First Chance Foundation

Every day we encounter friends and colleagues who grew up in loving, supportive households. An environment of love and support provided the inspiration and skills to be productive in society. There are many children throughout the country who don't enjoy that environment, and have been victims of neglect and abuse. Many didn't get the inspiration and skills offered by a loving family. These kids don't need a second chance at being successful. They need a first chance. This foundation has been created to generate the financial resources to help fund children's charities that are helping provide that first chance every single day. First Chance Foundation is a private, non-profit foundation established through contributions from individuals and clients of Verbalocity, Inc. The foundation was formed as a way to support those soundly-managed, non-profit organizations which focus on the nurturing and development of disadvantaged children.

Acts 435

Acts 435 is an online giving charity, directly connecting those who want to give with those who are in genuine need of their help, through a network of local churches and charities.

American Jewish Society for Service (AJSS)

American Jewish Society for Service (AJSS) pioneered service-learning programs for Jewish teens. Our U.S.-based programs empower high school students to engage in meaningful service opportunities rooted in Jewish tradition. In the 64 years since our founding, AJSS programs have served more than 160 communities in 48 states. AJSS will challenge the way our participants view the world. By empowering participants to assume leadership roles, we will lay the foundation for these adolescents to effect change. AJSS: Change lives. Start with yours.

Craftsman Cafe

Community From the Inside Out Craftsman Cafe is the creative canvas for Craftsman Media. We are a non profit with the mission of sharing art, building community, and impacting local charities doing important work in our community. We do this by producing unique events such as concerts, chef events, and other cool stuff.

PAST AFRICA

We help discover, protect & share fossil evidence that highlights our African birthplace, our shared origins and our place in nature to end discrimination and the destruction of our planet and foster science-based thinking. Dig Deeper www.past.org.za PAST is the largest, independent, African-based not-for-profit working in the origin sciences, supporting education, research and public understanding programming on the prehistoric origins of life and humankind. Since 1994, we've used the science of our shared origins to pursue our core mission, which is to benefit humankind's future. We do this by providing a science-based perspective on two of the greatest challenges facing societies everywhere: discrimination (particularly that based on race) and the rapid, human-induced loss of natural environments and biodiversity. PAST is predicated on the belief that ignoring lessons from the vast 3.8-billion-year period of prehistory, which preceded written history and during which life on Earth originated and diversified, is like a 40-year-old basing a crucial decision on experience gained in the last 30-minutes of their life. The funds we raise support four main areas of activity – research, postgraduate training, youth education and public understanding. PAST-funded research by African-based palaeontologists and archaeologists plays an important role in collectively and conclusively showing that Africa is the birthplace of humankind and in demonstrating the shared origins of all people and all living things. In pursuit of the development of African science, we provide bursaries for origin sciences postgraduate students who are training at African universities. Evidence from these two areas of our work is marshalled for Walking Tall, our acclaimed secondary school education programme, as well as our global public understanding campaign, All from One.