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Health Care

Lifelines, Helplines & Hotlines

  • 911

    Advocacy & Resources

  • Apply for Medicaid, Medicare, or low-cost health insurance plans

    • Website: https://www.healthcare.gov

    • Description: Receive Medicaid if receiving Social Security, SSI or on disability, access a waiver, meet income eligibility requirements

  • Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality (Department of Health and Human Services & its Partners)

    • Website: https://www.ahrq.gov

    • Description: Research ways to make health care safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable for children/adolescents, elderly, low-income, racial/ethnic minorities, rural/inner-city residents, special healthcare needs, women.

  • Louisiana Association of Health Plans

    • Website: http://lahp.net

    • Description: Facilitates communication and representation among members, government, policymakers and the industry regarding health care issues so that public policy decisions so that healthcare can advance to high quality and low cost.

  • Pan Foundation

    • Website: panfoundation.org

    • Description: check on the status of available financial assistance programs

  • Patient Advocate Foundation (PAF)

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  • Louisiana Association of Health Plans (see above) - The Gil Dupre Graduate Student Scholarship

  • Pan Foundation (see above) - Financial Assistance

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Hearing

Ability to perceive sounds

Lifelines, Hotlines & Helplines

Advocacy & Resources

  • American Society for Deaf Children (ASDC)

    • Website: https://deafchildren.org

    • Description: ASDC supports parents of children who are deaf and hard of hearing, believing that deafness is not a disability, but language deprivation is with a mission to ensure that every deaf child learns sign language from the very start

  • Global Foundation for Children with Hearing Loss

    • Website: https://childrenwithhearingloss.org

    • Description: Providing access to early intervention, hearing technology, and expertise to babies and young children who are deaf or hard of hearing living in low- and middle-income countries.

  • Hearing Health Foundation (HHF)

  • Hearing Aids Donation Organization

    • Website: https://hearingaiddonations.org

    • Description: Apply for hearing aids or find organizations that offer assistance in your area. Donate hearing aids regardless of age or condition. Pay it forward through fundraising and helping others.

  • Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA)

  • Starkey Hearing Foundation:

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Walk for Hearing

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  • Hearing Aids Donation Organization - Hearing Aids

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Hemophilia (bleeding)

Lifelines, Helpline & Hotline

Advocacy & Resources

  • Midwest Hemophilia Association (MHA)

    • Website: https://midwesthemophilia.org

    • Description: Scholarships and financial assistance fund to eligible families that have incurred expenses related to care, treatment or prevention of a bleeding disorder or basic living expense, apply for e medic alert ID

  • $ The Hemophilia Alliance Foundation

    $ Funding Opportunities

  • Midwest Hemophilia Association (MHA) (see above) - Financial Assistance & Scholarships

  • Joe Pugliese Educational Award - Scholarship

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  • Midwest Hemophilia Association (MHA) (see above) - E Med ID

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HIV/AIDS

Lifelines, Helplines & Hotlines

Advocacy & Resources

  • AIDS Healthcare Foundation

    • Website: https://www.aidshealth.org

    • Description: Working with pharmacies, thrift stores, healthcare contracts and other strategic partnerships to fund medical care

  • Elton John AIDS Foundation

  • The Clinton Foundation

    • Website: https://www.clintonfoundation.org

    • Description: Saving lives with HIV/AIDS in developing countries, offering negotiated price reductions, vaccines, medical devices, and diagnostics

  • Kansas Cares through Housing

    • Website: https://www.kdhe.ks.gov/369/Kansas-Care-Through-Housing

    • Description: Access to affordable housing for people living with HIV/AIDS, rent assistance in every 52-week period, case management, rental deposits, transitional and emergency housing, moving expenses, Ryan White case managers

$ Funding Opportunities

  • Kansas Cares through Housing (see above) - Rent & Moving Assistance

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Home Repair

Lifelines, Helplines & Hotlines

Advocacy & Resources

  • Habitat for Humanity

  • Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and Housing Choice Voucher Program (section 8)

    • Website: https://www.hud.gov

    • Description: Meet guidelines, each county has a HUD office specializing in public housing, meet low-income guidelines, pay about 30% of income, help with security deposits and helping with necessary home repairs

