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Oasis - A Haven for Women and Children is a charitable, non-profit organization dedicated to providing food and clothing to women and their young children, and offering educational and other opportunities to help women compete in today's marketplace. 

The George Hull Centre for Children & Families is an accredited children's mental health centre dedicated to serving children and youth, from birth to age 18, and their families. We help troubled children. We help troubled families. Children with depression. Children with school problems. Children with drug problems. Children who want to die. The Centre offers hope and healing through a full range of mental health services, including prevention services, outpatient services, day treatment and residential services. Our staff - early childhood educators, child and youth workers, social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, speech and language pathologists - are united by a common commitment to work tirelessly to support children and their families to become strong and healthy. "There were many times when I felt that the George Hull Centre was a lifeline for my family and I will always be grateful for all of the help and support we received." (Parent)

Our mission is to serve Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVCs) in Gulu and the communities around by providing essential services in Education, Healthcare, Protection, and Christian programs, all while bolstering the strength of families and communities.

The New England Center for Children provides intensive, evidence-based education and clinical services for children and young adults with autism, using applied behavior analysis (ABA) across day, residential, clinic, and consulting programs. It also develops training, research, and technology (the ACE® ABA system) to spread best practices and support professionals and families worldwide.

Fernside provides no‑cost peer support groups, camps, school programs and crisis outreach to children, teens, and families who have experienced a death, and it works to raise community awareness and education about childhood grief.

At its inception, Medical Missions for Children (MMFC) went to one country to help a handful of children and with a goal. That goal was to build sustainable health care, education and social services infrastructure, thereby enhancing life in the underserved areas of the world. Today, 25 years later, MMFC now conducts close to 20 missions a year and has operated on over 27,000 children. MMFC accomplishes its goals by building long-term relationships and sending volunteer teams to more than 15 countries in those 25 years. Overall, the need is staggering with more than 170,000 children born with cleft lip and palate deformities each year and a backlog of over eight million children and adults who are born with these congenital facial deformities and are currently awaiting this surgery. MMFC’s seeks to increase access to care for children in some of the more isolated and under-served areas of the world while at the same time creating a sustainable health care model.

Advocates for Children of New York (AFC)'s mission is to ensure a high-quality education for New York students who face barriers to academic success, focusing on students from low-income backgrounds. AFC achieves this through four integrated strategies: free advice and legal representation for families of students; free trainings and workshops for parents, communities, and educators and other professionals, to equip them to advocate on behalf of students; policy advocacy to effect change in the education system and improve education outcomes; and impact litigation to protect the right to quality education and compel needed reform.

The mission of Spence-Chapin is to provide adoption and adoption related services of the highest quality. The agency focuses on: finding adoptive homes for infants and young children who need families; promoting the understanding of adoption through counseling and public education; and improving adoption's image and practice.

Healing the wounds of troubled children and families.

The American Foundation for Children with AIDS (AFCA) is a non-profit organization providing critical comprehensive services to infected and affected HIV+ children and their caregivers. Our programs are efficient, promoting self-reliance and sustainability. Since 2005, in collaboration with our in-country partners, we have served tens of thousands of families in some of the most underserved and marginalized communities in Africa. Our areas of impact include: medical support, livelihoods, educational support and emergency relief. Currently, AFCA is transforming lives in Kenya, Uganda, Zimbabwe, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The mission of the Caring for Children Foundation of Texas' Care Van Program is to immunize uninsured and medically underserved children, and provide targeted preventative health services to help families throughout Texas.

The Military Police Fund for Blind Children was founded in 1957 and specializes in assisting visually impaired Canadian children up to the age of 21. The fund is operated entirely by Canadian Military Police volunteers.