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Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport, Inc. provides basic literacy and life skills training to low-income women using a holistic approach within a compassionate, supportive environment. We proudly welcome women of all backgrounds and circumstances to our center. Founded in 1987 by two educators who wanted to assist mothers of children in the local schools to help their children succeed, Mercy Learning Center (MLC) started as a one-on-one tutoring program. Today, MLC offers comprehensive full- and part-time literacy and life skills programs, an educational childcare program and ancillary services to over 500 women and 100 of their children each year. Having served more than 17,000 women and their children since its beginnings, MLC is helping to improve the quality of life for women and families throughout the Greater Bridgeport community.

Big Cat Rescue, one of the world’s largest accredited sanctuaries for exotic cats, is a leading advocate in ending the abuse of captive big cats and saving wild cats from extinction. Care of our cats. The narrow mission of Big Cat Rescue is to provide the best permanent home we can for the abused, abandoned and retired cats in our care. We do this by building enclosures in a very natural habitat with foliage and shelter on our 67 acre site, by providing the best nutritional and medical care possible, and by having active operant conditioning and enrichment programs to provide for their physical and psychological well being. Education. The broader mission of the sanctuary is to reduce the number of cats that suffer the fate of abandonment and/or abuse and to encourage preservation of habitat and wildlife. We urge people to behave in a way that will support these goals by teaching people about the plight of the cats, both in the wild and in captivity. We accomplish this through educational guided tours, educational programs for young people, and by maintaining a website that is the world's largest and best resource for information about exotic cats.

Mission: United people, ideas, and resources to advance the common good.Working side-by-side with the community, Mile High United Way takes on the biggest, most complex issues facing Metro Denver, Boulder, and Broomfield. Our united approach changes the odds for the children, families, and individuals in our community, and moves them out of poverty.We serve the Metro Denver and Boulder communities across seven counties: Adams, Arapahoe, Denver, Douglas, Jefferson, Boulder, and Broomfield

The mission of the Retreat is to provide safety, shelter and support for victims of domestic abuse and to break the cycle of family violence.

Jitegemee, which means “sustain yourself” in Kiswahili, is a grassroots nonprofit that provides formal and vocational education to street children and destitute youth in Kenya. Jitegemee is dedicated to removing the obstacles that prevent street children from attaining their educational goals.

The mission of Foster Love is to transform the way youth navigate through the foster care system in America.

We believe that a just and equitable future can exist only when communities who have been historically denied power, have the social, political, and economic power they need to create it. To make that a reality, we work in deep partnership with doers and donors to center the leadership of changemakers from these communities, connecting them to services, capacity building, and resources to amplify their impact.

Founded in 1998, Somerset Hills Learning Institute is a private non-profit program that offers a broad spectrum of services to children, adolescents, and adults with autism. The Institute is a dissemination site of the Princeton Child Development Institute and exists to provide science-based treatment and education to people with autism. Somerset Hills Learning Institute will prepare professionals as future autism intervention resources in New Jersey, and through its research, pioneer comprehensive intervention models that may be used nationally and internationally for the benefit of people with autism.

The mission of the South Shore SNAP ("SNAP") is to provide our community of special needs children and their families the opportunity to take part in athletic activities/programs that are specifically designed and tailored to their disabilities and generally not available through mainstream programs as follows: SNAP will develop, staff, and produce activities/programs for pre-school through high school aged special needs students, and will secure the resources needed to provide activity/program offerings each season. As a 501(C)(3) entity, SNAP will raise money through all means available to it to ensure the longevity of its mission. SNAP will work hand in hand with all relevant disciplines to ensure that the activities/programs offered are properly developed to address participants’ special needs, including the training of mentors and coaches. SNAP will endeavor to produce a very positive athletic and social experience for all involved.

YouthCare builds confidence and self-sufficiency for homeless youth by providing a continuum of care that includes outreach, basic services, emergency shelter, housing, counseling, education, and employment training.

To provide "shalva"--which means "peace of mind" inHebrew--to Israel's mentally and physically challenged children and theirfamilies by --helping each child achieve his/her full potential throughcomprehensive, vanguard programs in a beautiful, caring environment, --providingneeded respite and support to their families, enabling them raise their childat home, with their family, and thereby forego institutionalizing the child,--improving both the child's quality of life and that of the entire family,--advocating on behalf of mentally and challenged children and their familiesin Israel and the world, --providing research and training to enable others toduplicate the Shalva model and its programs --training volunteers to beeffective in working with special needs children and to be exemplary,sensitive, caring individuals

The mission of Union Station Homeless Services is to help men, women and children rebuild their lives and end homelessness. We provide a full continuum of housing, employment and life skills programs to help people regain dignity and achieve self-sufficiency. We believe in the inherent worth and dignity of every individual and strive to provide the highest quality of services based on a foundation of respect for all people.