Non-Profit Agencies by Alphabet

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A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

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Ada's Place
Mission: To assist motivated individuals with the development of goals that will form the vehicle by which they enter the mainstream of community life.

Advocate Hospice
Mission: Advocate Hospice is an enterprise with a mission to provide quality, caring, compassionate, supportive end-of-life and bereavement hospice services to our patients, their families and caregivers, while valuing our employees and being good stewards of our resources.

Aftercare for Indiana Through Mentoring
Mission: To support Indiana's incarcerated youth in making the transition from corrections to community through healthy relationships with adult mentors.

Agape Therapeutic Riding Resources, Inc.
Mission: Agape Therapeutic Riding Center is committed to provide a comprehensive, experiential equestrian program for those who have disabling conditions or are at risk.

Alzheimer's Association
Mission: To eliminate Alzheimer's disease through the advancement of research and to enhance care and support for individuals, their families, and caregivers.

American Cancer Society, Central Indiana Area
Mission: The American Cancer Society is the nationwide community-based voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives, and diminishing suffering from cancer, through research, education, advocacy, and service.

American Diabetes Association
Mission: To prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes.

American Lung Association of Indiana
Mission: The mission of the American Lung Association of Indiana is to prevent lung disease and promote lung health through research, education and advocacy.

American Red Cross of Greater Indianapolis
Mission: To provide relief to victims of disasters and help people prevent, prepare for, and respond to emergencies.

Art Council of Indianapolis
Mission: The Arts Council of Indianapolis builds the community through the arts by developing visibility, funding, audiences, information, and partnerships.

AseraCare Hospice
Mission: Hospice is not just a place. It is a medical and philosophical approach to care. The hospice team provides medical, emotional, and spiritual support to individuals with terminal illnesses.

Auntie Mame's Child Development Center, Inc.
Mission: The mission of Auntie Mame's Child Development Center is to provide high quality, culturally responsive early education and school age programs that equip children to become engaged learners, strong leaders and successful adults.

AYS, Inc.
Mission: To develop and maintain, through shared leadership and qualified staff, before- and/or after-school programs and support services for children, their parents and the community.

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Baxter YMCA
Mission: To put Christian principles into practice through programs that enhance personal growth and improve health of spirit, mind, and body for all.

Better World Books
Mission: Better World Books capitalizes on the value of the book to fund and support literacy initiatives locally, nationally, and around the world. We have run book drives on over 1,300 college campuses, both as a service project and as a FUNDRAISER.

Big Brother Big Sister of Central Indiana
Mission: Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Indiana develops mentors committed to helping boys and girls grow into the next generation of caring, confident, and competent adults.

Bosma Enterprises for the Blind
Mission: Bosma Enterprises is dedicated to empowering people who are blind or visually impaired by creating opportunities that lead to the achievement of each individual's employment, economic, social, and self-determination goals.

Boy and Girls Club of Indianapolis
Mission: To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.

Brook's Place for Grieving Young People
Mission: Brooke's Place provides support and services to grieving children and families in the belief that hope for tomorrow begins today.

Building Tomorrow
Mission: Building Tomorrow (BT) is an international non-profit organization encouraging philanthropy among young people by raising awareness and funds to build and support educational infrastructure projects for vulnerable children in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Children's Bureau, Inc.
Mission: To support and assist vulnerable and high-risk children and their families.

The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
Mission: To create extraordinary learning experiences that have the power to transform the lives of children and families.

Chrohn's and Colitis Foundation
Mission: To cure Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, and to improve the quality of life of children and adults affected by these digestive diseases.

CICOA

Coburn Place
Mission: Coburn Place opens a door through which women and children fleeing domestic violence can find a safe haven. Coburn Place transforms battered lives by healing painful emotions, teaching valuable life skills, and fostering financial independence and one-term self-sufficiency.

Community Health Networks
Mission: With Caring and compassion, we continually strive to improve the health and well being of those individuals in Central Indiana who entrust their care to us.

Concord Neighborhood Center
Mission: Providing friends, neighbors and businesses information about the Concord area and changes that improve this community and the lives of its residents.

Conner Prairie
Mission: Conner Prairie inspires curiosity and fosters learning about Indiana's past by providing engaging, individualized and unique experiences.

