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Education
Colorado Dream Foundation

Colorado Dream Foundation’s mission is to partner with youth and their families as they successfully navigate school, college, and career by providing a holistic academic, social, and emotional program from elementary school through college, along with post-secondary scholarship assistance.We build long-term relationships with families, supporting youth from 3rd grade through their educational journey and into their careers. Our academic enrichment and behavioral health services empower youth to learn, grow, and achieve their dreams. By helping our youth gain access to college, we put them on a different academic and life trajectory. Alumni return home as role models, leaders, and advocates, transforming the way their communities see themselves and their futures.

Society
Health
Women's Housing And Economic Development

For more than 25 years, WHEDco has been a leader in creating thriving neighborhoods in the South Bronx. In addition to building beautifully-designed green, affordable homes that serve as a foundation for family stability, WHEDco creates life-changing opportunities for local residents of every age through our research-driven Early Childhood and Youth Education initiatives, which set kids on a path to college; Small Business Development programs, which nurture entrepreneurship and address community needs; Family Support and Counseling services, which connect families to the critical resources they need to succeed; and Arts and Culture programming, which showcases the borough's musical legacy and supports a new generation of artists. Learn more at whedco.org.

Society
Health
Nido De Esperanza Charitable Society

Our mission is to break the cycle of poverty by changing the first 1,000 days of a child's life. We work with our families living below the poverty line from pregnancy through the child’s third birthday. We believe in tackling poverty neighborhood by neighborhood and empowering the mamas. Community matters- particularly when you are a new immigrant mama. Knowledge matters- particularly when you didn’t have strong role models growing up.Books matter – particularly when you don’t have any in your home. Food matters – it is hard to learn and focus if you are hungry. We get it. We see it every day. We are changing it - day by day, child by child, neighborhood by neighborhood.

Society
Animals
Key To Lions Heart Rescue

Key to Lion’s Heart Rescue is a 501(c)(3) rescue. Our mission is to help save lives of animals that are in shelters or abusive and neglectful situations and give them a chance in life as well as educate the community on animal welfare. We are a foster and volunteer based rescue and rely solely on donations and fundraising to care for our dogs.Through our foster program we provide a loving, nurturing and safe environment for all our animals and address all their needs. We provide all our animals while in our care with vaccines, micro-chips, heartworm test and alter when age appropriate. We provide rehabilitation and training to those in need and work with all our dogs to prepare them for adoption into responsible and loving homes.

Society
Without A Voice

Without A Voice, Inc., is a 501c3 non-profit organization that carries a 509a2 charitable status. We represent the mindset of Men, Women, and Children, who are experiencing the negative impact of social welfare. Although our primary focus is on the underprivileged youth/young adults-ages 15-24, and children-ages14 and under, we cannot ignore that strengthening must continue within the home, in the schools, and throughout the community. Our mission overall, is to motivate our future leaders by providing them with a more enthusiastic approach to life. Our focus is on raising awareness of the different adversities our teens and young adults face, to increase literacy scores, and to address some of the mental health issues that are affecting the mindset of our youth.

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Society
MEGANS WINGS INC

Their mission is to improve the care and quality of life for children with cancer and offer support to their families. We focus our efforts on three main areas: Supporting the financial, physical, and emotional needs of families through our programs. Serving as an advocate and resource in the community for childhood cancer. Funding cutting edge research to help find a cure for childhood cancer. We carry out our mission through our Aid and Service Programs: Patient Aid Program – helps pay medical or household bills provide gas and grocery cards, repairs the family car to assist in getting the child to treatment, helps purchase bus and plane fare when treatment is far from home, help cover the cost of alternative therapies, and supplements not covered by insurance, and helps with funeral expenses when a child earns their wings. Parents often miss working to care for a critically ill child. Eventually, it’s hard to pay bills so Megan’s Wings Patient Aid Program steps in to help. We work directly with medical social workers who help identify families in need. Megan’s Home - provides temporary housing so families can stay close to the hospital while their child goes through long term treatment such as bone marrow transplant. Adopt a Family Program - provides care packages to families in need over the holidays. Special Events and Hospital Service Program hosts therapeutic events and luncheons for patients and their families in and outside the hospital setting. Our Research Program - funds cutting edge childhood cancer research through organizations such as the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, St Baldrick’s Foundation, and City of Hope to help find better treatments and cures for childhood cancer.

