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The Adventure Project is a nonprofit “adding venture” capital to create jobs to solve social problems in developing countries. Handouts help today— but a good job will change your life. Jobs transform everything. It’s what people want most. Jobs multiply opportunity, hope, education, peace, and prosperity for everyone. When people have good jobs, they invest in their future Empower one hero and you transform an entire community. Every $1,200 raised provides job training to hire one person. That job ends up serving approximately 500 neighbors with essential services. From farmers growing food to feed families or well caretakers keeping clean water flowing, these jobs aren’t just great – they are essential  

LAANE is a leading advocacy organization dedicated to building a new economy grounded in good jobs and a healthy environment. Combining research, innovative public policy and organizing of broad alliances, LAANE engages in projects that will result in good jobs, thriving communities, racial equity, and a healthy environment. We strive for a society where people have power over their own lives and a voice in civic life, living wages, healthcare, and dignity on the job, where they live in environmentally healthy communities with safe and decent housing, good schools, clean air and clean water, and other basic necessities, and where corporations are held accountable for providing benefits to the community.    

The mission of The WOW Center (WOW) is to improve the lives of individuals with developmental disABILITIES by providing specialized training, activities, and experiences that empower them. WOW is focused on helping individuals become independent, active, employed, and socially responsible members of the community. WOW provides life and work skills training, art program, fitness classes, daily field trips out into the community, and a music therapy program, and much more. All activities are designed to reinforce pre-selected goals chosen by the individuals and increase their independence and understanding of their role within the community.

Saved Hands Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to empower individuals with marketable job skills that increase their earning potential. We provide training and job placement assistance. Saved Hands Foundation serves Washington DC metro region with wrap-around services for people who want to increase their professional marketability through hands-on workforce readiness training and counseling services. Our focus and main emphasis is helping individuals that are currently living at or below the poverty level including the vast homeless population. This includes those of all ages, gender and background who are committed to gaining or improving their professional marketability. Often there are no financial resources available to enable individuals to attend a traditional educational institution. These individuals are forced to accept minimum wage employment which is simply never enough to support themselves or their families. Our participants include unemployed individuals, veterans, ex-offenders, single parents, individuals with disabilities, and the homeless.

The mission of the National Capital Physicians Foundation is to advance the practice of medicine and to enhance population health through education, innovation and research.

Bridge House believes in, respects and empowers people who are experiencing homelessness. We connect them to housing and employment opportunities so they can realize and embrace their future.

Empower, educate and employ people of all abilities.

The Denver Children's Advocacy Center's Mission Is To: Prevent Abuse, Strengthen Families And Restore Childhood. The Goal Is To Ensure That Every Low-Income Child In Metro Denver Who Has Been Traumatized By Sexual Abuse, Or By Witnessing Homicide Or Domestic Violence, Receives Immediate, Compassionate And Effective Intervention - Followed By Treatment - Until They Are Healed.

Avenues to Independence is dedicated to putting aside old ideas about what is possible. We work in partnership with the community to support and encourage people with disabilities to lead the lives they choose responsibly and with independence and dignity. We have a life long commitment to the people we serve.

To encourage and empower young adults with developmental disabilities by providing innovative entrepreneurial education that builds on their interests and strengths so that they can create happier and more productive lives.

The mission of the Center for the Visually Impaired is to empower people impacted by vision loss to live with independence and dignity.>We serve anyone with vision loss from partially sighted to fully blind. >Regardless of age or income level, CVI has four programs to suit the needs at each life-stage.>Operate an onsite retail store with a wide assortment of aids for the visually impaired.>Central, convenient location in Midtown Atlanta.

PROVIDE EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING TO PERSONS WHO ARE MENTALLY AND DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED IN SEVERAL DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTS, SUCH AS SHELTERED WORKSHOPS AND COMMUNITY SETTINGS.