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"To provide special children with education & training facilities to enhance their capabilities and rehabilitate them in the society" To provide medical, psycho-educational, speech & language assessment and therapy services to CWDs (Children with Disabilities) enrolled at Rising Sun Institute or referred by different specialists & professionals Human Resource Development for teaching and training of Rising Sun and other similar institutions To promote Inclusive Education by orientation of regular school teachers about special needs and inclusive education so that more and more special children are given education along with their peers in their own environment To create community awareness about needs of Inclusive Education for CWDs and role of community & to prepare literature for the parents of CWDs and to train them to look after their children

Selah Mountain Ranch is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) restorative foster care organization. Our Ranch, nestled against the San Isabel National Forest on 74 acres in Fremont County, CO is open to local foster care youth, foster families and unaccompanied refugee minors. Our homes specialize in PTSD, anxiety disorders, depression, attachment disorders, trauma and abuse, grief and loss. Foster parents work closely with all child advocates, medical staff and therapists to support the child’s case plan and overall wellbeing. Family homes are available for placements through Colorado Department of Human Services and offer trauma informed therapeutic foster home training and support.

Mission: To provide opportunities for children and families who live in poverty, abuse, violence and marginalization in order to increase their intellectual, emotional, physical, communicational and social life skills, so that they can become self sufficient members of society. Our children must have at least four of the following characteristics: Age between 6 and 12 Live in high poverty areas Work/live on the streets or are at a high risk to do so Family abuse and violent situations Parents have no schooling or have dropped out of elementary More than 5 people sleeping in the same room Family income is equal or less than one minimum wage Speaks one indigenous language Migrate to work temporarily and/or are abandoned by their parents due to migration Originative of families with teenage mothers Values: Mayama (means Development in Huichol indigenous language) strongly believes in: Community and family involvement Education as the only way to fight poverty Innovative and effective solution strategies to build up self sufficiency Promoting a peaceful environment by building self esteem and positive relations Developing solutions on vulnerable siblings that will prevent them from future exclusion from society Identifying and building on individual strengths for each child that empower them for positive decision making Evaluation and assessment to focus on qualitative results We base our methodology on children's rights to ensure their dignity Partnership building to learn and enhance social impact Development VS Assistance and invest in the potential of each individual GOALS AND SOCIAL IMPACT: Decrease drop out rate in elementary education in 100% of our children and integrate 17% of the children who never have been to School. Decrease teenage pregnancies, child work and addictions Increase child protection rights by working with their families in emotional and social areas. Decrease family violence and child abuse.

For over 161 years, St. Ann's has provided a refuge for needy women and children in the Washington, D.C. area, pioneering programs to reach vulnerable young people in the community regardless of race or faith. The organization was founded in 1860 by three Daughters of Charity to serve foundlings and single women in childbirth. President Abraham Lincoln signed St. Ann's charter in 1863. Today, St. Ann's three residential programs recognize and enhance human dignity and worth by providing residential care and services to abused, abandoned and neglected children; to pregnant and parenting adolescents in crisis; and to young single mothers struggling to attain self-sufficiency. St. Ann's Child Care Center provides quality, developmental day care to the children of working families.

The Grateful Garment Project's mission is to ensure that every victim of a sexual crime who crosses the threshold of a Sexual Assault Response Team facility or who seeks medical attention and/or law enforcement involvement is provided with whatever new clothing, toiletries, snacks, & other misc. items that they may require. We have further expanded our mission to encompass all victims of sexual violence. This includes, but is not limited to Commercially Sexually Exploited Children and victims of Human Sexual Trafficking. Our scope is wide but our purpose is narrow: The Vision of TGGP is that no victim of sexual violence in our communities should ever experience further suffering due to a lack of clothing to wear home after they receives services from a Sexual Violence Service Provider.

The Pet Project for Pets, Inc. (The Pet Project) is a nonprofit organization that serves the needs of low-income pet owners who are elderly , disabling or seriously ill and would not be able to provide for their pets at home without assistance. The Pet Project offers comprehensive services designed to enable our clients to keep their companion animals. Services include an animal food bank, pet supplies, vaccines and referrals to subsidized or low-cost veterinary care, dog walking, litter box maintenance, grooming, foster care and adoption when necessary. We keep pets in their own homes and prevent the need to surrender them to shelters while preserving the very important Human / Animal bond. We "KEEP PETS IN THEIR HOMES" with their families who love and need them.

With the consistent faith that is "only the love of Jesus can make the life sturdier and stronger" and with the core value that is "we sincerely proffer service to the human being with spread of love, respect, concern as well as professionalism", Cathwel Service is devoted to protection and assistance to the children and women in need, helping them seek after bright and promising future from the existing dilemma and open other window for their new life. Cathwel Service was founded by Father Francis J. O'Neil in 1949, being a branch in Taiwan of the U.S. Catholic Relief Service. To import and distribute the goods aided by USA were its principal jobs at that moment. Due to changes of local society, Cathwel Service turned to the social welfare and service gradually. Meanwhile, Cathwel Service became an independent institution and set up the foundation in 1984.

