Changing the way youth experience the foster care system in America.

Together We Rise is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization comprised of motivated young adults and former foster youth. Our vision is to improve the lives of foster children in America, who often find themselves forgotten and neglected by the public.

Together We Rise

The TJ Carrie Foundation provides a social-emotionally supportive community for children and families living with heart conditions

The mission of the TJ Carrie Foundation is to provide a social-emotionally supportive community for children and families living with heart conditions, while educating the greater community on heart health. In addition to inspiring youth to Dream Big through  education and physical activity.  

​When the NFL cornerback started his foundation in 2016, TJ’s goal was to help young people struggling with physical challenges, offering encouragement and advice to children and families dealing with health issues. Along with his wife, Ty’lsha, the foundation’s mission has grown to inspire all youths to establish and achieve big dreams. With signature programs and community events, the foundation provides a platform for TJ to be hands-on and engaged with young people and their families,  helping them overcome their problems and accomplish their goals.  The TJ Carrie Foundation’s approach is built on the pillars of faith, hope, courage, and love.

Being a professional football player being able to play the game is such a blessing for TJ each day and one that he does not take for granted. He dreamed about putting on those pads and helmet and playing under the Friday night lights, on Saturday afternoons, and even on to the NFL.

 As a 14-year-old freshman at Deer Valley High School in Antioch, California, TJ was hyped to begin his journey. On the first day of tryouts, his life changed forever. It was hot, and they were working hard. He was sweating and was having trouble catching his breathing … and then it all went dark.

TJ left the field in an ambulance and was transported to thehospital. The medical personnel stabilized him. But the doctors were stumped as to what caused his problem. It was a year later before they had an answer. TJ had a one-in-a-million birth defect where his right coronary artery was positioned between his lungs.

The doctors gave a now 15-year-old and his family two choices. He could give up any strenuous physical activity for the rest of his life, ending his dreams of playing football. Or TJ could undergo risky surgery to correct the problem. With the help of his family, he decided to take a chance, so he could keep alive his big dream of playing football. On Valentine’s Day 2006, TJ underwent open-heart surgery at Oakland Children’s Hospital.

He spent two months recuperating in the hospital, part of what became a year-and-a-half-long recovery. It was hard, scary, and challenging, but he was driven by his big heart and a relentless work ethic to achieve his dream.  He recovered and was finally able to play football as a senior at De La Salle High School in Concord, California, where the Spartans won a state championship that season. He went to Ohio University, where he played 50 games for the Bobcats and earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in sports administration. 

And his ultimate dream was achieved when Oakland selected him in the 2014 NFL Draft, beginning a pro career where he has worn the uniform of the Raiders, Browns, and Colts.

 

TJ Carrie Foundation

We provide snowsports for people with disabilities at Eldora Mountain Resort in Nederland Colorado. 

Our mission is to ignite personal growth, independence, and confidence in people with disabilities by providing adaptive winter snowsports opportunities.

Our History
In the 1970’s, ten passionate University of Colorado students saw an opportunity to enhance the lives of other CU students with disabilities, by providing them access to Colorado’s great winter sport of skiing. In 1975, this dedicated group gained permission from Eldora Mountain Resort to create an Alpine Adaptive Skiing program for ten athletes with disabilities. Since then, Ignite Adaptive Sports (formerly Eldora Special Recreation Program ESRP) has grown into a volunteer team of over 230 people serving over 300 athletes each year.

Today, outdoor sports enthusiasts of all ages and disabilities are welcome to take part in our nationally recognized program. Our dedicated team donates between 15,000 – 20,000 hours (worth more than $350,000 according to The Independent Sector) of their time and energy each year to provide private snow sport lessons to hundreds of people living with disabilities in Colorado. This includes wounded active duty and military veterans served through a US Paralympic Military Program Ignite developed in 2009, in collaboration with the U.S. Olympic Committee.

While other adaptive winter sport programs exist in Colorado, Ignite is the only comprehensive program located along the Front Range and the only program accessible by RTD’s public transportation system.

Our Work
All of us at Ignite believe everyone should be able to enjoy winter sports regardless of skill or ability level. We provide the best possible winter sports experience to each athlete we serve.

