List of Top 20 Largest Charitable Organizations in Pakistan

If you have already started a fundraising campaign are standing in the middle of nowhere, here comes a guide for how to proceed with your fundraising campaign successfully.

If you have already implemented the expert suggested fundraising strategies, surely you will be getting a good response from the public and there would be lots of people interested in your campaign. 

At such times it is really important to keep the interest of people in your camping and to do so, you will need some specific promotions, and designed for keeping your donors engaged as well as the keep their enthusiasm high.

Though you do not need to do all of them but doing most of them can reap your some really good fruits.  You can mix and match them by deciding which one is good for you.

The Matching Donation Efforts:

You can assign a challenge to the network to raise a defined amount of money in any given time period and set a price that if the said amount is raised in the given time, the generous donor will donate matching the total raised amount.

Offering a Prize:

You can offer your donor a chance of winning a prize. Friends and families can hold local charities in the community centre to raise charities and for the one in need of help. These can be used to pay the medical bills of any needy person in the locality. This method can be applied on the online fundraising as well. Offering some incentives by announcing a prize is a nice way to provoke people to donate. You might get a reply from the people on the 3rd or fourth time if they didn’t reply you previously.

List of Top 20 Largest Charitable Organizations in Pakistan

1-Transparent Hands
2- Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital
3-Save the Children
4- The Citizens Foundation (TCF)
5- PCHF (Pakistan Children’s Heart Foundation)
6-Site Foundation (Society for Incentive Travel Excellence)
7- Muslim Aid Pakistan
8- Aurat Foundation
9- Darul Sukun
10- Minhaj Welfare Foundation (MWF)
11- Chhipa Welfare Association
12- Aga Khan Foundation
13- Edhi Foundation
14- Al-Khidmat Foundation Pakistan
15- EHSAS (Education, Health, and Social Achievement Services)
16- Fatimid Foundation
17- Fauji Foundation
18- Shahid Afridi Foundation
19- Khushal Pakistan
20- Ansar Burney Trust International

      1- TRANSPARENT HANDS CHARITY TRUST:

Transparent Hands Charity Trust is a charity organization and the first online Crowdfunding platform in the health sector of Pakistan, which is striving to provide the best surgical treatment to thousands of underprivileged patients. Transparent Hands Charity Trust uses its web portal to connect billions of donors around the world to help in funding the surgeries of these patients.

It also ensures to provide transparent funding system to the donors. Donors are ensured that each penny they donate will be spent on the needy patient’s surgery and this is done through the hospital bills which are uploaded on Transparent Hand’s web portal. They can donate any amount they like and receive regular updates until the patient to whom they donated, receives complete medical relief.

Transparent Hands Charity Trust has a vision to expand its healthcare services all over Pakistan & then move towards education sector.

      2- Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital:

Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital is one of the largest charity organizations of Pakistan established by Imran Khan. Imran Khan, after touching the heights of popularity through his great career in cricket and now also in politics as the chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Pakistan’s second largest political party till date, holds great concern for people suffering from this deadly disease. This historic hospital was the only healthcare provider for the cancer patients at the time of its establishment.

With its successful operation in Lahore and Peshawar, Shaukat Khanam Cancer Hospital employs the modern technology and advanced machinery for the detection and treatment of various types of cancer. The formation grips the services of qualified doctors serving the people who are unable to afford the cure of cancer. The hospital does not charge a single penny and turns the infected individuals towards better life from the death edge.

      3-Save the Children:

The Save the Children Fund, commonly known as Save the Children, is an international non-governmental organization that promotes children’s rights, provides relief and helps support children in developing countries. It was established in the United Kingdom in 1919 in order to improve the lives of children through better education, healthcare, and economic opportunities, as well as providing emergency aid in natural disasters, war, and other conflicts.

In addition to the UK organization, there are 29 other national Save the Children organizations who are members of the Save the Children Alliance, a global network of nonprofit organizations supporting local partners and Save the Children International in over 120 countries around the world.

Save the Children in Pakistan has been working for over 30 years, assisting children and families in the aftermath of emergencies, such as the conflict that forced more than 2 million people leave their homes in 2009 and the devastating floods in 2010 that destroyed more than 1 million homes.

