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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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Art for Change
Art for Change (AfC) is a 501(c)3 organization that encourages the advancement of progressive social change by using art as a catalyst for disseminating information. We provide space to discuss and explore that information, stimulating individual and collective reflection, which leads to action and change.
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At The Crossroads
The mission of At The Crossroads is to reach out to homeless youth and young adults at their point of need, and work with them to build healthy and fulfilling lives.
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Beach Cities Symphony Association
The mission of the Beach Cities Symphony Association is to bring fine classical music to the community in free concerts. The BCSA attracts the young, the old, families and working people, students and all lovers of fine music, especially those shut out of the concert hall by the cost of a ticket.
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Big Cat Rescue
Big Cat Rescue in Tampa, FL, with over 100 big cats housed on 45 acres, is the world’s largest accredited sanctuary in the world devoted to big cats, i.e. lions, tigers, cougars, leopards, bobcats etc., in the world.
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Bikes Not Bombs
Bikes Not Bombs (BNB) promotes bicycle technology as a concrete alternative to war and environmental destruction.
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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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Boys' Club of New York
Rooted in a tradition and history of community service, outreach, and philanthropy to some of New York City’s most socially and economically troubled neighborhoods, The Boys' Club of New York strives to sustain an environment that nurtures individual talent, strengthens family, and promotes strong citizenship while fostering a passion for learning. We encourage our participants to seek the highest standards of scholarship, moral development, and physical achievement. Working closely with our membership and their families, our professional staff encourages the emotional, social, physical, educational, and vocational growth of the agency’s entire membership and extended family.
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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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Career Gear
Career Gear is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization providing career counseling, interview appropriate clothing, and follow-up job support to men actively seeking employment. Career Gear’s philosophy is simple but powerful: successful employment is a catalyst towards men emerging as better fathers and leaders within their communities.
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Center for Arts Education (CAE)
The Center for Arts Education is committed to stimulating and sustaining quality arts education as an essential part of every child’s K-12 education in the New York City public schools.
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Change for Kids
Change for Kids partners with New York City public schools to empower underprivileged children by providing them with a broad range of innovative literacy, arts, and music programs.
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City Academy of St. Louis
City Academy, a private elementary school in St. Louis, MO, serves children whose educational opportunities would otherwise be limited due to family income and/or where they live.
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City Harvest
Now serving New York City for more than 25 years, City Harvest (www.CityHarvest.org) is the world's first food rescue organization, dedicated to feeding the city's hungry men, women, and children. This year, City Harvest will collect over 25 million pounds of excess food from all segments of the food industry, including restaurants, grocers, corporate cafeterias, manufacturers, and farms. This food is then delivered free of charge to nearly 600 community food programs throughout New York City using a fleet of trucks and bikes as well as volunteers on foot. Each week, City Harvest helps over 260,000 hungry New Yorkers find their next meal.
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CitySquash
CitySquash's mission is to enable motivated and talented youth from at-risk backgrounds to fulfill their academic, athletic and personal potential.
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Community VOICES (Voices of Involved Citizens Encouraging Safety)
Community VOICES provides advocacy, resources and educational information to community groups and individuals to increase public awareness regarding sexual assault, child sexual assault, Internet predators, Internet safety and missing children.
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Covenant House Georgia
Covenant House Georgia provides an array of services to homeless and runaway youth (ages 16-21) including a crisis shelter, a transitional living program and vocational & educational training. Since inception it has assisted more than 10,000 youth in crisis. CHGA youth typically have either aged out of foster care, are running from an abusive family home life, or have experienced some form of sexual exploitation or trafficking.
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Delaware College of Art and Design
Delaware College of Art and Design was founded through a creative partnership between Pratt Institute and the Corcoran College of Art and Design. DCAD’s mission is to educate talented and committed students to become art makers, idea generators, problem solvers, and visual communicators who can redefine the way we perceive and experience the world around us. It also serves as a visible stakeholder, cultural anchor, and catalyst for the revitalization of downtown Wilmington, Delaware.
