Help a Nonprofit
It was humbling and eye opening to learn about so many nonprofits’ missions. But, unfortunately, we can work with only one.
If you would like to support, donate, or work with a nonprofit, especially in the digital space, below is a great resource of wonderful nonprofits you should consider.
619 Productions
Creates artistic and economic outlets in under-resourced neighborhoods through free and low-cost art programs for children, adults, and seniors. Builds confidence and opportunity through creative work.
91 Place
Provides transitional housing and wraparound support for young adults aged 18 to 24 experiencing homelessness in Indianapolis. Residents stay up to two years while building toward independent life.
Abayomi CDC
A HUD-certified housing counseling agency in Detroit guiding families toward homeownership. Pairs one-on-one pre- and post-purchase counseling with access to down payment assistance.
Able South Carolina
An organization of people with disabilities equipping others with the tools to direct their own lives. Educates communities to challenge stereotypes and advocates for access and inclusion.
Activities Beyond the Classroom
Supports opportunity-filled environments for Cincinnati Public School students, from athletics to arts to enrichment. Works toward equity and excellence across the whole district.
Affordable Housing Clearinghouse
Connects moderate- and low-income households with financial education, homeownership pathways, and housing resources. Works alongside community partners across Southern California.
Alma Swim Foundation
Works to get more melanin in the water by expanding access to swim lessons and water safety education. Treats swimming as a basic life skill rather than a luxury.
Alston Wilkes Society
Rebuilds lives across South Carolina for veterans, justice-involved people, and those experiencing homelessness. Combines housing, employment, and behavioral health services into second chances that hold.
Amaanah Refugee Services
Helps refugee families across greater Houston move from surviving to thriving. Provides resettlement support, education, and pathways into stable, connected community life.
American Diabetes Association
Works to prevent and cure diabetes and improve the lives of everyone affected by it. Combines research funding, advocacy, education, and connection for a condition touching tens of millions.
America’s Talented Youth Exchange
Mentors and develops the musical talents of young people. Teaches that lyrics carry weight, encouraging youth to write responsibly and shape what their generation hears.
Animal Advocacy Careers
Grows and strengthens the talent base of the animal advocacy movement. Moves people into high-impact roles through a job board, career advising, an online course, and placement support.
Arise and Thrive International Organization
Builds boreholes, wells, and classrooms for underserved communities in Benue State, Nigeria. Brings clean drinking water and basic education to places where both are scarce.
Armory Arts & Music Center
Preserves and reactivates the Historic Duluth Armory as a community gathering place. Brings arts, music, culture, education, and entrepreneurship under one landmark roof.
Art Inclusive, Inc.
Brings LGBTQ+ people and their allies together to build an empowered, inclusive community through art. Creates space for creativity, connection, and self-expression.
A Sense of Home
Prevents homelessness by creating first-ever homes for young people aging out of foster care. Pairs housing access with personalized home creation and long-term wraparound support.
Autistics Association of Greater Washington
Serves the autistic adult community of metropolitan Washington with in-person and virtual support meetings, presentations, and social excursions. Built by and for autistic adults.
Beyond Stabilization
Closes the gap between crisis stabilization and long-term recovery for people living with serious mental illness. Advocates for transitional services, supportive housing, and family support.
Bridge Lacrosse
Uses lacrosse to broaden the horizons of young people in Dallas and Austin. Closes the opportunity gap with year-round programming built on relationships and life skills.
Bridges 2 Health
Creates the conditions for collaboration so health innovation moves faster and travels further. Focuses on students navigating chronic and complex health conditions.
California Dance Institute
Transforms the lives of Los Angeles public school students through the joy and rigor of dance and music instruction. Works predominantly in Title I and under-resourced schools.
CareerRise
Strengthens Metro Atlanta's workforce ecosystem by connecting employers, training providers, community groups, and job seekers. Advances economic mobility and champions good jobs.
CaringBridge
Builds bridges of care and connection for people going through a health journey. Its platform lets patients and caregivers keep the people who love them informed and close.
CASA of Los Angeles
Trains volunteers to advocate one-to-one for children in Los Angeles County's child welfare system. Each advocate investigates a child's circumstances and speaks for them in court.
Centro Community Partners
Builds thriving communities by giving low- and moderate-income entrepreneurs the training to start a business. Combines entrepreneurship education, one-on-one coaching, mentorship, and access to capital.
