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As a pioneer in education reform, Breakthrough is more than an organization. We are a nationwide movement, tackling the achievement gap with a groundbreaking approach. Through our summer and school-year programs, we increase academic opportunity for highly motivated, underserved middle- and high-school students, putting them on the path to college. We are also the largest pre-service teacher- training program in the country, providing best-in-class pre-professional training for more than 1,000 undergraduate teaching fellows each year.
Habitat for Humanity of Pinellas County, as a locally run affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International, is part of a global, nonprofit housing organization operated on Christian principles* that seeks to put God’s love into action by building homes, communities and hope. Habitat for Humanity of Pinellas County is dedicated to eliminating substandard housing locally and worldwide through constructing, rehabilitating and preserving homes; by advocating for fair and just housing policies; and by providing training and access to resources to help families improve their shelter conditions. Habitat for Humanity was founded on the conviction that every man, woman and child should have a simple, durable place to live in dignity and safety, and that decent shelter in decent communities should be a matter of conscience and action for all. Partnering with our Community. Habitat for Humanity of Pinellas County brings community volunteers, corporate donors, civic organizations and faith groups together to build affordable homes for struggling, low-income families and individuals throughout Pinellas County. Habitat volunteers work on the build sites alongside our homeowner candidates to build and renovate decent, affordable housing. Volunteers provide most of the labor, while individual and corporate donors help provide the funding to build Habitat houses. The homeowner candidates invest 250-350 “sweat equity” hours into building their homes and the homes of other Habitat families. They are also required to complete 20 homeowner courses as part of the Habitat program to help ensure they become responsible homeowners. Once the houses are completed and candidates have met the requirements of the Habitat program, the houses are sold to the qualified homeowner candidates at no profit and with no interest charged. Their mortgage payments go into a revolving Fund for Humanity that is used to build still more houses. The support of the Pinellas County community is crucial to our mission. Like all Habitat for Humanity affiliates, we raise our funds locally, receiving no financial support from Habitat for Humanity International in Americus, GA. Our affiliate serves the whole of Pinellas County, Florida, from our main office in Clearwater including the cities of Clearwater, St. Petersburg, Pinellas Park, Tarpon Springs, Dunedin, Palm Harbor, Safety Harbor, Seminole, Oldsmar, and Ozona.
The Center for American Progress is a think tank dedicated to improving the lives of Americans through ideas and action. We combine bold policy ideas with a modern communications platform to help shape the national debate, expose the hollowness of conservative governing philosophy, and challenge the media to cover the issues that truly matter.
Baltimore Child Abuse Center is a Baltimore, MD-based company in the Non-Profit sector.
HealthCare 21 Business Coalition (HC21)has helped to bring stakeholders together to improve the health of the communities we serve for over 19 years. Formed in 1997, HC21 is a leader and catalyst in creating market solutions to meet the evolving changes in healthcare. We represent 60+ members with more than 450,000 covered lives in East and Middle TN. HC21 continues to pioneer local market changes by innovating and implementing new strategies in the emerging health benefits market. We were honored to be awarded the 2011 National Business Coalition on Health’s Membership Award for Superior Leadership in Value Based Purchasing. HC21 is a national leader in publishing patient safety information, a national leader in encouraging provider transparency, a regional leader in health plan evaluation, and a regional leader in promoting consumerism. It is critical, especially now, for all stakeholders to provide better care for individuals, better health for populations, and better cost in care delivery. It will take all of us – purchasers of health benefits, providers of health benefits, providers of healthcare, manufacturers of healthcare products, and healthcare consumers – working together.