A sample collection of mission statement of 20 world’s largest, top and possibly best nonprofit organizations.
Environmental Defense:
Mission Statement
Environmental Defense Fund’s mission is to preserve the natural systems on which all life depends.
Guided by science, we design and transform markets to bring lasting solutions to the most serious environmental problems.
Mission Statement
To empower volunteers to serve their communities, meet humanitarian needs, encourage peace and promote international understanding through Lions clubs.
World Resources Institute
Mission Statement
WRI is a global environmental think tank that goes beyond research to find practical ways to protect the planet and improve people’s lives.
Our mission is to move society to live in ways that protect Earth’s environment and its capacity to provide for the needs and aspirations of current and future generations.
TechnoServe
Mission Statement:
TechnoServe helps entrepreneurial men and women in poor rural areas of the developing world to build profitable businesses that create income, opportunity, and economic growth for their families, their communities and their countries.
Rotary International
Mission
The mission of Rotary International is to provide service to others, promote integrity, and advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through its fellowship of business, professional, and community leaders
Global Business Coalition HIV/AIDS
Mission
GBC seeks to harness the individual and collective power of the world’s top corporations to fight the spread of AIDS at the local, national, and international levels.
Conservation International
Mission Statement:
Building upon a strong foundation of science, partnership and field demonstration, CI empowers societies to responsibly and sustainably care for nature, our global biodiversity, for the well-being of humanity.
WWF
Mission Statement:
To stop the degradation of the planet’s natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature, by:
- conserving the world’s biological diversity
- ensuring that the use of renewable natural resources is sustainable
- promoting the reduction of pollution and wasteful consumption.
CARE
Mission statement
To serve individuals and families in the poorest communities in the world. Drawing strength from our global diversity, resources and experience, to promote innovative solutions and advocate for global responsibility. Facilitate lasting change by:
- Strengthening capacity for self-help
- Providing economic opportunity
- Delivering relief in emergencies
- Influencing policy decisions at all levels
- Addressing discrimination in all its forms
Greenpeace
Mission Statement
Greenpeace is the leading independent campaigning organization that uses peaceful protest and creative communication to expose global environmental problems and to promote solutions that are essential to a green and peaceful future.
Earthwatch
Mission Statement
Our mission is to engage people worldwide in scientific field research and education to promote the understanding and action necessary for a sustainable environment.
World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
Mission Statement
Our mission is to provide business leadership as a catalyst for change toward sustainable development, and to support the business license to operate, innovate and grow in a world increasingly shaped by sustainable development issues.
The nature Conservancy
Mission Statement
The mission of The Nature Conservancy is to preserve the plants, animals and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive.
UNHCR
www.unhcr.org
Mission Statement
To safeguard the rights and well-being of refugees
German Technical Cooperation (GTZ)
Mission Statement:
GTZ provides viable, forward-looking solutions for political, economic, ecological and social development in a globalised world. We support complex reforms and change processes. All our activities are geared to improving people’s living conditions and prospects on a sustainable basis.
Transparency international
Mission Statement: None
Vision: A world in which government, politics, business, civil society and the daily lives of people are free of corruption.
Values: Transparency, Accountability, Integrity, Solidarity, Courage, Justice, Democracy
Save the Children
http://www.savethechildren.org/
Mission Statement:
Our mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.
Habitat for Humanity
Mission statement:
Seeking to put God’s love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
Amnesty International
Mission statement
Our vision is of a world in which every person – regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation or gender identity – enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and other internationally recognized human rights standards. The UDHR states that the “the recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights” of all people is “the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world.”
SOS children villages
http://www.sos-childrensvillages.org/
Mission statement
We build families for children in need. We help them shape their own futures and we share in the development of their communities
We take action for children as an independent non-governmental social
development organisation.
We respect varying religions and cultures, and we work in countries and
communities where our mission can contribute to development.
We work in the spirit of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of
the Child and we promote these rights around the world.
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