Charles River Watershed Association
Protects, restores, and enhances the Charles River and its watershed using science, advocacy, and the law. Develops strategies for resilience and public health as the climate changes.
Chef Ann Foundation
Gets schools cooking again, helping them replace ultraprocessed food with fresh, scratch-cooked meals. Works on the system that feeds millions of kids every school day.
Child Foundation
Improves the lives of children and families through accessible education, health support, and community programs. Connects underserved communities to resources, advocacy, and culturally responsive care.
Choice-filled Lives Network
Works so that every person has a genuine voice and real ownership over their own life. Pushes programs and systems to listen, respect, and support people in making their own informed decisions.
Coalition for Engaged Education
Empowers young people aged 14 to 25 impacted by the justice and foster care systems. Pairs mobile case management with mentorship and advocacy for the systemic change they need.
Coast Film Foundation
Uses film and storytelling to deepen connection to the natural world and drive social and environmental change. Runs an annual festival plus year-round education and community programs.
Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL)
Works to make evidence-based social and emotional learning an integral part of education from preschool through high school. Builds classrooms where children and adults alike grow self-aware and resilient.
Compass Pro Bono
Connects small nonprofits with purpose-driven business volunteers, strategic guidance, and practical tools. Acts as a force multiplier for organizations without the budget to hire consultants.
Conservation International
Empowers societies to care responsibly for nature and global biodiversity. Builds on decades of science, partnership, and field demonstration in support of human wellbeing.
Contentment Foundation
Equips teachers to cultivate wellbeing in themselves and their classrooms. Its evidence-based approach centers mindfulness, community, self-curiosity, and contentment.
Cornerstone Crossroads Academy
A Christian academy that develops urban young people through transformative education. Equips graduates to become leaders who invest back into the communities they came from.
Council on Aging of St. Lucie
Delivers meals, transportation, and in-home care to seniors across St. Lucie County. Helps older adults live independently and stay connected to their communities as they age.
Crew Collaborative
Strengthens the blue-collar workforce and empowers the next generation of skilled trades workers. Changes perceptions, grows opportunity, and provides mentorship through classroom talks and partnerships.
Descendant Community of Milwaukee County Grounds Cemeteries
Advances the documentation, memorialization, and stewardship of those buried at the Milwaukee County Grounds Cemeteries. Serves descendants seeking access to burial records and family history.
Disability Culture Lab
A disability media and narrative lab building communications infrastructure by and for the disability community. Works to shift the story on disability from fear and pity toward solidarity.
Dyslexia Tutoring Program
Provides evidence-based, specialized tutoring for students with dyslexia. Pairs the science of reading with personalized instruction that turns frustration into confidence.
Earthsaylove Foundation
Creates art and poetry for peace and prevention education. Invests in arts opportunities that advance the economic standing of survivors of violence and exploitation.
EcoClean Guardians Inc
Restores and protects public spaces and waterways through technology-enabled cleanup operations. Pays participants for their work, making environmental labor accessible and accountable.
Elevare Foundation Chicagoland
Breaks the cycle of incarceration and limited opportunity in Blue Island and greater Chicagoland. Runs a juvenile reentry academy, an adult second-chance program, and an entrepreneurship track for teens aging out of care.
Episcopal Diocese of MO
An Episcopal diocese serving congregations across Missouri. Walks humbly with God and with its neighbors, seeking justice and acting with love in the communities it serves.
Everybody Wins! Iowa
Increases children's chances of success in school and life through one-to-one reading with caring adult volunteers. Literacy and mentoring arrive in the same hour.
Experiences That Matter Foundation
Runs Chicago's first pediatric mobile vision clinic, delivering free eye exams and same-day prescription glasses to uninsured children. Brings the care directly to the neighborhoods that need it.
Federation for Children with Special Needs
Empowers families and eliminates barriers to improve life outcomes for children and young adults, especially those with disabilities. Helps parents navigate school and service systems.
Feeding Matters
Advances the system of care for pediatric feeding disorders by accelerating identification, igniting research, and promoting collaborative treatment. Helps families tell picky eating from something more.
Floris UMC
A United Methodist congregation in Virginia, focused on connecting people to faith and to one another. Builds pathways into meaningful service across its surrounding community.
Global Neuro YCare
Makes young carers visible: the children and youth who care for a family member with illness or disability. Creates educational materials, advocates, and supports research on their needs.
Global Nomads
Unites young people across cultural divides through courses, internships, and project-based learning. Builds the connection and skills they need to shape a better world.
