Name: Preserve Maryland's Natural Treasures
Brand: Natural History Society of Maryland
SKU: HHH-100-Donation
Price: 5000 USD
Availability: InStock

Dallas-Fort Worth

Texas

Family Place

The Family Place provides on-site attorneys for clients in cooperation with Legal Aid of NorthWest Texas. This donation helps alleviate the cost of legal services for those in need. 

Support Legal Services to Those Escaping Domestic Violence

Our Dignity at Work job training program is a career assessment, job skills training, professional mentoring, and economic empowerment program. The primary goal of the program is to move survivors of family violence out of poverty by providing job readiness classes, participation in formal work training programs—including GED, ESL, literacy and computer classes as needed—thus enhancing their ability to gain employment and increase their income.

Help Fund Dignity At Work: Training For Those Escaping Domestic Violence

The Family Place Battering Intervention & Prevention Program (BIPP) teaches batterers how to identify, challenge, and change core beliefs that support the use of violence with their intimate partners. Our professional staff members offer psycho-educational groups in English and Spanish for men, women and LGBTQ+ clients. These group sessions are 24 or 30 weekly sessions. 

Pay Someone's Group Session Fee For Battering Intervention & Prevention Program

The Family Place Battering Intervention & Prevention Program (BIPP) teaches batterers how to identify, challenge, and change core beliefs that support the use of violence with their intimate partners. Our professional staff members offer psycho-educational groups in English and Spanish for men, women and LGBTQ+ clients.

Pay Someone's Entry Fee For Battering Intervention & Prevention Program

Be Project reaches out to youth in area elementary, middle and high schools, and on college campuses teaching them about healthy relationships. The program is called Be Project to encourage students to Be Safe, Be Kind, Be Courageous and Be More.

Help Fund Be Project to Teach Kids About Healthy Relationships

Our Children’s Counseling uses play therapy and activity-based programming to help children who have witnessed family violence change the way they look at the world so they can heal. These counseling services help children learn to stay safe, stop hurting and overcome the trauma of family violence to avoid the cycle of violence as adults.

Support Children's Counseling For Those Who Experienced Domestic Violence

Nashville

Tennessee

Youth Encouragement Services

READY is an after-school tutoring program currently serving students grades 2-5 at our two YES locations. Students are coached by trained tutors in a safe environment that caters to the growth of learning and understanding. Students engage in academic and character building activities in a classroom with 1:8 ratio of coaches to students.    Focus is placed on academic growth through regular reading, phonics, and grammar, with character growth in group discussions and journaling about themes and morals of the literature. Trained Tutors are needed.

Read their way to tomorrow. Help us train 5 reading tutors in Nashville

Boston

Massachusetts

Peace First

The Peace First Hackathon is a two-day virtual sprint for changemakers to accelerate their social impact projects. The Hackathon is ideal for young changemakers eager to address an injustice in their community and seeking concrete support as they advance their project from idea stage to launch.

Help Fund a Hackathon For Social Change

Impact Trainings are spaces for emerging young leaders to learn about local and global challenges, build their changemaking skills, and join a community where all young people are empowered to share experiences and tell stories of impact.

Send One Person Through Our Impact Training Workshop

Since the launch of the Ambassador program in 2020, Peace First has mobilized more than 120 young people from over 40 countries. These inaugural Ambassadors have been critical in helping young people access changemaking resources and launch their community-based social change projects.

Send One Person Through Our Ambassador Program

Girls LEAP

Teaching Assistant participants are college-aged women and gender-nonconforming individuals trained to serve as teaching assistants. We provide them an opportunity for personal and professional development in leadership, intergenerational mentoring, coaching, guidance, and social justice.

Fund Training For Teaching Assitant

Teen Mentors build leadership skills by coaching younger and near-aged youth in Girls’ LEAP programs. They also raise community awareness about the violence that girls and gender-expansive youth face. Teen Mentors are paid part-time employees who serve as near-peer mentors and assistant teachers. We mentor them in leadership skills and support them in developing and pursuing academic and career goals.

Teen Mentors Program: Fund One Teen's Wages For a Month

Our Advanced Program reinforces the skills taught in the Foundation Program and introduces physical and social emotional skills to deal with more intense physical risks and deeper examination of skills such as adrenaline management, managing peer pressure, managing your online presence, and dating and breakup violence.

