For over 50 years, The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes has made arts and culture accessible to rural communities, advanced artist livelihoods, amplified the voices of tradition bearers, and built partnerships to foster a more welcoming region.

Nowhere is this more evident than in our Folk Arts program’s vital efforts to document, present, and support artists and communities that reflect the unique, innovative, and diverse cultural heritage of our region. Our deeply collaborative Community Documentation Workshop has brought together various faith communities, blue-collar laborers, immigrants, BIPOC, and LGBTQ+ communities to tell stories of dignity and resilience.

The Foundation Assisting Seniors is proud to celebrate the continued success of our HowRU Daily Wellness Check Program, which has become a lifeline to seniors and veterans living alone in the Las Vegas Valley. Through simple daily wellness checks we offer a safety net for our participants.

To date the program has been instrumental in 14 life-saving interventions – moments when a timely call meant immediate help and ultimately, a life preserved. Every answered call is a small victory and forms a powerful testament to the difference compassion and connection can make communities to tell stories of dignity and resilience.

Teachers’ Teammates is celebrating distributing supplies valued at $3 million since we began in July 2020 including a record-breaking $1 million in the past year alone. Our mission is to ensure all students have the supplies they need to succeed.

We know that too often teachers pay out of pocket to make up the difference between what families and under-resourced school scan provide and what their students need. We collect new and like-new materials that can be repurposed in classrooms. Teachers’ Teammates serves 87 public, charter and parochial schools in 7 districts focusing on schools where the majority of students qualify for the National Student Lunch Program.

Project Hand Up is a food supplement program providing affordable groceries to help people avoid choosing between eating and paying bills. We are a 100% volunteer-run program, ensuring all proceeds support operations. Currently, we serve about 150 families within a two-hour span, three days a week.

In 2024, we assisted 22,024 families in overcoming food insecurity. We saved approximately $2 million worth of food from being wasted and sent to the landfill.

We are overjoyed to announce that, thanks to a generous single $52,600 contribution, we have acquired a brand-new shuttle bus that will truly transform the lives of the children we serve. This bus isn’t just a means of transportation—it’s a passport to adventure, discovery, and learning beyond the classroom.
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With this new shuttle, we can now take our students on enriching field trips to places they may have only dreamed of visiting—like the beach, museums, cultural centers, parks, and more. These experiences will broaden their horizons, spark their curiosity, and create lifelong memories. The bus will also help us run important school errands and connect children from various communities, making our programs more accessible and inclusive.

For over 50 years, Central Louisville Community Ministries has assisted downtown neighbors with emergency rent and utility assistance. Along with an affiliate food pantry, we also provide access to a clothes closet, a personal care pantry, transportation, and more. We celebrate our success last year in assisting prevention of eviction for over 700 families through these various programs, while fighting hunger through distribution of more than 29,000 bags of food.

Mentor For Change, a youth development nonprofit based in East Los Angeles, is celebrating 14 program participants who have graduated from their respective LAUSD high schools this past June. Every single one of them is being launched as a first-generation college student in the Class of 2029! Our 14 mentorship program graduates will begin their postsecondary careers at a diversity of colleges and universities this Fall 2025, including Yale University, UC Berkeley, CSU Northridge, and University of Oregon.

This past year was truly transformational for House of Champions, and we are celebrating the life-changing impact on our students. We are incredibly proud that our students’ assessment scores jumped by an average of nearly 19 points—a gain almost four times greater than that seen in other high-quality social-emotional learning programs. This extraordinary growth, representing a shift for our students from merely surviving to truly thriving, was supported by unprecedented financial success, including a record-breaking $200,000 raised at our annual benefit and the completion of a capital campaign for a second home to expand our reach.

Delco Literacy empowers adults to thrive in their workplaces and communities by providing practical literacy and learning experiences. In one program year, the number of adult learners that Delco Literacy served jumped from 303 to 580! It takes a community to build literacy, and we’re so grateful for partners who share our mission of bringing reading and learning to families across Delaware County.

In less than one month, the Tree House Child and Family Center will host a formal signing ceremony for the Walworth County Sensitive Crimes Team (SCT). The SCT represents a coalition of law enforcement, human services, medical, legal, and advocacy professionals from across Walworth County who have joined forces to finalize the Walworth County Joint Protocol for Collaborative Response to Sensitive Crimes. This protocol is designed to ensure a unified, trauma-informed approach to responding to child maltreatment, drug endangered children, sexual assault, elder abuse, and human trafficking, and it provides clear guidance on how agencies should respond in suspected cases of abuse or exploitation, from initial investigation to ongoing support. Approximately 50 representatives from the following agencies will be in attendance: Walworth County Department of Health and Human Services, Walworth County law enforcement, Walworth County District Attorney’s Office, Children’s Wisconsin, Aurora Health Care, Join the Movement, Legal Action of Wisconsin, New Beginnings APFV, Tree House Child and Family Center, Wisconsin Department of Corrections, and more. The formal signing of the protocol marks a significant milestone in Walworth County’s commitment to protecting its most vulnerable population.

Suncoast Center is celebrating 80 years of providing comprehensive behavioral health services in Pinellas County!

The Seal Cove Auto Museum is a success because it not only preserves and showcases a remarkable collection of early automobiles and transportation history, but it also thrives thanks to strong community engagement and donor support tracked through our ELEO database. ELEO has been instrumental in helping us manage donor relationships, streamline fundraising efforts, and measure the impact of our outreach, allowing us to grow sustainably and connect meaningfully with supporters who share our passion for automotive heritage.

Thanks to our donors in the U.S. and our Ethiopian staff, 135 HMCHA-sponsored children are achieving their dreams: of education, better health and expanding their world. Five of them have graduated from college, and eight more are in college. Join us in celebrating them!