Our current offerings include alpine and cross-country skiing, snowboarding, ski biking, and snowshoeing opportunities. Full and half-day snow-sport lessons run from January through March and are held Thursdays through Sundays.

Our Athletes
Outdoor sports enthusiasts of all ages and ability level are welcome to take part in Ignite’s nationally recognized program. Ignite’s athletes range in age from 5 to almost 90 and have varying disabilities, including autism, cerebral palsy, missing limbs, paralysis, visual impairments, and post-traumatic stress disorder, with many experiencing more than one type of disability.

Our Volunteers
Volunteers are the key to Ignite Adaptive Sports’ success. They provide 100 percent of our lessons and support all other aspects of the organization – from program management to fundraising – contributing over 15,000 hours of their time, talent and energy, providing over 1,300 individual lessons to more than 200 people living with disabilities. Many Ignite volunteers have family members or friends who participate in the program and return to Ignite year after year.

 

Ignite Adaptive Sports

Redbirds Community Fund is a nonprofit organization focused on recreation, sports, leisure, or athletics. It is based in Memphis, TN. It received its nonprofit status in 2015.

Redbirds Community Fund

Community Sailing New Orleans Inc is a nonprofit organization focused on recreation, sports, leisure, or athletics. It is based in New Orleans, LA. It received its nonprofit status in 2010.

Community Sailing New Orleans, Inc. (CSNOI) positively impacts lives by providing accessible educational and recreational opportunities on Lake Pontchartrain for people of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities. Patterned after highly sustainable models and best practices adopted from the over 400 successful community sailing programs in other cities, CSNOI brings high-impact sailing programs to New Orleans. In May of 2022, CSNOI became one of 42 community sailing centers accredited to national standards by U.S. Sailing. 

Founded in 2010 by committed community leaders, the 501c3 organization secured a 65-year commercial lease with the City of New Orleans for a half-acre site on Lake Pontchartrain on the West End.  The Sailing Center is thoughtfully designed to ensure accessibility to everyone – all ramps are ADA compliant, the finger piers for the wet slips are wide enough for wheelchair accessibility, and transfer equipment has been installed into the docks.  Seven of the Independence 20s (20’ keelboats) are specifically designed for sailors with disabilities.  

CSNOI has programming for everyone with a special focus on youth, individuals with disabilities, veterans, and anyone facing economic barriers to sailing. In collaboration with local community partners, CSNOI has developed programs specifically designed to increase independence, improve communication, provide rehabilitation support, and promote workforce readiness skills including focus, goal setting, problem solving, and conflict resolution abilities. CSNOI’s current major social impact programs include STEM Design Build Sail for middle school students, Crew to Captain – a three-year maritime career pathways program for high school students, summer camp for ages 9 to 13 (with scholarship opportunities), a Special Olympics Unified Sailing Team, and veteran sailing. 

Community Sailing New Orleans Inc

An organization focused on recreation, sports, leisure, or athletics. It received its nonprofit status in 2020.

Serving Up Hope Inc

To encourage safe, vibrant public spaces, sustainable transportation and public health through a program of car-free street events.   Promover el espacio público seguro y animado, el transporte ecológico, y la salud pública por una programa de de acontecimientos de calles sin carros.

CicLAvia

MCS is building a home for circus arts on the near east side of Madison, WI. Come see a performance, take a class, or join a club!

Madison Circus Spaces fosters appreciation for and participation in circus and movement arts in the Madison, WI area by providing a practice space for performers and hobbyists.

Madison Circus Space

We serve more than 17,000 members at 35 Clubs in the greater Seattle area. Since 1943, #GreatFutures start HERE!

To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, and caring citizens.

Boys & Girls Clubs of King County

Soccer in Huron County communities. www.hcysc.org

The mission of HCYSC is to promote a safe environment for children and adults to enjoy the game of soccer.

Huron County Youth Soccer Club

We inspire girls to be joyful, healthy, and confident using a fun, experience-based curriculum which creatively integrates running.

Girls on the Run of the Bay Area

New York City’s YMCA is here for all New Yorkers — to empower youth, improve health, and strengthen community.

New York City's YMCA

Guardian Project

Promoting the bicycle for everyday transportation.

To transform San Francisco’s streets and neighborhoods into safe, just, and livable places by promoting the bicycle for everyday transportation.

