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The mission of Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina is to feed hungry people by soliciting and distributing food and household items through partner agencies. Second Harvest works to educate people in the community about the nature of and solutions to the problem of hunger. Second Harvest supplies food throughout a 19 county region of North and South Carolina through a network of over 700 emergency pantries, soup kitchens, homeless shelters and programs for low-income children and seniors.
The Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI) cultivates markets, policies and communities that support thriving, socially just and environmentally sound family farms.
We Share Hope, a Rhode Island based food rescuer, needs your help to end hunger. brings food to needy families in Rhode Island.
Since 1965, Neighborhood Services, Inc. has helped our Columbus neighbors to put healthy meals on their tables. OUR MISSION Neighborhood Services, Inc. aims to temper the ill effects of poverty by providing food and material assistance to persons in need in the Columbus community. OUR VALUES Neighborhood Services, Inc. improves the quality of life in the Columbus community by compassionately and respectfully serving our neighbors in need.
The Iraqi Children Foundation intervenes with love and hope in the lives of Iraqi orphans, child laborers, and displaced children who are vulnerable to abuse, neglect, and exploitation by criminals, extremists, and human traffickers. The mission of the Iraqi Children Foundation is to invest in Iraq's orphans, street children, and displaced children by; being a voice for children with no voice, mobilizing resources to invest in education, health, protection, and trauma care, emphasizing sustainable hand-up initiatives over hand-outs, and, investing in training and capacity-building of Iraqis caring for children.
It is the MISSION of New Life for Haiti (NLFH) to give children a chance at a future, to meet the urgent needs of families, to foster new economic opportunities and to influence cultural thinking toward a sustainable change within the Grande Anse River Valley on the southern peninsula of Haiti, while acting as the hands and feet of Jesus to bring the life-giving and hopeful message of Christ’s salvation to the Haitian people.
To minister to the physical and spiritual needs of our community, focusing on the downcast and disenfranchised as we relentlessly strive to see lives restored and reconciled to God through relationship with Jesus Christ.
Our mission is to promote local resilience and adaptation holistically in an uncertain world, through education, distribution, and cultivation, with particular attention to food security.
Seeds in the Middle, named by fourth graders in central Brooklyn, inspires parents, educators, students and their community to access all opportunities beginning with improving their health, enhancing arts education and greening their environment. We are joyful, respectful, educational and engaging. We nurture the whole child. Our innovative strategy to fight obesity and combat health disparities initiates at schools. We weave proven programs into a comprehensive package to turn around ills driving down opportunity and advancement. We empower and educate all to get healthy and scale disparities. Our pilot Hip2B Healthy schools are in central Brooklyn, a neighborhood with one of New York City's highest obesity, diabetes, and heart disease rates. Our programs are models for replication. We have run community farmers markets and founded Soccer for Harmony tournaments, inspiring social change through soccer. We are proud to boast that our focus 4th grade class test scores in 2012 surpassed the citywide average! At Seeds in the Middle, we partner with faculty. We teach how to grow, market, access and prepare nutritious food, how to exercise and engage in the arts, all the elements needed to promote life-changing lifelong health. Our partners come from all walks of life: chefs, athletes, educators, artists, builders and more. We cross cultures. We transform gray into green, destitution into inspiration.
PathWays PA's mission is to help women, teens, children and families achieve economic independence and family well-being. Our goal is to help women, children, and families escape the cycle of poverty, homelessness, and abuse.
Expanding Opportunities' mission is to increase self-sufficiency and cultural awareness through educational and charitable projects for people nationally and internationally. It is a broad mission designed to be clear enough to guide and flexible enough to respond to a variety of human needs.
Malnutrition contributes to more than half of all childhood deaths associated with infectious diseases like malaria and pneumonia. They aim to prevent child deaths due to severe acute malnutrition by treating the condition through the production and distribution of fortified foods.