WOW.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Cajun Navy - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cajun_Navy

    The term Cajun Navy had earlier, unrelated jovial origins before it evolved into its current usage. The earliest documented use of the term occurred in 1964 when outgoing governor Jimmie Davis received "a commission as a commodore in the Cajun Navy plus a four-star pirogue for his personal use" as a going-away gift by the Greater Lafourche Port Commission. [3]

  3. Catholic Relief Services - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Relief_Services

    Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is the international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States.Founded in 1943 by the Bishops of the United States, the agency provides assistance to 130 million people in more than 110 countries and territories in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Eastern Europe.

  4. CARE International - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CARE_International

    CARE is a signatory to the following standards of humanitarian intervention: the Code of Conduct for The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and NGOs in Disaster Relief, [45] the Sphere standards, [46] and the Core Humanitarian Standard [47] As well, CARE is a member of a number of networks aiming to improve the quality and ...

  5. Achieve Company - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achieve_Company

    Achieve’s Care Fund is a company-wide resource for employees to contribute money or PTO for fellow workers in need. In 2023, the company’s employees donated more than $150,000 to the fund. [ 6 ]

  6. Prayer for relief - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer_for_relief

    A prayer for relief, in the law of civil procedure, is a portion of a complaint in which the plaintiff describes the remedies that the plaintiff seeks from the court. For example, the plaintiff may ask for an award of compensatory damages, punitive damages, attorney's fees, an injunction to make the defendant stop a certain activity, or all of these.

  7. Customer Protection and End User Relief Act - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_Protection_and...

    Customer Protection and End User Relief Act; Long title: To reauthorize the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, to better protect futures customers, to provide end users with market certainty, to make basic reforms to ensure transparency and accountability at the Commission, to help farmers, ranchers, and end users manage risks to help keep consumer costs low, and for other purposes.

  8. Comic Relief, Inc. - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_Relief,_Inc.

    It is an independent sister organization to the UK charity Comic Relief and is not connected to the former American charity Comic Relief USA. [2] Comic Relief, Inc. is notable for the 2015 US launch of Red Nose Day, a telethon hosted by NBC based closely on the UK event of the same name. [3]

  9. World Relief - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Relief

    World Relief (officially, World Relief Corporation of National Association of Evangelicals) is a global Christian humanitarian organization whose mission is to boldly engage the world’s greatest crises in partnership with the church. The organization was founded in the aftermath of World War II to respond to the urgent humanitarian needs of ...