Roca’s mission is to be a relentless force in disrupting incarceration, poverty, and racism by engaging the young people, police, and systems at the center of urban violence to address trauma, find hope, and drive change.
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Hands on Hartford
Hands On Hartford is a social service nonprofit organization that serves Hartford’s most economically challenged residents in the areas of food, housing, and health. They are also an affiliate of the Points of Light Global Network, which includes volunteer-mobilizing organizations located in nearly 40 countries around the world.
Distressed Children & Infants International
DCI is working towards a future where all children have a chance at a dignified and successful life. They believe education is the key to ending poverty cycle, stopping child labor and early marriage. They provide education, healthcare, and skill development opportunities to youth and their families in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Nicaragua so they can thrive and lift up themselves, their families and communities. DCI also seeks to connect privileged children to less fortunate disadvantaged children in the United States as well as in other countries around the world, educating them about the challenges they are facing. Thus developing their empathy and responsibilities and inspiring them to take leadership in humanitarian causes; in this way we hope to nurture responsible and compassionate world citizens and future leaders.
Connecticut Foodshare
Our mission is to deliver an informed and equitable response to hunger by mobilizing community partners, volunteers, and supporters.
Founded in 1982, Connecticut Foodshare is a member of the Feeding America nationwide network of food banks.
Connecticut Foodshare supports individuals and families – from one end of the state to the other – by addressing root causes, creating long-term solutions, and distributing nutritious food through local partner programs in an effort to alleviate hunger.
International Rescue Committee
The International Rescue Committee responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover and gain control of their future. In more than 40 countries and in 26 U.S. cities, our dedicated teams provide clean water, shelter, health care, education and empowerment support to refugees and displaced people.
Save the Children
Save the Children is the leading independent organization creating lasting change in the lives of children in need in the United States and around the world. Recognized for our commitment to accountability, innovation and collaboration, our work takes us into the heart of communities, where we help children and families help themselves. We work with other organizations, governments, non-profits and a variety of local partners while maintaining our own independence without political agenda or religious orientation. When disaster strikes around the world, Save the Children is there to save lives with food, medical care and education and remains to help communities rebuild through long-term recovery programs. As quickly and as effectively as Save the Children responds to tsunamis and civil conflict, it works to resolve the ongoing struggles children face every day — poverty, hunger, illiteracy and disease — and replaces them with hope for the future.
Covenant Soup Kitchen
Realizing that people can be impoverished physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, socially and financially, Covenant Soup Kitchen provides food and access to basic services in an environment of care, love, support and safety to those individuals and families from the greater Windham community who come through our doors. We rely on the generosity of the community and its faith to help us carry out this mission.
Christian Community Action, Inc.
CCA’s mission is to express faithful witness by providing help, housing, and hope to people who are poor in New Haven.
Their commitment is to support families in their efforts to increase their stability and self-sufficiency, to be a voice of reason, and a light in the darkness during difficult times.
Their purpose is to serve families and individuals in crisis, through a continuum of care that assists them in realizing their unique strength and potential by offering them opportunities to:
- Meet their unexpected, short-term, urgent and basic needs for food, housing, fuel, information and referrals
- Access childcare and employment services that will increase family stability, health, safety and well-being
- Realize their unique abilities, strengths and potential through leadership development, grassroots organizing and training
- Address root causes of poverty, homelessness and income inequality, by promoting changes in public policy using individual success stories, data about unmet needs, and results in the delivery of services
- Their desired outcomes are designed to be family-centered, program-focused and transformative.
Connecticut Association for Human Services
Their mission is to end poverty and engage, equip and empower all families in CT to build a secure future. They envision a Connecticut where all children and families thrive, regardless of income, and contribute to and share in the state’s growth. A Connecticut where low-income residents work with government, business, labor and faith leaders in developing policies and programs that ensure Connecticut’s prosperity, as well as their own. CAHS works to reduce poverty and build family economic success (FES) through outreach, education, and policy work.
Founded in 1910, Connecticut Association for Human Services promotes family economic security strategies that empower low-income working families to achieve financial independence. Their mission is to end poverty and engage, equip and empower all families in Connecticut to build a secure future. CAHS plays a unique role as a catalyst and convener.
Connecticut Association for Community Action
.The Connecticut Association for Community Action (CAFCA) is a network of community action agencies that builds communities, promotes public policy, and develops leaders to end poverty in Connecticut. Their mission is to support, strengthen, and promote the work of the Community Action Agencies statewide to advance economic, racial, and social justice
Through their strong partnership with the state and federal agencies, community-based organizations, and other state, regional, and national partners, they work to address the causes and conditions of poverty in Connecticut.