Rethink FoodCreating A More Sustainable And Equitable Food System Rethink Food’s mission is to create a more sustainable and equitable food system by partnering with restaurants to transform excess food into nutritious and culturally sensitive meals for their communities. We source funding to pay restaurant partners to daily prepare nutritionally dense meals that we then deliver to community-based organizations serving free meals to people in need. Since April of 2020, Rethink Food has distributed mor...
Lawndale Christian Legal CenterCommunity-Based, Holistic Legal Services For Juveniles And Emerging Adults Lawndale Christian Legal Center (LCLC) is a nonprofit working to ensure juveniles and emerging adults receive the criminal legal defense and social services they need in their own community. We provide zealous, holistic, criminal defense, free of charge, exclusively to youth (ages 24 and younger) who live in North Lawndale. Every one of our young clients can rely on a dedicated case manager who coordinates a wrap-a...
Cancer CompanionsHelping Cancer Patients And Caregivers To Focus More On Christ And Less On Cancer The mission of Cancer Companions is to provide safe and supportive environments for people impacted by cancer to draw closer to Christ. Whether meeting one-on-one at a coffee shop or gathering with others in a support group, Cancer Companions helps patients, survivors, and their loved ones find the connections they need to draw closer to Christ on their cancer journey. Our trained volunteers provide three bas...
Arts & ScrapsProviding Recycled Materials To Promote Creative Reuse, Education, And Sustainability In Detroit Arts & Scraps uses recycled industrial materials to help people of all ages and abilities to think, create, and learn. By integrating STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) and creativity into our workshops for students, educators and parents, our instructors help make learning fun through team building, sustainability, and creativity. Our Detroit Community Store offers recycled mate...
Buildup STEAMBedside Robotics Programs For Children’s Hospitals Buildup STEAM partners with children’s hospitals to provide creative and educational STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics) experiences at the bedside of young patients and their families in the hospital. Each child has the opportunity to build and program a LEGO robot and watch their creation come to life in front of their eyes. During our interventions, we shift the focus away from the stress of the hospital sett...
ThresholdsProviding Healthcare, Housing, And Hope To People With Mental Health And Substance Use Conditions Thresholds is one of the oldest and largest community-based providers for people with mental health and substance use conditions in Illinois. We offer 30 innovative programs at more than 75 locations throughout Chicago, its suburbs, and the four surrounding counties. Our services include: assertive outreach, case management, housing, employment, education, psychiatry, group and individual ther...
Ellwood House MuseumHistoric Mansion, Gardens, And Museum Campus For Educational Programs, Exhibits, And Site Tours The mission of Ellwood House Museum is to engage visitors with authentic examples of ingenuity and architecture by sharing the historic Ellwood mansion, gardens, and museum campus. Located on ten acres of parkland, the seven-structure estate and gardens provide connections between the past and today, inspire creativity, and generate a sense of wonder among its visitors. Originally built in the 1...
Oakland HOPEClient Choice Food Pantry And Thrift Store To Alleviate Hunger And Empower Lives Oakland HOPE is a client choice food pantry that provides free groceries for thousands of families, seniors, and veterans every month. The food pantry is funded by money raised at Oakland Hope’s thrift store, which features clothing, furniture, household items, and many others. Founded as a faith-based organization seeking to help the community through real impact, Oakland HOPE provides its patrons with more t...
AspiritechMeaningful Employment In Quality Assurance For Autistic Adults Aspiritech is a software testing and quality assurance (QA) company that empowers individuals on the autism spectrum to fulfill their potential through meaningful employment combined with social opportunity. Many autistic adults have average to above-average IQs and possess some unique talents, such as laser-like focus, attention to detail, superior ability to spot irregularities, superlative technical skills, lack of boredom w...
December 5th FundProviding An Amazing Day Without Worry For Families Whose Loved One Is Afflicted With Cancer The December 5th Fund’s mission is to give a day without worry to families who have a loved one afflicted with cancer and currently undergoing active cancer treatment. While the family is out enjoying their day, our volunteers are back at their house tackling household chores. When the family returns, it is to a home of hope and love, not a to-do list. Thomas Wiley founded The December 5th Fund bas...
Little City FoundationServing Children And Adults With Autism And Developmental Disabilities Little City Foundation serves children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities by providing the best options and opportunities to live safely, learn continuously, explore creatively, and work productively throughout their lifetime. Our services include: employment training, foster care and adoption, fitness and recreation, therapeutic day school, center for the arts, residential programs, horticultur...
