Mindich Service Fellowships Gift of Eric ’88 and Stacey Mindich Inaugural Impact Update Spring 2016
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Chicago
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Los Angeles
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New Orleans
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New York City
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Los Angeles
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New Orleans
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New York City
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San Francisco
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Seattle
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Thank you for your extraordinary investment in public service at Harvard College through the Mindich Program for Engaged Scholarship and the Mindich Service Fellowships. We are delighted to introduce you to the inaugural cohort of Mindich Service Fellows and the organizations they will serve this summer.
Overview of 2016 Mindich Service Fellowships 75 Mindich Service Fellowships were awarded to Harvard College undergraduates in 2016:
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graduating seniors from the Class of 2016
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rising seniors from the Class of 2017
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rising juniors from the Class of 2018
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rising sophomores from the Class of 2019
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placements in Boston
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placements in Chicago
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placements in New Orleans
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placements in New York City
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placements in San Francisco
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placements in Seattle
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placements in Washington, D.C.
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2016 Mindich Service Fellows Boston Name
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Organization
Eleasha Chew
2018
Psychology
ArtLifting
Jahnavi Curlin
2017
Neurobiology
Strong Women, Strong Girls
Marina DeFrates
2017
Human Evolutionary Biology
Boston Health Care for the Homeless
Shaquilla Harrigan
2016
Social Studies
GreenLight Fund
Nomin Jagdagdorj
2017
Engineering Sciences
Environmental Defense Fund
Nivedita Khandkar
2019
Undeclared
Generation Citizen
Gregory Picard
2018
History
MENTOR
Maryrose Robson
2017
Social Studies
Greater Boston Legal Services
Juhwan Seo
2017
Sociology
Oxfam America
Chip Weber
2017
Economics
Breakthrough Collaborative
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Class
Concentration
Organization
Savannah Bradley
2017
Environmental Science and Public Policy
Noble Network
Amy Chyao
2016
Applied Mathematics
Chicago Legal Clinic
Leena Raza
2016
Environmental Science and Public Policy
Institute for Community Empowerment
Camilla Suarez
2019
Undeclared
Amnesty International
Chicago
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Los Angeles Name
Class
Concentration
Organization
Amanda Beattie
2017
Comparative Study of Religion
LA Leadership Academy
Arturo Nava
2016
Sociology
Legal Aid Society of Orange County
Ogechi Obed
2019
Undeclared
Clínica Romero
Ali Park
2018
Psychology
Propper Daley Consulting
Hassaan Shahawy
2016
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office
Shao Zhao
2018
Social Studies
LIFT LA
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Class
Concentration
Organization
Brooke Bourgeois
2017
Neurobiology
Alliance Institute
Akua Nuako
2017
History and Science
The Micah Project/PICO
Saim Raza
2019
Undeclared
KIPP New Orleans Schools
Alexandra Shpitalnik
2019
Undeclared
Foundation for Louisiana
New Orleans
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New York City Name
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Concentration
Organization
Rebecca Brooks
2017
History
New York Public Advocate’s Office
Natalie Chew
2017
Folklore and Mythology
Goddard Riverside Law Project
Joanne Crandall
2017
Psychology
National Quality Center, New York State Department of Health
Julia DeAngelo
2017
Sociology
New Alternatives for Children
Thomas Dumbach
2018
Classics
Coalition for Queens
Jessica Fournier
2017
Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
Children’s Law Center
Ariana Gross
2018
History and Science
Health Leads
Ruya Gunergin
2018
Social Studies
Amnesty International
Sossina Gutema
2017
Applied Mathematics
Jumpstart
Cassandra Hastie
2018
Government
Henry Street Settlement
Abigail Higgins
2017
History and Science
Urban Assembly
You Kim
2017
Statistics
Echoing Green
Rebecca Krane
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History and Science
Legal Aid Society
Jazly Liriano
2016
Human Evolutionary Biology
BronxWorks
Veronica Ma
2019
Undeclared
Global Kids, Inc.