San Francisco Bicycle Coalition

Utilize wellness benefits of boxing to transform communities, individuals and corporate teams, help them realize their potential.

Change. Some fear it. We embrace it. At Ironbound Boxing, our goal isn’t to churn out professional boxers. Our goal is to use the transformative powers of boxing to create champions both inside and outside of the ring. We’re all about bringing positive changes to economically- challenged communities and building stronger and more focused corporate teams.

Ironbound Boxing & Education

A holistic understanding of yoga to one and all !

Yoga Bharati is a non-profit, voluntary organization

Yoga Bharati USA

To use the unique power of rugby to empower and inspire youth, primarily from underserved communities, to Go Forward and realize their true potential.

Play Rugby USA

Dedicated to inspiring hope and providing a path to success for the area’s most at-risk youth.

Our mission is to reduce youth violence by connecting proven-risk young people with new networks and opportunities, including meaningful career tracks in and beyond personal training. We use the gym to replace segregation and isolation with economic mobility and social inclusion, disrupting the system that leads to urban street violence.

InnerCity Weightlifting

Of dedicated climbers who replace unsafe anchors and reduce the visual and environmental impacts of climbing.

The ASCA returns classic climbing routes to their original danger level by replacing deteriorating old fixed anchors, usually bolts, with modern camouflaged gea...r. We do not add bolts to make climbs "safer." Climbing is inherently extremely dangerous.  The ASCA has replaced over 8000 old bolts to date in Yosemite and many other areas throughout the U.S., mostly in the western states. For detailed information on the routes click here.  The ASCA has a wide selection of information on bolts, other fixed anchors, and climbing safety. For more information click here.  Help to preserve the cliffs and parks where climbers love to explore the vertical environment. To find out more about how to help, click here. Mehr anzeigen

American Safe Climbing Association

Hockey, Inc. offers an adaptive ice hockey program for both children and adults with a traumatic brain injury or intellectual disability.such as autism, Down, Cerebral Palsy etc.

Baltimore Area Special Hockey, Inc. offers an ice hockey program for both children and adults with a traumatic brain injury or developmental disability such as Autism and Down Syndrome .  The program provides participants the opportunity to play ice hockey in an environment adapted to each of their ability. Special Hockey is not only recreational but therapeutic. It emphasizes social interaction, self reliance, concentration and willingness to adapt to new experiences with a sense of accomplishment and pride.

Baltimore Area Special Hockey: Home of the Baltimore Saints

The Mission of The First Tee of Central Ohio is to impact the lives of young people by providing educational programs that build character, instill life-enhancing values and promote healthy choices through the game of golf.

First Tee - Central Ohio

Helping kids with developmental disabilities play ice hockey on an amateur level, and currently have over 30 players.

We are a 501(c)3 that is dedicated to helping kids with developmental disabilities play ice hockey on an amateur level, and currently have over 30 players.

San Diego Chill

TSYI Inc is focused on recreation, sports, leisure, or athletics. It is based in Stone Mtn, GA. Nonprofit status in 2015.

The Tommie Smith Youth Initiative is dedicated to nurturing the health, fitness, and educational development of youth, particularly marginalized children. Tommie believes that through the disciplined training required by track & field, athletics can serve as an effective vehicle for mentoring youth. Tommie Smith has traveled around the world providing technical assistance to communities engaged in uplifting young people, and he has motivated thousands of young people to embrace a healthy lifestyle.

Tommie Smith Youth Initiative

We are first generation college students and committed professionals that believe in the power and potential of Black&Brown youth

Holla Mentors is a culturally responsive mentorship organization that since it’s inception has fostered a community of socially active neighbors, local entrepreneurs and committed professionals willing to foster healthy relationships with children and teens who are economically challenged and significantly at risk within the structures of the educational system.

Holla Mentors

SNG offers unique, year-round programs and classes for children and young adults with special needs and disabilities. 

We are committed to strengthening the physical, mental, emotional, and social skills of our athletes and students through a variety of programs that promote a lifetime of achievements. SNG offers programs and classes in gymnastics, swimming, karate, cycling, fitness, cheer, life skills, dance, art, and music. Based in Texas, SNG reaches thousands of individuals annually throughout the United States and internationally. 

