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52nd Street Project
The 52nd Street Project (The Project) is dedicated to the creation and production of new plays for, and often by, kids between the ages of nine and eighteen that reside in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood in New York City. The Project does this through a series of unique mentoring programs that match kids with professional theater artists.
For more information, please visit: http://www.52project.org
All Hands & Hearts
All Hands Volunteers and Happy Hearts Fund initially joined forces in Nepal in 2015 to rebuild disaster-resilient schools in the wake of the devastating Earthquake. Recognizing the synergy that could come from combining these two strong and disaster-focused nonprofits, David and Petra led efforts to combine around the “Smart Response” motto. In Fall 2017, they announced that their 2 organisations had merged to form All Hands and Hearts – Smart Response.
We are an organisation committed to effectively and efficiently addressing the immediate and long-term needs of communities impacted by natural disasters. All Hands and Hearts arrives early for first response and stays late to rebuild schools and homes in a disaster-resilient way. For more information, please visit: https://www.allhandsandhearts.org
Answer the Call
The mission of the New York Police and Fire Widows’ and Children’s Benefit Fund is to support the families of New York City Police Officers, Firefighters, Port Authority Police, and EMS Personnel who have been killed in the line of duty.
When these brave men and women make the ultimate sacrifice to protect our city, we believe it is our civic duty to support the families these heroes have left behind. Our mission is to reassure these families that we will never forget them or the sacrifice made by their loved ones. We provide financial assistance, host special gatherings, and offer a network of support to approximately 600 families. Our goal is to raise enough funds to assist these families for the rest of their lives. For more information, please visit: https://www.answerthecall.org
Anthony Nolan
Anthony Nolan saves the lives of people with blood cancer and blood disorders. We do this by connecting people in desperate need of a stem cell transplant with incredible strangers ready to donate their stem cells. We are also unique in bringing together this growing register of potential donors, currently numbering 750,000, with both cutting-edge research and specialised patient services. Working together we give three people a second chance of life every day.
Borne Foundation
Borne is a medical research charity working to identify the causes of premature birth and develop effective interventions to save lives, prevent disability and create lifelong health for mothers and babies.
Borne is committed to attracting the best scientists and medical experts to this area of women’s health, and to increase awareness of preterm birth and its social, personal and economic consequences.
We are driven to achieve our goals by the desire to give each child the chance of a full and healthy life, unaffected by disability.
Bone Marrow & Cancer Foundation
The Bone Marrow & Cancer Foundation, founded in 1992, is dedicated to improving the quality of life for cancer and transplant patients and their families by providing vital financial assistance, comprehensive resources, educational information, physician referrals, and emotional support programs.
Guided by a medical advisory board of nationally-recognized cancer specialists and working with hospitals across the United States, the Bone Marrow & Cancer Foundation is the only organization of its kind that does not limit assistance to a specific disease, type of transplant or age range. For the past 27 years, the Foundation has connected patients and their families with the services they need—from diagnosis through survivorship—to make effective decisions about treatment and its aftermath. All of the Foundation’s programs and services are offered to patients and their families free of charge. For more information, please visit: http://bonemarrow.org/about/our-mission
Boy Scouts of America
Scouting is adventure, family, fun, character, leadership and so much more. In Scouting, boys and girls start with their best right now selves and grow into their very best future selves. It’s fun, hands-on learning and achievement that puts kids in the middle of the action and prepares them for today – and for life. Scout me in. For more information, please visit:
Chance to Shine
Chance to Shine is a national children’s charity. We give young people the opportunity to play, learn and develop through cricket. We keep them physically active; teach them vital skills like teamwork, communication and leadership. And above all, they have fun!
We work with half a million children each year in state schools and disadvantaged communities – nearly half of them are girls. And what’s more, it’s free! 5,000 primary schools had Chance to Shine last year through a programme of cricket and classroom activities. Our Chance to Shine Street programme operates in some of the more disadvantaged and vulnerable communities, with all 200 projects taking place in the 30% most deprived areas of the country. Chance to Shine Street sessions help to build stronger communities, by engaging diverse groups and creating a sense of belonging.