Meghan McHugh
2016
Social Studies
Children’s Rights
Shayla Partridge
2018
History and Science
Doctors Without Borders
Lita Pena
2019
Undeclared
Association to Benefit Children
Rohan Pidaparti
2017
Government
Legal Aid Society, Juvenile Rights Prac
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New York City (continued) Name
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Concentration
Organization
Kara Roberts
2017
Sociology
America Needs You
Christian Savarese
2019
Undeclared
BronxWorks
Asia Stewart
2018
Government
Physicians for Human Rights
Kamara Swaby
2017
History and Science
WNET/PBS
Lydia Tahraoui
2019
Undeclared
Children’s Rights
Lily Velona
2018
Social Studies
New York City Dept. of Housing Preservation and Development
Katie Vincent
2019
Undeclared
Free Arts NYC
Akash Wasil
2019
Undeclared
Legal Outreach
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Concentration
Organization
Lauren Elson
2018
Chemistry
HandsOn Bay Area
Samuel Goldman Reiss
2018
History and Literature
ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project
Michel Li
2019
Undeclared
Bay Area Legal Aid
Raquel Maldonado
2017
Government
Breakthrough Collaborative
Maxine Patwardhan
2018
Social Studies
LifeMoves
Pauline Ryan
2017
Sociology
Tenderloin Housing Clinic
Timothy Shea
2018
Government
GLIDE Foundation
Ryan Sim
2019
Undeclared
Alameda County Sustainability
Katherine Smith
2018
History and Science
Youth UpRising
San Francisco
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Seattle Name
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Concentration
Organization
Zeynep Ertugay
2019
Undeclared
Sea Mar Community Health Centers
Desmond Green
2017
Music
Downtown Emergency Services Center
Elizabeth Huber
2017
History and Literature
Seattle Aquarium
Marco Torres
2017
Philosophy
King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office
Minos Zombanakis
2018
Philosophy
United Way
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Organization
Thomas BernhardtLanier
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Undeclared
Ashoka
Megan Cosgrove
2017
Social Studies
KaBOOM!
Eduardo Gonzalez
2018
Social Studies
D.C. Public Defender’s Office
Wynne Graham
2017
Philosophy
Montgomery County Department of Corrections
Jonah Hahn
2017
Social Studies
Government Accountability Project
Tarpley Hitt
2017
Comparative Literature
Grassroots DC Public Radio
Jessie Laurore
2018
History and Science
LIFT National Office
Jessica Levy
2018
Social Studies
Public International Law and Policy Group
Joseph Valente
2019
Undeclared
Habitat for Humanity International
Isabel Vazquez
2016
Government
America Solidaria
Washington, D.C.
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2016 Mindich Service Fellowships Organizations Boston ArtLifting
ArtLifting empowers artists who are homeless and disabled through the celebration and sale of their artwork. We offer our artists the chance to secure their own income through the sale of original paintings, prints, and products. By showcasing and selling artwork via ArtLifting.com, our artists gain self-confidence that permeates all aspects of their lives. Boston Health Care for the Homeless
Over 12,000 homeless men, women, and children are cared for by Boston Health Care for the Homeless each year. We are committed to ensuring that every one of these individuals has access to comprehensive health care, from preventative dental care to cancer treatment. Our clinicians, case managers, and behavioral health professionals work in more than 60 locations to deliver the highest quality health care to some of our community’s most vulnerable—and most resilient—citizens. Breakthrough Collaborative
Through our summer and school-year programs, we increase academic opportunity for highly motivated, underserved middle- and high-school students, putting them on the path to college. We are also the largest pre-service teacher-training program in the country, providing best-in-class pre-professional training for more than 1,000 undergraduate teaching fellows each year. Since our founding 38 years ago, we have served more than 40,000 students and teachers. Environmental Defense Fund
Guided by science and economics, we tackle urgent threats with practical solutions. We’re one of the world’s largest non-profit environmental organizations, with more than one
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million members and a staff of 500 scientists, economists, policy experts, and other professionals around the world. We achieve results by finding solutions that benefit people while protecting natural systems. Generation Citizen
