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The Ocean Conservancy prefers its fish wild, thanks. The not-for-profit organization strives to protect the oceans and its wildlife. The group's some 500,000 members work toward the goal of "wild, healthy oceans" by targeting artificial reef building, cruise ships, marine protected areas, overfishing, runoff pollution, and whaling. The Ocean Conservancy also publishes the quarterly Blue Planet magazine and hosts activities like the International Coastal Cleanup, Adopt-A-Reef, the Marine Debris Study, and Storm Drain Sentries. Ocean Conservancy, Inc. was founded in 1972 to protest commercial whaling.

Operation Smile's mission is simple: Make the children of the world grin. The not-for-profit volunteer organization provides reconstructive surgery and health-care services to children and young adults suffering from facial deformities such as cleft lips, cleft palates, burns, and tumors. Operation Smile has assisted more than 120,000 patients in 25 developing countries and the US. In addition to medical services, Operation Smile, Inc. provides educational fellowship programs in craniofacial surgery and runs a physician training program. Operation Smile was founded in 1982 by Dr. William Magee and his wife, Kathleen, a nurse and clinical social worker.

Oxfam strives to end poverty around the world. The organization focuses on areas such as climate change, education, health care, gender and race, sustainable livelihood, and protection from violence and disasters. Oxfam receives funds from donors and the sale of second-hand items at its Oxfam shops. Oxfam GB began as the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief in 1942, originally set up to address food and medical supply shortages in Nazi-occupied Greece. The organization is now an affiliate within the larger Oxfam International group, founded in 1995, which also includes Oxfam organizations in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, Spain, the US, and elsewhere.

Parents as Teachers (PAT) has preschool down. The not-for-profit group offers parent education and international support programs for parents to teach their children in the early years before kindergarten. PAT develops curricula, trains early childhood professionals, and certifies parent educators. Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc. goals are to improve parenting skills, instruct parents to recognize developmental delays, prevent child abuse, and help kids get ready for elementary school. To that end, it advocates at the federal level for legislation to benefit families with young children. PAT has programs in more than 40 US states, and in Canada, Germany, Mexico, the UK, and many other countries. PAT was founded in 1985.

Parents Television Council had been around a little earlier, we may not have ever seen Daisy Duke in those shorts or the shenanigans going on in Jack, Chrissy, and Janet's apartment. The PTC was founded in 1995 to protect children from sex, violence, and profanity on television and in other media. Parents Television Council, with about 1 million members, advises its members on appropriate actions (letters to sponsors, FCC complaints) and publishes alerts about shows it deems not suitable for children, show and movie reviews, and a parenting column. Parents Television Council also provides TV, Internet, video game, movie, and music ratings guides and lobbies government entities.

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