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GREATER WEST TOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT
Greater West Town Community Development Project (GWTP) has 3 main programs to help expand employment and educational opportunities to disadvantaged Chicago residents: 1) Vocational skills training in Wood Products Manufacturing (14 weeks) and Shipping & Receiving (12 weeks); 2) Alternative high school for CPS dropouts ages 17-21; 3) Direct job placement
Chicago, Illinois
CHIMPS INC
Chimps Inc. is a nonprofit, 501(C)3 wildlife sanctuary dedicated to furthering chimpanzee conservation through education and outreach. It was founded in 1995 in response to the multitude of captive chimpanzees desperately in need of homes. Our sanctuary, located in rural Bend, Oregon, is situated in a quiet, peaceful setting not far from the beautiful Three Sisters Mountains. Bend is typical of the high desert with the sun shining nearly every day.
Bend, Oregon
EMPOWER PLAYGROUNDS INC
Empower Playgrounds, Inc. enhances educational opportunities for children in deprived villages in Ghana, West Africa through providing light and learning in innovative ways. Children in rural Ghana support their families by working on farms or chores after school until the sun goes down. Most of these children do not have access to electricity at home or in their villages. Ghana has a rigorous high school entrance exam with only 50% of applicants being accepted. Without light to study in the evenings, less than 10% of children in rural Ghana will enter high school. Empower Playgrounds helps level the playing field for these children through sustainable innovation.
Salt Lake City, Utah
The Awakenings Project
The Awakenings Project works to raise public awareness and acceptance of the creative talents of people living with psychiatric disorders who work in the fields of fine art, music, literature, and drama.
Wheaton, Illinois
World Link Associates
Our motto is, "Some of the world's problems can be solved. Let's begin there." When we find a need we can meet through a little bit of creativity and a lot of hard work, we go for it.
Burnsville, Minnesota
National Service Animals Monument Corporation
To honor our nation's service animals and their handlers. Our mission is to give all service animals, including working animals, and their handlers recognition they deserve and to increase understanding and appreciation for their service. We are committed to growing public awareness and generating grass roots support to build the National Service Animals Monument and to create the NSAM Education Program for educators nationwide. Through a broad spectrum of collaborative efforts across the country, we will spotlight the unwavering human-animal bond and create an emotionally moving experience to commemorate our heroes and educate and inspire visitors of all ages.
Pinole, California
African Leadership Inc.
Equipping Africans Transforming Africa
Franklin, Tennessee
OKLAHOMA YOUTH EXPOSITION INC
The Oklahoma Youth Expo is the "World's Largest Junior Livestock Show" and is dedicated to providing an opportunity for Oklahoma 4-H and FFA members to exhibit their livestock, compete and develop leadership and life skills, which will benefit them far beyond the showring.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma
The CHAIN COLLABORATIVE
The mission of The Chain Collaborative is to co-create opportunities and strengthen capacities for community-led change in the coffee sector.
Kennett Square, Pennsylvania
Franciscan Mission Service
Offering radical, relational, relevant, and reconciling opportunities for lay Catholics to address issues of poverty by serving in solidarity with our brothers and sisters on the margins.
Washington, District Of Columbia
Prostate Conditions Education Council
The Prostate Conditions Education Council is dedicated to saving and improving the lives of men and their loved ones, through innovative programming, early detection, patient support, educational outreach and increased access to the latest diagnostics and treatments for all prostate conditions.
Parker, Colorado
Women's Coalition of St Croix
WCSC is dedicated to ending violence and assisting survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse and other crimes. We operate a 24-hour hotline to offer in-person crisis intervention with trained victim advocates at police stations and hospitals., and other free and confidential services for survivors and families in need on St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands..
Christiansted, Virgin Islands