These include biomedical-research charities the Wellcome Trust and Cancer Research UK, both in London, and the UK government agency responsible for science.
The charity runs educational programmes both in the UK and internationally.
Talk to others who have set up charities, both recently and in the past.
Since retiring from football Shearer has also done work for several charities both nationally and in the Newcastle area.
Other faith-based organizations, such as the Jewish Federations of North America and Catholic Charities, both which have offices in cities across the U.S., have launched large-scale efforts to solicit donations for disaster relif.
He is also involved in numerous charities in both the United States and Mexico, doing everything from buying back-to-school supplies for children in Los Angeles to refurbishing youth baseball fields in Tijuana.
The Bidens contributed $4,820 to charity, in both monetary and in-kind donations, the White House said.
But he quickly follows up the emotion with concrete demands on behalf of his own power base, in this case one of his charities: "In both these cases my Trust has sympathetic developers and sponsors waiting in the wings".
