Charitable Organizations
We request cooperation of organizations dedicated to social activities in line with the seven themes, hoping they would receive funds raised and thoughts to achieve each charity theme on behalf of the Osaka Marathon.
※ We will release and report on the status and results of the implementation of charity programs on this website at a later date.
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greenbird (Specified NPO) A campaign by young people to beautify the town and support activities to improve it
- Regular activities conducted almost daily in various areas nationwide.
- Mainly young people pump up the activities.
- Members get together from all over the country to boost Osaka.
- Organization Profile
- With the concept of “A clean town also makes people’s hearts and minds clean”, green bird implements voluntary cleaning activities in towns where a total of 72 teams worldwide (63 domestic and nine international teams) of volunteers participate in such activities. The organization also works cooperatively with various events organized nationwide to nurture friendships with like-minded people, i.e. “Littering is uncool!”, as well as establishing a network.
- Uses of donations from the Osaka Marathon
- Your donations will be used to make the city of Osaka and world cleaner and more comfortable! Litter pickup activities currently attract global attention. While exporting the culture of keeping your own neighborhood clean, we are also engaged in making the city of Osaka the most beautiful in the world to welcome foreign tourists. In concrete terms, we currently have team areas based in Americamura, Tenjimbashi, Kitashinchi and Kishiwada and plan to further expand our areas as contributions allow. Our goal is to expand to three more areas.
The Social Design Company Smile Style (Specified NPO)Supporting young adults by work assistance in picking up trash
- All-night litter pickup event (Osaka)
- Orchestra x Job assistance program for young people, “The Work”
- Job hunting program helping young people meet companies, “ En Shukatsu”
- Organization Profile
- Targeting a society where anybody can have a dream and a picture of the future through work, a unique job assistance facility, “HELLOlife (Hommachi, Osaka)” by young people was established in 2013. Various dramas have unfolded as job hunting activities have been realized with young adults, the local community, municipal government and companies all teaming up through our group dynamics community. We have also been organizing litter pickup activities since 2007, with more than 8,000 young participants in total. This activity currently represents a new opportunity to develop fundamental social skills.
- Uses of donations from the Osaka Marathon
- Your donations will be used as funding to continue the litter pickup activities, which function as an opportunity to develop fundamental social skills. Moreover, we also conduct research and write reports as job assistance for young adults to deliver job assistance appropriately to the public, to meet ongoing needs at the time and aiming to ensure such expertise is utilized in as many worksites as possible. We would appreciate your support and understanding to achieve a society where every young adults can work in a lively and enthusiastic manner.
NPO NobelProviding daycare support for sick children to help single parents in Osaka
- Whenever children become feverish, it is sudden, but we are always there to help you. What we give you is “security”.
- In single-parent families, 38% of children are left alone, even when sick. That is why Nobel staff will accompany them.
- To bequeath what we were entrusted with via our care takers to the next generation. This is a mechanism of social support for child-rearing families, to facilitate the cycle of mutual aid.
- Organization Profile
- Aspiring to realize “a society allowing parents to continue working after childbirth”, Nobel was established in 2009 as the first community-based mutual aid project for “day care service for sick children” in the Kansai region. The service dispatches nursing care staff to child’s home whenever needed, even for same-day requests. Nobel also started up in 2013 as a “single-mom support project” for single parents earning under 3 million yen a year living in Osaka and currently supports 85 single parents.
- Uses of donations from the Osaka Marathon
- Your donations will be used to consolidate “the sense of security from being able to work, even if a child suddenly falls ill”, “support for employment and economic independence of single parents” and “prevention of the poverty cycle which hands down poverty to the next generation” by providing a sick-child day care service for about 1,000 yen per month for single-parent families.Your donations will be utilized so that single parents can say “Now I no longer need to leave my child alone, even suffering from a high fever and vomiting”.
Bridge Asia Japan (Specified NPO)Educational support, providing books and toys to schools in
Myanmar
- Constructing wells, bridges, school buildings in Myanmar with twenty years of experience
- We provide educational support that excites children.
- Our new project, “Delivering books and toys to 100 schools in three years” is now underway!
- Organization Profile
- Bridge Asia Japan (BAJ) is a Japanese NGO providing international assistance in Myanmar. We have been implementing the “Book & Toy Library 100” project, which involves delivering books and toys to children in Myanmar in collaboration with the Tokyo Toy Museum since 2016. We aim to deliver them to 100 schools in three years.
- Uses of donations from the Osaka Marathon
- We deliver shelves with books and toys to schools in mainly rural areas of Myanmar, which is a project for areas without electricity, where even newspapers are valuable. We provide educational support to make school kids’ hearts jump through many books and Japanese traditional toys.