GracedAngel International Fellowship & Foundation
Reaches the less privileged worldwide with financial aid, scholarships, and skill acquisition centers. Pairs practical poverty relief with faith-rooted community building.
Gratitude Network
Equips nonprofit leaders and their teams with coaching, strategy, and a global peer community. Helps organizations become high-performing and sustainable rather than perpetually stretched.
Habitat for Humanity Inland Valley
Brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope across the Inland Valley. Works to ensure everyone has a decent, safe, and affordable place to live.
Infusion Access Foundation
Works to expand access to infused and injected therapies for the patients who depend on them. Tracks the insurance barriers, from step therapy to prior authorization, that delay treatment.
INL Foundation
Opens access to Idaho National Laboratory's work in advanced energy, grid development, and homeland security. Invests in STEM education to cultivate the next generation of scientific leaders.
International Youth Foundation
Connects young people worldwide with opportunities to transform their lives. Its Passport to Success curriculum builds the life skills that help youth succeed at work and beyond.
It’s All about the Kids Foundation
Bridges weekend food insecurity for children in under-resourced San Diego neighborhoods. Its FIND FOOD directory connects families to nearby pantries, meals, and emergency assistance.
John Bunker Sands Wetland Center
Educates the public and supports research on water reuse, quality, and supply, plus wildlife conservation and wetland systems. Helps a fast-growing North Texas understand why wetlands matter.
Just Detention International
Works to end sexual abuse in all forms of detention. Provides direct services to survivors, trains corrections officials, and partners with crisis centers to support people behind bars.
JusticeMobile
Closes the justice gap by bringing legal help directly into underserved Ohio communities. Uses mobile clinics and community partnerships to reach people before problems become crises.
KIDNEXUS
Co-creates playful, tech-enabled programs that empower children to become creative leaders, innovators, and community problem-solvers. Designs for scale so more communities can run them.
Kidneys for Communities
Saves lives by inspiring people to donate a kidney to someone in their own community. Turns compassion into living donations at no cost to patients, donors, or their families.
KidsGardening
Creates opportunities for children to play, learn, and grow through gardening. Provides grants, lesson plans, and support to schools, childcare programs, and families nationwide.
Kingdom Avenue
Connects Chicago Public Schools students facing homelessness and housing instability to the resources they need. Its referral program builds a village of support around every child.
Kure It Cancer Research
Funds translational research into underfunded cancers at leading cancer centers. Directs money straight to the researchers doing the work, without layers in between.
Last Mile Education Fund
Closes funding and career-support gaps for financially vulnerable college students in the last mile to a STEM degree. Turns small, well-timed investments into completed degrees and lasting mobility.
Legal Aid for New Entrepreneurs
Provides free legal services to low-income small business owners across Chicago. Helps entrepreneurs build the legal foundation they need to launch and grow with confidence.
LOOKOUT Publications
A community-rooted Arizona newsroom serving LGBTQ+ communities with accountability journalism. Turns reporting into action through events, town halls, and partnerships.
Love Well Spent
Closes the digital divide for families most often overlooked, providing devices and internet access to homeschool households. Prioritizes single parents and families raising students with special needs.
Mainely Empowering Foundation
Prevents eviction and foreclosure for Maine families through early intervention, mediation, and financial coaching. Reaches households upstream, before shelter systems get involved.
Malone Unlimited
Helps women-led and under-resourced small businesses reach their first million in revenue. Runs a flexible loan fund designed with women entrepreneurs, and widens who gets to invest.
MeoowzResQ
Rescues kittens and cats across Southern California, pulling them from the streets and from shelters where they face euthanasia. Raises them in foster homes until permanent placement.
Mercy Street
Cultivates mutually transforming relationships with inner-city Dallas youth through Christian mentorship. Works toward a multi-generational movement of people investing in their city.
Milwaukee Riverkeeper
Works for swimmable, fishable, drinkable waterways across the Milwaukee River Basin. Combines community science, advocacy, and habitat protection to improve water quality over time.
Mind the Movement
The first mental health fund built for democracy and movement workers. Provides free or low-cost care, crisis training, and resources to campaign staff and grassroots organizers.
Miracles in Motion Foundation
Closes the gap between people who have access to technology and opportunity and those who do not. Provides devices, digital literacy training, workforce development, and disaster recovery support.
Mission Plasticos
Improves lives through reconstructive surgery provided free of charge in the United States and abroad. Trains local surgeons so the capacity stays behind after each mission.
