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Associations Make a Better World Award 2008 Award ApplicantsASAE & The Center recognizes associations that make a difference around the world
Association of Development Financing Institutions in Asia & the Pacific Makati City, Metro Manila, Philippines "DFIs for Corporate Governance" Program ADFIAP’s program is the association's response to the growing need of development finance institutions for the implementation of good corporate governance policies and practices in their respective institutions. The program resulted in nearly all member banks developing Board-approved corporate governance codes and appointing a corporate governance officer or point-person in their respective institutions. The whole program of the Association revolves around the concept that development finance coupled with good governance are key to sustainable development which, in turn, "makes a better world". Association of Development Financing Institutions in Asia & the Pacific Makati City, Metro Manila, Philippines “Environmental Governance Standards” Project
ADFIAP developed for its members an internal environmental management system (IEMS), a structured process on how to make a bank’s office premises and procedures track use of its resources. The association also developed an environmental risk scan (ERS) to help the banks integrate environmental aspects in its lending policy and decision-making process. By doing so, ADFIAP is helping its member-banks to be not just caretakers of people’s money but also caretakers of Mother Earth.
Bali International Women's Association Bali International Women's Association (BIWA) is a forum for women both Indonesian and expatriate, to help create a humane and sustainable world for all people. Bali women in different regencies are deprived from access to education, financial independence and other opportunities. BIWA advocates internally to the members their role and great potential to help other of the same gender, and externally to provide Bali women with information, access support and opportunities to realize their rights and responsibilities. BIWA will have the opportunities and the means to help the Bali women to contribute to Indonesia’s development.
American Association for Clinical Chemistry AACC seeks to provide leadership in advancing the practice and profession of clinical laboratory science and its application to health care. Lab Tests Online is a non-commercial, patient-centered resource on laboratory testing developed by the professionals who do the testing. Launched in 2001 as a collaboration among AACC and four other laboratory associations, the site now attracts more than one million visits a month and involves 19 lab associations and related organizations. Additionally, laboratory association partners in seven countries now publish localized versions of the site. The site creates a more informed patient population and increases recognition of the value of the profession and the role of the laboratorian.
American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society
Project volunteers gain a new cultural understanding and often experience a 180 degree change in attitude. Doctors who once served as military surgeons on opposite sides during the war, now work side by side in the operating rooms. Speaking at the 2007 conference, one surgeon who treated injured soldiers in Vietnam during the war said to the Vietnamese surgeons in the audience, “We brought you so little compared to what you brought to us.”
American Society for Clinical Pathology ASCP's mission is to provide excellence in education, certification, and advocacy on behalf of patients, pathologists and laboratory professionals. In August 2005, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention awarded the ASCP a cooperative agreement to support laboratory training and quality improvement initiatives for the diagnosis and laboratory monitoring of HIV/AIDS patients in resource-limited countries under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). Since 2005, ASCP members and staff have been involved in many initiatives, including assisting laboratory professionals in Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, South Africa, and Zambia by providing technical assistance in the areas of Quality Assurance and Quality Laboratory Management.
Association of Public Health Laboratories
APHL drew on the experience of its members--public health laboratory practitioners--to contribute to efforts to develop national laboratory strategic plans. The team was able to establish an effective process that assists national health ministries in completing an action-oriented plan to build national laboratory capabilities and provide access to quality laboratory testing services. To date the program has assisted Ministries of Health in Kenya and Tanzania in the development of their national strategic plans and overall ability to provide public health testing.
RTA
Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection
There are many parental control and filtering options available to protect children. But for those systems to work, websites intended for “adults only” need to be labeled as such. RTA makes that possible. RTA is a unique string of “meta data” that can easily be inserted into the computer code of any website. Internationally RTA has been adopted by companies in Canada, Australia, Spain, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and by U.S. companies with offices in over 45 countries.
Jhpiego
The lives of countless women were saved because they now had access to a trained midwife! But more than that, the role women in society was elevated because of these associations. Through the creation and support of professional midwifery associations, women were acknowledged to have an active role in making their post war/disaster communities a better place to live.
Oncology Nursing Society
Participants talked about being empowered, believing afterward that they could be instrumental in making a change for the better within their area of specialization. The impact of the course extended to the participants’ colleagues and staff, their patients, their patients’ families, and their cancer centers and hospitals across the Middle East.
Soroptimists STOP Trafficking is a public awareness project designed to raise awareness within the general population about the trafficking of women and girls for sexual exploitation. Approximately two million women and children are currently held in sexual servitude worldwide. The trafficking and enslavement of women and girls for sexual exploitation occurs in every country of the world, in small towns and big cities alike. Soroptimists from seventeen countries within North, Central and South America, Japan, Korea, the Philippines and Taiwan participated in the Soroptimists STOP Trafficking project through public awareness events, media events, and fundraisers. Members have made a year-round, on-going commitment to help end the trafficking of women and girls for sexual exploitation; thus assuring that innumerable people around the world have been made aware of this unspeakable crime against women and girls.
CropLife Foundation
Targeted training kits, DVDs and audio tapes for illiterate workers, bi-lingual quizzes and other information were produced. By working with industry, farmers, private and public researchers, and educators, the program identified both the problems and the appropriate solutions to promote safe, judicious use of pesticide products by a properly educated workforce, and made North Carolina a safer, better place for agricultural workers.
Illinois Bankers Association
The Guide is written in very basic language, so that it can be used with all levels of consumers. The Guide fills a niche and can help bridge the gap for consumers who may be uncertain of where to turn for financial literacy help. |
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ADFIAP’s project pursues sustainable development through adherence to the principles of a safe and clean environment, as part of good corporate citizenship and as an integral part of sound business practice.
Through the program, knowledge is shared and relationships are built as AOFAS members work together in the clinics and operating rooms with their Vietnamese counterparts. Since the project began in 2001, more than 350 Vietnamese patients, mostly children with disabilities, have received surgery without charge.
APHL identified the need for national laboratory services as a key gap in effective health planning, prevention and treatment programs and launched the “Strengthening National Public Health Laboratory Networks” Strategic Initiative. 
The Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection (ASACP) is a non-profit organization that works with the adult entertainment industry to ensure the content they create is by adults and for adults only.
Jhpiego enhances the health and saves the lives of women and families in limited-resource settings. Jhpiego works to improve Human Capacity, focusing on identifying solutions to improve the performance and abilities of health care workers working in challenging environments. Each year over 600,000 women die as a result of childbirth. Jhpiego’s work in Human Capacity development in Indonesia and Afghanistan guides efforts to save these women’s lives. Specifically, Jhpiego worked to establish professional associations for midwives. 
The mission of the Oncology Nursing Society is to promote excellence in oncology nursing and quality cancer care. ONS collaborated with the Israeli Oncology Nursing Society (IONS) and the Middle East Cancer Consortium (MECC) to conduct a three-day leadership development program with oncology nurses and nurse educators from across the Middle East. The goal was to prepare these emerging leaders for influential roles in the transformation of cancer care in the Middle East and the promotion of excellence in the oncology nursing profession. 
Soroptimist International of the Americas
CropLife Foundation was created to promote and advance sustainable agriculture and the environmentally sound use of crop protection products and bioengineered agriculture. The North Carolina Environmental Stewardship Project was created to increase education and awareness of proper pesticide use, storage, transportation and emergency preparedness.
Financial literacy is a huge problem in the United States; many people do not understand how to manage their money. The Basic Banking Guide is a solution to that problem. The Guide - available in both Enlgish and Spanish versions - includes easy, step-by-step information on how to open and manage bank accounts.