Children with Cancer
Our Vision is a world where no child dies of Cancer. Children with Cancer UK is the nation’s leading charity dedicated to research into childhood cancer.
Sadly 500 Children and young people in the UK lose their battle against cancer every year; children who should have grown up to see the world, dream big and fall in love.
No child should die from cancer, that’s why Children with Cancer UK actively raise and invest money in vital specialist research to save the lives of every child and young person diagnosed with cancer and keep their families together.
CHIPS
To provide mobility and independence to youngsters in the UK with various disabilities by the provision of powered wheelchairs, thereby enabling these youngsters to improve their lives and their education and helping to relieve some pressure on the family.
City Harvest
City Harvest helped start the food rescue movement in 1982 when a group of New Yorkers saw that New York City had an abundance of excess food even while a large number of its residents struggled to feed themselves and their families. We recognized the practical purpose that this surplus food could serve if directed to New Yorkers who needed it, filling the plates of the working mom who had trouble making ends meet at month’s end, the senior in the apartment upstairs living on a fixed income, or the family around the corner coping with a large and unexpected medical bill.
Today, City Harvest is New York City’s largest food rescue organization, helping to feed the nearly 1.2 million New Yorkers who are struggling to put meals on their tables. We will rescue 64 million pounds of food this year and deliver it, free of charge, to hundreds of food pantries, soup kitchens and other community partners across the five boroughs. Our programs help food-insecure New Yorkers access nutritious food that fits their needs and desires; increase our partners’ capacity; and strengthen the local food system, building a path to a food-secure future for all New Yorkers. Click here for tips on starting a food rescue organization in your own community. For more information, please visit: https://www.cityharvest.org
Evelina
Evelina London Children’s Hospital has an extraordinary 150-year history and we want to create an extraordinary future. We support families at Evelina London to give children the very best start, preparing them for a healthy life and, when things go wrong, giving them the best treatment in the world. We want to make sure Evelina London is there for the families who need us, for the next 150 years and beyond. To save lives, to improve health, to inspire better futures.
Common Ground Foundation
To empower high school students from under-served communities to become future leaders. Our mentoring and college readiness programs focus on character development, social impact, healthy living, technology, financial literacy, creative arts and global leadership.
Heart 9/11
HEART 9/11 (Healing Emergency Aid Response Team 9/11) is a team of first responders – FDNY, NYPD, PAPD and the NYC Building Trades – that bonded in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 to honor the sacrifices of brave colleagues and family members lost, to continue to utilize their experience and training in service to others and to bring a message of hope to communities affected by disaster. HEART 9/11’s mission is to Respond immediately to natural and man-made disasters; Rebuild community centers in hard-hit areas to meet grass roots needs; Recover by building resiliency for individuals, families and communities. For more information, please visit: https://heart911.org
Hope and Homes for Children
Every child needs the protection, encouragement and love of a family.
Poverty, discrimination and a lack of support for families when they suffer difficulties mean 8 out of 10 of the 8 million children confined to orphanages are not orphans – they have at least one living parent or close relative.
Decades of evidence proves that orphanages damage children’s development, exposing them to life-changing neglect and abuse.
That’s why Hope and Homes for Children is a leading global movement to keep children in families, putting an end to an antiquated orphanage system that is neither necessary nor working.
Always family. Never orphanages.
Invictus Games Foundation
The Invictus Games Foundation believes that men and women who have been injured during, or as a consequence of, their military service deserve to lead a purposeful and fulfilling life. Through sport, we help those who have served their country to regain a sense of purpose that has been lost through injury or illness.
To do this we harness the power of sport through a biennial, multi-national Invictus Games to inspire recovery; support rehabilitation; and generate a wider understanding and respect for wounded, injured and sick (WIS) servicemen and women.
