Love Without Boundaries Foundation

In 2003, Amy Eldridge, a mom from Oklahoma traveled back to China to visit her daughters orphanage.  While there, she saw a baby dying of heart disease. When she asked when he would have surgery, she learned that there was no money for his heart to be healed.  Once she returned home, she didn’t know what she could do to help this child, but she knew she had to try to save his life.  She wrote to friends and family…..and donations started coming in.  There was enough money to not only heal this baby, but three more children with heart disease….four children in all were healed.
 
Following his successful heart surgery, people started contact Amy, asking how they could help and soon Love Without Boundaries Foundation (LWB) was formed.  They realized that people with a pure love for helping children can truly make a difference.  We have watched our foundation grow from providing a handful of surgeries and baby formula in 2003 to touching the lives of thousands of children today through our many program areas.
 
LWB is a worldwide group of volunteers dedicated to improving the lives of orphaned and impoverished children in China. We provide humanitarian aid in five key areas – Education, Foster Care, Healing Homes, Medical, and Orphanage Assistance – enabling children to receive families through adoption or to become self-sustaining members of their communities. Over 1,000 children we have helped are now in forever families.

For More Information: www.lovewithoutboundaries.com

For Financial Donations
Love Without Boundaries
P.O. Box 25016
Oklahoma City, OK 73125-0016

Correspondant and Other Contact
Love Without Boundaries
306 S. Bryant, Ste. C-145
Edmond, OK 73034
405-216-5837
Fax: 405-445-7485

EDGEWOOD STORY

Edgewood Center for Children and Families (Edgewood) helps children and families take back their future by working with them to overcome severe challenges like abuse, neglect, mental illness, and family crisis.

The oldest children's charity in the western U.S., Edgewood has evolved to meet the community’s changing needs.

What began as a refuge for Gold Rush orphans more than 150 years ago is now a nationally recognized, multifaceted agency. Edgewood serves more than 5,000 children and families in the Bay Area each year through community and residential programs.Edgewood’s Mission Statement is: To strengthen children, youth, families, and their communities through service, training, advocacy, and research.

Edgewood offers Community-Based Services in the following areas: Kinship and family support, prevention and intervention, wraparound, school-based programs, behavioral and mental health, and physical health and wellness.

Intensive Services include: residential treatment, day treatment, educational therapy in the agency’s non-public school, medical and psychiatric services, and case management.

Our award-winning Research team studies outcomes and approaches to gain understanding of the best ways organizations can help children and their communities. Edgewood’s Advocacy team champions the rights of children by raising understanding and awareness of issues impacting their well-being. The agency’s Training program draws on years of experience and the latest research to teach staff as well as caregivers, teachers, and child welfare professionals in California and beyond.

For more info: www.edgewoodcenter.org

Edgewood San Francisco campus
1801 Vicente Street
San Francisco, CA 94116
Phone: 415.681.3211
Fax: 415.664.7094

Edgewood San Mateo
957 Industrial Road, Suite B
San Carlos, CA 94070
Phone: 800.496.3019
Fax: 650.367.9685

NOTE:“The Edgewood Hope Ball”
The Fairmont Hotel
Nob Hill, San Francisco
Saturday, October 24, 2009
http://www.edgewood.org/getinvolved/the-edgewood-hope-ball.html

ROCK’s Story

ROCK Overview
Real Options for City Kids, or ROCK for short, is a nonprofit youth development organization located in the heart of San Francisco’s Visitacion Valley neighborhood. ROCK offers sports and fitness, community service, learning enrichment, leadership training and outdoor adventure programs for girls and boys ages 6 – 17 that live or attend school in Visitacion Valley. With only four full-time staff and hundreds of volunteers, ROCK serves over 350 kids all year during the school day, after school, on weekends and over the summer. The mission of ROCK is to nurture the healthy development of children by listening attentively to their needs and by providing opportunities to those who might not otherwise have access.

Organizational Information
ROCK is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and was established in September 1994
ROCK is located at 590 Leland Ave, San Francisco, CA 94134
Contact:
Curt Yagi, Executive Director
(415) 333-4001 ext 1#, curt@rocksf.org
www.rocksf.org

Sources of Funding
ROCK takes pride in the fact that it marries the best practices from the business world with the best quality programming from the nonprofit sector to create a sustainable environment geared toward long-term sustainability and expansion. With careful strategic planning leading to a diverse funding portfolio, ROCK has grown its program offering every year since its inception and is in a position to expand to other neighborhoods within San Francisco and/or other cities in the future.