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Our mission is to provide educational services to people who are in need in Shelby County. Re-entry reporting is a separate component that we offer to inmates at the Shelby County Government: Divisions of Corrections before exiting the compound. Our goal is to empower and serve the greater good in Shelby County but are not limited to the needs of our city. We are investing in the citizens of Shelby County, City of Memphis and our next generation of youth and adult leaders. Our focus is helping families, the homeless, inmates incarcerated, and newly exiting offender population in need. We provide support, transitional services, staffing, operations, and management for Cooling/Warming Centers, Emergency aid and short term shelter options. Efforts are successful with community partners, sponsors, grants, fundraising, donations, food drives, coat drives, clothing, gently used furniture and so forth. We promote self-sufficiency, health & wellness, educational and advocacy programs. LHTF operates under four key values: Respect, Integrity, Compassion and Excellence.

Breaking Free is a Minnesota-based non-profit and social justice/social change organization founded in 1996 by Vednita Carter. Every year, Breaking Free helps over 500 women escape systems of prostitution and sexual exploitation through advocacy, direct services, housing, and education. Our main offices are located in St. Paul, Minnesota, with a branch in Minneapolis. Breaking Free's doors are open to women throughout Minnesota and the United States.

The mission of Chest of Hope is to encourage and promote a healthy family system through prevention, education, intervention and support. It is our hope to bring domestic violence out of the closet while working simultaneously to eradicate personal, recognized and cultural violence against all individuals and to yoke the community against it. Chest of Hope provides a home and establishes a standard of excellence where victims will have safe and healthy relationships free of sexual and domestic violence and a stellar quality of life.

Connections and You, Inc. (CYI), a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, was established in October of 2008 with a desire to help young men become better people in our society. CYI provides a very comprehensive mentoring program called, The Distinguished Gentlemen's Club. We believe that although manners takes an individual a long way, a positive character will take them further. In this program we concentrate on establishing and building positive character into these young men, which would ultimately cause these GENTLEMEN to be DISTINGUISHED, in their schools, in their community, in their families, and in society. Our mission is to connect caring adults with children that would assist in cultivating and building positive character in them through intentional mentoring. We seek to challenge positive men and women to engage the mind and soul of a child, ultimately bringing about productive citizens in society. F/K/A Connections and You

San Gabriel Valley Habitat for Humanity is a local affiliate of Habitat for Humanity (HFH) International. Founded in 1990, we seek to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action while eliminating poverty housing and homelessness from the San Gabriel Valley. HFH works in partnership with God and people from all walks of life to create better, permanent shelter for lower-income families. To accomplish this, HFH builds and renovates houses, providing decent homes in decent communities where people can live and grow into all that God intended. Our affiliate has built 39 homes and has 11 more currently under construction on Kenwood Street in Glendale. When these homes are complete, our affiliate will attain the important 50-home productivity benchmark and will be providing 205 men, women and children with safe, decent, affordable shelter.

Since 2006, Gemma's Angels has distributed tens of thousands of pounds of fresh fruit and vegetables to a growing list of homeless shelters, soup kitchens, and food banks in Dauphin and Lebanon Counties in Pennsylvania. We supplement--but do not replace--the work of the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank which provides food to over 900 partner agencies in Central PA running from the northern to the southern border of the state. We want to change the way we feed the hungry. MISSION: Provide fresh fruits and vegetables to homeless shelters, soup kitchens and food banks in Dauphin and Lebanon Counties, and Inspire at-risk children and families to make healthier food choices, increasing their access to fresh, local food and teaching them to live more sustainably. Gemma’s Angels is a not-for-profit organization recognized by the IRS under its tax exempt 501(c)3 regulations.

Neighborhood Housing Services of Los Angeles County (NHS) serves as a catalyst for local residents, business and government representatives to work together to build stronger neighborhoods, improve the quality of life for families of modest means and to revitalize communities into neighborhoods of choice. NHS strengthens communities through the development and maintenance of quality affordable housing, creation and preservation of affordable homeownership opportunities, support of local leaders, providing financial education and increasing the financial independence of families and people in need

New Door Ventures helps at-risk youth get ready for work and life through jobs, skill-building and supportive community. We serve youth, ages 16-21, overcoming histories of incarceration, homelessness, substance abuse, and poverty. We provide the real jobs and deep support that enable youth to identify goals, learn healthy behaviors, and become contributing members of society. New Door invests with the goal that 80%+ of its graduates will go on to further education and/or mainstream jobs.

Magnolia CDC is a 501(c)3 non-profit community development corporation established in 2010 to serve St. Landry and Lafayette Parishes in Louisiana. This organization provides social, economic and community development assistance to our targeted population of low to moderate income families. Their vision is to build sustainable communities that provide the potential for homeownership to all residents. They also plan to improve accessibility to quality education, increase family income and build economic activity through business development.

HOME, Inc. was founded in 1967 through the efforts of citizens concerned about the lack of decent, affordable housing. As the oldest private, non-profit housing organization in Des Moines, our mission is to create opportunities for quality, affordable housing. Study after study reports that quality, affordable housing enables people to stabilize their lives. To accomplish our mission, HOME, Inc. develops affordable housing, provides both rental and home ownership counseling and education, and homeless prevention services.

THEIR MISSION "LIFT Orlando exists to break the cycle of poverty through neighborhood revitalization. LIFT is a group of business leaders in the Orlando area, partnering with residents to see change in the area surrounding the Orlando Citrus Bowl. We plan to do this through our four goals of mixed income housing, health and wellness, cradle to career education pipeline, and economic development. We utilize an asset based approach, engaging and working closely with residents in our focus area."

COMMUNITY ON THE RISE EXISTS FOR THE EXPLICIT PURPOSE OF PROVIDING THE NECESSARY INFRASTRUCTURE, TOOLS, AND SUPPORT FOR HOMELESS AND LOW-INCOME CITIZENS OF THE GREATER BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA AREA AS WELL AS CITIZENS THROUGHOUT THE STATE OF ALABAMA, IN AN EFFORT TO PROVIDE THE SUPPORT AND RESOURCES FOR THESE CITIZENS TO ESCAPE POVERTY AND HOMELESSNESS. THROUGH EMPLOYMENT, EDUCATION, COMMUNITY, CITY AND STATE-WIDE OUTREACH, HOUSING, AND MENTAL/PHYSICAL WELLNESS SERVICES, COMMUNITY ON THE RISE SEEKS TO POSITIVELY AFFECT LIFE OUTCOMES FOR THOSE WHO LIVE IN POVERTY AND HOMELESSNESS.