This 501c3 organization focuses its charitable efforts on providing shelter and support for abandoned and abused mothers, as well as their children. It is their goal to give the mothers and children hope and guidance in a safe, spiritually focused, environment. They provide the mothers and children with resources to overcome their current circumstances, and make sure that their immediate needs are met.

This nonprofit organization wants to give each child in need a custom birthday. We support all sorts of under-privileged children and youth - they might be in group homes, at a domestic violence or human trafficking agency/shelter, in low income housing with or without a parent or even homeless.  They think that it is important for each child to be given something that is just theirs. Their goal is to help each child to feel special, and to give them memories that will last a lifetime.

This charity provides emotional support to veterans and their families. Namely, this organization provides trained emotional support dogs to needing individuals. They also provide individual counseling resources, as well as group counseling resources.

This nonprofit organization aims to shift the conversation around addiction by presenting addicted persons as individuals. They wish to remove the numbers, statistics, and labels. They are accomplishing their goal by creating a collection of fine-art photos, accompanied by brief life stories, and supporting audiovisual materials that will be circulated via art galleries, museums, book, e-book, and a dedicated website. This awareness creates the possibility of compassion.

To overcome the limitations of current social support systems, this 501c3 organization has written, produced and released educational documentaries (and will be producing more mini educational documentaries) highlighting the framework of comprehensive social support system for upward mobility, which promotes a coherent and integrative approach to service delivery. Their mission is to increase access to holistic, effective social supports for marginalized populations. The production and screening of these mini documentaries are being or will be held throughout the country.

This 501c3 organization provides ministry to women in positions of leadership. They are a diverse community of women that are different ages and are from different backgrounds. They come together to collaborate, commune, and to create a place for women in leadership to be received, be refreshed, and to be refueled.

The purpose of this charity is to provide a serene and peaceful sanctuary for women to learn and participate in meditative practices. This organization offers women an opportunity to participate in longer and deeper meditations, focused spiritual study, daily introspection, and service work. Their main program provides women the opportunity to participate in the activities of a working Ashram, as well as workshops that will assist in developing their spiritual practices.

The purpose of the 501c3 organization is to provide practical agricultural education to African immigrants within the urban Midwest. They will learn how to grow culturally specific plants and vegetables in the Midwestern climate. This will be a way to preserve culture, and foster a love for gardening. This will also serve to improve greenery in urban areas.

This 501c3 organization’s purpose is to develop and fund projects that educate the public about horses and the similarities and differences between specific breeds. The organization will also sponsor the adoption and training of its rescues. They provide proven, long-term training to their rescues. They also host trail competitions, and, by doing so, are able to fund the development of properly cared for horseback riding trails.

This nonprofit organization’s mission is to empower church in order to better assist vulnerable children. They hope to find individuals within each church that will be able to spearhead their church’s efforts. They want to help each church become trained, create structure, and be effective in the lives of vulnerable children. They define vulnerable children as children in crisis families, in foster care, aging out of foster care, adults who lived through trauma as children, and children without functioning parents around the world.

This 501c3 organization aims to accelerate the adoption of lighting technologies in the homes of elderly persons in Southern California for the benefit of health and safety. The main goal of their organization is to promote optimal lighting in the residences of the elderly so that quality of life is improved and the risk for falls and injuries is reduced.  They plan to raise awareness of the issue through school and community events. In order to foster implementation, certain lighting products will be made free of charge through their programs.

The purpose of this 501c3 organization is to provide shelter and care for animals in need, promote pet adoptions through their sanctuary and local shelters, and advocate for the humane treatment of farm animals. Using local outreach and online fundraising efforts, they will provide shelter and care for domestic and farm animals in need.  They will reach out locally and use online channels to educate about the importance of spaying and neutering pets, and adopting from local shelters.

This nonprofit organization’s mission is to share and preserve West African culture. This organization offers performances, workshops, interactive performances, African dance classes, and African drum classes. African Dance and drum workshops will engage participants in an exploration of African diasporic dance, music, song and cultural traditions. Their instructors have over 20 years of experience in traditional West African culture.