      4- The Citizens Foundation (TCF):

The Citizens Foundation (TCF) is one of the largest non-profit organizations in Pakistan in the field of education. It was established in 1995, by a group of citizens in Karachi. It aims to provide quality education to the underprivileged youth in Pakistan. As of April 2016, TCF has expanded its network to 1202 operational school units, which provide education to 175,000 students nationwide.

The Citizens Foundation (TCF) aims to bring about an enduring positive change for the communities most in need through quality education, enabling moral, spiritual and intellectual enlightenment and creating opportunities to improve the quality of life.

      5- PCHF (Pakistan Children’s Heart Foundation)

• Mission Statement

PCHF is on second position in our top 20 non government organizations list in Pakistan. “To establish a state of the art medical facility that provides the highest quality of care for children with heart disease, irrespective of their financial means. To act as a model institute, for the training of healthcare professionals, education of the public at large and promote research into the causes and management of congenital heart disease.”

• PCHF – transparenthands

They have the best Peads Cardiologist and Surgeons as part of their Medical Advisory Boards, they help us do the medical evaluation of the patients with CHD. The brief of their profiles are mentioned here; they also help us in performing pre, during and post surgeries support.

The number of children born with heart disease in Pakistan is high. Adequate numbers of trained doctors, quality facilities, infrastructure, and funding are all deficient. They are working on building a Centre of Excellence to train more doctors for more heart surgeries.

They need 1 LAC PAKISTANIS DONATING 1000 RUPEES EVERY MONTH. Let begin this mission.

Centre of Excellence is not only about the surgeries of heart patient but it also includes capacity building and research elements of heart surgeries.

PCHF is spending on deserving children with CHD. Give your Zakat to PCHF and help those CHD-related patients.

“Zakah expenditures are only for the Poor and for the Needy and for those Employed to collect [zakah] and for bringing hearts together [for Islam] and for freeing Captives [or slaves] and for those in Debt and for the cause of Allah and for the [stranded] Traveler – an obligation [imposed] by Allah . And Allah is Knowing and Wise.” (Surah Tauba: 60)

      6-Site Foundation (Society for Incentive Travel Excellence)

Champion Incentive Travel Research and Education

Site foundation is on third position in our top 20 non government organizations list in Pakistan.

Site Foundation working as a Non Government Organization. The SITE Foundation’s mission is simple: To enhance the awareness and effectiveness of motivational experiences and incentive travel, thereby expanding their use around the world. In order to achieve this goal, the SITE Foundation—a not-for-profit organization—facilitates critical research, trend analysis, and educational programs that elevate the skills of incentive travel professionals and connects them with leading practices.

• Site Foundation – transparenthands

These efforts are stewarded by the Board of Trustees. Additionally, the SITE foundation develops multiple fundraising initiatives resulting in donations from individuals, corporations, and industry organizations in order to fund these valuable initiatives.

• SITE Foundation Grants

SITE Foundation Grants provide funding to organizations that support our mission of advancing the incentive travel industry.

• Incentive Federation Research Incentive Marketplace Estimate Research Study

A study of a cross-section of US businesses confirms that award points, gift cards, incentive travel, and merchandise are commonly used tools for firms seeking to reward and recognize their employees, sales teams, channel partners, and customers. Key findings from the study include: 84% of U.S. businesses use non-cash rewards to recognize and reward key audiences in the form of award points, gift cards, incentive travel, and merchandise – up from 74% in 2013. In 2015, U.S. businesses spent $90 billion on these types of non-cash rewards, up from $77 billion in 2013.

      7- Muslim Aid Pakistan:

Muslim Aid is a UK based Islamic charity NGO. It is currently run by a former senior staff of the Muslim Council of Britain. It is a member of the Muslim Charities Forum, which lost funding from the British government in January 2015 due to its links to “individuals who fuel hatred, division and violence.” Muslim Aid was started in 1985 in reaction to the famine in Africa. The main goal was to Serve Humanity by responding to the affected people on an emergency basis.

While dealing with emergency relief, Muslim Aid started providing its services in Education, Economic Empowerment, Health and WASH. Regardless of race, religion and cast, Muslim Aid reached Gujrat (India, 2001); to help thousands of people affected by earthquake.