Special Needs Gymnastics (SNG)

Providing high quality athletic, academic and development programs to help youth reach their full potential.

Foster Park Sports

Empowering women to feel confident about their bodies by using fitness & physical movement as a way to build self-worth.

We’re in the midst of an epidemic. Our young women are bombarded with images and messages that glorify perfection as thin and beautiful.  In some instances, they also have inadequate education on the merits of healthy, active, nutritious living.  As a result, our young women are falling short--failing to realize how extraordinary they are. Instead they focus on everything they are not.  

Movemeant Foundation

Joyful anti-racist surf lessons for BIPOC 

Color the Water began as a way to fight racism after the murder of George Floyd. We wanted to fight racism with joy, so we started to offer free surf lessons and media for BIPOC in the LA area. Now we are a diverse, inclusive, anti-racist safe space for hundreds of BIPOC surfers.

Color The Water

Running for a Better Oakland is an organization that encourages Oakland students to develop healthy lifestyles through running. 

Running for a Better Oakland (RBO) is a non-profit organization that encourages Kindergarten-12th grade Oakland students to develop healthy lifestyles through running. By providing training and encouragement, RBO helps students build confidence and set goals, giving them tools for achievement and hard work they can draw on in all areas of their lives.

RBO strives to build a tolerant, healthy, and prosperous community. Through the discipline and rigor of a structured running program, RBO’s goal is to create new relationships, establish trust, build self-esteem, and empower students, parents, and volunteers.

Running for a Better Oakland

Pull Up Park Jam is a nonprofit community fitness organization. It received nonprofit status in 2015.

The World's Longest-Running Calisthenics Competition

THE WORD CALISTHENICS DERIVES FROM THE GREEK TERMS KALOS, MEANING BEAUTY, AND STENOS, MEANING STRENGTH.  CALISTHENICS IS A FORM OF EXERCISE IN WHICH PEOPLE USE ONLY THE WEIGHT OF THEIR BODY AS RESISTANCE.  BECAUSE OF ITS SIMPLICITY CALISTHENICS IS ACCESSIBLE TO A WIDER RANGE OF PEOPLE WHO DO NOT HAVE ACCESS TO A GYM.  ADDITIONALLY, WITH NO ADDED WEIGHTS, CALISTHENICS IS A SAFER LIFE-LONG ACTIVITY FOR PEOPLE FROM AGE 1 TO AGE 100.

O U R  H I S T O R Y:  T H I S  I S  W H E R E  I T  B E G A N 

THERE IS NO ORGANIZATION THAT HAS CULTIVATED THE CALISTHENICS COMMUNITY LONGER THAN THE PULL UP PARK JAM.  FOUNDED IN BROOKLYN, NEW YORK CITY IN 1998 BY RAY FUNN AND KEITH FIELDS, THE EVENT OPERATED AS A NON-PROFIT UNDER THE DIRECTION OF RODNEY "REDD" HARRISON.  THE PULL UP PARK JAM GREW TO BE THE LARGEST CALISTHENICS COMPETITION IN THE WORLD, ATTRACTING 100 COMPETITORS PER YEAR FROM COUNTRIES AS FAR AWAY AS JAPAN AND UKRAINE.  EVENTS AROUND THE GLOBE LAUNCHED TO EMULATE THE CAPTIVATING EVERGY OF THE PULL UP PARK JAM, WITH NOTABLE GLOBAL ICONS GETTING THEIR START IN CALISTHENICS THROUGH THE PULL UP PARK JAM.

O U R  H I S T O R Y:  T H I S  I S  W H E R E  I T  B E G A N  
THERE IS NO ORGANIZATION THAT HAS CULTIVATED THE CALISTHENICS COMMUNITY LONGER THAN THE PULL UP PARK JAM.  FOUNDED IN BROOKLYN, NEW YORK CITY IN 1998 BY RAY FUNN AND KEITH FIELDS, THE EVENT OPERATED AS A NON-PROFIT UNDER THE DIRECTION OF RODNEY "REDD" HARRISON.  THE PULL UP PARK JAM GREW TO BE THE LARGEST CALISTHENICS COMPETITION IN THE WORLD, ATTRACTING 100 COMPETITORS PER YEAR FROM COUNTRIES AS FAR AWAY AS JAPAN AND UKRAINE.  EVENTS AROUND THE GLOBE LAUNCHED TO EMULATE THE CAPTIVATING EVERGY OF THE PULL UP PARK JAM, WITH NOTABLE GLOBAL ICONS GETTING THEIR START IN CALISTHENICS THROUGH THE PULL UP PARK JAM.

