America's Second Harvest – The Nation’s Food Bank Network
Our mission is to create a hunger-free America by distributing food and grocery products through a nationwide network, increasing public awareness of domestic hunger and advocating for public policies that benefit America’s hungry.
35 East Wacker Drive
Suite 2000
Chicago, IL 60601
(312)263-2303
www.secondharvest.org
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Artists Against Hunger & Poverty: A Program of WHY
Artists Against Hunger & Poverty is a program of WHY (World Hunger Year) that enlists performing artists to raise awareness and funds for the fight against hunger and poverty. WHY is helping thousands of America’s hungry connect to food pantries, soup kitchens, shelter, and government programs in their neighborhoods by providing immediate help via the National Hunger Hotline 1-866-3-HUNGRY. WHY also supports the work of more than 8,750 community-based organizations working on the frontlines to help poor and hungry Americans move out of poverty, more specifically helping them tap their own power to be self-reliant through job training, life skills, urban farming, after school programs, affordable housing, entrepreneurial businesses, and much more. WHY is a leading advocate for innovative, community-based solutions to hunger and poverty, and challenges society to confront these problems by advancing models that create self-reliance, economic justice, and equal access to nutritious and affordable food.
World Hunger Year
505 East Eighth Avenue
Suite 2100
New York, NY 10018
(212)629-8850
www.worldhungeryear.org
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Autism Speaks
The goal at Autism Speaks™ is to change the future for all who struggle with autism spectrum disorders.
They are dedicated to funding global biomedical research into the causes, prevention, treatments, and cure for autism; to raising public awareness about autism and its effects on individuals, families, and society; and to bringing hope to all who deal with the hardships of this disorder. Autism Speaks is committed to raising the funds necessary to support these goals.
Autism Speaks aims to bring the autism community together as one strong voice to urge the government and private sector to listen to our concerns and take action to address this urgent global health crisis. It is their firm belief that, working together, we will find the missing pieces of the puzzle.
2 Park Avenue
11th Floor
New York, NY 10016
(212)252-8584
www.autismspeaks.org
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Big Brothers Big Sisters of America
Big Brothers Big Sisters matches children of promise ages 8-18 with caring adults in professionally-supported mentoring relationships. Founded in 1904 Big Brothers Big Sisters, present in 5.000 communities around America, served 246,000 children in 2006.
230 North 13 th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
(215)567-7000
www.bigbrothersbigsisters.org
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Boys & Girls Clubs of America
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
1275 Peachtree St. NE
Atlanta, GA 30309
(404)487-5700
www.bgca.org
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Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation
Using the baseball and softball field to help teach life’s critical lessons, the Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation is working with young people residing in disadvantaged communities throughout America. Our goal is to teach youth the importance of choosing a healthy lifestyle, and making smart and productive decisions in their lives. We want them to learn that embracing lifelong character traits such as perseverance, commitment, developing good nutritional habits, and giving back to their communities, will expose them to opportunities and experiences that will help them become successful and contributing adults. The ball field is simply the vehicle we use to get their attention, open their eyes to their own potential, and teach them that success is within their grasp.
1427 Clarkview Road
Baltimore, MD 21209
(877) RIPKEN1
www.ripkenfoundation.org
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CARE
CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. Women are at the heart of CARE’s community-based efforts to improve basic education, prevent the spread of HIV, increase access to clean water and sanitation, expand economic opportunity and protect natural resources. CARE also delivers emergency aid to survivors of war and natural disasters, and helps people rebuild their lives.
151 Ellis Street, NE
Atlanta, GA 30303-2440
(800)521-CARE (2273)
www.care.org
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City Year
City Year is a youth service organization that unites more than 1,000 young adults, ages 17 to 24, from diverse backgrounds for a demanding year of full-time community service, civic engagement and leadership development. They put their idealism to work as tutors and mentors to school children, organizing after-school programs and vacation camps, and reclaiming parks, playgrounds and other public spaces, and organizing thousands of people of all ages to join them in service. As these young leaders serve community and country, they gain skills for a lifetime of active citizenship.
