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We create positive change for women and girls through grant making, advocacy, research, and leveraging collective impact.

To feed and empower those we serve to move beyond the lines of poverty.

Established in 2004, Garden State Equality (GSE) is the largest LGBT education and advocacy organization in New Jersey and one of the most successful statewide civil rights organization for the LGBT community in the nation. Our services include advocacy, policy work, and trainings. Our signature programs are: Map & Expand, Pledge & Protect, and Teach & Affirm. In collaboration with community partners, Garden State Equality led efforts to ensure nondiscrimination for transgender people and gender nonconforming people in New Jersey, we passed the most comprehensive anti-bullying law in the country, ended sexual orientation and gender identity/expression change efforts in New Jersey (sometimes called conversion therapy), and brought marriage equality to the Garden State! All our current work is informed by racial, economic, and disability justice concerns. We are working to address safe environments for youth, improvement of health services that meet LGBT community needs, and respectful treatment of seniors. Beyond that, Garden State Equality supports New Jersey's activist community by bringing an LGBT lens to the shared struggle for justice. Garden State Equality Education Fun, Inc. is a member of the Equality Federation, a non-profit under the IRS Code Section 501(c)(3), and has achieved a platinum seal of transparency from Guidestar (See https://www.guidestar.org/profile/20-2588166).

Old Newsboys' Goodfellow Fund Of Detroit was founded in 1914 by James Brady to ensure that "No Kiddie Goes Without a Christmas" by providing a package containing clothing, books and toys.  Over 35,000 children receive packages each holiday season.

The Dalton Bacco "Living the Dream Fund" strives to provide children in foster care (primarily youth living in a group home or RTF) a positive adult connection that will offer assistance in life skills and other emotional supports as they transition into adulthood. These youth do not have anyone, other than a caseworker, to guide them. Our organization also offers fun and exciting events that the child may not have gotten the chance to experience

SILICON VALLEY SOCIAL VENTURE FUND’S (SV2) MISSION IS TO UNLEASH THE RESOURCES AND TALENTS OF THE SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY TO ACHIEVE MEANINGFUL SOCIAL IMPACT. SV2 WORKS TO BUILD THE ORGANIZATIONAL CAPACITY OF OUR NONPROFIT GRANTEES AND IMPACT INVESTEES AND THE PHILANTHROPIC CAPACITY OF OUR DONORS (CALLED "PARTNERS"). SV2 DOES THIS THROUGH ENGAGED GRANTMAKING IN A NUMBER OF ISSUE AREAS WITH FUNDS CONTRIBUTED BY OUR DONOR-PARTNERS.

NRA Special Contribution Fund provides education and training in firearms safety, marksmanship, and wildlife conservation. The Whittington Center was built near Raton, New Mexico to expand educational, recreational, and shooting activities. The Whittington Center is open to all members of the public.

Every 14 seconds, a child is orphaned by AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. Nyumbani serves these abandoned children in Kenya, providing a loving home, medical services and community-based care in the slum communities of Nairobi. Nyumbani Village is a self-sustaining community to serve orphans and elders who have been left behind by the "lost generation" of the AIDS pandemic.

Our mission is to reawaken respect in our society for the sake of the next generation.