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Clifton Park Community:

Adelante Familia: www.vincentbaltimore.org/adelante_familia.html
Adelante Familia is a bilingual program that provides domestic violence victim support and counseling, crisis intervention, and abuser intervention to Spanish-speaking immigrant families in Baltimore, Maryland.

Advocates for Survivors of Torture and Trauma: www.astt.org
Advocates for Survivors of Torture and Trauma provides comprehensive mental health care and social services to survivors of torture and war trauma.

Alternative Directions, Inc: alternativedirectons.org
Inside the prisons, ADI helps incarcerated individuals resolve pro se civil legal problems, and provides vital information about services available to them and their families after they are released.

Baltimore Child Abuse Center: www.baltimorechildabusecenter.org
The Baltimore Child Abuse Center (BCAC), a private, non-profit 501(c)3 children’s advocacy center that coordinates the investigation of all reported cases of child sexual abuse in Baltimore City.

Baltimore Reads: www.baltimorereads.org
Baltimore Reads, Inc. teaches adults the literacy skills necessary to function in society, achieve goals, and develop individual knowledge and potential.

Beans and Bread Outreach Center: www.vincentbaltimore.org/beans_bread.html
Beans & Bread is a day resource center for people who are homeless located in the Fells Point area of Baltimore, Maryland. The program provides meals, day respite, intensive case management, and housing placement.

Belair-Edison Neighborhoods Inc: www.belair-edison.org
BENI is a nonprofit community-based organization that works to foster an environment where residents, business owners, and stakeholders feel confident to invest their time, energy, and money.

Homeless Person's Representation Project: www.hprplaw.org
HPRP's mission is to end homelessness in Maryland by providing free legal services, including advice, counsel, education, representation and advocacy, for low-income persons who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.

Movable Feast: www.mfeast.org
Moveable Feast prepares and delivers meals and groceries at no charge to people and their families throughout greater Baltimore and Maryland’s Eastern Shore who are in need and living with HIV/AIDS and other life-challenging conditions.

Parks and People Foundation, Inc: parksandpeople.org
In order to realize our vision of a healthy environment where people live, work, learn and play, we have formed a strategy targeting two major fields of endeavor: great parks, clean streams & green communities and motivating youth.

St. Vincent De Paul Head Start: www.vincentbaltimore.org/head_start.html
Head Start is a comprehensive education program for pre-school children in Baltimore, Maryland, designed to help prepare the children for school success.

The Baltimore Station: www.baltimorestation.org
Our mission is to provide rigorous self-help programs in a safe, caring residential setting to support men, most of whom are veterans, who are transitioning from the cycle of poverty, substance abuse and homelessness to self-sufficiency.

White Flint Community:

A Wider Circle: www.awidercircle.org
Each day A Wider Circle provides basic need items to families transitioning out of shelters or simply living without life’s necessities. We also go into low-income schools and shelters to lead educational workshops.

Crossway Community Inc: www.crossway-community.org
Crossway offers a continuum of integrated educational and supportive services for families of all ethnic and economic backgrounds with a focus on outreach to low-income, at-risk families.

Manna: www.mannafood.org
Manna Food Center, a nonprofit organization, strives to eliminate hunger in Montgomery County through food distribution, education, and advocacy.

Shepherd’s Table: shepherdstable.org
Our mission is to provide help to people who are homeless or in need by providing basic services, including meals, social services, medical support, clothing, and other assistance in an effective and compassionate manner.

Stepping Stones Shelter: www.steppingstonesshelter.org
By offering food and shelter in an atmosphere of dignity and respect, Stepping Stones Provides hope for the future, strengthens family values and enables self-sufficiency.

The Wildlife Society: joomla.wildlife.org
TWS’s mission is to represent and serve the professional community of scientists, managers, educators, technicians, planners, and others who work actively to study, manage, and conserve wildlife and its habitats worldwide.

Landover Community:

Partnership for Animal Welfare: www.paw-rescue.org
The Partnership for Animal Welfare (PAW) is a non-profit group of volunteers chartered to facilitate the rescue and adoption of homeless domestic animals, mainly dogs and cats, and place them in loving and stable homes.

