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FOOD FOR GREATER ELGIN INC

Food For Greater Elgin is a Regional Client-Choice Food Pantry serving low income residents in Elgin, South Elgin, and East Dundee. Individuals and families in need can receive meat, fresh produce, dairy, deli and shelf stable items during their visits. Food For Greater Elgin serves 1,200 families each month, feeding 5,500 individuals in those households, of whom nearly half are children.

Elgin, Illinois

Fair Start Movement

The Problem: Family planning in the world today is based upon a parent-centered and isolationist model that hurts children, families, communities, and our environment. That model prevents the realization of freedom and is the fundamental source of our social and ecological crises. That model is the product of governments and businesses that profit from population growth, want to avoid collective obligations that require investing in rather than exploiting future generations, and who helped eliminate the responsibilities inherent in having kids as a means of accelerating growth. The Solution: Having Kids acts as a “part replacer,” replacing the morally incoherent parent-centered model, which has been debunked by theorists, with the truly human rights-based and child-centered Fair Start model. That move will also create space for the development of even better models. Future children should be the focus of family planning laws and policies because they have the most at stake. That change is the key to freedom – the freedom to a say in the rules under which one lives, to equal opportunities in life, and the freedom from others that is nature. That is what a decolonized future looks like. This is not merely theoretical, but the basis for concrete action we can take today at multiple levels of social change – legal, institutional, cultural, discursive, etc. The Fair Start model is the best construction of the moral and legal right to have children. Here are examples of how Having Kids is replacing the old and isolationist model with the Fair Start model. Having Kids is more a praxis of truly human rights-based family planning than an entity. We invite you to join the transition to better family planning by taking actions to ensure kids a fair start in life, and speaking out about what you’ve done. The human brain is predisposed to focus on the immediate over the important. Working for social change without family planning reform is the worst case of this tendency, but together we can change direction. Having Kids is not just another voice in the crowd. Instead, we make sure all voices matter by changing the nature of the crowd.

Tucson, Arizona

Not A Glum Lot

The mission of NOT A GLUM LOT is to provide opportunities for growth to addicts and alcoholics who are new to recovery and to teach them that joy and satisfaction are possible in sobriety.

Austin, Texas

Hivewild

The body is the mediun through which we create art. Hivewild’s vision is one in which movement-based artworks act as a conduit to create more united communities. We aim to be local leaders by actively engaging in cross-disciplinary collaboration, skill-sharing, and the creation of accessible performance work.

Brooklyn, New York

Children Plus Foster Family Agency

Children's Plus Foster Family Agency provides an array of services for children, non-minor dependents (NMD's), resource families, and clients. The formulation of these programs are in response to the growing need of the children, youth and NMD in our community that require resource family homes, that provide nurturing, loving, and stable living arrangements. Children's Plus FFA serves the community by providing child abuse prevention and treatment mental/behavioral healthcare services. Our purpose is to provide short term, long term, and permanency homes for children age birth through 21, who are removed from their homes due to traumatic experience and abuse. Our primary service modality is to provide a nurturing home with a family trained to address the needs (emotional, behavioral, mental) of children whose family ties have been broken, and/or disrupted.

San Bernardino, California

The Grand Rapids Red Project

Reducing risk, improving health, and preventing HIV. Red Project works to prevent HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C, and Accidental Drug Overdose via Harm Reduction.

Grand Rapids, Michigan

Auburn Interfaith Food Closet, Inc.

The main purpose of the Auburn Interfaith Food Closet is to provide nutritious food to individuals and families who do not have sufficient resources to purchase it themselves. This group includes low income workers, seniors, disabled, unemployed, homeless, and people in transition. We utilize the USDA nutrition guideline to ensure the families receive the right types of foods.

Auburn, California

ActionAid USA

ActionAid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice.

Washington, District Of Columbia

COLON CANCER FOUNDATION

Our Promise • To raise awareness of colorectal cancer (CRC), the importance of early detection and the most effective screening methods available; • To increase awareness of CRC risk factors and factors that may help prevent CRC, including knowing one’s family/genetic cancer history, exercise and nutrition; • To reduce the disparity that exists in CRC incidence and mortality rates by providing funds to improve screening rates in underserved and uninsured communities; • To award translational research grants to young investigators studying genetic and epigenetic changes that will ultimately lead to new breakthroughs in the prevention of, therapy for and elimination of CRC in our lifetime; • To leverage the impact of our donors’ support by developing broad public/private partnerships with local, regional, national and global organizations invested in a mutual goal of colorectal cancer prevention and early detection.

Port Chester, New York

Lead Missions International

LEAD Missions International seeks to foster, enable, and implement the principles of servant-leadership that make our communities spiritually strong, economically vibrant, and elevate the overall quality of life of the communities and nations we serve.

Mission, Texas

WYTV7 Community Broadcasters Network, Inc

Our mission of Education- Empowerment-Encouragement- is to provide help for people in adverse life situations to connect with the resources. We use diverse independent broadcasters as a network to educate, empower, and encourage people on diverse social topics.

Charlotte, North Carolina

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Environmental Nature Ctr

Making a difference in communities through dedicated service and impact.

Newport Beach, California