An inspiration for AmeriCorps, the federal national service initiative, City Year was founded in 1988 and serves today in 15 communities across the United States, and in Johannesburg, South Africa. City Year's vision is that one day the most commonly asked question of a young adult will be: "Where are you going to do your service year?"
285 Columbus Ave.
Boston, MA 02116
(617)927-2500
www.cityyear.org
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CureSearch National Childhood Cancer Foundation
CureSearch unites the world's largest childhood cancer research organization, the Children's Oncology Group (COG), and the National Childhood Cancer Foundation (NCCF) through our shared mission to cure childhood cancer. At more than 200 COG member institutions worldwide, our dedicated physicians, nurses and scientists are conducting clinical trials and performing research to identify cancer causes and pioneer treatments and cures. CureSearch NCCF supports this lifesaving research by raising public awareness and funds through awareness, legislative and fundraising programs, which directly contribute to increasing survival rates.
4600 East West Highway, Suite 600
Bethesda, MD 20814-3457
(800)458-6223
www.curesearch.org
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Farm Aid
Farm Aid is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to keep family farmers on their land. Farm Aid accomplishes this mission by promoting food from family farms, growing the good food movement, helping farmers thrive and taking action to change the system.
Willie Nelson, Neil Young and John Mellencamp organized the first Farm Aid concert in 1985 to raise awareness about the loss of family farms and to raise funds to keep farm families on their land. Dave Matthews joined the Farm Aid Board of Directors in 2001. Farm Aid has raised more than $30 million to promote a strong and resilient family farm system of agriculture.
11 Ward Street, Suite 200
Somerville , MA 02143
(800)FARM-AID
www.farmaid.org
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Habitat for Humanity International
Habitat for Humanity International is a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian housing ministry. HFHI seeks to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action. Habitat invites people of all backgrounds, races and religions to build houses together in partnership with families in need. Habitat has built more than 225,000 houses around the world, providing more than 1 million people in more than 3,000 communities with safe, decent, affordable shelter. HFHI was founded in 1976 by Millard Fuller along with his wife, Linda.
Habitat for Humanity International
121 Habitat Street
Americus, GA 31709-3498
1-800-422-4828
www.habitat.org
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Jumpstart for Young Children
Jumpstart is working toward the day every child in America enters school prepared to succeed.
Jumpstart's work is simple yet significant: to engage caring, civic minded individuals in service to work toward the day every child in America enters school prepared to succeed. Through an innovative program that features intensive one-to-one adult-child interaction, and which consistently produces demonstrable positive results, Jumpstart helps preschool children build language and literacy, social, and initiative skills - skills that provide the necessary groundwork for later academic and social success.
During the 2006-2007 school year, 3,100 college student Corps members are serving nearly 12,000 at-risk preschool children at 250 Head Start and other early learning centers across the country (in 20 states and 65 communities). Since the organization’s founding in 1993, thousands of Jumpstart mentors have helped more than 50,000 children from low-income communities around the country enter school ready to learn at grade level.
308 Congress Street, 6th Floor
Boston, MA 02210
(617)542-5867
www.jstart.org
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Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International
JDRF is the leading charitable funder and advocate of type 1 diabetes research worldwide. The mission of JDRF is to find a cure for diabetes and its complications through the support of research.
120 Wall Street, 19th Floor
New York, NY 10005
(800)223-1138
www.jdrf.org
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The Leary Firefighters Foundation
The mission of The Leary Firefighters Foundation is to provide resources for fire departments to obtain the highest level of equipment, technology and training as well as to provide resources to the families of firefighters who have perished or been injured in the line of duty.
594 Broadway, Suite 409
New York, NY 10012
(212)343-0240
www.learyfirefighters.org
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Malaria No More
Malaria No More's mission is simple: to end deaths due to malaria. The world has known how to beat this disease for more than a century, yet it remains the number one killer of children under five in sub-Saharan Africa, claiming more than 1 million lives a year. Malaria No More engages individuals, organizations, and corporations in the private sector to provide life-saving bed nets and other critical interventions to families in need. Together these investments will significantly reduce malaria infections and make malaria-related deaths a thing of the past.
