Human Services
Mission: “Helping Families…Changing Lives” by providing meaningful opportunities to empower disadvantaged individuals and families, and to create a stronger and healthier community.
Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley
Mission: To provide services to families and individuals in the Southwest Valley who are hungry, in need, or facing a crisis.
Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley
Mission: To provide officer-initiated support to community members in times of crisis.
Eligible: Ahwatukee, East Valley, Scottsdale
Mission: Aris Foundation clothes, feeds, and cares for homeless adults and those battling addiction in the greater Phoenix area.
Eligible: Scottsdale
Mission: To improve the quality of life for burn survivors and their families, while promoting burn prevention advocacy and education in Arizona.
Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley
Mission: To facilitate independence and promote full participation in all spheres of life for those who experience vision loss.
Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley
Mission: We advocate for quality healthcare for our members, research and education addressing spinal cord injury or dysfunction, benefits available as a result of our members’ military service, civil rights, and opportunities that maximize our independence to our members.
Eligible: Scottsdale
Mission: To distribute over 1,000,000 diapers annually to local nonprofits, providing more Arizona families with basic necessities that in turn can help them work towards success.
Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley
Mission: To create opportunities to build self-esteem and empower children and youth in foster care by funding services to enrich their life experiences and ensure their successful transition to adulthood.
Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale
Mission: To promote the self-esteem of children in foster care who reside in Residential Group Homes by providing them with essential needs to support education, independent living, self-worth, and hope.
Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley
Mission: To reduce financial barriers for families so they can care for their children with chronic or life-altering diseases.
Eligible: East Valley, Scottsdale
Mission: Caring Coalition AZ is a grassroots effort providing access to good nutrition for Phoenix families who are struggling to acquire food for their children.
Approved: Ahwatukee, East Valley
Mission: To provide children and youth in Arizona with a safe environment, free from abuse and neglect, by creating strong and successful families.
Approved: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley
Mission: To lead our community to broad-based solutions to prevent domestic abuse.
Approved: Ahwatukee (already nominated), Scottsdale, East Valley
Mission: To help those experiencing homelessness by providing a mobile shower and laundry trailer service.
Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley
Mission: To help people escape from domestic violence situations by providing one time assistance to remove the barriers that keep them in unsafe and abusive environments.
Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley
Mission: To assist men transition from homelessness and addiction to become productive members in society, by Empowering Not Enabling.
Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley
Mission: To protect children and families from violence, fight for their access to justice, facilitate healing, and end the intergenerational cycle of abuse.
Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley
Mission: To promote health and well-being through vitally needed services to homebound adults, family caregivers, faith communities, and grandfamilies.
Eligible: Ahwatukee, East Valley
Mission: We help people thrive emotionally when life gets hard.
Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley
Mission: To give every girl whose life we touch safety, hope and opportunity.
Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley
Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale
Mission: To provide support for young adults that have aged out of foster care and want to continue with their education, or learn a vocational career, as well as work.
Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale
Mission: To help women achieve self-sufficiency. Our vision is a world in which every woman reaches her full potential through achieving personal empowerment and financial self-sufficiency.
Eligible: Ahwatukee, East Valley
Mission: To mend the child protection system to improve outcomes for children in foster care.
Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley
Mission: To empower people with diverse needs and abilities to improve their quality of life through music therapy.
Eligible: Scottsdale, East Valley
Mission: To provide free, comprehensive programs that empower youth to be productive, self-confident, and responsible members of the community.
Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale
Mission: To provide life-sustaining resources, services, and support to assist homeless seniors on their path back to housing, and supportive services to help prevent a return to homelessness.
Eligible: Ahwatukee, East Valley
Mission: Kitchen on the Street stands with children in need at the intersection of nutrition and academic excellence by providing Food, Education, Resources and Nutrition.
Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley
Mission: To enrich the lives of children with special needs by providing a life-changing summer camp experience promoting emotional health, independence, self-esteem, and confidence, entirely free-of-charge.
Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley
Mission: To empower women to break the cycle of generational poverty.
Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley
Mission: To build a community of LOVE by inspiring children, adults, and businesses to actively engage in making a difference.
Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley
Mission: To share the love of Christ by alleviating hunger and malnutrition locally and throughout the world and providing disaster relief; all without discrimination.
Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale
Mission: To assist Arizona families of children with congenital heart disease and acquired heart disease. The goal is to minimize the financial and emotional burden on the families and enable the children to enjoy an active, fulfilling lifestyle.
Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale
Mission: To help young adults with developmental disabilities prepare for sustainable, integrated work opportunities through the provision of individualized support, training, and resources.
Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley
Mission: To provide Christ-centered, life-transforming solutions to persons facing hunger, homelessness, addiction, and trauma.
Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley
Mission: To celebrate the accomplishments and milestones of individuals recovering from alcohol and drug abuse. This is accomplished by gifting a “Fresh Start” purse or backpack which allows them to begin recovery with dignity, strength and knowledge that someone cares about them.
Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley
Mission: To equip families to address poverty, overcome homelessness, and achieve self-sufficiency.
Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley
Mission: To provide assistance to victims/witnesses of domestic/violence and or domestic abuse and their dependent minor children, who are from diverse cultures in Arizona.
Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley
Mission: To overcome the impact of domestic violence, one life at a time.
Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley
Mission: To advance research and provide a lifetime of support for individuals with autism and their families.
Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley
Mission: To alleviate hunger through the gathering and distribution of food while encouraging self-sufficiency, collaboration, advocacy, and education.
Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley
Mission: To rescue children and young adults from human trafficking and modern-day slavery, as well as other dangerous and abusive situations in association with local law enforcement and governing authorities.
Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley
Mission: Since 2003, Step One Halfway House has been committed to walking alongside people who lost so much of who they were and the ability to achieve their life goals and dreams due to addiction and who desperately want and need help to recover. Step One’s mission is to introduce a 12-Step program to a newly sober individual in a clean, safe environment (the agency also helps those who are not yet sober). We serve the weakest among us; the helpless and homeless, the forgotten, and those who fall through the cracks.
Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley
Mission: To provide audio access to information to people who cannot read print because they have a disability.
Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley
Mission: To provide a fun, safe, and successful baseball experience for individuals with special needs, regardless of any physical, mental, or health-related challenges.
Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley
Mission: To create sustainable food systems that help people and the planet flourish.
Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley
Mission: To prevent and heal family violence through direct victims’ services, by renovating and starting new Family Advocacy Centers, and by providing training around the state.
Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale
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Charity Self Nomination
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