Nonprofit causes tagged with Elderly

  • CancerCare

    CancerCare is a national nonprofit organization that provides free, professional support services to individuals, families, caregivers, and the bereaved to help them better cope with and manage the emotional and practical challenges arising from cancer. Our services include counseling and support groups, educational publications and workshops, and financial assistance. All of our services are provided by professional oncology social workers and are offered completely free of charge. We help more than 110,000 individuals and families in all 50 states each year, and receive more than one million visits to our websites. To speak with a CancerCare social worker, call 800‑813‑HOPE (4673). Or visit www.cancercare.org.

    cancercare.org

  • Center for Advocacy for the Rights and Interests of the Elderly (CARIE)

    The Center for Advocacy for the Rights and Interests of the Elderly (CARIE) is a non-profit organization, based in Philadelphia, dedicated to improving the quality of life for vulnerable older people. CARIE fulfills its core mission — to improve the well being, rights and autonomy of older persons through advocacy, education, and action — through a “case to cause” model of advocacy that addresses problems and issues on both the individual and the systemic levels. Because frail older adults often lack the ability to advocate on their own behalf without assistance, CARIE provides individual advocacy through direct service and systemic advocacy through education and public policy initiatives. CARIE's most successful and widely used service is the CARIE LINE. The CARIE LINE is a free telephone-based and online advocacy service addressing issues of concern impacting older adults. CARIE also offers a free monthly e-newsletter that provides information about policy related issues impacting older adults.

    carie.org

  • CLASP International: Connective Link Among Special Needs Programs

    CLASP International is a 501c3 organization that allows certified speech-language pathologists and other rehabilitation professionals to go into international countries where specialized care for children and adults with special needs is not practiced and provide graduate level training to the natives of that country. The mission is to provide self-sustaining programming that allows each country to pass along training to future professionals working with special needs populations. Currently, CLASP is inserting programming at the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka, Zambia in Africa.

    claspinternational.org

  • Easter Seals Houston

    Easter Seals Houston's mission is to provide exceptional services to ensure all people with disabilities or special needs and their families have equal opportunities to live, learn, work and play in their communities.

    eastersealshouston.org

  • Project Open Hand

    Project Open Hand's mission is to meet community nutrition needs through programs for people living with HIV/AIDS, the homebound critically ill, and seniors. Project Open Hand provides meals/groceries for people with symptomatic HIV/AIDS or breast cancer, meals for homebound/critically ill people under the age of 60 and congregate lunches for people over 60 years of age in San Francisco and Alameda counties.

    openhand.org