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Research shows that the more of the Five Promises our youth receive - caring adultls, safe places, a healthy start, effective education, opportunities to help others - the greater their chances of future success. America's Promise Alliance is the nation's largest partnership organization dedicated to improving the lives of children and youth by raising awareness, supporting communitites, and engaging in non-partisan advocacy to ensure that young people graduate high school with the skills they need to succeed in college and the 21st century workplace.

Founded in 1983, The Wooden Floor is one of the most progressive arts-for-youth nonprofit organizations in the country. We transform the lives of young people in low-income communities through the power of dance and access to higher education. In Orange County and through our national licensed partners, we use a long-term approach grounded in exploratory dance education to foster the resources within each child to innovate, communicate, and collaborate – skills necessary for success in school and in life. 100 percent of students who graduate from The Wooden Floor immediately enroll in higher education. Our students become change agents and beacons of hope within their own families, their neighborhoods, our community, and our world.

The mission of The Emmaus Ministry for Grieving Parents is two fold: (1) To spiritually support grieving parents in dealing with one of life's most challenging and horrific experiences--the death of a child of any age by any cause, no matter how long ago(2) To empower Catholic archdioceses and dioceses and their grieving parents to support other grieving parents by bringing this ministry to their local areas.Currently we offer our programs in cooperation with 12 Catholic archdioceses and dioceses throughout the United States, and in parishes in CT, RI, and AZ, in addition to County Kerry, Ireland. We often add new sites. See www.emfgp.org for our current locations.

To make a difference in the lives of kids in my communities, in the Chicagoland area and in Ann Arbor.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of the National Capital Area is dedicated to making a positive difference in the lives of children through professionally supported long-term, One-To-One® mentoring relationships with carefully screened, caring and committed adults in Washington, DC, Northern Virginia and suburban Maryland.

Friends is a national non-profit organization dedicated to providing support, education, and a sense of empowerment for young people who stutter and their families. Our vision is to help build a world in which all young people who stutter feel empowered to communicate whenever, wherever, and however they want to.

The mission of the National Youth Leadership Council is to create a more just, sustainable, and peaceful world with young people, their schools, and their communities through service-learning

To transform the child welfare system by building a national grassroots movement led by foster youth and their families. Truly transformative foster care reform will not come to fruition unless the individuals who have personal experience are leading the effort to develop and design needed policy change and programs.