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The Children’s Lifesaving Foundation (CLF) is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization, dedicated to transforming the lives of under-served, BIPOC youth and houseless families living in shelters and transitional housing in Los Angeles through a unique approach of providing outdoor education through amazing Summer and Surf Camps, inspiring Holiday Events and awesome Field Trips in and around Los Angeles, and Educational Assistance and Scholarships for youth through to college-age. We are also currently providing Emergency Funding during the COVID-19 Crisis to the families in our Vita Network. Over 85,000 underserved and houseless youth and families have been served through our programs since 1993…

Better Health 4Kids is a local non-profit care program serving low and moderate income families with children. Better Health 4Kids is not an insurance. Our mission is: Fostering access to preventive healthcare and advancing evidence based prevention and education for the optimal health of children and their families. We accomplish our mission through three programs: The Children's Health Fund providing temporary financial assistance to families with uninsured and underinsured children so they may access preventive health care from a Pediatrician; evidence based projects implemented in a Pediatric practice to improve the quality of health care delivery and standardization of practice; and collaboration with academic institutions in the implementation of research to improve the health of children and their families.

To help children and families construct and sustain a healthy foundation for the future. Empowering Children and Families advances our mission by providing a comprehensive “roadmap" unique to each family's strengths and challenges. The roadmap engages the entire family, requires demonstrated positive improvement, and provides much needed supports in the areas of mental health, education, social development, and family values. 100% of Empowering Children and Families funding comes from individual donors, community foundations, and corporate partners. This strategy leaves us free from government bureaucracy and political agendas. In the first year ECF will serve five families in the greater Bridgeport area. The staff of four is donating all of their time in the first year to supporting the mission of ECF.

Covenant House California (CHC) is a non-profit agency whose mission is to reach out to at-risk homeless youth living on the streets and offer them hope and opportunities to turn their lives around. We help abused or neglected youth who have nowhere else to go. A large number have been thrown out of their homes while others have aged out or left the foster care system with no family, no support, and no one to turn to. Since 1988, CHC has impacted the lives of more than 160,000 homeless youth out of our Los Angeles and Bay Area locations. More than 80% of our funding comes from private donations.

The MIELKE Foundation was formed in 2017 with the purpose of providing financial support and programs for children in the foster care system, and to offer support for MIELKE employees and family members, as well as those of our partners, vendors and clients, who may be experiencing hardships based on health or other difficult life circumstances.The MIELKE Foundation is a 501c3 charitable entity funded through a portion of our annual profits. The foundation holds an annual charity fishing tournament to benefit local charities who help the more than 6000 foster children in the Tampa Bay area. In addition, our supporters and volunteers take these children on fishing trips throughout the year so they can experience the great outdoors while fishing and learn independence, teamwork and self-confidence.

John T. Holzum Memorial Foundation was created to continue the tradition of giving set forth by my father, John T. Holzum. He was a man of great integrity and character. He gave of himself relentlessly while being a great husband, exceptional father of six children, owning a business, serving as president of a school board, and serving as Faithful Navigator of his Knights of Columbus council. John T. Holzum Memorial Foundation produces events to raise funds for a variety of benefactors. Country Family Reunion benefits the USO of Missouri, and Mission Possible benefits Professor Craig & Shari Miner's mission trips to foreign orphanages to assist children with disabilities. The foundation funds a variety of special needs cases, including sending underprivileged children to Summer camp, buying Christmas presents for homeless children, and purchasing a violin for a young aspiring musician. The foundation will start a scholarship for two graduating high school seniors beginning in 2018. We intend to serve more causes as our foundation grows! John T. Holzum Memorial Foundation's staff have worked together for a decade to serve the needs of many in our community, and a wonderful support group of volunteers rounds out the family the makes our foundation a success! John T Holzum Memorial Foundation recently received the USO of Missouri FIVE STAR AWARD in recognition for years of fundraising and donations to USO of Missouri/Southern Illinois. Please visit HolzumFoundation.org for additional details, and support opportunities. Committed to continuing a tradition of giving, John T. Holzum II - President & Founder, John T. Holzum Memorial Foundation

Their mission is to improve the care and quality of life for children with cancer and offer support to their families. We focus our efforts on three main areas: Supporting the financial, physical, and emotional needs of families through our programs. Serving as an advocate and resource in the community for childhood cancer. Funding cutting edge research to help find a cure for childhood cancer. We carry out our mission through our Aid and Service Programs: Patient Aid Program – helps pay medical or household bills provide gas and grocery cards, repairs the family car to assist in getting the child to treatment, helps purchase bus and plane fare when treatment is far from home, help cover the cost of alternative therapies, and supplements not covered by insurance, and helps with funeral expenses when a child earns their wings. Parents often miss working to care for a critically ill child. Eventually, it’s hard to pay bills so Megan’s Wings Patient Aid Program steps in to help. We work directly with medical social workers who help identify families in need. Megan’s Home - provides temporary housing so families can stay close to the hospital while their child goes through long term treatment such as bone marrow transplant. Adopt a Family Program - provides care packages to families in need over the holidays. Special Events and Hospital Service Program hosts therapeutic events and luncheons for patients and their families in and outside the hospital setting. Our Research Program - funds cutting edge childhood cancer research through organizations such as the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, St Baldrick’s Foundation, and City of Hope to help find better treatments and cures for childhood cancer.

