Ensures that all eligible immigrants understand and have access to the path to citizenship.

With a singular focus on increasing the naturalization rate in Massachusetts and beyond, Project Citizenship transforms the lives and futures of immigrants in the U.S.!  Our free legal services have enabled over 10,000 permanent residents to achieve U.S. citizenship since 2014.  By accepting the rights and responsibilities of citizenship, our new citizens achieve expanded opportunities, greater economic stability, family reunification, a voice in our democracy, and a deeper sense of belonging in this country.  We all benefit when immigrant groups are not isolated but are full participants in our social and civic life, creating more cohesive communities.

Project Citizenship focuses on those who would not be able to naturalize without assistance through the complex and lengthy process. We coach, we encourage, we inform, and we advocate for each client with the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Service (USCIS) - from application to Oath of Allegiance.  We submit requests for waivers of the USCIS application fee and for special consideration for clients who are older or who have a disability. The Project Citizenship community includes over 1,000 attorney volunteers and many local organizations who partner with us. Our clients have a remarkable 95% success rate in achieving citizenship.  Our work is at the intersection of economic vitality, civic engagement, and social justice.

Project Citizenship

Our mission is to lower the suicide rate and prevent homelessness in the veteran population.  

Formerly known as Operation Combat Bikesaver. Our flagship program is what we call "Hotrod Therapy," which teaches veterans the skills and techniques to rebuild an old beat up motorcycle and create the bike of their dreams.  Through this distractive therapy veterans also get to work through their problems and end up "rebuilding" themselves as well.  We have seen some great men and women go through incredible changes in this program.  The veteran then gets to keep their project at no cost, and they usually end up sticking around to help mentor the next veteran through the process.  
While we are most known for our Hotrod Therapy program, we offer a variety of programs to improve the lives of veterans that served their country.  The "On Your Feet" program helps veterans going through hard times.  Our weekly veteran peer support group "Lima Charlie" meets every Thursday and gives veterans a safe space to workshop their problems with like-minded individuals who have been through similar experiences.  Our F.A.T. Program, or "Fitness and Tranquility" helps veterans to live a healthy, active, and peaceful lifestyle, which can be an adjustment to some.  Just to name a few.
100% of your donation goes to helping veterans, whether that be a part for their motorcycle build, getting them a safe ride to work in the morning, or enabling them to make positive impact in their community.  
We do not believe in just "raising awareness."  People are definitely aware.  We are making a positive impact.  

Operation Charlie Bravo

Through sport, Special Olympics is building communities of acceptance and inclusion for all people. 

Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community.

Special Olympics

In east Louisville which integrates occupational and physical therapy with hippotherapy and aquatherapy.

Green Hill Therapy is a non profit organization in east Louisville which integrates occupational and physical therapy with hippotherapy and aquatherapy.

Green Hill Therapy, Inc.

Committed to stamping out muscular dystrophy

Strongest Hearts is so excited to have you here.  We founded Strongest Hearts in 2022 after our son’s diagnosis with Becker’s Muscular Dystrophy.  BMD is an incredibly serious disease that affects the muscle systems of young boys and men.  Like the more common and more severe Duchenne’s, it is progressive and life threatening.

Strongest Hearts intends to end that threat.  Our non-profit is designed to exclusively work to find a cure or treatment, educate and advocate for this deadly disease.  DMD is the number one killer for adolescents in the US and we search to find a solution that will help over 90% of the DMD and BMD community.  

Like so many people and families, we have felt fear, anxiety and hopelessness and have received massively conflicting data from doctors and websites.  It is time to stop that cycle and move towards a day when we can say that a diagnosis of any muscular dystrophy, while unsettling, is no longer a tragedy.  We truly believe that we have the people, the skill and the technology to end this scourge once and for all.  

Join us in our fight.  Many Hearts, One Mission

Strongest Hearts Foundationis a project of Players Philanthropy Fund a Maryland charitable trust recognized by IRS as a tax-exempt public charity under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code (Federal Tax ID: 27-6601178). Contributions to Strongest Hearts Foundationqualify as tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law. 




Strongest Hearts Foundation

Provides highly trained assistance dogs to people with disabilities and ongoing support to ensure quality partnerships.

We provide expertly-trained assistance dogs for children, adults and veterans with disabilities. Six assistance dog training centers in CA, FL, NY, OH and TX.

Canine Companions for Independence

An organization focused on providing human services. It received its nonprofit status in 2021.

Summit Community Center

Building specially adapted custom homes for severely injured Veterans nationwide.

To build and donate specially adapted custom homes nationwide for severely injured post – 9/11 Veterans, to enable them to rebuild their lives.

Homes For Our Troops

Fistula Foundation focuses exclusively on delivering fistula repair surgery because of its enormous impact.

With each surgery we provide, we know that we can help change one woman’s world forever. And we know that the ripple effect of her restored health—on both her family and community—is profound.

Fistula Foundation

Whose mission is to fund specialized medical and psychological care for severely wounded and disabled Colombians who are victims of the war against drugs and terrorism.

UFC is a non-profit organization whose mission is to fund specialized medical and psychological care for severely wounded and disabled Colombians who are victims of the war against drugs and terrorism.

United for Colombia

The American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) is a convener, connector, and catalyst for change, increasing the political and economic power of people with disabilities. As a national cross-disability rights organization, AAPD advocates for full civil rights for the over 60 million Americans with disabilities by promoting equal opportunity, economic power, independent living, and political participation. Learn more at www.aapd.com.

American Association of People with Disabilities

The Dyslexia Reading Center Of Central Pennsylvania, based in Pine Grove Mills, focuses on helping those with dyslexia. 

Dyslexia Reading Center Of Central Pennsylvania

We strive to empower individuals and end stigmas regarding addiction, HIV, HCV and mental illness.

We provide comprehensive services to assist people in achieving their highest level of personal empowerment.

Our programs include:
- Syringe Services
- Prevention, Care & Navigation Services
- Vaccinations

One Voice Recovery

ADMH provides an interdisciplinary medical clinic for those with developmental disabilities.

