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Acumen Fund
Acumen Fund is a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty.
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Alzheimer's Association
The Alzheimer's Association's mission is to eliminate Alzheimer's disease through the advancement of research; to provide and enhance care and support for all affected; and to reduce the risk of dementia through the promotion of brain health.
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American Cancer Society
The American Cancer Society is the nationwide, community-based, voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives, and diminishing suffering from cancer, through research, education, advocacy, and service.
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Angel Street Thrift Shop
Established in 1997, LESC's Angel Street Thrift Shops in Manhattan and Brooklyn raise funds to benefit programs for New Yorkers with substance abuse, mental illness, and HIV/AIDS.
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Association for Children with Down Syndrome
ACDS is dedicated to providing lifetime resources of exceptional quality, innovation and inclusion for individuals with Down syndrome and other developmental disabilities and their families
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Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program
The mission of Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program (BHCHP) is to provide or assure access to the highest quality health care for all homeless men, women and children in the greater Boston area.
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Bowling Foundation
The Bowling Foundation's mission is to enhance the lives of others through the sport of bowling, particularly reaching out toward youth, those less fortunate, underprivileged or in need, giving them increased chance for success, health, fitness and the joy of sport; while fostering bowling across all sectors of society and the world.
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Brain Tumor Foundation
The Brain Tumor Foundation (BTF) is a not-for-profit organization that guides and supports patients and families during the turbulent times when their lives are touched by a brain tumor. BTF raises awareness among medical professionals and the public about the need for the early detection of brain tumors while continuing to offer support groups, medical referrals, and events including the annual conference, Brain Tumor Awareness Day. The Foundation’s expertise, compassion and resources ensure that brain tumor patients have a powerful ally in their fight against this disease.
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Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS
Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS is one of the nation’s leading industry-based, nonprofit AIDS fundraising and grant-making organizations. By drawing upon the talents, resources and generosity of the American theatre community, since 1988 BC/EFA has raised over $175 million for essential services for people with AIDS and other critical illnesses across the United States.
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Camp Sunshine
Camp Sunshine supports children with life threatening illnesses and their families. 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. Since its inception, Camp Sunshine has provided a haven for over 30,000 individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds.
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Chemo Comfort
Chemo Comfort’s concern is making life easier and more comfortable for the cancer patient undergoing chemotherapy. Chemo Comfort provides resources that enable cancer patients to take positive, comforting measures for themselves, thereby empowering patients at a time when so much feels out of their control.
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Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation
The Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation is dedicated to curing spinal cord injury by funding innovative research, and improving the quality of life for people living with paralysis through grants, information and advocacy.
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COPD Foundation
The mission of the COPD Foundation is to develop and support programs that improve the quality of life through research, education, early diagnosis, and enhanced therapy for persons whose lives are impacted by Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Since its launch in 2004, the COPD Foundation has accomplished so much, bringing together the resources in the COPD community and creating more opportunities in order to serve those affected by the disease.
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Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America
The Crohn's and Colitis Foundation's mission is to cure Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, and to improve the quality of life of children and adults affected by these diseases.
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Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
The mission of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation is to assure the development of the means to cure and control cystic fibrosis and to improve the quality of life for those with the disease.
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Dignitas Project
The mission of Dignitas Project is to empower individuals and families in the poorest communities in the world. Drawing upon the talents of indigenous leaders and resources of its partners, Dignitas Project seeks to improve education and expand opportunities for the next generation by: enhancing learning and leadership opportunities for children and youth; building technical and infrastructural capacity in community-based schools; implementing sustainable projects to address health, economic, and education needs; and ensuring that community voices are integrated into policy decisions.
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EngenderHealth
EngenderHealth works to improve the health and well-being of people in the poorest communities of the world. EngenderHealth does this by sharing its expertise in sexual and reproductive health and transforming the quality of health care. It promotes gender equity, advocates for sound practices and policies, and inspires people to assert their rights to better, healthier lives.