Single Family LivingEmpowering, Mentoring, And Inspiring Single Parents And Their Children The mission of Single Family Living (SFL) is to provide single parent families with positive guidance and outreach relating to financial budgeting, housing, relationships, family care, education, counseling, life skills, stress management, and economic development. SFL’s programs are based on the belief that “it takes a village to raise a family,” and the organization serves single parents living in Wayne, Oakland, or M...
Leadership MacombCivic Leadership Programs For People Who Live Or Work In Macomb County Leadership Macomb’s mission is to produce a network of informed community members, enable graduates and others to engage in civic leadership, and strengthen organizational and community relationships. We provide unique learning experiences and collaborative engagements to existing or emerging leaders who work, live, or do business in Macomb County, Michigan. Our ten-month program includes personal connections, interacti...
Hand To HoldProviding Personalized Family Support Before, During, And After A NICU Stay Having a baby in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit is life-changing, but NICU families do not have to do it alone. Hand To Hold provides personalized support before, during, and after a NICU stay to help ensure that all NICU families thrive. Through free resources, including one-on-one counseling, virtual support groups, a peer mentor program, podcasts, blogs, and the NICU Community App, we connect NICU parents to e...
Adams Street FoundationCollege And Career Support For High School Students At Urban Assembly School For Law And Justice The Adams Street Foundation (ASF) funds and implements high-quality, individualized programs for students at the Urban Assembly School for Law and Justice (SLJ). A small, law-themed, non-charter public high school located in downtown Brooklyn, SLJ teaches an understanding of law and social justice so that students graduate ready to succeed in college and effect change in society. As the nonprof...
Sphinx OrganizationTransforming Lives Through The Power Of Diversity In The Arts The Sphinx Organization is a social justice organization dedicated to transforming lives through the power of diversity in the arts. Sphinx’s four program areas – Education & Access, Artist Development, Performing Artists, and Arts Leadership – form a pipeline that develops and supports diversity and inclusion in classical music at every level: music education, artist performances, repertoire and programming, community audie...
Rethink Food
Creating A More Sustainable And Equitable Food System Rethink Food’s mission is to create a more sustainable and equitable food system by partnering with restaurants to transform excess food into nutritious and culturally sensitive meals for their communities. We source funding to pay restaurant partners to daily prepare nutritionally dense meals that we then deliver to community-based organizations serving free meals to people in need. Since April of 2020, Rethink Food has distributed mor...
Lawndale Christian Legal Center
Community-Based, Holistic Legal Services For Juveniles And Emerging Adults Lawndale Christian Legal Center (LCLC) is a nonprofit working to ensure juveniles and emerging adults receive the criminal legal defense and social services they need in their own community. We provide zealous, holistic, criminal defense, free of charge, exclusively to youth (ages 24 and younger) who live in North Lawndale. Every one of our young clients can rely on a dedicated case manager who coordinates a wrap-a...
Cancer Companions
Helping Cancer Patients And Caregivers To Focus More On Christ And Less On Cancer The mission of Cancer Companions is to provide safe and supportive environments for people impacted by cancer to draw closer to Christ. Whether meeting one-on-one at a coffee shop or gathering with others in a support group, Cancer Companions helps patients, survivors, and their loved ones find the connections they need to draw closer to Christ on their cancer journey. Our trained volunteers provide three bas...
Arts & Scraps
Providing Recycled Materials To Promote Creative Reuse, Education, And Sustainability In Detroit Arts & Scraps uses recycled industrial materials to help people of all ages and abilities to think, create, and learn. By integrating STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) and creativity into our workshops for students, educators and parents, our instructors help make learning fun through team building, sustainability, and creativity. Our Detroit Community Store offers recycled mate...
Buildup STEAM
Bedside Robotics Programs For Children’s Hospitals Buildup STEAM partners with children’s hospitals to provide creative and educational STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics) experiences at the bedside of young patients and their families in the hospital. Each child has the opportunity to build and program a LEGO robot and watch their creation come to life in front of their eyes. During our interventions, we shift the focus away from the stress of the hospital sett...
