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Prism-Q LGBT & Allies Resource Center provides service and resources to improve the health and wellness of the LGBTQ+ community, advocacy for equality and justice, and community building to foster an inclusive LGBTQ+ community.

Advocates' mission is: " We partner with individuals, families, and communities to shape creative solutions to even the greatest life challenges. First we listen. Then, together, we do what it takes to help people thrive. We envision communities in which every person has a full life, decent and affordable housing, meaningful work, satisfying relationships, and good health. There will be social, economic, and health justice, a place for all of us to thrive and opportunities for everyone to make a contribution."

Our mission is to find the cause(s) of AHC, develop effective treatments and ultimately find a cure, while providing support to the families and children with AHC by funding research to accomplish these goals. Through research, education and family support, we have ONE MISSION: END AHC Secondarily, we strive to promote proper diagnosis, educate health care professionals, the public and related organizations, encourage the worldwide exchange of information and advance the development of an international database of all AHC patients. The AHC Foundation (AHCF) is a dynamic organization of dedicated people that tirelessly work and advocate for their children to have a better quality of life. The foundation is the result of combining the International Foundation for Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood (IFAHC), founded in 1993, and the Alternating Hemiplegia Foundation (AHF), founded in 1995. Run by parents of children with AHC, we are a charitable 501(c)(3) organization with non-profit status and classified as tax exempt. Our Federal tax ID is 38-3225425, therefore donations made to AHCF are tax deductible. The organization has a Board of Directors, advised by a Medical Advisory board, that provides leadership, stewardship, and passion for the mission of the Foundation.

BrightFocus Foundation At BrightFocus, we support research to end Alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma. We are a nonprofit organization under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of the United States and are working to save mind and sight. Our Mission BrightFocus drives innovative research worldwide and promotes awareness of Alzheimer’s, macular degeneration, and glaucoma. Our Vision Living free from diseases of mind and sight.

Founded in 1972, the Chinese Progressive Association educates, organizes and empowers the low income and working class immigrant Chinese community in San Francisco to build collective power with other oppressed communities to demand better living and working conditions and justice for all people.

The National Cued Speech Association supports effective communication, language development (international languages) and literacy in families with deaf, hard of hearing or learning disabled infants, children and youth through the use of cued speech.

We see a world in which no person is needlessly blind or vision impaired. We are an international development organization focusing on blindness prevention and Indigenous Australian health. We are independent, not-for-profit, politically unaligned and secular.

Established to assure the compassionate care of patients near the end of life, by promoting the Nevada Polst program through which treatment decisions by patients or their legally designated representative regarding end-of-life medical care are honored in all settings. The primary ethical principles, which guide our activities, are: autonomy, justice, beneficence, non-maleficence and diversity.

Part of an international organization called L'Arche founded in 1964, L'Arche Atlanta was founded in 2012 and seeks to build community around the gifts of people with developmental disabilities and to sensitize the wider public to the gifts and contributions of people with disabilities.

The Tegan and Sara Foundation fights for health, economic justice and representation for LGBTQ girls and women. This mission is founded on a commitment to feminism and racial, social and gender justice. In partnership and solidarity with other organizations fighting for LGBTQ and women's rights, the Foundation raises awareness and funds to address the inequalities currently preventing LGBTQ girls and women from reaching their full potential. This work is critically important because… LGBTQ women have higher rates of gynecological cancer, depression, obesity, suicide and tobacco/alcohol abuse. Discriminatory laws, provider bias, insurance exclusions and inadequate reproductive health coverage leave 29% of LGBTQ women struggling to pay for health insurance. A quarter of lesbian women live in poverty. LGB women of color are three times more likely to live in poverty than their white peers. Transgender women are four times more likely to have a household income under $10,000 and twice as likely to be unemployed. One in five transgender women has reported being homeless at some point. Less than 1% of TV characters are lesbians. In 2016, 25 queer female characters were killed on-screen – continuing a decades-long trend.

The purpose of the Fund is to provide hearing devices for children with hearing losses between the ages of newborn and twenty years whose parents are unable to meet this special need financially. An estimated 100 children are provided with hearing devices each year. The Fund is the continuing philanthropic project of Job’s Daughters International. It is fully staffed by unpaid volunteers from throughout the United States and Canada. Total operating expenses are less than 5%. The HIKE Fund, Inc. is a not for profit charity incorporated under the laws of the State of Nebraska and registered with the Internal Revenue Service as a tax-exempt charity.

Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, Inc. supports Mexico-based migrant workers to defend and protect their rights as they move between their home communities in Mexico and their workplaces in the United States. With our binational, multilingual staff and geographic reach we have grown in response to increasing needs for its advocacy and services and seek to overcome the border as a barrier to justice.