Generation Citizen works to ensure that every student in the United States receives an effective action civics education, which provides them with the knowledge and skills necessary to participate in our democracy as active citizens. We envision a country of young people working as active and effective citizens to collectively rebuild our American democracy. Generation Citizen teaches teenagers how to take effective political action. Through an innovative in-class curriculum, students work with local leaders to fix local problems. Greater Boston Legal Services
Every week, Greater Boston Legal Services provides free legal assistance and representation on civil matters to hundreds of the neediest residents in the city of Boston and 31 surrounding cities and towns. When they have nowhere else to turn, low-income families and individuals, elders, and people with disabilities look to GBLS for help to secure the most basic necessities of life. GreenLight Fund
The GreenLight Fund helps transform the lives of children, youth, and families in highpoverty urban areas by creating local infrastructure and a consistent annual process to identify critical needs; import innovative, entrepreneurial programs that can have a significant, measurable impact; and galvanize local support to help programs reach and sustain impact. MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership
MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership (MENTOR) is the unifying champion for expanding quality youth mentoring relationships in the United States. For more than 25 years, MENTOR has served the mentoring field by providing a public voice; developing and
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delivering resources to mentoring programs nationwide; and promoting quality for mentoring through evidence-based standards, innovative research and essential tools. Oxfam America
Oxfam America is a global organization working to right the wrongs of poverty, hunger, and injustice. As one of 18 members of the international Oxfam confederation, we work with people in more than 90 countries to create lasting solutions. Oxfam saves lives, develops longterm solutions to poverty, and campaigns for social change. Strong Women, Strong Girls
Strong Women Strong Girls empowers girls to imagine a broader future though a curriculum grounded on female role models delivered by college women mentors, who are themselves mentored by professional women. Lindsay Hyde founded SWSG as a student group while she was a freshman at Harvard University in 2000. In 2013–2014, SWSG provided programming to over 1,400 girls in Boston, Pittsburgh, and several pilot programs at over 100 school and community center partner sites.
Chicago Amnesty International
Amnesty International is a global movement of more than 7 million people who take injustice personally. We are campaigning for a world where human rights are enjoyed by all. We are independent of any political ideology, economic interest, or religion. No government is beyond scrutiny. No situation is beyond hope. Chicago Legal Clinic
The Chicago Legal Clinic is a premier provider of community-based quality legal services to the underserved and disadvantaged in the Chicago area. We provide direct legal counseling
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and high-quality representation at low cost or pro bono, as well as free educational seminars on legal topics. Institute for Community Empowerment
The Institute for Community Empowerment (ICE) is a nonprofit community organizing and leadership training institute that empowers Chicago residents to take the initiative and develop the trust and teamwork to meet their communities’ most pressing challenges. For 28 years, ICE has taught residents the skills of “50%+1” organizing through door-to-door outreach, petitioning, and extensive community education. Noble Network of Charter Schools
Noble was founded on many of the same entrepreneurial principles that have built successful businesses—strong leadership, meaningful use of data, and a high degree of accountability. With longer class periods, a longer school day, and a longer school year, Noble provides students with substantially more instructional time than the traditional Chicago public high school.
Los Angeles Clínica Romero
The management, staff, and Board of Clínica Msr. Oscar A. Romero are mission-driven to provide quality health care, health education, and community advocacy on behalf of the underserved men, women, and children of Greater Los Angeles. Health care is a human right, and Clínica Romero works to ensure access to it for all people regardless of their ability to pay. A majority of the administrative, clinical, and counseling staff are from the ethnic communities served by Clínica Romero, which guarantees solidarity of purpose, ability to communicate, and empathic care.
