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Vision: Communities where individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities have no unique barriers to achieving a life of quality. Mission: Through our kinship with JCDS, we provide basic needs, affordable housing, and life enhancing opportunities for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.  At its heart, Friends of JCDS, Inc. is about helping individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) achieve success in the community, whether it’s providing accessible and affordable housing or helping with basic needs. For the last 21 years we have been purchasing and remodeling homes to make them accessible; removing barriers for wheelchairs, installing ramps, widening doorways and hallways and ensuring that the houses remain affordable for individuals to rent. Individuals served receive their residential services from Johnson County Developmental Supports.Through our partnership with the county agency, individuals have the security knowing that that their rent will remain well below market rates and within affordable housing guidelines all the while receiving solid services from Johnson County Developmental Supports to ensure successful community living. Along with our affordable housing program, we also offer a special assistance program that provides additional assistance with basic needs. Individuals that are served by JCDS can apply for financial aid to pay for dental bills, clothing, food, utilities or other essentials. The fund also offers assistance with quality of life issues such as gym memberships, therapies or activities. We often help with obtaining donations for tickets to local sporting activities and community activities, as well as hosting an annual picnic and Halloween Boo Bash.We are a private non-profit organization.

To provide free of charge insulin and disease management supplies to those with diabetes who otherwise would go without these life saving provisions. In short, the organization collects in date, unopened, supplies from individuals or organizations in the USA and, following careful inspection, delivers them to disadvantaged regions to be utilized by those in need. IFL-USA is fully licensed by the State of Florida to both receive and distribute medications for this purpose, and is insured for its activities. All donations to the organization are tax deductible in accordance with regulations.

Alzheimer’s can feel like an impossible disease. But at Alzheimer’s San Diego, we know that people can still live well after a diagnosis. We recognize the dignity of every person living with dementia and empower them to play an active role in planning their own future care. We see the heartache this disease inflicts on families, and we’re here to give them the support and knowledge they need to become strong care partners – and to find joy in even the darkest moments. And we’re working to make Alzheimer’s a disease of the past, by connecting people to clinical trials and funding research for a cure.

Provide Patients and their Families with Advanced Illness Care of the Highest Quality. Formerly Capital Hospice DBA Capital Caring.

The mission of Ave Maria Home is to assist the aged, sick, and destitute through:Improving the moral, social, and spiritual conditions of its beneficiaries;Continuing the stewardship of human, physical, and financial resources in         conjunction with the Catholic community;Facilitating visitation by family, friends, and members of the community;Providing a commitment to long-term and rehabilitative care.

LOPA was established in April 1988 as the only federally designated, not-for-profit organ and tissue recovery agency for the state of Louisiana. LOPA recovers donated organs and tissues, places them for transplant, and offers support for families throughout the entire donation process. The agency manages the Louisiana Donor Registry, a database of individuals who have registered to become organ, tissue and eye donors. LOPA plays a vital role in educating Louisianians about donation. By partnering with Louisiana eye banks, universities and hospitals, LOPA broadens the impact of its core Purpose of MAKING LIFE HAPPEN

Malachi House, created out of a Christian sense of ministry, serves persons who are terminally ill, without regard to gender, race, religion, or national origin and without cost to the resident or family. This Home ministers to individuals who need an available caregiver, who have limited or no financial resources, and are in need of special home care in the final stages of life. Our trained staff and volunteers provide spiritual, emotional, and physical support with the assistance of a hospice team.

To raise money to fight cancer. Donations are made to research at both Mass General and Dana Farber

The Carroll Center for the Blind's mission is to serve the needs of individuals who are blind and visually impaired by providing rehabilitation, skills training, and educational opportunities to achieve independence, self-sufficiency and self-fulfillment, and by educating the public regarding the potential of persons who are blind and visually impaired.

The Bow Foundation is dedicated to supporting GNAO1 families through enhanced research and increased awareness. We're working to fund cutting edge research to benefit those with GNAO1 disabilities and other similar rare diseases and neurological conditions.

Hospice of the Foothills affirms life and promotes dignity at the end-of- life by providing professional, comprehensive and compassionate care to the patients, their loved ones, and the community.

Our mission is creating the best experience for those facing serious illness. Every patient. Every family. Every time. For nearly 40 years, Mountain Valley Hospice and Palliative Care have served the community, helping those with serious illnesses throughout 18 counties in North Carolina and Virginia.