Proud to Support
Focus for Health, as a charitable foundation, is only as powerful as its partners. Since 2010 we have supported individuals, groups, and foundations that help us fulfill our mission to promote advocacy, education, and research to combat the rise of chronic illness occurring around the world.
Diversity - Equity - Inclusion
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3D Girls, Inc.
3D Girls, Inc. educates and empowers girls to be advocates for themselves by investing in their health, wealth, and families.
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A Partnership for Change
A Partnership for Change is dedicated to ending family abuse and intimate partner violence through prevention, education, and awareness programs.
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Alliance of Families for Justice
Empowers the formerly incarcerated and their families through support services and pro bono legal services.
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America’s Big Sisters
Empowering, encouraging and educating young ladies in underserved communities to become positive and self-sufficient.
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Ancient Song Doula Services
Our mission is to ensure that all pregnant, postpartum, and parenting people of color have access to high-quality, holistic doula care and services regardless of their ability to pay. Ancient Song is a national birth justice organization working to eliminate maternal and infant mortality and morbidity among Black and Latinx people. We provide doula training and services, offer community education, and advocate for policy change to support reproductive and birth justice.
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Beyond the Bars
Beyond the Bars is a grassroots, membership-based organization that is building the collective power and self-determination of incarcerated people and their families in Miami, changing the carceral system from the ground up.
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Black and Missing
Black and Missing's mission is to bring awareness to missing persons of color; provide vital resources and tools to missing person’s families and friends and to educate the minority community on personal safety.
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Black Fem
A radically feminist nonprofit organization that focuses on giving girls of color the confidence, skills, and resources to build and sustain wealth.
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Black Girls Smile
Empowering Women & Girls to Lead Mentally Healthy Lives
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Black Men Heal
Our focus centers on the mental health needs of Black Men because of the lack of resources attending solely to this population. Our mission is to provide mental health treatment, education, and resources to Men of color.
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Black Village Foundation
Black Village Foundation focuses on Building Black Wealth through small business grants and funding trade programs for Black South and West Siders in Chicago.
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Black Women’s Mental Health Institute
No More Martyrs is a mental health awareness campaign committed to building a community of support for Black women with mental health concerns. Through our sisterhood, we encourage a culture of self-advocacy and self-care that dispels mental health stigma, raises awareness of mental health concerns and increases utilization of mental health services. Our goal is to foster culturally responsive conversations about mental health that offer tools towards recovery and empower Black women to prioritize their holistic wellness.
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Center for NuLeadership on Human Justice & Healing (CNHJH)
Center for NuLeadership on Human Justice & Healing (CNHJH) is an independent research, training and advocacy think tank that employs a Human Justice framework to achieve community well-being, empowerment and safety. We use "human"—not "criminal"—as a starting point to elevate the full humanity and potential of all people, which is the foundation of a working democracy and thriving society.
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Chainless Change
Chainless Change is committed to reducing recidivism and strengthening the fabric of our community by advocating and providing support for those negatively impacted by the criminal justice system.
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Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts
Chicago Appleseed Center finds anti-racist solutions to systematic injustices and fights for their implementation.
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Chicago Torture Justice Center
The Chicago Torture Justice Center was born out of reparations for survivors of police torture.
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Cleo Institute
The CLEO Institute is an organization exclusively dedicated to climate crisis education and advocacy. Founded in 2010, we work with communities across Florida to build climate literacy and mobilize climate action for a just, resilient future.
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Close Ties, Inc
Close Ties Leadership Program closes the opportunity gap for Black boys by cultivating leaders and providing opportunities through exposure, mentorship, and support.
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Columbia County Sanctuary Movement
Columbia County Sanctuary Movement organizes (im)migrants and allies to collectively support, empower, and defend our communities.
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Contextos
We seek to lift up the voices and insights of people affected by trauma, to challenge assumptions, and to provoke change.
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Credit Do
a non-profit dedicated to making financial independence a reality for all. We create unique opportunities for purchasing food, clothes, school supplies, and other essential goods in exchange for doing social good.
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Cultivate Charlottesville
Cultivate Charlottesville engages with youth and community to build a healthy and just food system.