WaterAid Japan (Specified NPO)Safe water, sanitation and hygiene for everyone, everywhere by
2030
- WaterAid/ Behailu Shiferaw
Mahlet is happy that she can access clean water in her school - WaterAid/ Ernest Randriarimalala
Children washing their faces and playing under the blue sky - WaterAid/ Anna Kari
Etalem and her daughter carry jerry cans full of dirty water back home
- Organization Profile
- Today, 650 million people don’t have access to safe water and 2.3 billion people – one in three – don’t have access to a proper toilet. WaterAid is an international organization whose mission is to transform the lives of the poorest and most marginalized people by improving access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene.
- Uses of donations from the Osaka Marathon
- Around 315,000 children under-five die every year from diarrheal diseases caused by dirty water and poor sanitation. That's 900 children per day. Your donations will be used to deliver water and toilets to people in 31 countries where WaterAid operates.
Association for Nature Restoration and Conservation, Japan
(Specified NPO)Saving living creatures by restoring the aquatic environment in
Japan
- Rice paddies that stabilize the flow of a river
- ⓒ Fumika Seno
Fireflies living in the clean aquatic area - Terraced paddy fields, home to many creatures
- Organization Profile
- Aiming to help people coexist with nature, we have been conducting environment conservation activities in Japan for twenty-eight years with local activists. We help regional activation by improving streams and rivers where fireflies live and rice paddies full of life as well as functioning as natural dams and exploiting the natural environment.
- Uses of donations from the Osaka Marathon
- Your donations will be used for our activities related to water as the source of all life; namely, conserving clean water in Japan and the creatures living there through activities such as experiences in a natural environment at aquatic areas for children and activities to conserve the living environment for creatures by conserving and restoring streams and rice paddies.
OISCA
Organization for Industrial, Spiritual and Cultural Advancement
(Public Interest Incorporated Foundations)Coastal Forest Restoration Project in Natori City to help revitalize the area devastated by the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami.
- Black pine trees uprooted and wiped out by tsunami.
- Local farmers who are provided with jobs in growing seedlings.
- Volunteers helping in the maintenance of the project site.
- Organization Profile
- Founded in 1961, OISCA International is the first major international non-governmental organization to emerge in Japan. Operating in 33 countries and territories, OISCA is implementing four major programs including Capacity Building, Children's Forest Program, Sustainable Development Program and Environmental Conservation Programs.
Equipped with over five decades of working experience at grassroots level, OISCA is spearheading the implementation of the Coastal Forest Restoration Project in Natori City in collaboration with the local government, forest experts, donors, volunteers and the March 11, 2011 disaster-affected local farmers.
- Uses of donations from the Osaka Marathon
- Donations will be used in (1) restoring the 100 hectares with black pine trees and indigenous broad leaf seedlings; (2) improving the quality of life of local farmers by providing jobs in seedling and forestry management; and (3) enhancing the level of awareness of the general public on natural disasters through various means of public communication.
Japan Environmental Education Forum (JEEF)
(Non-Profit Organization Incorporated Foundation)Creating a society where all children can interact with nature from the heart
- © JEEF
Japan’s largest environmental education event: Kiyosato Meeting - © JEEF
A program to foster zest for living: GEMS - © JEEF
Forging the future of children in the village: Village forest conservation in Indonesia
- Organization Profile
- It is significant to perceive nature close and irreplaceable to us in order to achieve sustainable development society where people can coexist with nature. Under circumstances where the distance between children and nature gets wider year by year, we conduct “environmental education that bridges children in the future” based on nature experience.
- Uses of donations from the Osaka Marathon
- Having a wonderful experience in nature and being truly impressed, children develop a wish to conserve nature. Your donations will be used to create a venue and people connecting children and forests, oceans, mountains and rivers needed to achieve a society where all children can naturally interact with nature.
Hope & Wish for Children with Life-Threatening Illness and Their
Families
(Non-Profit Organization Incorporated Foundation)Support for children with incurable diseases and their families
- The key is …all family members!
- Abundant smiles.
- We encounter many people.
- Organization Profile
- This organization aims to support children with intractable or incurable diseases, who are thought to number more than 200,000 nationwide and their families by providing opportunities all the families of children fighting difficult diseases to connect with others in society, by inviting all members to theme parks, hair salons etc.
- Uses of donations from the Osaka Marathon
- Your donations will be used for activities to support children with intractable or incurable diseases (such as family vacation, exchange opportunities with local people, charity events and constructing facilities for respite care) as well as briefing sessions and campaigns to realize them.