Individuals with developmental disabilities will have access to comprehensive health and wellness without barriers.

ADMH provides comprehensive, coordinated, person-centered healthcare for teens and adults with developmental disabilities. We strive to empower individuals and their families to become advocates for their own health and wellness needs.

Adult Disability Medical Healthcare

We support education, safety and wellbeing of vulnerable children by training local young adults as their tutors.

History of Toa Nafasi
"Nova was sexually abused as a child multiple times starting at the age of six. As a boy child, he had neither the comprehension nor the language to report to a parent or teacher. Growing up with the secret and shame, he learned child sexual abuse is common place in his community. And children with disabilities are twice susceptible to abuse and violence. Studies show 1 in 3 girls and 1 in 7 boys will experience sexual violence between the age of 2 and 17. Additionally, 1 in 3 students enrolled in grade 1 have a learning disability of some kind. With this knowledge, he went on to start Linda Community to address abuse and violence and later fold the organization with a learning disabilities project. This birthed Toa Nafasi Foundation – a locally led organization building the capacity of local young adults to support vulnerable children in public primary schools. 

Why Toa Nafasi
Tanzanian education doesn’t treat each child as an individual with diverse aptitudes and learning styles. The curriculum for primary schools barely encourages and supports children from early age and grade to develop strengths, overcome challenges, and cultivate creativity.  In 11 public primary schools in Moshi we have surveyed in 2020, we have learned 30 percent of grade 1 students have a learning disability. In a community where 1 in 3 girls and 1 in 7 boys are likely to experience sexual violence (According to a 2009 National Survey on Violence Against Children), children with disabilities are twice vulnerable to violence.

The goal of Toa Nafasi Foundation is therefore to enrich the classroom experience, create a linkage between school and home, unleash children self protective skills and offer a chance to succeed for both student and tutor.

Toa Nafasi addresses three major infrastructural challenges in Tanzania. The first problem is the lack of special education information and programming in the Tanzanian public school system. Nearly 30 percent of students have a learning difficulty don’t respond to standard educational methods. Without effective special education pedagogies in place, these students are often stigmatized as disobedient, lazy, or stupid. The second is the lack of comprehensive body safety education and support in the school system that help students build their ability to protect and prevent abuse and violence. 1 in 5 children experience violence before they are 18 years. And those with disabilities are twice vulnerable. Without taking drastic measures, the children will continue to experience violence with multiple short and long term impacts. The third problem Toa Nafasi addresses is widespread lack of opportunity for young adults. Tanzanian youth under 30 make up over 70 percent of the population yet unemployment rate is 11. 5 percent.

Vision
A day every Tanzanian child grow up in a safe and healthy environment and is provided a chance to receive quality education that recognizes and fosters individual talent and celebrate uniqueness

Mission
	
We enhance and support safety, well being and education of vulnerable children by professional and personal development empowerment of formally unemployed young adults as their tutors

Our Approach

The Toa Nafasi model is a three-tiered approach of assessment, referral, and curriculum modification that build the asset of young adults and enhancing community relations. In assessment, our tutors observe all the children enrolled in grade 1 for social behaviors, adaptive abilities, and motor skills as well as test them for literacy, numeracy, and cognitive skills to get a full picture. In referrals, we work with health professionals and institutions to treat those pupils whom we have identified are struggling due to medical, psychological issues or experiences of trauma. In curriculum modification, tutors work with children who are struggling to reach their potential to help them complete the standard Tanzanian curriculum in a modified context. We've also modified the curriculum to include personal body safety curriculum for children.

Our programs

Toa Nafasi recruits young adults from the local community, and provide them professional development support on child protection and learning disabilities. The young adults work full time as tutors supporting public primary school students with learning difficulties and at risk of abuse and violence.

Each year, the tutors assess students enrolled in grade one to identify children with experience of trauma and with learning difficulties. Then follows a Referral stage where students identified with medical and psychological challenges are taken to care and treatment facilities. The young adults then provide tutoring and psychosocial support in child friendly spaces, and through play.

An important component of the program is community engagement, where the tutors work with families of the vulnerable children, school administrators, justice system, and community development and education offices to better support the vulnerable children, to promote safety, wellbeing and address the stigma often surrounding abuse, violence and learning differences.

Toa Nafasi provides the students with the education and holistic support services, and the young adults that run the program with employment. The impact is not only empowering individual students with age appropriate knowledge and support, but also giving the young adults a meaningful role in the community.


Toa Nafasi Foundation

Under The Same Sun helps people with albinism overcome often deadly discrimination through education and advocacy. 

In many parts of Africa, people with albinism are misunderstood, mistreated and even attacked or killed. We work for a day when people with albinism will take their rightful place in every level of society and the days of discrimination will be a faint memory.

Albinism is a hereditary condition that results in a lack of pigmentation in skin, hair, and eyes.

This inherited condition is characterized by a lack of the pigment melanin, resulting in pale skin, light hair, pale eyes and impaired vision. Both parents must carry the gene in order to pass it on, but they may not have albinism themselves. Although in Europe and North America approximately 1 in 20,000 people has albinism, the rates are higher in Africa, with about 1 in 1,400 occurrences in Tanzania.

The term “Person with albinism” is preferred over “albino” as it puts the person ahead of their condition.

In Tanzania, people with albinism are called zeru zeru, meaning “ghosts.” It is assumed by some that these “ghosts” bleed a different color, or even that they are immortal. These dangerous beliefs incite the brutal attacks against people with albinism. A baby born with albinism may be considered a curse and be killed.

Witchdoctors take advantage of the ignorance and superstitions, fueling beliefs that people with albinism possess magical qualities. They spread the lie that the body parts of people with albinism used in charms and potions bring wealth, power and good luck.

Under The Same Sun

United Ability envisions a world where disability is neither defining nor limiting.