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LA Leadership Academy
The Los Angeles Leadership Academy prepares urban secondary students to succeed in college or on chosen career paths, to live fulfilling, self-directed lives, and to be effective in creating a just and humane world. High-powered, performance-based assessment and an integrated curriculum promote critical thinking and intellectual depth, breadth, and agility. Legal Aid Society of Orange County
The mission of Legal Aid Society of Orange County and Community Legal Services in southeast Los Angeles County is to provide civil legal services to seniors and low-income individuals and to promote equal access to the justice system through advocacy, legal counseling, innovative self-help services, in-depth legal representation, economic development and community education. LIFT LA
LIFT is a national nonprofit organization that works to break the cycle of poverty for families. Our rigorously trained Advocates help low-income parents of young children build the strong personal, social, and financial foundations they need to get ahead. Members and Advocates build a relationship that is rooted in dignity and respect. They partner to make progress on the Member’s goals and work to strengthen the Member’s connections to social services, supportive relationships, and the local community. Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office
Our prosecutors, investigators, and support staff members are among the nation’s best. We protect the residents of Los Angeles County by prosecuting violent and dangerous criminals. We also assist crime victims and provide community resources. As the leader of the nation's largest local prosecutorial office, Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey is committed to maintaining public safety and seeking justice for all.
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Propper Daley Consulting
We create and implement holistic strategies to drive measurable social impact. From the public policy arena to the entertainment industry, we leverage every resource to produce outcome-driven solutions for businesses, individuals, organizations, and causes.
New Orleans Alliance Institute
Alliance Institute is 501(c)(3) organization that provides community organizing training and capacity building assistance to non-profits and community-based organizations in New Orleans and across the gulf south. With a primary goal of increasing economic and social equity through community engagement, Alliance Institute works to provide individuals, families, and organizations with the skills and tools they need to fully participate in the decision-making processes that affect them in their homes, neighborhoods, and communities. Foundation for Louisiana
The mission of the Foundation for Louisiana is to invest in people and practices that work to reduce vulnerability and build stronger, more sustainable communities statewide. By building leadership capacity among residents to engage in decision-making practices, our efforts help to create the critical mass needed to advocate for meaningful social change. KIPP New Orleans Schools
KIPP New Orleans Schools is building a high-quality, sustainable network of tuition-free, open-enrollment, college preparatory public charter schools that empowers students with the knowledge and skills necessary to succeed in school and life. With longer school days, innovative teaching, and a motivating learning environment, we are working to ensure that all of our students are prepared for college and beyond.
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The Micah Project/PICO
The Micah Project is a non-denominational, non-partisan organization that works with people of all faiths to recognize and build on their faith values to create a more equitable and just world. Working closely with grassroots leaders, Micah develops leaders, influences public policy, and increases civic engagement.
New York City America Needs You
America Needs You (ANY) fights for economic mobility for ambitious, first-generation college students. We do this by providing transformative mentorship and intensive career development. Since 2009, ANY has been improving college completion and employment rates for first-generation college students. The agency was founded on the belief that socioeconomic status should not be a barrier to college persistence and career success. Amnesty International
Amnesty International is a global movement of more than 7 million people who take injustice personally. We are campaigning for a world where human rights are enjoyed by all. We are independent of any political ideology, economic interest, or religion. No government is beyond scrutiny. No situation is beyond hope. Association to Benefit Children
ABC’s mission is to defend the right of every child to a joyful and nurturing childhood by creating compassionate programs in urgent response to the needs of New York City’s most vulnerable children and families. Since 1986, ABC has developed replicable model programs that are comprehensive, cost-effective, and sustainable. These proven models spread ABC’s innovation and advocacy, reaching children throughout New York City and well beyond its borders.
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BronxWorks
BronxWorks helps individuals and families improve their economic and social well-being. From toddlers to seniors, we feed, shelter, teach, and support our neighbors to build a stronger community. In 2014, we fed the people of the Bronx over 475,000 well-balanced meals; made sure 18,400 people were not evicted from their homes; and prepared 125 high school seniors for college and helped them obtain $1.5 million in grants and scholarships. Children’s Law Center
Each year in New York City, thousands of children are the subject of legal disputes that can be very contentious and very emotional. The outcomes to these cases deeply affect the lives of the children involved. While each adult has an opportunity to speak to the Court, the child’s voice is often faint or not heard. Our mission at the Children’s Law Center is to give children strong and effective voices in legal proceedings that have a critical impact on their lives. Children’s Rights
Children’s Rights uses the law to hold governments accountable and defend thousands of kids when foster care systems fail. We have secured court orders mandating top-to-bottom child welfare reform in more than a dozen states. As a result, kids are safer. They get the education and health care they need. They have better foster homes. Best of all, children find permanent, loving families more quickly, ensuring they have the brightest possible futures. Coalition for Queens
We foster the Queens tech ecosystem to increase economic opportunity and transform the world’s most diverse community into a leading hub for innovation and entrepreneurship. Established in 2011, we are a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit that aims to create a tech community that is reflective of our society, with individuals from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences. We work with leading business and philanthropic companies to build an innovative, inclusive, and diverse Queens tech community.
