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RMHC of Greater Washington, D.C.
Ronald McDonald House Charities® of Greater Washington, D.C. (RMHCDC) eases the hardship of children’s illness on families through programs that directly improve the health and wellbeing of children. For more information visit http://www.rmhcdc.org/
Enough Is Enough
The Enough Is Enough® (EIE) mission is to Make the Internet Safer for Children and Families. We are dedicated to continue raising public awareness about the dangers of Internet pornography and sexual predators, and advance solutions that promote equality, fairness and respect for human dignity with shared responsibility between the public, technology, and the law.
Ronald McDonald House Charities, Charlottesville
Ronald McDonald House Charities® of Charlottesville eases the hardship of children's illness on families through programs that help children heal faster, cope better, and stay healthy.
GW Community School
GW Community School is a unique, small private high school in Springfield, Virginia, committed to developing and optimizing the giftedness and intelligence of each of its students. Through innovative, experiential and individualized instruction, students are challenged to connect with their school, their world and themselves.
Hispanics Against Child Abuse and Neglect (HACAN)
Hispanics Against Child Abuse and Neglect – HACAN is a non-profit organization formed in 1985 to assist local agencies with the prevention of child abuse and neglect. HACAN strengthens families, empowers youth, and prevents child abuse and neglect through culturally competent education, intervention, and community advocacy with a focus on the Hispanic/Latino Community.
Fabretto Children's Foundation
Fabretto's mission is to empower underserved children and their families in Nicaragua to reach their full potential, improve their livelihoods, and take advantage of economic opportunity through education
Press On
Our mission is to find less toxic, more effective therapies for childhood cancers.
The Child & Family Network Centers
The Child and Family Network Centers (CFNC) is the only nonprofit organization in Alexandria that provides quality bilingual preschool and family support services free of charge to the working poor.
Columbia Lighthouse for the Blind
Columbia Lighthouse for the Blind is a mission driven community resource for the blind and visually impaired community of greater Washington. With vision health screenings, independent living skills training, and employment services, CLB provides customized services for improving the well being and independence of the community it serves.
Just Ask Prevention Project
The Just Ask Prevention Project seeks to inoculate communities against the threat of human trafficking. We envision a world where children are free to achieve their full potential without the threat of being trafficked and exploited. The Just Ask Prevention Project is focused on ensuring the progress of human rights and the protection of global citizens.
Falls Church-McLean Children's Center
The Falls Church-McLean Children's Center provides an affordable, full-time, high-quality early childhood education program for children ages 2 to 5, primarily from low-income, working families. We guide children to build all the fundamental language, pre-math and pre-science, social-emotional and physical skills they need to be ready for success when they start kindergarten.
Ikirwa School Project
Our vision is to develop a single-stream school by growing the academic program organically and pragmatically, adding one grade per year, while building a positive reputation in the community. We leverage local and volunteer resources to provide our students world-class academic instruction and education materials as well as career development opportunities for the teachers.
Girls Leading Girls
A San Francisco nonprofit that trains young women from various socio-economic backgrounds in leadership and life skills through soccer.
Kids Of America's Heroes
Kids Of America’s Heroes Mission is to raise civilian awareness of Military-connected kids who struggle with unique challenges before, during and after parental deployment. KOAH will advocate and educate civilians enabling them to foster a healthy and, safe community for Military-connected kids.
The First Tee
We impact the lives of young people by providing educational programs that build character, instill life-enhancing values and promote healthy choices through the game of golf.
Delta Upsilon, Washington Chapter GSI
The Delta Upsilon Global Service Initiative gives DU members an opportunity to make an impact in the impoverished areas of Washington DC and Jamaica. Undergrads from around the country attend one of four events during the year in these two areas, and they do hands-on work to make a difference in the lives of locals. The DU men build schools, cafeterias, houses, and playgrounds for these communities, and every dollar donated goes towards supplies in the projects.
Ellie's Hats
Ellie's Hats donates hats to children battling cancer and and much more. We will do what we can for the children and families starting with a special package of hats and gift cards. As we learn more about what the family might need we try to help them in anyway we can which could mean donating gas cards, gift cards and making a financial donation to help with the costs from having a child battling cancer.