Girls' Advanced Program: Fund One Girl's Advanced Self-Defense Course

Girls’ LEAP Foundation Program is our 10-week, 20-hour curriculum that trains participants in physical self-defense and social-emotional skills. Physical skills focus on physical safety and self-defense techniques. Socio-emotional skills teach conflict resolution, setting boundaries, courage, advocacy and healthy relationships. It is delivered in a safe environment that supports students to cultivate protective factors against violence, as a foundation to grow into strong, healthy young adults. This program is for girls and gender expansive youth aged 8-18.

Girls' LEAP Foundation Program: Fund One Girl's Self-Defense Course

Bright Light Volunteers

This donation will go toward the supplies needed in our afterschool programs and ESL tutoring we offer. 

After School and ESL Tutoring

Hygeine items are often hard to obtain in most areas of the world. This donation will go toward the hygeine kits we offer to those who wouldn't be able to obtain them .

Provide Hygeine Kits For Rural Areas

Essential school supplies are needed to help faciliate a productive learning environment. This donation will help with supplies like paper, books, crayons, and more.

Provide School Supplies For Underpriviledged School

Building a well can transform an entire village. This donation will go toward building a well to bring water to a local village. 

Fund a Well in Africa

At Bright Light, we train those to go into the world and be a light. We buy supplies to build local schools to areas that would otherwise not offer education. This donation goes toward the supplies and essentials needed to complete the building process. 

Fund Building a Local School

Austin

Andy Roddick Foundation

During fall, winter and spring break, we send home engaging, entertaining, educational kits with multiple activities for hours of fun learning and enjoyment.

Fund One Educational Kit For a Family

Throughout the year, we host events designed for the whole family. These family friendly events help parents and caregivers feel more involved in their children’s learning and better understand their children’s strengths.

Fund Family Fun Night Event

Our free, overnight spring break camp provides fifth-graders the chance to participate in physical activities, team building, and group challenges while simultaneously building lasting friendships.

Support Spring Break Overnight Camp

We partner with community-based organizations to provide a variety of afterschool activities for children. Our current partners include Camp Fire Central Texas, Leap of Joy, Badgerdog, and Austin ISD.

Support Learning All The Time Afterschool Activities

Our free, six-week summer camp is focused on reducing summer learning loss, promoting positive physical and mental health, and building resilient children who possess the skills and traits needed to reach their potential, all while providing a fun and memorable summer experience.

Support Learning All The Time Summer Camp

Bridge Over Troubled Waters

The Transitional Living Program is a communal living program in which youth 17-22 years old learn skills to maintain day-to-day life while pursuing employment or education goals, all while benefitting from close guidance by Bridge counselors.

Support Communal Living Program For Runaway Youth

Bridge offers a variety of supportive services for youth seeking housing. Liberty House is the next step for young adults who have participated in our Transitional Living Program in Brighton.

Support Independent Housing For Runaway Youth

Our Single Parent House (SPH) is an open-intake, voluntary transitional living program for pregnant and parenting homeless adults and their children—the only one of its kind in the City of Boston.

Fund One Month of Single Parent Housing

This unique residential program is a short-term transitional residential program for homeless youth who are able to commit to intensive counseling, maintain employment, save 70% of their income, continue their education, and work with case managers to obtain long-term transitional or permanent housing.

Fund Emergency Residence For Runaway Youth

Our Education and Career Development team helps youth earn their high school certificates, start college, learn job skills, and establish meaningful careers. We provide classes to prepare youth to earn their alternative high-school degree on a flexible schedule with small class sizes and rolling admission that enables youth to enroll at any time. We also provide guidance counseling to youth who wish to enter or continue college and may include financial aid incentives to help youth enter and stay in college or job training programs. Our Career Development team offers open job search hours and job training in soft skills.

Support Runaway Youth's High School Education and Career Development

At the Welcome Center, youth can have a hot meal, take a shower, access lockers, and do their laundry. At the Transitional Day Program (TDP) youth can participate in life skills workshops, enjoy community meals, and connect with case managers to help them obtain critical documentation papers (identification cards, transcripts, CORI records, etc.).