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Early Childhood Resource & Training Center
The Early Childhood Resource & Training Center (ECRTC) works to support the healthy development of all children. ECRTC improves opportunities for children in communities that are traditionally underprivileged and hard-to-reach, including recent immigrants and refugees and urban American Indians. Every year up to 1,000 early childhood providers, teachers and parents receive training and mentoring to improve child outcomes. Participants gain the knowledge and skills necessary to stimulate the academic, physical, and social development of children in their care. School readiness is promoted among high-risk children and families, preparing them for long-term success.
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East Harlem School at Exodus House
The East Harlem School educates middle school students (grades 5-8) from East Harlem who wish to rise to their academic potential. The East Harlem School values teaching children who exhibit a desire to learn, and an eagerness to embrace new challenges. The East Harlem School recruits children from families with low income and helps these students develop academic excellence, moral integrity, courtesy, and an unshakeable commitment to their future and the fate of their community.
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Eckerd Youth Alternatives
As an organization that has already made an impact on the lives of nearly 100,000 boys and girls, Eckerd Youth Alternatives (EYA) is one of the nation's leading providers of services for at-risk youth and their families through Outdoor Therapeutic Programs; Alternative Day Schools; Community-Based Support Programs; Early Intervention and Prevention Services; Lead Agency Services for Child Welfare; and Residential Therapeutic Programs. Founded by Jack and Ruth Eckerd, today EYA operates 38 distinct and diverse programs in nine states.
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Free Arts for Abused Children
Free Arts for Abused Children inspires hope in the lives of abused, homeless and at-risk children through innovative arts programs and positive interactions with caring adult volunteers. Free Arts sparks the creative spirit of children and families to inspire and transform their lives through the power of artistic expression. Free Arts plants the seeds of hope and healing to help children build self-esteem, improve social skills, develop trust with caring adults and express emotions in a positive way. The philosophy behind all Free Arts programs is simply that “Art Heals!”
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Fresh Air Fund
Since 1877, The Fresh Air Fund has been giving inner-city children the joy of a summer vacation with volunteer host families and at Fund camps, creating unforgettable memories and fresh possibilities.
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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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Gulf Coast Fund
The Gulf Coast Fund is a collaborative, pooled fund created weeks after Hurricane Katrina and housed at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. The Fund is committed to supporting work that focuses on environment, social justice, human rights, and rebuilding civil society capacity in the region to ensure that communities are healthy, equitable, and sustainable. At its core is an “Advisory Group” of two dozen leading policy advocates, community activists and grassroots organizers from Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Texas representing a broad swath of constituencies, geographies and issues. These Advisors play a central role in informing the Fund’s grantmaking priorities and policies, and in directing the Fund’s resources.
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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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Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen
Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen has been serving thousands of hungry New Yorkers every week for more than a quarter century. Its ethic of “radical hospitality” encourages guests to come and dine with no qualification of any kind. This outreach to the city’s indigent is the largest emergency food provider in the New York Metropolitan area and one of the largest in the country. It has pledged that there will always be a meal for anyone who comes to its door during regular serving hours.
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I Have A Dream Foundation
The "I Have A Dream" Foundation empowers children in low-income communities to achieve higher education by providing them with guaranteed tuition support and equipping them with the skills, knowledge, and habits they need to gain entry to higher education and succeed in college and beyond.
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Kings Highway Cat Rescue
Kings Highway Cat Rescue is a no-kill, non-profit organization dedicated to the rescue of sick, abused and unwanted animals. K.H.C.R. has been sheltering and caring for cats since 1988 and due to an overwhelming demand, has expanded its operation to include the rescue of dogs. It receives no government subsidies and survives solely on the funds that are received through donations and fund raisers. At K.H.C.R. each animal is provided with food, shelter and veterinary care (including spaying/neutering) until K.H.C.R. can find a caring adoptive home. For feral cats that cannot be domesticated, K.H.C.R. maintains a spay/neuter release program. Although K.H.C.R. is a cat and dog rescue, it does not turn away any animal. In the past, K.H.C.R. has rescued rabbits, ducks, crows, squirrels, possums and even a goat!
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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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Lazarus House Ministries
Lazarus House, Inc. is a spiritually based organization that provides a continuum of care encompassing, but not limited to food, shelter, clothing, advocacy, job training, medical and dental care, a listening ear, a welcoming heart, the restoration of dignity and self respect to the poor and needy.
