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Our Mission: Backpacks of Love, Inc. (BPOL) is committed to eliminating hunger in school-age boys and girls by providing food for their weekends.Our Shared Values: - Stewardship: We will use the resources entrusted to us to maximize their effectiveness for our cause. - Responsibility: Everyone has a part to play in solving hunger. - Service: There is an opportunity for everyone to give of themselves in a meaningful way. - Community: Together, we can accomplish more than we can apart. - Dignity: Every child deserves to be fed (and to not be hungry). - Education: Children who are not hungry will learn, graduate, and go on to live productive lives.

Our mission is to return a sense of self, confidence and normalcy to children suffering from hair loss by utilizing donated ponytails to provide the highest quality hair prosthetics to financially disadvantaged children free of charge.

Vision: In America Solidaria, we envision a continent where all children and adolescents have what they need to grow, learn, and fulfill their potential. We see it as our shared responsibility as citizens of this region to make this vision a reality by mobilizing a network of highly skilled fellows. Mission: Mission America Solidaria promotes regional development throughout the Americas, strengthening local initiatives through year-long service projects in nonprofit organizations working to alleviate youth poverty through a focus on education, health, and/or economic empowerment. Our projects create lasting change by influencing public opinion and policy and helping shape future professionals, increasing the standard of living and supporting growth in the region.

JAAGO Foundation aims for the betterment of the nation through catering the educational needs of children from socially and economically disadvantaged background and empowering the youth along with inspiring volunteerism in Bangladesh. JAAGO focuses on creating an equitable world for everyone regardless of gender, class, ethnicity, location, religious and sexual orientation by empowering the most marginalized.

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Rochester supports the health and wellness of children and their families through innovative programming, supportive services and community partnerships. VISION STATEMENT: Every family and child in our region facing a challenging health or wellness situation is supported through a community of care, comfort and compassion.

Our mission is... To provide a Christian Home environment for children dependent upon others for care. To promote their growth physically, emotionally, educationally, and spiritually. To develop the child in the teaching of God's word. To guide the young person toward a devoted life of good citizenship in the world and ultimately in the Kingdom of God.

"Our goal is to provide hope and support to everyone we work with, both biological parents and adoptive clients. Haven Adoptions puts the needs of their biological parents and adoptive parents first."

The unique Harlem Children’s Zone has transformed what it means for children to grow up in a high-poverty community. HCZ’s unprecedented success is a result of a seamless pipeline of programs that optimize the development of children at each level, from birth through college. In our 97-block Children’s Zone we strengthen the families around the children and have created a culture of success, where college-going is the norm. We serve 12,500 children and 12,500 adults among our 30+ programs, all guided by a commitment to continuous improvement and driven by data. We run two K-12 charter schools, early childhood programs, afterschool programs, social-work offices, community-building efforts and a college support program. We have graduated more than 700 students from college since 2011.

Books For Africa's vision is to end the book famine in Africa.  To accomplish that, the organization collects, sorts and ships donated textbooks, reference and general reading books to countries throughout Africa.

Love146's mission is to journey alongside children impacted by trafficking today and prevent the trafficking of children tomorrow.

Project Fit America (PFA) is a national non -profit organization that creates and administers  exemplary fitness in education programming in schools, grades K-8. Under this umbrella we address self-esteem, fitness and exercise as fun, understanding their body, as well as, leadership, sportsmanship and character development.   The program goal is to reverse the lack of fitness in youth to give teachers the tools they need to teach children to take responsibility for their health and embrace healthy lifestyle choices with enthusiasm. Our mission is to get kids fit and to create programs that assure every child will find something at which they are very good at and inspire them to participate in more fitness activities.  We create the opportunity for all kids, not just the already gifted athletes, to discover, explore, improve and be recognized for their physical, mental and fitness efforts and performance.

The mission of Bright Beginnings is to 1) provide children with a safe, nurturing educational environment, 2) prepare children to enter kindergarten ready to learn and 3) support homeless parents to stabilize their home lives and become self-sufficient.