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The Dalton Bacco "Living the Dream Fund" strives to provide children in foster care (primarily youth living in a group home or RTF) a positive adult connection that will offer assistance in life skills and other emotional supports as they transition into adulthood. These youth do not have anyone, other than a caseworker, to guide them. Our organization also offers fun and exciting events that the child may not have gotten the chance to experience

At Friends For Life, every animal matters. Founded in 2002, Friends For Life introduced the no-kill shelter model to Houston – saving animals regardless of their breed, age or condition. Houston-grown, we’re here to help our neighbors care for the pets they love. We’re not finished until every animal has a safe home. Until then, we’ll be innovating, improving and tracking results to find the most effective ways to save lives.

If you want to directly impact the life of a child struggling with mental health, substance use, and developmental disabilities like autism, please consider a gift to Ocean Partnership for Children. Our mission is to enhance the well-being of youth and their families through natural and community supports. That means that we use a team approach to help our kids succeed, overcome challenges, and achieve their dreams and goals. Ocean Partnership for Children is THE NJ Children's System of Care designated care management organization (CMO) in Ocean County, NJ. We help over 1,000 youth every day, keeping them at home, in school and in the community where they can thrive. We use an innovative and successful approach that focuses on the youth's strengths, instead of their struggles. Our wraparound approach means we wrap services (in-home counseling, behavioral support, and other supports) around that youth and family. Because of our dedicated care coordination, over 90% of our youth are successful in their community!

Since its founding in 1953, Echo Hill has been a safe and happy place for boys and girls to spend their summers. Internationally recognized for its noncompetitive child-centered program, Echo Hill has focused on each youngster’s successful away-from-home experience. Using a range of activities from horseback riding and swimming to the creative arts and athletics, Echo Hill builds self-confidence and improves social skills in children.

RUBIN FOR KIDS IS A NONPROFIT DEVOTED TO RECOGNIZING AND REWARDING THE ACHIEVEMENT OF PERSONAL GOALS AT SCHOOL, AT HOME, OR IN THE COMMUNITY. IN THIS SENSE, THE PROGRAM IS BOTH ACHIEVEMENT-CENTERED, AND NEED-BASED. WE DISTRIBUTE POST HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIPS AND YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS TO YOUTH AND YOUNG ADULTS IN DANE COUNTY, WI. NOT ONLY ARE WE A 100% VOLUNTEER BASED ORGANIZATION BUT SINCE THERE ARE ALMOST NO ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS, EVERY DOLLAR CONTRIBUTED GOES TO HELP A DESERVING AREA YOUTH.

The Young Scientists of SC promote and provide Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math (STEAM) opportunities and experiences to the school aged youth of the Lowcountry of SC in an effort to lift them out of poverty by setting them on a path to a rewarding career. Since this is a tight knit community, most people return home bringing their skills and experiences with them, and creating a high tech, high achieving workforce that will attract additional direly needed investment into the county.

To serve youth in crises, in the Greater Baton Rouge Region, through our Life Skills training model. During the school year, we provide classes and community mentors to guide students toward making wiser choices and during the summer we conduct camps for area youth in need of these same skills. Our long term goal is to build a residential Children's Home, focused on family reunification, to provide year round housing, education and counseling for youth

Our mission is to transform the lives of youth in disadvantaged communities through sustainable opportunities that use Soccer as a tool to help children HOPE again.We identify children from impoverished communities and orphan homes in Ghana, West Africa and provide them with life changing programs through three basic areas:EducationHealth & NutritionSoccerThrough this, we hope to change their reality by making them better leaders, preparing them for higher education, developing their talent, and improving their overall health and wellbeing.

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.

Our mission: To rescue, rehabilitate, and re-home God’s neglected or abused equine through programs of shelter, adoption, education, and assistance. Horse Haven of Tennessee, Inc. was formed in 1999. Since then, more than 1,000 horses have been cared for by the only nonprofit equine rescue serving the entire state of Tennessee. The organization assists law enforcement officials by transporting and caring for horses that are seized during criminal abuse and neglect cases. The horses are then cared for while the cases are litigated in court.

The mission of Borromeo Housing, Inc. (BHI) is to empower young single mothers to create a self-sustaining future through education, counseling and support, while they reside in our safe home. BHI closely monitors the infants of our young mothers to ensure the children are parented responsibly, receive appropriate medical care, and meet individual developmental benchmarks. In this way, BHI is determined to present two generations of at-risk youth with alternatives to the perils of neglect, poor education, and inter-generational poverty.

Shoestring City Ranch  is organized to work with children of all ages and demographics in the greater Long Beach, California area which include developmentally challenged, diverse ethnicities, low socio-economic, single parent, working families, home schooled, after school programs, required extracurricular volunteer programs, and / or any child interested in working with animals. We will teach animal science while building leadership, teamwork and fundamental work ethics in an urban ranch environment emphasizing ecological responsibility.