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JCHAI provides supported housing, educational, vocational and social programs that help adults with developmental differences or disabilities live more independent, integrated lives in their communities. Their services focus on individualized supports, community integration, life skills and employment preparation to help members achieve personal goals and contribute to the community.

Going Beyond the Pink works to empower people affected by breast cancer by providing practical education, patient navigation, local support services (care bags, wigs/prosthetics), workshops, and targeted financial assistance. The organization focuses on helping patients in southeastern North Carolina move through diagnosis, treatment, and into survivorship with information and community-based resources.

We provide deeply compassionate individualized hospice and palliative care that empowers patients and families, honors their beliefs and values, and enhances comfort and dignity.

Leader Dogs for the Blind breeds and trains dogs (and future owners) to assist the blind. Our mission is empowering people who are blind or visually impaired with lifelong skills for safe and independent daily travel. In support of this mission, our actions are guided, supported and measured by our values: Do what is right Respect and compassion Passion for the work Superior experience Teamwork Innovation Safety

Project A.L.S. was founded in 1998, as a non-profit 501(c)3, when Jenifer Estess, a 35-year-old New York theater and film producer, was diagnosed with ALS. Told at the time of diagnosis to “max out her credit cards and eat junk food,” Jenifer instead committed her efforts to making a difference for people with ALS—and producing treatments and a cure. Historically, ALS research was conducted by committed ALS researchers working separately on various aspects of the disease. Project A.L.S. changed that approach dramatically by requiring that researchers and doctors from many disciplines work together, share data openly, and meet shared research milestones.

To provide the highest level of care and comfort to patients with life-limiting illness; support and counseling to families; and education to the community.

Hospice of West Alabama provides support and care for persons in the last phases of incurable disease so they may live as fully and as comfortably as possible. Hospice recognizes dying as part of the normal process of living and focuses on maintaining the quality of life. Hospice affirms life and neither hastens nor postpones death. Hospice is a coordinated program of palliative and supportive services provided in both home and inpatient settings. Hospice provides physical, psychological, social, and spiritual care for dying persons and their families.

The foundation partners with Lions Clubs to provide vision and hearing services to people in need — running school vision screenings, low‑cost eyewear and hearing‑aid programs, and sponsoring surgeries and other patient care for uninsured or under‑insured Oregonians. It focuses on screening, treating, saving, and restoring sight and hearing statewide and serves hundreds of thousands of people annually.

paws4people foundation trains and places customized Assistance Dogs for two general populations: children and adolescents with physical, neurological, psychiatric or emotional disabilities; and Veterans and active-duty Service Members with Chronic/Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD), Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI), and Military Sexual Trauma. p4p Volunteers perform thousands of hours of Social Therapy and Educational Assistance work with their p4p certified Assistance Dogs.

Children’s Harbor provides family-style residential homes and in‑home family counseling to keep siblings and pregnant/parenting foster teens together, prevent unnecessary removals, and help youth who age out of foster care transition to independence. They focus on strengthening families in Broward County and offering therapeutic, housing, and wrap‑around supports for youth and young adults.

CPARF funds and advances U.S.-based scientific research and assistive-technology innovation to improve the lives of people with cerebral palsy and other disabilities. It supports research grants, translates proven science into practice, and promotes technologies and education that increase independence and inclusion.

Information, education, advocacy and awareness for people with cancer, family and friends interested in or using complementary, alternative (CAM), natural therapies, and more, from the patient perspective.