  • Semper Fi Fund

    • Website: Semperfifund.org

    • Description: Financial support that arise from hospitalization and recovery, adaptive housing, adaptive transportation, service member and family support, education and career transition assistance, PTS and TBI support, America’s Fund, Team Semper FI

  • United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)

    • Website: https://www.rd.usda.gov

    • Description: Loans ($40,000) and grants ($10,000) for people living in rural areas with very low income, allowing for home repairs and upgrades, with grants for ages 62 and up

$ Funding Opportunities

  • Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and Housing Choice Voucher Program (section 8) (see above) - Pay 30% of income

  • Semper Fi Fund (see above) - Financial Assistance

  • United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) (see above) - Loans & Grants

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Homelessness

Lifelines, Helplines & Hotlines

Advocacy & Resources

  • Boise Rescue Mission (Indiana)

    • Website: https://boiserm.org

    • Description: Meeting physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual needs of homeless and addicted individuals

  • Crossroads Mission (Arizona)

    • Website: http://crossroadsmission.org

    • Description: An Christian faith-based homeless shelter and drug and alcohol addiction recovery rehabilitation facility.

  • Hope Supply Company (Texas)

    • Website: http://hopesupplyco.org

    • Description: Texans meeting the critical needs of homeless and at-risk children by providing necessities including diapers, wipes, hygiene kits, baby food, formula, clothing, school supplies, and toys to enhance their life

  • Lavamaex

  • Lookout Housing Health Society

    • Website: https://lookoutsociety.ca

    • Description: A safety net under all other services, catering to a wide variety of needs. When a person has nowhere else to go, they turn to lookout for shelter, housing, health services, resource centers, community outreach, and skill-building support

  • Under the Bridges and on the Streets Organization (California)

  • SAMHSA

    • Website: www.samhsa.gov

    • Description: Provides resources to prevent and end homelessness among people with mental or substance use disorder. Offers grant programs and cooperative agreements to assist with the transition from homelessness.

  • Volunteers of America

    • Website: https://www.voa.org

    • Description: extreme poverty, reduce inequality, and protect the planet

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Hospice Care

Lifelines, Helplines & Hotlines

Advocacy & Resources

  • Cleo foundation (California)

    • Website: https://www.cleofoundation.org

    • Description: A foundation supporting organizations and programs working for academic enrichment, outdoor education, and hospice care

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Housing Justice

Lifelines, Hotlines & Helplines

  • Domesticshelters.org

  • Family Crisis Response Helpline: 833-441-2240

    • Description: Mobile crisis response unit

Advocacy & Resources

  • Fight for Justice - Housing Justice for all (New York)

  • National Housing Law Project

    • Website: https://www.nhlp.org

    • Description: Provides instant resources confronting complex housing situations and emergent issues.

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Global Humanitarian

Lifelines, Hotlines & Helplines

Advocacy & Resources

  • Able Charities

    • Website: https://ablecharities.org

    • Description: To improve the quality of life for people living in villages in general, with a specific focus on assisting orphans, widows and their children, by offering medical services, education, and vocational activities in an environment that is affordable, congenial and rural based.

  • Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA)

    • Website: https://adra.org

    • Description: A global humanitarian organization that delivers relief and development through health, education, livelihood, and emergency response to individuals in more than 107 countries. Go Green initiative the last week in April

  • American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

    • Website: https://www.aap.org

    • Description: Child and adolescent healthy mental development, immigrant child health, health care access and coverage, gun violence prevention, tobacco & E-cigarettes, vaccines, child nutrition, climate change, clean air & environmental justice, juvenile justice

  • American Red Cross

    • Website: www.redcross.org

    • Description: Bring help and hope to families affected by disaster, learn disaster preparedness strategies and ways to stay safe.

  • CARE International

    • Website: https://www.care.org

    • Description: Fighting global poverty, inequality, to achieve social justice by reaching impoverished communities, providing economic opportunities, emergency relief, and influencing policy change, addressing discrimination, helping women

  • The Carter Center

    • Website: https://www.cartercenter.org

    • Description: Envisions a world where people are free to enjoy all their human rights to reach their full potential and live in dignity. Strives to advance the rights of protected groups, apply comprehensive human rights framework through programming in the US, promote climate and environmental justice, expertise on human rights issues.

