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 Bella LaFemme Society
A nonprofit that is dedicated to providing collegiate minority women with scholarships to promote mental wellness. We are structured to empower, advocate, alleviate hardships, reduce traumas through building resourceful sisterhoods within our communities. In support of increasing overall safety among women, we provide free self defense and gun safety courses.
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A Home for Shana Foundation
A Home from Shana Foundation is a 501c3 Organization working to address and improve Black Maternal Health disparities that contribute to unacceptably poor Maternal and Infant health outcomes in underserved communities.
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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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Alabama Justice Initiative
Alabama Justice Initiative is a non-profit organization dedicated to dismantling mass incarceration and racial injustices in the South. by the injustices of mass incarceration. We are a group of black women who are organizers, directly impacted, strategists who are committed to building a community of advocates and elevating the voices of Alabamians by building power through social justice advocacy.
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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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AngelaCARES
An advocate and support system for senior citizens, caregivers, youth volunteers, and the Hudson County community at large, since 2011
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Benevolence Farm
Benevolence Farm seeks to cultivate leadership, promote sustainable livelihoods, and reap structural change with individuals impacted by the criminal legal system in North Carolina.
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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 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 Push Inc.
BlackPush Inc. works on Social Injustice, Voter Suppression, and Ex-Offender Rehabilitation. BlackPush Inc. was founded in September of 2016 with the mission of helping ex-offenders transition back into their communities. Their vision is to bring equality and aid to the most vulnerable populations. Those whose rights are being stripped daily are our priority. They want to shift the dynamics of legislation towards equality for ALL people of America.
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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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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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Chocolate Milk Cafe
Chocolate Milk Café is a national network developed by Black lactation, human milk feeding, and breastfeeding advocates and professionals to provide culturally congruent care to families of the African Diaspora. Using peer-led lactation support and professional development programs, we provide education and create sacred spaces to empower and advocate for Black families, on both national and local levels.
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Citizen for Juvenile Justice
Citizens for Juvenile Justice (CfJJ) was founded in 1994 as the only independent, non-profit, statewide organization working exclusively to reform and reimagine the juvenile justice and other youth serving systems in Massachusetts. They advocate, convene through community engagement, conduct research, and educate the public on important juvenile and youth justice issues.
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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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Community Capacity Development
Our mission is to Uproot systemic challenges within black and brown communities. They are a Human Justice and Healing organization committed to addressing systemic challenges within marginalized communities of color.
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Community Movement Builders
a Black member-based collective of community residents and activists serving Black working-class and poor Black communities. CMB emerged out of a need to respond to encroaching gentrification, displacement and over-policing. CMB organizes to bring power to Black communities by challenging existing institutions and creating new ones that our people control.
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Creators Well
Creators Well is a series of FREE workshops and retreats designed to nurture the imagination of Black girls/femmes, 12-19, living in South Carolina interested in writing and performance. We execute these values by providing Black girls/femmes/non-binary/gender expansive youth with the tools and skills to author their own stories.
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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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Detroit Justice Center
The Detroit Justice Center (DJC) is a non-profit law firm working alongside communities to create economic opportunities, transform the justice system, and promote equitable and just cities.
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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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Equity Before Birth
Equity Before Birth (EBB) is pioneering an innovative approach to fill critical gaps and bring pre-existing silos together to wrap individual Black families in support. Keep reading to learn more about what makes us unique.
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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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Freedom Agenda
Freedom Agenda is a member-led project, dedicated to organizing people and communities directly impacted by incarceration to achieve decarceration and system transformation.
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Georgia Appleseed
Georgia Appleseed's mission is to increase justice in Georgia through law and policy reform and community engagement. Their current focus is on issues affecting Georgia's children, including access to strong, nurturing schools and healthy homes.
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Girl Get Up Society
Helping women and girls connect their mental health to a greater state of hope, healing and happiness in their lives.
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Girls Helping Girls Period
mission is to support those in need with donations of period products that help them lead productive and healthy lives, educate about period poverty, and advocate for systemic change to normalize periods and create menstrual equity
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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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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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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 and Accountability Center of Louisiana
The Justice and Accountability Center was founded in 2011 to eliminate obstacles to opportunity for people harmed by the systemic racism and economic impacts of the criminal legal system through policy advocacy, public education, and legal representation. They envision a world without barriers or limits for people with criminal records and their families, where we all can have a fair chance to thrive.
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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 for Black Girls
Justice for Black Girls is a social justice education space that serves Black girls ’ needs for protection, safety, and belonging through a holistic culture of care coupled with Black feminist curriculum, grassroots collaborations, and academic partnerships. The mission of Justice for Black Girls is to expand global knowledge of US-based systems of power that harm Black girls while co-creating liberated spaces to disrupt that harm.
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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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LANES
LANES is a not-for-profit youth mentoring organization created especially for teenage girls. By participating in LANES programs, girls develop leadership skills, strengthen their character and broaden their horizons through practical application activities and discussions.