Thresholds
Providing Healthcare, Housing, And Hope To People With Mental Health And Substance Use Conditions Thresholds is one of the oldest and largest community-based providers for people with mental health and substance use conditions in Illinois. We offer 30 innovative programs at more than 75 locations throughout Chicago, its suburbs, and the four surrounding counties. Our services include: assertive outreach, case management, housing, employment, education, psychiatry, group and individual ther...
Ellwood House Museum
Historic Mansion, Gardens, And Museum Campus For Educational Programs, Exhibits, And Site Tours The mission of Ellwood House Museum is to engage visitors with authentic examples of ingenuity and architecture by sharing the historic Ellwood mansion, gardens, and museum campus. Located on ten acres of parkland, the seven-structure estate and gardens provide connections between the past and today, inspire creativity, and generate a sense of wonder among its visitors. Originally built in the 1...
Oakland HOPE
Client Choice Food Pantry And Thrift Store To Alleviate Hunger And Empower Lives Oakland HOPE is a client choice food pantry that provides free groceries for thousands of families, seniors, and veterans every month. The food pantry is funded by money raised at Oakland Hope’s thrift store, which features clothing, furniture, household items, and many others. Founded as a faith-based organization seeking to help the community through real impact, Oakland HOPE provides its patrons with more t...
Aspiritech
Meaningful Employment In Quality Assurance For Autistic Adults Aspiritech is a software testing and quality assurance (QA) company that empowers individuals on the autism spectrum to fulfill their potential through meaningful employment combined with social opportunity. Many autistic adults have average to above-average IQs and possess some unique talents, such as laser-like focus, attention to detail, superior ability to spot irregularities, superlative technical skills, lack of boredom w...
December 5th Fund
Providing An Amazing Day Without Worry For Families Whose Loved One Is Afflicted With Cancer The December 5th Fund’s mission is to give a day without worry to families who have a loved one afflicted with cancer and currently undergoing active cancer treatment. While the family is out enjoying their day, our volunteers are back at their house tackling household chores. When the family returns, it is to a home of hope and love, not a to-do list. Thomas Wiley founded The December 5th Fund bas...
Little City Foundation
Serving Children And Adults With Autism And Developmental Disabilities Little City Foundation serves children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities by providing the best options and opportunities to live safely, learn continuously, explore creatively, and work productively throughout their lifetime. Our services include: employment training, foster care and adoption, fitness and recreation, therapeutic day school, center for the arts, residential programs, horticultur...
Single Family Living
Empowering, Mentoring, And Inspiring Single Parents And Their Children The mission of Single Family Living (SFL) is to provide single parent families with positive guidance and outreach relating to financial budgeting, housing, relationships, family care, education, counseling, life skills, stress management, and economic development. SFL’s programs are based on the belief that “it takes a village to raise a family,” and the organization serves single parents living in Wayne, Oakland, or M...
Leadership Macomb
Civic Leadership Programs For People Who Live Or Work In Macomb County Leadership Macomb’s mission is to produce a network of informed community members, enable graduates and others to engage in civic leadership, and strengthen organizational and community relationships. We provide unique learning experiences and collaborative engagements to existing or emerging leaders who work, live, or do business in Macomb County, Michigan. Our ten-month program includes personal connections, interacti...
Hand To Hold
Providing Personalized Family Support Before, During, And After A NICU Stay Having a baby in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit is life-changing, but NICU families do not have to do it alone. Hand To Hold provides personalized support before, during, and after a NICU stay to help ensure that all NICU families thrive. Through free resources, including one-on-one counseling, virtual support groups, a peer mentor program, podcasts, blogs, and the NICU Community App, we connect NICU parents to e...
Adams Street Foundation
College And Career Support For High School Students At Urban Assembly School For Law And Justice The Adams Street Foundation (ASF) funds and implements high-quality, individualized programs for students at the Urban Assembly School for Law and Justice (SLJ). A small, law-themed, non-charter public high school located in downtown Brooklyn, SLJ teaches an understanding of law and social justice so that students graduate ready to succeed in college and effect change in society. As the nonprof...
Sphinx Organization
Transforming Lives Through The Power Of Diversity In The Arts The Sphinx Organization is a social justice organization dedicated to transforming lives through the power of diversity in the arts. Sphinx’s four program areas – Education & Access, Artist Development, Performing Artists, and Arts Leadership – form a pipeline that develops and supports diversity and inclusion in classical music at every level: music education, artist performances, repertoire and programming, community audie...
