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Youth Outreach Services
Youth Outreach Services (YOS) is a non-profit comprehensive youth services agency. YOS serves at-risk youth, ages 12 to 21 years, and their families, who are struggling at school, at home, or in their communities throughout Chicago and Cook County . We help youth to overcome their challenges through programs that may fall into four specific service categories: Counseling Services/Behavioral Health, Prevention Services, Child Welfare/Foster Care, and Juvenile Justice. With a staff of 120, YOS serves more than 4,500 youth each year.
Chicago, Illinois
Second Wind Foundation
Loving Honduras....building sustainable communities one family at a time. The Second Wind Foundation infuses and develops job skills and business-operation capabilities in each of our community participants. Through their affiliation with our organization, we radically and positively alter their lives so they become equipped to earn a living and support themselves, their families, and their neighbors by creating businesses and/or using their skills and labors in their local area. We seek to ‘work ourselves out of a job’, and we believe the need for our organization can one day no longer exist. We exhibit faithful stewardship over everything God has entrusted to our care, including people and possessions. We empower, educate, equip, and enrich those who are most impoverished through hope, community strength, and growth regardless of race or religion. Our participants give back to our organization, their communities, or both in the same spirit from which they received.
Shawnee, KS, Kansas
Trees For Houston
Founded in 1983, Trees For Houston initially focused its early efforts on planting street trees in the heart of Houston. Now, with nearly half a million trees planted, our organization has evolved into one that grows, plants and maintains thousands of trees across the greater Houston region.
Houston, Texas
CASA OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY TEXAS
We provide trained, court-appointed volunteers who advocate for the best interest of abused and neglected children on their journey to a safe, permanent home.
Georgetown, Texas
Food Finders
Food Finders’ Mission: • Eliminate Hunger • Eliminate Food Waste • Improve Nutrition in food-insecure communities We envision a community with zero hunger and zero food waste. We strive to positively impact our community, the policies that govern it, and the environment we live in. We go above and beyond our duty to address the evolving needs of those we serve and take our responsibility seriously in addressing the root causes of hunger and food waste. We pride ourselves on doing what is right and providing transparency while being a collaborative partner open to other perspectives and opinions. Food Finders values community, responsibility, accountability, and integrity.
Los Alamitos, California
Whole Earth Engineering, Inc.
Promote Respect and Understanding between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous People’s Knowledge Systems via the [re]-grounding of Modern Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics (STEAM) with World-Wide Traditional Knowledge Systems.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Judson University
Judson is an evangelical Christian university that represents the Church at work in higher education, equipping students to be fully developed, responsible persons who glorify God by the quality of their personal relationships, their work, and their citizenship within the community, the nation and the world.
Elgin, IllinoisMIRACLEFEET
Making a difference in communities through dedicated service and impact.
CARRBORO, North Carolina
PROMISE OF HOPE INC
An organization of professionals and recovery persons presenting to women and men pathways of forgiveness, acceptance and freedom through the study of God's Holy Word and 12 step programs
DUDLEY, Georgia
CHURCH SUPPLIES AND SERVICES INCORPORATED
Making a difference in communities through dedicated service and impact.
HOUSTON, TexasHOUSTON VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROGRAM INC
Making a difference in communities through dedicated service and impact.
HUSTON, Texas
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