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Kids Off The Block, a prominent community based youth organization in the Roseland Community of Chicago, IL, has ignited a passion across the city in response to an epidemic of youth violence that has claimed the lives of our children in the past year. We are embarking on our greatest challenge yet, the launching of our Citywide Campaign called “Save A Teen / Do Something”. This new Youth Anti-Violence Crime Prevention Campaign will develop sustainable processes and relationships that will address the violence, and social conditions that face youth in Chicago and across this nation. Youth (especially high school age youth) who choose to advocate in an organized body, must also receive social support that can be leveraged into opportunities to overcome their circumstances. We will build a Coalition to save our teens and provide them the resources to change their lives “literally”, and combat violence on a citywide level. To break the cycle of youth violence in 2008 we must form a coalition consisting of caring adults; city officials, law enforcement, community leaders, religious leaders, politicians and parents.

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The ATCAC’s mission is to empower the lives of families living on the Caribbean island of Haiti, thus reversing community, cultural, and economic deterioration. ATCAC seeks to educate, feed, clothe, and provide medical assistance to those in need, while developing working skills for young adults to become self-sufficient and contributive members of society.

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Pulling perfectly good dogs and cats of all breeds, sizes, and ages that are slated for euthenasia from overcrowded animal shelters and providing them with basic health needs like spay/neuter, vaccinations, health checks, flea treatment, heartworm tests, and preventative and finding them loving, forever homes with Rescue Farm: a no-kill, non-profit animal rescue out of Poland, Indiana. We post the pets online and people inquire about them via Lauren, a dedicated, long-time volunteer with the rescue. Then they arrange to come meet the dog at the rescue or via one of our adoption events, which is where I come in. Jodi, the wonderful woman who takes care of all of the animals on a daily basis, brings them to the Petsmart in Terre Haute where they are showcased to the public for adoption. We also like to microchip the dogs so in the event they are ever lost again, they'll be returned home safely!We've had everything from Mastiffs to Chihuhuas and we've had around 700 adoptions this year alone--dogs and cats!700 dogs and cats that would have likely otherwise been put to sleep due to lack of exposure to the public and resources. We are run soley off of adoption fees and donations. We recieve no goverment money whatsoever but yet, we've been saving lives and making it happen since 2004!

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P.R.O.J.E.C.T.: T.E.E.N.S. which stands for Peers Reaching Out Joined to Empower the Community Together thru Training, Education, Employment, Networking and Support is a nonprofit organization of teens founded by teens for the empowerment of teens. Our purpose is to help teens define and design themselves. P.R.O.J.E.C.T.: T.E.E.N.S. was started by teens who believed they could make a difference by reaching out and helping other teens to create themselves, joining with those teens to figure out what tools they needed to help them to be successful and empowering other teens to define and design their own path way to personal success. Our Mission is Empowerment in three ways: To Empower Teens, To Empower Themselves and To Empower the Community.

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Source: http://www.mountainfund.org

The Facts:

The world's mountains cover about one-fourth of the planet's land surface and are home to 10 percent of its population. They are a sanctuary for an extraordinary web of plant and animal life and a source of water for all of the world's major rivers.

Yet mountain people, the guardians of these valuable mountain resources, are among the world's poorest, hungriest and most marginalized populations. Indeed, many of the more-than-800 million chronically undernourished people in the world today live in mountain areas.

"Eradication of Extreme Poverty" is, in fact, the number-one priority of the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals for the world community. Unfortunately, as of 2004 in Nepal for instance, the U.N. has categorized this Goal as "far behind."

In cooperation with our Partner Organizations, The Mountain Fund is dedicated to achieving the Millennium Development Goals at the grassroots level.

The Mountain Fund's Mission:

Our mission is to organize grassroots non-profit and non-governmental organizations from a diversity of disciplines, and to support and coordinate these organizations' efforts to eliminate poverty, its causes and symptoms, in developing mountain communities.