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Epilepsy Foundation
The Epilepsy Foundation is the national voluntary agency dedicated solely to the welfare of the almost 3 million Americans living with seizures and their families. The Foundation works to ensure people with epilepsy are able to participate in all life experiences; to improve how people with epilepsy are perceived, accepted and valued in society; and to promote research toward improved treatments and a cure. In addition to programs conducted at the national level, people with epilepsy throughout the United States are served by more than 50 Epilepsy Foundation affiliates around the country.
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Friends of Karen
Friends of Karen’s mission is to provide emotional, financial, and advocacy support for children with life-threatening illnesses and their families, in order to help keep them stable, functioning, and able to cope.
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H.E.A.L.T.H for Youths, Inc.
H.E.A.L.T.H for Youths, Inc. (“H.E.A.L.T.H.Y”) was formed for the charitable and educational purposes of assisting at-risk youth; combating community deterioration and juvenile delinquency; and improving the quality of education, health care and life-skills training offered to underserved adolescents and young adults.
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Harboring Hearts
The mission of Harboring Hearts Housing Foundation, Inc. is to provide affordable, temporary housing for cardiac patients and their caregivers during a time of need.
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International Foundation for CDKl5 Research (IFCR)
The International Foundation for CDKL5 Research (IFCR) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded in 2009 by a dedicated group of parents committed to finding a cure for their children affected by CDKL5. The IFCR’s mission is to lead the way in finding a cure and treatments for CDKL5 disorders by funding global research efforts, and increasing awareness of CDKL5 disorders, while enhancing the quality of life for those affected by CDKL5 disorders, by providing information, programs, and services.
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Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF)
Driven by the needs of people with diabetes, the mission of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International is to find a cure for diabetes and its complications through the support of research. JDRF works to accomplish this by finding and funding the best and most relevant research to help achieve a cure for this devastating disease through restoration of normal blood sugar levels, avoidance and reversal of complications, and prevention of diabetes and its recurrence.
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Kitchen Gardeners International
Kitchen Gardeners International's mission is to empower individuals, families, and communities to achieve greater levels of food self-reliance through the promotion of kitchen gardening, home-cooking, and sustainable local food systems.
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Los Angeles Firemen’s Relief Association
The Widows, Orphans & Disabled Firemen’s Fund of the Los Angeles Firemen's Relief Association was founded 101-years ago by firefighters who “passed the boot” around to help an injured or fallen comrade. The Fund is dedicated to helping firefighters and their families in times of crisis. Most are reluctant to ask for help, but need assistance because tragedy has left them in severe financial turmoil. When a firefighter is killed in the line of duty, the fund helps widows pay rent, buy clothing for their children or put food on the table. It also helps disabled firefighters suffering from burns, wounds, lung problems and job-related cancers.
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Lung Cancer Research Foundation
The mission of the Lung Cancer Research Foundation is to support national research studies and activities focused on developing innovative strategies for better treatments, screening, and prevention of all cancers of the lung. New knowledge gained by funding scientific and clinical research initiatives will lead to more positive outcomes and improved quality of life for all lung cancer patients.
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Mali Health Organizing Project (MHOP)
The Mali Health Organizing Project (MHOP) acts as a catalyst to bring slum residents and their governments together. When community committees learn to design, implement, and evaluate their own projects, they invest in health and ask their governments to do the same.
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Mercy Corps
Mercy Corps exists to alleviate suffering, poverty and oppression by helping people build secure, productive and just communities.
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Migraine Research Foundation
The Migraine Research Foundation is the only nonprofit whose sole purpose is to raise funds for innovative scientific research to further the understanding of the causes and mechanisms of migraine, to develop improvements in treatment for sufferers, and to find the cure. Funding migraine research is all MRF does. Every dollar donated goes to fund migraine research since all of the operating costs are underwritten.
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National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
From its inception in 1979, NAMI has been dedicated to improving the lives of individuals and families affected by mental illness.