United Ability's mission is to provide innovative services connecting people with disabilities to their communities and empowering individuals to live full and meaningful lives.  We envision a world where disability is neither defining nor limiting.

For more than 70 years, United Ability has addressed the medical, social, educational, therapeutic, and employment needs of individuals living with disability in the Birmingham Metro Area and surrounding counties. From birth through senior years, individuals - and their families - find hope for a life they may have never thought possible. 

United Ability

Working with partners in Quang Tri Province, Vietnam to remove unexploded ordinance, reduce casualties and assist victims.

American aircraft dropped over 5 million tons of bombs on Vietnam– the largest bombardment of any country in history– and more than twice as much tonnage as the U.S. Air Force dropped in all of World War II. Over 4 million tons fell on the mostly rural areas of the former South Vietnam, plus 400,000 tons of napalm and 19 million gallons of herbicides.

Since 2008, RENEW has found, removed, and destroyed over 105,000 cluster bombs and other war explosives in Quang Tri Province. In 2020 that total was 8,546, and rapid response teams responded to 645 emergency calls from local people in villages.

Quang Tri Province is about 43 miles square– smaller than the State of Delaware– with a population of rural farmers and two small towns. Yet it was pummeled by the most intensive aerial bombing of the Vietnam War– including widespread carpet bombing by B-52 bombers– making it by far the most bombed province in Vietnam. Besides the 750- and 500-pound bombs delivered by aircraft, many of which remain in the ground unexploded, Quang Tri suffered intense land battles that left the surface littered with a seemingly limitless number of every type of bomb used in ground combat, from cluster bomblets and artillery shells to hand grenades, rockets, mortar rounds and mines. Together they make Quang Tri the most bombed place on earth.

RENEW also collaborates with local government, community organizations, and teachers’ unions to deliver risk education programs to school children and adults. Artificial limbs and assistive devices have been given to more than 2,000 war amputees in the province hospital and by a mobile team in the remotest villages. In addition, RENEW provides micro-credit loans and other income support to families affected by explosions and runs six vocational facilities for blind war victims.

Agent Orange is now being addressed through cooperation between the government of Vietnam and the U.S. government.  Dioxin cleanup of key hotspots is underway.  Support and interventions, in the homes of severely disabled persons suffering from problems related to Agent Orange, is the next step in bringing closure to this painful tragedy.  Project RENEW is preparing to step up to that challenge as well.

Friends of Project RENEW is an active, all-volunteer U.S. organization that works closely with Project RENEW to advance its work in Vietnam, including inspiring support and increasing public awareness of RENEW’s goals and activities. It the main conduit for individual donations to operations in Vietnam. FPR does not take any portion of contributions as an administrative fee or management overhead.

Project RENEW website (Vietnam side): https://landmines.org.vn/

Friends of Project RENEW

Harmony Theater is an organization focused on performing arts for people with disabilities based in southeastern PA. 

Harmony Theater

Serving the nearly 65,000 people in Colorado and Wyoming living with epilepsy.

The Epilepsy Foundation of Colorado and Wyoming is the leader in connecting, educating, and empowering to make a difference in the lives of everyone impacted by epilepsy.  We connect people to healthcare providers, support networks, and mental health resources. We educate schools, employers, and the community at large, to reduce stigma and raise awareness. And we empower people affected by epilepsy with knowledge, resources, and advocacy to live their best lives.  We are a non-profit, charitable organization, designated as a 501(c)3 by the IRS (tax ID 84-0607069).

Epilepsy Foundation of Colorado & Wyoming

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

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

Family To Family Network creates success for children with disabilities by empowering their families with knowledge & support.

Family to Family Network creates success for children with disabilities by empowering their families with information, training, referrals and support as they navigate the complex education, health care and social service systems.

Family to Family Network believes that ALL children should be included and supported in our schools and community in order to ensure the future success of children with disabilities. 

F2FN transforms lives by helping people discover possibilities, see potential when others see barriers, and advocate for what their children need to achieve their dreams.  By changing attitudes and mindsets about disabilities, our organization changes lives to make sure every individual gets to live THEIR best life.

By 2031, Our Goal is to Help 25,000 Families See Possibilities in their children with disabilities!
You can help us reach our goal by:
1) Supporting the development of a bilingual learning platform where families can access training at their own pace;
2) Providing intensive case management to families in underserved communities, especially our communities of color and those that are non-english speaking; 
3) Updating & maintaining our bilingual website that provides accurate & consistent information on the special education process;
4) Subsidizing our annual conference for 500 family members & youth with disabilities. 

Through these services, families and individuals with disabilities have an opportunity to network and learn from one another.

By working together, we can create communities where ALL children belong and excel!
Help create success for children & youth with disabilities!

OTHER INFORMATION:
There are over 127,000 students with disabilities receiving special education services in the greater Houston Region 4 Education Service Center area.  This does not include those receiving accommodations only through 504 plans or children who are home schooled or in private school placements.

Last year, Family to Family served families with the primary disability labels of:
59% Autism Spectrum Disorder
16% Intellectual Disability
10% Other Health Impairment
7%   Orthopedic Impairment
6 %  Deaf/Hard of Hearing, Blind Visual Disability, Deaf Blind
2%   Learning Disability

The age ranges of the children in the families that we serve are:
2%      Age 0-3
10%    Age 3-5
22%    Age 5-11 (elementary)
12%    Age 12-15 (junior high/middle school)
19%    Age 16 – 18  (High School)
8%      Age 18+  (18+ High School)
27%    Adults (Out of School)

The ethnic diversity of the families served are 19% Black, 31%White, 33% Hispanic/Latinx, 15% Asian and 2%  identified as Two or More.

29% Request help with the Individualized Education Program (IEP) special education process. 28% Request help finding resources in the community.  39% Needed help navigating Adult Service systems, Medicaid Managed Care or Social Security.

Family to Family helps families understand their rights & responsibilities, while also aiding them in understanding the right words to use, right place to look, right person to connect with when trying to find services & supports for their children with disabilities.  