THE PULL UP PARK JAM EXPANDED TO CHICAGO IN 2015 UNDER THE DIRECTION OF OMARI JINAKI.  THE CHICAGO EVENT ALONE HAS BECOME THE LONGEST-RUNNING CALISTHENICS COMPETITION IN THE WORLD.  THANKS TO COMPETITORS FROM NEW STATES AND NEW COUNTRIES, CHICAGO BECAME THE SECOND-LARGEST CALISTHENICS COMPETITION IN THE COUNTRY.   IN RECENT YEARS, THE FOCUS IS NOT ON MAKING THE EVENT LARGER EACH YEAR, BUT ON CONTROLLED, PURPOSEFUL GROWTH -- WITH JUDGING OBJECTIVITY AS THE PRIORITY IN CHICAGO.  YEARLY ENHANCEMENTS MAKE THIS THE MOST STRICT CALISTHENICS COMPETITION IN THE UNITED STATES, WHILE STAYING TRUE TO OUR ROOTS OF REACHING UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES.  THE CHICAGO EVENT MAKES ELITE CALISTHENICS ACCESSIBLE TO EVERY IN THE FREEDROM OF A PUBLIC PARK.

The Pull Up Park Jam is a 501(c)(3) non-profit (EIN: 30-0745794).  For more than 20 years the event has run solely on the financial contribution of the competition host(s).   There have been a small few financial contributors for which we are eternally and extremely grateful.  Additionally, there are also a few notable in-kind donors that provide their time to store equipment, build and upgrade equipment, move and set-up equipment.  Without this ongoing equipment storage, the Chicago Pull Up Park Jam, the only annual calisthenics competition in Chicago, would not exist at all.  The entire Chicago calisthenics community owes this donor and all donors immense gratitude.

We welcome others to learn more about our operations and financial expenditures to determine if they'd like to contribute financially or in-kind to offset the ongoing event costs. 

Every year, the annual costs to host the competition include:

* venue permit
* venue insurance & attendee personal injury insurance
* competition equipment and heavy-duty construction tools
* trucks and vans, gas, vehicle insurance, overnight parking (3 days)
* portable restrooms and sanitation
* pre-event overnight security
* electronics (outdoor generator, time clocks, extension cords, megaphone) 
* competitor apparel & design revisions
* trophies, medals, & awards
* website maintenance
* videography & photography
* staff as needed (equipment movers and judges)

CHICAGO PULL UP PARK JAM

All Paddle Battle

Soccer Chaplains United is a 501(c)3 dedicated to providing spiritual care, wise counsel, and meaningful service for soccer.

Soccer Chaplains United

The purpose of the Pickup Baseball Foundation is to build a community that provides inclusive access to the game of baseball.

There are no pickup baseball opportunities in the entire SF Bay Area except for ours.

Our strategy to build a community around inclusive access to baseball is to provide consistent weekly pickup baseball opportunities to everyone who wishes to participate in order to achieve our goals. At these events we actively practice optimism, focus on the enjoyable aspects of the game of baseball, and encourage inclusive access to it.

Our group is the only weekly pickup baseball group in the SF Bay Area and we are offering this service for free to the public. Our operations are frugal and scalable and present a facile and dependable way to improve the local community.

Our impact is measured in the length of our list of participant email addresses as well as the number and nature of personal responses at in-person events or through a google form on our website complement.

Pickup Baseball Foundation

Our mission is to make sport healing for all youth, everywhere, through training, consulting, and movement building. 

The Center for Healing and Justice through Sport (CHJS) is a national nonprofit organization working to ensure that more young people have access to sport experiences that are youth-centered, healing-centered, inclusive, and work to address issues of systemic injustice.
 
We believe that healing is a right for all. And through the wide appeal and accessibility of sport, we’ve found it is the ideal environment for healing-centered and justice-oriented philosophies. This work changes the lives of not only participating athletes, but their families, their communities, and the world at large.
 