COTA - Children's Organ Transplant Association
Mission: The Children's Organ Transplant Association provides fundraising assistance for children and young adults needing life-saving transplants and promotes organ, marrow and tissue donation.

Crisis Pregnancy Center
Mission: To affirm the value of life by providing a network of care to those experiencing pregnancy-related crisis and by compassionately presenting Biblical truth resulting in changed lives for the glory of God. Special note: We request that only those who are strong Christians apply to volunteer.

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Damar Services
Mission: Damar's mission is to provide residential, educational and support services for children and adults with developmental disabilities that promote their fullest individual potential…and prepare them to live with as much independence as possible in their chosen community.

The Damien Center
Mission: Our mission is to empower those affected by HIV to live each day with dignity, and to lead the fight to prevent the spread of HIV.

Dayspring Center
Mission: Dayspring Center lovingly meets the basic needs of homeless families seeking assistance and connects them with opportunities to help them realize their potential.

The Dyslexia Institute of Indiana
Mission: Believing that all people are entitled to fulfill their potential, the Dyslexia Institute of Indiana exists to serve children, adolescents, and adults with specific language disabilities. DII provides skills, services, and strategies that enable individuals to attain their full potential by learning to manage the challenges of dyslexia and benefit from its advantages.

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East Tenth United Methodist Children & Youth Center
Mission: The mission of the East Tenth United Methodist Children and Youth Center, Inc. is to provide a safe place where the spiritual, emotional, educational and physical needs of children, youth, and their families are responded to in a holistic approach.

Easter Seals Crossroads Rehabilitation Center
Mission: Easter Seals Crossroads is a community resource working with children and adults with disabilities and special needs and their families to promote growth, dignity and independence.

Edna Martin Christian Center
Mission: To bridge cultural, racial, and economic differences in order to support and nurture the people in the community by providing holistic programs that empower, encourage, and engender a vision of hope.

Exodus Refugee
Mission: Exodus Refugee works with refugees - worldwide victims of persecution, injustice, and war - to establish self-sufficient lives in freedom and sanctuary for themselves and their families in Indiana.

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Family Service of Central Indiana, Inc.
Mission: Supporting families since 1835, Family Service of Central Indiana, Inc. strengthens families to help them overcome typical marital or family conflicts and more serious challenges like domestic violence and chemical dependency; provides training and support for individuals to become better parents, caregivers, money managers, supervisors, and employees; and empowers adults to continue to live independently as they learn to cope with aging and mental or physical challenges. In 2005, 9,250 individuals from Boone, Hamilton, Hancock, Hendricks, Marion, and Morgan counties were guided toward their goal of a stronger, healthier family by the caring counselors at Family Service.

Fay Biccard Glick Neighborhood Center at Crooked Creek
Mission: To promote civic, social and personal responsibility in the Crooked Creek service area by providing quality services that enhance the lives of individuals and families.

First Steps
Mission: To assure that all Indiana families with infants and toddlers experiencing developmental delays or disabilities have access to early intervention services close to home when they need them.

Flanner House of Indianapolis
Mission: To encourage the concept of "self-help" by offering education, recreational, social and employment programs that address the needs of the community on the near Westside of Indianapolis.

Fletcher Place Community Center
Mission: Breaking the cycle of poverty through the compassion of Jesus Christ.

Fresh Start of Indiana, Inc.
Mission: It is our mission to assist domestic violence survivors and their children as they break free in their quest towards a non-violent, productive and self-sufficient life.

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Girl Scouts of Central Indiana
Mission: Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence and character, who make the world a better place.

Girls Incorporated of Indianapolis
Mission: To inspire girls to be strong, smart and bold!

Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana, Inc.
Mission: Help charities feed people in need.

Global Gifts
Mission: To serve impoverished artisans in the developing world by marketing ethically produced and ethically obtained handmade products and educating the public about fair trade.

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Habitat for Humanity of Greater Indianapolis
Mission: Habitat for Humanity of Greater Indianapolis joins with low-income families and community partners to provide home-ownership opportunities and build communities of hope in Indianapolis as an expression of God's love.