Education is the only FREE service available to children with disabilities.  Adult services are not free, and there are over 150,000 Texans with disabilities waiting over 10 years for long term services & supports.  That is why it is imperative for children with disabilities to receive the necessary supports and services at school so that they can become contributing members of our community and live meaningful lives after high school.









Family To Family Network

Whistler Adaptive Sports offers a full range of adaptive sports programs and a dynamic learning centre in Whistler, BC. Canada. 

For over 20 years, the Whistler Adaptive Sports Program Society has been removing barriers to adventure for people with disabilities and neurodiversity, offering a full range of adaptive sports programs and a dynamic learning centre in Whistler, BC. Canada. We currently operate in Squamish, Whistler, Pemberton and Mount Currie. We also serve locals from across B.C. and visitors from Canada and around the world. 
 
Whistler Adaptive is committed to introducing individuals with a disability to sport, recreation and therapeutic sport programming. Whistler Adaptive supports sport for life by breaking down the financial, physical and social barriers as well as creating skills that will lead to future employment within sport and beyond. Whistler Adaptive empowers individuals through access to one of the world's best mountain resorts, providing them with the environment, support and opportunity to become physically active and focus on their abilities rather than disabilities. Programs are accessible to both children and adults with cognitive and physical disabilities. 

Whistler Adaptive serves locals in its community and visitors from across Canada and around the globe. All activities are run in a safe and supportive environment, allowing athletes to learn at their own pace. We pride ourselves on being able to change lives through the innovative sports programs we offer and the help we provide. Whistler Adaptive paves the way by increasing knowledge of adaptive sports through training and coaching clinics and values the consistent support that we receive from our volunteers. We seek to remove barriers to adventure and learning by training athletes with a real sense of passion. OVER 20 YEARS, 18 SPORTS PROGRAMS AND GROWING… The Whistler Adaptive Sports Program Society has been in operation for over 20 years with a record 3,000+ lessons taught in 18 adaptive sports. Through generous donations, we allocate resources for equipment and volunteer training to work with a range of individuals and athletes. Alpine skiing and racing, snowboarding, Nordic skiing, hiking and trail riders, hand-cycling, biking, canoeing, kayaking, rowing, swimming, triathlons, running, yoga and gymnastics are all part of Whistler Adaptive programming and our philosophies on "Grassroots to the Podium" and "Sport for Life". How we do it...The people here at Whistler Adaptive feel that sport builds socialization, leadership skills, healthy growth and development for everyone, whether they have just acquired a disability or have been active all their lives. By providing access to a vast number of sports across the winter and summer seasons, we are opening doors to endless opportunities and creating new levels of independence for individuals with disabilities. 

Whistler Adaptive Sports Program Society

We are a grass roots 501(c)3 family ministry.

Our hearts are to partner with the Lord to restore hope to the heartbroken and show His love to the world through our various outreaches.

Love That Surpasses

We sponsor programs for literacy, injury prevention & education for Native American youth, primarily living on the Navajo Nation.

Eve’s Fund is a small non-profit organization with a big mission: to promote hope and wellness for young Native Americans living on the Navajo Nation in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah.

We accomplish this mission through our injury prevention, literacy, and educational scholarship programs. We also provide funding to local organizations and programs that share our vision.

Eve’s parents, Dr. Bob Crowell and Barbara Crowell Roy, started Eve’s Fund for Native American Health Initiatives in 2005 as a way to honor the memory of their daughter, Eve Erin Crowell. Since that time, we have developed a strong community presence and our programs have had a positive impact on over 63,000 Navajo children and teens.

Eve’s Fund is a 501 (c)(3) organization incorporated in New Mexico. Our team includes health educators, VIP speakers, consulting partners, volunteers, and a Board of Directors. Barbara Crowell Roy, Eve’s mother, oversees all programs and daily operations.

Eve's Fund for Native American Health Initiatives

The Disability Rights Fund mobilizes resources to strengthen and diversify disability rights movements globally.

DRF launched in 2008 to resource the shifting paradigm about disability from charity to rights. Through grantmaking, advocacy, and technical assistance, DRF supports organizations of persons with disabilities (OPDs) in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, and the Caribbean to use global rights and development frameworks—such as the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Sustainable Development Goals— to address inequality and achieve rights and inclusion. 

DRF is committed to an intersectional approach, including addressing intersecting identities of gender, sexuality, race, indigeneity, and disability, and strongly believes that a successful disability rights movement must include leadership by people who are marginalized and underrepresented within the disability community. Not only are there unique challenges faced—such as limits on sexual and reproductive health and rights and higher incidence of violence—but there are unique opportunities for leadership. 

Since 2008, DRF and its sister fund, the Disability Rights Advocacy Fund (DRAF), have supported over 400 OPDs across 39 countries to advance nearly 1,500 rights campaigns. We believe that by mobilizing technical, human, and financial resources to support OPDs, we are better positioning persons with disabilities to lead the disability rights movements in their local and national contexts, and to bring disability to the fore of intersectional global conversations. 

Disability Rights Fund

Committed to supporting autistic individuals to achieve their maximum potential, while building connections for a happy life

Optimal Rhythms uses our unique neurologic approach to provide a therapeutic K-12 day school, ACCESS Academy; our A2A K-12 and adult virtual education programs; and an innovative Summer "CAN-Do" Camp for student with complex communication, motor, and sensory needs. We challenge communities to #rethinkautism by providing valuable training to equip parents and professionals to best support the sensory and communication needs of nonspeaking individuals.  Our Rethinking Autism Programs bring crucial training and resources to parents/caregivers, teachers, therapists, medical professionals and first responders.  We help those who care for nonspeaking children and adults to recognize their true potential, provide effective supports and accommodations, and afford them the human rights we all enjoy. Individuals who gain access to our programs experience acceptance, hope-giving opportunities for a true academic education, and meaningful connections with their peers and families. Will you help us extend our reach to more deserving students and families?


