We help parents of those with special needs learn to thrive in healthy, empowered and connected living
Abounding Health - Help Special Needs Parents
Our mission is to help special needs parents from current unhealthy state of overwhelmed, strained and drained, into a thriving, abundant self-care mindset and lifestyle, so that we can enjoy life to the fullest, live out our biggest dreams and ambitions, and also be at our very best to help our children learn to overcome any and all challenges hindering them from enjoying a fully functioning, fulfilling childhood and life.
Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency (Alpha-1) is a condition that is passed from parents to their children through their genes. This condition may result in serious lung and/or liver disease at various ages in life.
Alpha-1 Foundation
The Alpha-1 Foundation is dedicated to providing the leadership and resources that will result in increased research, improved health, worldwide detection, and a cure for Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency.
The Alzheimer’s & Dementia Resource Center is Central Florida’s community resource for families and professional caregivers affected by Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias through education, advocacy, research opportunities, and compassionate support.
Alzheimer's and Dementia Resource Center
Actively striving for a cure to the disease, ADRC is one of only two gateway organizations in Florida that help coordinate brain tissue donations across Central Florida, facilitating what is known as the Florida Brain Bank Research Program. In addition, ADRC facilitates education & training for professional caregivers that meets requirements for the Florida Department of Elder Affairs.
The Children's Diabetes Foundation was established by Barbara and Marvin Davis in 1977 in Denver, Coloradoas a non-profit organization dedicated solely to the support of research in childhood diabetes and the provision of the best possible clinical and educational programs for children with diabetes.
Children's Diabetes Foundation
The Foundation's mission is to raise funds to support the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes where over 6,000 children and young adults from around the world recieve the finest diabetes care available.
Many disadvantaged children who lack good oral hygiene habits or dental care can have severe tooth decay and gum disease which may result in physical pain or discomfort. In many cases, this leads to low self-esteem and potentially significant health issues. Early intervention with education for both parent and child, plus basic oral hygiene supplies, can make a difference now and in the future.
Children's Healthy Smile Project
Our mission is to improve children's oral hygiene and promote a healthy smile by providing oral hygiene supplies such as toothbrushes, toothpaste, floss, and educational materials to children in need.
To improve the quality of life for people who are blind have low vision, or have other special needs.
Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind
Since 1946, the Guide Dog Foundation has provided guide dogs and training, free of charge, to people who are blind or visually impaired.
Our founding members were looking for a way to serve a demographic of people who would otherwise not have access to the services inerHEALTH provides. The inerHEALTH Foundation and our members are passionate about fighting Type 2 Diabetes and believe that through hard work, dedication, and educational awareness, we can make a difference in our clients' lives.
inerHEALTH Foundation
The inerHEALTH Foundation provides assistance to low-income individuals living with type 2 diabetes or prediabetes/metabolic syndrome. Our mission is to improve their quality of life and reduce dependence on medication through movement and nutrition.
Our mission is to accelerate life-changing breakthroughs to cure, prevent, and treat T1D and its complications. We see a world without type 1 diabetes.
JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International)
JDRF is the leading global organization funding type 1 diabetes (T1D) research. Our strength lies in our exclusive focus and singular influence on the worldwide effort to end T1D.
Every year, more than half a million babies are born too soon in the United States. Our country’s premature birth rate has risen by 36 percent over the last 25 years. That’s serious cause for concern. We help moms have full-term pregnancies and research the problems that threaten the health of babies.
March of Dimes Foundation
In local communities across the country, we're helping moms take charge of their health, and supporting families when something goes wrong. The March of Dimes also acts globally: sharing best practices in perinatal health and helping improve birth outcomes where the needs are the most urgent.
We are the foremost eating disorders non-profit organization in New England. We provide education about eating disorders and their underlying causes to develop a compassionate community that promotes hopefulness and supports healing.
MEDA (Multi-Service Eating Disorders Association)
We offer a variety of services to support individuals and families through the various stages of their journey. MEDA serves as a support network and resource for clients, loved ones, clinicians, educators and the general public.
Music has proven to benefit a wide range of older adults afflicted with cognitive decline. According to research, music has been effective in decreasing dementia related behaviors including agitation,anxiety, and depression as well as improving overall quality of life.
Mind&Melody Inc.
The program provides the opportunity for community involvement and simultaneously raises awareness about dementia. Students are given the opportunity to earn community service hours and learn about the daily lives of people with dementia.
MDA is leading the fight to free individuals — and the families who love them — from the harm of muscular dystrophy, ALS and related muscle-debilitating diseases that take away physical strength, independence and life. We use our collective strength to help kids and adults live longer and grow stronger by finding research breakthroughs across diseases, caring for individuals from day one and empowering families with services and support in hometowns across America.
Muscular Dystrophy Association
MDA is using the money we raise to accomplish the following goals by 2020: CURE: Double our research investment on drug development and clinical trials to bring more treatments and cures to families. CARE: Provide care and support for 50,000 more families — a 50 percent increase over the number of families registered with MDA today. CHAMPION: Fund 20,000 kids at MDA Summer Camp at no cost to families as we expand our offerings for young adults.
The mission of the National Federation of the Blind is to serve as a means for blind people to come together to work collectively to improve our lives.
