Human Services

Mission: “Helping Families…Changing Lives” by providing meaningful opportunities to empower disadvantaged individuals and families, and to create a stronger and healthier community. ​

Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley

Mission: To provide services to families and individuals in the Southwest Valley who are hungry, in need, or facing a crisis.

Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley

Mission: To provide officer-initiated support to community members in times of crisis.

Eligible: Ahwatukee, East Valley, Scottsdale

Mission: Aris Foundation clothes, feeds, and cares for homeless adults and those battling addiction in the greater Phoenix area.​

Eligible: Scottsdale

Mission: To improve the quality of life for burn survivors and their families, while promoting burn prevention advocacy and education in Arizona.

Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley

Mission: To facilitate independence and promote full participation in all spheres of life for those who experience vision loss.

Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley

Mission: We advocate for quality healthcare for our members, research and education addressing spinal cord injury or dysfunction, benefits available as a result of our members’ military service, civil rights, and opportunities that maximize our independence to our members.

Eligible: Scottsdale

Mission: To distribute over 1,000,000 diapers annually to local nonprofits, providing more Arizona families with basic necessities that in turn can help them work towards success.

Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley

Mission: To create opportunities to build self-esteem and empower children and youth in foster care by funding services to enrich their life experiences and ensure their successful transition to adulthood. ​

Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale

Mission: To promote the self-esteem of children in foster care who reside in Residential Group Homes by providing them with essential needs to support education, independent living, self-worth, and hope. ​

Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley

Mission: To reduce financial barriers for families so they can care for their children with chronic or life-altering diseases.

Eligible: East Valley, Scottsdale

Mission: Caring Coalition AZ is a grassroots effort providing access to good nutrition for Phoenix families who are struggling to acquire food for their children.

Approved: Ahwatukee, East Valley

Mission: To provide children and youth in Arizona with a safe environment, free from abuse and neglect, by creating strong and successful families.

Approved: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley

Mission: To help those experiencing homelessness by providing a mobile shower and laundry trailer service.

Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley

Mission: To assist men transition from homelessness and addiction to become productive members in society, by Empowering Not Enabling.

Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley

Mission: To protect children and families from violence, fight for their access to justice, facilitate healing, and end the intergenerational cycle of abuse.

Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley

Mission: To promote health and well-being through vitally needed services to homebound adults, family caregivers, faith communities, and grandfamilies.

Eligible: Ahwatukee, East Valley

Mission: We help people thrive emotionally when life gets hard.

Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley

Mission: To give every girl whose life we touch safety, hope and opportunity.​

Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley

Mission: We have a network of home baker volunteers that bake birthday cakes for at risk, homeless and foster children.

Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale

Mission: To provide support for young adults that have aged out of foster care and want to continue with their education, or learn a vocational career, as well as work. 

Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale

Mission: To help women achieve self-sufficiency. Our vision is a world in which every woman reaches her full potential through achieving personal empowerment and financial self-sufficiency.

Eligible: Ahwatukee, East Valley

Mission: To mend the child protection system to improve outcomes for children in foster care. 

Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley

Mission: To empower people with diverse needs and abilities to improve their quality of life through music therapy.

Eligible: Scottsdale, East Valley

Mission: To provide free, comprehensive programs that empower youth to be productive, self-confident, and responsible members of the community.

Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale

Mission: To provide life-sustaining resources, services, and support to assist homeless seniors on their path back to housing, and supportive services to help prevent a return to homelessness.

Eligible: Ahwatukee, East Valley

Mission: Kitchen on the Street stands with children in need at the intersection of nutrition and academic excellence by providing Food, Education, Resources and Nutrition.​

Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley

Mission: To enrich the lives of children with special needs by providing a life-changing summer camp experience promoting emotional health, independence, self-esteem, and confidence, entirely free-of-charge.

Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley

Mission: To empower women to break the cycle of generational poverty.

Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley

Mission: To share the love of Christ by alleviating hunger and malnutrition locally and throughout the world and providing disaster relief; all without discrimination.​

Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale

Mission: To assist Arizona families of children with congenital heart disease and acquired heart disease. The goal is to minimize the financial and emotional burden on the families and enable the children to enjoy an active, fulfilling lifestyle.​

Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley

Mission: To help young adults with developmental disabilities prepare for sustainable, integrated work opportunities through the provision of individualized support, training, and resources.

Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley

Mission: To provide Christ-centered, life-transforming solutions to persons facing hunger, homelessness, addiction, and trauma.

Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley

Mission: To equip families to address poverty, overcome homelessness, and achieve self-sufficiency.

Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley

Mission: To provide assistance to victims/witnesses of domestic/violence and or domestic abuse and their dependent minor children, who are from diverse cultures in Arizona.

Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley

Mission: To overcome the impact of domestic violence, one life at a time.

Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley

Mission: To alleviate hunger through the gathering and distribution of food while encouraging self-sufficiency, collaboration, advocacy, and education.

Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley

Mission: To rescue children and young adults from human trafficking and modern-day slavery, as well as other dangerous and abusive situations in association with local law enforcement and governing authorities.

Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley

Mission: Since 2003, Step One Halfway House has been committed to walking alongside people who lost so much of who they were and the ability to achieve their life goals and dreams due to addiction and who desperately want and need help to recover. Step One’s mission is to introduce a 12-Step program to a newly sober individual in a clean, safe environment (the agency also helps those who are not yet sober). We serve the weakest among us; the helpless and homeless, the forgotten, and those who fall through the cracks. 

Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley

Mission: To provide audio access to information to people who cannot read print because they have a disability. ​

Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley

Mission: To create sustainable food systems that help people and the planet flourish.

Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley

Mission: To prevent and heal family violence through direct victims’ services, by renovating and starting new Family Advocacy Centers, and by providing training around the state.

Eligible: Ahwatukee, Scottsdale

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