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Best Friends

The mission of Best Friends Animal Society is to bring about a time when there are No More Homeless Pets. We do this by helping end the killing in America's animal shelters through building community programs and partnerships all across the nation. We believe that by working together we can Save Them All.

Autism Speaks

Autism Speaks is dedicated to promoting solutions, across the spectrum and throughout the life span, for the needs of people with autism and their families. We do this through: Increasing Global Understanding and Acceptance, Advancing Breakthroughs in Autism Research, Expanding Early Childhood Screening and Intervention, Improving the Transition to Adulthood, and Ensuring Access to Reliable Information across the Life Span.

Fisher House

Fisher House Foundation builds comfort homes where military & veterans families can stay free of charge, while a loved one is in the hospital.

These homes are located at military and VA medical centers around the world.

Fisher Houses have up to 21 suites, with private bedrooms and baths. Families share a common kitchen, laundry facilities, a warm dining room, and an inviting living room.

Since inception, the program has saved military and veterans’ families an estimated $451 million in out of pocket costs for lodging and transportation.

Fisher House Foundation also operates the Hero Miles program, using donated frequent flyer miles to bring family members to the bedside of injured service members as well as the Hotels for Heroes program using donated hotel points to allow family members to stay at hotels near medical centers without charge. The Foundation also manages a grant program that supports other military charities and scholarship funds for military children, spouses, and children of fallen and disabled veterans.

Operation Surf

Operation Surf is a non-profit organization, founded by Van Curaza, which develops programs that seek to provide results-driven, nature-based programs advocating the restorative power of the ocean and surfing as a form of wellness for injured bodies, minds, and souls.

Our mission is to help wounded and injured active-duty military and veteran heroes move forward in a positive direction through an epic, life-changing surfing experience that builds confidence and healing. One wave at a time.

We believe this is best accomplished by continuing to provide healthy, alternative recreational options for people with disabilities, disenfranchisements, and various forms of pain. Through the power of surfing, we can help them heal.

World Vision

World Vision is an international partnership of Christians whose mission is to follow our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in working with the poor and oppressed to promote human transformation, seek justice, and bear witness to the good news of the Kingdom of God.

We pursue this mission through integrated, holistic commitment to:

• Transformational development that is community-based and sustainable, focused especially on the needs of children.
• Emergency relief that assists people afflicted by conflict or disaster.
• Promotion of justice that seeks to change unjust structures affecting the poor among whom we work.
• Partnerships with churches to contribute to spiritual and social transformation.
• Public awareness that leads to informed understanding, giving, involvement, and prayer.
• Witness to Jesus Christ by life, deed, word, and sign that encourages people to respond to the Gospel.