Charitable Organizations
Looking for more ways to help enact change? Consider supporting one of the organizations below, or search for other charities committed to positive change.
Climate Change
Combines the power of more than 3 million members and online activists with the expertise of some 700 scientists, lawyers, and other environmental specialists to confront the climate crisis, protect the planet's wildlife and wild places, and to ensure the rights of all people to clean air, clean water, and healthy communities.
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WePlanet is a global grassroots movement of scientists and citizens campaigning for radical science-backed solutions to the climate and nature emergency.
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The Clean Air Task Force aims to build momentum for solutions based on scientific evidence, intellectual integrity, and pragmatism.
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Diversity
American Association for Access, Equity and Diversity
AAAED is an active advocate for affirmative action and other equal opportunity laws to enhance the tenets of access, inclusion and equality in employment, economic and educational opportunities.
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LQBTQ
Time Out Youth offers support, advocacy and opportunities for personal development and social interaction to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth, ages 11 through 20, in the greater Charlotte, NC, area.
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​Through legislation, litigation, and public education, The Trevor Project advocates for policies that help prevent suicide among LGBTQ+ young people. This includes advancing policy reforms at the federal, state, and local level to address factors that place them at a significantly higher risk of suicide.
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Envisions a world where all LGBTQ+ people can participate fully in the systems that shape our daily lives. Through public education, research, and policy and practice change, the Foundation’s impact can be felt in schools, on factory floors and corporate suites, and in places of worship
Immigration
Define American empowers diverse and nuanced storytelling about immigrant experiences across mediums and industries through research, partnerships, and storyteller engagement. Founded in 2011 by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Tony-nominated producer Jose Antonio Vargas, our work is helping audiences see all immigrants with their full humanity.
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U.S Committee for Refugees and Immigrants
The U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI), established in 1911, is a nongovernmental, not-for-profit international organization dedicated to addressing the needs and rights of refugees and immigrants. USCRI, working with its affiliates, provides legal services, social, and health services to refugees, unaccompanied migrating children, trafficking survivors, and other immigrants in all 50 states, El Salvador, Honduras, Kenya, and Mexico. USCRI advocates for the rights of refugees and immigrants both nationally and globally, helping to drive policies, practices and law.
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Immigration Equality and the Immigration Equality Action Fund have a robust legislative and administrative advocacy program to make lasting changes in our immigration system.
Each year, we connect over 750 LGBTQ and HIV-positive asylum seekers with pro bono attorneys, help secure freedom for detained asylum seekers, and provide thousands more individuals with legal inquiries and referrals.
Through our impact litigation, we seek to change discriminatory policies affecting LGBTQ and HIV-positive people. Ourr aim is to get rulings that are far-reaching and improves the lives of our community on a large scale.​
Low Income Aid
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Food for Others is an important part of Northern Virginia’s safety net for those needing food when an emergency strikes and for the growing number of working poor who need to supplement their inadequate food supplies.
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Meals on Wheels has been guided by a single goal since the first known U.S. delivery by a small group of Philadelphia citizens in 1954 – to support our senior neighbors to extend their independence and health as they age. What started as a compassionate idea has grown into one of the largest and most effective social movements in America, currently helping nearly 2.2 million seniors annually in virtually every community in the country.
Women's Rights
National Network of Abortion Funds
We believe all people know how to best care for their own bodies and build their own families. And we’re committed to ensuring the conversation about racial, economic, and reproductive justice includes the people most affected by the barriers to abortion access.
Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism provides fast, flexible support to women, trans and non-binary activists so that they can respond to unexpected risks and opportunities, protect and care for themselves and one another, and nurture feminist movements that are creating a more just and equitable world.
Disability
Angel City Sports is to create sports opportunities for adults, children, and veterans with physical disabilities or visual impairments. Our goals are to encourage physical activity and demonstrate Leadership to strengthen the adaptive sports movement.
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While nothing can prepare anyone for an unanticipated disability, there is one thing we can do, and that offers hope. We take action to help individuals with disabilities adapt to today’s world in a way that allows them to thrive.
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With the support of donors, Kessler Foundation drives positive change for people with disabilities. Kessler Foundation conducts groundbreaking rehabilitation and disability employment research and fund innovative initiatives to provide access to job opportunities. The Foundation bears the name of Henry H. Kessler, MD, PhD, who founded Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation to help people with disabilities regain function and achieve maximum independence.