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Founded in 1991, Healthy Child Healthy World (formerly the Children's Health Environmental Coalition) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting the health and well-being of children from harmful environmental exposures. We educate parents and caregivers, support protective policies, and engage households and communities by providing access to critical information that encourages smarter lifestyle choices to reduce toxic chemicals exposure. Our programs and initiatives are centered around expanding awareness of environmental hazards to children's health; helping the public learn about healthier practices, solutions, and products in the marketplace; creating standards and policies for safer products, foods, materials, and chemicals used in the home; and advocating for and supporting corporate policies and governmental legislation that protect children from environmental risks. Our vision is a world where every child has the opportunity to grow up in a healthy and safe environment.

OneWorld Health (a drug development affiliate of PATH) is a nonprofit drug development organization. The program works to develop and ensure availability and accessibility of safe and effective new medicines for diseases disproportionately affecting people in developing countries.

STARS exists to serve schools and communities by providing prevention, intervention, and treatment services, addressing bullying, substance abuse, violence, and other social and emotional barriers to success.

To support healthy births and successful development of children by partnering with parents and helping to build strong communities.

Provide free eye exams and glasses to elementary school students in low-income communities throughout California and the nation.

To introduce low-cost compost toilets in order to reduce disease and provide dignity for people living without basic sanitation To reduce reliance on chemical fertilizers by producing organic compost products that can improve soil and improve food security To teach people how to compost organic wastes and protect water resources To promote EcoSan and composting as viable solutions to water-based sanitation systems

Our Mission: A worldwide charitable fellowship united by a common loyalty to Jesus Christ for the purpose of helping persons grow in spirit, mind and body.

To provide structured transitional housing & employment assistance to adult males (and females later in 2016) released from substance abuse treatment & penal institutions.

APHA champions the health of all people and all communities. We strengthen the public health profession. We speak out for public health issues and policies backed by science. We are the only organization that influences federal policy, has a 140-plus year perspective and brings together members from all fields of public health. Our mission is to improve the health of the public and achieve equity in health status. Our vision is to create the healthiest nation in one generation. Our values reflect the beliefs of our members from all disciplines of public health and over 40 countries.

To help refugees rebuild safe, sustainable lives in Denver through supportive networks of people, services and community activities.

Founded in 1972, the Chinese Progressive Association educates, organizes and empowers the low income and working class immigrant Chinese community in San Francisco to build collective power with other oppressed communities to demand better living and working conditions and justice for all people.

Help Families, Seniors & Those in Need