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The Jesse Lewis Choose Love Movement™ is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization on a mission to create safer, more loving communities built on enriching connection, love, awareness, and resilience to proactively address the escalating surge of mental health challenges and hopelessness in our youth and communities. Born of tragedy, and a simple chalkboard message of Nurturing, Healing, Love; Choose Love is now a monumental beacon of hope offering revolutionary, evidence-based, character and social-emotional development (CSED) curriculum, mindsets, practices, and resources to transform and save lives across the world.

City Parks Foundation improves New York City's parks through innovative programming, connecting people to parks and creating healthy and vibrant urban spaces with a dedicated constituency of people to champion them. We work in over 800 parks citywide, presenting a broad range of free arts, sports, and education programs, and empowering citizens to support their parks on a local level. Our programs and community building initiatives reach more than 600,000 people each year, contributing to the revitalization of neighborhoods throughout New York City.

With forty six years of experience, South Shore Stars is one of the state’s most respected early education and youth development community-based organizations. Throughout the year over 1200 children, ages birth to 16 years, attend our Early Head Start program, family child care system, 3 preschool centers, 5 school age centers, middle school program, high school program and summer camp. We are committed to serving a diverse population, with an emphasis on supporting low-income parents and at-risk children. Four core goals form the foundation of our work. They are to: Enable parents to work Help each child reach their full developmental potential Facilitate positive youth development Improve academic achievement for students at risk of academic failure

Building a strong tomorrow by inspiring youth today Welcome to SowGoodNow, a 501c3 nonprofit organization that is growing the next generation of philanthropic athletes through the sports they love. Our mission is to: Engage and empower young athletes to share their time, talent, and treasure through the sports they love to benefit youth and communities and revolutionize the philanthropic world. We fulfill our mission by: TEACHING PHILANTHROPY by offering opportunities for service learning through sports; BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS IN DIVERSE COMMUNITIES and partnering with their leaders and the causes they support; INSPIRING ATHLETES TO CONNECT WITH THEIR PASSION by engaging them in a lifelong practice of giving and sharing with a spirit of generosity.

The Opportunity Network is an intensive, six-year program designed to equal the playing field for high-achieving, underserved high school and college students by creating access for them to career opportunities, professional networks and competitive colleges. The Opportunity Network believes influential networks are essential ingredients for success not emphasized in career development programs for youth, so we take an innovative approach by underscoring the power of personal connections and professional relationships as vital complements to skills and experience. Through interaction with executives, intensive networking training, coursework in careers, internships and college counseling, our students dramatically change the course of their futures.

At Rachel’s Gift Inc. we partner with hospitals to assist parents through the initial phase of infant loss through a base of caring and knowledgeable volunteers. We provide grief assistance for the families as well as a training program for nursing professionals and care-givers on companioning patients through infant loss. Our ultimate goal is to provide a healthy environment to begin the grieving process to minimize long-term psychological damage to individuals and their families experiencing infant loss while at the same time providing lifetime keepsakes of their child. These keepsakes will be a lifetime reminder and a physical connection to the child that was only in their arms a matter of minutes or hours.

Facing Cancer Together was started in 2009 by a group of clinicians dedicated to providing support services to people with cancer. We serve people with cancer and their families in the Greater Boston community. Our goal is to help people live the best quality of life possible while navigating through the cancer experience. We serve people with all types of cancer at all stages of the disease. Our mission is to provide support, wellness and educational services to all people affected by cancer, regardless of their capacity to pay. Through professionally facilitated programs, participants become part of a community that promotes hope, empowerment and connection to both the person with cancer and their loved ones.  

In 2010, we started Love is Louder with The Jed Foundation to amplify a simple message – love and support are louder than any voice that tries to bring us down. Our movement started at a time when there was a lot of anger and confusion online after a series of tragedies involving bullying. Six years later, hundreds of thousands of you have grown the movement around the world. We’ve relaunched Love is Louder as a community because we want to turn our message into action. We want individuals and communities all over the globe to commit to taking actions that make us all feel more connected and supported.

Minds Matter connects drive and determined students from low-income families with the people, preparation, and possibilities to succeed in college, create their future, and change the world.We believe a students zip code shouldnt limit their opportunities for college or life. No matter where our students are from, they have strong visions for where they want to go. We work every day to deliver progressive and tailored programs that empower dreams, cultivate growth, and tackle challenges. Because college shouldnt be a barrier it should be a beginning.We specialize in creating equitable access to higher education, but our true goal is to eliminate systemic inequities and create long-term impact for our students, their families, and society.

The mission statement of Just Enduring is to provide grief support to families and those who are close to the families who suffer the tragic death of a child. This support is encompassed in three main objectives: 1. Provide immediate resources to families and those who are close to the families who experience the loss of a child, including information about funeral arrangements, grief support, and other child loss and/or bereavement-related information. 2. Provide peer support to bereaved families and those who are close to the families in the form of connecting new and experienced bereaved families through dinners, visits and other events. 3. Provide group support to bereaved families through a multi-day retreat.

Their mission is to help create prosperity in the predominantly Latinx (a gender-neutral alternative to Latino or Latina), historically working class and immigrant communities in rural California that have typically been left out - or locked out - of the 21st-century digital economy. They help create prosperity through three synergizing strategies: 1) Helping Latinx youth ages 14-24 become “career-ready” and “career-competitive” for tech-involved jobs, 2) Paying youth to provide web development and video production services to help local businesses grow, and 3) Connecting their career-competitive youth with local and regional employers to fill those employers’ critical workforce needs.

We appreciate all donations of canned food, medicines and water, and will distribute those to all in need with the help of our allies. But we ask you to consider a monetary donation, which will enable us to tend other needs: buy fuel, contract local construction workers and, specially, implement community development projects P.E.C.E.S. fosters social, economic, educational development of individuals and communities in social disadvantage. The project began in Punta Santiago, Humacao in 1985 and has expanded its services to the eastern region of Puerto Rico. We want to inspire leaders, with special attention to youngsters, so they become champions of their own communities. Our work helps participants insert themselves into community processes and become protagonists of their own transformations. We do this through several programs tied to our three core service areas: education (including an alternative education high school); prevention services for at-risk populations; and entrepreneurship and development training.