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Doctors Without Borders
Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) treats people where the need is greatest. MSF provides assistance to populations in distress, to victims of natural or manmade disasters, and to victims of armed conflict. MSF observes neutrality and impartiality in the name of universal medical ethics and the right to humanitarian assistance and claims full and unhindered freedom in the exercise of its functions. Echoing Green
Whether it’s social entrepreneurs, university faculty, impact investors, or business leaders, we work to catalyze the ability of emerging leaders with purpose to impact the world and drive social progress further, faster. For nearly 30 years, we have worked to find rare and exceptional emerging leaders, forge a community of global pioneers, and accelerate these leaders to impact the world. Free Arts NYC
Free Arts NYC provides underserved children and families with a unique combination of educational arts and mentoring programs that help them to foster the self-confidence and resiliency needed to realize their fullest potential. Free Arts NYC takes a “cradle to college” approach, providing arts-based mentoring for youth from pre-K all the way through high school. Global Kids, Inc.
Global Kids, Inc.—the premier nonprofit educational organization for global learning and youth development—works to ensure that youth from underserved areas have the knowledge, skills, experiences, and values they need to succeed in school, participate effectively in the democratic process, and achieve leadership in their communities and on the global stage. Through in-school and after-school programs, middle school and high school students examine global issues, make local connections, and create change through peer education, social action, digital media, and service-learning.
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Goddard Riverside Law Project
The Goddard Riverside Law Project provides free legal services and tenant-organizing support to low-income residents on the west side of Manhattan in order to preserve affordable housing and improve living conditions. The program initially focused on singleroom occupancy tenants, but has expanded to include tenants living in other types of housing. Health Leads
Health Leads is a social enterprise that envisions a health care system that addresses all patients’ basic resource needs as a standard part of quality care. For 20 years, Health Leads has worked with leading health care organizations to tackle social co-morbidities by connecting patients to the community-based resources they need to be healthy—from food to transportation to health care benefits. Henry Street Settlement
Founded in 1893 by social work and public health pioneer Lillian Wald and based on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, Henry Street Settlement delivers a wide range of social service, arts, and health care programs to more than 50,000 New Yorkers each year. Distinguished by a profound connection to its neighbors, a willingness to address new problems with swift and innovative solutions, and a strong record of accomplishment, Henry Street challenges the effects of urban poverty by helping families achieve better lives for themselves and their children. Jumpstart
Jumpstart is a national early education organization that recruits and trains college students and community Corps members to serve preschool children in low-income neighborhoods. Our proven curriculum helps children develop the language and literacy skills they need to be ready for kindergarten, setting them on a path to close the achievement gap before it is too late.
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Legal Aid Society
The Legal Aid Society is a private, not-for-profit legal services organization, the oldest and largest in the nation, dedicated since 1876 to providing quality legal representation to lowincome New Yorkers. It is dedicated to one simple but powerful belief: that no New Yorker should be denied access to justice because of poverty. The Society handles 300,000 individual cases and matters annually and provides a comprehensive range of legal services in three areas: the Civil, Criminal, and Juvenile Rights Practices. Legal Aid Society, Juvenile Rights Practice
The Juvenile Rights Practice represents 90 percent of the children who appear before the Family Court in New York City on child protective, termination of parental rights, person in need of supervision, and juvenile delinquency petitions. The role of Juvenile Rights attorneys acting as “law guardians” is to provide legal representation, express clients’ wishes to the court, and safeguard the interests and legal rights of these clients. Legal Outreach
Legal Outreach prepares urban youth from underserved communities in New York City to matriculate to and persist through college by using intensive legal and educational programs as tools for fostering vision, developing skills, enhancing confidence, and facilitating the pursuit of higher education. National Quality Center, New York State Department of Health
In 1990, Congress enacted the Ryan White CARE (Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency) Act, re-authorized as the Ryan White Treatment Modernization Act of 2006 (Ryan White Program), to provide safety net funds for health and supportive services for people living with HIV/AIDS who have either no or inadequate insurance. Since its inception in 2004, the National Quality Center has provided leadership and support in quality improvement for Ryan White Program–funded grantees nationwide. The aim of this initiative is to build the capacity to improve the quality of HIV/AIDS care and services across the United States and its territories.