National Federation of the Blind (NFB)
By providing public education about blindness, information and referral services, scholarships, literature and materials about blindness, specialized aids and appliances, adaptive equipment, and support for blind people and their families. The members of the National Federation of the Blind strive to spread the word that the blind are normal individuals who can compete on equal terms with their sighted peers. Together, with love, hope, and determination, we transform dreams into reality.
NFBH is a 501(c)3 organization dedicated to brain health initiaves and facilitating healthcare for everyone, emphasizing our veterans, law enforcement and first responders.
National Foundation for Brain Health
National Foundation for Brain Health is a charity organization whose mission is to support brain health initiatives for those who have suffer from traumatic brain injuries, concussions, PTSD, cognitive issues, and much more. We believe in rehabilitation and true healing for all wounds, and choose to focus on the invisible impairments in the brain.
NYCHSF introduces plant-based foods and nutrition education in schools to educate the whole school community.
New York Coalition for Healthy School Lunches
We create resources for use in schools and develop plant-based entree recipes and introduce them into schools (for the protein component of the National School Lunch Program).
The California Association for Recycling All Trash (CARAT) was formed in 2021 to increase recycling and reduce plastic pollution. CARAT has successfully persuaded more than 1,000 grocery stores in California to accept the return of bottles and cans. CARAT is publishing a 150 page book Plastic Pollution Solution that provides a plan to significant reduce plastic pollution worldwide with legislation and an international treaty.
Plastic Pollution Solution
We have published a 150 page book Plastic Pollution Solution that provides a path for significantly reducing plastic pollution worldwide with proposed legislation and a proposed international treaty.
We are a non-profit that provides multiple free opportunities to exercise in Austin and the surrounding communities. Though a Parkinson’s diagnosis can be tough to deal withthere is one proven way to help yourself and that is to be fit and exercise!
Power for Parkinson's
We deliver FREE fitness and dance classes for people with Parkinson's and their care partners in Austin and the surrounding communities.
We understand how hard it can be when a family member needs help. We also understand how much care professionals take when making a referral. That's why, for over 30 years, both families and professionals throughout the Midwest have trusted Preferred Family Healthcare.
Preferred Family Health Care
We are a comprehensive behavioral health non-profit organization established in 1979 providing substance abuse treatment/prevention and mental health services throughout Missouri.
Our mission is to prevent blindness and preserve sight.
Prevent Blindness (National Society to Prevent Blindness
Our goals are to prevent blindness & preserve sight across all ages & multiple eye conditions; focuses on educating the public; promoting advances in public health systems of care; and advocating for public policy that emphasizes early detection & access to appropriate eye care.
Fit kids, one school at a time! We give schools and PE teachers the funding and tools they need to create PE programs that kids love to participate in and teachers love to teach! 61.5% of kids do not get ANY physical activity outside school making our mission vital to help kids learn to become active and foster a love of movement they will take with them for life!
Project Fit America
We donate indoor and outdoor fitness equipment, innovative curriculum of lessons, and games using the equipment as well as on site teacher training and support. We help PE Teachers build a PE program that is just right for their school's facility, amount of time they see students, and their teaching goals and objectives. This program is customized to each school and it's unique environment.
The Road 2 Recovery Foundation is a 501 (C) (3) non-profit organization founded to help professional AMA licensed professional motocross/supercross members with financial assistance if they sustain career-ending injuries as well as providing motivational, emotional, and spiritual support to these individuals and their families.
Road 2 Recovery Foundation
Our goal of Road 2 Recovery would be to build enough assets in the endowment fund to completely provide for an athlete under our description for the duration of their life if they are unable to ever generate revenue again. We can strive towards this goal with the help of everyone in the motocross and action sports community who is passionate about these sports. The Road 2 Recovery is out there to make our sports a better, safer place.
The mission of Serving Kids Hope is to promote healthy lifestyles in children,families, and communities by addressing medical, nutritional, social, economic, and behavioral issues in a comprehensive, compassionate, and empowering manner.
Serving Kids Hope
SKI aimes to Increase awareness of the childhood obesity epidemic, educate families, providers, and the community about treating and preventing childhood obesity, and to provide a safety net to families with nutrition related issues in Orange County.
To Write Love on Her Arms is a nonprofit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury, and suicide.
TWLOHA (To Write Love On Her Arms
TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform, inspire, and invest directly into treatment and recovery.
Women for Sobriety (WFS) is an organization whose purpose is to help all women find their individual path to recovery through discovery of self, gained by sharing experiences, hopes, and encouragement with other women in similar circumstances.
Women for Sobriety
WFS offers a variety of recovery tools to guide a woman in developing coping skills which focus on emotional growth, spiritual growth,self-esteem, and a healthy lifestyle. Our vision is to encourage all women in developing personal growth and continued abstinence through the “New Life” Program.
We know that lasting personal and social change comes about when we all work together. That’s why at the Y, strengthening community is our cause. Every day, we work side-by-side with our neighbors to make sure that everyone, regardless of age, income or background, has the opportunity to learn, grow, and thrive.
YMCA OF THE USA
The Y is a nonprofit like no other. That’s because in 10,000 neighborhoods across the nation, we have the presence and partnerships to not just promise, but deliver positive change. The Y is community centered. For nearly 160 years, we’ve been listening and responding to our communities. The Y brings people together. We connect people of all ages and backgrounds to bridge the gaps in community needs. The Y nurtures potential. We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to learngrow and thrive. The Y has local presence and global reach. We mobilize local communities to affect lasting, meaningful change.