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Advocacy & Resources

California

  • Atchison Foundation

    • Website: https://www.atkinsonfdn.org

    • Description: Grants to non-profit agencies serving economically, mentally and/or physically, addiction, at-risk children youth, families, immigrants, and elderly.

  • CCCNP - Central City Neighborhood Partners

    • Website: https://laccnp.org

    • Description: Advancing systemic change, ensuring equal access to housing, food, health, transportation, education to benefit low-income

Connecticut

  • AmeriCares

    • Website: americares.org

    • Description: Leading the charge to support accessible, reliable health care to people affected by poverty or disaster in Stamford, CT

  • Friends of Forgotten Children

    • Website: https://www.fofc-nh.org

    • Description: a volunteer-run provider of food, clothing and holiday gifts for low income and at-risk individuals and families

Florida

  • Harvest international

    • Website: https://www.harvesttime.org

    • Description: Humanitarian organization with a mission to provide a hand up to children and families in Florida that are 200% below poverty level

  • The Giving Project

    • Website: https://givingclosetproject.org

    • Description: Provides basic needs resource for school communities and social service agencies that work directly with homeless and low income youth and their families in Florida.

Kansas

  • Hope Unlimited

    • Website: https://hope-unlimited.org

    • Description: provides emergency shelter, support groups, crisis intervention, court assistance, sexual assault advocacy, safety planning, and healthcare resources through the healthcare initiative project as well as offers a visitation center to victims in abusive and crisis situations related to family violence, sexual assault and sexual abuse in Southeast Kansas.

Kentucky

  • Hope Unlimited Family Care Center

    • Website: https://hopeunlimitedfcc.org

    • Description: Choose hope if in crisis. Provides pregnancy tests, ultrasounds, a prenatal care clinic, parenting classes, court ordered parenting classes and student development. Learn to earn in order to access necessities from hope’s closet

Illinois

  • Hope Unlimited Family Care Center

    • Website: https://hopeunlimitedfcc.org

    • Description: Choose hope if in crisis. Provides pregnancy tests, ultrasounds, a prenatal care clinic, parenting classes, court ordered parenting classes and student development. Learn to earn in order to access necessities from hope’s closet

Indiana:

  • We Bloom

    • Website: https://www.webloom.org

    • Description: Empowering healthy communities adapting to the changing needs that emerge in Vietnam and Indiana.

Maine

  • Aid for Kids

    • Website: https://aidforkids.org

    • Description: Children’s Food, Healthcare, Shelter, and education fund: Distributes new articles of clothing, dental education and Bess the Book bus program

    • Location: Maine, Vietnam

Maryland

  • Kahlert Foundation

    • Website: https://www.thekahlertfoundation.org

    • Description: Grants to non-profit organizations improving the quality of life and well-being of the community in the areas of health care, education, youth programs, veteran organizations, and human services

Minnesota

  • SemCAC

    • Website: https://www.semcac.org

    • Description: A community action agency in Minnesota dedicated to helping people help themselves and each other

New England

  • Annie’s Angels

    • Website: https://www.anniesangels.org

    • Description: supports local families struggling financially through a life-threatening disease, or illness. Support disability connecting neighbor to neighbor, friend to friend, and business to business in a caring fundraising network.

New York

  • American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

    • Website: www.jdc.org

    • Description: Jewish humanitarian organization, leading rescue and aid, public health emergencies, and natural disasters, New York, NY

  • Red Hook Initiative

    • Website: https://rhicenter.org

    • Description: RHI’s model gives young people and residents the tools, resources and opportunities they need to interrupt the systems and barriers that perpetuate historic inequities for the Red Hook community.

  • Rising ground

Ohio

  • Friends Helping Friends

    • Website: http://www.fhfcharity.com

    • Description: Kindless, love, care, no judging. Offering a little extra help for those that are too proud to ask for it or do not know how to go about finding ways to get the extra boost.

  • Shoes and clothes for kids

    • Website: https://sc4k.org

    • Description: In order to increase academic attendance, Cleveland kids should have the proper tools including shoes, clothing and school supplies.

Rhode Island

  • Children’s Friend

    • Website: https://www.cfsri.org

    • Description: Supports abandoned and abused children, prevention and intervention crisis intervention, education, literacy servicesHands in Service

Pennsylvania

  • Mitvah Circle

    • Website: https://mitzvahcircle.org

    • Description: fill the gaps, to provide items that are not covered by government assistance, includes clothing, toothpaste, diapers, period items, and deodorant in Pennsylvania.

Tennessee

  • Glass House Collective

    • Website: http://www.glasshousecollective.org

    • Description: Founded to bring life back to Glass Street, and Glass Street back to life in East Chattanooga, with various projects and community events.

Utah

  • Kahlert Foundation

    • Website: https://www.thekahlertfoundation.org

    • Description: Grants to non-profit organizations improving the quality of life and well-being of the community in the areas of health care, education, youth programs, veteran organizations, and human services

Other

  • Lund

    • Website: https://lundvt.org/

    • Description: Breaking the cycles of poverty, addiction, and abuse by supporting pregnant and parenting teens, young adults, and adoptive families through adoption, education, residential treatment, outpatient treatment, family support services, screening and assessment

  • One Hope United

    • Website: https://onehopeunited.org

    • Description: a nonprofit serving over 10,000 children and families. Available to assist with education centers, child and family services, counseling, and residential programs. They use evidence-based and trauma-informed practices to empower children and families to see and create a future full of potential with the goal of building skills to live life without limits

  • The Mustard Seed

    • Website: https://mustardseedfla.org

    • Description: Furniture and clothing bank in central Florida, furnishing an entire home for economically qualifying families and individuals

  • Restore Global

    • Website: https://restoreglobal.org

    • Description: Restore Global assists non profits in purchasing supplies at a discounts. They also collect overproduced items, often-new, excess goods from corporations, manufacturers, government organizations, and retailers.

  • Tides Foundation

    • Website: https://www.tides.org

    • Description: Social justice, world prosperity, equity, human rights, economic empowerment, sustainable environments, healthy communities, quality education

    $ Funding Opportunities

    • Avery-Fuller-Welch foundation

    • Bothin Foundation

    • Chavez Family Foundation

    • Community fund of Chattanooga

    • Delaplaine Foundation

    • Dallas Foundation grants

    • Sand Hill Foundation

    * Toolkits & More

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