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Central Virginia Alliance for Community Living, Inc. (CVACL) envisions a community where all individuals, regardless of age or disability, maintain independence, dignity, equal rights, and a meaningful life based on their own personal choices. The organization will actively engage in the mission of supporting older adults and adults with disabilities to live in accordance with these principles.

Lupus Link Minnesota is dedicated to advancing knowledge and mobilizing resources to improve the lives of all Minnesotans and those beyond affected by lupus and related autoimmune diseases. We accomplish this by supporting research that seeks to improve the diagnosis and treatment of lupus as well as to discover its cause and cure, and by providing education, support and service to those impacted by lupus including promoting awareness and understanding of lupus and its impact to the broader community. As an independent, non-profit charitable organization, donations to Lupus Link Minnesota stay here in the Lupus Link Minnesota service area, providing hope, and helping people with lupus right here, right now. Lupus Link Minnesota is among only a handful of organizations dedicated to providing services to those whose lives are affected by lupus, and related chronic, autoimmune diseases.

International Deaf Partnerships (IDP) seeks to strengthen education, promote advocacy, and improve opportunities for deaf and hard-of-hearing people in developing countries within the framework of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). IDP was founded for the purpose of fostering a network of partnerships that includes deaf and hard-of-hearing communities within developing countries and the United States.

The Arc of North Carolina works to secure opportunities, rights, and community inclusion for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. It provides statewide advocacy and a range of community‑based services (housing supports, care management, employment supports, guardianship services, etc.) so people with IDD can choose where and how they live, learn, work, and participate in community life.

From the website: "The Bone Health & Osteoporosis Foundation (BHOF) is the leading health organization dedicated to preventing osteoporosis and broken bones, promoting strong bones for life and reducing human suffering through programs of public and clinician awareness, education, advocacy and research." Formerly known as "NOF," the National Osteoporosis Foundation.

HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY EXTENDS THE HEALING MINISTRY OF JESUS BY PROVIDING HOSPICE CARE AND COUNSELING SERVICES TO TERMINALLY ILL PATIENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES REGARDLESS OF THEIR ABILITY TO PAY. HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY, INC. ACCOMPLISHES THIS PURPOSE BY DEMONSTRATING BEHAVIORS REFLECTING OUR CORE VALUES OF COMPASSION, EXCELLENCE, HUMAN DIGNITY, JUSTICE, SACREDNESS OF LIFE AND SERVICE

Living Positive Resource Centre is a successful advocate for people, intervening when their rights have been ignored or abused, and fostering compassion and understanding. A variety of services are available to our clients including assistance with housing, connecting with a family doctor, home and hospital visits for those who are ill, information and referrals, access to self-care and health-maintenance workshops, peer support groups, and more.  Living Positive also provides a variety of harm reduction materials for both safer sex and substance use.

Aspirations To do this, we aspire to: •Energize and inspire people to make a difference •Provide meaningful opportunities for individuals to realise their potential by demonstrating volunteer leadership in service to community •Reflect the diversity of the communities we serve •Craft human care agendas within and across our communities •Build coalitions around agendas •Increase investments in agendas by expanding and diversifying our own resource development and fundraising efforts and supporting those of others •Ensure investments have recognizable impact

Imagine you are dying and have no place to go, or that the burden on your family to care for you has become too great. Too many people are forced to die in a hospital or nursing home. Our vision is to provide a needed comfort care home for the terminally ill in Webster, New York. We believe in the hospice philosophy of care: all persons have the right to die with dignity, to have enhanced quality of life for the remainder of their days, and to be as comfortable as possible. Care would be provided in a loving, home-like atmosphere, free of charge to those in need. On-going funding will be generated through donations, memorial gifts, grants, and fundraisers.

East Cumberland Lodge is a 74-bed nursing home located in Pugwash, Nova Scotia. We believe in providing a sensitive environment to meet the needs and comfort of our residents while acknowledging that each person has the right to individual identity, dignity, and self-esteem; We believe in promoting the independence of each resident in a flexible, homelike and minimal restraint environment; We interact with local health care agencies and the community to determine, develop, and provide for the health needs as determined by those we serve; We believe in finding better ways to enhance quality of life through continuous improvement by promoting education of staff, residents, families, and the community while making East Cumberland Lodge a home for the residents where they can feel that those around them are sensitive to their overall well being.

Dr. Jack Hand was a compassionate man, a man full of passion that showed in his life and work. Dr. Jack Hand stayed with his patients every step of the way, from diagnosis to treatment, all the way to the best and worst outcomes, the families of the children he treated felt he was right by their side through it all. Through funds raised by the Foundation, we will help families concentrate on what’s most important. Helping them forget about costs, giving them the reassurance they need to be there for their child while they are being treated at the Janeway for a Hematology or Oncology-related illness. Money raised will help families with: financial support for medical expenses such as travel costs, hospital costs, medical practitioner costs, and prohibitively expensive prescription drugs; cover food costs; accommodations, and travel required for treatment; and any obstacles that may come up. In “Dr. Jack’s” memory we are helping families cope.

Located in the heart of Verdun, a low-income working class neighbourhood in south-west Montreal, is Project P.A.L.. This alternative mental health resource has been a hub of community activism, mutual aid and support since 1975 for its many members. Walk through our doors, open 354 days a year, and you will find a bustling community life, rich with activity, creativity and caring. We assist people with defense of rights, housing help and numerous other services. Our centre offers full suppers and soups 4 times a week to people that have mental health challenges. Our program differentiates itself from other programs because it is built on the “empowerment” model. Our aim is not merely to feed people with mental health problems; we wish to make it possible for these individuals to develop the tools that are necessary in order for them to feed themselves. Therefore, it is people with mental health problems that plan, cook and serve the food to the other clients of our organisation.