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The Center for Better Beginnings at UC San Diego is dedicated to improving maternal health and child development, with a focus on better understanding, preventing, and treating birth defects. Their center acts as a central hub to bring these key players together. They provide a variety of services to promote better outcomes for both mothers and babies. Their focus is on a woman's health before she becomes pregnant, during pregnancy, and while breastfeeding to explore how maternal and other environmental exposures impact a baby's health development.

For more information, visit their website:
www.betterbeginnings.org

The Bourke Family Foundation is a 501c3 approved non-profit organization whose mission is to provide essentials to nurture a better life. They believe that by providing the essentials, families will be empowered to reach their greatest potential. Their Lights for Literacy program focuses on providing solar powered book lights to children in areas that lack electricity as well as providing solar panels to illuminate libraries in secondary schools in Sub-Sahara Africa. To date, they have donated over 65,000 solar room lights and 150 solar panel systems to children and families in need.

For more information, visit their website:
www.thebourkefamilyfoundation.org

Making A Difference Now is a Lexington KY-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit whose mission is to help animals and the people and organizations that serve them; to support other organizations with similar goals; and to advocate for animals everywhere. They were founded in 2009 and have been helping animals and the people who love and care for them ever since. They Rescue, Educate, Advocate. Most of their direct Rescue services are with companion animals and their families, caregivers or rescuers; their Education services include public education and training for the animal welfare community; their Advocacy work addresses all animal welfare issues.

For more information, visit their website:
www.madnky.com

Alliance for HOPE International is one of the leading systems and social change organizations in the country focused on creating innovative, collaborative, trauma-informed, hope-centered approaches to meeting the needs of survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse, elder abuse, and human trafficking. Alliance for HOPE International and its allied Family Justice Centers serve more than 150,000 survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault and their children each year in the United States.

The Alliance supports Family Justice/Multi-Agency Centers through their Family Justice Center Alliance in 40 states and 25 countries and trains more than 10,000 multi-disciplinary professionals every year. In their work with survivors and strangulation and suffocation assaults in our Training Institute on Strangulation Prevention, they focus on direct support for survivors and training for doctors, nurses, police officers, prosecutors, advocates, and other professionals handling near and non-fatal strangulation cases. They also run the largest camping and mentoring program in the country for children impacted by domestic violence, Camp HOPE America.

For more information, visit their website:
www.allianceforhope.com

City Net is a team dedicated to addressing homelessness, in a city or region, through the coordination of community efforts and activities. They work together to provide services that will result in ending street-level homelessness through the provision of street-outreach, case management, housing navigation, bridge-housing, reunifications, community mobilization and census coordination.

For more information, visit their website:
www.citynet.org