If you believe that all sports should be healing and that all kids deserve equal access to sports we humbly ask for your support.

The Center for Healing and Justice through Sport

Raising awareness of systemic racism and racial disparities in the United States through virtual fitness challenges. 

beneFIT Fitness Challenges is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit that raises awareness of systemic racism and racial disparities in the United States through fitness challenges. Many American citizens stand against racism, but do not know how to get involved. At beneFIT, challenge participants can promote social equality simply by moving their bodies. Also, many Americans are unaware of the deeply rooted issues that have perpetuated systems of control for people of color and other marginalized populations for centuries. beneFIT aims to educate others about social injustices by tying the amount of activity and the funds donated to statistics about social injustices that exist today.

beneFIT is focused on painting a picture of the broad, overarching ways in which systemic racism manifests in our modern society so includes challenges that highlight multiple aspects of racial injustice and racial disparities. Participants track their activity using their fitness watch (Apple Watch, Garmin, Fitbit, etc.) and submit their activity on social media. That activity is then turned into a donation that we make to an organization whose mission aligns with the issue we are highlighting that month. 

beneFIT emphasizes the importance of participants' engagement within their physical community and the e-community. Participants are encouraged to explore connections to social injustices where they live and share their experiences/reflections with others via social media which connects participants to the cause on a deeper, more personal and emotional level. As a result, participants are then equipped with the most powerful tool to facilitate real growth and change in our society: a story to be told, a conversation to begin.

beneFIT

To create “best of the best” experiences and opportunities for youth soccer players through our clubs, events and facilities.

San Jose Surf Soccer Club soccer is a 501(3)c non profit organization dedicated to the development of youth soccer. We are passionate about using soccer to make a difference in our community and in the lives of our children, so we mobilize volunteers and stretch every dollar to have a bigger impact. But our ability to achieve our goals is hampered by inconsistent funding, and that’s where you come in!

Your donation helps us:

Provide the consistent, reliable programs that our community needs
Reduce player cost to participate per year
Enable us to better plan our programs and initiatives for maximum impact and efficiency
Allow us to focus our resources on our mission

Bay Area Surf dba San Jose Surf

ISMP increases access to sports and music education for kids in shelters, schools, and underserved communities all over the world.

ISMP works with some of the most vulnerable individuals in the world. In underserved schools, shelters, and refugee camps, children and their families are facing profound mental and emotional trauma. Beyond a general lack of funding for children’s programs, many individuals we serve also suffer as victims of human trafficking, abuse, and other atrocities. 

The positive impact that comes from a child participating in a sport or music activity that they are passionate about is vast and well-documented. Outcomes include the opportunity for kids to have a fun and constructive use of their time, to make friends and be mentored, to learn how to handle the emotions of winning and losing in a safe space, and the positive effects it has on physical and mental health. It also serves as a welcome distraction from the extreme challenges children are facing, and comfort to parents who are not able to provide these opportunities to their children without support. 

We are narrowing the resource gap to ensure that kids, particularly those in vulnerable communities, have access to people and activities that will make them feel supported, comfortable, and fulfilled. Through sports and music programs, children can find relief, expression, and joy. 


International Sports and Music Project

Teachers. Schools. Mentors. Support for local non-profits providing innovative education to transform communities out of poverty.

Give901 wants to see all children in Memphis given the building blocks of an empowering education:
INNOVATIVE SCHOOLS
EXCELLENT TEACHERS
AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAMS + MENTORING

By giving all children these opportunities, we’ll build the next generation of leaders and innovators—and a stronger, more equitable city that will continue its legacy of creativity, grit, and innovation.
To support this vision, we’ve created Give901, a way for Memphians to invest in local nonprofits that are doing life-changing, city-building work through education. We’ve assembled a portfolio featuring some of the city’s most effective educational nonprofits, and you can invest in their work. Each Give901 partner has a track record of producing measurable outcomes for the teachers and children they serve.

Let’s come together to support the frontline in Memphis education.

Let’s give the change we want to see in this city.

INNOVATIVE SCHOOLS
Memphis has come a long way toward providing educational options to all students.
Each Give901 school is located in an underserved community and primarily serves
minority students. Give901 schools are changing the Memphis educational
landscape and producing students who are ready for life-long success.