Heritage Place of Indianapolis
Mission: Heritage Place of Indianapolis, Inc. provides older adults with comprehensive and coordinated human services to encourage and promote healthy lifestyles, independence, well-being and quality of life.

Holy Family Shelter
Mission: To provide temporary shelter and case management to homeless families in Marion County.

Horizon House
Mission: To be a focal point for services and advocacy that empowers individuals and families to no longer be homeless.

HOSTS- Help One Student to Succeed
Mission: The HOSTS program is a structured mentoring program that links volunteers from the community with elementary students who need help in reading.

Humane Society of Indianapolis
Mission: To provide shelter and find homes for lost and abandoned animals; to educate and promote the humane care and treatment of all animals; to advocate animal welfare; and to further the bond between people and animals.

HVAF of Indiana, Inc.

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Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Mission: ICADV is committed to the elimination of domestic violence through providing public awareness, education, training, influencing public policy and promoting availability of comprehensive resources.

Indiana School for the Deaf
Mission: The Indiana School for the Deaf Community promotes academic and social excellence for Deaf and Hard of Hearing students through a Bilingual/Bicultural environment.

Indiana State Museum
Mission: The Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites preserves, interprets and presents material evidence of Indiana's cultural and natural history in a context that encourages people to actively participate in discovering their world - as it was, as it is and as it can be.

Indiana University Health

Indiana Youth Group
Mission: IYG provides a safe place, a confidential environment, youth development programs and support services which foster personal strength and wellness among self-identified lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender young people. IYG advocates on their behalf in schools, on the streets, and in the community.

Indianapolis Art Center
Mission: To engage, enlighten and enhance our communities through art education, participation, and observation.

Indianapolis Legal Aid Society, Inc.
Mission: The Indianapolis Legal Aid Society is dedicated to ensuring that qualified low income persons living in the central Indiana community have immediate and direct access to quality legal assistance for civil disputes.

Indianapolis Museum of Art
Mission: The New IMA will inspire its audience with the excitement and excellence of art and nature. The IMA is a multifaceted experience, with the distinguished collections of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park, and Oldfields-Lilly House & Gardens. We are committed to reaching out to-and actively participating in-our diverse community.

Indianapolis Peace Institute
Mission: To provide a dynamic academic and field experience for students from across the disciplines in peace building. To teach conflict transformation skills. To develop leadership skills. To be an educational partner with other peace building initiatives in the Indianapolis community. To engage questions of values, faith, beliefs, and ethical practice in peace building.

Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
Mission: To advance the enjoyment and appreciation of symphonic music through performances at the highest artistic level and innovative programs that challenge, educate, enrich, and entertain.

Indianapolis Zoo
Mission: The Indianapolis Zoo empowers people and communities, both locally and globally, to advance animal conservation.

Indy 500 Festival
Mission: The mission of the 500 Festival is to produce events and programs that celebrate the success of the Indianapolis 500 Mile Race and enhance the quality of life for the citizens of Indiana and their guests. These events and programs, produced largely by volunteers, enhance the image of our city and state by showcasing our cultural, educational, and social benefits to the world.

Indy Reads
Mission: To improve the reading, writing or speaking skills of adults in Marion County who read at or below the sixth grade level or who are learning English as a new language.

J

Joy's House
Mission: To provide an opportunity for adults, aging and those living with physical and/or mental challenges, to participate in a social environment to improve the quality of life, while also offering temporary relief for their caregiver(s).

The Julian Center
Mission: The Julian Center is a unique, nonprofit agency providing counseling, safe shelter, and education for women and children who are survivors of domestic violence and abuse. Through outreach and consultation, we also seek to educate the community about the issue of domestic violence and its impact on all our lives.

Junior Achievement
Mission: To educate and inspire young people to value free enterprise, business, and economics to improve the quality of their lives.

K

Kaleidoscope Youth Center
Mission: The Kaleidoscope Youth Center is to provide a safe place for children and Youth. We focus on the Social, Cultural, Recreational and Educational needs of our clients.

Keep Indianapolis Beautiful
Mission: To unite people to beautify the city, improve the environment, and foster pride in the community.

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La Plaza, Inc.
Mission:The mission of La Plaza, Inc. is to serve, empower, and integrate the central Indiana Latino community.

The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
Mission: To cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.