Kids in Crisis
Forty years ago a needs assessment, done by the Greenwich United Way, uncovered the need for a local solution to address the increasing numbers of runaway and homeless adolescents. As a result, the Junior League of Greenwich, and Hotline, a Greenwich telephone counseling agency, joined forces to create an emergency shelter pilot program known as Kids In Crisis.
Today, Kids In Crisis provides temporary housing and comprehensive medical, educational and therapeutic support services for children of all ages in Fairfield County. It is the only Connecticut agency that can house children from newborn to age 18, of any gender, including a safe and welcoming environment for LGBTQ adolescents. In addition to providing an emergency shelter program, Kids In Crisis provides crisis counseling and community education programs for children and families dealing with a wide range of issues. For more information, https://www.kidsincrisis.org
Leuka
Leuka is the UK’s leading leukaemia research charity. We are at the forefront of research to determine the causes of the disease, to introduce safer, more effective treatments as fast as possible and ultimately, to find a cure. Thanks to research, leukaemia survival rates are improving and has more than quadrupled in the last 40 years in the UK. But we can’t slow down. Every day 27 people are diagnosed with leukaemia and sadly 13 people every day will lose their fight to leukaemia. Our life-saving work is funded entirely by the generosity of our supporters, so every step we make towards beating leukaemia is thanks to you.
Mayor’s Fund For London
The Mayor’s Fund for London is an independent charity, championing social mobility for young Londoners from low-income backgrounds.
We believe that all young people, regardless of their starting point in life, should be able to thrive in their community, forge fulfilling careers and can take advantage of the outstanding opportunities that London has to offer.
Our work raises awareness of the barriers facing young Londoners, promotes the activities which best increases their opportunities and brings together the partnerships to make a measurable impact on young Londoners’ lives.
In 2018, we supported over 35,000 young Londoners aged 4-24 across all 33 boroughs working in partnership with 427 schools, 110 community organisations and 94 employers, charities, social enterprises, and local authorities.
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, is our patron.
Mencap
Mencap is the leading voice of learning disability. Everything we do is about valuing and supporting people with a learning disability, and their families and carers.
Our vision is a world where people with a learning disability are valued equally, listened to and included.
Multiplying Good
We believe individuals are transformed through service to others. Applying service as a tool for personal growth, we help people discover their ability to bring about positive change, deliver the skills they need to do it well, and, by validating their impact, inspire them to do more. We’ve proven this continuum of activation, training, and recognition generates ripples of good.
For more information, please visit: https://www.multiplyinggood.org
Muscular Dystrophy UK
We are the UK charity for individuals and families living with muscle-wasting conditions.
We support research to drive the development of effective treatments and cures.
We ensure access to specialist NHS care and support.
We provide services and promote opportunities to enable individuals and their families to live as independently as possible.
We know we can beat muscle-wasting conditions more quickly if we work together.
We are uniting skills, knowledge and resources in the UK and working with others around the world so we can improve the quality of life for the people affected, and bring cures closer to reality.
Museum of Jewish Heritage
A Living Memorial to the Holocaust is New York’s contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. The Museum is committed to the crucial mission of educating diverse visitors about Jewish life before, during, and after the Holocaust.As a place of memory, the Museum enables Holocaust survivors to speak through recorded testimony and draws on rich collections to illuminate Jewish history and experience. As a public history institution, it offers intellectually rigorous and engaging exhibitions, programs, and educational resources. The Museum protects the historical record and promotes understanding of Jewish heritage. It mobilizes memory to teach the dangers of intolerance and challenges visitors—including more than 60,000 schoolchildren a year—to let the painful lessons of the past guide them to envision a world worthy of their futures. For more information, please visit: https://mjhnyc.org/mission
Neuroblastoma UK
We are a national charity, dedicated to finding a cure for neuroblastoma, a rare childhood cancer.
We do this by funding leading research projects to deliver new, effective and kinder treatments for children with neuroblastoma.
Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospice
We provide care and support for babies, children and young people with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions. Our central aims are to enable these children to live life as fully as possible and achieve their aspirations.
Working across five north and central London boroughs, as well as Hertsmere, we also support families during their child’s life and help them face the future with hope after the death of their child, and throughout bereavement.
We provide ‘Hospice-at-Home’ and community-based services and have just completed construction of ‘The Ark’ – a children’s hospice building for north and central London.
Oasis
OASIS WORKS WITH SOCIETY’S MOST VULNERABLE PEOPLE AND FAMILIES WITH THE AIM OF HELPING THEM LIFT THEMSELVES OUT OF POVERTY.
We do this by providing wraparound care in communities that are healthy, safe, supportive, and full of opportunity. Where individuals can access the help, they need to transform their lives.
Oracle Cancer Trust
Oracle Cancer Trust is the UK’s leading charity dedicated to funding research into head and neck cancer. Since 2008 Oracle has invested over £5million in world-class research programmes discovering new and improved treatments with fewer debilitating side effects for patients diagnosed with head and neck cancer.
Oracle is filling a research gap and relies entirely on charitable donations to carry out its vital work. Our pioneering research work is led by the world’s leading authorities on head and neck cancer treatment. We’ve made breakthroughs in new surgical techniques, radiotherapy treatment, speech and language therapy, drug development and virus and immunotherapies.
The Princes Trust
We believe that every young person should have the chance to embrace exciting opportunities. So, we help 11 to 30 year-olds who are unemployed or struggling at school to transform their lives. Many of the young people we help are in, or leaving, care, facing issues such as homelessness or mental health issues, or have been in trouble with the law.
Our free programmes give young people the practical and financial support they need to stabilise their lives. We help them develop key skills while boosting their confidence and motivation so they can continue to dream big.
Prostate Cancer Foundation
The Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) is the world’s leading philanthropic organization funding and accelerating prostate cancer research. Help us speed up scientific breakthroughs and deliver new treatments to prostate cancer patients. For more information, please visit: https://www.pcf.org
Saint Francis Hospice
As an independent charity and one of the largest adult hospices in the UK, Saint Francis Hospice plays an important role in the local communities of Havering, Brentwood, Barking & Dagenham, Redbridge and West Essex.
Our specialist consultants, doctors and nurses work alongside other health and social care professionals, providing compassionate care and support to people with life-limiting illnesses, their carers and family members.
With only 27% of our funding coming from the Government, we need to raise £7.8 million this year in order to continue to provide care, completely free of charge, to those who sadly need it.
Shannon Elizabeth Foundation
The roots of the Shannon Elizabeth Foundation* reach back to 2001 in Los Angeles, California, when Shannon Elizabeth founded the non-profit Animal Avengers. By 2014, her awareness of broader conservation issues, particularly the developing poaching crisis in Africa, had grown to the extent that she wanted to help more animals and on a much bigger scale. This prompted her decision, in 2016, to settle in Cape Town, South Africa.The remit of the Shannon Elizabeth Foundation now embraces the organization’s own initiatives which include Animal Avengers as our youth conservation program, and our Wildlife Review Initiative under the curatorship of well-known conservation writer and editor Peter Borchert. These reviews are aimed at involving people at all levels in the great conservation issues of our time.Through its program of grants, the Foundation also supports reputable organizations such as the and Flying for Freedom SA. Lobbying for just and effective wildlife laws is a central thrust of the Foundation’s activities, while future goals include projects that champion responsible tourism and securing land to protect vital ecosystems.
