Special Olympics
Special Olympics movement will transform communities by inspiring people throughout the world to open their minds, accept and include people with intellectual disabilities and thereby celebrate the similarities common to all people. The Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community. For more information, please visit www.specialolympics.org.

Café Reconcile
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In the first four years of operation, Reconcile New Orleans' Youth Workforce training program has successfully enrolled over 250 youth between the ages of 16 and 25 to learn basic life skills, interpersonal skills and work skills to enable and empower them to successfully enter the second-largest non-governmental workforce in New Orleans—the entertainment and hospitality industry. The mission of Café Reconcile is to fuel economic vitality and growth in Central City and the greater New Orleans metropolitan area by working together with businesses, nonprofit organizations, and people of faith to create jobs, support community development through youth workforce development programs, and encourage entrepreneurship and home ownership in socio-economically depressed neighborhoods, through the ministry of reconciliation. For more information, please visit www.cafereconcile.org.

Dream Foundation
The Dream Foundation, founded in Santa Barbara in 1994 by Thomas Rollerson, is the first national wish granting organization for adults suffering life-limiting illness. The mission of the Dream Foundation is to enhance the quality of life for individuals, and their families, at the end of life's journey. The Dream Foundation helps adults find peace and closure with the realization of a final wish. Dream Foundation works with volunteers, hospices and healthcare organizations nationwide who are grateful that there is now somewhere to turn for help for their dying patients. To learn more about The Dream Foundation, please visit www.dreamfoundation.org.

Challengers Boys & Girls Club
Challengers Boys and Girls Club is a member of the Boys & Girls Club of America, providing programs which encourage the healthy growth of boys and girls by instilling a sense of competence, self-worth, belonging, and empowerment. During the past 38 years, Challengers has served more than 34,000 children from the inner city of Los Angeles. Our new facilities provide more than 50,000 square feet of innovation, technology, and resources for the 3,500 youth that make up Challengers' members. The mission of Challengers Boys & Girls Club is to promote the optimum social development of youth ages 6 to 17 by providing a safe place for them to learn and grow. For more information on the Challengers Boys and Girls Club, please visit www.cbgcla.org or call (323) 971-6161.

DonorsChoose.org
DonorsChoose.org grew out of a Bronx high school where teachers experienced first-hand the scarcity of learning materials in public schools. Charles Best, then a social studies teacher, sensed that many people would like to help distressed public schools, but were frustrated by a lack of influence over their donations. He created DonorsChoose.org so that individuals could connect directly with classrooms in need. Since launching in 2000, DonorsChoose.org has empowered more than 200,000 teachers and citizen philanthropists to become change makers. To learn more, please visit www.donorschoose.org.

Warrick Dunn Foundation – Homes for the Holidays
The Warrick Dunn Foundation is dedicated to providing opportunities for economically-disadvantaged single parents and children who have demonstrated a commitment to achieve financial independence and stability. Through the Homes for the Holidays Program established in 1997, Dunn provides the down payment on a home selected by a single parent associated with an approved, non-profit, affordable homeownership program. For more information, please visit www.warrickdunnfoundation.org.

Athletes for Hope
Athletes for Hope was founded in 2007 by an elite group of highly philanthropic professional athletes who are as dedicated to achieving excellence through their charitable work as they are to their sport. Their vision for AFH is to empower the sports community, especially individual athletes, to make a difference, and to inspire others to pass their passion for philanthropy from generation to generation. The Athletes for Hope mission is to educate, encourage and assist athletes in their efforts to contribute to community and charitable causes, to increase public awareness of those efforts, and to inspire others to do the same. For more information, please visit www.athletesforhope.org.

A BETTER LA
A BETTER LA, founded by USC football head coach Pete Carroll, is comprised of local leaders from the private, non-profit, social service, faith-based, education and law enforcement sectors. A BETTER LA mobilizes the knowledge and skills of the community to inspire each person to dream, work and play without fear and are committed to supporting Los Angeles communities in their goal to reduce violence by empowering change. For more information, please visit www.abetterla.org.

ITNAmerica
ITNAmerica is the first and only national non-profit transportation system for America's aging population. ITNAmerica seeks to support sustainable, community-based transportation services for seniors throughout the world by building a senior transportation network though research, policy analysis and education, and by promoting lifelong safety and mobility. Our model marries the power of information technology and the strength of local, grassroots support. Our goal is to create an efficient and financially sustainable solution to the transportation needs of seniors and their families throughout the world. ITNAmerica imagines a day when all seniors and adults with visual impairment will have access to transportation when they want it. For more information, please visit www.itnamerica.org.