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Dedicated to ending poverty through impactful and dignified education

Shriners Hospitals for Children — Boston is a highly specialized pediatric surgical care center located in the heart of the city. It is considered one of the world’s preeminent hospitals in the treatment of children with severe burn injuries, complex skin conditions, and cleft lip and palate. Affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital and verified by a joint program of the American Burn Association and the American College of Surgeons, Shriners Hospitals for Children — Boston meets all of the demanding standards for organizational structure, personnel qualifications, facilities resources and medical care services to ensure the best possible outcomes. All members of our staff are dedicated to providing the highest quality care in a family-centered environment.

To catalyze socio-economic change in india through the education of underprivileged children

Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children (TSRHC) is a leading pediatric care center specializing in the treatment of orthopedic conditions, related neurological disorders and learning disorders, like dyslexia. Our mission is to improve the lives of children by providing exceptional medical care, facilitating innovative professional education programs and conducting cutting-edge research in the field of pediatric orthopedics. Since our opening in 1921, TSRHC has touched the lives of more than 225,000 children, regardless of any family's ability to pay.

Sozo Children International works to care for and empower vulnerable children—providing family-style homes, education, healthcare, and spiritual formation—so children in Uganda can grow into thriving, faith-centered leaders in their communities.

Educate the Children works with women and children in Nepal to improve health, welfare, and self-sufficiency by building skills that families can pass down to later generations. Focusing on the poorest of the poor by working strategically through women's groups, schools, and agriculture groups, Educate the Children develops a comprehensive community presence, gaining an extraordinary level of local participation and trust.

Bless the Children's mission is to free orphaned, abandoned and impoverished children from the chains of poverty by empowering them with health, shelter, nutritional and educational support so they may become productive members of society.

Humanity for Children is committed to improving the quality of life for children in remote areas of East Africa through community-based, sustainable initiatives that empower individuals and positively affect health, education, safety, and economic conditions.

Chances for Children partners with local churches in Haiti to keep families together and provide essential services for children and communities. Their work focuses on orphan and adoption care, feeding programs, medical and dental clinics, education, sustainable agriculture, and women’s empowerment to improve long‑term food security, health, and opportunities for Haitian children.

Vulnerable Children Society is a vibrant registered Canadian charity managed by a committed group of Canadian volunteers, dedicated to helping some of the most vulnerable children in the world: one by one. We currently run several grassroots programs to help children and families in Ethiopia, in partnership with Ethiopian and Canadian organizations. Vulnerable Children Society supports the care of HIV+/HIV- children in Faya Orphanage in Adama, Ethiopia. We sponsor HIV+ and otherwise vulnerable children in our House 2 House support program, in several Ethiopian communities. Vulnerable Children Society has organized food aid for drought victims, and fundraised for educational supplies and furnishings for rural Ethiopian children. To learn more about our current projects and programs, visit http://vulnerablechildren.ca

Vision: To Prevent Child Abuse, which will improve the Lives of Children and Break the Cycle of Abuse.  Mission: To Prevent Child Abuse by creating, implementing and operating projects that raise community awareness, educate adults and children and increase community involvement to keep children safe. We are accomplishing our mission through Websites, Social Media, Community Events, Public Service Announcements and Commercials, about Child Abuse Prevention, Parenting and Protecting our Children. Each project creates opportunities for Adults and Teens to become actively involved in the movement to protect our Children and improve our Future. We invite you to join us, become a Defender for Children, and make a positive difference throughout our Nation

Childhood is fleeting, there are no do-overs. That’s why we apply pressure to government officials to persuade them to do what is necessary to give every child the basic ingredients for a lifetime of success. Children First improves the lives and life chances of our region’s low-income, Black, and Hispanic children by advocating for the building blocks of opportunity — equitable access to high-quality early education, sound health care, effective public schools, as well as dependency and delinquency systems that heal children. We work with and organize parents, youth. and concerned citizens to advance these fundamental requirements of a more just society and a better futures. Formerly known as Public Citizens for Children and Youth (PCCY), Children First continues the 40+ years of advocacy on behalf of children and families in southeastern PA.