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New Alternatives for Children
NAC’s mission is to provide innovative high-quality services in support of birth, foster, and adoptive families caring primarily for medically fragile children. NAC’s mission includes children with severe physical, emotional, and behavioral challenges and developmental disabilities. NAC’s services enable children to remain in or to be returned to their families whenever possible or to be adopted by loving families. Working primarily with children whose birth families live in poverty, NAC’s continuum of services ensures that children’s physical, social, educational, recreational, medical, and mental health care needs are met. New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development
Established in 1978, the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development is the largest municipal housing preservation and development agency in the nation. The agency’s mission is to promote the construction and preservation of affordable, high-quality housing for low- and moderate-income families in thriving and diverse neighborhoods in every borough by enforcing housing quality standards, financing affordable housing development and preservation, and ensuring sound management of the City’s affordable housing stock. New York Public Advocate's Office
Letitia James is the Public Advocate for the City of New York, the second highest ranking elected office in the City. As Public Advocate, she serves as a direct link between New Yorkers and their government, acts as a watchdog over City agencies, and investigates complaints about City services. Public Advocate James made history in 2014 by becoming the first woman of color to hold citywide office in New York City. Physicians for Human Rights
Since 1986, Physicians for Human Rights has used medicine and science to document and call attention to mass atrocities and severe human rights violations. PHR was founded on the idea that physicians, scientists, and other health professionals possess unique skills that lend significant credibility to the investigation and documentation of human rights abuses.
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Urban Assembly
The Urban Assembly was founded in 1990 to address a wide range of poverty issues in the U.S. and the developing world. In the mid-’90s the organization spearheaded a major planning effort to transform a devastated 300-block area of the South Bronx. That effort identified the lack of high-quality local secondary schools as a major concern and recommended creating model high schools, each tied to a major local institution. In 1997, in partnership with the New York City Department of Education and New Visions for Public Schools, the Urban Assembly opened the first of these schools, The Bronx School for Law, Government and Justice. Since that first school, the Urban Assembly has opened over 20 schools, scaled up promising programs, and partnered with hundreds of public, private, and non-profit sector partners to increase educational opportunities and close the achievement gap for thousands of low-income youth in New York City. WNET/PBS
WNET brings quality arts, education, and public affairs programming to over 5 million viewers each week. WNET produces and presents such acclaimed PBS series as Nature, Great Performances, American Masters, PBS NewsHour Weekend, Charlie Rose, and a range of documentaries, children’s programs, and local news and cultural offerings available on air and online.
San Francisco ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project
The ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project is dedicated to expanding and enforcing the civil liberties and civil rights of immigrants and to combating public and private discrimination against them. For more than 25 years, the ACLU has been at the forefront of almost every major legal struggle on behalf of immigrants’ rights, focusing on challenging laws that deny immigrants access to the courts, impose indefinite and mandatory detention, and discriminate on the basis of nationality.
