Community Health Innovation Learning Dedication

Advocacy

Education:

30 Project – www.30project.org
The 30 Project is dedicated to fighting hunger and obesity, improving agriculture and access to healthy foods, and working on change in the food system.

BoostUp – www.boostup.org
BoostUp is about giving potential graduates at-risk of dropping out the support they need to stay in school and stay on-track for graduation.

Change 1 Child – www.changeonechild.org
Change 1 Child is a nonprofit, non-governmental organization that takes action against failing schools, hunger and poverty affecting children around the world.

Givology – www.givology.org
Givology is an online giving marketplace through which any internet user can browse and sponsor students and education projects in the developing world.

International Medical Corps – internationalmedicalcorps.org
International Medical Corps is a global humanitarian nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through health care training and relief and development programs.

The Children’s Music Fund – thecmf.org
The Children’s Music Fund is a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide musical instruments and music therapy to children, adolescents, and young adults with chronic and life altering illnesses, and to support research on the effects of music therapy.

The Milagro Foundation – www.milagrofoundation.org
Milagro focuses on serving at-risk, underrepresented and disadvantaged youth through educational programs and health services.
 

Emergency:

American Red Cross – www.redcross.org
The American Red Cross helps prepare communities for emergencies and keep people safe every day thanks to caring people who support their work.
 

Medical:

Camp Kesem – www.campkesem.org
Camp Kesem is a college student run summer camp for kids with a parent who has or has had cancer.

Doctors without Borders - www.doctorswithoutborders.org 
Doctors with Borders sends medical professionals, as volunteers, to various regions in need. They stay for 9 months or more working with the local population.

Heart to Heart - hearttoheart.org
Heart to Heart is an organization akin to the international Red Cross. Their goal is to improve global health through initiatives that connect people and resources to a world in need.

Hearts with Hope – www.heartswithhope.org
The goal of Hearts with hope is to provide Latin American families’ access to medical care and other necessities for their children with congenital heart disease.

Flying Samaritans – www.flyingsamaritans.net
The Flying Samaritans is an all-volunteer organization, which operates free one-day medical clinics in Baja California, Mexico.

Make-A-Wish Foundation - www.wish.org
Make-A-Wish Foundation grants the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions.

Operation Smile - www.operationsmile.org  
Operation Smile is a charity organization dedicated to healing healing children's smiles; cleft lip, cleft palate and other facial deformities. 

Oscar Litwak Foundation – www.oscarlitwakfoundation.org
The Oscar Litwak Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for children undergoing long-term-medical care.

Starlight Children’s Foundation - www.starlight.org
The Starlight Children’s Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for seriously ill children and their families.
 

Sustainability:

Haiti Outreach Ministries – www.haitioutreachministries.org
Teams of 16 travel to Haiti to work with ministries there to help rebuild the country both in the short and long term after the earthquake in 2010. Christian based group. Volunteers as well as financial donations needed. 

Heifer International – www.heifer.org
Heifer International is a non-profit organization whose goal is to help end world hunger and poverty through self-reliance & sustainability.

L.A. Family Housing – www.lafh.org
Helping families transition out of homelessness and poverty through a continuum of housing enriched with supportive services.

Mazon: A Jewish Response to Hunger – mazon.org
A national nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing and alleviating hunger among people of all faiths and backgrounds.

Samaritan's Purse – www.samaritanspurse.org
Samaritan’s Purse emergency relief programs provide desperately needed assistance to victims of natural disaster, war, disease, and famine. They offer food, water, and temporary shelter, meeting critical needs and giving people a chance to rebuild their lives.