Little Red Door Cancer Agency
Mission: Little Red Door Cancer Agency strives to make the most of life, and the least of cancer, by reducing the physical, emotional and financial burdens of cancer for medically underserved residents of central Indiana.

Lutheran Child and Family Services
Mission: Serving human needs with the support of the church and the community by providing programs of compassionate care and counsel to enhance dignity and quality of life.

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March of Dimes Indiana Chapter
Mission: To improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth and infant mortality.

Martin Luther King Center
Mission: The King Center serves children and families through creative programs that promote hope and a sense of community. Creative programs help to provide family assistance, life skills and leadership development. Hope is promoted through arts-focused programming, client advocacy and broad-based education. Sense of community is created partnerships with various originations that advocate for social justice and equitable services for all.

Meal on Wheels of Central Indiana

Mental Health America of Greater Indianapolis
Mission: The mission of the Association is to provide education, advocacy and service through programs designed to promote health; positively affect public attitudes and perceptions of mental illness through support and knowledge; and improve the care and treatment of persons with mental illness.

Morning Dove Therapeutic Riding
Mission: To enrich the lives of individuals in need through a relationship with horses in a safe and natural setting.

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National Kidney Foundation of Indiana
Mission: To prevent kidney and urinary tract diseases, improve the health and well being of individuals and families affected by these diseases and increase the availability of all organs for transplantation.

Newborns in Need
Mission: Newborns in Need is a volunteer-based charity organized to take provide essential clothing and blankets to needy newborn babies, premature babies, and babies who are born too soon or are too ill to survive.

Nightingale Hospice Care
Mission: The Organization offers a centrally administered program of quality palliative and supportive services which provides physical, psychological, social, dietary, spiritual and bereavement follow-up care for dying persons, persons with life threatening illnesses and their families in Indiana. We believe in providing care with the Highest Level of Compassion, Commitment, and Professionalism.

Noble of Indiana
Mission: To create opportunities for individuals with developmental disabilities to live meaningful lives.

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PACE/OAR
Mission: To provide a variety of services to help offenders, ex-offenders, and their families to lead productive and responsible lives in their community.

Parkinson's Awareness Association
Mission: The mission of Parkinson's Awareness Association of Central Indiana (PAACI) is to be a major source of information and education about Parkinson's disease and a strong advocate for improvement of services, quality of care and research support for Parkinsonians in Indiana.

Peace Brigades International - USA
Mission: PBI is an international non-profit organization, inspired by non-violent philosophies such as Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. PBI has been promoting nonviolent activism and defending human rights since 1981. We envision a world in which people address conflicts nonviolently, where human rights are universally upheld, and social justice and intercultural respect have become reality We believe that lasting solutions to conflict cannot be imposed from the outside, but must be based on the capacity and desires of local people.

Peace Corps
Mission: To help the people of interested countries in meeting their need for trained men and women. To help promote a better understanding of Americans on the part of peoples served. To help promote a better understanding of other people on the part of Americans.

PeopleFirst Hospice

Planned Parenthood of Indiana
Mission: To protect, provide and promote reproductive health. Focused on helping women and men make lifelong responsible and informed choices, Planned Parenthood's services overwhelmingly focus on prevention.

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Quest for Excellence
Mission: The foundation's mission is simple yet comprehensive: to invest in people by providing safe, secure, and affordable housing assistance programs, supportive services and educational opportunities for the at-risk, homeless, and special needs population.

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Reach for Youth, Inc.
Mission: Working with youth under 18 years of age, we seek to prevent and intervene in risky behaviors through a variety of services.

Rebuilding the Wall, Inc.
Mission: We stabilize low-income families by renovating vacant inner city properties and giving the families the opportunity for homeownership. We combat social injustice by building relationships across racial and socio-economic barriers and we stabilize community by the recycling of assets within the neighborhood.

Rehabilitation Hospital of Indiana Sports Program
Mission: The RHI Sports Program is dedicated to providing competitive and non-competitive athletic opportunities to individuals with disabilities to enhance quality of life, promote physical fitness, introduce recreational and wheelchair sports and challenge participants to perform at a competitive level.

Riley Children's Hospital
Mission: Through our committed volunteers, we provide signature service to patients, families, staff and the community to support the mission and vision of Clarian Health.