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Alameda County Sustainability
Alameda County’s guiding strategic vision recognizes that a healthy community is directly linked to a healthy environment. Creating a healthy environment for future generations requires action on a number of fronts. The County’s comprehensive sustainability efforts protect the climate, preserve natural resources, and save taxpayer dollars. Bay Area Legal Aid
BayLegal is committed to providing meaningful access to the civil justice system through quality legal assistance regardless of a client’s location, language, or disability. Access to legal advocacy is critical to ensuring that Bay Area residents living in poverty understand and assert their rights, in order to create stability for themselves and their families. Each year BayLegal’s services benefit 70,000 Bay Area residents. Breakthrough Collaborative
Through our summer and school-year programs, we increase academic opportunity for highly motivated, underserved middle- and high-school students, putting them on the path to college. We are also the largest pre-service teacher-training program in the country, providing best-in-class pre-professional training for more than 1,000 undergraduate teaching fellows each year. Since our founding 38 years ago, we have served more than 40,000 students and teachers. GLIDE Foundation
GLIDE’s mission is to create a radically inclusive, just, and loving community mobilized to alleviate suffering and break the cycles of poverty and marginalization. Our methodology is radically simple: love, acceptance, and compassion, which we apply through programs in Wellness, Growth, Spirit, and Leadership.
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HandsOn Bay Area
HandsOn Bay Area staff work with local nonprofits, schools, and parks to identify highimpact, group-based volunteer projects. We recruit volunteers to get the job done and match each project with a trained Project Leader to ensure that both the community partner and the volunteers are satisfied with the work. We directly work with over 16,000 volunteers each year resulting in more than 55,000 hours of service to more than 240 schools, parks and nonprofits across the Bay Area. LifeMoves
With more than 40 years of service and experience in successfully serving homeless families and individuals, LifeMoves is the largest and most effective nonprofit committed to ending the cycle of homelessness for families and individuals in San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties. Our successful and multi-faceted therapeutic service model combines clean, modern housing with intensive supportive services that promote dignity and respectfully motivate our clients to achieve autonomy. Tenderloin Housing Clinic
Founded in 1980, the Tenderloin Housing Clinic opened as an all-volunteer operation in a one-room office building in Glide Memorial Church. Today, with over 250 full time employees, THC operates the City’s largest permanent housing program for single homeless adults and is a leading provider of legal services to low-income tenants. Youth UpRising
Our mission is to transform East Oakland into a healthy and economically robust community by developing the leadership of youth and young adults and improving the systems that impact them. Located in the heart of East Oakland, YU is a neighborhood hub offering young people services and programs to increase physical and mental wellbeing, community connection, educational attainment, and career achievement among youth members.
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Seattle Downtown Emergency Services Center
DESC opened its doors in 1979 as an emergency shelter, a place for vulnerable adults living with behavioral health disorders and chronic homelessness to come in out of the cold for the night. Today our mission is not merely to offer shelter, but to end the homelessness of our community’s most vulnerable people, through an integrated array of clinical services and supportive housing that allows men and women to reclaim their lives and reach their highest potential. King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office
The mission of the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office is to do justice. We exercise the power given to us by the people with fairness and humility. We serve our diverse community, support victims and families, and hold individuals accountable, and we develop innovative and collaborative solutions for King County and the State of Washington. Sea Mar Community Health Centers
Sea Mar Community Health Centers, founded in 1978, is a community-based organization committed to providing quality, comprehensive health and human services in Washington State. Sea Mar proudly serves all persons without regard to race, ethnicity, immigration status, gender, or sexual orientation, and regardless of ability to pay for services. Sea Mar’s network of services includes more than 50 medical, dental, and behavioral health clinics and centers, and a wide variety of nutritional, social, and educational services. Seattle Aquarium
The Seattle Aquarium is the ninth largest aquarium in the U.S. by attendance. Since our opening, we’ve hosted over 22 million visitors and provided marine conservation education to over 1.6 million school children. Opened in 1977, the Seattle Aquarium was owned and operated by the City of Seattle Department of Parks and Recreation until 2010, when the
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nonprofit Seattle Aquarium Society assumed its management—a model used by most leading zoos and aquariums across the country. Our mission, “Inspiring Conservation of Our Marine Environment,” is reflected in everything we do—exhibits, events, conservation and education programs, research activities, and more. United Way
United Way is engaged in nearly 1,800 communities across more than 40 countries and territories worldwide. We are focused on creating community-based and community-led solutions that strengthen the cornerstones for a good quality of life: education, financial stability, and health. Our mission is to bring caring people together to give, volunteer, and take action to help people in need and solve our community’s toughest challenges.