EXCELLENT TEACHERS
Give901 teacher training programs produce outstanding teachers with some of the
best retention rates in the city. Teachers impact over 3,000 students during an
average career. We’re investing in that impact.

AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAMS + MENTORING
Give901 after-school programs enrich, educate, and provide formative mentoring
relationships, positively impacting grades and graduation rates. Students who meet
regularly with mentors are 55% more likely to enroll in college. Give901 is confident in the
difference these programs can make in the lives of the kids of Memphis.

By donating to the Give901 campaign (which falls under the City Leadership 501(c)3) your gift will then be distributed across our portfolio of non-profit partners. We have vetted this programs for effectiveness and curated this group with the deliberate intent to utilize your generosity to create a holistic approach to supporting the future leaders of Memphis.


Give901

 National Mill Dog Rescue rescues, rehabilitates and re-homes retired commercial breeding dogs.  More than 13,000 dogs have been rescued (and counting...)

MISSION STATEMENT:  National Mill Dog Rescue is a 501(c)(3) located in Peyton, CO.  Our mission is to rescue, rehabilitate and rehome discarded breeding dogs and to educate the general public about the cruel realities of the commercial dog breeding industry.  National Mill Dog Rescue was established in February 2007, in honor of a forgiving little Italian Greyhound named Lily. Theresa Strader, NMDR’s Founder and Executive Director, rescued Lily from a dog auction in Missouri. Prior to that day, Lily had spent the first seven years of her life as a commercial breeding dog, a puppy mill mom. Determined that her years of living in misery would not be in vain, Strader started NMDR, giving a voice to mill dogs across the country.  During her years as a breeding dog, Lily spent all of her days confined to a small, cold wire cage in a dark, foul-smelling barn. Never was she removed from her cage for exercise or socialization. In her dreary confines, Lily was forced to produce one litter after another with no respite. Like all commercial breeding dogs, she was a veritable breeding machine whose worth was measured in only one way - her ability to produce puppies.  By seven years of age, Lily was worn out. Commonplace in the industry, she had received little to no veterinary care throughout her life, the result of which, for her, was terribly disturbing. Due to years of no dental care, poor quality food, rabbit bottle watering and no appropriate chew toys, the roof of Lily’s mouth and lower jaw, had rotted away. Her chest was riddled with mammary tumors and she was absolutely terrified of people.  Strader brought Lily and twelve others home from the auction and declares that even for a highly seasoned rescuer, the following months were the education of a lifetime in rehabilitation. That she would take up the cause for the mill dogs was never in question and National Mill Dog Rescue was promptly underway. In five short years, NMDR has amassed over 1,300 volunteers and has rescued over 10,000 puppy mill survivors.  Run almost solely by volunteers, NMDR has pledged to put an end to the cruelty of the puppy mill industry. Through widespread informative efforts, NMDR hopes to educate the public to acquire their companion animals through reputable breeders or better yet, from shelters and rescue groups across the country.  After her rescue, Lily spent the remainder of her life as a beloved member of the Strader family where she received medical care, warmth and companionship. In time, Lily found courage and her disfigured little body educated countless people about the horrors of the puppy mill industry. Lily died peacefully in the arms of her loving family in May 2008, fifteen months after she was rescued.

National Mill Dog Rescue

Provides the foundation for the sport of ice hockey in America; helps young people become leaders, even Olympic heroes; and connects the game at every level while promoting a lifelong love of the sport.