Optimal Rhythms / Access Academy

Physicians for Peace brings quality education to surgical care providers around the world. It received nonprofit status in 1994.

Physicians for Peace is dedicated to educating and empowering local providers of surgical care, to alleviate suffering and transform lives in under-resourced communities around the world.  

For 35 years, Physicians for Peace has brought long-term, sustainable, replicable, and evidence-based training to underserved communities, helping them to sustainably build local capability and capacity.

We believe access to quality surgical care is essential to transforming lives in communities around the world.

We believe in the exponential impact of education to empower.

We build local capacity through training, not service provision.

We work through partnerships, by invitation and in collaboration.

We respect diverse cultures and traditions.

We emphasize being relevant and adaptable, prioritizing locally identified needs and sustainable interventions, over our own supply of volunteers or donor mandates.

We innovate, through use of new technologies and ongoing technical support.

We commit to monitoring and evaluation; holding ourselves accountable.

We value learning.

Physicians for Peace

Transforming the lives of people with autism and those who care for them through lifetime services and collaborative partnerships

Els for Autism Foundation was established in 2009 by Liezl and Ernie Els. The Els’ son, Ben, is impacted by the disorder which affects 1 in 44 children in the U.S. The world-class pro golfer and his wife have devoted their efforts to a game-changing, philanthropic undertaking – The Els Center of Excellence® Center. The Center is a world-class, 26-acre campus that is home to three distinct nonprofit organizations: Els for Autism Foundation, The Learning Center, a tuition-free, nonprofit, Palm Beach County public charter school serving students ages 3 – 14, and The Learning Academy, a tuition-free, nonprofit, Palm Beach County public charter school serving students ages 14 – 21. 

The Foundation offers innovative, evidence-based programs for families and individuals across the lifespan in three areas of focus: Early Intervention & Education Services, Recreation Services, and Adult Services. Els for Autism Foundation serves families around the world, offering programs and services both virtually and in person at The Els Center of Excellence campus in Jupiter, Florida. 

Your generous donation will help provide services to individuals with autism and their families.  Our staff uses evidence-based practices to guide the development of new and effective ways to provide services and support to individuals of all ages on the autism spectrum.  - Where possibilities are endless - 

Els for Autism Foundation

Habitat for Humanity NWMA is a nonprofit org serving Cobb, Douglas, & Paulding GA, giving a hand up through decent shelter.

In 1985, Chrys and John Street met Millard Fuller, who challenged them to start an affiliate of Habitat for Humanity in Cobb County, GA. They distributed brochures to local churches and gathered 12 people to form a Board of Directors. On April 1, 1986, Cobb County Habitat for Humanity was officially incorporated as an affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International. In 2008, the organization expanded to include Douglas and Paulding counties and the name changed to Habitat for Humanity of Northwest Metro Atlanta. Since 1986, over 500 homes have been built, rehabilitated, or repaired as part of our pursuit to provide decent, affordable housing in Cobb, Douglas, and Paulding counties. 

We are driven by the vision that everyone deserves a decent place to live, and our mission states that: "Seeking to put God’s love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope." 

Our principles are to: 
1. Demonstrate the love of Jesus Christ.
2. Focus on shelter.
3. Advocate for affordable housing.
4. Promote dignity and hope.
5. Support sustainable and transformative development.

Non-proselytizing policy: 
Habitat for Humanity and its affiliate organizations will not proselytize. Nor will Habitat work with entities or individuals who insist on proselytizing as part of their work with Habitat. This means that Habitat will not offer assistance on the expressed or implied condition that people must adhere to or convert to a particular faith or listen and respond to messaging designed to induce conversion to a particular faith.

People in your community and all over the world partner with Habitat for Humanity to build or improve a place they can call home. Habitat homeowners help build their own homes alongside volunteers and pay an affordable mortgage. With our help, Habitat homeowners achieve the strength, stability and independence they need to build a better life for themselves and their families.

Homeowners are selected based on: 

1. Need for housing, 
- Your present housing is not adequate (unsafe, not maintained, overcrowded, and/or 
   unaffordable).
- You are unable to obtain affordable housing through other conventional means.

2. Willingness to Partner
- You agree to complete 200 hours of sweat equity. Sweat equity hours are earned by 
   helping to build your home alongside volunteers and doing community service.
- You agree to complete 100 hours of homeowner education.

3. Ability to Pay
- You have a steady source of income.
- You have a positive monthly cash flow (net balance of cash on hand after expenses are 
   paid).
- You have good credit (based on your credit report, NOT your credit score).
- Charged-off debts or debts in collection are $250 or less.
- If you have declared bankruptcy, it must have been discharged for three years. If it was 
   dismissed, you must have paid off all of the debts to the bankruptcy.

In addition to building new homes, we also have a Repair Program, in which we assist seniors and veterans on fixed incomes with home repairs to ensure they have a safe, warm, and dry home, as well as accessibility modifications if they are disabled. 

Individuals and organizations can get involved with us by making a gift to support our mission of building homes, communities, and hope; sponsoring a house or build day(s), volunteering, or becoming a skilled volunteer member of our build crew. 

Learn more at habitatnwma.org. 


Habitat For Humanity of Northwest Metro Atlanta

Founded in 1979, Imagination Stage is a holistic theatre arts organization for all children and youth.

Imagination Stage empowers all young people to discover their voice and identity through performing arts education and professional theatre.

Imagination Stage

Muslims Understanding and Helping Special Education Needs

Muhsen is a nonprofit umbrella organization serving children and adults with any intellectual, mental, or physical disability. Muhsen’s aim is to establish an inclusive and accessible environment for individuals with disabilities and their families. Muhsen will assume an active role to advocate and educate, conduct training, and implement programs and services across North America to improve the experience within mosques, conventions, related classes and events, as well as to engender a positive and welcoming community for persons with disabilities.

Muhsen

To provide community-based rehabilitation and inclusive education for children with disabilities living in extreme poverty.
 