  • Catholic Relief Services (CRS)

    • Website: https://www.crs.org

    • Description: Works with organizations to help the poor and vulnerable people overcome emergencies, earn living through agriculure and access affordable healthcare

  • Children’s Hunger Fund

    • Website: https://childrenshungerfund.org

    • Description: Delivers food and hope to suffering children by equipping local churches for gospel-centered mercy ministry.

  • Convoy of Hope

    • Website: https://convoyofhope.org

    • Description: Faith based organization to feed the world through children’s feeding initiatives, community outreach and disaster responses, partnering with churches, businesses, civic organization and government agencies

  • Direct Relief

    • Website: https://www.directrelief.org

    • Description: Partners with local health providers, healthcare companies, and business leaders to provide medical assistance for people struggling with poverty and disaster

  • Dreams for Every Child

    • Website: http://dreamsforeverychild.org

    • Description: Addresses children's state of mind between (6-16) years in Uganda by providing better shelter, meals & food, health and education.

  • Doctors without Borders

    • Website: https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org

    • Description: Impartial medical humanitarian assistance to people affected by conflict, disease outbreak, natural and human-made disasters and exclusion from healthcare in more than 70 countries

  • Hands in Service, Inc.

    • Website: https://www.hisinc.org

    • Description: Fosters alliances among charitable organizations for the purpose of centralizing supplies, talent, and resources for disadvantaged communities and to form short-term mission teams focused on evangelism, construction, medical aid and education

  • Hand (Humanitarian Emergency Response Operations)

    • Website: https://www.hand-global.com

    • Description: Providing disaster and response relief, education, health, and entrepreneur in Indonesia, Singapore, Cambodia, Philippines, & Nepal

  • Heart to Heart International

  • Himalayan Cataract Project

    • Website: https://cureblindness.org

    • Description: To restore sight and hope for patients who might never have been reached due to unnecessary blindness, almost half are due to cataract – which can be surgically treated.

  • In touch Mission International

    • Website: https://intouchmission.org

    • Description: Serves and empowers godly national believers around the world (India, Poland, Romania, South Africa, South Sudan, Zambia, US, Ukraine, Zimbabwe, Pakistan) to reach communities for Christ

  • Life Water

    • Website: https://lifewater.org

    • Description: Access to safe water, and improved sanitation and hygiene, one village at a time.

  • KIDS without Borders

    • Website: http://www.kidswithnoborders.org

    • Description: All kids, one world, inspiring youth through service worldwide. Programs include hand me up, teach me to fish, humanitours, japan relief, miracle baby, power of one and helmet for kids

  • Kissidugu Foundation

    • Website: https://kissidugu.org

    • Kissidugu Foundation creates sustainable and equitable opportunities for individuals and communities, through civic dialogue, education, cultural preservation and the perpetuation of Guinean music and dance.

  • Kiva

    • Website: www.kiva.org

    • Description: An international non-profit, providing crowdfunding loans with the possibility of repayment

  • Lutheran World Relief (Baltimore, MD):

    • Website: https://lwr.org

    • Description: Working with Lutherans and partners around the world to end poverty, injustice and human suffering.

  • Metro World

    • Website: https://www.metroworldchild.org

    • Description: Faith-based humanitarian organization serving New York children and various urban centers and rural communities around the world, plan a mission trip.org

  • Muslim Aid

    • Website: https://www.mausa.org/

    • Description: Helping people who are victims of natural disasters or conflict and those that are suffering from poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, discrimination, homelessness, debt, unemployment, injustice, deprivation or lack of skills and economic opportunities

  • P.E.A.C.E inc.

  • Salvadoran American Humanitarian Foundation

    • SAHF Website: https://www.sahf.org

    • Description: all citizens of El Salvador can meet their basic human needs.

  • Operation Compassion

  • Rahma Worldwide

    • Website: https://rahmaww.org

    • Description: Assists refugees by restarting the lives of many people who lost their livelihood, functioning in many economically and politically unstable countries like Yemen, Syria, Gaza, Lebanon, and so on.