OUR MISSION: Uniting People with Opportunities. The United Planning Organization, the designated community action agency for Washington, DC, was established December 10, 1962 to plan, coordinate, and implement human services programs for low-income residents in the Nation's Capital. For over 50 years, UPO has been in the forefront of the war on poverty. As the catalyst for economic security and growth for all Washington, DC residents, UPO has laid the groundwork for innovative social service programs such as weatherization and energy conservation services, Head Start, workforce development training and youth development. Today, UPO continues to provide residents with comprehensive resources for early childhood education; youth development; employment and training; family and community services; case management and referrals to other supportive services.

EVA is a non-profit organization recognized by the Internal Revenue Service and registered in the State of Illinois. It was created for the purpose of assisting Ecuadorian institutions devoted to educational, social, and health programs for the poor, neglected, and at-risk segments of the population. EVA is run by volunteers, and the various programs are implemented through network of viable, non-profit Ecuadorian institutions previously selected by a careful screening process. EVA requires that all the funds collected and distributed as yearly grants be only used for programmatic objectives of the organization it sponsors. EVA's Community Assistance Grant was instituted in 2008 to improve the quality of life of economically disadvantaged people living in the Chicago Metropolitan area where EVA is located. I Since its inception, we have been giving opportunities to advance educational, health, and human service programs in the local community.

Zambia has about 1 million orphans, this gives Zambia the highest per capita orphans rate in the world. One in every 4 household is a child headed home. About 65% of Zambians earn less than $1.25 per day. The Other Side Foundation is committed in nurturing at grassroots level, Orphans & Vulnerable children through an integrated Values Based Education (Education in Human Values), Nutrition and Health care. We further empower the widows, grandmothers and single mothers of our students through evening adult education, skills training & microloans/seed funding. The Other Side Foundation promotes gender equality and believes that every child needs to eat at least a meal/day, have access to basic healthcare and education.

Since our establishment in 1984, SIBAT envisions a just and sovereign society that upholds genuine development through people-based science & technology. SIBAT commits to develop, promote and popularize the application of appropriate technologies towards attaining village-level sustainable development in poor communities. As such, SIBAT have gained significant breakthroughs in sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, genetic conservation and water systems development. By the end of 2022, SIBAT's goals are: 1. Self-reliant and resilient communities that have adopted appropriate technologies and can adapt to the effects of climate change. 2. Institutionalized structures and mechanisms that support the appropriate technology (AT) efforts of SIBAT and partner poor communities. CORE VALUES AND GUIDING PRINCIPLES: Uphold social justice and national sovereignty. SIBAT helps enhance the poor people's opportunities to enjoy, and capabilities to assert and demand for, their basic rights. SIBAT unites with the people's effort to chart their own course towards national sovereignty and economic independence. Equity and bias for the poorest and disadvantaged. SIBAT assures everyone in the community equal opportunities from and access to appropriate technology, resources and benefits with particular attention given to the poor farmers, women and indigenous peoples. Peoples' participation and ownership in development. SIBAT upholds the people's right to determine, participate in, and have control over their own appropriate technology development. Holistic. SIBAT addresses community problems, through appropriate technology interventions, that are determined from a comprehensive and integrated perspective. Technological innovation and competence. SIBAT enhances the practice of innovation, development of knowledge and mastery of skills. SIBAT upholds quality standards in the application of science and technology for the people. Care for health and environment. SIBAT works for the conservation and management of the environment and gives due attention to the promotion of good health and well-being of the people. Gender consciousness. SIBAT integrates and promotes gender equality in its programs and projects, and in each individual's work, actions and language.

Enhance Worldwide envisions communities where girls and women have the skills to lead meaningful, dignified lives in which each individual has agency, autonomy and aspirations. Enhance Worldwide aims to facilitate a process in which girls, women and their communities unearth, discover and learn strategies to navigate the challenges to their wellbeing in an effort to develop as individuals in their own right. Enhance Worldwide understands harmful traditional practices as a leading barrier to a life of dignity and focuses its efforts on combating these practices worldwide. Enhance Worldwide creates customized interventions in collaboration with local people, with an emphasis on the leadership of women and girls, who understand the challenges and opportunities as part of their lived experience. The intervention design is focused on Positive Deviance, the concept that in every community there are positive deviants, individuals whose behaviors and strategies have allowed them to overcome the challenges to their wellbeing with which their peers struggle. By discovering and practicing these positive deviant behaviors, Enhance Worldwide focuses on existing, indigenous solutions.