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Center for Changing Lives (CCL) envisions a community where everyone thrives. Therefore, the organization partners with those held back by lack of resource and economic opportunity in order to uncover possibilities, overcome barriers, and realize their potential. CCL's work connects people, resources and opportunities to build households' economic capacity to achieve their goals. CCL partners with Chicagoans seeking to make a change in three core ways: coaching on financial, employment and resource mobilization goals that enhance lives, training and skill enhancement opportunities, and advocacy and organizing on economic policies and practices that open up opportunities and resources.

Founded in 2013, to provide temporary emergency shelter to the homeless in Lane County, Oregon. We operate four Safe Spot communities which give shelter to up to 20 people per night at each camp. Our program provides emotional support, through peers and staff, to connect with resources, make life improvements, and find permanent housing. We have also built and sited 60 Conestoga huts, mostly at churches, providing temporary shelter. For $165 a month, we can help one person out of homelessness. The cost of providing one temporary shelter, including staff support, is $3000 per year.

Friends supports innovative, solutions-oriented programs that help our vulnerable neighbors experiencing homelessness move from the streets/shelters into safe, stable housing and connect to the supports and opportunities they need to rebuild their lives. We focus on removing the final barriers of transition thatoften programs, and the people they help, don’t have the means to cover. The final transition steps out of homelessness are often the most crucial, and we help make them happen. Like a Parent/Teachers Organization or “Friends of” group, Friends bridges the gap between public sector funding and the needs of the homeless by providing a vehicle for individuals, businesses, foundations and charitable organizations to be a part of the solution to homelessness.

Madison House Autism Foundation's (MHAF) mission is to provide more support, more opportunities, and more hope, to adults with autism and their families. We accomplish this by partnering with passionate individuals, organizations, and governments to bring about creative, dynamic, and effective solutions that reshape possibilities for adults with autism. Madison House is one of the first and few organizations to focus on the needs of adults on the autism spectrum on a national level. MHAF is dedicated to creating awareness of the lifespan challenges faced by autistic adults and to finding, developing, and promoting the solutions that allow autistic adults to make choices, live as independently as possible, hold jobs, feel connected to their communities, and to become participating members of our society.

THE CORPORATION IS ORGANIZED FOR THE PURPOSE OF BENEFITING THE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN ("YWCA"), A NONPROFIT CORPORATION INCORPORATED IN THE STATE OF MICHIGAN PURSUANT TO THE MICHIGAN NONPROFIT CORPORATION ACT, MCL 450.2101 ET SEQ. (THE "MNCA"), TO ACT AS AN EXEMPT ORGANIZATION UNDER THE PROVISION OF SECTION 501(C)(3) OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE ("CODE"), OR OTHER SECTION OF THE CODE; AND IS ORGANIZED EXCLUSIVELY TO PROVIDE HOUSING FOR PERSONS WHOSE INCOME DOES NOT EXCEED THE LIMITS ESTABLISHED IN THE MICHIGAN STATE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ACT, ACT 346 OF 1966 AS AMENDED ("THE ACT"), AND IN GENERAL TO CARRY ON ANY BUSINESS IN CONNECTION THEREWITH AND INCIDENT THERETO NOT INCONSISTENT WITH THE ACT, AND WITH ALL POWERS CONFERRED UPON NONPROFIT CORPORATIONS BY THE STATE OF MICHIGAN.

Redemption Housing is a transformational recovery organization that offers faith-based programming and community support to Philadelphians coming out of incarceration and homelessness, guiding them toward healthy and meaningful lives. We seek to bring God's healing and restoration to those affected by incarceration and homelessness, holistically serving them as they transition back into the community, while providing a safe space where they can connect with social services, find meaningful employment, and locate long-term housing. Our vision is to be a network of recovery homes that provide safe, stable, structured, and sober living arrangements. Our residents will be proud of where they live, receive our ongoing support, and journey with each other into the care of the community.

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.

ASD currently operates four Special Care Facilities licensed by the Texas Department of Health: The Ewing Center, Revlon Apartments, Hillcrest House, and Spencer Gardens. ASD serves an average of 175 men, women and children in 152 total bedrooms within 125 privately configured units. Seventy-six percent (76%) of the agency's resident population are racial or ethnic minorities, 24 percent were women. One hundred percent (100%) of the people served by ASD are significantly below the federal poverty line and are classified either as low- or very-low income. The agency has provided more than 326,000 person/nights of housing to more than 1,100 individuals and family members living with AIDS. Along with a home and a mutually supportive community environment, residents at each facility are provided with a range of services individually tailored to empower them to cope with the cyclical impact HIV/AIDS has on people who are living with a disease that often compromises their complete independence.

Our mission is to provide educational services to people who are in need in Shelby County. Re-entry reporting is a separate component that we offer to inmates at the Shelby County Government: Divisions of Corrections before exiting the compound. Our goal is to empower and serve the greater good in Shelby County but are not limited to the needs of our city. We are investing in the citizens of Shelby County, City of Memphis and our next generation of youth and adult leaders. Our focus is helping families, the homeless, inmates incarcerated, and newly exiting offender population in need. We provide support, transitional services, staffing, operations, and management for Cooling/Warming Centers, Emergency aid and short term shelter options. Efforts are successful with community partners, sponsors, grants, fundraising, donations, food drives, coat drives, clothing, gently used furniture and so forth. We promote self-sufficiency, health & wellness, educational and advocacy programs. LHTF operates under four key values: Respect, Integrity, Compassion and Excellence.

Our Mission is critical: to authentically connect young people to safety, community and themselves. We envision a world where all young people's unique identities and talents complete and strengthen the social fabric of our community. New Day Youth and Family Services provides housing, life skills training and supportive services for young people ages 11-21 in Albuquerque (and from the surrounding areas) who are experiencing homelessness. Since 1976 New Day has provided shelter, food and clothing for youth who are homeless 24 hours a day, 365 days per year. We endeavor to continue building a continuum of housing support and pathways out of homelessness for teens and young adults who would otherwise have no safe place to live."

HCN's Mission is to decrease the trauma of homelessness and domestic violence,as well as to increase the strength and effectiveness of the HCN Collaborative. Homeless children and families are referred by HCN's collaborative of nineteen Emergency, Transitional, and Domestic Violence Shelters. Member shelters include: Hamilton Family Center, Hamilton Emergency Shelter, Hamilton Transitional Program, Asian Women's Shelter, Raphael House, Riley Center (Rosalie House and Brennan House), Richmond Hills Family Center, Tenderloin Childcare Center, St. Joseph's Village, Richmond Hills Family Center, Salvation Army-Harbor House, La Casa de las Madres, Homeless Prenatal Program, Connecting Point, DrawBridge, A Home Away From Homelessness, Families in SRO's Collaborative, Treasure Island Homeless Development Initiative (TIHDI) and Treasure Island Elementary School.

Our primary organizational goals and accompanying objectives are to build the capacity of families to become increasingly self-sufficient through comprehensive strategies that provide needed resources and opportunities for 1) high quality career planning and assessment services that encourage the selection of careers which are suitable to the individual and that pay a living wage; 2) education and training related to the chosen career and to life skills in general; 3) connections with potential employers and community members able to open doors to meaningful employment; 4) the removal of barriers to self-sufficiency; 5) facilitation of healthy family functioning; and 6) the empowerment of program participants to engage in self-advocacy. Project Self-Sufficiency also seeks to prevent the continuation of poverty from generation to generation through a series of interventions that support and educate families while modeling successful behaviors by adults for children.