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Big Brothers - Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago
As Metro Chicago's largest donor and volunteer supported mentoring network, Big Brothers Big Sisters makes meaningful, monitored matches between adult volunteers (“Bigs”) and children (“Littles”), ages 7 through 18, in communities all across Lake, Cook, and DuPage Counties in Illinois and Lake County, NW Indiana - urban and rural… Big and Little. We develop positive relationships that have a direct and lasting effect on the lives of young people. Our mentors work with children in the community, in workplaces, in their schools, on military bases, and many places in between.
Chicago, IllinoisPLUG IN AMERICA
Making a difference in communities through dedicated service and impact.
Los Angeles, California
PET FOOD PANTRY OF OKLAHOMA CITY INC
The ultimate goal of the Pantry is to reduce the rapidly growing rate of animal surrenders to local shelters or the outright abandonment of pets due to financial strain.
Oklahoma City, OklahomaTHREE RIVERS FESTIVAL EXECUTIVE BOARD INC
Making a difference in communities through dedicated service and impact.
FORT WAYNE, Indiana
PongFit, Inc.
To build community and fitness through ping pong. The challenge: You’ve probably seen entrenched barriers to social, healthy play at your offices, schools, and public places: cramped play areas, addictive devices, boring workout regimens, and sedentary workplaces to name a few. We’re here to help you smash those barriers with a fun, engaging activity for all ages and skill levels. As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, we love to collaborate with other organizations to help improve lives. Because fitness shouldn’t require a membership. Let’s bounce!
Santa Monica, CaliforniaAfrican Literacy Foundation
Making a difference in communities through dedicated service and impact.
Houston, Texas
Communities In Schools of Tacoma
We are part of the nation's leading dropout prevention organization, working in public schools to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.
Tacoma, Washington
MARS SOCIETY INC
The time has come for humanity to journey to the planet Mars. We’re ready. Though Mars is distant, we are far better prepared today to send humans to the Red Planet than we were to travel to the Moon at the commencement of the space age. Given the will, we could have our first crews on Mars within a decade. The reasons for going to Mars are powerful. We must go for the knowledge of Mars. Our robotic probes have revealed that Mars was once a warm and wet planet, suitable for hosting life’s origin. But did it? A search for fossils on the Martian surface or microbes in groundwater below could provide the answer. If found, they would show that the origin of life is not unique to the Earth, and, by implication, reveal a universe that is filled with life and probably intelligence as well. From the point of view learning our true place in the universe, this would be the most important scientific enlightenment since Copernicus. We must go for the knowledge of Earth. As we begin the twenty-first century, we have evidence that we are changing the Earth’s atmosphere and environment in significant ways. It has become a critical matter for us better to understand all aspects of our environment. In this project, comparative planetology is a very powerful tool, a fact already shown by the role Venusian atmospheric studies played in our discovery of the potential threat of global warming by greenhouse gases. Mars, the planet most like Earth, will have even more to teach us about our home world. The knowledge we gain could be key to our survival. We must go for the challenge. Civilizations, like people, thrive on challenge and decay without it. The time is past for human societies to use war as a driving stress for technological progress. As the world moves towards unity, we must join together, not in mutual passivity, but in common enterprise, facing outward to embrace a greater and nobler challenge than that which we previously posed to each other. Pioneering Mars will provide such a challenge. Furthermore, a cooperative international exploration of Mars would serve as an example of how the same joint-action could work on Earth in other ventures. We must go for the youth. The spirit of youth demands adventure. A humans-to-Mars program would challenge young people everywhere to develop their minds to participate in the pioneering of a new world. If a Mars program were to inspire just a single extra percent of today’s youth to scientific educations, the net result would be tens of millions more scientists, engineers, inventors, medical researchers and doctors. These people will make innovations that create new industries, find new medical cures, increase income, and benefit the world in innumerable ways to provide a return that will utterly dwarf the expenditures of the Mars program. We must go for the opportunity. The settling of the Martian New World is an opportunity for a noble experiment in which humanity has another chance to shed old baggage and begin the world anew; carrying forward as much of the best of our heritage as possible and leaving the worst behind. Such chances do not come often, and are not to be disdained lightly. We must go for our humanity. Human beings are more than merely another kind of animal, -we are life’s messenger. Alone of the creatures of the Earth, we have the ability to continue the work of creation by bringing life to Mars, and Mars to life. In doing so, we shall make a profound statement as to the precious worth of the human race and every member of it. We must go for the future. Mars is not just a scientific curiosity; it is a world with a surface area equal to all the continents of Earth combined, possessing all the elements that are needed to support not only life, but technological society. It is a New World, filled with history waiting to be made by a new and youthful branch of human civilization that is waiting to be born. We must go to Mars to make that potential a reality. We must go, not for us, but for a people who are yet to be. We must do it for the Martians. Believing therefore that the exploration and settlement of Mars is one of the greatest human endeavors possible in our time, we have gathered to found this Mars Society, understanding that even the best ideas for human action are never inevitable, but must be planned, advocated, and achieved by hard work. We call upon all other individuals and organizations of like-minded people to join with us in furthering this great enterprise. No nobler cause has ever been. We shall not rest until it succeeds.
Lakewood, Colorado
Global Vision 2020
Global Vision 2020 was founded to help end the world’s epidemic of poor vision
Easton, MarylandJESUS ACTS IN INMATES LIVES MINISTRY INC
Making a difference in communities through dedicated service and impact.
Belton, Texas
The Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation
The Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation (IDDF) was founded in New York City in 1980 to extend the dream, dance, and indomitable spirit of the mother of modern dance, Isadora Duncan. IDDF’s mission is to: Maintain the legacy of American modern dance pioneer Isadora Duncan through performances and residencies and archive her works as priceless jewels of American modern dance. Create new choreography through resident performing troupe Lori Belilove
New York, New York
Association for Humanitarian Development
Association for Humanitarian Development (AHD) is a social community based organization was established on December 2001-2002 and registered under the societies Registration Act: XXI of 1860 on 17 May 2003. AHD is Non-Government Organization which organizes humanitarian Development activities in Pakistan. AHD emphasize a right based, participatory approaches for community development, where rural people especially women and disadvantaged groups are partners rather than the subjects and objects of development. Since 2003-2004 AHD introduced no. of village solutions like FES Cooking stove, safe drinking Nadi filter water units, kitchen gardening for rural women & organic/natural agriculture for farmers.
Hyderabad, Sindh