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IMEC's mission is to transform impoverished communities around the world. We provide equipment solutions for health care, agriculture, and education projects in developing countries. We work in collaboration with other humanitarian organizations(Project Shepherds), governments, faith-based groups and individuals. Together, we have transformed communities in over 90 developing countries since 1995. With the help of our humanitarian partner organizations, the dedication of our volunteers, and the generosity of our donors, IMEC has served impoverished communities in over eighty countries, providing equipment solutions to hundreds of facilities in regions of the world.
Camino Community Development Corporation (CCDC) is a bilingual and multicultural health and social services center that works to equip people to live healthy, hopeful, and productive lives. We do this by utilizing a holistic approach to care that addresses the physical, behavioral, and social needs of each person. CCDC provides programming in five areas and serves over 20,000 individuals each year. We offer primary care and pediatric medical services at our health clinic, behavioral health programming, health and wellness education, food security/pantry services, and workforce development and financial literacy support.
The mission of Seasons Hospice is to provide individualized and compassionate care, education, and support for the dying and those who have experienced loss. Adding quality of life to each day is the vision of Seasons Hospice. We provide our patients with compassionate care to help ensure that the final months and days are filled with comfort and peace for the patient and their loved ones. Seasons Hospice is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization that was founded in 1996 as a homecare-based hospice program. In 1997, we added residential hospice care to our services with the acquisition of our lovely Hospice House. Today we offer homecare, residential, and facility-based hospice care to meet the needs of our patients wherever they call home. Seasons Hospice also offers the only free-standing grief center in SE Minnesota. Our grief services are available to anyone in the community. The Seasons Hospice House, located on 13 acres in Rochester, Minnesota, provides 24-hour onsite hospice care. This lovely, eight-bedroom facility, which opened in 1997, was the first Medicare-certified residential hospice facility in Minnesota. Seasons Hospice recognizes the importance of providing grief support to those who have suffered a loss. We offer extensive bereavement support through our Center for Grief Education and Support (CGES) to all individuals who have experienced a loss. These services are provided free of charge.
Hackley School is an independent, college-preparatory, non-sectarian, day and boarding school for students in kindergarten through twelfth grade. Founded in 1899, it became co-educational in 1970. Hackley challenges students to grow in character, scholarship and accomplishment, to offer unreserved effort, and to learn from our community's varying perspectives and backgrounds. Hackley believes that students will grow in character and responsibility by participating in structured activity that serves the needs of people outside the spheres of home and school. By committing their energy, time, and imagination to serving those needs, students can experience the satisfaction of helping others and can gain some appreciation of the complexity and concerns of the larger community.
Our mission is to secure gifts for Bridgeport Hospital by building extraordinary relationships. We match the philanthropic aspirations of donors with the highest-quality patient and family-centered services and advanced medical education to support the healthcare needs of our community.As part of the Yale New Haven Health System, Bridgeport Hospital is considered by many to be the best site for program innovation because of its close connection with its community, strong interdepartmental collaborations, and research orientation. Bridgeport Hospital primarily serves the Greater Bridgeport Area in Fairfield and New Haven Counties in Connecticut. Its renowned Connecticut Burn Center serves the entire State.
The mission of Vanderbilt VUMC is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, training and research. Through the exceptional capabilities and caring spirit of its people, VUMC is a comprehensive facility leading in the delivery of exemplary health care while improving the lives of individuals and communities regionally, nationally and internationally. We combine transformative educational programs, compelling scientific discoveries and distinctive personalized care to achieve this goal. Each year, people throughout Tennessee and the Southeast choose VUMC for their health care because of our leadership in diverse areas from transplantation to outpatient ambulatory care, our medical science and our dedication to treating patients.
GeoHazards International works to reduce loss of life and suffering around the world in communities most at risk from earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides and floods. Our vision is a world of self-reliant communities - rural and urban - that can continue their economic, political and cultural development unimpeded by natural disasters. GHI helps communities avert disaster by creating safer buildings, assessing geophysical hazards, helping governments affordably prepare, and educating residents about what to do in the face of high risk. GHI bridges the gap between scientific experts and the people in developing countries who want to take action. In each case we work with communities toward locally appropriate and lasting solutions.