R Baby Foundation
R Baby Foundation is the first and only not-for-profit foundation uniquely focused on saving babies' lives through improving pediatric emergency care.
R Baby Foundation is dedicated to ensuring that babies and children receive the highest quality of care and service through supporting life-saving pediatric training, education, research, treatment and equipment
American Baseball Foundation Inc.
The American Baseball Foundation’s mission is to give students the confidence they need to reach their achievement goals through sport and academic programs that orient, empower and nurture youngsters and their families. Over the last 19 years the ABF has implemented programs that redress summer learning loss for under-served children. The program, BASIC, combines reading related to sports, math related to sports and sport-skill instruction to create a joyous atmosphere for learning.
Share Our Strength's No Kid Hungry Campaign
No child should go hungry in America. But 1 in 5 children struggles with hunger. Share Our Strength's No Kid Hungry campaign is ending childhood hunger in America by connecting kids in need with nutritious food and teaching families how to cook healthy, affordable meals. You can help surround kids with healthy food where they live, learn and play.
Fathers In The Field
Fathers in the Field is a complete turnkey program, providing all the tools and resources you need. Mentor fathers and boys meet four times a month and, using these tools, gain insight and understanding, serve others, worship, and plan a special outdoor activity (camping, hunting, fishing, riding, whatever they decide to do together) so they have a year-end ‘rite of passage’ celebration to prepare for and look forward to.
NCMEC
The mission of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children is to serve as a resource center for law enforcement, families and the public to help find missing children, reduce child sexual exploitation and prevent child victimization.
Escuela Caracol
Escuela Caracol is an intercultural Waldorf school that was founded in 2007 in San Marcos La Laguna, a Kaqchikel community on the shores of Lake Atitlán, Guatemala. In a country still recovering from a 36 yearlong civil war that ended less than two decades ago, there is a great need for our healing and comprehensive educational community.
Pratham
Pratham is an innovative learning organization created to improve the quality of education in India. As one of the largest non-governmental organizations in the country, Pratham focuses on high-quality, low-cost, and replicable interventions to address gaps in the education system. Established in 1995 to provide education to children in the slums of Mumbai, Pratham has grown both in scope and geographical coverage.
Zenith Community Arts Foundation
Zenith Community Arts Foundation (ZCAF) is dedicated to promoting art and fostering alliances between artists, businesses, non-profits and public-sector organizations, using the transformative power of art to benefit community.
Great Explorations
Great Exploration provides educational, social, and cultural opportunities that enhance the quality of life for youngsters who will one day impact our world.
Women against Child Trafficking
We are a non-profit organization who raise money to help our over 2 million children taken from street corners, malls, schools, the internet and sold into sex trafficking and drugs. We work with the FBI and Police to make parents, teachers and children aware of this horrible crime. Where are your children, it can happen to you. Help us please.
Stop Modern Slavery
Human trafficking is modern day slavery. Our mission is to promote anti-trafficking programs to end modern slavery via community education and action.
The Potter's Hand Foundation
The goal and purpose of the Potters Hand Foundation is to bring the Reliv International, Inc. nutritional supplemental products for children, which are so successful in making a difference in the lives of children around the world to the children of Peru! These programs to be followed by helping children who live in poverty with educational and vocational opportunities.
Connect Our Kids
Connect Our Kids is a non-profit tech startup building software to find forever families for foster kids. This technology scales up a successful approach currently being used in child welfare. Children grow best in families, and Connect Our Kids' software will help make that possible for thousands more foster children every year.
KIDS INC.
EDUCATE, ENTERTAIN, INSPIRE AND EMPOWER YOUTH.
Specialising in safety for children, online safety for kids and teens and youth development.
Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute
The Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute is dedicated to raising awareness about the millions of children around the world in need of permanent, safe, and loving families and to eliminating the barriers that hinder these children from realizing their basic right to a family.
Africa's Children's Fund
Saving Children To Heal The World. The mission of Africa's Children's Fund is to provide assistance and services to children and families in need, in the United States of America, Africa, and the Caribbean, to improve the quality of their lives.