Founded in 2006 by leading non-governmental institutions, Malaria No More works in partnership with the President's Malaria Initiative (PMI), UNICEF, the American Red Cross, the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Millennium Promise, United Way of America, United Nations Foundation, the Global Business Coalition and others.
432 Park Avenue South, 13th Floor
New York, NY 10016
(212)584-5710
www.malarianomore.org
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National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
Established in 1984, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children provides for and spearheads national efforts to locate and recover missing children; raises public awareness about ways to prevent child abduction, endangerment, and sexual exploitation; and actively trains professionals in law enforcement and other professionals that work with children.
Charles B. Wang International Children’s Building
699 Prince Street
Alexandria, VA 22314-3175
(703)274-3900
www.missingkids.com
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The National Children's Cancer Society
The mission of The National Children’s Cancer Society is to improve the quality of life for children with cancer and to reduce the risk of cancer by promoting children’s health through financial and in-kind assistance, advocacy, support services and education.
1 South Memorial Drive, Suite 800
St. Louis, MO 63102
(800)5-FAMILY
www.nationalchildrenscancersociety.org
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National Federation of the Blind
With more than 50,000 members nationwide, the National Federation of the Blind serves as the voice of the nation’s blind. We are blind people working together in local chapters, state organizations, and at our headquarters, the National Center for the Blind, to create a bright tomorrow for ourselves, for blind children, and for those who will come after us. We believe that our blindness does not need to stop us from living full and productive lives but that misunderstanding about blindness and lack of opportunity often prevent us from doing so.
We help parents of blind children, give scholarships to blind students, conduct a service which allows blind people to read newspapers over the telephone free of charge, operate the International Braille and Technology Center for the Blind, work to expand employment opportunities, and help blind senior citizens learn necessary skills to continue living independent lives. We seek out and welcome with gratitude assistance from sighted members of the general public who wish to join with us in our work.
1800 Johnson Street
Baltimore, MD 21230
(410)659-9314
www.nfb.org
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Natural Resources Defense Council
The Natural Resources Defense Council is one of the nation's most effective environmental action groups. Our mission is to safeguard the Earth: its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends.
40 West 20th St.
New York, NY 10011
(212)727-2700
www.nrdc.org
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Outward Bound
The mission of Outward Bound is to inspire character development and self-discovery in people of all ages and walks of life through challenge and adventure, and to impel them to achieve more than they ever thought possible, to show compassion for others and to actively engage in creating a better world.
Your contribution will be invested in scholarships that will enable students chosen because of need or merit to participate in Outward Bound Wilderness courses. Your support helps us to create programs rich with socio-economic and ethnic diversity, to explore our differences as our greatest strengths, and to return our students to their communities with greater knowledge of themselves and the world around them.
100 Mystery Point Road
Garrison, NY 10524
(845)424.4000
www.outwardbound.org
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Peace Games
Peace Games empowers students to create their own safe classrooms and communities by forming partnerships with elementary schools, families, and young adult volunteers.
Peace Games imagines a world where every child has the skills, knowledge, supportive relationships, and opportunities to prevent violence and build safer communities. A world where individuals and institutions believe in the power of young people and that violence – in all of its forms – can be prevented. Peace Games believes that this goal is best achieved by building the capacity of schools and community groups to implement holistic, peace and justice education programs.
280 Summer Street
Mezzanine Level
Boston, MA 02210
(617)261-3833
www.peacegames.org
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Partnership for a Drug-Free America
The Partnership for a Drug-Free America is a nonprofit coalition of communication, health, medical and educational professionals working to reduce illicit drug use and help people live healthy, drug-free lives. The Partnership’s core expertise lies in our research-based, educational campaigns that are disseminated through all forms of media, including TV, radio and print advertisements and over the Internet. Since 1987, we have utilized the pro-bono work of the country’s best advertising, PR and interactive agencies, and the donated time and space of major media, to create the largest public service campaign in the nation’s history. Supporters of the Partnership include health professionals and all those affected by the consequences of drug abuse, including parents who have lost children as a result of addiction or overdose.