MotherToBaby
Provides free, evidence-based information about medications, vaccines, and environmental exposures during pregnancy and breastfeeding. Answers questions for families and healthcare providers alike.
Music Concepts
Teaches young people to build a living as independent music producers. Treats creative self-employment as a route to self-reliance and ownership over their own work.
MyMenta
Advances a prevention-first model of youth mental wellness built on early screening and community support. Helps multicultural young people build emotional resilience rather than just survive.
National Alliance for Eating Disorders
Provides referrals, education, and support for people affected by eating disorders. Runs a therapist-staffed national helpline, a treatment referral database, and free clinician-led support groups.
National Council of Teachers of English
Improves the teaching and learning of English and the language arts at every level of education. Promotes literacy as the means to build personal worlds and participate fully in society.
National WIC Association
The nonpartisan membership organization for WIC, the nutrition program for women, infants, and children. Supports the agencies and professionals serving low-income families through training and advocacy.
Nebraska Recycling Council
Works to maximize the economic and environmental benefits of resource recovery across Nebraska. Builds the data and coordination the state needs to make recycling actually work.
Neutral Ground
Works with young people and families in the Orange County neighborhoods most affected by gang violence. Uses restorative circles, mentorship, school-based intervention, and reentry services.
No Means No Worldwide
Works to end sexual violence against women and children. Its evidence-based program teaches young people to recognize danger, set boundaries, advocate for peers, and safely disclose abuse.
Norooz Clinic Foundation
Removes barriers to mental health care through culturally responsive treatment and community outreach. Serves people who are underserved by mainstream mental health systems.
NW Works
Empowers adults with disabilities and people facing barriers to employment to build skills and secure meaningful jobs. Supports digital literacy, independent living, and community inclusion.
Old Town Mission
A Christian outreach providing food, clothing, community events, and resources to neighbors in need. Serves anyone who comes through the door, without discrimination.
Operation Code Vet
Supports veterans in Hillsborough County with the home maintenance and repairs they cannot manage alone. Improves quality of life through community partnerships and volunteer labor.
Pablove Foundation
Improves the lives of children living with cancer through the arts, and funds underfunded pediatric cancer research. Its Shutterbugs photography program builds creative skill and confidence.
Partnership for Resilience
Builds trauma-responsive schools that improve academic, health, and social outcomes for children. Works through partnerships across families, schools, health systems, and communities.
People’s Food and Farm Project
A grassroots, multiracial coalition building infrastructure for the Bay Area food sovereignty movement. Brings together farmers, food workers, labor organizers, and community groups.
Proclaim Cuba
Plants churches and empowering centers across Cuba's provinces, with ministry led and run entirely by Cubans on the ground. Works toward a local church in every neighborhood.
Project Backboard
Renovates public basketball courts and installs large-scale site-specific art on the playing surface. Strengthens neighborhoods, improves park safety, and invites multi-generational play.
Project Insulin, Inc
Works to ensure everyone who depends on insulin can afford it. Has begun drug development to break a market where three companies control most of the global supply.
Rain City Rock Camp
Empowers girls, women, and gender nonconforming people to engage their creative potential through music. Builds a Seattle community of allies and activists around them.
Rare Kidney Disease Foundation
Works toward a world where genetic kidney diseases like ADTKD are diagnosed early and treated effectively. Connects patients and families to research registries and specialist care.
Rebuild and Rise, Inc.
Prepares trauma-impacted women for successful reentry through education, support, and opportunity. Helps them rebuild with dignity and the tools to rise above systemic barriers.
Red Tail Academy
Exposes, educates, and mentors underrepresented young people aged 12 to 18 in the aviation field. Founded by pilots working to remove the barriers into flying careers.
Regarding Her
Accelerates economic mobility for women who own independent food and beverage businesses across Los Angeles County. Provides structured support to help them stay open and grow.
Rise Above Foundation
Gives Massachusetts youth in foster care access to enriching activities, opportunities, and experiences. Believes they deserve the same chances at play and discovery as their peers.
River Art Works
Helps rural artists and small arts organizations build sustainable creative practices. Cultivates collaboration and bridges artistic tradition with creative technology.
Sage Financial Solutions
Democratizes access to competent, ethical financial services for underserved communities. Trains and certifies financial coaches through a program centering trauma, equity, and the inner life of money.