After the devastating earthquake of 2005, Muslim Aid established its field office in Pakistan. Since then, Muslim Aid is serving thousands of Pakistani people in terms of Education, Economic Empowerment, Health, Humanitarian Relief and WASH.

      8- Aurat Foundation:

Established in 1986, as a national, non-profit and non-governmental charity organization in Pakistan under the Societies’ Registration Act 1860, Aurat Publication and Information Service Foundation (Aurat Foundation/AF) is committed to create widespread awareness and commitment for a just, democratic and caring society in Pakistan, where women and men are recognized as equals, with the right to lead their lives with self-respect and dignity.

Over the last 29 years, Aurat Foundation is recognized nationally and internationally as one of the leading institutions creating, facilitating and strengthening civil society groups and networks for promoting trust and collaboration among citizens to mobilize public pressure for women’s empowerment in the country.

      9- Darul Sukun:

Darul Sukun is an exceptional center functioning for the comfort of mentally disabled children and adults. This leading NGO gives place to such members of society which have been left behind by their loved ones. It’s a home to disabled individuals who are residing upon the streets, witnessing the harshness of their loved ones.

These people are brought in by social workers, relatives or even police to improve their miserable condition. Sr. Gertrude started this amazing platform and served the important part of society here in Pakistan without flying back to Holland.

      10- Minhaj Welfare Foundation (MWF):

Minhaj Welfare Foundation (MWF) is one of the largest non-government international charity organizations in the world, with a network of branches and projects in over 100 countries worldwide. It was started by Tahir-ul-Qadri as a part of Minhaj-ul-Quran International.

Minhaj Welfare Foundation (MWF) is fully registered with the UK charity commission. Its head office is in Pakistan. MWF helps to support the poor and needy in marginalized communities by working for their rights, providing children the access to education, providing the poor access to Basic Health Care and the means for Social Economic and Welfare support.

      11- Chhipa Welfare Association:

The Chhipa Welfare Association is also one of the very efficient charity organizations in Pakistan, founded in 2007 by Ramzan Chhipa. Its activities include ambulance service and free or low-cost food to people with low income. The association is headquartered in Karachi and operates throughout the city. Chhipa Welfare Association is purely a non-profit NGO which is serving humanity without any discrimination of caste creed or color.

      12- Aga Khan Foundation:

Aga Khan Foundation is an NGO that works to improve the quality of life for villagers. The Aga Khan Foundation (AKF), alongside its sister AKDN agencies, has implemented innovative, community-driven solutions to development challenges for more than 45 years.

It focuses on a small number of specific development problems by forming intellectual and financial partnerships with organizations sharing its objectives. With a small staff, a host of cooperating agencies and thousands of volunteers, the Foundation reaches out to vulnerable populations, irrespective of their race, religion, ethnicity or gender.

      13- Edhi Foundation:

Edhi Foundation is the biggest name in Pakistan’s charity organization in Pakistan. It is one of the best social welfare service providers across the world running on non-commercial, non-political and non-communal basis.

It is serving round-the-clock without any discrimination of color, class, and creed and is enjoying exclusive credentials in the shape of awards and shields conferred upon Mr. Abdul Sattar Edhi (late) and Mrs. Bilquis Edhi by governmental and non-governmental organizations on national and international level for rendering their exemplary services to humanity in multidimensional fields. Edhi has the largest ambulance fleet in the world.

      14- Al-Khidmat Foundation Pakistan:

Al-Khidmat Foundation is a non-profit charitable organization based in Lahore that focuses on a wide range of humanitarian services across Pakistan. Al-Khidmat Foundation has been active in flood relief and other disaster relief work since many years.

In addition, the organization runs schools and orphan homes, manages clean water projects, runs ambulances, sets up medical camps, provides help to those in jail and offers goods and supplies to those in need.

      15- EHSAS (Education, Health, and Social Achievement Services):

EHSAS is an NGO based in Chakwal and Islamabad. Its projects target a wide range of areas including poverty alleviation, healthcare, education and social development.

EHSAS has various ongoing efforts in place including EHSAS library, EHSAS blood bank, EHSAS Hepatitis Awareness and Vaccination Program, EHSAS Horticulture Development Program and EHSAS Good Governance Program.