405 Lexington Avenue, Suite 1601
New York, NY 10174
(212)922-1560
www.drugfree.org
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Red Sox Foundation
The Red Sox Foundation is committed to using the power of the Red Sox and the passion of their fans to support programs serving children throughout New England and Red Sox Nation.
There are four cornerstones of the Red Sox Foundation. The first is the Jimmy Fund at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, which provides inspiring breakthroughs in the battles against children’s cancer. The second is the Teen Center Dimock Health and Community Center, a program that opens doors of opportunity to children in some of Boston's poorest neighborhoods through tutoring, anti-drug and violence prevention programs, counseling, job training, and recreational activities. Dimock’s teen center is an island of security for kids in the inner city.
The Red Sox Foundation also funds The Red Sox Scholars program, which each year provides 25 college scholarships of $5,000 each plus accrued interest and mentoring to financially challenged, academically talented sixth graders. And the fourth cornerstone of the Red Sox Foundation is children's athletic programs including youth baseball and Children's Retreats at the Ron Burton Training Village in central Massachusetts, where children learn life skills and improve their self esteem.
The Red Sox Foundation also focuses on children who live in New England’s group homes, or what were once known as orphanages. The largest team charity in Major League Baseball, the Red Sox Foundation also supports many other children's charities throughout New England.
4 Yawkey Way
Boston, MA 02215
www.redsoxfoundation.org
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United Way of America
United Way brings together people from all across the community--people from government, faith groups, nonprofits and companies--to tackle the issues that matter most. If it requires fundraising, going to Congress, or just getting people to work together, that's what we do. Because United Way is focused on the bottom-line results: the lives we change and the communities we shape. Your contribution will be invested in Born Learning, a United Way partnership to improve early childhood learning – go to www.bornlearning.org for parent tips and resources and to learn more about the partnership.
701 North Fairfax St.
Alexandria, VA 22314
(703)836-7112
www.unitedway.org
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The Wildlife Conservation Society
The Wildlife Conservation Society saves wildlife and wild lands through careful science, international conservation, education, and the management of the world’s largest system of urban wildlife parks. These activities change attitudes toward nature and help people imagine wildlife and humans living in sustainable interaction on both a local and a global scale. WCS is committed to this work because we believe it essential to the integrity of life on Earth.
Your support will benefit the WCS Field Veterinary Program. Established in 1989, this program uses a collaborative approach to address the complexities of maintaining ecosystem health. Working with in-country wildlife experts, government agencies and public health officers from Patagonia to Central Africa, we use our knowledge in wildlife disease to create local training programs, conduct cutting-edge health investigations, advise on policies and compile preventive guidelines to reduce disease transmission between wildlife, humans and their domestic animals. This program -- the first of its kind in the world -- has the added benefit of being based at WCS's Wildlife Health Center, where resident experts in animal nutrition, pathology and clinical medicine assist in assessing, monitoring, and protecting the health of wildlife worldwide.
Wildlife Conservation Society
2300 Southern Blvd.
Bronx, NY 10460
718-220-5100
www.wcs.org
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YouthBuild
The mission of YouthBuild USA is to unleash the intelligence and positive energy of low-income youth to rebuild their communities and their lives.
YouthBuild USA seeks to join with others to help build a movement toward a more just society in which respect, love, responsibility, and cooperation are the dominant unifying values, and sufficient opportunities are available for all people in all communities to fulfill their own potential and contribute to the well-being of others.
YouthBuild is a youth and community development program that addresses core issues facing low-income communities: housing, education, employment, crime prevention, and leadership development. In local YouthBuild programs, low-income young people ages 16-24 work toward their GED or high school diploma while learning job skills by building affordable housing for homeless and low-income people. Strong emphasis is placed on leadership development and community service. The students are part of a mini-community of adults and youth committed to each other’s success and to improving conditions in their neighborhoods.
Today, there are 226 YouthBuild programs in 42 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, engaging approximately 8,000 young adults per year. Since 1994, more than 76,000 YouthBuild students have produced 17,000 units of affordable housing.
YouthBuild
58 Day Street
Somerville, MA 02144
617-623-9900
www.youthbuild.org
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