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Every child deserves a safe and fun place to learn and play year-round. The reality is, for many families in underprivileged and underserved communities, this place is simply out of reach. New Beginnings Educational Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that has been helping at-risk youth from grades Kindergarten through 12th since 2002 in Montgomery, Alabama. Through tutoring, mentoring, nutrition and wellness programs, summer camps, athletics, violence prevention training, leadership development strategies, character education, school promotion and graduation, New Beginnings is improving the community by reducing school drop-outs, juvenile delinquency, truancy, and health inequalities.

Believe Big is a non-profit Christian organization founded by Ivelisse and Jimmy Page after her battle with Stage IV colon cancer. Established in 2011, Believe Big is bridging the gap between conventional and complementary medicine for fighting cancer. OUR VISIONTo see cancer patients and their families discover their pathway to healing. OUR FOCUSEducate individuals on a comprehensive approach in cancer prevention and treatment. Connect patients with physicians trained in mistletoe therapy, and the resources necessary to help them advocate for their own health. Provide spiritual support to help patients and their families overcome fear and anxiety.Overcome cancer with the development of the Mistletoe Clinical Trial in collaboration with Johns Hopkins Hospital.

The mission of the Merrimack Valley Food Bank (MVFB) is to help meet a person's most profound need for adequate nutrition and freedom from hunger. Through our partnerships and collaboration with poverty and anti-hunger non-profit organizations, MVFB addresses barriers that prevent low to moderate income families and individuals from accessing healthy food; engages the community to join our mission; and works to bring about economic change by providing low-income individuals and families with resources to improve their economic situation. Only through cooperative efforts can society initiate change, develop strategies to alleviate hunger and work toward improving the quality of life for all people.

Since our founding in 2006, our mission has been the same: Leveling the Playing Field for young refugees. Through a commitment to education and high expectations, both in the classroom and on the pitch, we’ve impacted the lives of hundreds of refugee families. With humble beginnings as an after-school soccer program, we have grown to encompass multiple campuses in two states. Our model is unique: Our students, 100% refugee and ranging from 6th through 12th grade, receive full scholarships to attend Fugees Academies. With the backing of thousands of individuals and businesses our students are given all the tools they need to find success in their new homes, preventing the cycle of poverty from beginning again.

Mercy in Action is a non-profit organization that focuses on the crisis in Maternal/Newborn/Child health care worldwide. We have been establishing and funding free birth centers for poor families in the Philippines since 1992, and to date more than 12,000 babies have been delivered free of charge for the poorest of the poor in Mercy In Action's Birth Centers, and literally tens of thousands of lives have been helped and healed in the medical outreaches. Mercy In Acton also teaches clinical internships, seminars and training retreats to prepare midwives, medics and nurses to meet the global shortage of skilled birth attendants, and to help primary health care workers prevent unnecessary child deaths.

The Anacortes Family Center's mission is to serve homeless women, children and families in crisis by providing shelter in addition to comprehensive transformational services to achieve long lasting personal success and self-sufficiency, and to prevent homelessness in our community through advocacy and by providing affordable housing options. AFC's unique approach has led to the distinction of being one of the most successful shelters in the state at helping clients achieve self-sufficiency. Last year AFC served the most vulnerable clients* and over 80% of our clients graduated successfully - finding a permanent place to call home and a job to support the household.*Measured with the objective tool used by all homeless programs called the “Vulnerability index”.

Inprem Holistic Community Resource Center’s goal is to create a sustainable community to prevent and alleviate human suffering, heal the spirit via inspiring hope, deliver information, provide advocacy services, and enhance the quality of life for our collective residents in Central Ohio. We expect excellence and will accept no less from ourselves or our partners. Our vision and mission are to provide for the poor and to lessen the everyday struggles of those who are hungry, poor, or battling poverty. Through serving others with love, dignity, and respect, we are warriors against hunger and poverty. We bring about positive change, and we impact the lives of residents in our community through the simplest acts of human kindness.

We strengthen the lives of children by enhancing their mental health and physical well-being. DePelchin Children’s Center believes that every child deserves to be safe and healthy. An accredited foster care and adoption agency, DePelchin serves the most vulnerable children and families in Texas and works to break the cycles of abuse and neglect. Our approach to caring for children integrates prevention, foster care, adoption and post-adoption programs to improve the mental health and physical well-being of children who are at risk of entering or are in the State’s child welfare system. Founded in 1892, DePelchin is a nonprofit organization with locations throughout Houston and across Texas and gratefully receives support from individuals, foundations, corporations, government grants and the United Way.

SafePlace works for societal change to prevent sexual and domestic violence while offering crisis intervention, education, and long-term advocacy services. SafePlace was formed in October 1981, by the merger of Rape Relief and the Women’s Shelter Services, two programs operated by the YWCA since 1973 and 1976, respectively. Since our inception, we have been both a dual domestic violence and sexual assault provider agency in Thurston County. We are a private non-profit organization. Our sexual assault program is one of the oldest in the nation. A board of directors, staff, and over 90 trained volunteers operate the agency. Our general purpose is to empower survivors to make decisions about their lives, by offering supportive services, resources and information.

The Blue Ribbon Project is designed to be a community outreach in both the prevention of Child Abuse and a support network for abused and neglected children. At the Blue Ribbon Project, we understand that victims of child abuse carry a burden throughout their lives and the effects of abuse last a lifetime. That’s why we offer a variety of functional outreach programs that directly serve abused and neglected children in our community, youth in foster care, as well as adult survivors of abuse and neglect. Through our dedication to these children, we remain committed to achieving our vision of raising awareness around child abuse in our communities and acting as advocates for those affected by child abuse and neglect. The Blue Ribbon Project is a 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable organization

Dedicated to children's rights for over 20 years, the New York Center for Children (NYCC) is the only treatment center in New York City to provide free, comprehensive therapy services to child victims of physical and sexual abuse and their families, for as long as their healing requires.NYCC never turns a child in need away, never requires proof of insurance and always delivers best-practice personalized therapies to kids and families who suffer in silence.Having served over 15,000 children and their families, NYCC delivers groundbreaking training programs on the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of child abuse.Over 20,000 medical students, mental health professionals, child care workers, doctors, nurses and first responders worldwide have attended the training programs. The NYCC method to healing is unmatched, replicable, scalable and serves as a model for centers and their communities nationwide

The Pet Project for Pets, Inc. (The Pet Project) is a nonprofit organization that serves the needs of low-income pet owners who are elderly , disabling or seriously ill and would not be able to provide for their pets at home without assistance. The Pet Project offers comprehensive services designed to enable our clients to keep their companion animals. Services include an animal food bank, pet supplies, vaccines and referrals to subsidized or low-cost veterinary care, dog walking, litter box maintenance, grooming, foster care and adoption when necessary. We keep pets in their own homes and prevent the need to surrender them to shelters while preserving the very important Human / Animal bond. We "KEEP PETS IN THEIR HOMES" with their families who love and need them.