Benefiting Organizations, A Charity for Charities

Benefiting Organizations

Alzheimer’s Family Services--For 30 years, Alzheimer's Family Services Center (AFSC) has helped improve the quality of life for families challenged by Alzheimer's disease (AD) or another dementia through services tailored to meet individual needs. AFSC provides dementia-specific adult day health care (ADHC), a variety of support services to help caregivers manage the day-to-day challenges of care, and community dementia education and outreach services. For more information please visit www.AFSCenter.org or call 714.593.9630.

Audubon House & Tropical Gardens slated for demolition in 1958, was saved by the Mitchell Wolfson Family Foundation, a nonprofit educational institution. This was the first restoration project in Key West and is still considered the gem of the island's restoration movement. A visit to the Audubon House& Tropical Gardens is an exploration into local history and folklore, while the gardens offer a lush one-acre view of tropical foliage. There are 28 first edition John James Audubon works on display in the house as well. For more information please visit www.audubonhouse.com or call 305.294.2116.

Boys and Girls Club of East Los Angeles enables all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as
productive, caring, responsible citizens. A Boys & Girls Club provides a safe place to learn and grow, ongoing relationships with caring, adult professionals, life-enhancing programs and character development experiences and hope and opportunity. For more information please call 323.263.4955.

Canyon Acres Children and Family Services is a non-profit organization committed to providing homes, care, treatment and supportive services for abused, neglected and emotionally troubled children and their families. The goal is to help stabilize children mentally and emotionally, so they might move to a less-restrictive level of care. Ultimately, it is our goal to get all children into strengthened, permanent families – whether those families are biological families or adoptive families. For more information please visit www.canyonacres.org or call 714-383-9400.

Chapman University—The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics develops business leaders who create value for their
organizations by blending the capacity for sound economic reasoning and a global perspective with the qualities of individual initiative, accountability, effective communication, and integrity. For more information please visit www.chapman.edu/ARGYROS or call 7147.997.6684.

The Child Abuse Prevention Center directly serves at-risk children and families in crisis to prevent and break the generational cycle of child abuse. The
Prevention Center’s early intervention programs have welldocumented records of strengthening and improving parentchild relationships and working to prevent abuse before it occurs. Since 1983, the Prevention Center has served more than 200,000 Orange County residents – including nearly 15,000 children, 3,800 parents and 4,300 families in the last year alone. For more information please visit www.BrightFutures4Kids.org or call 714.543.4333.

The Crystal Cathedral Ministry located in Garden Grove, California, is the home base for the international Crystal Cathedral Ministries, including a congregation of over 10,000 members and the internationally televised "Hour of Power." The Crystal Cathedral Ministry's mission and purpose is, as commissioned by Christ, our Lord, to proclaim the Gospel throughout the world as a "Possibility Thinking Faith" that believes "If you can dream it, you can do it!" For more information please visit www.crystalcathedral.org or call 714.971.4000.

Direct Connections to Africa is a non-profit organization, pairing individuals in the village with individuals in the U.S. of common interests. Thus we help people of Malawi, Africa with educational
supplies, scholarships to enable children to continue elementary and secondary education, recreation, job development and medical needs. For more information
please visit www.dctafrica.net.

Families Forward - For more than twenty-five years Families Forward has helped families in financial crisis to achieve self-sufficiency and return to being productive residents of the community through housing, counseling, food distribution, life skills and other services. For more information please visit www.Families-Forward.org or call 949.552.2727.

The Foothill Education Foundation’s mission is to provide Foothill High School with the financial support needed to maintain, enrich and expand the school's
educational programs. The Foothill Education Foundation is operated by a board
of 26 members, all of whom are parents of Foothill High School students. Since its inception in 1989 the Foothill Education Foundation has raised close to $2 million and directed these funds exclusively toward academic programs, educational materials, and curriculum expenses.

Kids for Peace is an international, nonprofit organization dedicated to uplifting our world through love and action. Their mission is to cultivate every child's innate ability to foster peace through cross-cultural experiences and hands-on arts, service and environmental projects. Once a small neighborhood group of children, Kids for Peace has grown to over 50 chapters worldwide. Each chapter, made up of boys and girls of all ages, meets regularly to fulfill their peaceful mission. For more information please visit www.kidsforpeaceUSA.org or call 760.730.3320.

