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LINDA MATHES
CEO, National Capital Region

The American Red Cross in the National Capital Region, a humanitarian organization led by volunteers, provides relief to victims of disasters and helps people in our community prevent, prepare for and respond to disasters and other life-threatening emergencies.

DANIELLE JENNINGS
Founder & Executive Director

Blessed Haven, Inc. provides a "forever network" and family for youth transitioning out of foster care into a successful adulthood. Programs include Lasses to Ladies/Lads to Gents, Life Coaching and Mentorship, Financial Wellness, Career Counseling, Cultural Immersion and Community accountability-granting the youth access to the vast resources of the area, and pairing them with successful mentors in the community promoting mutual respect and accountability lowering the chance for negative outcomes.

SUSANNAH FOX
Director of Development

The mission of Capital Breast Care Center is to provide comprehensive, culturally appropriate breast cancer screening services and to promote health and wellness to women in the DC metropolitan area, regardless of their ability to pay.

JUDITH SANDALOW
Executive Director

Children’s Law Center envisions a future for the District of Columbia in which every child has a safe home, a meaningful education and a healthy mind and body. We work toward this vision by providing legal services to at-risk children and their families and using the knowledge we gain from representing our individual clients to advocate for changes in the law and its implementation. Children’s Law Center’s programs foster hope and create opportunity – focusing on the children who need us most... children in the child welfare system and impoverished children and families with special education and health care problems.

KATE MARIE GRINOLD
Director of Development

FAIR Fund, a D.C. based international nonprofit organization, works to prevent human trafficking and sexual violence in the lives of youth, especially girls, around the world. FAIR Fund builds the capacity of communities to better identify and assist youth aged 11 to 24 who are at high risk or have been exploited via human trafficking and sexual violence. FAIR Fund has active programs in Bosnia, Chicago, Illinois, Serbia, Russia, Washington, D.C., and Uganda.

ELAINE MENSAH
Publicity Chair

The Fashion Group International of Greater Washington is a global, nonprofit, professional organization with 5,000 members in the fashion industry including apparel, accessories, beauty and home. The FGI mission is to be the pre-eminent authority on the business of fashion and design and to help its members become more effective in their careers. To do this, FGI provides insights on major trends in person, online and in print; access to business professionals and a gateway to the influence fashion plays in the marketplace.

ANDREW BRIGGS
President

Freedom in Creation empowers war-affected or at-risk communities through increased access to the therapeutic qualities of art, international education, and fresh drinking water. By providing therapeutic art classes for at-risk children and exhibiting their artwork internationally, FIC raises funds to provide participating communities with water and educational infrastructure. Having taken part in the process, the children are credited with bringing the water and infrastructure projects to their community.

MOLLY HUH
Head of Marketing and PR

The Kreeger Museum is a private, nonprofit art museum located in the former residence of David and Carmen Kreeger, set within five and a half acres of sculpture-filled gardens and tranquil woods. Designed by renowned architect Philip Johnson, it is among the few examples of his work in D.C. The Kreeger's focus on 19th and 20th century paintings can be seen through works by Monet, Picasso, Renoir, Cézanne, Chagall, Miró, and Stella, along with prominent Washington artists. Also included in the collection are outstanding examples of traditional African and Asian art.

SUE HARGREAVES
Administrator

WARD OREM
CEO

The mission of the Lisner-Louise-Dickson-Hurt Home is to provide extraordinary health and life care services to indigent and modest income seniors of the District of Columbia, empowering them to live their lives to the fullest. The Lisner-Louise-Dickson-Hurt Home family is committed to seeing the truth and beauty of growing older. We take our vow to care for the whole person seriously, always remembering that ours is not a relationship of a moment, but rather, a relationship built upon a history of living life to the fullest. Time and age need not be a gift of the past but a promise of a full and well-spent future.

ELLIN KAO
Director and Co-Founder

NovaSalud, Inc. is a non-profit community-based health organization serving the Northern Virginia area. Established by and for the community, NovaSalud, Inc.’s mission is to improve and strengthen the health and well-being of our diverse Northern Virginia community through free, culturally-competent, and language-appropriate HIV/AIDS services and prevention education. NovaSalud, Inc.’s goal is to break down barriers to HIV/AIDS services and fight the social stigma surrounding HIV and AIDS.

CATHERINE ROSBOROUGH
Executive Director

The mission of One Small Step is to provide orphanage assistance and educational sponsorship for the children of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), formerly known as Zaire, the world’s poorest country. DRC has been ravaged by civil war for over a decade. Millions of children are now war orphans. Without outside help these children live – and die – in the streets.

DIANE LEBSON
Director, Major Gifts

SOS Children’s Villages - USA works for children who are orphaned, abandoned or whose families are unable to care for them. We give these children the opportunity to build lasting relationships within a family. Our family approach in the SOS Children's Village is based on four principles: each child needs a mother, and grows up most naturally with brothers and sisters, in their own house, within a supportive village environment.

ELIZABETH GORE
Vice President of Global Partnerships

The United Nations Foundation was created in 1998 with entrepreneur and philanthropist Ted Turner’s historic $1 billion gift to support United Nations causes and activities. As a public charity, we advocate for the United Nations and connect people, ideas, and resources to help the UN solve global problems. We help the United Nations take its best work and ideas to scale—through advocacy, partnerships, community-building, and fundraising.

JENI GAMBLE
Executive Director

Washington Empowered Against Violence (WEAVE) was founded in 1996 by four students at American University’s Washington College of Law who had a vision for an organization that provides holistic services to victims of domestic violence in the District of Columbia. Washington Empowered Against Violence engages the metropolitan Washington DC community in the elimination of intimate partner abuse and other forms of gender-based violence through empowering, innovative, and holistic services.

MAGGY FRANCOIS
Fashion Design Director

West Potomac Academy Fashion Design courses prepare students to work in the fashion industry by developing the technical, creative, and knowledge-based skills they need to cultivate design ideas, create garments, and present their own fashion lines. These skills will enable students to understand the fashion industry and career opportunities being offered in the field of fashion design.