Hillcrest Children and Family Center
The Hillcrest Center mission statement speaks to our historical commitment to children and families: To promote the well-being and holistic development of all children, youth, and families of the District of Columbia and surrounding areas through comprehensive, culturally responsive, family and community focused services, education, and advocacy.
Devotion To Children (DTC)
Devotion to Children (DTC) is committed to providing access to high quality educational and childcare programs for children aged six and under from economically disadvantaged families. We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to fulfilling the needs of these children so that they may become mentally, physically and emotionally healthy members of society.
Riverdale Elementary PTA
We, the board members, work together with the principal, teachers, staff, and community to support and speak on behalf of the children. We assist parents and guardians throughout the year with many events. We also encourage parental and public involvement in the school. We promote a close relationship between the home and the school so that parents, teachers and school staff work together for the education of the children.
Clean Water for Orphans
Providing quality of education, Awareness and health and Financial care in the spirit of the society, especially the poor, the disadvantaged and the disenfranchised irrespective of caste and creed.
Samaritan's Feet International
Samaritan’s Feet shares hope with children in the U.S. and around the world by washing their feet, giving them a new pair of shoes, and helping them believe that their dreams can come true. We at Samaritan’s Feet believe that a new pair of shoes can be a tangible foundation of hope to a person in need. Since our founding in 2003, Samaritan's Feet and its partners have served over 6.5 million individuals in over 75 countries and 325 U.S. cities.
Enduring Hearts
Did you know heart transplants don't last forever? Children who have had a heart transplant have a 1-in-4 chance of requiring another one within five years. We hope to change that.
Enduring Hearts funds the most promising research being conducted to increase the longevity of transplanted human organs and related tissue transplants. Our grant awards specifically target research benefiting pediatric heart transplant recipients.
Henry Johnson Academy
The Henry Johnson Academy helps orphans and single parents return to school to earn high school diplomas. Your donation will support our efforts to enroll single parents into sports programs which keep them healthy and provide a positive way to bond with their children.
SportsWorks Int'l Ngo
SportsWorks is an award-winning faith-based sports and education nonprofit that serves children in need and at-risk youth. We are non-partisan and non-denominational in the delivery of our programs. Our mission is to provide sports instruction and training to children ages 5-18, help them become better students in the classroom, and equip them with life skills that will enable them to become healthy and productive citizens.
Second Story
Second Story transforms the lives of children, youth and their families by providing safe havens and opportunities for them to grow and thrive. Our programs provide support at critical turning points in their lives.
Liberty In Education Foundation
We aim to realign education with American values. We believe American values are aligned around the fact that individuals are endowed with rights, not groups. The free competition of ideas and the preservation of the innocence of children.
Hoops For Youth Foundation
We help support at-risk kids:
We support teen mom's
We support teen father's
We support at-risk kids who need mentoring
We support hungry kids.
We build basketball courts in local communities
We help with scholarships for single mom's who want to give their child a better education
ThinkGive
Through the ThinkGive Challenge, children realize the positive impact they can have on the world through giving—not by giving away things, but by performing daily acts of kindness. The Challenge promotes character development by using giving as a vehicle to teach and develop prosocial skills including empathy, compassion, awareness, kindness, respect, and gratitude. Children learn to look outward and understand their potential impact as agents of change.
Serge Betsen Academy
The work of our centres is based on the winning formula: Rugby – Education – Health, with the following objectives:
- Introduce rugby to underprivileged children in Cameroon
- Use rugby to teach values and standards to help children build their own future
- Support the children’s education and provide access to basic healthcare
Today we have 5 centers in Cameroon and help around 500 children.
Our mission is to provide access to simple but essential things like food, clothing, books etc...
UCM of Alexandria
UCM mobilizes the power of community to equip, educate, and empower people to measurably improve their lives. We help families in immediate need with food, rental assistance, counseling and assessment. For children, we provide early care and learning, parental education and after school programs. For adults looking for work, we provide English language classes, job training and coaching and citizenship classes and services.