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Detroit Heals Detroit
Detroit Heals Detroit exists to foster healing justice for Detroit youth in which they are able to transform their pain into power. With a goal to combat trauma, we use healing centered engagement to share our greatest vulnerabilities with the rest of the world while simultaneously working to dismantle oppressive systems for marginalized Detroit youth.
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Equal Justice Under Law
Equal Justice Under Law is a nonprofit law organization dedicated to achieving equality in the criminal system and ending cycles of poverty across the nation.
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Equity And Transformation (EAT)
Equity And Transformation (EAT) Chicago's work is dedicated to creating a democratic society in which Black Chicagoans engaged in the informal economy—activities, enterprises, and jobs not protected by the state—have the resources to change the social and economic conditions affecting their lives.
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Fathers’ Uplift
Fathers’ UpLift assists fathers in overcoming financial, oppressive, traumatic and/or addiction-based barriers that prevent them from engaging with their children.
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Grassroots Arkansas
Grassroots Arkansas is a coalition of activist dedicated to fighting for an equitable Central Arkansas. We want to bring an end to social, economic, political injustice and inequality by transforming the power relations and structures that create and hold them in place. We place education at the democratic center of this struggle that reaches every aspect of our lives.
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Health Justice Commons
We provide health justice training and consultation, engage in healing justice movement building, and incubate community-driven solutions, which generate health abundance and alleviate the devastating health burden of social injustice and environmental racism.
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HEARD
HEARD is a cross-disability abolitionist organization that unites across identities, communities, movements, and borders to end ableism, racism, capitalism, and all other forms of oppression and violence.
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HelloBaby
Supports, empowers and inspires families raising young children in underserved neighborhoods in Chicago.
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How Our Lives Link Altogether (H.O.L.L.A.)
How Our Lives Link Altogether creates pathways and spaces for healthy cultural, social, and political development for youth of color.
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Hudson Catskill Housing Coalition
HCHC is a Black-led tenants’ rights and racial justice organization that empowers low income and public housing tenants in Columbia, Greene and Albany counties - three historically-Black communities facing pervasive gentrification.
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Impact
Based in Prince George’s County, Maryland, IMPACTdmv Inc. provides people 14- to 30-years old with resources designed to promote intellectual, artistic, and social growth through early adulthood.
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Institute for the Advancement of Minority Health
The Institute was established in 2019 to reduce health disparities among disadvantaged and underserved minority populations in the southern region through program development and implementation, training and technical assistance, organizational capacity building, grant writing and evaluation. The areas covered by the Institute include all 82 counties of Mississippi.
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Jared’s Heart of Success
Jared's Heart of Success Inc. is dedicated to advocating for gun violence prevention through education and youth empowerment.
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Justice Committee
The Justice Committee (JC) is a grassroots organization dedicated to building a movement against police violence and systemic racism in New York City and empowering low-income Latinx and other people of color to address these issues.
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Justice Journey Alliance
The Justice Journey Alliance has a mission to offer opportunities for people of all races to come together to address race relations and social injustices, with the goal of reaching an ever-increasing population divided by race and injustice.
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Justice Teams Network
JTN is eradicating all forms of State violence and criminal acts against prisoners.
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Men Stopping Violence
Men Stopping Violence focuses on ending gender-based violence by educating and organizing men in a call to action to be a part of the solution.
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MENTEE Global
MENTEE offers a network of global mentor specialists who volunteer their time, offer skills training and guidance for mentees 18 and older who are marginalized in their own communities.
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Mississippi Rising Coalition
Facilitating Mississippi’s rise from the bottom to the top of the list of quality of life metrics by empowering individuals and communities in the areas of human rights, social justice, and citizen engagement.
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More Than Bootstraps
More Than Bootstraps builds a community of first-generation, underrepresented students who empower each other to access and succeed in higher education.
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Mortar Cincinnati
MORTAR aims to create diverse communities by enabling historically marginalized entrepreneurs to access the resources needed to start & run successful businesses.
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Motherhood Beyond Bars
Motherhood Beyond Bars ensures a healthy start for infants born to incarcerated women by providing a network of comprehensive support for mothers and caregivers.
