One-quarter of America’s food is thrown away unsold every year – 31 billion dollars’ worth. Thirty-five million Americans suffer from hunger or live on the edge of hunger. The Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act of 1996 and the Florida Statutes specifically provide immunity from civil and criminal liability to food donors and to volunteers and charities acting in good faith to donate, recover, and distribute excess food. Waste Not Want Not is just such an organization, a volunteer-based group whose mission is to prevent the discarding of food and other items that can be used to fight hunger and poverty in North Florida. We do this by rescuing food daily from numerous sources for distribution to local charitable organizations, and through other cost-effective initiatives. Waste Not Want Not is mission-focused and volunteer-driven. Waste Not Want Not - Connecting the dots between surplus food and hungry people since 1990

Finally Home is a non-profit whose mission since 2008 is to equip foster, adoptive, and kinship families to build healthy homes where children and youth can heal. Since inception, more than 1,500 families have benefited from our programs and products, which are designed to give caregivers the tools they need to help the whole family thrive. Whether through an encouraging children’s story book, a therapeutic toolkit, or an empowering training, Finally Home’s trauma-informed, research-based curriculum, reinforce time-tested skills and characteristics found in healthy families.

In some of the most environmentally threatened places in the world, WEA leaders are defending forests and rivers, saving threatened indigenous seeds, launching sustainable farms, conserving coral reefs, and protecting land rights. WEA takes a different approach than investing in a water well that might fail, or providing a one-time loan that could leave a woman in debt and without options. Our model identifies grassroots women leaders working on the frontlines to reverse climate change and protect their communities' natural resources, livelihoods, and health. We invest in their long-term leadership through training, funding, and networks of support. These women leaders spread their solutions to many others for years beyond project investments - creating a ripple effect that benefits women’s communities, regions, our Earth, and future generations.

They are a national charity for people experiencing homelessness. They help people directly out of homelessness and campaign for the changes needed to solve it altogether.

Our Mission is to facilitate the idea of "healing through music" to improve the lives of injured Veterans, First Responders and their families by uniting a diverse group of creative people and mobilizing them to use their talents to raise money and perform outreach to improve the lives of those who have sacrificed so much for us.

Established in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1994, the inspiration for Tickets for Kids came to founder Susan Weiner during a ballgame. The empty seats seemed so wasteful, and so unnecessary. Couldn’t those seats be filled by the community’s disadvantaged kids? A nearly identical idea occurred in 2000 to Robb Neuenschwander, Twin Cities resident and avid University of Minnesota Gophers basketball fan. Frustrated that so many game seats went unused, Robb founded Minneapolis-based Tix for Tots to fill those seats with kids and mentors who could use them. Recognizing a shared vision and nearly identical missions, Tix for Tots was merged into Tickets for Kids in 2016. In January 2019, another like-missioned nonprofit, NY-based Seats of Dreams, was merged into Tickets for Kids’ national network. Through partnerships with approved and vetted nonprofits serving disadvantaged kids and families, TFK has distributed more than 3.6 million tickets valued in excess of $83 million for experiences in arts & culture, education & STEM, sports & recreation, and family entertainment. In 2023 alone, TFK distributed more than 183,000 tickets valued at over $6.1 million and partnered with nonprofit organizations in 27 states.