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Lincoln Center Theater's Open Stages Education Program
Lincoln Center Theater's Open Stages education program provides an in-depth theater experience for New York City public-school teachers and students. The program reaches out to students who are economically disadvantaged and targets schools located in underserved communities throughout the city. During the 2009-2010 season, Open Stages will work with 20 high schools and 13 middle schools, reaching some 72 teachers and more than 3,400 students over two semesters.
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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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Lowell Transitional Living Center (LTLC)
Lowell Transitional Living Center is a client-centered shelter for homeless adults dedicated to providing safe short-term housing, food, and the basic support services required to transition clients to permanent housing in their home communities.
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Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House
The mission of the Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House (MFNH) is to help strengthen and empower youth, families and community residents. It focuses on building relationships and connecting people with opportunities that address basic human service and educational needs and help build a strong community.
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Massachusetts Afterschool Partnership (MAP)
MAP is dedicated to expanding quality afterschool, out-of-school time and extended learning opportunities statewide for school-age children, youth, families and communities.
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Mayor’s Alliance for NYC’s Animals
The Mayor’s Alliance works with 160+ rescue groups and shelters and the City of New York toward the day when no New York City dog or cat of reasonable health and temperament is killed merely because he or she does not have a home.
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New Jersey SEEDS
New Jersey SEEDS (Scholars, Educators, Excellence, Dedication, Success) provides educational opportunities for motivated, high-achieving students of modest means. SEEDS programs include advanced academic classes, cultural enrichment opportunities and leadership training to help students gain admission to top schools and thereby realize their full potential. SEEDS encourages its alumni to be leaders who give back to the community.
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NEW LEAF Foundation
NEW LEAF Foundation is dedicated to monitoring & helping to fund endangered wildlife causes, endangered habitats & at risk environments where animals, habitats or environments are being compromised or endangered because of man's inability to maintain the environment or man's unwillingness to protect the environment.
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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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Prep for Prep
Prep for Prep develops leaders through access to superior education and opportunities. Since 1978, Prep has identified New York City’s most promising students of color and prepared them for placement at independent schools in the city and boarding schools throughout the Northeast. Once placed, Prep offers support and opportunities to ensure the academic accomplishment and personal growth of each one of its students.
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PrideRock Wildlife Refuge
Big cats were never intended to be pets, as that term is commonly used, and often attempting that endeavor ends in tragedy for either the owner, the cat, or both. The PrideRock Mission is to prevent cruelty to animals by keeping a solemn promise we make to each animal that is accepted, that this will be their final and permanent home for the remainder of their lives. A commitment that has long term economic and personal implications.
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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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Reconstruct Art Inc.
Reconstruct Art's mission is to positively motivate disenfranchised youth and cultivate their artistic strengths. Reconstruct Art challenges young people's intellect and breeds confidence while giving them a well-rounded understanding of various art mediums, enhancing their social, emotional and professional skills.
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Somerville Homeless Coalition
The mission of the Somerville Homeless Coalition is to provide vulnerable individuals and families with personalized supportive services and tailored housing solutions. SHC is committed to treating people with dignity and respect, always with the understanding that they are part of the community.
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St. Joseph's School - Yorkville
Founded in 1880, St. Joseph’s School - Yorkville is a dynamic, culturally diverse, close-knit community for students in Pre-K 3 through Grade 8.
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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 Child Center of NY’s Asian Outreach Program (AOP)
The Child Center of NY’s Asian Outreach Program helps recent, at-risk Asian immigrant children and their families get their lives back on track. It is one of the very few organizations in NY that provides vulnerable Asian immigrant children and families from China, South Asia, Afghanistan, Korea and the Philippines, the mental health, substance abuse and domestic violence prevention services that they so desperately need, but are often too ashamed to access because of cultural stigma or language obstacles. Many of the children and families served live in conditions of extreme poverty and deal with issues including substance abuse, depression, domestic violence, child abuse and neglect. Yet many still don’t seek help because of the cultural shame and stigma associated with these problems and because of language barriers. Other critical services provided through AOP’s parent agency (The Child Center of NY) include multi-lingual tutoring in reading and math, treatment for infants and toddlers with developmental issues, and Head Start, a program to support parents and enhance the education and growth of children ages 3 to 5.
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The Seneca, Inc.
The mission of the Seneca is to create opportunities, resources, and sustainable networks for women in social, educational, and professional environments.
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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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