- Working for identification, treatment, and cure of diseases through education, advocacy, services, and research.
- Advocacy on behalf of abused and neglected children.
- Helping children with life threatening illnesses believe in the promise of tomorrow.
- Work to to eliminate gender and racial disparities in health and mortality.
- Empower at-risk and homeless youth toward lifelong personal growth through both on-the-street outreach and in-school deterrent programs.
- Support cancer prevention/early detection research, education outreach to medically underserved.
- Increase access to quality hospice care so that more people can die at home, with dignity and free of pain.
In the Greater Washington DC Area, Community1st - America’s Charities works with employers to demonstrate their support for community needs through employee payroll deduction giving campaigns.These workplace campaigns are customized and branded, include best practice consultation, state-of-the-art technology, and no cost to the employer. Employers can add the choice of Community1st - America’s Charities members to any existing workplace campaign simply and easily.
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A Wider Circle
AHC, Inc.
Anacostia Watershed Society
Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County
Black Student Fund
Capital Hospice
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Arlington, Inc.
The Children's Inn at NIH
Duke Ellington School of the Arts
Fairfax Court Appointed Special Advocates, Inc.
Higher Achievement Program, Inc.
House of Ruth
Lorton Community Action Center (LCAC)
Make-A-Wish Foundation® of the Mid-Atlantic, Inc.
Miriam's Kitchen
Montgomery Hospice
Rebuilding Together Alexandria
Ronald McDonald House Charities® of Greater Washington D.C., Inc.
The Shepherd’s Table, Inc.
Signature Theatre, Inc.
WAMU 88.5 American University Radio
The Wellness Community - Greater Washington, DC
WETA (Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association)
Whitman-Walker Clinic
Youth For Tomorrow - New Life Center, Inc.
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