Kids Konnected’s mission is to provide friendship, understanding, education, and support for the children who have a parent with cancer, or
have lost a parent to cancer. When a parent gets cancer the entire family is affected. Children facing the same fears and similar experiences can be helped by others in a similar situation. Kids helping Kids is what we're all about. With "Kids Konnected" you don't have to be alone anymore! For more information please visit www.kidskonnected.org call 800.899.2866.

SUSAN G. KOMEN FOR THE CURE® Nancy G. Brinker promised her dying sister, Susan G. Komen, she would do everything in her power to end breast cancer forever. In 1982, that promise became
Susan G. Komen for the Cure and launched the global breast cancer movement. Today, Komen for the Cure is the world’s largest grassroots network of breast cancer survivors and activists fighting to save lives, empower people, ensure quality care for all and energize science to find the cures. For more information please visit www.komenoc.org or call 714.957.9157.

Orange County Community Tennis Association (OCCTA) is a volunteer based, nonprofit organization, whose mission is to promote tennis through education, programs and events such as: Tennis After School, Ladies Evening Doubles League (LEDL), Senior Sirs, Pre-Novice Jr. Satellite Tournaments, Calendar, Quarterly E-Newsletter, and much more. For more information please visit www.occtatennis.com.

Orange County Ovarian Cancer Alliance is comprised of Ovarian Cancer survivors, friends and family members who have been touched by Ovarian Cancer, and medical and health care professionals. We truly understand what hearing the words “You have Ovarian Cancer” means. We are an all volunteer organization and serve as a non-profit advocacy group. OCOCA works to educate the community about Ovarian Cancer. Education and awareness is the key to early diagnosis...and early diagnosis is the key to survival. Our goal: Saving women’s lives. For more information please visit www.ovarianoc.org or call 714.974.0697.

The Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation provides research for the disease that takes the lives of more children than any other – cancer. The foundation provides funding for researchers all across the USA and its research has led directly to survivors in all 50 states and in many countries around the world. PCRF has played an important role in boosting the survival rate for children with cancer form 15% to 80% in the past two decades. Every day about 35 kids are diagnosed with cancer. Your support will help PCRF to find cures and build happy families. For more information please visit www.pcrf-kids.com or call 949.859.6312.

The Wooden Floor in Santa Ana, previously known as Saint Joseph Ballet, is an after-school organization that for 26 years has promised hope and opportunity to nearly 400 low-income youth annually. Dance education and performance are the core transformational elements through which youth change the way they think about themselves and develop the ability to reach their full potential. Academic programs, pre-collegiate mentoring and college scholarships ensure that our students succeed in school and are college ready. For more information please visit www.thewoodenfloor.org or call 714.541.8314.

United Labor Agency of Nevada’s mission is to improve the quality of life for workers and their families and the community at large by providing direct services and access to services to meet their immediate needs and to engage and empower members of organized labor to improve the community as a more responsive place to live, work, raise a family and to retire. For more information please log on to www.ulan.org or call 702.648.3500.

US Variety the Children’s Charity is dedicated to improving the lives of children in our local communities and around the world. The Kids on the Go program aims to help kids gain mobility, confidence, freedom, independence and the chance to join in the life of their community by providing funding for walkers, wheelchairs, specially-designed adaptive bikes, strollers, prosthetic limbs and other devices to families with the most need. Other programs include Golden Hearts and Variety at Work. For more information please visit www.usvariety.org or call 323.954.0820.

WISEPlace is a community of housing and hope for women in crisis. Formerly the South Orange County YWCA, WISEPlace has an 85 year history of caring for local women, children and families. By meeting basic needs such as housing, food, clothing, physical and emotional nourishment, as well as vocational and life skills training, WISEPlace is one of the few places homeless women can go to begin again. For more information please visit www.wiseplace.org or call 714.542.3577.

Woman Sage is a non-profit, membership organization dedicated to educating, empowering and fostering mentoring relationships among women at midlife. Woman Sage focuses on financial literacy; women's health; the self, inner and outer beauty; careers and transitions; caregiving; and relationships. Woman Sage offers a newsbased Website, a quarterly journal, annual conferences, monthly salon meetings and a network of special interest groups on topics of interest such as book clubs, dining, theater, civic engagement and travel. For more information please visit www.womansage.com.