Kyaninga Child Development Centre (KCDC) was founded in 2014 to provide much needed, high quality, specialized and affordable therapy and rehabilitation to children with disabilities and their families and carers in western Uganda in order to enable them to lead more independent lives.  The Inclusive Education Hub provides professional development for teachers in Inclusive, child-led teaching practices and the Mobility workshop designs, develops and manufactures wheelchairs using locally available materials, suitable for the local terrain.

In addition to this, KCDC acts as a platform for education and support in the field of disability, offering training as well as guidance on best-practice-methods to both individuals, health care professionals as well as communities and other institutions requiring assistance.

Kyaninga Child Development Centre 

Making communities accessible, inclusive for 1 BN+ disabled people. Join us for 21st century social transformation opportunity.

Focused on advocacy efforts, promoting accessibility, inclusion of 1 BN+ Specially Abled People, worldwide with help of VOSAP advoacy tools, VOSAP mass movement, Individual Enablement with Assistive Devices to learn and earn!. Join 11,000 like minded people, changemakers around the world by taking VOSAP pledge to volunteer.

Let us Empower The Specially Abled People with Accessibility, Education and Employment.

Visit us at www.voiceofsap.org to choose opportuntiies to volunteer as high school student or college students or corporate emaployees or as an individual per your role in the society. 

Voice of Specially Abled People

At SoléAna Stables our mission is to inspire positive change and empower those we serve through the healing power of horses.

SoléAna Stables

Climb Work Activity Center A Non-Profit Corporation is a nonprofit organization focused on employment and jobs. It is based in Alhambra, CA. It received its nonprofit status in 1978.

Climb Transition Services

Creating a world for kids with intellectual disabilities in Lusaka, Zambia.

Studies in low income, middle income countries in Sub-Sharan Africa have shown that many parents perceive severe disability as worse than death, and ironically, some families might even view premature death as a welcome relief because of the substantial lifetime costs of supporting disabled children without any social welfare benefits, especially in rural settings.  Special Hope Network has stepped in the Zambian community where the government has not.  We are currently working with 325 children and their care givers in 5 Community Care Centers around Lusaka, Zambia.

We believe every child with an intellectual disability has a God-given right to the following: 1. Home - A space where they are loved, nurtured, cared for and challenged. 2. Health - Resources that allow them to be cared for body, soul and mind. 3. Education - An environment where they are encouraged to grow, learn and progress to their next developmental level.

Special Hope Network

On a mission to provide social, vocational and residential opportunities for adults with developmental disabilities.

“Looking forward, we are gaining momentum with what we can offer. We know the needs will continue because this problem is not going away. We know mentally/physically our members are healthier when they are socialized, feel good about themselves, working and that impacts their entire family. That has always been our True North since our founding, and no matter the growth or needs that increase, that will remain our focus for the future.”

— Cheri Weaver, Executive Director

Wings Special Needs Adult Community

D×P works in Japan to solve the isolation of teenagers who have difficulties.

10代の孤立という社会課題に取り組む、認定NPO法人D×P（ディーピー）です。

DxP offers career counseling, classroom, placement project, and work experience programs for teenagers who have financial difficulties, have disabilities, are not attending school, or have other difficulties. 

Projects are undertaken to help young people acquire the power of autonomy to make decisions, empowering each young person with the knowledge that they have a responsibility for their own future. 

DxP's goal is to create a society where people can have hope.


ひとりひとりの若者がどんな境遇にあったとしてもつながりが得られる状態をつくるために、「学校」と「インターネット」の2つのフィールドで生きづらさを抱えた10代と出会います。
コロナ禍では経済的困窮する若者に食糧支援・現金給付も実施しています。

D×P

The Dojo of Exceptional Wellness (DEWINC®) is a 501c3 nonprofit based in Doral, FL. It received its nonprofit status in 2018.

The Dojo of Exceptional Wellness, Inc. (DEWINC.org), a duly designated 501(c)(3) tax exempt nonprofit and registered Charitable Organization with the State of Florida, improves the quality of life of the Special Needs and General Population communities with our Wellness & Martial Arts (W&MA) programs. 

DEWINC®’s Mission is to empower our youth, adult and senior participants promoting a safe, peaceful and welcoming environment for self-expression, inner strength, self empowerment and self-confidence development through the instruction of traditional martial arts. We believe, as we teach martial arts and its benefits become evident first hand, these benefits shall transcend to participants' routines, their family and community relationships, improving their quality of life.

We have serviced dozens of participants in our W&MA Programs, carried under provider agreements, partnering with Miami-Dade County Municipalities already tasked to service these communities and with the ADA compliant spaces that belong to the communities we aim to serve.

DEWINC®’s goal is to offer the W&MA Program for the Special Needs and General Population Communities throughout Miami-Dade County and beyond, in time. The Special Needs population in our area comprises nearly 10% of the total population, according to the Department of Labor and Statistics (dol.gov). The foundation is governed by a three member Executive Board of Directors.

We believe and understand that a great number of individuals with special needs already receive therapies on a weekly basis. Adding a traditional martial arts, non-fighting, program to their existing regimen of therapies can only assist them in reaching their goals faster. Think about it; when an instructor focuses on YOUR child, sibling, parent or relative’s needs there is no doubt the results are immediate. Focus, concentration, balance, muscle tone, spatial and self awareness, self regulation, core strength, reduced anxiety are just a few of the benefits your child, adult or senior will receive at the right martial arts school, or dojo. Providing repetition of same location, same faces, same class agenda (explore our YouTube video library) and knowing what to expect are all part of the recipe. With continuous structure, discipline and fun exercises, even the individual with multi-sensory issues almost immediately rises to the occasion, peeks to see the other side of the veil.