USA Hockey, Inc., is the National Governing Body for the sport of ice hockey in the United States. Its mission is to promote the growth of hockey in America and provide the best possible experience for all participants by encouraging, developing, advancing and administering the sport.  USA Hockey’s primary emphasis is on the support and development of grassroots hockey programs. In January 2009, the organization launched the American Development Model, which, for the first time ever, provides associations nationwide with a blueprint for optimal athlete development.  While youth hockey is a main focus, USA Hockey also has vibrant junior and adult hockey programs that provide opportunities for players of all ability levels. The organization also supports a growing disabled hockey program and maintains an inline hockey program to provide structure and support for its growth across the nation.  Beyond serving those who play the game at the amateur level, USA Hockey has certification programs for coaches and officials to ensure education standards are met that coincide with the level of play. Furthermore, a large focus is put on parent education with equipment needs, rules of the game and parental roles in youth sports among common topics.  Members of the organization are entitled to many benefits, including a subscription to USA Hockey Magazine, the most widely circulated hockey publication in the world; excess accident, general liability and catastrophic insurance coverage; access to USAHockey.com; and opportunities to participate in USA Hockey National Championships, as well as player development camps.  USA Hockey is the official representative to the United States Olympic Committee and the International Ice Hockey Federation. In this role, USA Hockey is responsible for organizing and training men’s and women’s teams for international tournaments, including the IIHF World Championships and the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. Closer to home, USA Hockey works with the National Hockey League and the National Collegiate Athletic Association on matters of mutual interest.  USA Hockey is divided into 12 geographical districts throughout the United States. Each district has a registrar to register teams; a referee-in-chief to register officials and organize clinics; a coach-in-chief to administer education program for coaches; a risk manager to oversee liability and safety programs; and a skill development program administrator to facilitate learn-to-play programs for youth players and their parents.

USA Hockey

OGQ is committed to supporting deserving and talented Indian sportspersons with an aim to help them win Olympic Gold Medals.

 Olympic Gold Quest: Powered Mary, Vijay, Saina and Gagan to win a medal at London 2012. Supporting athletes for glory at 2016-2020 Olympics

National governing body of the sport of taekwondo in the United States.

USA Taekwondo’s mission is to enable U.S. athletes to achieve sustained competitive excellence and promote and grow the sport of Taekwondo.

USA Taekwondo

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Philadelphia Union

To provide after-school opportunities for children in the community to become involved in athletics.

Our Mission:  To provide after-school opportunities for children in the community to become involved in athletics, so that they may learn the basic character traits of accountability, teamwork, leadership, work ethic and perseverance while in a safe and supervised environment with their peers.

JJ Watt Foundation

National governing body of lacrosse.  Twitter: @USLacrosse... Instagram: @USLacrosse YouTube.com/USLacrosse SnapChat: @USLaxSnaps Mehr anzeigen

Through responsive and effective leadership, US Lacrosse strives to provide programs and services to inspire participation while protecting the integrity of the game.

US Lacrosse

Helps children develop healthy lifelong habits through fun, outdoor winter activity.

Founded in 1997, WinterKids helps children develop healthy lifelong habits through education and fun, outdoor activity.

WinterKids

Unifies the lacrosse community to sustainably improve education and health while creating hope and opportunity for children in need.

Lacrosse the Nations was founded under the principal that developing community and promoting education is the best pathway out of poverty and toward a better life. Lacrosse the Nations partners with schools in impoverished communities around the globe to introduce lacrosse and other after-school recreational activities to encourage fun and health, build self-esteem, and to improve educational enrollment, attendance and graduation rates for the kids there. Lacrosse the Nations aims to foster valuable mentor relationships while teaching critical life skills on and off the playground.  Lacrosse the Nations strives to unify the lacrosse community by creating this shared space of stories and opportunities to serve and give back through the game. Whether it be through Lacrosse the Nations' specific projects, or through projects run by other organizations, our website and network of support is here for those organizations that share our values.

Lacrosse the Nations

Athletes Serving Athletes (ASA) is a non-profit organization that brings people together to experience the joy, excitement, and thrill of competition. ASA offers innovative athletic training, supportive mentor relationships, and high quality endurance events for athletes living with disabilities. ASA uses athletic activity as a catalyst for personal development---improving physical fitness, increasing self-esteem and empowering challenged youth to meet their highest potential. We inspire all people to give of themselves and live more active lifestyles, pursuing a high quality of life and achievement.

Athletes Serving Athletes

Community bicycle shop and resource for the Truckee Meadows. We ensure that every individual, regardless of age, gender, race, or class has the ability to afford, maintain, and enjoy a bike.

RBP is a 501(c)(3) non-profit community bicycle shop and resource for the Truckee Meadows. We ensure that every individual, regardless of age, gender, race, or class has the ability to afford, maintain, and enjoy a bike.

Reno Bike Project

The Iowa Bicycle Coalition builds safe and enjoyable networks for bicycle recreation and transportation.

To build partnerships education Iowans, and help establish safe and enjoyable bicycle recreation and transportation networks across Iowa.