The American Cancer Society is the nationwide community based voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives, and diminishing suffering from cancer, through research, education, advocacy, and service.

Visit: http://www.cancer.org/

The Avon Foundation, public charity, was founded in 1955 to improve the lives of women and their families, and Avon philanthropic programs worldwide have raised and awarded more than $500 million. The Avon Foundation brings this mission to life through two key areas: breast cancer and domestic violence.

Visit: http://walk.avonfoundation.org/

Code Amber is the web's Amber Alert system. The key to their success is the vast reach that they have to distribute Amber alerts. With over 250,000 partner web sites posting the codeamber.org ticker, and over 120,000 Desktop Tickers, their success is accomplished through online community efforts.

Visit: http://www.codeamber.org/

La Rabida Children's Hospital is dedicated to serving children with lifelong medical conditions, developmental disabilities and those who have been abused. For more than 100 years,  La Rabida has created a special environment that's geared towards helping children meet the challenges of their medical conditions.

Visit: http://www.larabida.org/

The mission of Little City Foundation is to provide state of the art services to help children and adults with mental retardation or other developmental, emotional and behavioral challenges to lead meaningful, productive and dignified lives.

Visit: http://www.littlecity.org/

 

MADD believes it’s possible for our nation to eliminate the tragedy of drunk driving and prevent underage drinking. And they are committed to serving drunk driving victims/survivors. From its humble beginnings 25 years ago, MADD has evolved into one of the most widely supported and well-liked non-profit organizations in America.

Visit: http://www.madd.org/

The National MS Society is a collective of passionate individuals who want to do something about MS Now . Every hour in the United States, someone is newly diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, an unpredictable, often disabling disease of the central nervous system.  There is no cure, and MS affects more than 400,000 people in the U.S., and 2.5 million worldwide.

Visit: http://www.nationalmssociety.org/

Founded in 1978, Vietnam Veterans of America is the only national Vietnam veterans organization congressionally chartered and exclusively dedicated to Vietnam-era veterans and their families. VVA's goals are to promote and support the full range of issues important to Vietnam veterans, to create a new identity for this generation of veterans, and to change public perception of Vietnam veterans.

Visit: http://www.vva.org/

Chicagoland Toys For Tots Organization. The date was December 13, 1978. This was the original date that Edward P. (Aminal) Wisniewski originated the Chicagoland Toys For Tots Motorcycle Parade. Over the years this event collects and distributes thousands of toys for the needy children of Chicagoland.

Visit: http://chicagolandtft.org/