Society
Girls Health Ed

Girls Health Ed is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization which seeks to educate adolescent girls about their health and well being. Our mission is to empower girls worldwide to make healthy and informed choices throughout their lives. We do this through a workshop-based program with five modules covering the full spectrum of health education. Our modules are nutrition, body image, physical activity, personal care; hygiene, and reproductive health. By focusing on low-income girls and young women who are not able to obtain information about their changing bodies from their school or home environments, we can instill confidence through knowledge. We use health education to maximize the positive impact that girls and young women are able to have on their communities and empower them to change their lives for the better.

Society
Pearls of Hope

Helping young girls and boys become responsible and contributing members of society by providing career guidance, religious education and teaching them academic skills, such as communication skills, presentation skills, problem solving skills, and practical life skills. Helping women of all ages improve their social status and wellbeing through education, career guidance, mentoring, family counseling, and teaching them various life skills, such as parenting skills, cooking, knitting, and healthy lifestyle. Promoting a strong moral character that enhances awareness of our neighborhoods and broader communities through participation in community service projects, field trips, and volunteering at places such as nursing homes and homeless shelters. Creating a safe atmosphere to engage in philosophical and cultural discussion through weekly classes that promote strong moral beliefs and mold the intelligent progressive minds of tomorrow’s mothers, educators, and professionals.

Society
Rose Bowl Foundation

The Rose Bowl is an outdoor athletic stadium in Pasadena, California. The stadium is the home field of the UCLA Bruins football team and the site of the annual college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl, held on New Year's Day. It hosted events during the 1932 and 1984 Olympics, and was the venue for the 1994 FIFA World Cup Final and the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup Final, as well as five Super Bowl games. From 1999 until 2014, the Rose Bowl served as one of four host stadiums for the national championship game in the Bowl Championship Series. Beginning with the 2014-15 season, the stadium will serve as one of six stadiums that will serve as semi-final game sites in the College Football Playoff.

Society
Justice Rights
Health
Asian Women's Shelter

The mission of the Asian Women’s Shelter (AWS) is to eliminate domestic violence by promoting the social, economic and political self-determination of women and all survivors of violence and oppression. AWS is committed to every person’s right to live in a violence-free home. AWS works with all survivors and has specific expertise to address the cultural and language needs of Asian and other immigrant and refugee survivors, as well as others who face barriers to accessing existing sources of safety and support. In order to address how domestic violence is compounded for survivors and communities as it combines with sexism, classism, racism, homo/bi/transphobia, xenophobia, ableism and ageism, AWS operates through a margin-to-center anti-oppression framework that can create holistic and lasting change toward peace. This perspective is reflected in our broad strategy that integrates culturally relevant and language-accessible shelter and transitional services, training and capacity-building programs, systems and public policy work, and community mobilization initiatives and advocacy.

Society
Education
Children's Historical Publishing

Children’s Historical Publishing (CHPS) was created to provide learning-activity educational programs that integrate history, art, science & technology to enrich the education of students on underserved topics. The programs serve to educate, entertain, and inspire children to grow and realize their potential. CHPS has produced 31 programs since 2001 for youth in the Miami Valley, Ohio area. CHPS programs align with state grade school education standards. Over 550,000 Learning Activity Books with companion Teacher Curriculum guides have been distributed to Miami Valley area public and private schools and after school care centers. All topics fill the gap about local topics, especially history in the Miami Valley area.Date of Incorporation: Founded in 1994 as not for profit Home-Based Arts USA. To be more clearly aligned with our mission we became Children’s Historical Publishing in 2014.Children’s Historical Publishing is a respected and successful 501c3 organization recognized by leaders in education in our area. Our motto “from success to significance” drives our choice of topics. We strive to instill hope and belief that when a person works to overcome challenges they can succeed.

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Health
Animals
Triple R Horse Rescue

*"IN STATE ADOPTIONS ONLY!"* We are a 501(c) 3 nonprofit organization based in Cave Creek, Arizona. Our mission is to rescue, rehabilitate and re-home horses in need. We are a 100% volunteer organization with our volunteers pouring their dedication and determination into providing daily care for all of our horses. Our Arizona horse rescue facility accommodates 15 rescued horses on any given day. Triple R strives to be a partner in the equine community by providing awareness and education about options for helping horses in need. We offer opportunities for educational programs, schools, groups and individuals to participate in spreading this awareness, and by having groups and individuals become involved in Triple R's daily activities. Our goal is to be an educational resource for any group that can benefit from a relationship with our horses. Veterinarian-technician students from Anthem College, Boy/Girl Scouts earning their badges, and many other community/service-minded groups have benefited from their time spent at Triple R. Your tax-deductible donations are the foundation of our horse rescue and adoption process. As a 100% nonprofit organization, we strive to make the most of what our generous donors are able to provide. All funds are dedicated completely to the welfare of our horses.