizations are allowed to send in reviewed or ...
The current name, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints – Philanthropies, was changed in 2019 as part of a focus by the LDS Church to move away from the monikers 'LDS' and 'Mormon'. [6] [7] N. Eldon Tanner initially created a task force to address philanthropic issues in the LDS Church and named Donald T. Nelson as the first director.