Save the Children Japan
(Non-Profit Organization Incorporated Foundation)Supporting the lives of babies and mothers worldwide
- © Sai Thiha Soe/Save the Children
Supporting Maternal & Child Health with the 1000 day support program. - © Save the Children
Improving Newborn Survival with better nutrition. - © Sai Thiha Soe/Save the Children
Supporting the training of local health practitioners.
- Organization Profile
- Save the Children is an international NGO that specializes in the support for children. Save the Children Japan was established in 1986 in Osaka. For 30 years, we have been working to achieve our vision of a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation.
- Uses of donations from the Osaka Marathon
- Each day in the world, 16,000 children die before celebrating their 5th birthday. This means in just two days, the same number of children as the number of runners in the Osaka marathon will end their lives. Donations from the Osaka Marathon will be used for health and nutrition projects to support the lives of babies and mothers and achieve our goal to put an end to preventable child deaths.
NPO Sodateage NetJob assistance for young unemployed people
- © NPO-SODATEAGE-NET
- © NPO-SODATEAGE-NET
- © NPO-SODATEAGE-NET
- Organization Profile
- Sodateage Net provides not only “Job Training” (a basic job preparation program for young unemployed people who have difficulties in finding jobs and preparing themselves for working), but also supports their parents and helps the children of needy families study after school (to prepare for term exams and entrance exams etc.).
Moreover, Sodateage Net has developed an atmosphere of society-wide support to the youth by engaging in various activities including training support staffs in collaboration with local communities, governments, and businesses.
- Uses of donations from the Osaka Marathon
- Your donation enables us to sustain our “Youth Employment Support Package,” which allows the young people who cannot afford financially to participate in our “Job Training” (a basic job preparation program for those who have difficulties in finding jobs and preparing themselves for working), as well as “Gakutasu” (Study and Independence Support) for elementary, middle school, and high school students from families suffering economic hardships.
NPO Pool VolunteerTeaching all children with disabilities how to swim at municipal
swimming pools
- © United tomorrow
Enjoying a swimming pool with volunteers. - Enter the water using the slope of the swimming pool!
- They are on wheelchairs in their daily lives but mermaids in the pool!
- Organization Profile
- Swimming is the most suitable sport for the health and rehabilitation of intellectual disabled children and those in wheelchairs. We are engaged in volunteer activities to support such children's enjoyable swimming experience in safety.
- Uses of donations from the Osaka Marathon
- We intend to use the money to fund wheelchairs for a swimming pool that enable disabled children who cannot walk to move safely, grant the wish to be able to swim for as many as possible, prepare safety mats at the poolside and conduct training activities to familiarize participants with the knowledge and skills to take care of disabled people nationwide.
Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto
UniversityResearch into regenerative medicine and drug development via
iPS cells
- © Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University
Professor Shinya Yamanaka who works at CiRA as director - © Shinya Yamanaka, Professor, Kyoto University
iPS cells anticipated for the application of regenerative medicine and drug development - © Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University
The donated funds are used to hire institute members, 90 percent of whom are on non-regular employment contracts.
- Organization Profile
- This is a research institute where Professor Shinya Yamanaka, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2012, works as director. Many researchers and research assistants are dedicated to their research and work to improve the way patients suffering from injuries and diseases are treated.
- Uses of donations from the Osaka Marathon
- Your donation will be used carefully as employment of brilliant researchers and research support staff, establishment and protection of intellectual properties on iPS cells, support for research projects and infrastructures at CiRA, etc.
Cancer Support Community Japan
(Specified NPO)Support for people with cancer and their loved ones
- © Cancer Support Community Japan
A support group where cancer patients talk to each other - © Cancer Support Community Japan
Cancer enlightenment activities in collaboration with the Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University (2015) - © Cancer Support Community Japan
A cancer prevention leaflet and a rainbow ribbon badge
- Organization Profile
- As the Japan affiliate of the Cancer Support Community – the largest international non-profit organization dedicated to providing support to people affected by cancer – we have been engaged in activities in the Kanto region since 2001 and the Kansai region since 2013, providing psychosocial support for people with cancer and their loved ones from professions such as clinical psychotherapists, social workers and nurses in their local communities.
- Uses of donations from the Osaka Marathon
- We intend to use the money raised through the Osaka Marathon to fund efforts to broadly educate people about cancer by producing and distributing leaflets and badges, aiming to prevent cancer and create a society where people can retain their quality of life, even if developing the condition, as well as professional led psychosocial support for people with cancer in the Kansai region.