Touro Infirmary, one of the oldest private, not-for-profit hospitals in New Orleans, is committed to improving the health and well-being of the entire community through the provision of effective, efficient and compassionate healthcare. The Touro Infirmary Foundation is dedicated to supporting these activities through leadership, resource development, and financial stewardshiand thanks to the generous contributions of our donors, it continues to be an essential resource for the hospital. Every aspect of Touro Infirmary's proud heritage -- from outstanding patient care, to health education and community outreach -- has been enhanced by its legacy of support. Funds are used to support ongoing initiatives and to expand services and facilities for patients. Most gifts to the Foundation are unrestricted and are applied to areas of greatest need. Through the efforts of the Foundation, Judah Touro's vision of community service, begun more than 150 years ago, is still amply evident today. The generosity of our donors helps to ensure that this vision will remain strong for years to come.
Our goal is to help people live their final months as fully and peacefully as possible. High-quality healthcare is important at every stage of life and we consider it a privilege to walk alongside those who are facing terminal illness, coping with grief, or seeking to learn more about these profound experiences. Hospicare & Palliative Care Services, a community resource since 1983, provides hospice care for people of any age with any terminal diagnosis. Our palliative care service specializes in relief of pain, symptoms, and stress at any point in an illness. Additionally, our bereavement support services provide grief counseling and support groups to those who are grieving a loss. Our mission is to bring medical expertise and compassionate, respectful care to people and their loved ones at any stage of a life-threatening illness, and to provide information and education about advanced illness, dying, and bereavement to the entire community.
It is the mission of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital to be a leader in the provision of world class patient care, teaching, research, and service to local, state, national, and international communities. The Hospital combines the best clinical and administrative practices of all its divisions to build upon each Center's strengths to become the premier integrated academic health center in the United States. In concert with its two affiliated medical schools, the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University (formerly known as Cornell University Medical College) and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, the Hospital is committed to providing High quality and compassionate patient care; Outstanding clinical education to physicians, biomedical scientists, and other healthcare professionals; Innovative healthcare research and scientific discovery; Responsible and proactive community service; Unmatched service to patients, families, and visitors; and A safe work environment, competitive compensation, and the opportunity for career advancement to its staff.
Mission in the Third Millennium challenges Maryknoll Sisters to respond as women yearning for authentic justice and reconciliation in the midst of a fractured and divided world. Called to reflect God's compassionate and inclusive love, we are sent to walk with peoples of many lands, crossing the boundaries of culture, race and religious beliefs. Maryknoll Sisters live the gospel values through a variety of ministries. We are engaged in evangelization, pastoral work, education and social welfare, medicine, communications, agriculture and science. We serve the poor wherever we find them: in their homes, in prisons, in hospitals, in refugee camps, and on the streets. Some of us work with youth groups, women and the elderly, and in the arts and communications. Others promote and participate in ecumenical and interfaith dialogue. Often we find ourselves networking with national and international non‑governmental organizations. Wherever we are and in whatever we do, we strive to participate effectively in the mission presence and activity of the Universal Church so that God's Reign of peace, justice and love may be proclaimed and witnessed to throughout the world. Mission means seeding hope wherever we are.
Griffin Hospital’s mission is to provide personalized, humanistic, consumer-driven health care in a healing environment; to empower individuals to be actively involved in decisions affecting their care and well-being through access to information and education; and to provide leadership to improve the health of the community it serves.The Griffin Hospital of today can be characterized as a leading innovator in the healthcare field, grounded in a commitment to treating the whole person, to facilitating a superior patient experience, and to ensuring the highest levels of patient safety and medical outcomes. Griffin Hospital is known for creating its own future, rather than simply reacting to its environment, and to providing services in a way that anticipates and exceeds the highest expectations of those served. Seeking wholeness, rather than fragmentation, the physicians, staff and volunteers at Griffin Hospital are dedicated to rendering care that encompasses the mind, body and spirit and emphasizes prevention and wellness with a simple goal: to help members of the community Griffin serves live the happiest, healthiest lives possible. Griffin has been the recipient of numerous quality, value and patient experience awards Griffin has received from the various national organizations that measure and monitor hospital performance. These awards recognize the exemplary care and service that Griffin’s talented and dedicated staff deliver to each and every patient served consistent with Griffin’s Planetree Patient-Centered Care model.