Ronald McDonald House
Mission: To provide a home away from home for families of children being treated in area hospitals, primarily Riley Hospitals for Children.

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Salvation Army of Indiana
Mission: To preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and to meet human needs in His name without discrimination.

School on Wheels
Mission: The enhancement and enrichment of educational opportunities for homeless children, from pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade. Our goal is to shrink the gaps in the education of these children and assist them with the highest quality education possible.

Second Helpings
Mission: Second Helpings, Inc. accepts donated perishable and overstocked food to prepare nutritious meals for thousands of hungry children and adults every day, and distributes them free of charge through local social service agencies in Greater Indianapolis. Second Helpings also trains unemployed and underemployed adults for meaningful careers in the culinary industry.

Shepherd Community Center
Mission: Breaking the cycle of poverty on the near east side of Indianapolis.

Society of St. Vincent de Paul
Mission: To serve the needy of Central Indiana with food, furniture, appliances, household essentials and clothing at no cost.

Southern Care
Mission: We provide comfort and support to patients with an end of life illness. We neither hasten nor postpone death. Our goal is to enhance quality of life.

Special Olympics Indiana
Mission: To provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, offering them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community.

St. Francis Health

St. Vincent New Hope
Mission: To be a leader in central Indiana in providing values-driven, holistic care for persons with disabilities.

Stacy Toran Foundation, Inc.
Mission: The Stacy Toran Foundation seeks to provide a caring and nurturing environment for at-risk students to help them achieve their full potential, pursue higher education, and aspire to higher achievements resulting in self reliance and self actualization.

Stopover, Inc.
Mission: Guided by our commitment to innovative service and compassionate care, Stopover has worked since 1970 toward the enhancement of the lives of central Indiana's most vulnerable and disenfranchised residents-youth involved in family crisis. We provide a uniquely warm and welcoming shelter home, transitional living programs, home-based and family-centered counseling, youth support groups, a crisis hot line, and community outreach and education. Stopover especially embraces those youth excluded from traditional social services systems, and, in accord with our grassroots and community-based origins, addresses each client as an individual with unique strengths and needs.

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Tangram
Mission: Tangram is a 501(c)(3) United Way agency serving central Indiana. We provide customized supports for individuals with developmental disabilites so they can live as independently as possible.

Teachers' Treasures
Mission: The mission of Teachers' Treasures is to serve the educational and creative needs of children in the greater Indianapolis area by providing a unique means to transfer donated merchandise from businesses and individuals to teachers for use in their classrooms and school.

The Timmy Foundation
Mission: Building healthy futures worldwide, one child at a time. This is accomplished by strengthening community-based health and education initiatives and empowering young people to share their energy and compassion.

Trusted Mentors
Mission: Prevents homelessness by providing trained mentors to individuals that face the threat of becoming homeless. The intent is to build a trusting, supportive relationship that increases stability in the mentees' lives, which increases the odds that they will remain housed.

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United Way of Central Indiana
Mission: United Way of Central Indiana helps sustain vital human services for those who need help most while reducing such needs for future generations.

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The Villages
Mission: The Villages champions every child's right to a safe, permanent and nurturing home. We are committed to strengthening all families and to embracing the dignity and diversity of every child, youth and family.

Visiting Nurse Service
Mission: Quality community-based and health related services that promote independence, wellness and family integrity.

VSA Arts of Indiana
Mission: To educate through quality arts experiences, advocate for children with disabilities, and provide access to the arts to all individuals.

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Watoto Wa Baraka International
Mission: Our mission is to give the real hope to as many needy children as possible and to work with small communities to provide the support and education needed to overcome the burden of poverty.

Westview Hospital
Mission: Westview Hospital is committed to providing quality healthcare to the central Indiana community with facilities, support and growth for the osteopathic profession.

Wheeler Mission Ministries
Mission: Wheeler endeavors to lovingly demonstrate Biblical Christian faith to the socially, economically, emotionally and spiritually impoverished by providing for their basic physical and emotional needs and by encouraging personal spiritual growth.

Wishard Health Services
Mission: Advocate, care, teach, and serve with special emphasis on the vulnerable population of Marion County.