DEWINC®’s STEP AHEAD W&MA Team courageously participated and proudly brought home ELEVEN (11) GOLD MEDALS from the 2019 Miami Karate Open that took place in Miami, FL on May 25th. Also during Q2 2019, the foundation began operations of a second W&MA Program for the Community at the Legacy Park Community Center in the City of Doral. The Wellness & Martial Arts (W&MA) Program, however, is NOT just a Martial Arts class. We integrate an appropriate number of trained mental health professionals (FL Certified ESE Teachers, Board Certified Behavioral Technicians) in accordance to the applicable ratio of students:teacher (1:6, 1:8, etc.). Our goal is to ensure the proper monitoring, safety and management of the participants’ special needs conditions as they may manifest themselves during the course of the W&MA Program sessions. 

During in-person instructions, metrics are developed on each participant to monitor their progress objectively, based on data metrics for Duration, Frequency and Transition. Karate specifically, and martial arts in general, assists kids on the autism spectrum, for instance, with the ability to concentrate and focus their attention in a consistent and highly structured environment. Budo is a philosophy and a way of life that utilizes Martial Arts as a means for continuous self-improvement; a lifelong tool.  

Briefly recall Q2 2020. In April 2020, all of our programs were asked to stop activities due to COVID-19. DEWINC® along with the rest of the world was challenged to reassess, realign for an uncertain immediate future. Few were more exposed under these circumstances than those in the Special Needs communities, where services were curtailed, interrupted or abolished. 

Our foundation reassessed, realigned and went online, figured out a way to effectively deliver W&MA services to our population. The W&MA Online Program successfully launched during Summer 2020 and provided tools for resiliency, coping, entertainment, exercise, fitness, wellness and overall quality of life improvement for dozens of participants, while the planet was dealing with a kind of crisis not experienced in 100 years. In May 2021, more than a year after mandatory lockdowns and isolation from groups and services, the absence of the expected social dynamics and so much more, seven very courageous participants braved attending the 2021 Miami Open International Karate-do Championship held in Hialeah, FL. This was a USA Karate Federation and World Karate Federation sanctioned event. This was no small challenge to overcome, it was monumental. During the most contentious day of competition, organizers stopped the tournament to allow for the members of DEWINC®’s W&MA Program to demonstrate to the arena. They resoundingly succeeded, garnering seven (7) Gold Medals and positively impressing the more than 430 competitors and additional family members, coaches, referees and judges in attendance at the event. 

Today, subject to the latest Government and Health officials guidelines, we are operating all programs in-person and offer online instruction, upon request. DEWINC® counts and depends on the financial support from donations, grants and financial participation from sponsorship or scholarship programs to ensure the access to and the viability of this quality of life improving program for the Special Needs and General Population communities everywhere.

DEWINC  -  YOUTUBE  -  INSTAGRAM  -  TWITTER  -  LINKEDIN  -  FACEBOOK

Have a healthy day! I hope to speak with you in the near future. You are encouraged to visit our social media outlets and website or our in-person activities, to discover more about our mission, our enterprise and our programs.

Dojo of Exceptional Wellness Inc.- DEWINC®

The Children's Global Health Fund, supporting Clínica de Familia La Romana.

The Children’s Global Health Fund, Inc., incorporated in 2016 in New York, is a nonprofit charity organization authorized as a tax-exempt entity under the terms of section 501 (c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.  Our mission is to save the lives of vulnerable children and families globally by raising funds for and providing support to organizations improving family health in developing countries.
 

The Children’s Global Health Fund’s current development efforts aim to ensure the long-term sustainability of Clínica de Familia La Romana, located in the eastern Dominican Republic. Founded in 1999, Clínica de Familia La Romana is a Dominican non-profit organization aimed at improving the health of the poorest and most vulnerable populations in the region by providing high quality health, education, and psycho-social support services. Clínica de Familia has become a national model for HIV, sexually transmitted infection and adolescent health care, in addition to providing comprehensive and holistic care to the broader community, serving approximately 12,000 clients annually. Through their unique, comprehensive approach, Clínica de Familia La Romana has informed new standards of health care and strengthened access to essential services, improving the quality of life of marginalized populations.   Donations and grants to the Children’s Global Health Fund go directly to Clínica de Familia (with a small administrative fee for the Fund) to support and expand their health programs and reach.
 

Based in New York City, the Children’s Global Health Fund engages in fundraising efforts nationwide, and provides a platform for US-based individuals, foundations and corporations to make tax-deductible financial or in-kind contributions to Clínica de Familia La Romana, as the first beneficiary of the Fund. The Fund also supports Clínica de Familia in cultivating sponsorships, partnerships, and service opportunities involving US-based global health programs and supporters. These collaborations produce tangible support for Clínica de Familia, while offering unique experiences, collaborative research opportunities, philanthropic exposure, and other benefits to the partners.

Children's Global Health Fund

Multiple is a (501c3) non-profit dedicated to catalyzing innovation and supporting technologies for the autism community at scale.

Multiple is the engine for innovation—a global community of dedicated families, entrepreneurs, funders, and experts collaborating to solve the greatest challenges for people with autism. We are an early-stage autism innovation platform; a force-multiplier, supplying data, resources and relationships to fuel innovation and solve the greatest challenges for people with autism.

Autism innovation lacks the critical support it needs to power positive change for the autism community, which is perhaps a reflection of the spectrum itself, a fantastically dis-integrated community. The solution is Multiple: a hub where we can create greater impact by creating together. 

Multiple

The NLF dba The Greatest Gift Catalog Ever focuses on raising awareness for nonprofits in Tarrant County, Texas.  

Giving through The Greatest Gift Catalog Ever (a program of The National Leadership Foundation) is the best way to give to benefit Tarrant County neighbors in need.
Gifts are matched dollar for dollar, and those dollars are leveraged by each orgnization in amazing ways.  Matching funds are directed to the nonprofits at a rate of 100%.

Each page in the catalog, or on the website, shows where the money goes, and how it is matched.  For example, for every $1000 donated, a neighbor with a long term disability such as cerebral palsy or demetia can be enrolled into a lifetime of attendant care services valued at over $26,000 a year or an estimated lifetime value of $650,000 per client!