Washington, D.C. America Solidaria
America Solidaria U.S. | Serving the Americas Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with an extensive network throughout the Americas targeting underserved and disadvantaged communities. Founded in Santiago, Chile, in 2002 to promote professional volunteer engagement in the Western Hemisphere, America Solidaria has developed more than 330 projects involving 550 professional volunteers at 87 nonprofit organizations in 13 countries. Every year, more than 33,000 people throughout the Americas benefit from our collective partnerships with companies, governments, multilateral organizations, and local community stakeholders. Ashoka
Ashoka is the largest network of social entrepreneurs worldwide, with nearly 3,000 Ashoka Fellows in 70 countries putting their system-changing ideas into practice on a global scale. Founded by Bill Drayton in 1980, Ashoka has provided start-up financing, professional support services, and connections to a global network across the business and social sectors,
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and a platform for people dedicated to changing the world. Ashoka launched the field of social entrepreneurship and has activated multi-sector partners across the world who increasingly look to entrepreneurial talent and new ideas to solve social problems. D.C. Public Defender’s Office
It is the mission of the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia to provide and promote quality legal representation to indigent adults and children facing a loss of liberty in the District of Columbia, thereby protecting society’s interest in the fair administration of justice. Government Accountability Project
The Government Accountability Project is the nation’s leading whistleblower protection and advocacy organization. A nonpartisan public interest group, GAP litigates whistleblower cases, helps expose wrongdoing to the public, and actively promotes government and corporate accountability. Since 1977, GAP has helped over 6,000 whistleblowers. Grassroots DC Public Radio
In Washington, D.C., and across the nation, policy makers and public officials listen to the concerns of the financially advantaged because they have the resources to bring their concerns to the forefront of public consciousness. Low-income and working class residents of the District of Columbia and surrounding regions have no such resources. As a result, their concerns are either misrepresented or ignored by the press entirely. Grassroots Media DC works to correct this imbalance within the DC Metropolitan region by providing training in journalism and media production to Grassroots Media DC members, who then go on to produce media coverage that educates policy makers and the public at large about issues and causes that are vital to the under-served communities of the area. Habitat for Humanity International
Habitat for Humanity’s vision is a world where everyone has a decent place to live. We promote decent, affordable housing for all, and we support the global community’s
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commitment to housing as a basic human right. We will advocate for just and fair housing policy to eliminate the constraints that contribute to poverty housing. And, in all of our work, we will seek to put shelter on hearts and minds in such powerful ways that poverty housing becomes socially, politically, and religiously unacceptable. KaBOOM!
KaBOOM! works to bring balanced and active play into the daily lives of all children, particularly those growing up in poverty in America. We do this by creating great places to play, inspiring communities to promote and support play, and driving the national discussion about the importance of play in fostering healthy and productive lives. LIFT National Office
LIFT is a national nonprofit organization that works to break the cycle of poverty for families. Our rigorously trained Advocates help low-income parents of young children build the strong personal, social, and financial foundations they need to get ahead. Members and Advocates build a relationship that is rooted in dignity and respect. They partner to make progress on the Member’s goals and work to strengthen the Member’s connections to social services, supportive relationships, and the local community. Montgomery County Department of Corrections
Established in 1972, the Montgomery County Department of Correction and Rehabilitation has won national recognition for excellence and leadership. Their mission is to protect the public and citizens by providing a wide range of constructive, professional correctional services for pretrial and convicted detainees; and to reduce the rate of reincarceration by providing offenders with the opportunity for self-improvement and the development of inner resources necessary to make a successful adjustment within the community. Public International Law and Policy Group
The Public International Law and Policy Group is a global pro bono law firm providing free legal assistance to states and governments involved in peace negotiations, drafting post-
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conflict constitutions, and prosecuting war criminals. To facilitate the utilization of this legal assistance, PILPG also provides policy formulation advice and training on matters related to conflict resolution.
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