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America SCORES Los Angeles inspires urban youth to lead healthy lives, be engaged students, and have the confidence and character to make a difference in the world. America SCORES partners with urban schools to provide a high quality, team-based program that integrates soccer, poetry, and service- learning. Our innovative approach improves students' health, academic achievement, and civic engagement.

Pittman Sports Association Inc. is an organization where economically impoverished communities are encouraged and led to strive for excellence academically, socially, emotionally, mentally, and physically. Our mission is to work in partnerships with parents and community stakeholders to create an environment where our youth are empowered to discover their cognitive strengths and reach their maximum potential. This is being achieved through a national youth based organization Good Gang USA for kids ages 4-18. At our partner school site Dominion Prep Academy we offer football, basketball, soccer, softball, boxing, and Martial Arts as well as our cutting-edge STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts & Athletics, and Mathematics) curriculum.

2nd Recess is a health centered 501(c)3 youth running nonprofit serving San Diego County. Since our inception in the summer of 2011, our focus has been on inspiring San Diego youth and their families to be active through running and track & field. Introducing kids to fun and fitness through running builds healthy habits and reduces instances of obesity in adulthood.

At Ascutney Outdoors, our mission is to connect members of our community through outdoor recreational activities and events. These activities promote health and wellness, foster wholesome and active childhood development, and strengthen our community through shared experiences and vitality. We strive to make our programs are affordable and inclusive. We are stewards of over 1,500 acres of conserved land owned by the Town of West Windsor.

Flying Horse Farms is a medical specialty camp that provides healing, transformative experiences for children with serious illnesses and their families – free of charge. Located in Mt. Gilead, Ohio, camp first opened its gates in 2010 and hosts about 900 children and families each year.Flying Horse Farms serves children, teens, and young adults who live with cancer, facial differences, arthritis, rare diseases, and disorders of the heart, lungs, blood, kidneys, and gastrointestinal system. Many campers face co-occurring post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, depression and other mental health illnesses as a result of their diagnoses. A serious illness impacts an entire family and Flying Horse Farms also serves campers' siblings, parents and caregivers.

Freewheelin' provides accessible bicycles and teaches youth life and leadership skills that improve their physical and mental well-being. Freewheelin' believes in: The worth and gifts of each person to enrich the world; Bicycling as accessible transportation for recreation, employment, and healthy living; The importance of positive youth/adult mentorship; Empowering youth as leaders who give back to their communities; Lifelong learning, resiliency and persistence; Positive neighborhood and community connections; Making bicycling accessible and affordable; and, Being welcoming to people of all backgrounds, abilities, and incomes. We serve aged 10-18 in our educational programs, and young adults ages 16-22 in employment programs with a primary focus on under-resourced youth

OUR MISSION IS TO ESTABLISH AND PROMOTE YOUTH MENTORSHIP AND A GOLF PROGRAM THAT FOSTERS AN ENVIRONMENT FOR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AND HEALTHY LIVING FOR CHILDREN FROM UNDERSERVED DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES. OUR MISSION IS TO PROVIDE ACCESS TO THE GAME OF GOLF, WHICH WOULD BE OTHERWISE VERY EXPENSIVE ON A PRIVATE LEVEL AS WELL AS FOSTER COMMUNITY. OUR PROGRAMS ARE INCLUSIVE FOR ALL AGES, ABILITIES, ETHNIC AND CULTURAL BACKGROUNDS. AT PRESENT 2 MAJOR PROGRAM STREAMS ARE ENVISIONED:1. GOLF COURSES ARE DESIGNED TO GET YOUTH OF ALL AGES MOVING AND INTERACTING, FOSTERING PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING THROUGH THE GAME OF GOLF.2. COMMUNITY BUILDING AND YOUTH MENTORSHIP IS A PROGRAM AIMED AT TEACHING YOUTH LIFE LESSONS AND LEADERSHIP SKILLS.

To address socio-economic challenges faced by young people by harnessing the power of football, providing quality education, and offering holistic community services to inspire, educate, and mobilize them as agents of change To build confident, self-reliant young women by providing access to: Education & life skills Health & wellness resources Mentorship & leadership training Sports & creative arts opportunities Keep girls away from street

Mission statement: Empowering communities who work to ensure that children growing up in poverty get good health and an excellent education. Founding principles: We efficiently respond to the urgent needs of orphans and vulnerable children and the communities they live in. We believe that education is one of the fundamentals of success. By paying for students' school fees and providing scholastic materials (ie. school uniforms), we increase the opportunity for educational achievement.

Founded in 1983, the mission of the United States Adaptive Recreation Center (USARC) is to open doors to people with disabilities by providing access to challenging and adventurous recreation that increases their sense of health and well being. USARC is committed to building self-confidence by enabling personal achievement, developing awareness of potential and increasing the ability to overcome limitations. USARC gives people hope, dignity and respect, ultimately improving their quality of life

The mission of Students Run LA is to challenge underserved secondary students to experience the benefits of goal-setting, character development, adult mentoring and improved health by providing them with a truly life-changing experience: The training for and completion of the Los Angeles Marathon. Through this transformative experience, students learn how to set and achieve personal and academic goals, adopt a healthy lifestyle, and develop the resiliency to overcome life’s obstacles.

To help people help themselves we seek to restore the dignity and quality of life for people affected by diseases, poverty, abuse and unemployment by eliminating barriers to success through innovative education, environment and health protection, entrepreneurial development, teaching good moral, sustainable agricultural and community-driven aid through front line work, prevention and advocacy, being a facilitator and enabler, galvanizing people and resources in Tanzania.