  • Rice Foundation

    • Website: https://www.ricefoundation.us

    • Description: health care and community development, ministries, Education, Leadership Training, Medical and Dental, Relief, clean water, food for the poor to the poorest in Central America, Honduras,

  • Save the Children

  • UNICEF

  • United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

    • Website: www.usaid.gov

    • Description: USAID transforms families, communities and countries by providing aid and response to help countries become self-reliant

  • United Nations Foundation

    • Website: https://unfoundation.org

    • Description: Tackles humanity’s greatest challenges to mobilize ideas, people and resources for diverse and durable sustainable development goals

  • WaterAid

    • Website: https://www.wateraid.org/

    • Description: Distributing safe and sustainable water, sanitation, and hygiene produces projects to those in need

  • Water For People

  • Water.org

    • Website: https://water.org/

    • Description: Non-profit global organization bringing water and sanitation to the world

  • We Bloom

    • Website: https://www.webloom.org

    • Description: Empowering healthy communities adapting to the changing needs that emerge in Vietnam and Indiana.

  • World Central Kitchen

    • Website: https://wck.org

    • Description: providing fresh meals in response to Humanitarian, climate and community crises

  • World Connect

    • Website: https://www.worldconnect-us.org

    • Description: Invests in the Global South to drive self-sustaining development in communities RELATED TO health, education, economic opportunity, and the environment, impacting women and girls, BUILDING social capital, growing local leaders, and sustainably shifting power.

  • World Vision

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  • Centro de Intergración Libre y Solidario de Argentina (CILSA)

  • Comprehensive Community Based Rehabilitation in Tanzania (CCBRT)

  • Fundación Solidaridad

  • Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI)

  • Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación “Dra. Adriana Rebaza Flores”

  • International Medical Corps

  • International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness

  • International Rescue Committee (IRC)

  • International Society of Wheelchair Professionals (ISWP)

  • Jhpiego

  • L.V. Prasad Eye Institute

  • Laerdal Global Health

  • Lions Clubs International Foundation: SightFirst

  • MedGlobal

  • Mercy Corps

  • Motivation Australia

  • Motivation Charitable Trust (U.K.)

  • Motivation Romania Foundation

  • One Acre Fund

  • Orbis International

  • Rahma Relief Foundation

  • Real Medicine Foundation (RMF)

  • Right To Play

  • Rotary International

  • ShelterBox USA

  • Sirindhorn National Medical Rehabilitation Centre (SNMRC)

  • Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC)

  • Survive & Thrive Global Development Alliance

  • Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS)

  • UCP Wheels for Humanity Indonesia (UCPRUK)

  • UNICEF USA

    • Website: https://www.unicef.org

    • Description: Working with government agencies and partners to respond to violence against children and adolescents, defend rights in all contexts.

  • United Nations Development Program (UNDP)

  • United Nations Foundation (Measles and Rubella Initiative)

  • United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

  • World Food Program (WFP)

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Hunger

Lifelines, Helplines & Hotlines

Advocacy & Resources

  • Bedstuy - The Campaign Against Hunger (New York)

    • Website: https://www.tcahnyc.org

    • Description: To empower New York neighbors, increasing access to safe, nutritious food and related resources

  • Bread of Life Ministries (Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee)

  • Food for Thought (Florida)

    • Website: https://fftfl.org

    • Description: Empowering children by removing the negative impacts of hunger, weekly access to healthy, easy-to-prepare meals

  • Food for Thought (Denver)

  • Heart of Compassion

    • Website: https://www.heartofcompassionca.org

    • Description: Heart of Compassion works to alleviate hunger, food insecurities, and the suffering of those who have fallen on hard times, also providing transitional housing, occupational training, and vocational rehabilitation.

  • CUMAC (New Jersey)

    • Website: https://www.cumac.org

    • Description: Fight hunger and its root causes through a holistic, trauma-informed approach that provides groceries and basic necessities to families and individuals

  • Feed the children

    • Website: https://feedthechildren.org

    • Description: Anti-hunger organization focusing on reducing hunger and malnutrition, teaching health and self-reliance within the United States and internationally

  • Good + Foundation

    • Website: https://goodplusfoundation.org

    • Description: partners with approximately 115 innovative anti-poverty programs nationwide, pairing essential goods with innovative services to create an upward trajectory for under-resourced families.

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