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- A Case for Dignity - an organization that gathers bags and basic neccessities for children transitioning into foster care in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
- a Slice of Hope - about energizing the mind, body and spirit and bringing a sense of Renewal and Empowerment in donors as well as recipients.
- A Woman’s Place - the only only gender-specific emergency shelter and transitional housing of its in San Francisco, providing a safe haven for homeless women and victims of crimes (domestic violence, rape, sexual assualt) with a comprehensive range of flexible services, in
- Access Alaska - opening doors to independence for seniors and Alaskans with disabilities for more than two decades.
- ADAI – Assistance Dogs of America, Inc. - to help children and adults with disabilities achieve greater independence by training and placing service and therapy dogs to assist with the individual’s daily needs.
- American Red Cross
- Autism Society of America
- Black Card Circle Foundation (BCCF) - Strives to raise awareness for IRS recognized not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organizations that promote self-reliance and sustainability.
- Boulder County CareConnect - promotes the security, comfort and independence of seniors and adults with disabilities.
- Bridge for Youth - the premier resource for youth and families in crisis. We ensure a continuum of care to provide shelter and support, to reunite families whenever possible, and when it is not, to build independent living skills in young people.
- Camp AmeriKids - to enhance the lives of youth living with the challenges of HIV/AIDS and sickle cell disease by providing an enriching summer camp experience, year-round skill building and a supported transition to adulthood.
- Camp Sunshine - The camp has the distinction of being the only program in the nation whose mission is to address the impact of a life threatening illness on every member of the immediate family—the ill child, the parents, and the siblings.
- Carroll center for the blind - The Carroll Center serves the needs of blind and visually-impaired persons by providing rehabilitation, skills training, and educational opportunities to achieve independence, self-sufficiency, and self-fulfillment and by educating the public regarding th
- Chhaya Community Development Corporation - Addressing the housing and community development needs of South Asian Americans
- Child's Play - organizes worldwide toy drives to children’s hospitals.
- Connections
- Empty Stocking Fund - to empower parents andguardians of children living at or below the poverty level in the communities we serve by providing them with an opportunity to give their children gifts at Christmas time.
- FAIR Girls - FAIR Girls (formerly FAIR Fund) prevents the exploitation of girls worldwide with empowerment and education.
- Family Focus Adoption Services - The mission of Family Focus is to create and provide the confidence-building adoption services that we would trust and expect for our own families and our own children.
- Feeding America - Our mission is to feed America’s hungry through a nationwide network of member food banks and engage our country in the fight to end hunger.
- Fiver Children's Foundation - a comprehensive youth development organization that empowers children from underserved communities to develop life skills and to reach their full potential.
- Flashes of Hope - a nonprofit organization that changes the way children with cancer and other life threatening illnesses see themselves through the gift of photography and raises money for pediatric cancer research.
- Food Forward - a volunteer powered grassroots group of Angelenos who care about reconnecting to our food system and making change around urban hunger.
- Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research (FSR) - USA’s leading nonprofit organization dedicated to improving care for sarcoidosis patients and to finding a cure for this disease.
- Get on the Bus - Brings children and their guardians/caregivers from throughout the state of California to visit their mothers and fathers in prison.
- Good Karma Bikes (GKB) - exists to provide homeless and low income working people with safe, reliable bicycle transportation to provide them the freedom and ability to travel to the places, appointments and people that can facilitate their improved quality of life; and sometimes,
- Happy Trails Riding Academy - a therapeutic riding center for people with mental, physical, and emotional disabilities.
- Homeboy Industries - serves at-risk and gang involved youth with a continuum of services and programs designed to meet their multiple needs, and runs four businesses that serve as job-training sites.
- Homeless Prenatal Program - In partnership with our families, break the cycle of childhood poverty
- Illumination Foundation (IF) - a non-profit, non-denominational, grassroots organization that addresses the crisis of homelessness in Orange County through integrated services that provide appropriate solutions.
- Joyful Heart Foundation - The Joyful Heart Foundation works to foster a community that turns toward the issues of sexual assault, domestic violence and child abuse.
- Little Essentials - a community-based organization that helps families stay together by providing free baby and toddler (to age 4) clothing, gear, toys and other essential items to Brooklyn families living in poverty.
- Love Kitchen - The Love Kitchen provides meals, clothing and emergency food packages to homebound, homeless and unemployed persons.
- Love-A-Bull - organized to educate and to advocate on behalf of the American Pit Bull Terrier, the American Staffordshire Terrier, the Staffordshire Terrier, and Bull Terrier (all breeds commonly referred to as “pit bulls”) and pit bull mixes.
- MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) - a non-profit organization that seeks to stop drunk driving, support those affected by drunk driving, prevent underage drinking, and overall push for stricter alcohol policy.
- Make-A-Wish Foundation
- Modest Needs - Modest Needs works to stop the cycle of poverty before it starts for the low-income workers whom conventional philanthropy has forgotten.
- Mona Foundation - Supporting Universal Education
- Mosaic Family Services - a non-profit community based organization that provides culturally and linguistically competent services to refugees and immigrants in crisis.
- National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth (NAEHCY) - the voice and social conscience for the education of children and youth experiencing homelessness.
- National MPS Society - The Society and our members raise money to provide student fellowships and fund research projects at a number of prestigious university centers.
- New Eyes for the Needy - New Eyes for the Needy purchases new prescription eyeglasses for poor children and adults living in the United States and recycles donated glasses for distribution to indigent people overseas.
- New Leash on Life USA - a new generation prison dog-training program that saves the lives of shelter dogs by training and socializing them to enhance their adoptability while helping inmates learn to train and care for dogs.
- NOH8 Campaign - a charitable organization whose mission is to promote marriage, gender and human equality through education, advocacy, social media, and visual protest.
