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The mission of the East Los Angeles Women's Center is to provide services to women and children, focusing on sexual, domestic, and family violence and hiv/aids. We work to empower and give hope to individuals, families and the community at large with an emphasis on bilingual/bicultural services for the Latino community.

To empower the women through education, awareness raising, skills enhancement and income generation for better standards of life".

To ensure full access to timely, appropriate cancer care for low-income, medically and socially underserved women with cancer.

Women’s House Serving Bruce and Grey is a local non-profit organization that provides safe shelter and services to women 16 years of age and older, and their children, who have or are experiencing abuse, sexual violence and homelessness. Our Sexual Assault Services office is in Owen Sound, ON and the physical shelter and business office is in Kincardine, ON. Our Second Stage Housing Units are in Port Elgin, ON, Wiarton, ON and Kincardine, ON. All areas mentioned provide a safe environment for women and children for counselling, housing, group programs and transitional education.

With five strategic locations in North Jersey, our mission is to serve men and women who are experiencing, or at risk for, an unplanned pregnancy.

To assist survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault and their children to achieve safety and self-sufficiency, while striving to prevent violence against women.

HealthyWomen is the nation’s leading independent health information source for women. Their platform can be found at www.HealthyWomen.org. For more than 20 years, women have been coming to HealthyWomen for answers to their most pressing and personal health care questions. Through its wide array of online resources, HW provides health information that is original, objective, reviewed by medical experts and reflective of the advances in evidence-based health research. HealthyWomen has a history of providing unbiased and accurate health information. Over the years they have earned the trust of consumers, health care providers, nonprofits, corporate partners and the media. HealthyWomen is widely referenced in print, broadcast and online venues and has been named a top women's health site.

CAWES helps thousands of women and children each year who are caught in the destructive cycle of domestic violence, adult female sexual assualt victims, and clients who require emergency accomodation . The shelter provides short term accomodation for up to 36 women and/or children at a time. In addition several programs provide the opportunity for clients to receive councelling and assistance during and after their stay. CAWES believes that every individual has a right to a life free from abuse; That providing a broad range of culturally sensative services and shelter will assist families to overcome the impact of family violence; Ending family violence requires societal change through education and awarenes; In the empowerment of women and children to regain control of their lives. Please visit our website @ www.cawes.com for more info Thank you for your support!

The WRC shall serve women, families and all those who choose to participate in, and can benefit from, the Center?s programs. These programs shall attempt to: protect and nurture health and well being; encourage active participation in making life choices; advocate for the positive solution of crisis situations; facilitate personal growth and life-long education; and provide a link to needed community resources.

ERC is an international, established 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, founded in 1997 to facilitate research, provide education and support, implement societal disease awareness, and elevate the profile of endometriosis. ERC is unique in that unlike similar women's health organizations, we do not have a membership fee and there is never a cost to participate in or benefit from our education and support programs. Our organization operates from contributions generously donated by individuals and foundations that share our goals. For more information, please visit: http://www.endocenter.org.

Makor Disability Services/Women’s League Community Residences is a professional organization committed to the philosophy that every person, regardless of his or her level of ability, must be treated with the utmost dignity and respect. It is our belief that every person with intellectual and developmental challenges should be afforded the opportunity to maximize his or her functional, social and intellectual potential. This is accomplished through appropriate, individualized, person-centered programming. In addition, each person should be living in an atmosphere of acceptance, warmth, understanding, and security that upholds the rights of each individual and provides developmental opportunities both individually and as a member of the community. It is our belief that personal growth flows first from an improved sense of self worth, and that all programming must be formulated toward this goal of self actualization. All of Makor/WLCR’s service environments continually encourage service participant choice and expression.

To implement a social intersectionality approach in promoting healthy living - mentally & physically - through advocacy, education and support by leveraging the power of story-telling and modern technology.