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Leading the Northern Illinois community in solving hunger by providing nutritious meals to those in need through innovative programs and partnerships.

Misericordia offers a community of care that maximizes potential for persons with mild to profound developmental disabilities, many of whom are also physically challenged. By serving society’s most vulnerable citizens, Misericordia also serves the families who want the best for them, yet cannot provide it at home. Through a spectrum of residential options on its 31-acre Chicago campus and in the community, and with a wide variety of programs, Misericordia currently serves more than 600 children and adults from diverse racial, religious and socio-economic backgrounds. Twenty percent of our residents either come from poverty families or have no families and are wards of the state.

Forgotten Harvest “rescued” over 45 million pounds of food last year by collecting surplus prepared and perishable food from 800 sources, including grocery stores, fruit and vegetable markets, restaurants, caterers, dairies, farmers, wholesale food distributors and other Health Department-approved sources. This donated food, which would otherwise go to waste, is delivered free-of-charge to 250 emergency food providers in the Metro Detroit area.

Leading the effort to eliminate hunger in the community. Since 1981, the Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia and the Eastern Shore, a member of Feeding America™ and the Federation of Virginia Food Banks, has been providing food for people experiencing food insecurity throughout Southeastern Virginia and on the Eastern Shore.

Hudson County Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) is an independent, non-profit organization committed to advocating for the best interests of abused and neglected children. CASA works through trained community volunteers to ensure that needed services and assistance are made available to children while helping to move them toward safe and permanent homes.

Feeding Tampa Bay, part of the national Feeding America network, focuses on providing food to the hundreds of thousands of food insecure families in the 10-county area of West Central Florida. Our mission is to change lives one meal at a time by leading our community in the fight against hunger.

Cure Alzheimer's Fund is committed to funding research with the highest probability of preventing, slowing or reversing Alzheimer's disease.

Our goal is to improve the health, safety and well-being of our campers and staff, by providing opportunities to build healthy relationships and increase self-esteem in a safe, stress-free environment. We seek to achieve our goal by ensuring our summer camp program stays focused on the following: 🧡 Matching each camper one-on-one with a counselor for the week, providing them with continuity and mentorship that can continue throughout the year and each summer. 🧡 Facilitating a wide-range of activities, including the Discovery curriculum, which have a focus on coping skills and promoting the positive attitude “I can.” 🧡 Creating opportunities whereby each camper can experience success. 🧡 Supporting our campers to develop skills to face their own circumstances and to make safe life choices outside of camp. 🧡 Providing campers with the experience of developing positive relationships with adults that can be transferred to their community, school and home.

Jewish Federations of North America represent 146 Jewish Federations and over 200 Network communities, which raise and distribute more than $2 billion annually for social welfare, social services and educational needs. The Federation movement, collectively among the top 10 charities on the continent, protects and enhances the well-being of Jews worldwide through the values of tikkun olam (repairing the world), tzedakah (charity and social justice) and Torah (Jewish learning).

To provide a community where people heal together.

The P.U.N.T. Pediatric Cancer Collaborative is a nonprofit 501(C)(3). The mission of P.U.N.T. is to provide critical and comprehensive financial, emotional and practical support to families facing a pediatric cancer diagnosis and to serve as a source of hope and healing for the bereaved.

Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) is a non-profit Christian organization committed to feeding God’s starving children hungry in body and spirit. The approach is simple: children and adults hand-pack meals designed specially for starving children, and FMSC ships the meals to nearly 70 countries around the world.