Chaparral Diamond Club - the object of this club is to support the year round baseball program of Chaparral high school in order to foster national or international amateur sports competition, including, for such purposes, the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code of 1986 (or the corresponding provision of any future United States internal revenue law). Support will include providing funds, encouragement, promotion, and assistance to the baseball program at Chaparral high school. At no time will interference or influence be deemed a purpose of this club, but rather the club shall cooperate fully with the coaching staff in supporting baseball for our youth. Membership in the club does not guarantee a spot on the team or guarantee playing time for a student athlete. Team rosters and playing time are solely at the discretion of the baseball coaching staff.

Lucky Orphans Horse Rescue is dedicated to providing a safe haven for unwanted, abused, neglected horses and to improve the relationship between horses and people. We are committed to raising funds to support the rescued horses in our care and will pursue the acquisition of grants, gifts, bequests and donations to support the organization. We are a no-kill rescue striving to promote humane treatment. Our goal is to properly unite humans and horses in a safe environment, using approved methods to preserve the best equine care through informative and instructional guidance, education and administration, adhering to the understanding of the need for the preservation of rural equine communities. We are not breed specific and promise each of our horses will never again know the abuse, neglect, abandonment or other injury that brought them to our facilities.

Ayden’s Army of Angels provides resources financial and nutritional, to any families effected by Pediatric Cancer.We also know the importance of creating memories, so we host a variety of events throughout the year, not only to bring awareness, but to provide families the opportunity to create lasting memories. Our primary funding has come from Ayden himself. Prior to Ayden’s passing we raised 265k to seek him alternative treatment. Before we could get to those options, Ayden passed. I have taken the remainder of Aydens GoFundMe and opened the Foundation. Since September of 2017, I have issued over $30k in grants to Cancer Families. We have also hosted several parties and events for the families all at no cost to them.

Our mission is to elevate the quality of life through human enrichment experiences for families that have children with life-altering conditions. 25 years ago, Kidd and Carol Cradick had a seemingly-routine sonogram for a naturally-conceived, otherwise normal pregnancy. But for Carol, it wasn’t the outlined image of her unborn baby that worried her. It was the unnerving description from the OB/GYN. Before long, they understood the possible complications this child could face following her birth. Even somewhat positive readings from future sonograms couldn’t shake the fear that their daughter may never walk or leave a wheelchair. Fortunately, Caroline Cradick was born healthy. It was then that Kidd made a commitment to help families whose outcomes vastly differed from their own. As with the birth of their own miracle, Kidd’s Kids was born: a charity devoted to families touched by tragedy or disease, families who rarely saw a smile on their children’s faces, families who struggled with serious economic strangleholds due to the high cost of medical care and deserved a few days of happiness. 
 Initially, the program began as a bus ride to Sea World in San Antonio, Texas. During the charity’s infancy, the Cradick’s struggled with a lack of experience and funding. However, thanks to the volunteer efforts from medical professionals, nurses and physical therapists, as well as the Kidd Kraddick Morning Show listeners’ willingness to embrace and fund the trip, Kidd’s Kids started growing at an exponential rate. As Caroline grew healthy and matured, so did Kidd’s Kids. She would eventually go on to fulfill her destiny as the face and executive director of Kidd’s Kids. By this time, the charity had evolved to feature a full charter plane trip to Disney World. To this day, the charity remains a family affair - a family that includes all of the children, their loving care-takers and families, and the Kidd’s Kids staff working in tandem. Together, they create memories that most thought were impossible. For this, Kidd Kraddick and Kidd’s Kids, shall always be remembered.

The overall mission of Blue Hope is to raise funds, resources, social awareness, and provide other support for a variety of self-sustaining social development projects and programs, both domestically and abroad, in order to effectively fight social injustice at a grass roots level. As of its founding, Blue Hope is primarily focusing on working with education, poverty, and children’s issues in Tanzania, East Africa and has done so by constructing and supporting a residential and educational facility and its outreach program. House of Blue Hope pulls kids off the streets and puts them into a safe living and learning environment. With such access to one of the top schools in the country, the current and future residents of the House of Blue Hope will be provided with top-notch educational opportunities in a country in which only about 12% of the population receives a secondary education. Furthermore, the facility has become a large part of the local high school’s community service program, as well as a catalyst to keep alumni involved and connected after graduation.