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National Multiple Sclerosis Society
The National MS Society’s vision is a world free of MS. Our mission is to mobilize people and resources to drive research for a cure and to address the challenges of everyone affected by MS.
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Oral Cancer Foundation
The Oral Cancer Foundation is a non-profit 501c3 charity that works to provide information about this disease to the public, advocate for patients, and provide support services to them. OCF operates the world’s largest real time, patient-to-survivor interactive support service via the web, and the foundation’s main information web site, which contains thousands of pages of information, receives over 22 million hits per month. We are also sponsors of research, primarily in the area of detection mechanisms that facilitate the discovery of the disease at early stages when survival rates are the highest.
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Partners In Health
Partners In Health is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation based in Boston, Massachusetts, and active in the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, Russia, and the United States. Its mission is to provide a preferential option for the poor in health care.
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PAWS NY
The mission of Pets Are Wonderful Support (PAWS) is to promote the general health and well-being of underserved individuals through the provision of pet care assistance. Its goal is to advance wellness by maintaining and strengthening the bonds between these individuals and their animal companions.
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Project HEALTH
Project HEALTH’s mission is to create a health care system in which those unmet resource needs that compromise health are addressed as a standard element of patient care.
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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.
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RxArt
RxArt is a non-profit organization that is committed to fostering artistic expression and awareness through the challenging yet rewarding task of engaging patients through contemporary art in health care facilities. By curating installations in hospital settings, we provide a creative surrounding that helps to relieve stress and anxiety, while increasing appreciation for contemporary art.
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Sharsheret
Sharsheret is a national not-for-profit organization for young Jewish women and their families facing breast cancer. Sharsheret’s mission is to offer a community of support to women, of all Jewish backgrounds, diagnosed with breast cancer or at increased genetic risk, by fostering culturally-relevant individualized connections with networks of peers, health professionals, and related resources.
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Stanley Stamm Seattle Children’s Hospital Camp
Dr. Stanley Stamm, a Seattle-area cardiologist, founded the Stanley Stamm Seattle Children’s Hospital Camp in 1967. The camp provides a medically-supported one week overnight camp experience in an outdoor wilderness setting for children age 6-14, who have terminal or chronic medical illness.
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Support for Families of Children with Disabilities
Support for Families of Children with Disabilities is a parent-run, San Francisco-based, non-profit organization founded in 1982. Its purpose is to ensure that families of children with any kind of disability or special health care need have the knowledge and assistance they need to make informed choices that support their child’s health, education, and development.
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The Arc of East Middlesex
Founded in 1954 by parents of children with developmental disabilities, the mission of The Arc of East Middlesex is to enhance the lives of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families. While it does business as The Arc of East Middlesex, its legal name remains EMARC -East Middlesex Association for Retarded Citizens, Inc.
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The Buzzing for Change Foundation
The mission of the Buzzing for Change Foundation is to improve the lives of children living with cancer, while educating and engaging collegiate communities, developing strong student leaders, and inspiring action through participation.
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The Pink Agenda
The Pink Agenda is a not-for-profit 501(c) (3) organization committed to raising money for breast cancer care and research and awareness of the disease among young professionals. The organization’s efforts are intended to not only expedite the eventual discovery of a cure for the disease, but also to raise awareness among young professionals, resulting in earlier detection, as well as an understanding of where to go for support and resources if ever faced with a breast cancer diagnosis.
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The Seeing Eye
Founded in 1929, The Seeing Eye, Inc. is the oldest existing dog guide school in the world. Twelve times a year, as many as 24 students at a time visit the Morristown, N.J. campus to discover the exhilarating experience of traveling with a Seeing Eye® dog.
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The Valerie Fund
The Valerie Fund is a not-for-profit organization established in 1976 in memory of Valerie Goldstein by her parents, Ed and Sue. The Valerie Fund’s mission is to provide support for the comprehensive health care of children with cancer and blood disorders.
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USTA Serves
The mission of USTA Serves is to support, monitor and promote programs that enhance the lives of at-risk children and individuals with disabilities through the integration of tennis and education.
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