Help Fund Homeless Youth Survival Aid

Candlelight Ranch

Outdoor Explorers is a therapeutic recreation program designed for young adults with intellectual and physical developmental disabilities. Through this program, “explorers” engage in active outdoor activities in a safe, supportive manner while practicing social skills, self-care and gaining an appreciation of nature. Through experiential learning with our certified recreation therapist and interns, small groups of explorers meet weekly at Candlelight Ranch and community parks.

Outdoor Explorers: Sponsor Young Adult with Special Needs to Attend Nature Classes

Our monthly Military Family Days are open to active-duty, veteran, gold-star, or other service-member families with children, with or without any and all disabilities. Our goals is to encourage military and veteran families to spend time together in nature while learning, exploring and healing as a family unit, assist families in stress reduction, communication and teamwork, and provide a safe place for military and veteran families to spend time together without an additional financial burden.

Military Families in Nature: Sponsor a Military Family to Attend Our Nature Event

Our Family Days take place throughout the year at Candlelight Ranch. These special days are free events for families with children that face unique challenges and barriers to normal outdoor experiences. Family days provide families the opportunity to learn, explore and heal together in nature while having fun in a safe and supportive environment.

Families in Nature: Sponsor a Family to Attend Our One Day Nature Event

With the assistance of our Master Naturalist, program staff and interns, we have developed unique science and nature curricula that excites and challenges young campers to be immersed in our natural environment. Groups use the various features and elements to stimulate teamwork and confidence-building, a sense of accomplishment and overcoming of fears, empathy, and connection. 

Children in Nature: Fund a Child to Attend Our Nature Group

Atlanta

Georgia

Soccer in the Streets

Goal Keeping Camp is a four day camp specific to the goal keeping position.

Send One Child to Goal Keeping Camp

Create the Space is a fun four day camp around mental health and in collaboration with Common Goal.

Send a Child to Soccer Camp for Skill Building

Girls with Goals is a four day camp that includes guest speakers, activities, soccer development, and a social and emotional learning curriculum.

Empower a Girl by Sending Her to Soccer Camp

Goal Getters Fun-damentals is a fun four day camp designed for all skill levels, centered around games to keep engagement high and learn new skills. 

Provide Soccer Camp Experience for a Child in Need

Hope Spring Community

provides a month of meaningful family connection times in a home-like visitation space

Family Connection Support

provides a tutor for children who have fallen behind or need additional help

Tutoring

Provides crafts and supplies for family life activities so families can bond and grow together

Family Life Activities

Bridge Lacrosse

This donation pays for 1 spring high school student-athelete, including uniforms, fees, and equipment costs.

Fund 1 High School Lacrosse Player

This donation pays for 1 spring 3rd-8th student-athlete, including uniforms, fees, and equipment costs.

Fund 1 3rd-8th Lacrosse Player

This donation pays for the annual Leadership Board Dues

Pay Leadership Board Dues

This donation pays for 1 spring k/2 student-athlete, including uniforms, fees, and equipment costs.

Fund 1 K-2 Lacrosse Player

The Home For Little Wanderers

The Home in Walpole serves youth between 12 and 18 years old, providing year-round educational and residential services and creating safe, stable surrounds for children. Programs on the Walpole campus provide supportive academic and living environments and diverse levels of service and support.

Support Special Needs Group Home

The Children’s Community Collaborative (the “Collaborative”) organizes and manages a treatment continuum for youth ages 6-18 with significant emotional and mental health needs and their families. 

Support Ongoing Costs of Out-of-Home Treatment

The Harrington House is a gender-inclusive, 12-bed group home for youth ages 8 to 13. This program provides individual, group and family therapy.

Help Fund Costs of Group Home

Often, we help children who are victims of trauma or grappling with significant emotional or behavioral challenges. With each child, our social workers promote a child-centric approach and a goal of permanency. When a child leaves their home to enter the foster care system, we offer essential items like clothes, hygeine items, socks, shoes, and underwear. This donation helps us provide these essential items to the displaced child.

Essential Aid For Kids Entering Foster Care System

The Home for Little Wanderers helps children who are facing emotional, behavioral or mental health challenges through a broad continuum of clinical and support services, including family programs. 