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National Black Women’s Justice Institute
The National Black Women’s Justice Institute (NBWJI) works to reduce racial and gender disparities across the justice continuum affecting Black women, girls, and their families.
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Neighborhood Benches
Neighborhood Benches is a small, grassroots organization devoted to educating young people from communities of color on leadership and good practices that break cycles of youth incarceration and violence.
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New Options More Opportunities (NOMO)
NOMO provides children and teens with prevention and early intervention healthy lifestyle information.
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Newark Water Coalition
Newark Water Coalition fights to liberate clean water as a source of life for all, particularly the oppressed and vulnerable.
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No More Secrets
We are committed to providing a realistic and relational approach to comprehensive wellness of the mind, body and spirit. No More Secrets Mind Body Spirit Inc. intentionally dismantles the myths, stigmas and misconceptions ingrained in our communities. Our services are designed to elicit open communication, promote honest discussions and provide real life solutions.
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NYSBC
The New York Sustainable Business Council (NYSBC) works directly with business leaders, regional business networks, and allied organizations to advance a vibrant, just, and sustainable economic future throughout New York.
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Okay So
OkaySo envisions a world where all individuals know and love their bodies, identities, and selves so that they can live freely and authentically as who they truly are. We do this by pairing young adults with trained experts through a secure and confidential free app accessible on all smartphones, and connecting teens with partner agencies who can provide deeper support where they live.
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On my Mother’s Shoulders
On My Mother’s Shoulders campus initiative is to provide toiletry pantries so that students will be able to receive basic toiletry items across every college campus in the state of Georgia.
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Organized Communities Against Deportations
OCAD stands for Organized Communities Against Deportations. We’re a group of undocumented, unapologetic, and unafraid organizers building a resistance movement against deportations and the criminalization of immigrants and people of color in Chicago and surrounding areas.
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Organizing Black
Organizing Black is a grassroots, member-led organization dedicated to fighting for the liberation of all Black people by building local power through transformational Black direct action organizing, political education, and participatory governance practices.
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Project Say Something
Project Say Something (PSS) strives to affirm and center Black lives through communal health programs, education resource programs, skill building workshops, and the practice of radical inclusivity.
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Radical Health
Radical Health is a minority women-owned social enterprise. We work at the intersection of community health and tech. We combine meaningful conversations with AI-enabled tech that helps people understand their health care rights during a visit, build trust, and develop self-advocacy.
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Reign 4 Life
The Mission Statement of Reign 4 Life to prevent young and adolescent at-risk boys and girls in Hempstead from joining gangs to assist them.
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RISE Colorado
Educating, Engaging, and Empowering low-income families and families of color to RISE as change agents for educational equity in our public school system.
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Roots to Re-entry, a Program of PHS
Roots to Re-entry provides former prisoners transitioning back into communities with skills to obtain employment in horticulture and landscape industries.
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Rosa es Rojo
In ROSAesROJO we are making wellness and cancer prevention accessible to Hispanic women and their families in the United States. We educate them on the topics of nutrition, mental health and physical activity, using Cultural Humility and Community Care as part of our social innovation.
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Smoothies for Students
We believe the ability to maintain a wholesome diet should not be determined by your zip code. By bringing nutrient-dense blends of fruits, vegetables and plant-based protein, our goal is to offer nutritious alternatives to areas that are currently underserved.
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Social Change
Social Change is a network of community organizers committed to addressing inequity in all forms.
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South Bronx Unite
South Bronx Unite brings together neighborhood residents, community organizations, academic institutions, and allies to improve and protect the social, environmental, and economic future of Mott Haven and Port Morris.
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Step Up Durham
Step Up Durham helps kids and adults transform their lives through employment and life skills training.
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Strive Till I Rise
A traveling initiative that uses hip-hop and pop culture to advance social freedoms and empower the voices of young leaders.
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The Center for NuLeadership
Our mission is to shift the paradigm and practice of public safety from criminal justice to Human Justice.
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The Confess Project
The Confess Project’s team of public health experts design programs that train barbers to become mental health advocates in underserved communities.
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The Hope Program
Empowers New Yorkers living in poverty to achieve economic self-sufficiency through employment and advancement.