PG County Resource Center: www.communityfoodandnutrition.org/CountyFoodPantries.asp
Service Provided: Food, clothing

Prince Georges Child Resource Center: www.childresource.org
Prince George's Child Resource Center helps create healthy and nurturing environments for children by supporting their families and educating their caregivers.

Sasha Bruce Youthwork: www.sashabruce.org
Our work helps young people find safe homes, achieve and maintain good health and mental health, create and strengthen supportive and stable families, explore opportunities in education and careers, and become tomorrow’s leaders.

Share Food Network: www.sharedc.org
SHARE distributes high quality affordable and nutritious food as a way to build community and strengthen families.

Sign of the Times Cultural Workshop: www.signofthetimes.org
Sign of the Times is helping inner city children in Washington, DC to become active in the community and to expand their horizons in the areas of art, dance, history, and even computer literacy.

Millersville Community:

Anne Arundel Food Bank: www.aafoodbank.org
The Anne Arundel County Food Bank is a free resource bank that gives away food and donated “gently used” appliances, furniture, medical equipment baby items, clothing, cars and other items that will help a needy family make a home.

Center of Help: www.centrodeayuda.org
Our mission is to promote self-sufficiency and the successful integration of the immigrant Hispanic population into the greater community of Anne Arundel County.

Food Link, Inc.: www.foodlinkmaryland.org
We strive to lead efforts in alleviating hunger in communities by linking vital resources to families and individuals in need.

Lighthouse Shelther: annapolislighthouse.org
For over two decades we have been steadfast in our mission of rebuilding lives with service and compassion by providing shelter, preventing homelessness and empowering people in Anne Arundel County as they work to become self-sufficient.

Severna Park Assistance Network: www.spanhelps.org
SPAN was formed because of the concern on the part of the ministers in the Severna Park area with regard to the growing demand for emergency help, the need to identify the people seeking help, and a process to help those people in a dignified and expeditious manner.

Chantilly Community:

Alternative House: www.thealternativehouse.org
Alternative House, founded in 1972, provides support to at-risk children, youth, and families through counseling, shelter, crisis intervention and neighborbood outreach.

Homeless Prevention Center: twitter.com/aftershare
For more than 17 years, this 30-bed, short-term shelter has helped homeless adults develop individual plans that promote self-sufficient living.

Reston Interfaith, Inc: www.restoninterfaith.org
We promote self-sufficiency through direct support and advocacy for our neighbors in need of food, immediate shelter, affordable housing, quality child care, and other human services.

Western Fairfax Christian Ministries: www.wfcmva.org
Our Mission: As an expression of God's love and as an opportunity to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ, Western Fairfax Christian Ministries (WFCM) provides life-essential support to those seeking our assistance.

Regional Links:

Capital Area Food Bank: www.capitalareafoodbank.org
The Capital Area Food Bank is the largest, public nonprofit hunger and nutrition education resource in the Washington, DC Metropolitan Area.

Chimes Inc: www.chimes.org
Chimes provides the skills and support to assist each person with barriers to independent living toward achievement of his or her aspirations and goals.

Kids Enjoy Exercise Now: www.keengreaterdc.org
KEEN is a national, nonprofit volunteer-led organization that provides one-to-one recreational opportunities for children and young adults with developmental and physical disabilities at no cost to their families and caregivers.

Mid-Atlanitc Association of Health Centers: www.machc.com
MACHC is the voice of communities in need and is dedicated to building and strengthening programs in the delivery of community-based health care to the medically underserved and underinsured.

National Links:

Meals on Wheels of America: www.mowaa.org
The mission of Meals On Wheels Association of America is to provide visionary leadership and professional training and to develop partnerships that will ensure the provision of quality nutrition services.

US Dream Academy: www.usdreamacademy.org
The overall goal is to nurture the whole child while altering attitudes, enhancing self-esteem, supporting emotional and intellectual growth, and sparking dreams.