Help Fund Child's Clinical Services

STEM Education Initiatives

Empower Futures Through Education

Family Education

Family Outings

Baltimore

Maryland

Your donation will aid in the preservation and expansion of our collections, which showcase the diverse natural history of Maryland. This support is crucial for maintaining our educational resources and ensuring future generations can learn about and appreciate our natural heritage.

Natural History Society of Maryland

Preserve Maryland's Natural Treasures

Explore Austin

This donation sponsors Saturday Challenges for one team of 15 Explorers and 5 Mentors for an entire year. 

Sponsor 15 Explorers for Entire Year

This donation sponsors an entire year of adventure curriculum for one Explorer.

Fund Adventure Curriculum for One Explorer

This donation sponsors 100 Explorer Summer Wilderness Trip meals. 

Sponsor 100 Trip Meals

This donation gives an Explorer a mountain bike. 

Give Explorer a Mountain Bike

This donation sponsors gear for one Explorer for one year. 

Equip Explorer with Gear for a Year

This donation sponsors one full Saturday Challenge for an Explorer. 

Send One Explorer on a Saturday Challenge

Wilderness Works

Reaching Field Camp is the hope for most Wilderness Works campers and certainly for the more focused and serious. Field Camp eligibility comes after years in Core Camp and the preparation Core Camp provides. Campers in Field Camp plan entire trips including transportation, lodging, permitting, trail itinerary, gear, and meals. Core Camp training pays off as campers realize high adventure experiences in National Parks and Forests. Field Camp requires logging hours on service projects focused on serving younger campers, as well as building maintenance at City Camp.

Sponsor One Child For Field Camp

Becoming eligible for selective and popular Core Camp is the aim of most City Campers. Advancing to Core Camp requires an invitation and comes from outstanding behavior and attitude.

Sponsor One Child For Core Camp

For more than twenty years, Wilderness Works continues to provide multiple sessions of week-long summer camp for Atlanta-area disadvantaged and homeless children.

Sponsor One Child For Summer Camp

Provided at the City Camp facility in Atlanta, City Camp serves elementary aged children. City Camp provides fifty at-risk children a twenty-hour enrichment experience with three healthy meals provided by civic and corporate partner groups.

Sponsor One Child for City Camp

During school season months, Wilderness Works provides exciting weekend day camps – particularly for homeless elementary-aged children. Day Camp allows children to gain learning experiences and enjoy great meals and fun with friends. Each Day Camp includes an enrichment-based field trip to area venues, parks, and museums. This brief escape from the confines of shelter life means relief for children and a chance for leaders to spot campers that are ready for City Camp.

Sponsor One Child for Day Camp

Philadelphia

Pennsylvania

Neighborhood Bike Works

We offer Fleet Bicyles for those wanting to participate in our program but do not own their own bike. 

Fund Fleet Bike for Our Youth Program

Our summer camp combines elements of our two entry-level programs, Earn-A-Bike and Ride Club. Youth will learn hands-on mechanic skills and experience the outdoors by bike!

Send One Rider to Our Summer Camp

Ride Club is our first Watershed Trailblazers level. It is a four-week after-school program that enables youth ages 8-18 to explore Philadelphia by bike! Through group rides, youth explore natural, historic, and artistic spaces in West Philadelphia. Ride Club emphasizes bike safety and rules of the road, along with the joys of bicycle adventure.

Support Ride Club

In our Earn-A-Bike class youth learn the basics of bike repair and maintenance by fixing up a bike that has been donated to Neighborhood Bike Works. At Earn-A-Bike graduation, students are able to keep the bike they've refurbished and they can also bring home a lock and helmet. Additionally, the class includes lessons on safe urban riding, health, and nutrition.

Earn-A-Bike: Deposit for One Young Person to Attend

Ronald McDonald House of Dallas

By donating, you can help us maintain and expand our Ronald McDonald Family Room programs, which provide comfort and support to families right in the hospital. Your contribution will ensure that families have a private space to relax and recharge while their child receives medical care.

Support Ronald McDonald Family Room Programs for Hospitalized Families

Your donation will help expand the capacity of Ronald McDonald House programs, ensuring that more families can find a home away from home while their children receive critical medical care. With over 138,000 families turned away each year due to lack of space, your support is vital in making sure no family has to face this challenge alone.

