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Family Empowerment Centers

Family Empowerment Centers exists to glorify God and love our neighbors by strengthening young urban families in Christ as we create real opportunities of empowerment and care for the needs of those facing greater challenges in urban America. It is our conviction that all people, from every nation of the world are of equal value and concern before God. It is also our conviction that although mankind is of equal value before God, often times the opportunities for empowerment and freedom are selective due to issues of systemic and personal injustices. Family Empowerment Centers will seek to bring a balance to these circumstances by loving our neighbors in a Christ like manner and creating opportunities for those who are disadvantaged in our urban communities to attain empowerment and freedom. It is also our conviction that real empowerment, freedom and wholistic growth has its foundation in an individuals experience of the love of Christ, through His body the church, and the truths found in the Scriptures. Family Empowerment Centers recognizes mankind as spiritual, physical, psychological and social beings. By coming along side individuals in a wholistic and Christ like fashion we expect these individuals to have maximized opportunities of empowerment and a greater hope in the future. The element of Christian faith in what we do, how we do it in creating opportunities of empowerment, and who we do it for is what sets our organization apart from others. Family Empowerment Centers has chosen to target urban communities on the basis that these communities tend to include people from all of the nations of the world and at the same time seems to be the epicenter for injustice, inequality, and issues of poverty. In the same manner that trends move out from major metropolitan cities our organization believes that as people are empowered they too may move out from urban communities to various world destinations creating change in their environments. Family Empowerment Centers also recognizes that the family unit is the most influential determinant in the growth of the individual. Great attention will be given to the growth of the whole family when possible. Our organization defines family as a multi-individual group of people, often times made up of a father, mother, and child, but not limited to those roles in which the group bears the relational characteristics of a family. Therefore the family could be traditional in nature, be a single parent home, be a home with no children, be a home where a significant other (i.e. grandmother, aunt, uncle) is raising the children, or a foster home situation.

Chicago

Calm Air Visibility Unlimited

CAVU is a US public charity empowering people to take meaningful action on critical conservation and social justice issues in their own communities.

Universal City, Texas

Forward Edge International

Partnering with God to transform the lives of vulnerable children, disaster victims, and those who go to serve them.

Vancouver, Washington

CouldYou?

CouldYou? (CY) is a US nonprofit that develops and scales transformational solutions to impact poverty. We do this by identifying both the partners and the proven solutions, by connecting them with the resources and those in the community that can affect real change, and delivering these solutions together. For over ten years, CY has been working with partners committed to listening, innovating, and delivering on their best to see transformation in Mozambique and around the world. Over the next ten years, we’re expanding our impact to change the world. Could you join us?

Carlsbad, California

Community Teamwork

Our organization provides programs and services that provide help in creating or re-establishing a bridge to independence. From day care to job training; emergency housing to home modification loans to keep seniors in their homes; providing a small business center that launches and support entrepreneurs and programs for youth through age 24 to receive mentoring and job training, our programs touch the lives of clients across the lifespan helping to break the cycle of economic inequality by giving them the tools to set and achieve significant goals.

Lowell, Massachusetts

Pursue Scholars

Pursue Scholars holistically supports emerging urban Christian leaders in pursuit of higher education.

Chicago, Illinois

Ceres

Ceres is a nonprofit advocacy organization working to confront the challenge of a global economic system out of balance with human and environmental needs.

Boston, Massachusetts

CHILDREN OF THE AMERICAS-CHILDREN OF THE WORLD INC

Making a difference in communities through dedicated service and impact.

Lexington, Kentucky

Gifts With a Cause

Gifts With a Cause is passionate about providing a better education for children and a sustainable income to families and villages by designing and producing high quality Fair Trade products that then educate and inspire people to make a difference in the world by purchasing their wonderful handcrafted jewelry, scarves, purses, and home decor products.

San Diego, California

Coastal Research and Education Society of Long Island, Inc.

A non-profit (501 (c) (3)) volunteer-based research and education organization. We are dedicated to conservation and protection of coastal ecosystems through outreach and research.

WEST SAYVILLE, New York

Test Automation

Testing by automation

Berkeley, Delaware

BY THE HAND CLUB FOR KIDS

By The Hand is a Chicago-based, after-school program that emphasizes academic excellence while nurturing the whole child—mind, body and soul.