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We are a member-based organization. Our members elect a national Board of Directors who are responsible for setting the strategic direction of Dying With Dignity Canada. The Board has hired an Executive Director to carry out day-to-day operations and execute our strategic plan. We are funded by membership fees and donations, both of which are tax deductible. To join as a member of DWD, make your donation (minimum $10) to the membership fund.

Our programs include: Summer Breakfast Programs (July & August)servicing children who depend on school breakfast programs during the school year for their daily nutrition. December breakfasts giving children (and their families) who otherwise would not have the opportunity to experience the Christmas Season a morning especially designed for them. They receive a nutritious hot buffet breakfast, puppet show, visit with Santa and Mrs. Claus as well as other fairy tale characters, a present to take home for Christmas morning and a lifetime of cherished memories. Thanksgiving dinner, with all the trimmings, is served to the families of children attending our Summer Breakfast Program locations. Food vouchers are distributed to families in need of assistance at Christmas time.

To find out more information about Dancing with Parkinson's Inc., please visit our website at www.dancingwithparkinsons.com

Quilts Made with Love, Inc. creates quilts to donate to those in need - foster children, homeless, veterans and more!

The mission of NYPD With Arms Wide Open is to provide a forum where police officers of all ranks and their families, can attend meetings and discuss issues surrounding being the parents/guardians/ caretakers of a child with medical complexities and/or special needs. Often times, families with these children feel isolated and are in need of an organization that addresses their very specific needs and issues. NYPD With Arms Wide Open helps our families care for their children while navigating through the culture, complexities and dangers of being a member of the New York City Police Department. NYPD With Arms Wide Open have been able to assist many of their members with specialized medical equipment such as pediatric therapy and durable medical equipment, specialized bicycles with hand pedals, motorized wheel chairs and in-home track lifts. We have also assisted families defray the cost of therapy sessions that insurances refuse to cover, as well as provide financial support to families with children that have extended stays in hospitals and catastrophic medical expenses. NYPD With Arms Wide Open is available to any cop, active or retired, regardless of rank. As there are never any dues, donations and frequent fundraising are the organization’s only source of funding. To- date, over $800k in assistance has been passed along to families who have expressed a need to our organization.
 
 NYPD With Arms Wide Open has established an annual academic scholarship award for students within the NYPD community living with special needs, those who are the family members of an individual with special needs and those who have dedicated their community service efforts to the special needs community. In the last four years since The Detective Steven McDonald Memorial Scholarship was established, we have delivered over $90k in scholarship awards in Steven’s memory.

Children With Hair Loss is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization that provides human hair replacements at no cost to children and young adults facing medically-related hair loss. When a child's hair is lost due to Cancer treatments, Alopecia, Trichotillomania, Burns, etc., the painful effects are far deeper than just cosmetic. Each year, the number of children requesting our hair replacements increases and with your support, we can continue to increase the number of children we are able to help in the future! Children With Hair Loss A 501 (C) 3 Non-Profit Organization MICS License: #29820 EIN: 38-3537982 CFC: 41571 License in all fifty states.

OWLS seeks to create opportunity for Chicago’s most at-risk youth through scholarship, service, and the sport of lacrosse. Using inner-city schools and community centers as our access point, we provide developmentally positive options for students through: -Academic enrichment -Service-learning projects -Lacrosse programming We address our participant’s unique circumstances and individual short-term needs within a structured team environment and provide the long-term resources needed for their continued transition to a healthy quality of life.

Hearts With A Mission serves homeless, runaway, and transitional youth in crisis by providing shelter, educational support, mentoring, family reunification, and transition planning with a faith-based approach.

Feed My People works to alleviate the effects of poverty in the St. Louis area while also providing resources to help those in need lead independent and sustainable lives. We serve without regard to religion or ethnicity. A significant number of those we serve are our most vulnerable: infants, children, immigrants, veterans, the elderly, and the disabled. Feed My People's two food pantries are located in underserved areas for those living at or below Federal poverty guidelines.

Places for People aims to help solve these problems by: * Buying run-down property * Renovating this property with community input * Renting at affordable rates * Allowing tenants to accumulate assets * Providing social supports neccessary to ensure a successful tenancy This approach: * Serves the underserviced in our community * Strengthens the community * Improves our housing stock

People First aims to work closely with oppressed and disadvantaged communities and vulnerable individuals in breaking the centuries - old cycle of ignorance and oppression by providing opportunities for education. The trust believes the best way to achieve long - term positive social change is through education and we work in the areas of greatest need where no other education is available to the poor and oppressed. Our mission is the bringing of educational opportunity and to promote health and social rights to those to whom such opportunities have previously been denied due to poverty family circumstances or oppression. The Trust aims to work with the most marginalized members of the community and help create a safer environment for all children , especially vulnerable children, and to provide support and encouragement to help improve their living and social conditions, through rights based and ethically sound education, empowerment programmes, vocational training, protection and care and financial independence initiatives in order to help them recognize their importance and value as a responsible individual within civil society.