The Shannon Elizabeth Foundation believes that the greatest achievements in conservation derive from cooperation and collective support for common goals. To this end, the Foundation is forging close associations with renowned organizations such as the International Fund for Animal Welfare, the African Wildlife Foundation, the Peace Parks Foundation and Global Wildlife Conversation among others.* currently registered in the United States of America as Animal Avengers 501(c)(3), but in the process of being renamed the Shannon Elizabeth Foundation. For more information, please visit: https://www.animalavengers.org
Shelter Chic
Shelter Chic is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit animal rescue organization dedicated to rescuing, rehabilitating, and rehoming shelter dogs and cats, taking away the stigma associated with animal shelters and their residents, and promoting animal adoption in a fun, positive, and inviting way. We bring light to the fact that there are a wide variety of animals that end up in shelters – including puppies, kittens, and purebreds – through no fault of their own. Our goal is to ensure that the most commonly passed-over rescue animals (including the seniors, those with special needs, and breeds with negative stereotypes) are given the opportunity to find loving, forever homes. While some would call these animals underdogs, our team works hard to recast these stereotypes and demonstrate they are indeed the “top dogs.”
For more information, please visit: http://shelterchic.org
Sir Hubert von Herkomer Foundation
The Sir Hubert von Herkomer Arts Foundation is a registered charity inspiring a generation of young people by offering them a gateway to the arts. Our mission is to provide a gateway to the arts for 5-18-year-old children by providing them with the inspiration and tools to develop lifelong artistic passions through:
- Providing free after school workshops in various arts subjects at primary and secondary schools in England.
- Develop skills in the arts and media at our pop up art gallery/centre in Camden.
- Providing school holiday workshops focusing on young people development and skills in the arts and media.
Sir Stanley Matthews Foundation
To support and encourage physical activity for children and young people regardless of gender ability or background and to develop respect, perseverance, dedication and self-confidence as well as teamwork and a sense of community in any economic or social environment.
Smile Train
Smile Train is an international children’s charity with a sustainable approach to a single, solvable problem: cleft lip and palate.Many children with clefts around the world live in isolation, but more importantly, have difficulty eating, breathing, hearing, and speaking. Cleft repair surgery is safe, and the transformation is immediate. Our sustainable model provides training, funding, and resources to empower local medical professionals in 90+ countries to provide 100%-free cleft repair surgery and comprehensive cleft care in their own communities.We use the “teach a man to fish” model focusing on training local medical professionals to perform cleft repairs in their communities. Those medical professionals then go on to train others creating a long-term, sustainable system. Patients see their forever smile for the first time, parents cry tears of joy, lives and communities are changed forever.
As a result of our efficiency and with the support of our donors and partners around the world, Smile Train has transformed the lives of more than 1.5 million children by giving them the power of a smile. Join us and change the world one smile at a time. For more information, please visit: https://www.smiletrain.org
Sterling Basketball Scholarship Fund
We are a Christ-centered, four-year college located in Sterling, Kansas, with a mission to develop creative and thoughtful leaders who understand a maturing Christian faith. Whether you’re looking to join us on campus or online, we have rigorous academic programs and a variety of activities to help you become the servant leader God created you to be.
For more information, please visit: https://www.sterling.edu
St. Jude
The mission of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is to advance cures, and means of prevention, for pediatric catastrophic diseases through research and treatment. Consistent with the vision of our founder Danny Thomas, no child is denied treatment based on race, religion or a family’s ability to pay. For more information, please visit: https://www.stjude.org
Tender Education and Arts
Since 2003, Tender has been using the arts to educate children and young people about healthy relationships, with the aim of preventing domestic abuse and sexual violence. Based in London, our engaging and age-appropriate workshops have reached over 300,000 young people aged 8 and upwards, and of all abilities and backgrounds. Working in schools and youth services, our drama-based workshops provide a safe, accessible and empathetic space to explore sensitive and complex issues, raise awareness of unhealthy behavior, and empower young people with the confidence and skills to advocate for positive, healthy relationships based on equality and respect.
preparing them for a healthy life and, when things go wrong, giving them the best treatment in the world. We want to make sure Evelina London is there for the families who need us, for the next 150 years and beyond. To save lives, to improve health, to inspire better futures.
Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change aims to help make globalisation work for the many, not the few. We do this by helping countries, their people and their governments address some of the most difficult challenges in the world today. For more information, please visit: https://institute.global/our-mission
The Dinwiddie Family Foundation
The Dinwiddie Family Foundation (DFF) mission is to empower at-risk and disadvantaged youth through fitness, literacy, and educational programming. DFF is a registered 501(c)3 public charity. For more information, please visit the foundation’s website at www.dinwiddiefamilyfoundation.org or email at info@dinwiddiefamilyfoundation.org.
The Elephant Family
Our mission is to power effective solutions that prevent conflict between people and elephants, demonstrating how humans and elephants can co-exist. We create safe homes for both elephants and people by reconnecting forest fragments, maintaining elephant migratory routes, and helping farmers to protect their crops and homes.
THE FDNY FIRE FAMILY TRANSPORT FOUNDATION
A registered 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation dedicated to the well-being of the fire department family; for recognition of the unique sacrifices that firefighters and their families selflessly make for the sake of all; and to honor those sacrifices. The central focus of the Foundation is assisting the families of firefighters in their times of greatest need, in transporting firefighters, family members and department personnel to and from medical institutions both for care and family support. We also are dedicated to the comfort and support of the families of firefighters in their times of bereavement. Our immediate aim is to minimize the negative impact of injuries and fatalities that members of the fire family endure, by providing vehicles and transportation assistance, in conjunction with the Fire Department of the City of New York. On a broader scale, we are dedicated to the good of the community in building awareness of the often-overlooked needs of the fire department family.The Foundation is all-volunteer, entirely non-profit, and depends on donations of equipment, funds and service to carry out its mission. The Foundation has, through donations, acquired a fleet of vehicles that are commissioned to the Fire Department and are available around the clock to provide transportation services throughout the City of New York and environs. The Foundation also assists fire families in funeral details, tributes and memorials, to preserve the honor of their sacrifices. The Foundation also joins to support other organizations and endeavors in the broader community, in honor of all who serve in the same spirit. For more information, please visit: http://www.firefamilytransport.org
The Henrik Lundqvist Foundation
The Henrik Lundqvist Foundation, through its fundraising efforts and community outreach, strives to create positive change in the lives of children and adults throughout the world through education and health services.
For more information, please visit: http://www.hlundqvistfoundation.com/?r=l
The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp
The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp is dedicated to providing “a different kind of healing” to seriously ill children and their families throughout the Northeast, free of charge. It’s a community that celebrates the fun, friendship and spirit of childhood, where every kid can “raise a little hell.”
For more information, please visit: https://www.holeinthewallgang.org
The INN
As a not-for-profit, volunteer-based organization, The INN provides a broad variety of essential services to assist those challenged by hunger, homelessness and profound poverty. We partner with those in need in a dignified and respectful manner to help them achieve self-sufficiency. For more information, please visit: https://the-inn.org
The Pink Lotus Foundation
The Pink Lotus Foundation is a nonprofit organization that enables low-income, uninsured and underinsured women in the United States to receive 100% free breast cancer screening, diagnosis and treatment services. For more information, please visit: https://pinklotus.com/foundation
Victor Cruz Foundation
Victor Cruz started the Victor Cruz Foundation back in 2012. After taking a very slow approach to make sure he created a charitable foundation that would have a valuable impact, Victor knew exactly what direction to go into after a visit to the White House Science Fair. There he toured the showcase of science projects with President Obama and fell in love with the idea and the importance of the study of S.T.E.M education.
For more information, please visit: http://www.victorcruzfoundation.org
Voice of September 11th
VOICES helps families heal after tragedy, a vital mission that began after 9/11. Today, the organization continues to address the long-term needs of those impacted by 9/11, commemorates the 2,977 lives lost, and promotes national preparedness. In addition, through VOICES Center of Excellence for Community Resilience, we conduct research and training as well as assist communities impacted by other tragedies.
For more information, please visit: http://voicesofsept11.org
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