Our Nonprofits

For men and women who are homeless or poor, daily life is a series of disheartening and dangerous struggles, which leave many without hope that things will ever improve.

All across the world, 1998 will be celebrated as the international year of the oceans. There is one nonprofit organization recognized globally as a leader in understanding the earth's inner space.

In the second half-hour, we head out to sea. Off the coast of Bermuda the famed submersible Alvin is being launched from the world's newest oceanographic research vessel, the Atlantis.

"Hunger is the constant corrosive companion of millions." And it can only be stopped by a "cooperative enterprise -- a sharing rather than a giving...as neighbor seeks with neighbor to build the community where both may find security and happiness.”

During a medical mission to Peru, Dr. Neil Donohue discovered how he wanted to spend his life. He had traveled to the foothills of the Andes to treat people suffering from foot diseases and deformities, and came face to face with countless cases of people crippled by clubfoot and ravaged by disease.

A few county officials in Milwaukee get together after work and wonder aloud what would happen if the money that was spent on locking kids up in institutions was used to address their problems in the community. The answer will amaze you.

Yemin Orde, a school, located on Mt. Carmel outside of Haifa, takes in students from all over the world whose lives have been forever changed by war, poverty, and tragedy.

In this episode, the Visionaries travels to Honduras to profile the work of Zamorano University, founded in 1942 by banana magnate Samuel Zemurray.

Twenty-five years ago, as Ivan Gayler flew over the Amazon with his daughter, he saw rainforest burning. Entire sections of lush forest had been torched, cut down and cleared away for timber, agriculture, and oil. The sight brought him to tears: one of the world’s last great ecosystems was disappearing before his eyes.

Wouldn’t it be great if truth were as concrete as say...arithmetic. That you could prove it like a mathematical equation showing…on paper, how you arrived at the answer.