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SCO Family of Services helps New Yorkers build a strong foundation for the future. We get young children off to a good start, launch youth into adulthood, stabilize and strengthen families, and unlock potential for children and adults with special needs. SCO has provided vital human services throughout New York City and Long Island for 125 years.

El Centro de la Raza works to build the “Beloved Community” by serving and empowering Seattle’s Latino/a and broader marginalized communities through direct services, advocacy, and cultural programs. They provide a wide range of human services (food assistance, housing support, youth and family programs, workforce development and more) while advancing racial and economic justice.

The Children's Radio Foundation (CRF) uses radio training and broadcast to create opportunities for youth dialogue, participation, leadership, and active citizenship. Through giving youth the tools and skills to produce radio, young people are mobilized to engage in productive dialogue about the issues they face, and work together to improve their lives and communities. With 74 youth radio projects across six African countries, CRF works with radio stations and CBOs to create local platforms for discussion, information sharing, social engagement, and action. Our reporters take on issues that resonate with youth in their community, including but not limited to children's rights, sexual reproductive health and rights, power dynamics in teenage relationships, gender norms and stereotypes, HIV and AIDS-related issues, climate change, and the environment. Speaking in local languages and in a youth-friendly style, they interview community members, host debates, and bring out local perspectives. Their reporting projects, broadcasts, and outreach activities are geared to generate discussion about issues facing youth.

Lay Witnesses for Christ International -UK ( LWFCI-UK) is charitable organisation based in London. Our Objective is to inspire the communities to make an impact and motivate the Youths to stay on the Right of life through Sport activities, tutoring, training and the advancement of Christianity for the public benefit. We reach out to young people and adults in the community to positively impact others through Sport Activities, outreach programs, employability skills, training, tutorial for children with additional needs such as Autism, AHDD and disabilities and the Right Track programme, which is a mentoring and counselling programme for young people and adults. The purpose of our Organisation is to impact the world, inspire the communities, helping them to develop their talents and potentials thereby having a positive knock-on effect in transforming the community and helping people to have a better life and fulfill all their potentials regardless of cultural, ethnic or religious background. . For more info, please call our office on 020 3583 3005, email: info@lwfci.org.uk or visit our website www.lwfci.org.uk

People First aims to work closely with oppressed and disadvantaged communities and vulnerable individuals in breaking the centuries - old cycle of ignorance and oppression by providing opportunities for education. The trust believes the best way to achieve long - term positive social change is through education and we work in the areas of greatest need where no other education is available to the poor and oppressed. Our mission is the bringing of educational opportunity and to promote health and social rights to those to whom such opportunities have previously been denied due to poverty family circumstances or oppression. The Trust aims to work with the most marginalized members of the community and help create a safer environment for all children , especially vulnerable children, and to provide support and encouragement to help improve their living and social conditions, through rights based and ethically sound education, empowerment programmes, vocational training, protection and care and financial independence initiatives in order to help them recognize their importance and value as a responsible individual within civil society.

GRACE Mission To foster social change through strengthening families and eradicating the vulnerabilities of human trafficking. GRACE Vision serves as the framework to accomplish the stated mission. Our vision is to see families rise above poverty and abolish human trafficking. We do this through: *Provision of a Family Resource Center providing a safe environment and educational enhancement programs for children *Provision of English Language Studies *Provision of nutritional support enhancing the growth and development *Provision of educational scholarships to mitigate school attrition rates *Provision of adult enrichment courses enhancing the educational, financial, and social skills of parents and guardians *Establishing and building relationships with families *Provision of venues of growth and development for antitrafficking workers; thus, promoting longevity *Establishing community partnerships to enhance effectiveness *Conducting Research to understand best practices in antitrafficking work

The French Medical Institute for Mothers and Children is striving to realize a vital and ambitious vision: to be a leading institute of excellence and innovation in healthcare, research and education, providing exemplary, safe, comprehensive, accessible and sustainable services to Afghanistan and surrounding regions, while positively impacting the lives of patients and all others whom it serves. During this journey, the hospital is committed to: To provide exemplary quality and safe care to the patients To ensure accessibility of services, both physical and financial, such that needy patients are cared for with respect and dignity To develop new services in response to public needs and expectations as resources permit on an economically viable and sustainable basis To develop the institution into an academic centre that develops local and regional health human resources as leaders and leads to human resource sustainability To carry out programmes and assigned missions in a manner that would enhance the ability of the institute to move towards sustainability

To advocate for improving the lives of children, youth and families impacted by the foster care and child welfare systems. Our efforts generate youth-inspired solutions, create powerful coalitions, and build public support for every child's right to a safe home and bright future We advocate for improved policies, innovative practies, and funding to serve our community's most vuleranble populations In 2012, we increased our work in the area of homeless youth advocacy.

The underlying premise of Bean's Cafe is a deep belief in the inherent dignity of every person, a belief that people will respond with kindness when treated kindly, with trust when trusted, and respectfully when respected. Our aim is not to set up a value system - determining what is right or wrong - or a way of life for persons, but to allow them to form their own. In this situation a person is not acting in a special way, and their eventual response is free, lasting, and more fully themselves.

Famous Fido is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization. Our mission is to reduce the number of homeless pets euthanized each year through our adoption program, community education, and promotion of spaying and neutering. We receive no federal or state funding and rely solely on community donations, fundraising events, and volunteers to support our operations and care for the animals. We also advocate for legislation and ordinance changes to secure rights for all animals.

ChildFund International exists to help deprived, excluded and vulnerable children have the capacity to improve their lives and the opportunity to become young adults, parents and leaders who bring lasting and positive change in their communities.We promote societies whose individuals and institutions participate in valuing, protecting, and advancing the worth and rights of children. ChildFund International works in 31 countries and assists 17.8 million children and family members worldwide, regardless of their race, creed or gender.

Family Builders' mission is to build permanent families for children and youth in the foster care and juvenile justice systems. Family Builders believes that every child has the right to grow up in a permanent, nurturing family regardless of that child’s age, race, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, or medical, physical or emotional condition. Family Builders’ vision is that every child will leave the foster care system with a committed family.