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NAMI San Diego, a non-profit organization, providing education, support services, and advocacy to improve the quality of life for everyone affected by mental illness.

The Orange County Bird of Prey Center is a volunteer organization dedicated to: Education: the best long-term solution to prevent and mitigate many of the dangers that raptors face is education. Rehabilitation: treating and rehabilitating injured raptors. Release: returning them to the wild.

The Los Angeles Maritime Institute (LAMI) serves to empower youth to discover their greater potential through extraordinary at-sea experiences aboard educational sailing vessels built to train and equip young people with 21st-century leadership skills, and inspire maritime and STEM career paths.

The mission of Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Santa Barbara County is to assure a safe, permanent, nurturing home for every abused or neglected child by providing a highly trained volunteer to advocate for them in the dependency court system. Volunteers talk to foster parents, family members, social workers, attorneys, teachers, medical professionals, and therapists in an effort to learn as much as possible about the child's situation. CASA volunteers serve hundreds of court dependent children every year.

Latino Literacy Now is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in North San Diego County. The mission of the organization is to promote literacy in the community in all forms: reading, educational, financial, health, and community awareness. We strive to achieve this through partnerships with appropriate other organizations as well as with our own programs. To date, over one million people have been involved in some way with the organization’s programs which are divided among two main program areas: Author Programs, and Education and Literacy Programs.

The mission of Breast Cancer Angels is to provide immediate direct financial and emotional assistance for individuals and their families as they are going through breast cancer treatment. Breast Cancer Angels helps to address the ancillary needs of those who are currently in treatment. We provide food, supplies, gas, other day-to-day items, pro-bono legal services; along with medications, treatment costs and health insurance premiums. We also provide for costs associated with second opinions. 

Empowering individuals and families dealing with cancer with education and support services.

Agricultural/Livestock Educational Activities

To provide HELP and HOPE to individuals of ALL abilities through Christ centered camp experiences.

To help youth in foster care to heal and grow from trauma & rejection through the power of storytelling and filmmaking; changing the trajectory of these youth, from adversity to achievement. KITS’ Screenwriting and Filmmaking Program delivers comprehensive and therapeutic arts education/training, which has assisted our youth in mitigating their pain and finding their power; as well as securing entry level jobs, internships and post-secondary school admission. Each year culminates in an annual KITS Awards – our version of the "Academy Awards".

Vida Verde Nature Education promotes educational equity by providing free, overnight, environmental learning experiences for students who don’t otherwise get the opportunity

The Mission of the Kansas Youth Empowerment Academy is to "educate, mentor, and support youth with disabilities to be contributing members of their community." We believe that youth with disabilities should make their own informed decisions, experience success AND failure, and learn from both! KYEA coordinates programs that build leadership, disability pride, and empowerment in youth with disabilities. We want youth with disabilities to thrive in life!