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Weight Watchers International is a stalwart in the weight loss industry. Weight Watchers International, Inc. hosts nearly 50,000 weekly meetings worldwide consisting of exercise tips, nutrition advice, and success stories to help its some 1.3 million members lose weight. Weight Watchers also offers advice and recipes on its Web site and sells products, such as recipe books, a magazine, food, and vitamins. Weight Watchers International, Inc. Weight Watchers Magazine boasts a US readership of 10.8 million people. Jean Nidetch and Al and Felice Lippert started Weight Watchers in 1963; Weight Watchers International, Inc. now holds classes in about 30 countries. European investment firm Artal Luxembourg owns about 54% of Weight Watchers.

ACCION International helps people take action to help themselves. ACCION International, Spanish for "action," gives the poor the means to achieve economic independence by providing micro loans for starting small businesses. Enterprises are typically making and selling food, sewing clothing, or growing and selling produce. ACCION International works with lenders to support programs in about 20 countries in Africa, Asia/Pacific, the Caribbean, and Latin America. It loans about $5 billion each year to nearly 3 million people. First-time loans average about $600 each. The program's repayment rate is more than 97%. ACCION was formed in 1961 to fight poverty in Latin American cities.

Action For Boston Community Development (ABCD) strives to make helping others as easy as 1-2-3. The not-for-profit serves more than 100,000 low-income people in New England in areas such as advocacy, child care, consumer services, education, health, and housing. Action For Boston Community Development, Inc. operates through a decentralized model that utilizes a citywide network of Area Planning Action Councils, Neighborhood Service Centers, and Head Start and Child Care Centers. Action For Boston Community Development, Inc. partners with more than a dozen programs like SUMMERWORKS (work experience for low-income teens), Foster Grandparents, Urban College of Boston, and another 10 or so government agencies. ABCD was established in 1962 as one of several national programs to combat poverty.

Advocate Charitable Foundation is the faith-based philanthropic arm of Advocate Health Care. Advocate Charitable Foundation mission is to build relationships and partnerships across Chicago and to inspire charitable giving by individuals, foundations, corporations, and organizations. The not-for-profit group funds programs that offer patient care, research, education, and community-based health services. These include caregiver education classes, family-focused support groups, cancer research facilities, and specialized clinics throughout the city. Advocate Charitable Foundation began as Evangelical Health Foundation in 1984 and took its current name in 1995.

Africare helps Africans help themselves. The not-for-profit organization provides support to communities in Africa in areas such as health care, food security, agriculture, education, environmental management, and water resource development. Africare also works to help people create small business, such as growing sunflowers and pressing the seeds into cooking oil, and to provide emergency humanitarian aid when needed. Africare has given more than $675 million in aid to more than 35 countries in Africa, funding more than 2,000 projects. Africare HIV/AIDS Initiative works to raise awareness, promote safe sex, and increase access to health services. William and Barbara Kirker founded the organization in 1970.

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