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Aid for Africa
Aid for Africa works with its partners on the ground in Africa to find solutions to the education, health, development, and wildlife challenges facing the region. Whether we are distributing books to school children, introducing medical strategies to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS, supporting small businesses for women, or finding new approaches to protect endangered elephants and lions, Aid for Africa is working to build a better future for Africa’s children, families, and communities.
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Bake Me Home
Bake Me Home is a charitable organization dedicated to providing homeless and disadvantaged moms and kids with direct services that encourage shared family experiences.
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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.
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Circle of Women
Circle of Women's mission is to equip girls with self-reliance, knowledge, and increased capacities to both enhance their own lives and to contribute productively to their societies. Circle of Women believes this is the best way to affect positive, global change. Their philosophy is that one school will affect one community. One community will make a world of change.
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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.
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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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Creative Alternatives of New York (CANY)
CANY empowers people who have endured trauma to rebuild their lives.
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Enchanted Makeovers ™
Enchanted Makeovers’ mission is to transform shelters for women and children into an environment that inspires psychological and behavioral change. A haven is created where women and children rebuilding their lives are reminded everyday they hold the ''golden ticket'' to transforming their dreams into reality. Our unique makeovers, projects and programs supplement the shelter’s efforts, building a stronger foundation for success and improved outcomes.
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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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Firelight Foundation
Our mission is to improve the well-being of children made vulnerable by HIV, AIDS and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. We support grassroots organizations that help families and communities meet the needs of their children.
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Global Fund for Women
The Global Fund for Women advances women's rights by mobilizing resources and making grants to creative, women-led organizations that provide high-impact solutions to local, regional and international human rights
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HandCrafting Justice
HandCrafting Justice is a not-for-profit, fair trade economic justice project partnering with women in the developing world.
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Helen Keller International
Helen Keller International’s mission is to save the sight and lives of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged. We combat the causes and consequences of blindness and malnutrition by establishing programs based on evidence and research in vision, health and nutrition.
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Jenny's Light
Jenny's Light is a national non-profit organization dedicated to improving and saving lives by raising awareness of perinatal mood disorders, especially postpartum depression.
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Ladybug Project Inc.
The Ladybug Project connects communities around the world to advance education and healthcare in the African countries of Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, and Madagascar.
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Leake & Watts
From their roots caring for orphaned children in the 1830s, Leake & Watts continues to positively impact the lives of more than 3,000 children, adults and families in the greater New York area. Leake & Watts is a not-for-profit agency committed to addressing a myriad of challenges that confront individuals and families dealing with poverty, disabilities, and a lack of access to education and basic services. Their comprehensive and diverse services include foster care, family stabilization, child care and Head Start, special education programs for children with emotional and/or learning disabilities, residential, day, and recreation services to individuals with developmental disabilities, and residential treatment services and group homes for youth who have experienced trauma.
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Making Strides Against Breast Cancer
Baking for Good is proud to support American Cancer Society's Making Strides Against Breast Cancer.
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Mandala House
MANDALA HOUSE provides self-directed healing programs to post-conflict populations. Specifically, we are focused on survivors of SGBV & ex-combatants. Working with a trauma-sensitive yoga & breath awareness model in a group dynamic, we teach mind/body awareness tools that our practitioners can take into their lives--healing themselves & others.
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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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Millennium Promise
Millennium Promise is the leading international nonprofit organization solely committed to eradicating poverty by supporting the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. Millennium Promise oversees the Millennium Villages project, which supports integrated social and business development services for more than 500,000 people in rural communities across 10 countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Mother to Mother
Mother to Mother provides telephone support and encouragement to women with postpartum adjustment disorder (PPAD). Our mission is to support and encourage women who are experiencing emotional difficulties during pregnancy or the postpartum. Support volunteers are mothers who have also experienced pregnancy related or postpartum emotional adjustment issues. Volunteers are trained to be skilled listeners. They are not, however, trained counselors or psychologists. Mother to Mother is the only service of its kind in the St. Louis metropolitan area. We serve all women in the state of Missouri and parts of Illinois, free of charge.
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Reveal NYC
Reveal NYC is a grassroots movement of NYC professionals celebrating beauty & dignity for women recovering from abuse and sex exploitation.
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She's the First
She's the First promotes the importance of educating girls, especially in the developing world. We send girls to school around the globe by encouraging young women to unlock the power of their social networks and creatively fundraise for sponsorships, giving underprivileged girls the means to break barriers. Most will be the first in their family to graduate.
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The Center for Relationship Abuse Awareness
The mission of the Center for Relationship Abuse Awareness is to educate and train communities and institutions to respond effectively to women who are experiencing relationship abuse.
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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 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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Vanavevhu - Children of the Soil
The mission of Vanavevhu – Children of the Soil is to provide support to and advocate for child-headed households in the low-income neighborhoods in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second largest city. Vanavevhu provides for children orphaned by AIDS the resources that a parent would otherwise provide: food, education, health care, and shelter. Vanavevhu is dedicated to the financial self-sufficiency of child-headed families and seeks to contribute to the development of this youth community by providing education and training that will ensure a measurable improvement in their lives. Vanavevhu gives these youth the chance to overcome the obstacles they face as a consequence of the AIDS pandemic, economic crisis, and political turmoil. Vanavevhu nurtures and empowers these youth, as they are the future of Zimbabwe. Our investment strengthens and supports these disadvantaged families and prepares its young participants to become individuals committed to the success and growth of their immediate communities, thus benefiting the nation as a whole.
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Women for Women International
Women for Women International provides women survivors of war, civil strife and other conflicts with the tools and resources to move from crisis and poverty to stability and self-sufficiency, thereby promoting viable civil societies.
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