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YEAH! YOGA is a youth development organization sharing the tools of yoga and mindfulness with youth involved with or impacted by the criminal legal system in the Greater New Orleans area. We nurture youth's physical and mental health, social emotional development, healing, and resilience to empower young leaders and help reduce carceral system involvement. We envision a world in which oppressive systems are dismantled, where trauma, poverty, and Blackness are not criminalized, and in which all youth are empowered with resources and opportunities to realize their human potential regardless of their social location. We envision youth that are empowered and self-actualized, that believe in their capacity to achieve their dreams and are supported in doing so.

Founded more than a century ago to serve the Jewish people, 92nd Street Y promotes individual and family development and participation in civic life within the context of Jewish values and American pluralism. As a nonprofit community and cultural center, the YM-YWHA seeks to create, provide and disseminate programs of distinction that foster the physical and mental health of human beings throughout their lives, their educational and spiritual growth and their enjoyment. 92nd Street Y reaches out beyond its core constituency of American Jews to serve people of diverse racial, religious, ethnic and economic backgrounds, seeking partnerships that leaven our programs and broaden our influence.

We believe in the work of love. Through faithful, consistent efforts, we know each life we touch will yield a MAVUNO (harvest) of hope. Our mission is to spark a movement that is passionate about missions, education and by extending love and support to our local community. We do this by hosting mission's trips to help impoverished communities around the world. We organize and host empowerment seminars, conferences and workshops for women; and by offering educational forums to raise awareness about human sex trafficking here in Miami-Dade County & internationally. We believe, by being a voice for the voiceless we will lead people to FREEDOM.

We envision a world in which all Chicago youth are life champions. Our mission is to empower Chicago youth through wrestling, giving them the opportunity to develop to their full human potential. Our objectives include: providing City-wide access to quality youth wrestling programs; cultivating youth development in under-served communities; emphasizing wrestling’s values of accountability, excellence, integrity, gratitude and grit; developing the student athlete through positive coaching and mentoring; and growing the Chicago wrestling community’s support for our youth. By 2020-21, we will be positively influencing the life trajectory of over 2,000 urban youth, predominantly from Chicago’s most at-risk neighborhoods.

Their mission: We at Orphan Life Foundation believe that the most vulnerable segments of society, that is, its orphaned children, are our collective responsibility. Since they have no one else to take care of them, we have to provide them the loving environment where they can feel safe and prosper till they grow up to take their rightful place in the world. Ultimately, helping orphan children and equipping them with all the tools that would help them grow up to become responsible and caring adults is an honor and a privilege that few of us have. We aim to take care of vulnerable children in Africa, Asia and the US by providing them food, shelter and clothing along with opportunities for adoption, education and even foster care so that they can live as normal a life as possible.

The Girls Justice League seeks to change the directional so that girls are directly impacting the systems that hold such enormous power over their futures. All too often, girls, young women and those who identify as female, particularly girls of color and those from low income communities, find the direction of their lives impacted and dictated by myriad systems and institutions, including juvenile justice, public education, workforce development, public health and human services, and child welfare. The Girls Justice League is a collective of young women and their allies working to build and reinforce a culture where girls are fully empowered and where gender, race, and other disparities are identified and confronted in the systems that affect their futures.

Our mission is to provide a safe, nurturing rescue/sanctuary for horses and other farm animals in which they can heal and thrive, and in which they in turn help us to heal and thrive. To this end we host classes in animal centered healing arts and wellness; humane and kind horse and dog training methods; advanced certification in equine assisted psycho therapies; and a safe and friendly environment for children and adults with autism, alzheimers, cancer, and mental/emotional challenges to learn, grow and enrich their lives. The animals help to teach us about connection, relationships and family, lessons we can carry into our daily lives to be happier, healthier and more responsible members of our local community and even internationally.

Robyne’s Nest mission is to provide at-risk and homeless students, who have little to no parental support, with the resources to complete high school and pursue a path to self-sufficiency. Our students come to us searching for a sense of belonging, safety, routine & the basic needs like meals and hygiene that many take for granted. Our students want a better life & are committed to staying alcohol & drug-free. Without the support of their families, these students face significant barriers in meeting their emotional & physical needs. Our proactive approach aims to keep them in school, helping to prevent a future entangled in drugs, crime, human trafficking, or early parenthood. As a community, we have both the opportunity & the responsibility to care for these vulnerable students.

The mission of the Asian Women’s Shelter (AWS) is to eliminate domestic violence by promoting the social, economic and political self-determination of women and all survivors of violence and oppression. AWS is committed to every person’s right to live in a violence-free home. AWS works with all survivors and has specific expertise to address the cultural and language needs of Asian and other immigrant and refugee survivors, as well as others who face barriers to accessing existing sources of safety and support. In order to address how domestic violence is compounded for survivors and communities as it combines with sexism, classism, racism, homo/bi/transphobia, xenophobia, ableism and ageism, AWS operates through a margin-to-center anti-oppression framework that can create holistic and lasting change toward peace. This perspective is reflected in our broad strategy that integrates culturally relevant and language-accessible shelter and transitional services, training and capacity-building programs, systems and public policy work, and community mobilization initiatives and advocacy.

POISE (Providing Opportunities for Independence and Social Experiences) is an organization dedicated to maximizing the human potential of children with social communication disorders – specifically those diagnosed with Asperger’s disorder or high functioning autism. These truly exceptional youngsters are creative, passionate and intelligent people whose inability to appropriately connect with their peers hinders their capacity to share their gifts and talents with the outside world and often leaves them feeling socially isolated and depressed. Summer camp communities help children feel valued and connected; they build self-esteem, facilitate lasting friendships and instill core values. Camps that specialize in children with high functioning autism spectrum disorders are uniquely positioned to cultivate the social and life skills these underserved children need to be truly successful and productive adults. POISE exists to provide scholarships to families who could not otherwise afford to give their children the magical – and critically life-changing – experience of summer camp.

VietHope was founded in 2002 by a group of university students in the Boston area. Coming together from all corners of the U.S. and the world, they shared a common idealism and energy. What began as an informal discussion about Vietnam evolved into a circle of friendship. Within this circle, our founders shared with each other their dreams for Vietnam, and their desire to make a difference in the lives of everyday people there. Thus VietHope was born as a dedication to youth and to Vietnam’s development. VietHope’s founders believed that development must be based on long-term and sustainable results, and that people and human capital development are necessary for such results. VietHope shares the dream that every child in Vietnam will grow up with the opportunity to reach his or her full potential. Therefore, our mission is to empower financially disadvantaged students in Vietnam to access education and rise out of poverty. With our help, these students will beat the odds. They will create a better world for themselves, their families and their communities.

RIA, Inc. – ready•inspire•act is a nonprofit organization in MA supporting, and standing with, women with experience in the commercial sex trade by providing a range of community-based services. We practice the power of presence.RIA's premier program offers Accompaniment which is an intentional, trauma-informed approach to care that requires a deep and personal understanding of how power held over another human being damages a person's sense of safety and control over her own life and circumstances. Our model, ​Sisters Leading Sisters, incorporates clinical and healing practices in every step of support. These practices include survivor professional mentorship and advocacy, weekly virtual groups, case management, and clinical therapy.Services are facilitated by skilled women with lived experiences of sexual exploitation/prostitution, addiction, chronic illness, dv, and homelessness. We use an action-oriented, relational approach to fostering self-esteem and self-actualization. We bring compassionate community to the people we meet.