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The Middle Project
Brings together youth, young adults and adults from many fields and faith traditions to create ethical leaders for a just society.
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The Water Collaborative
The Water Collaborative envisions an inclusive network of communities who work to make sure our world is climate resilient with New Orleans a leader in rights based water management.
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Tinks Golden Girls
Tinks Golden Girls is an official nonprofit organization whose mission is to empower girls in the surrounding communities.
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Urban Creators
Since 2010 we have used food, art, and education as tools to nurture resilience and self-determination in our neighborhood. Now, we are supporting the emergence of a new generation of Urban Creators, organizers, artists, growers, and local businesses who are working to build equity and collective liberation in our communities.
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Urban Tree Connection
The Urban Tree Connection (UTC) is building a neighborhood rooted food and land system through community leadership development and land based strategies in West Philadelphia.
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VietLead
Our mission is to develop leadership in the Vietnamese community in solidarity with other communities of color towards improving health, increasing self-determination, and strengthening political power of our community.
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Village of Wisdom
VOW is eliminating racial injustice in schools through tools and resources that create ideal environments for Black and Brown learners.
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Why Not Prosper
Why Not Prosper is a grassroots nonprofit founded by a formerly incarcerated woman for other formerly incarcerated women. They are strong advocates for women and are committed to providing programs and services that support women in their re-entry efforts from prison to community.
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Women On The Rise GA
Women on the Rise is a membership-based organization led by and for a diverse sisterhood of Black women who are impacted by the legal system. Through community organizing and supportive services, they are building a powerful base of women with the skills and experience necessary to wage and win campaigns to end mass incarceration and achieve collective liberation, while transforming themselves and their communities.
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Yes 4 Minneapolis
Yes 4 Minneapolis is a coalition campaign to replace the Minneapolis Police Department with a new department of public safety.
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You are more than, Inc
You Are More Than Inc. , the first and only Survivor-led, LGBTQ+ led and BIPOC-led organization in Southern NJ aimed at improving the lives of adult trafficking survivors.
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Ending Sex Abuse
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Black Women’s Blue Print
Creators of the “Sexual Abuse to Maternal Mortality Pipeline” training series for doulas, birthworkers and sexual assault prevention advocates.
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EDJA Foundation
Combats child abuse, sexual assault and domestic violence in rural Uganda.
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Florida Alliance to End Human Trafficking
The Florida Alliance to End Human Trafficking provides funding, support and assistance to the statewide effort to end human trafficking.
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Godly Response to Abuse in the Christian Environment (GRACE)
Empowering Christian communities to recognize, prevent, and respond to abuse.
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HEAL Trafficking
is the leading non-governmental authority on human trafficking as a health issue. HEAL provides trauma and lived experience informed and person-centered resources both for individual health care workers as well as larger health centers and systems; through this multi-level approach, HEAL achieves broad-reaching change and maximizes the potential for life-saving interventions for trafficked persons.
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Just Beginnings
Just Beginnings Collaborative is a donor and organizing community re-examining the root causes of child sexual abuse and how to resource true prevention. Together, we dream of a world in which communities can transform the ways we help children stay safe while honoring their self-determination.
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Mirror Memoirs
Focuses on the narratives, healing and leadership of LGBTQ survivors of color in the movement to end child sexual abuse.
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My Life My Choice
Through survivor-led programs, My Life My Choice works to end child sexual exploitation by empowering youth to fight back.
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New Jersey Coalition Against Human Trafficking
The NJCAHT works to serve as the hub of community efforts statewide to increase coordination and visibility of NJ’s commitment to end human trafficking.
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OneChild
OneChild empowers youth to take action against child sexual exploitation and sex trafficking through prevention education, advocacy, and survivor empowerment.
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Protect Our Defenders
A national human rights organization dedicated to ending sexual violence, victim retaliation, misogyny, sexual prejudice, and racism in the military and combating a culture that has allowed it to persist.
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Roar as One
ROAR As One is creating a world without fear of sexual assault, harassment, and abuse through awareness campaigns and advocacy.
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Sacred Spaces
Helps Jewish institutions develop robust policies and training to prevent abuse and guides them responsibly should abuse occur.
