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The Coalition for Responsible Community Development (CRCD) is a community development corporation serving the Vernon-Central neighborhood in South Los Angeles.  With a focus on youth & young adults, CRCD's mission is to better sustain, coordinate, and improve local planning, development, and community services that address the needs of low-income and working class residents and small businesses of South Los Angeles.  CRCD works with residents, businesses, community organizations, and civic leaders to foster a safe and economically vibrant community where young people have opportunities to thrive and contribute to neighborhood revitalization.  CRCD was founded in 2005 with assistance from the Los Angeles Conservation Corps.

Neighborhood Housing Services of Los Angeles County (NHS) serves as a catalyst for local residents, business and government representatives to work together to build stronger neighborhoods, improve the quality of life for families of modest means and to revitalize communities into neighborhoods of choice. NHS strengthens communities through the development and maintenance of quality affordable housing, creation and preservation of affordable homeownership opportunities, support of local leaders, providing financial education and increasing the financial independence of families and people in need

Doing Business as: Youth Emerging Stronger Resilient, self-assured and hopeful youth, free from a life of homelessness and achieving a positive, fulfilling future.

By funding entry into long-term sober living homes with well structured recovery programs, PIFM seeks to break the cycle of homelessness by placing every destitute alcoholic/addict - who desires freedom from their disease - into a safe, positive and nurturing living environment in which to practice early recovery from addiction. Our corporate Vision is to glorify Jesus Christ and advance His Kingdom by eradicating homelessness – one recovered alcoholic/addict at a time.

Habitat for Humanity - New York City transforms lives and our city by building quality homes for families in need and by uniting all New Yorkers around the cause of affordable housing.

Our goal is to enrich the lives of America's homeless by providing a continuous source of fresh, clean, bottled water delivered with a daily inspirational message of hope, love, and a sense of belonging to the greater community.

CitySquare exists to fight the causes and effects of poverty through service, advocacy, and friendship. Working together as a community, we feed the hungry, heal the sick, house the homeless and renew hope in the heart of our city.

Aileen Getty founded Gettlove in 2005 in response to homelessness in the Hollywood community. Gettlove is committed to providing services through a companionship model, where the case manager and client navigate the complex journey out of homelessness together. The relationship that is developed along the way is an essential component of Gettlove’s ability to share in each client’s challenges and joys in continuing to maintain a home. Gettlove further strives to be both a catalyst and a model within the community, implementing and evaluating innovative practices that can be replicated throughout the country. Gettlove hopes to demonstrate the power of relationships, the importance of instilling a sense of belonging in every member of the community, and the effectiveness of permanent housing. Success is not only measured by numbers, but by improvements in quality of life for clients and for the community.

Back on My Feet is a for-purpose 501(c)3 organization that uses running to help those experiencing homelessness change the way they see themselves so they can make real change in their lives that results in employment and independent living.

The Ali Forney Center was founded in 2002 in memory of Ali Forney, a homeless gender-nonconforming youth who was forced to live on the streets, where they were tragically murdered. Too many of these youth are rejected by their families and the broader community and are thus forced to survive on the streets, facing the dangers of violence, HIV infection, and homophobia. Committed to saving the lives of LGBTQ+ young people, the organization's mission is to protect them from the harms of homelessnessJuly-15- and empower them with the tools needed to live independently through services that can help them thrive.

Project Hope Alliance's (PHA) mission is to end the cycle of homelessness, one child at a time. PHA focuses on kids age 5 through 24, who are often 'hidden in plain sight', and provides them with the housing, educational support, and extracurricular opportunities needed to help them realize a future that is not limited by their parents' economic circumstances.

The mission of BOSS is to help homeless, poor, and disabled people achieve health and self-sufficiency, and to fight against the root causes of poverty and homelessness. BOSS develops solutions to mass homelessness, mass incarceration and community violence and is dedicated to the inclusion of people marginalized by addiction, trauma, criminality, incarceration, poverty, racism, sexism, homelessness and violence.