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Casa de Esperanza mobilizes Latinas and Latin@ communities to end gender-based violence. We were founded in 1982 when a small group of Latina activists created an emergency shelter for Latinas who were denied domestic violence services from mainstream systems. For 38 years, we have served a highly marginalized population in culturally relevant ways that translate to greater safety, community connectedness, and self-sufficiency for Latin@s who experience domestic violence, sexual assault, and trafficking. Our work builds and leverages the communities’ strengths, cultural assets, and leadership to shift beliefs and behaviors within family and social networks, which we believe will create the conditions and solutions for thriving.

The Family Tree leads Maryland in preventing child abuse, connects caring communities, and builds strong families to improve society for generations. We educate and empower parents to help them make good decisions when raising their families—the ultimate result is to help children. More than 30,000 people receive help through our evidence-based programs and parenting classes each year. In addition, we provide professional training, community education, and advocacy for legislation that prevents child abuse and neglect.

The Anchor Foundation is a faith-based non-profit organization dedicated to strengthening and preserving relationships between children and their non-custodial parent during divorce. As an anchor on tumultuous seas, they serve as a transitional resource to children and parents addressing their spiritual, emotional and financial needs. They provide a range of essential services, based upon need, that help anchor fathers and children including setting up new bedrooms for children in their new home, connecting families with counseling services, and offering financial support to specifically ensure continuity of children’s activities.

Lincoln disrupts the cycle of poverty and trauma, empowering children and families to build strong futures. Lincoln provides a unique array of comprehensive programs and services for some of the Bay Area’s most vulnerable populations. Lincoln’s approach is simple: provide children with support and services as young as possible and make a continuum of programs available to them during their school years and through to graduation from high school. We go one step further to ensure their success by providing services to strengthen and engage the family and the community around them. This is how Lincoln disrupts the cycle of poverty and trauma, empowering children and families to build strong futures. Only Lincoln provides personalized care through integrated programs focused on education, family and well-being.

Pathways to Safety International empowers victims of interpersonal & gender based violence abroad. Pathways undertakes the global challenge of assisting victims who are enduring extreme suffering in isolated situations where support seems minimal and many obstacles block the path to safety. Services are provided 24/7/365 via technology on a global scale to American victims of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, stalking and forced marriage. This is achieved via an international toll free crisis line, 833-SAFE-833, accessible from over 120 countries, serving a population estimated at 9 million American civilians living overseas, 80 million Americans traveling overseas, and the 450,000 American military personnel and their dependents.

Lori Hartwell founded Renal Support Network (RSN) in 1993 to empower people who have kidney disease to become knowledgeable about their illness, proactive in their care, hopeful about their future and make friendships that last a lifetime. Lori was diagnosed in 1968 with kidney failure and knows how important hope, peer connection and knowledge is to survive and thrive with an illness. RSN’s hopeful and life-enriching, non-medical programs help people who have kidney disease and their families, whether they are in the early stages of the disease, are on dialysis, or have received a transplant. People we connect with come to see kidney disease in a totally different light – that although it’s difficult, it is manageable. We help them recognize the need to take control of the course and management of their illness through storytelling. Learning from another patient’s experience and point of wisdom to live successfully and navigate care is vital for success. An Illness is too demanding when you do not have hope. RSN strives to make a lasting and positive difference in the lives of people with kidney disease and ensure that healthcare professionals and regulatory agencies legislative leaders that serve us hear what our needs are to have the best care and health possible.

We believe every child deserves a lifelong, permanent connection. We believe that people raise children, not systems. Through this belief, we have created our Promise of Permanency. For every child that enters a Boys & Girls Aid program, we promise to prepare youth for permanency, advocate on their behalf for permanency and help them find resources for their permanency. Permanency means a lifelong commitment between and with an adult and child. By providing each child with a permanent committed adult, they will receive the guidance, stability and emotional support needed to be a successful adult in their community.

JCC Ranch Camp is committed to providing a resident camping experience for youth that enables campers, staff and families to strengthen their Jewish identity, become more caring and responsible members of society, and connect with the natural world. In fulfilling its mission, the JCC Ranch Camp provides: Innovative learning opportunities for children and staff members in an environment that challenges growth in mind, body, and spirit, a safe place for children to be cared for by qualified professionals, with a commitment to safety, supervision, customer service and Judaic programming, and opportunities for children and adults to experience a nurturing community based on judaic values.

Pact is a different kind of adoption organization—honest, child-centered, and anti-racist. Since 1991, Pact’s mission has always been to serve adopted children of color. In every case, the child is always our primary client. In order to best serve children’s needs, we provide not only adoptive placement but lifelong education, support, and community. Our goal is for every child to feel wanted, honored and loved, a cherished member of their communities with proud connections to their cultural heritage. We advocate for honesty and authenticity in matters of race and adoption.

Helping kids cope with cancer… Mikey’s Way. Our Mission at Mikey’s Way Foundation is to enrich the lives of children suffering from cancer and other life threatening illnesses. The Foundation strives to create CONNECTION and DIVERSION to help children cope with the emotional and physical hardships of long term, debilitating treatment. We accomplish this with the use of today’s technology – laptop computers, tablets, iPod Touch and other Wi-Fi ready electronics. We distribute these electronic gifts using both our Mikey’s Way Day and Mikey’s Wish List Programs.

Kids First Law Center gives children a voice in divorce and custody conflicts by providing focused legal representation and services to kids. In individual cases, Kids First's goals are to improve parents' communication and co-parenting, lessen the amount of conflict that children are exposed to, connect families with needed services, and make children's voices heard. Kids First also designed and offers educational workshops to children of divorcing parents. Parents can also find common ground in joint parenting sessions and can exchange their children with each other peacefully at Kids First's offices.

Created by caregivers for caregivers, the Alzheimer’s Family Support Center provides free personalized services to the 10,000 families, individuals, and caregivers on Cape Cod currently living with Alzheimer’s and other dementia-related diseases. Free services include outreach, supportive family and individual counseling, care consultation, connection to other available service organizations, education, support groups, community events and activities, and a dementia-trained Volunteer Corps. Our goal is to help families navigate the complexities and challenges they face across the span of these diseases, within a research-based, service driven social model.