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Louisiana Appleseed
Louisiana Appleseed solves our state's toughest problems at the root cause by advocating for access to justice, opportunity, and education.
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Marijuana Justice
a Black-led organization in Virginia that was established in 2019 in order to continue a movement of legalization centering on repairing the harms of the drug war. Marijuana Justice leads the CannaJustice Coalition which consists of Justice Forward VA, RISE for Youth, and Virginia Student Power Network. Our organization also supports the Joint CannaJustice Conference which kicked off in 2021 hosting 30+ speakers and 18 sessions.
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Men of Courage
mission is to empower our communities by promoting the academic, mental, emotional, social, financial, and career development of the next generation of young male leaders.
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Migrant Equity SouthEast
Migrant Equity SouthEast is a Latinx and immigrant-led 501(c)(3) organization based in South Georgia. We’re here to advocate for immigrant rights and work directly with the migrant and refugee communities of South Georgia to bring them equitable access to resources available to citizens: health resources, educational resources, political resources as well as financial aid and food assistance!
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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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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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Nollie Jenkins Family Center
Nollie Jenkins Family Center, Inc., received its 501c(3) status on July 31, 2007. It remains a grassroots leadership development, education, and training organization, and is now located in Durant (Holmes County), MS. More so now than ever, NJFC is actively engaged in the life and death struggle for the moral center of our nation and local communities.
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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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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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Protect the Vote GA
A nonprofit that demonstrations, calls to action, voter registration/education drives, community events and related initiatives aim to raise awareness of the issues that target Black, Brown, and young voters from participating in free and fair elections, while equipping people with resources and tools to use their civic power at an optimal level. We understand that our vote is the most sacred right we have as citizens in America, and we know that our advocacy efforts to end voter suppression have the ability and impact to make enough discord to ignite real systemic change.
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ReNforce
ReNforce provides training and coaching to businesses looking to hire justice-impacted people to meet their workforce needs, while simultaneously providing unique training and professional development to improve employment outcomes for career-seekers.
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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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Selma Center for Nonviolence, Truth, and Reconciliation
The mission of the Selma Center for Nonviolence, Truth, & Reconciliation is to partner with institutions to promote love, the establishment of justice, and build the Beloved Community. The Center is committed to transforming and healing the root causes of physical, political, psychological, environmental, economic and racial violence at personal, family, community and systemic levels.
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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 Carolina for Restorative Justice
Dedicated to humanizing all within the carceral system, changing the narratives and disrupting the school to Prison pipeline.
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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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SwemKids
SwemKids is a nonprofit program that teaches introductory swimming lessons and water safety skills to communities that experience the highest rates of drownings.
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Teen Health Mississippi
Teen Health Mississippi uses a 360-degree youth partnership model to increase youth access to information and resources for their health and well-being. They then work with trusted adults (parents, educators, counselors, healthcare providers, etc.) to empower youth to make informed decisions for their lives. They are an inclusive organization anchored in the universal principles of fairness, respect, and equity for all. They serve whole communities because when youth are healthy, whole communities benefit.
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The Birthing Place
A team of exceptionally experienced maternal health professionals in NYC — midwives, doulas, educators, passionate community members, and engaged organizations — working together to help drive the mission of The Birthing Place forward. They are BIPOC-led, multilingual and serving our community with the desire to create a maternity care system that centers the marginalized. This results in an improved experience for all.
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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 ECO Foundation
The ECO Foundation works collaboratively with the people we serve to provide creative education, healthy food, and employment opportunities, so they can meet their needs today and thrive for generations to come.
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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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Unity in the Community
Launched in 2009 , Unity in the Community is a nonprofit organization , which is dedicated to changing the lives of others in Philadelphia.
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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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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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Watu Moja
To connect Afrikan American and Afro Latino young people to the global community and especially the world-wide Afrikan Diaspora, and those on the Afrikan continent, where they together can serve, connect, and develop life-long life-changing relationships of mutual love, encouragement, and investment.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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Erin’s Law Foundation
Erin’s Law Foundation envisions a world where all children grow up free from child abuse of any kind. Their mission is to prevent child abuse by providing free prevention curriculum and resources for use in schools and community organizations nationwide, including as well as for teachers and parents. This curriculum will be available not only throughout all 50 states, but worldwide as needed as well, and will be translated into multiple languages.
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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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PEI Kids
PEI Kids is dedicated to promoting and maintaining a safe environment for all children. They work with children, families, and caregivers to provide prevention, intervention, and advocacy programs relating to personal safety, sexual abuse, and the overall well-being of the child.
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Project Elijah Empowering Autism
a nonprofit organization established in 2004 and hosts free year-round education, recreation and trauma programs for families living with autism/unique abilities.
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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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Survived and Punished NY
Survived & Punished (S&P) is a coalition of defense campaigns and grassroots groups committed to eradicating the criminalization of survivors of domestic and sexual violence and the culture of violence that contributes to it.
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