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The YWCA of Annapolis & Anne Arundel County works to eliminate racism and empower women while providing safety and support to survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. Locally the organization operates the county’s domestic-violence safe house and offers a 24/7 crisis hotline, counseling, legal advocacy, and related healing and prevention programs.

Global Camps Africa changes the lives of South Africa's vulnerable children and youth by providing HIV/AIDS prevention education and training through high impact residential and day camp experiences and continuing education, equipping young people with the life skills that will support them in becoming safe and productive adults who have hope for the future.

North Country Animal League works to promote compassionate, responsible relationships between people and animals by sheltering homeless pets, placing them in loving homes, and offering community programs such as humane education, spay/neuter clinics, and cruelty-prevention supports. They focus on adoption, outreach, and veterinary/wellness services to improve animal welfare locally.

BFIT Big Dreams Youth Inc. runs fitness-centered youth development and enrichment programs that combine exercise, academic support, and mentorship to help children build life skills and confidence. They operate after‑school and seasonal camps, prevention and family workshops, and partner with local organizations to expand opportunities and first‑time experiences for underserved youth.

The DreDay Foundation’s mission is to stimulate growth, positively affect the lives of children, families, and community through advocacy work, sport, and education in non-traditional program settings. We support issues of purpose and aim to help empower and produce positive contributing citizens. In addition, our mission is to provide influential guidance to young adults to help prevent gun violence.

Read Alliance serves at-risk kindergarten and first graders by recruiting and training teens to provide structured one-to-one tutoring in reading.We focus on students in the early grades to prevent reading difficulties before they become barriers to future success.  Our students average a full grade level improvement in reading while their teen tutors develop college, career and life skills.

The mission of Synergy Services, Inc is to strengthen the individual, family, and community through crisis intervention, shelter, counseling, advocacy, and education. Synergy provides a "lifeline for families and individuals in crisis."  Through an interconnected set of services, the agency provides individuals and families with prevention education, immediate respite from violence, and support to assist them in their ability to find and choose good options for safe and successful futures.

JTD is premised on the belief that substantive and supportive curriculum-based programs can be a powerful catalyst for homeless and victimized teens to be positively motivated to pursue education and healthy living goals. As the numbers of homeless and victimized teens grow, JTD is aggressively stretching to reach more teens each year through community outreach, school programs, prevention, education, teen residential shelter, and supportive service initiatives

World Cares Center’s mission is to reduce the harm, suffering, and loss caused by disasters through the empowerment of underserved, at risk communities to prevent everyday accidents and react as educated and skilled ready responders when disasters occur. WCC believes that resiliency is best promoted when all facets of communities are prepared to respond to disasters together to mitigate their inherent risks, thereby reducing human and economic loss and suffering.

We prevent child abuse by keeping children safe and families together.  We empower families to break the generational cycle of abuse through parenting education, therapeutic classrooms, and home visits.  We serve children from birth to five years of age with early childhood development programs that will prepare them for the rest of their lives.It is our mission to "keep children safe and families together."

The Bella Cuisine Kids Cooking Club, is a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization based in Chicago, IL. Our mission is to teach and encourage children to make healthy eating a part of their daily lives and to combat childhood obesity within the community; by encouraging families to cook from scratch and decrease food related health issues. Our vision is to build a sustainable "grassroots" effort to reduce obesity by focusing on prevention starting with early childhood.

The Firefighters Burn Institute is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization founded by Sacramento Fire Captain Cliff Haskell and the Sacramento Area Firefighters, Local 522 in 1973 for the purpose of establishing a local burn treatment facility; providing recovery programs for burn survivors; promoting fire and burn prevention through public education; funding education for medical burn team professionals, firefighters, and burn survivors; and supporting burn treatment and rehabilitation research.