      16- Fatimid Foundation:

The Fatimid Foundation is a charitable organization that aims to help the millions of blood disease cases in Pakistan. It is a pioneer in providing safe blood transfusions to patients in Pakistan.

The organization provides healthy fully screened blood and blood products each month to its thousands of patients (the majority of whom are children) suffering from dreadful blood disorders such as thalassemia, hemophilia and others. The foundation also arranges urget blood in case of emergencies in country.

      17- Fauji Foundation:

The Fauji Foundation is a trust set up for the welfare of ex-servicemen and their dependents. Fauji Foundation was established as a charitable trust in 1954 and operates on a completely self-sustaining basis. It channels approximately 80% of the profits from commercial ventures into social protection programs that serve a beneficiary population representing approximately 7% of the country’s population.

Spending more than Rs. 23.8 billion since its inception on welfare, the Foundation provides services in the areas of healthcare, education, educational stipends, technical and vocational training. Over 2.1 million patients are treated per year through the FF Healthcare System. Approximately 41,112 students are enrolled in the FF Education System and over 6,000 individuals are trained annually through the FF Vocational & Technical Training Centers.

      18- Shahid Afridi Foundation:

After enjoying the victorious cricket career, Shahid Afridi is now serving humanity through Shahid Afridi Foundation which grasps the vision of making Pakistan the motherland of educated people and ensuring the best health facilities without any discrimination.

The goal of SAF is to go global and create an alliance with other reputable foundations to serve people irrespective of race, religion, national origin, and color. SAF is currently in the process of constructing a hospital and school within Pakistan which will be focused to support people who are in need of healthy life, proper education and medical necessities.

      19- Khushal Pakistan:

Khushaal Pakistan is an organization that was formed on July 28th, 2010 when Pakistan was hit with devastating floods that affected millions. Created by a group of young graduates with excellent educational backgrounds and a desire and drive to help others, the organization took off immediately with the aim to reach those in need and to try and get donation funds directly to the people with minimal overhead costs.

After the immediate flood effort died down, the organization turned its attention towards rehabilitating particular flood-hit areas in Risalpur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

      20- Ansar Burney Trust International:

The Ansar Burney Trust is a non-governmental, non-political, non-profitable and a charity organization in Pakistan that is working to fight against all forms of injustices, cruel inhuman and degrading treatment, child abuse, cruelty to women and other more subtle forms of human and civil rights violations without any discrimination of affiliation.

The NGO is run by Ansar Burney himself and it’s striving to raise awareness, provide free legal advice and services and humanitarian assistance where needed. They have also established “Prisoners Aid Society” to bring reform in police stations, prisons and mental institutions and work for the aid, advice, release, rehabilitation and welfare of the illegally and unlawfully detained prisoners and mental patients.

Asking for Specific Amount

You must ask for a specific amount and on a certain date. This can be used as a target to the donors to raise a specific amount till a specified date. This works well because it generates an extra sense of urgency in the public and provokes them to take some required measures.

Round the Clock Awareness:

Keeping the public aware of the current situation is really important, especially when you need their help in some specific matter. For this reason, better is to run a 24 hour Facebook campaign. This technique is found to be really helpful to deal with the donations in a limited amount of time. It has been seen the fundraisers going viral and making donations, even the stranger from around the area.

Benefits of Charitable Organizations:

Working in the same directions, these organizations may vary a bit in their working strategies but the goal of these organizations always remains the same which is, ‘helping the community’. At the same time, there are some common benefits of these organizations. Some of these many benefits are as following:

• The Tax Benefit:

Reduction of taxable income is important in some cases. The charitable foundation helps the donors to make a tax-deductible donation to the foundation and it also helps to gain double capital benefits.

• Control on Your Money:

A charitable organization helps you to decide for which cause you are willing to donate. If you are about to give donation to a large organization, they will surely have a control on exactly how the amount will be used and will keep your preferences in their first consideration.

• Other Benefits:

These non-profit organizations make major contribution to the public services sector. The benefits of these organizations vary across policies and according to the geographical areas. Some other benefits might include;

• The understanding of the needs of any particular service of community.
• Interaction and relationship with and between people that enhance the unity in the society.
• Increased possibilities to deliver the outcomes that are difficult for the community to find on its own.
• Providing innovative ways to develop solutions to the problem.
• Better performance in terms of delivery of services.