Supporting local charities can be a wonderful gift idea as well.  We have a gift card program where the donor gives a set amount, and gifts that amount to a co-worker, family member, friend, neighbor, teacher, or client so that they can read all about the opportunities to give and then decide where that donation should be directed.   It's the gift that puts a smile on more than one face!
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The National Leadership Foundation

PURE is a global NPO founded to bring educational opportunities closer to the economically disadvantaged children and youth.


PURE, People for Urban and Rural Education, is a not for profit organization founded in year 2016 to bring educational and livelihood opportunities closer to the economically disadvantaged children, at-risk youth and special populations.

We at PURE …
- strive to address the insufficiencies in disadvantaged rural and urban schools, children’s shelters and special need centers.
- diligently work to facilitate sustainable empowerment through education with complete transparency and accountability to the sponsors.
- aim to empower special populations through education and gifts of mobility, reaffirming our belief in quality life for all.
- aspire to bring students from diverse socio-economic and geographical backgrounds together for a better tomorrow.
PURE is built on four pillars – TeamPURE, PUREGurus, PUREVolunteers and PURESponsors

PURE - People for Urban and Rural Education

We envision all communities in Oregon having access to resources needed for everyone's health and well-being.

We promote healthy communities by collaboratively addressing local needs to improve access to care and health-related services through advocacy, education, and technical assistance. 

Access Care Anywhere

FightTheStroke exists to ensure a better future to young stroke survivors with a disability of Cerebral Palsy, and their families.

GUIDED BY THE BELIEF THAT ALL CHILDREN SHOULD BE EQUAL AT BIRTH, FIGHTTHESTROKE WANTS TO ENSURE A BETTER FUTURE FOR YOUNG STROKE SURVIVORS, CHILDREN WITH A DISABILITY OF CEREBRAL PALSY AND THEIR FAMILIES.

FightTheStroke exists to answer to the need for knowledge and support for families impacted by the management of a young stroke survivor and with a disability of Cerebral Palsy, to educate to the awareness that children, even those not yet born, can be affected by potentially disabling brain damages; to inspire the new generations and encourage research and adoption of 'disruptive' therapies.

Because an accident at birth should not dictate the future of these children.

VALUES WE BELIEVE IN:

FightTheStroke believes in the opportunity to offer a dignified life to those who experienced a major trauma, as a brain injury at birth or at a young age, so that they can look at opportunities and strengths more than at areas of improvement.

FightTheStroke believes in the role of sharing experiences to give support to families impacted by trauma, related to health and disability.

FightTheStroke believes in the care of the individual as a single unit and not as a set of organs to be maintained and repaired.

FightTheStroke believes in the role of the family as a critical success factor for the rehabilitation and post-trauma care process.

FightTheStroke believes in cultural contamination, in sport and technology, as enablers in human relationships and to develop the unexpressed or varied potential of people.

FightTheStroke believes in dissemination of knowledge in the medical-scientific field so that all levels of the population are able to measure and maintain their health.

FightTheStroke believes in the principles of Sustainability of its activities and is committed to respect and disseminate the sustainable development goals (SDGs) within the society.

Fight the Stroke Foundation

Theatre starring people with intellectual disabilities and autism. Actors gain confidence, social skills, friends.

Mission: Through collaborative performance and lifelong learning opportunities, people with intellectual and developmental disabilities gain the skills and confidence to engage with the world.

ArtStream fuels students' imagination, creativity, and focus. We offer over 850 classes and workshops each year for 1,617 participants, six Theatre Companies totaling 90 participants and four Cabaret Companies totaling 30-40 participants, all of whom create and perform original theater works.

WHY ARTSTREAM?
People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities - including Autism - frequently face isolation or marginalization, and are excluded from activities and spaces where community, friendships, and connections are made. Creative opportunities are even fewer and farther between. In ArtStream’s drama and performing arts classes, workshops, and theatre companies, participants learn skills that apply to all aspects of life, including how to be present, pay attention, listen to instructions, participate in the activities that the class is doing that day, and perhaps most important of all, build friendships. 

Performance is transformative for every actor. This is also true for people with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, including Autism. Whether in classes, workshops, or rehearsals, ArtStreamers play theatrical games that require them to listen, to engage, to communicate, and to collaborate with each other; and improvisational games that teach them how to make eye contact, think on their feet, make connections, synthesize information, and solve problems. ArtStream’s demanding and very entertaining process encourages ArtStreamers to discover their creativity and strengths, and perform with confidence! What’s more, at ArtStream, our participants create their own scenes, dances, and songs for their performances, whereas most other theaters and non-profits serve people with disabilities by enacting or adapting plays or scenes written by professional playwrights. This is the “ArtStream difference.” 

A 55-year-old, 15-year ArtStream veteran expressed it better than we could ourselves: “I don’t get nervous on stage because I feel such happiness. I like to perform 24 hours a day! I love this place! ArtStream is making me happy!” 

ArtStream’s collaborative programming gives people with interest, talent, drive, and creativity – but few opportunities – a unique chance to build skills they will carry with them throughout their lifetimes. Our retention rate is 90%, attesting to the effectiveness of our organization in carrying out our mission. 



ArtStream, Inc.

On a mission to increase representation in the Entertainment, Gaming, Media & Tech industries, BRIC by BRIC.

BRIC Foundation has one main goal: to increase representation in Entertainment, Gaming, Media and Tech. By strategically engaging with leaders across these industries, along with Government and Education Partners, BRIC strives to Break, Reinvent, Impact and Change the foundations of these businesses and create inclusive opportunities for women and underrepresented people to be successful.

Bric Foundation

Lunch Box of Love brings sustainable solutions to homelessness, disasters, extreme poverty, underserved children, food insecurity.

Lunch Box of Love wants companies, businesses, and people in the community to know that In order to make a difference, we rely on the support of caring , compassionate individuals who believe in our mission to be apart of change. It has become clear that too many find hate easier than love. Your support is critical and together we can provide hope and stability for those who need it most. Every donation brings us one step closer to this goal.