Expand Ronald McDonald House Programs to Provide Shelter for Families in Medical Crisis

Your donation will help expand the Ronald McDonald House programs, providing a home away from home for families who travel far for their child's medical care. With more sleeping rooms, we can reduce the number of families turned away each year, ensuring they have a safe and supportive environment during challenging times.

Expand Ronald McDonald House Programs to Provide Shelter for Families in Need

Girls Inc.

By building on basic economic and financial concepts, Girls Inc. girls become familiar with money management, investment and global economics, including gender equity in income and business.

Empower Her Future: Girls Inc.'s Mission for Financial Literacy and Economic Equality

Ann Richards School

Classroom supplies are a necessity for creating a positive learning environment. This donation goes toward the cost of supplies for one classroom. 

Give School Supplies to a Classroom

At Ann Richards School, we pride ourselves in our fine arts department. This donation goes toward the cost of a fine art event like musicals, art exhibits, and festivals. 

Support a Fine Art Event

At Ann Richards School, we pride ourselves in our athletics program. This donation goes toward the ongoing costs of the athletic department as well as maintaining equipment, fund games, and aid in transportation. 

Support an Athletic Team

He Cares

Your generous donation will provide food, clothing, and other necessities to families displaced by war. By contributing, you will help us ensure that these families have access to basic necessities, allowing them to rebuild their lives with dignity.

Seeds of Hope: Planting Food Security in War Torn Ukraine

Help us deliver critical medical assistance to individuals affected by the war in Ukraine. Your donation will fund medical supplies and healthcare services, ensuring that those in need receive timely and effective treatment.

Hope in Action: Donations for Medical Relief in Ukraine.

Invest in Yulia’s education, her mind will soar beyond the current conflict. Yulia is a Ukrainian university student in a small village in far eastern Ukraine. Her family lives about 10 miles from the front lines in the war with Russia. Before Russia invaded Ukraine in an unprovoked attack, Yulia and her family were successful farmers in their village. They had dairy cows and sold the milk for income. They had hogs and slaughtered pigs to sell their meat for income. They harvested many crops that not only fed their family, but many families in the village. Times were good. The future was bright.   When Russia attacked in February of 2022, they came to her village. They decimated homes and killed villagers just because. Yulia’ a family was not exempt from the tragedy. Russia killed all their cows, hogs, and burned their crops. They destroyed their home and tractor. Her family has no way to generate income to make a living. They have been able to renovate the old pig slaughterhouse to make a one and a half bedroom living space for her and her parents.   Despite all of the challenges she has faced over the past two years, Yulia’s resolve has been unshakable. She has graduated high school. She has completed her associate’s degree with honors. She wants to continue her education in English teaching, but has ZERO internet at her home anymore. Russia has destroyed that capability. Her phone internet is spotty and unreliable. She cannot go to a brick and mortar school because logistically it is impossible.   Let’s help Yulia in this time of distress. We are raising support to get her a Starlink system so that she can get the internet from her house whenever she needs it. We also want to raised support to cover the cost for the first year. The Starlink system will cost around $600 USD and service for a year in Ukraine is $900 USD for the year.   We need to raise $1500.   Can you help?

Beyond the Battlefield: A Girl’s Right to Learn

The Safe Alliance

This donation covers many areas of need for children of domestic violence. This includes counseling, legal aid, hygiene kits, and essential items like clothes and shoes. 

Give Wraparound Support for Kids of Domestic Violence

This donation provides legal service for those escaping domestic violence or traumatic abuse. 

Legal Services For Survivors

This donation goes toward the cost of counseling families and individuals who experienced domestic violence or traumatic abuse. 

Help Survivors Receive Counseling

This donation ensures our 24/7 SAFEline support is available to all who need it whenever they need it. It ensures 24/7 phone, chat, and text support on our SAFEline for two survivors.

Support 24/7 SAFEline

This donation goes toward an emergency shelter kit given to children needing to leave their homes immediately. This kit includes clothes, bedding, and toiletries. 

Fund Emergency Shelter For Child

We need 140 of these budget friendly smooth texture matte black panels with added sound blocking performance. 

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