Community Involvement
American Cancer Society
The American Cancer Society is the nationwide, community-based, voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives, and diminishing suffering from cancer, through research, education, advocacy, and service.Website:www.cancer.org
Feeding America’s Hungry Children
Whether it is distributing Emergency Food Boxes during the holidays, providing nutritious, vitamin-rich, fresh fruits and vegetables, or helping underfed children through member agency programs, Feeding America’s Hungry Children is dedicated to relieving hunger to as many of our nation’s precious children as we can. website: www.feedingahc.org
Home for Our Troops
Homes for Our Troops is a national non-profit, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization founded in 2004. Home for Our Troops is strongly committed to helping those who have selflessly given to the US and have returned home with serious disabilities and injuries since September 11, 2001. It is their duty and our honor to assist severely injured Servicemen and Servicewomen and their immediate families by raising donations of money, building materials and professional labor and to coordinate the process of building a home that provides maximum freedom of movement and the ability to live more independently.
website: www.homesforourtroops.org
Kiva
Kiva’s mission is to connect people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty. Kiva is the world’s first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend to unique entrepreneurs around the globe. website: www.kiva.org
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) is the world’s largest voluntary health organization dedicated to funding blood cancer research, education and patient services. LLS’s mission: Cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families. Since the first funding in 1954, LLS has awarded more than $600 million in research funding.
website: www.leukemia-lymphoma.org
UNICEF
The United Nations Children’s Fund was created by the United Nations General Assembly on December 11, 1946, to provide emergency food and healthcare to children in countries that had been devastated by World War II. In 1953, UNICEF became a permanent part of the United Nations System and its name was shortened from the original United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund but it has continued to be known by the popular acronym based on this old name. Headquartered in New York City, UNICEF provides long-term humanitarian and developmental assistance to children and mothers in developing countries. UNICEF’s programs emphasize developing community-level services to promote the health and well-being of children. UNICEF was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1965 and the Prince of Asturias Award of Concord in 2006. website: www.unicef.org
World Vision
World Vision is a Christian humanitarian charity organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. website: www.worldvision.org
Conflict Resolution Institute (CRI)
CRI’s Mission is to teach and practice the prevention, management and resolution of conflict in the community, the nation and the world through the utilization of time-tested theories, processes and techniques which ensure equitable, practical and lasting agreements. website: www.cri.cc
The American Cancer Society is the nationwide, community-based, voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives, and diminishing suffering from cancer, through research, education, advocacy, and service.Website:www.cancer.org
Feeding America’s Hungry Children
Whether it is distributing Emergency Food Boxes during the holidays, providing nutritious, vitamin-rich, fresh fruits and vegetables, or helping underfed children through member agency programs, Feeding America’s Hungry Children is dedicated to relieving hunger to as many of our nation’s precious children as we can. website: www.feedingahc.org
Home for Our Troops
Homes for Our Troops is a national non-profit, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization founded in 2004. Home for Our Troops is strongly committed to helping those who have selflessly given to the US and have returned home with serious disabilities and injuries since September 11, 2001. It is their duty and our honor to assist severely injured Servicemen and Servicewomen and their immediate families by raising donations of money, building materials and professional labor and to coordinate the process of building a home that provides maximum freedom of movement and the ability to live more independently.
website: www.homesforourtroops.org
Kiva
Kiva’s mission is to connect people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty. Kiva is the world’s first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend to unique entrepreneurs around the globe. website: www.kiva.org
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) is the world’s largest voluntary health organization dedicated to funding blood cancer research, education and patient services. LLS’s mission: Cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families. Since the first funding in 1954, LLS has awarded more than $600 million in research funding.
website: www.leukemia-lymphoma.org
UNICEF
The United Nations Children’s Fund was created by the United Nations General Assembly on December 11, 1946, to provide emergency food and healthcare to children in countries that had been devastated by World War II. In 1953, UNICEF became a permanent part of the United Nations System and its name was shortened from the original United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund but it has continued to be known by the popular acronym based on this old name. Headquartered in New York City, UNICEF provides long-term humanitarian and developmental assistance to children and mothers in developing countries. UNICEF’s programs emphasize developing community-level services to promote the health and well-being of children. UNICEF was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1965 and the Prince of Asturias Award of Concord in 2006. website: www.unicef.org
World Vision
World Vision is a Christian humanitarian charity organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. website: www.worldvision.org
Conflict Resolution Institute (CRI)
CRI’s Mission is to teach and practice the prevention, management and resolution of conflict in the community, the nation and the world through the utilization of time-tested theories, processes and techniques which ensure equitable, practical and lasting agreements. website: www.cri.cc
