Trusts and foundations

The McClay Foundation is a charitable Trust in Northern Ireland set up as a legacy to the late Sir Allen McClay, founder of the Almac Group.   The McClay Foundation has a vision to make a meaningful improvement and advancement in human health and a strategic focus to provide assistance and support to achieve long lasting and significant improvement in the health and wellbeing of those living in poverty and to increase capacity of all people and specifically those in the developing world to access the latest benefits in healthcare.

The McClay Foundation is currently supporting Concern Worldwide’s work on improving maternal, newborn and child health status in Illeret Ward, Marsabit County, Kenya.  The project will reduce maternal, newborn and child mortality in remote Illeret, Kenya by improving the availability of basic medical equipment, commodities and infrastructure as well as the recruitment and mentoring of health staff. 

The Klaus and Gertrud Conrad Foundation is a German foundation, established in 2001, that exists to raise funds for people in need. Since its inception, the Klaus and Gertrud Conrad Foundation has donated over 6 million euros to support more than 2,000 regional, national and international aid projects. The Foundation’s main focus is currently on supporting refugee projects in Germany and a wide range of projects overseas, including those working on education.

The Conrad Foundation is a long-time supporter of Concern Worldwide’s education work in Somalia. The project the Foundation current funds works with students, teachers and communities in conflict-affected and vulnerable areas to improve children’s access to a quality education. Concern trains and equips teachers, and establishes community education committees to work alongside them in order to improve learning and address serious issues like sexual and gender-based violence. One of the key achievements of this project has been to increase girls’ participation in school by creating a safe and supportive environment for them to learn.

innocent drinks is a business that strives for true sustainability, with the goal of making it easy for people to do themselves and others some good. From innocent’s creation in 1999, it has dedicated 10% of its profits to charity. The innocent foundation was established in 2004, and is funded by the employees, shareholders and company of innocent drinks. The foundation finds and funds visionary people and organisations all over the world who are tackling hunger in simple, smart and sometimes radical ways. Its goals are to stop children dying from hunger and to help the poorest families feed themselves. To date, the foundation’s work has benefitted over 800,000 people.

The innocent foundation is currently supporting Concern Worldwide’s work on child malnutrition in Kenya. We’re piloting a project that trains mothers in pastoralist communities – among the hardest to reach – to screen their own children for malnutrition so they can get the help they need.  This is part of the foundation’s role in the No Wasted Lives coalition, which is accelerating the child survival revolution by working to double the proportion of children globally receiving treatment for severe acute malnutrition by 2020.

The Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation supports projects in the fields of culture, education, humanitarian aid and medical research. Founded in 1969, the Swiss foundation aims to improve people’s quality of life and promote mutual cultural understanding. The Foundation promotes innovative approaches and enters into partnerships with long-term potential. Within the humanitarian aid sector, the Foundation supports people affected by war and armed conflict. The aim is to protect the lives, safety, dignity and physical and mental well-being of these people. The Foundation supports projects that deal primarily with the causes, attendant circumstances and consequences of violence.

For the past three years, the Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation has supported Concern Worldwide’s programme helping Afghan refugee working children in Pakistan. Many refugee children, already coping with the trauma of conflict and displacement, are forced to work as garbage pickers, street hawkers, day labourers, domestic servants, or in workshops to support their families. The Foundation’s generous support has enabled Concern to reach more than 3,000 children, helping to protect them from abuse and reduce their vulnerability to HIV and AIDS, while also providing them with education, nutritious food, psychosocial support, and a safe space for recreation.

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation is one of the world’s leading private, international philanthropic organisations, making grants to non-profit organisations in the areas of arts and culture, education, health and sports, and social welfare. Since 1996, the Foundation has committed more than $2.6 billion to non-profit organisations in 124 nations around the world. Since the Foundation’s inception, its aim has been to contribute, with all the means at its disposal, to the improvement of the lives of those less privileged and to support organisations and projects that are expected to achieve a broad, lasting and positive impact for society at large, and that exhibit strong leadership and sound management.

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation most recently supported Concern to roll out an innovative new education programme in Niger. The programme piloted the use of video technology to improve training for rural teachers, empowering them to create a safe, supportive and child-centred learning environment, leading to improved learning outcomes for students. Concern was the first INGO in Niger to use video technology to improve teaching techniques in this way, and the approach received very positive feedback from both teachers and education advisors, with Concern delivering a workshop on coaching via video technology for staff of the Ministry of Primary Education at the ministry’s request.

Since its creation in 2015, the Evan Cornish Foundation strives for equality and justice for all by supporting the most marginalised and promoting human rights. The Foundation’s support is directed to work in the UK and overseas, under a select range of aims, which include Human Rights, Social and Economic Inequality, Education, Health, Criminal Justice System, Elderly People, Refugees and Asylum Seekers and Homelessness.

The Foundation currently supports Concern Worldwide’s nutrition work in some of the poorest areas of Burundi. Concern recruits and trains community volunteers to screen children for acute malnutrition, and refer severe cases to local health centres. Children with moderate acute malnutrition are treated within the community by volunteers known as Light Mothers (because they act as an example for others). Concern also supports the families of malnourished children to set up kitchen gardens, giving them a sustainable source of diverse and nutritious food.

Capital Group is a private investment firm with offices throughout Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America. Established in 1931, Capital Group focuses on delivering superior, consistent results for long-term investors using high-conviction portfolios, rigorous research and individual accountability.

Capital Group has generously supported Concern Worldwide for almost a decade, helping to make possible projects that range from enabling some of the poorest people in the Central African Republic access clean water, to working with coastal communities in Bangladesh to increase their resilience to flooding and other natural disasters.