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OUR MISSION IS TO SERVE, EMPOWER AND TRANSFORM CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS BY PROVIDING BASIC NEEDS, CAMPS, YOUTH DEVELOPMENT, LEADERSHIP TRAINING, MISSION TRIPS AND LIFE-CHANGING EXPERIENCES. WE SERVE CHILDREN IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS, ACROSS THE UNITED STATES AND AROUND THE WORLD, RECOGNIZING EVERY CHILD DESERVES THE CHANCE TO ACHIEVE THEIR HIGHEST POTENTIAL.

Girls Health Ed is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization which seeks to educate adolescent girls about their health and well being. Our mission is to empower girls worldwide to make healthy and informed choices throughout their lives. We do this through a workshop-based program with five modules covering the full spectrum of health education. Our modules are nutrition, body image, physical activity, personal care; hygiene, and reproductive health. By focusing on low-income girls and young women who are not able to obtain information about their changing bodies from their school or home environments, we can instill confidence through knowledge. We use health education to maximize the positive impact that girls and young women are able to have on their communities and empower them to change their lives for the better.

The mission of the Children's Attention Home is to providing nurturing care and life-changing services for youth and families in need. Since 1970, the Children’s Attention Home has provided nurturing care and life-changing services for over 8,500 of the community’s most vulnerable youth and families. Primarily serving teens ages 13+, the Home comes alongside every youth, meeting them where they are, investing in their strengths, and preparing them for the journey ahead. Through the Home's residential and day service programs, youth up to age 21 in SC foster care and young adults ages 17-20 facing housing instability receive the attention and care they need to pursue healthy independence and sustainable success. For more information about the Children’s Attention Home and ways to support, visit attentionhome.org or call 803-328-8871.

Mindfulness without borders aims to positively impact youth and their educators by shaping their social, emotional and character development.

To provide personal and professional development for teenagers who face social and economic barriers that impact the quality of their lives

Our mission is to create tomorrow’s socially conscience leaders through participation in and facilitation of community improvement projects.

Seeds in the Middle, named by fourth graders in central Brooklyn, inspires parents, educators, students and their community to access all opportunities beginning with improving their health, enhancing arts education and greening their environment. We are joyful, respectful, educational and engaging. We nurture the whole child. Our innovative strategy to fight obesity and combat health disparities initiates at schools. We weave proven programs into a comprehensive package to turn around ills driving down opportunity and advancement. We empower and educate all to get healthy and scale disparities. Our pilot Hip2B Healthy schools are in central Brooklyn, a neighborhood with one of New York City's highest obesity, diabetes, and heart disease rates. Our programs are models for replication. We have run community farmers markets and founded Soccer for Harmony tournaments, inspiring social change through soccer. We are proud to boast that our focus 4th grade class test scores in 2012 surpassed the citywide average! At Seeds in the Middle, we partner with faculty. We teach how to grow, market, access and prepare nutritious food, how to exercise and engage in the arts, all the elements needed to promote life-changing lifelong health. Our partners come from all walks of life: chefs, athletes, educators, artists, builders and more. We cross cultures. We transform gray into green, destitution into inspiration.

Global Camps Africa changes the lives of South Africa's vulnerable children and youth by providing HIV/AIDS prevention education and training through high impact residential and day camp experiences and continuing education, equipping young people with the life skills that will support them in becoming safe and productive adults who have hope for the future.

Alliance for Girls is the largest regional alliance of girls' organizations in the country. We represent 100+ organizations that collectively support 300,000 girls and young women across the San Francisco Bay Area. Our mission is to mobilize girls' champions to address barriers facing girls, create conditions for their success, and advance systemic change to achieve equity.

Founded in 1975, Congregation Emek Beracha (formerly known as the Palo Alto Orthodox Minyan) is changing the South Bay! Silicon Valley is exploding with opportunity and is attracting Jews from all over the world. Because of the massive influx, our shul is continuously growing and therefore taking steps to spearhead the creation of a strong, thriving Jewish community.

Empower, through learning, the next generation of change agents to positively impact the future of Africa. Studies have shown that girls’ education is one of the most cost-effective strategies for promoting development & economic growth. Our mother-daughter intervention model helps keep girls in school & promote improved health outcomes.

Our mission is to provide children with strong and enduring professionally supported 1-to-1 relationships that change their lives for the better, forever.  We partner with parents/guardians, volunteers and others in the community and hold ourselves accountable for each child in the program achieving: Higher aspirations, greater confidence, and better relationships; Avoidance of risky behaviors; Educational success