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The mission of Dreamcatchers Empowerment Network is to provide assessments, job preparation, job placement and job coaching to youth and adults with limitations and disabilities. Dreamcatchers Empowerment Network is dedicated to serving individuals in a collaborative manner, with a network of other agencies. Dreamcatchers services are directed at assisting individuals to prepare for, choose, obtain, and retain employment. Services are tailored to an individual's strengths, resources, priorities, needs, abilities, interests and informed choices.

(LLK) Leben und Lernen in Kenya e.V. (also registered in Kenya as Live and Learn in Kenya Int'l as our daughter organization) provides funds to send needy children to school with everything necessary.

The advanced training program at Hire Level Ministry is focused on the individual attainment of sustainable wage employment. Upon successful completion of our program, participants have the opportunity to qualify for continued education scholarship funding. These scholarships are used to train for lifetime vocations. The program at hire level ministry includes wellness, computer skills, and leadership topics that are taught one night a week for 6 months. Additionally, the youth program runs simultaneously and covers the same topics. Any youth, kindergarten or older, living with an adult participant is welcome to join the youth program.

The mission of Maryland Community Connection is primarily to establish, operate, and maintain services in the community for individuals with developmental disabilities. Through trained, qualified, and fairly compensated staff, Maryland Community Connection services will assist each person to achieve a greater degree of social and economic independence and reduce the need for subsidized lifestyles. Maryland Community Connection policy requires that these services be provided to eligible Maryland participants without regard to race, color, creed, national origin, gender, or marital status.

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.

GWENS strives to empower and support all women but primarily women in crisis. We host fundraising events to raise both funds and awareness while we network and socialize with each other -- in an all female setting -- where we can focus on our unique needs.

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.

Breaking the Poverty Cycle Through Education

Pars' mission is to act as a catalyst for social, cultural and economic integration of  Iranian-Americans, and other communities, into mainstream American society.As a community-based social and legal services organization, Pars Equality Center is a registered 501(C)(3) non-profit dedicated to helping all members of the Iranian-American community and other Persian-speaking countries realize their full potential as informed, self-reliant, and responsible members of American society. We believe that learning and teaching the rights and responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy as well as the rules and rewards of entrepreneurship are the necessary ingredients for our success as a community.Pars Equality Center achieves its mission primarily by providing extensive social and legal services. Our Persian-speaking staff advocates for families and individuals in need with a strong focus on refugees, asylees, and those newcomers living in poverty.

Empower, educate and employ people of all abilities.

TO DEVELOP AND PROVIDE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING DESIGNED TO RETOOL, EQUIP, AND EDUCATE HISPANIC ENTREPRENEURIAL AND START-UP COMMUNITY, INCLUDING THOSE SEEKING JOB SKILLS TO OBTAIN GOOD EMPLOYMENT WITH A LOCAL COMPANY.

Using education, entrepreneurship and local leadership to empower families in Uganda