Huntington’s disease (HD) is a fatal genetic disorder that causes the progressive breakdown of nerve cells in the brain. It deteriorates a person’s physical and mental abilities usually during their prime working years and has no cure. HD is known as the quintessential family disease because every child of a parent with HD has a 50/50 chance of inheriting the faulty gene. Today, there are approximately 30,000 symptomatic Americans and more than 200,000 at-risk of inheriting the disease. The symptoms of HD are described as having ALS, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s – simultaneously. Symptoms usually appear between the ages of 30 to 50, and worsen over a 10 to 25-year period. Ultimately, the weakened individual succumbs to pneumonia, heart failure or other complications. Everyone has the gene that causes HD, but only those that inherit the expansion of the gene will develop HD and perhaps pass it on to each of their children. Every person who inherits the expanded HD gene will eventually develop the disease. Over time, HD affects the individual’s ability to reason, walk and speak.
The Children’s Cancer Center is a non-profit organization dedicated to serving families of children who are battling cancer or chronic blood disorders with emotional, financial, and educational support necessary to cope with their life-threatening illness.
Children’s Cancer Center was founded in 1974. Mac and Cecile Burnett, who lost their daughter Helen to leukemia, and Dr. Janifer M. Judisch envisioned an organization that would help alleviate the stress of coping with a child’s life-threatening disease. The philosophy of our original founders was that when a child is diagnosed, the entire family is really diagnosed. Therefore, our programs and services address the needs of all family members affected.
The CCC is Compassionate, Credible, and Connected. As a compassionate organization, we provide programs and support for the entire family affected by a child’s cancer or blood disorder diagnosis. As a credible organization, we support full financial transparency and reporting. As a connected organization, we maintain a network of friends, families, donors, sponsors, partners, and board members in the Tampa Bay area community.
“One Heart for Women and Children
is a non-profit 501(c)(3) public charity organization located in Orlando, Florida. We help individuals who are homeless or in times of transition by helping them meet their most essential needs. We help provide access to food, clothing, school supplies, personal hygiene items, household items, and more. Our goal each, and every day, is that every single person that interacts with One Heart not only receives the resources they need but also feels a sense of hope.
We also offer a full spectrum of educational and preventative services, focusing on topics like life skills, parenting, drug, and alcohol abuse prevention. One Heart even helps coordinate special projects with our community partners like planting community gardens, performing home renovations, and more.
It takes a community to serve our neighbors. Each and every one of us has something to offer. One Heart strives to provide a feeling of hope through each piece of the puzzle – community service, resources, support and faith. Founder Stephanie Bowman’s goal is that all these puzzle pieces, once connected, will create hope, build a community that cares, and foster opportunities for those in need.”
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is the largest animal rights organization in the world, and PETA entities have more than 9 million members and supporters globally.
PETA opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview, and focuses its attention on the four areas in which the largest numbers of animals suffer the most intensely for the longest periods of time: in laboratories, in the food industry, in the clothing trade, and in the entertainment business. We also work on a variety of other issues, including the cruel killing of rodents, birds, and other animals who are often considered “pests” as well as cruelty to domesticated animals.
PETA works through public education, investigative newsgathering and reporting, research, animal rescue, legislation, special events, celebrity involvement, and protest campaigns.