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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
Lawndale Christian Legal Center
LCLC provides holistic legal services, integrating legal representation and social services, for youth involved with the criminal justice system, age 24 and younger, in North Lawndale, a predominantly African American community in the West Side of Chicago, IL.
Chicago, IllinoisAspire Chicago
Making a difference in communities through dedicated service and impact.
Iraqi Children Foundation
A charity started by two Americans working in Iraq during the war to care for orphans.
Falls Church, Virginia
AIM at Melanoma
AIM at Melanoma is the largest international melanoma advocacy organization personally committed to find the CURE for melanoma.
Richmond, California
HOPE HOLLOW MINISTRIES
Hope Hollow Ministries is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that ministers to children and adults with special needs and their families. Based in central Mississippi, we seek to provide fun, meaningful camps and programs in a Christian based environment filled with love, adventure, compassion, and fellowship, specifically for our friends with special needs.
Madison, Mississippi
Literacy Bridge
Providing life-changing knowledge to the most vulnerable families through technology
Seattle, Washington
Bayside Medical Missions
Making a difference in communities through dedicated service and impact.
GREEN DOT ETCETERA
The Green Dot Strategy is an innovative approach to violence prevention. Green Dot harnesses the power of individual choices to shift social norms, resulting in broad-based culture change. Green Dot is based on a wealth of interdisciplinary research including social change theory, diffusion of innovation, communication, marketing, bystander intervention, and perpetration patterns.
Alexandria, Virginia
FIRST LOVE MINISTRIES USA
First Love Ministries USA has as its sole purpose the glorification of Jesus Christ by: The teaching and preaching of GOD'S Word as given to us in the Bible, helping the poor and needy in the Name of Jesus Christ, and helping with fundraising and support for other like-minded Christian ministries throughout the world.
Irvine, California
Christian - Deaf Video Communications in American Sign Language
The DVC Christian Television Network is a Web-based television station that works with pastors, Bible teachers and Christian leaders in the Deaf Community to broadcast visually relevant expressions of the Word of God in sign language. www.dvc.tv At the click of a button Bible studies, dramas and creative TV programs with a life-giving message of God's Word can be clearly seen in sign language continuously 24/7 to anyone worldwide with an Internet connection.
Carol Stream, Illinois
Providence Childrens Home
Providence Children's Home exists to help provide hope to children in Kenya who have lost their parents due to the AIDS epidemic in Sub-Sahara Africa. We provide a Home, School and Clinic on 16 acres of land 30 km west of Nairobi. We currently have 47 girl orphans at the Home, who all attend the school along with 500 outside students in Pre-K through 12. Our Clinic provides general health care for the orphans, students and the local community.
Claremont, California