SCORE
The nation's largest network of volunteer business mentors, offering free expert guidance to entrepreneurs. Helps small business owners start, grow, and sustain what they have built.
ScrapsKC
Provides resources, education, and a space for creative up-cycling in Kansas City. Turns materials headed for landfill into art supplies and a more responsible community habit.
Self-Direction Center
Advances self-direction, the model that lets people with disabilities design and manage their own services and supports. Builds knowledge and connects the field, grounded in lived experience.
SoundBoard, Inc.
Creates pathways for underrepresented young people to build sustainable careers in the music industry. Opens doors into a field that has long kept itself closed to them.
Spectrum Autism Support Group
Provides support, education, and resources for children, teens, and adults impacted by autism, along with their families. Programs run across the lifespan, helping people build skills and find community.
Stonewall Sports - Philadelphia
Runs recreational sports leagues, tournaments, and social events for Philadelphia's LGBTQIA+ community. Money raised beyond operating costs goes back to local nonprofits chosen by members.
Suicide Awareness Voices of Education (SAVE)
Works to end the tragedy of suicide through education, training, and advocacy at the state and national level. Supports people living with loss and pushes for safer environments.
Suma
Builds an e-commerce marketplace with and for vulnerable communities, making discounts and subsidies on essential goods easier to reach. Treats technology as a tool for community power.
Surgeons Data Science Collective
Works to save lives through AI-powered surgical care. Its platform makes surgical data accessible to the global medical community, improving technique, training, and patient outcomes.
Switch4Good
Advances nutrition equity by nudging the world toward a healthier, more ethical, plant-forward food system. Starts with dairy, given its outsized impact on public health and dietary justice.
Texas FASD Network
Supports, educates, and advocates for people affected by prenatal alcohol exposure and the communities serving them. Provides training and peer support for navigating FASD across a lifetime.
The Diamond Place
Helps women heal from trauma, rebuild confidence, and create pathways to financial stability. Connects those in crisis to housing, recovery, and healing resources in one place.
The Gillian Ragan Foundation
Supports families navigating the loss of a child by funding access to mental health therapy and healing resources. Removes the financial barrier that keeps parents and siblings from care.
The Leadership Academy
Provides professional learning and coaching to education leaders, from superintendents to teacher leaders. Treats leadership as the lever that transforms schools and accelerates student learning.
THRIVE Center for Survivors of Torture
Walks alongside survivors of torture with trauma-informed care for both visible and invisible wounds. Combines case support, mental health services, and medical navigation.
Todos Juntos Learning Center
Runs a dual-generation program in Austin where young children prepare for school while their parents learn English and build workforce skills. Works with families rather than for them.
Transition Resource Action Center (TRAC)
Builds individualized pathways to stable housing and independence for young people aged 16 to 24 experiencing homelessness in Dallas-Fort Worth. Many are aging out of foster care without a support system.
Tri-State First Responder Peer Support Team
Trains first responders to recognize and respond when a colleague or family member is struggling after high-stress incidents. Builds peer support capacity department by department.
True Charity
Equips nonprofits and churches to transform how they serve people in poverty. Its member network works to move past handouts toward genuine self-sufficiency and freedom.
Volo Kids Foundation
Uses the power of play to build active, resilient, confident kids through free youth sports programs. Non-competitive leagues pair physical activity with leadership and teamwork at no cost to families.
WANDA (Women and Allies)
Advances economic mobility for striving single mothers through financial education, asset-building, and mentorship. Builds the accountability and community that make long-term stability possible.
Wellness & Prevention Foundation
Expands access to mental health prevention and early intervention for young people in south Orange County. Runs clinical programs alongside a youth drop-in center.
We Thrive Together
Runs the Blue Envelope Project, helping Ohio's disability community stay safer in encounters with police and first responders. Increasingly led by the people it serves and their families.
Women of Color Writers’ Circle
Nurtures the stories and creativity of women of color through craft, publication, and community. Builds a writing circle where their work can be developed and shared.
Workmatters
Partners with church, business, and education leaders to help Christians find meaning in their work. Delivers content, convening, and collaboration around the idea that work itself is sacred.
xHope
Supports vulnerable children and families with hope, connection, and practical help. Works toward a community where every child can reach the resources and relationships they need to thrive.
Zero Abuse Project
Works to protect children from abuse and sexual assault. Trains investigators, prosecutors, and multidisciplinary teams through a trauma-informed approach to education, research, and advocacy.

