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Family-to-Family, Inc. is a grassroots nonprofit 501(c)(3) hunger and poverty relief organization dedicated to providing food, personal hygiene products and other basic life essentials to American families struggling with the challenges of poverty.
By connecting donors one-to-one with specific families in need, Family-to-Family’s mission is to bring a large and seemingly intractable problem – poverty – into personal focus, making proactive, attainable results possible…one family at a time.
Her Best Foot Forward works with women Artisans and other women of purpose in East Africa. A US 501(c)(3), they sell beautiful, hand-beaded projects and invest 100% of net proceeds to help operate their 100% compostable sanitary pad production facility. Their sanitary pads (made by a team of women employees who do their jobs with pride!) are best in class and are provided at no cost to girls to allow them to attend school with dignity and confidence. In the developing world, a girl can miss up to 4 days of school each month, because she cannot manage her menstrual flow. Girls can quickly fall behind and lose confidence, dropping out of school completely.
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) was established in 1981 by a group of Holocaust survivors, under the leadership of John Klein z’l, to provide for education and wellbeing of the men and women who serve in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) as well as the families of fallen soldiers. Headquartered in New York City, FIDF is a 501c3 not-for-profit corporation that operates 20 regional offices in the United States and Panama.
Friendship Circle provides a full range of social and Judaic programs for children and teens with special needs. with the help of teenage volunteers, we reach out to the special needs community and make sure that everyone has a place in our community.
Furniture Sharehouse collects gently-used furniture from the public in a warehouse at the Westchester County Airport, and redistributes it free of charge to Westchester families in need through partner agencies.
Game Changers New York is a non-profit organization whose mission is to collect and distribute sports equipment for kids in need globally. Founded in 2016, Game Changers has upcycled thousands of pieces of sports equipment and has worked with over 35 partner organizations in 9 countries. With the help from their advisory and teen boards, generous sponsors, and dedicated volunteers, Game Changers is able to work towards their goal of ensuring that all kids can play sports.
Gift of Life facilitates bone marrow, blood stem cell, and cord blood transplants for children and adults suffering from life-threatening illnesses. Since tissue type is inherited, a patient’s best chance of finding a genetic match lies with donors of similar ethnicity. Gift of Life strives to increase the representation of Jewish donors in the registry in order to overcome the devastating effects of the Holocaust, which severed bloodlines and made the donor search particularly difficult for Jewish patients needing transplants.
The mission of God’s Love We Deliver is to improve the health and well-being of men, women and children living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other serious illnesses by alleviating hunger and malnutrition. They prepare and deliver nutritious, high-quality meals to people who, because of their illness, are unable to provide or prepare meals for themselves. They also provide illness-specific nutrition education and counseling to clients, families, care providers and other service organizations.
All of their services are provided free to clients without regard to income.
God’s Love We Deliver is a non-sectarian organization.
Grassroot Soccer is an adolescent health organization that leverages the power of soccer to educate, inspire, and mobilize at-risk youth in developing countries to overcome their greatest health challenges, live healthier, more productive lives, and be agents for change in their communities. Adolescents are being left behind in the fight against disease and other critical health challenges. Unlike childhood mortality which has improved 80% in the past 50 years, adolescent mortality hasn’t budged. Preventable diseases like HIV, and complications from pregnancies continue to be the leading causes of death among adolescents. There is a tremendous opportunity to improve the world’s health by promoting healthy practices during adolescence, and taking steps to better protect young people from health risks. To date, we have graduated over 2,000,000 at-risk youth through our programs in over 50 countries. Every $25 raised gives one at-risk youth access to Grassroot Soccer’s award-winning adolescent health programming and our Caring Coaches who change lives every day!
The Halachic Organ Donor Society is a organ donation advocacy group in the Jewish Community. They work to educate Jews about the mitzvah of saving lives through organ donation.
HODS’ accomplishments are:
– Helped save hundreds of lives.
– Performed a Kiddush Hashem by changing perceptions about Jews regarding organ donation.
– Educated more than 37,500 people in more than 600 lectures.
– Recruited more than 200 rabbis to register and carry organ donor cards.
– Created dozens of rabbinic video testimonials, available at www.hods.org.
– Raised awareness of halachic support for organ donation by publishing more than 100 articles, editorials, and letters to the editor.