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Safe Harbor Child Access Centers
Safe Harbor provides programming for domestic/sexual violence, child abuse and trauma survivors, as well as training for family court judges.
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Service Women’s Action Network (SWAN)
The Service Women’s Action Network (SWAN) is a member-driven community network advocating for the needs of service women.
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Sexually Abused Children’s Relief Endeavor (sacred)
Sacred provides temporary financial assistance to families with a child who has been sexually abused to support the necessities of daily living.
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Stop It Now!
Stop It Now! works to have the sexual abuse of children recognized as a preventable public health problem and to help adults take responsibility to prevent and stop sexual abuse of children.
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Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests
SNAP is the largest, oldest, and most active support group for women and men wounded by religious and institutional authorities (priests, ministers, bishops, deacons, nuns, coaches, teachers, and others).
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The Army of Survivors
OUR MISSION: TO BRING AWARENESS, ACCOUNTABILITY, & TRANSPARENCY TO SEXUAL VIOLENCE AGAINST ATHLETES AT ALL LEVELS
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The Firecracker Foundation
Provides children and teens who have survived sexual trauma with holistic therapeutic services.
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The Mama Bear Effect
The Mama Bear Effect is a nonprofit organization changing the way people think, talk, and respond to child sexual abuse.
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Together for Girls
Together for Girls partnership raises awareness, promotes evidence-based solutions, and galvanizes multisectoral action to end violence against children.
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Unchained at Last
Dedicated to ending forced and child marriage in the U.S. through direct services and advocacy.
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Autism Support Center Kenya
Dedicated to improving the social economic lives of those living in the autism spectrum in Kenya.
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CHIP International
Promotes awareness and diagnosis of autism and developmental/intellectual disorders in under-served communities and provides training and support.
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Haven International
Haven International promotes inclusive education and seeks to promote the interest of individuals with autism and intellectual disabilities in Ghana and West Africa.
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Powering Potential
Powering Potential enhances education by installing solar-powered computers, digital libraries and providing training in remote villages in Tanzania and the Peruvian Amazon.
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Revive a Child Uganda
Revive a Child Uganda helps children address comorbidities associated with Autism to improve symptoms through diet, supplements and lifestyle changes.
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University of Pennsylvania-Dr. Michael Blank
Dr. Michael Blank’s researches the integration of health & mental health treatment delivery for illnesses, such as HIV/Aids, in Botswana.
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Prevention and Awareness
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Akhil Foundation
Advances the worldwide autism community by providing online/onsite educational programs, latest treatments, and support for parents.
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Alliance for Natural Health
Advocates for safe, effective and inexpensive healing therapies based on testing, diet, supplements and lifestyle changes.
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Bow Tie Kids
We provide social and emotional learning so that children and their families impacted by chronic pain can live an empowered, fully expressed life.
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Els for Autism
Els for Autism delivers programs that are leading examples of what is possible for people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
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EveryMom Chicago
EveryMom Chicago is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization that connects expectant mothers in underserved communities with the material and support resources for the critical (and challenging) early weeks of parenthood. We provide new baby kits that contain newborn, postpartum, and breastfeeding essentials to families in need of extra support. Each kit contains both practical supplies and a local resource guide, connecting families with other free resources across Chicago to help along their parenting journey. Through partnerships with local hospitals, community health care centers, and nonprofits, we distribute kits to those that need it most.
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Image Impact
Provides comprehensive career readiness programs to support the career path of college students living with disabilities.
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Moms Helping Moms
Moms Helping Moms Foundation provides NJ low-income families with the essential baby items to give their children a healthy start.
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MyGOAL
MyGOAL exists to support families and individuals affected by autism and other intellectual disabilities throughout their lifespan. We do this through connections and resources provided.
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Nassan’s Place
Nassan’s Place provides affordable, educational and recreational programs for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in under-served New Jersey communities.
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National Health Freedom Coalition
Promotes access to health care information, services, treatments and products that people deem beneficial for their own health and survival.
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Rebalanced-Life Wellness Association
Rebalanced- Life Wellness Association ensures that Black men and boys living in under-represented communities, who bear the heaviest burden of disease and poor health status, have the opportunity to live fuller, healthier lives.
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