- Pink for Pam - Pink for Pam aims to help people with cancer feel as normal, comfortable, and confident as possible in their everyday lives, while never giving up on finding a cure.
- Polaris Project - a leading organization in the United States combating all forms of human trafficking and serving both U.S. citizens and foreign national victims, including men, women, and children.
- Project Home Indy - Project Home Indy provides a long-term residential environment where program opportunities are structured based on a person-centered case management framework. Our program aims to break the cycle of poverty.
- Return to Freedom - a non-profit wild horse sanctuary. To protect the freedom and natural lifestyle of America’s free ranging wild horses.
- Ryan House - Ryan House is for kids who won’t live past 20. It’s a place for children and their families to visit, just to take a break from the stress of constant 24/7 home care, and it’s a place where, eventually, that child can pass away.
- Sink or Swim Philadelphia - SOS will assist those people in the Philadelphia area and surrounding counties who are uninsured or underinsured pay for necessary medical expenses by donation made through ChipIn via Facebook (FB) and web-donors.
- Special Spaces - Our mission is simple but zealous. It is to create dream bedrooms for children with life-challenging illnesses.
- St. Baldrick's Foundation - committed to funding the best research for kids with cancer and the top pediatric oncologists in the U.S. guide our research priorities.
- Tahirih Center for Justice - represents vulnerable immigrant women and girls who are fleeing gender-based violence such as female genital mutilation, torture, rape, human trafficking, honor crimes, life-threatening widow rituals, forced marriage, and domestic violence.
- TEAK Fellowship - the TEAK Fellowship has placed at-risk kids in some of the country’s most prestigious high schools and universities.
- The Hawn Foundation - The Hawn Foundation seeks to help transform children’s lives by providing them with opportunities to acquire vital social and emotional skills, to improve academic performance, enhance the quality of their lives, and help others in their community.
- Thursday''s Child - Thursday”s Child was founded in 1982 to assist youth at-risk and runaways. At present, it is the only national agency, private or public, which deals with the broad spectrum of endangered children without any religious overtone or affiliation and which a
- Toys for Tots Foundation - a program run by the United States Marine Corps Reserve which donates toys to children whose parents cannot afford to buy them gifts for Christmas.
Animals:
- Animal Welfare of Culebra
- Austin Animal Center - The goal of the Austin Animal Center is to place all adoptable animals in forever homes through adoptions, foster care or rescue partner groups.
- Cat Network, The - dedicated to reducing the overpopulation of stray and feral cats in South Florida through the humane practice of sterilization, vaccination, and release.
- Doglando Foundation - the primary goal of improving canine welfare by cultivating humans’ ability to be responsible dog owners.
- Stray Cat Alliance - educates and empowers the community to advocate for every cat’s right to be safe, healthy and valued. Building a no kill nation, one stray at a time.
Arts:
Education:
- aquachild Swim School - a program designed to teach underprivileged and special needs children what is commonly referred to as the Swim-Float-Swim method, also known as the Rollover Breathing method.
- Book Ends - BookEnds recycles children’s books through student-run book drives and places them in schools and youth organizations in need of books.
- Kramden Institute - to empower hardworking, economically disadvantaged students bridge the digital divide and advance their academic and personal achievements by awarding them home computers.
Environment:
- Western Lands Project - Their goal is to keep public lands public by monitoring federal land exchanges, sales, and giveaways and any project that would cede public control of land to non-federal entities.
Health:
- Action for Healthy Kids - addresses childhood undernourishment, obesity and prevention by working with schools to help kids learn to eat right and be active every day.
- American Diabetes Association (ADA) - Their mission is to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes.
- Art of the Brain - Raises public awareness of Brain Cancer, raise money for the UCLA Neuro-Oncology Program, and spotlight the talent, strength and courage of brain cancer patients.
- Autism Science Foundation - to support autism research by providing funding and other assistance to scientists and organizations conducting, facilitating, publicizing and disseminating autism research.
- Bone Marrow Foundation - The Bone Marrow Foundation offers financial assistance and free support services to bone marrow/stem cell transplant patients and their families.
- Feed My Hungry Children
- Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) - Helping patients with blood cancers live better, longer lives.
- Michael J. Fox Foundation - The Michael J. Fox Foundation is dedicated to finding better treatments and, ultimately, a cure for Parkinson’s disease.
- Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) - a voluntary national health agency — a dedicated partnership between scientists and concerned citizens aimed at conquering neuromuscular diseases that affect more than a million Americans.
- Ovarian Cancer National Alliance - the foremost advocate for women with ovarian cancer in the United States.
- Troy Howell Cancer Fund
- USC Pain Center - can provide assessment and treatment to patients with complex and refractory pain problems.
Human Rights:
- Advokids - A Legal Resource for California Foster Children and Their Advocates
- American Civil Liberties Union
- buildOn - run afterschool youth service programs that mobilize urban teens to lift up their communities and change the world through intensive local community service and by building schools in some of the poorest countries on the planet.
- Camp Courageous - a year-round respite care and recreational facility for individuals of all ages with disabilities.
- Children of Shelters (COS) - a nonprofit organization working to provide support and education for children living in or being served by the homeless shelter system.
- RightRides - They offer women, LGBTQ and gender nonconforming individuals a free, late-night ride home to ensure their safe commute to or through high-risk areas.
- Save Our Streets Crown Heights - a community-based effort to end gun violence in the Crown Heights, Brooklyn neighborhood.
- Stichting Kind en Toekomst - stelt zich tot doel direct hulp te bieden aan kinderen in nood. Zij doet dit door het bemiddelen bij adoptie door personen die in Nederland woonachtig zijn, van kinderen die in hun geboorteland geen enkel uitzicht hebben op een
(these are just some random organizations. There are many, many more out there…)
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