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The ALS Association's mission is to lead the fight to cure and treat ALS through global, cutting-edge research and to empower people with Lou Gehrig's Disease and their families to live fuller lives by providing them with compassionate care and support. As one of The ALS Association's leading chapters, the Greater New York Chapter plays a major role in promoting the mission of The ALS Association by: - Providing quality services to patients and families living with ALS throughout the greater New York area, including New York City, Long Island, Westchester County, the Hudson Valley, and northern and central New Jersey. - Funding aggressive, cutting-edge research to find a cure that utilizes the newest techniques and fosters collaborative initiatives among government agencies, the private sector and scientists. - Supporting The ALS Association's national advocacy program to expand government support of research and elicit programs to make treatments and care accessible and affordable for all ALS patients. - Heightening awareness of ALS in order to stimulate volunteerism, scientific and healthcare community activism, and public support that is essential to the fight against ALS.

RIA, Inc. – ready•inspire•act is a nonprofit organization in MA supporting, and standing with, women with experience in the commercial sex trade by providing a range of community-based services. We practice the power of presence.RIA's premier program offers Accompaniment which is an intentional, trauma-informed approach to care that requires a deep and personal understanding of how power held over another human being damages a person's sense of safety and control over her own life and circumstances. Our model, ​Sisters Leading Sisters, incorporates clinical and healing practices in every step of support. These practices include survivor professional mentorship and advocacy, weekly virtual groups, case management, and clinical therapy.Services are facilitated by skilled women with lived experiences of sexual exploitation/prostitution, addiction, chronic illness, dv, and homelessness. We use an action-oriented, relational approach to fostering self-esteem and self-actualization. We bring compassionate community to the people we meet.

Empowering rural communities in Africa to provide their own people with high quality basic health care, effective public health initiatives, micro-finance and support for vulnerable children. They have a special love for children, whom they see not as a burden, but as part of a brilliant future for Africa. They currently run projects in southwest Ethiopia in the rainforest highlands, and in western Kenya, along the shores of Lake Victoria. They also provide a grant to an orphans' program in Eritrea.

OUR PROGRAM, THE CLIMB, PROVIDES A RESEARCH-BASED EXERCISE PROGRAM AND SUPPORT SYSTEM THAT IS GEARED TOWARD COMMON SYMPTOMS AND DEFICITS OF THE DISEASE. JOIN US AS WE HELP HOOSIER AFFECTED BY PARKINSON'S DISEASE.

To ensure that every cancer patient in our service area has a fighting chance, has somewhere to turn for help along their cancer journey, and receives treatment for their trauma and not just their tumor.

Our mission is to prevent vision loss from glaucoma by investing in innovative research, education, and support with the ultimate goal of finding a cure. Founded in 1978 in San Francisco, the glaucoma research foundation was created to encourage innovative research to find better ways to care for people with glaucoma — the leading cause of preventable blindness.

Bello Machre means Home of My Heart in Gaelic. We provide homes and support to children, teens, adults, and seniors with developmental disabilities. Many of the people we serve live in our 60 community homes located throughout Central and Western Maryland. Bello Machre also provides help and support to hundreds of children, adults, and their families in their own homes. Bello Machre is there to help with whatever is needed, empowering people with developmental disabilities to live life to its fullest

The Tanzanian Children's Fund works to ensure that all children and families in the Karatu region of northern Tanzania lead healthy and productive lives and have the opportunity to become positive agents of change for their country. In order to achieve our goals, TCF provides a loving and permanent home for marginalized children at the Rift Valley Children's Village. However, TCF also recognizes that the best way to promote the well-being of all children is to provide access to high-quality education, free healthcare, and economic trainings and loans to the entire community. Our innovative, multi-pronged approach to addressing systemic poverty is what has enabled us to have a deep impact and catalyze real and lasting change.

Brother's Brother Foundation helps bridge the gap between aid and sustainability by supporting localized programs and providing essential resources in the areas of Healthcare, Infrastructure, Disaster Response, and Education (H.I.D.E)

St. Joseph's Hospital Foundation raises funds for St. Joseph's Hospital, your community hospital in Hillsborough County. We are not-for-profit; we are responsible to you, to our community, and not to shareholders. We are unique. We are the only hospital 1. to never turn away a patient, 2. with the busiest emergency center in the county, 3. treating more Hillsborough County residents for cancer than any other hospital in the community, 4. one of nine hospitals in the country implanting Mosaic heart valves, 5. offering the only Pediatric Cardiac Catherization Lab in the region, 6. providing more gynecological and obstetrical services in Florida's only free-standing women's hospital, 7. offering health screenings and wellness information to more than 4500 under-served people in 2000 through Wellness On Wheels. When you or a loved one are in an accident or gets sick, the helicopter or ambulance isn't going to take you to a research hospital. They are going to bring you to a hospital like St. Joseph's. We are here for you, offering the very best medical care and services, just as we have since 1934. Because now more than ever, with the challenges all health care organizations are facing, your financial support is more important than ever before. Your tax-deductible gifts will enable St. Joseph's to purchase new medical equipment and provide increased community outreach and wellness services as soon as they are needed. The St. Joseph's Hospital of Tampa Foundation, Inc. provides philanthropic support for St. Joseph's Hospital (The Cancer Institute and The Heart Institute), St. Joseph's Women's Hospital and Tampa Children's Hospital, as well as wellness programs throughout Hillsborough County.

We, in partnership with our community, provide a comfortable and caring home-away-from-home that supports keeping families together and reduces stress during a child's serious illness. Since our founding in 1979, we have grown from a single location with room for eight families to four locations with 71 overnight rooms, a daily meal program that serves hundreds of day-use families and visitors, an on-site K-12 school, and age-appropriate programming to support all family members.

Family Health Centers of San Diego is dedicated to providing caring, affordable, high quality health care and supportive services to everyone, with a special commitment to uninsured, low income and medically underserved persons.