Charities We Believe In
Powder Room D is very passionate about giving back and raising awareness and we actively donate a portion of sales every month to a different cause.
Some of our favorite non-profit organizations and causes that we have been fortunate enough to donate to are listed below.
Teaching Tolerance
Teaching Tolerance provides educational materials—from articles that make you think to presentations you can share. These resources are designed to help teachers improve their practice and turn K-12 schools into strong communities that welcome diversity, giving all students an opportunity to learn. Teaching Tolerance
New Alternatives For LGBT Homeless Youth
New Alternatives for LGBT Homeless Youth was created in October 2008 by a group of volunteers and professionals with experience working with homeless LGBT youth in various shelter and transitional housing settings. The mission of the organization is to increase the self-sufficiency of homeless LGBT youth to enable them to “go beyond” the shelter system. We intend to do this by providing case management, community organizing, life skills groups, community-building recreational activities, and, in the long-term, supported employment opportunities. Our guiding principles are those of harm reduction, youth development, and empowerment. New Alternatives For LGBT Homeless Youth
Citymeals on Wheels
Citymeals on Wheels fights to end elder hunger by delivering a vital lifeline of weekend, holiday and emergency meals to the city’s homebound elderly. Each year 2 million meals are served to over 18,000 older New Yorkers. Citymeals on Wheels is one of the largest meals on wheels programs in the country – and the only non-profit focused on delivering nutritious meals to the city’s seniors in all five boroughs Providing a lifeline of Nourishment
Girls Educational & Mentoring Services (GEMS)
Girls Educational and Mentoring Services’ (GEMS) mission is to empower girls and young women, ages 12–24, who have experienced commercial sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking to exit the commercial sex industry and develop to their full potential. GEMS is committed to ending commercial sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking of children by changing individual lives, transforming public perception, and revolutionizing the systems and policies that impact sexually exploited youth. Girls Educational & Mentoring Services (GEMS)
Child Abuse Prevention Program
Since its inception in 1986, the Child Abuse Prevention Program (CAPP) has been at the forefront of giving children the tools they need to prevent and report child abuse. CAPP believes that every child should receive their basic right to safety so that they can have the opportunity to grow and thrive.
With their award-winning Child Safety Workshop, CAPP has found an effective and engaging way of teaching children the skills they need to recognize and resist abuse. Using life-sized puppets to provide school children with safety information, the workshops have reached over 440,000 children to date.
CAPP aims to educate young children about their right to be safe. By doing so, CAPP sets a foundation for prevention; and if abuse is present, allows children to be heard. These children are assured that there is not something particular about them that caused the abuse to occur.
CAPP actively combats the misconception that abuse will go away if we pretend it does not exist. Child Abuse Prevention Program
American Association For Cancer Research
The mission of the American Association for Cancer Research is to prevent and cure cancer through research, education, communication, and collaboration. Through its programs and services, the AACR fosters research in cancer and related biomedical science; accelerates the dissemination of new research findings among scientists and others dedicated to the conquest of cancer; promotes science education and training; and advances the understanding of cancer etiology, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment throughout the world. American Association For Cancer Research
Alliance For Lupus Research
The Alliance for Lupus Research (ALR) is a national voluntary health organization based in New York City that was founded in 1999 and is chaired by Robert Wood Johnson IV, a member of the founding family of Johnson & Johnson. By committing millions of dollars to significant lupus research every year and holding nationwide lupus walks to secure additional funding, the ALR is proactively battling lupus. The mission of the Alliance for Lupus Research (ALR) is to find better treatments and ultimately prevent and cure systemic lupus erythematous (SLE or lupus), a debilitating autoimmune disease, by supporting medical research. Alliance For Lupus Research
Brain & Behavior Research Foundation
The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation is committed to alleviating the suffering caused by mental illness by awarding grants that will lead to advances and breakthroughs in scientific research.
100% of all donor contributions for research are invested in NARSAD Grants leading to discoveries in understanding causes and improving treatments of disorders in children and adults, such as depression, schizophrenia, anxiety, autism, and bipolar, attention-deficit hyperactivity, post-traumatic stress and obsessive-compulsive disorders. Brain & Behavior Research Foundation
The National Alopecia Areata Foundation (NAAF)
NAAF supports research to find a cure or acceptable treatment for alopecia areata, supports those with the disease, and educates the public about alopecia areata. The National Alopecia Areata Foundation (NAAF)
HOUSTON FOOD BANK
In fall 2008, the Houston Food Bank merged with End Hunger Network, a Houston-area food rescue organization, thus making more effective use of community resources by working together as one.
In fiscal year 2016-2017, the Houston Food Bank distributed 83,000,000 nutritious meals.
The vision for the future is to expand service to the community to 100,000,000 nutritious meals by 2018.
Every dollar donated to the Houston Food Bank provides the equivalent of three meals for an individual.
We calculate this by dividing total meals provided by total adjusted costs, using a Feeding America formula. The number does not include the meals provided through SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly food stamps) benefits.
As a member of the nation's largest non-governmental, domestic hunger relief organization - Feeding America - our goal is to make food accessible to hungry people in their greatest times of need.
VISION: Food access for all.
MISSION: Leading the fight against hunger.
Arthritis Foundation
Advocating for Kids With Arthritis
Although juvenile arthritis affects some 300,000 children across the United States, there are currently fewer than 250 board-certified, practicing pediatric rheumatologists in the country. About 90 percent of those are clustered in and around large cities.
Making sure that children who live in places without pediatric rheumatologists have access to quality and appropriate care is one of the Arthritis Foundation’s advocacy priorities. To help children become their own advocates, the Foundation holds an annual Kids' Summit, in conjunction with our annual Advocacy Summit, where kids learn how to talk to lawmakers about the issues that directly impact their everyday well-being.
By 2030, the Foundation will have helped more than 2,000 children and teens with juvenile arthritis develop into seasoned lobbyists with the skills to educate Congress about the impact of JA on kids and their families. Arthritis Foundation
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation:
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation is a nonprofit organization committed to achieving prevention and a cure for breast cancer. We provide critical funding for cancer research worldwide to fuel advances in tumor biology, genetics, prevention, treatment, metastasis and survivorship. Breast Cancer Research Foundation
SAVE THE CHILDREN
Hurricane Maria Children's Relief Fund
Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. In the United States and around the world, we give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. We do whatever it takes for children – every day and in times of crisis – transforming their lives and the future we share.
Hurricane Maria is threatening children and families in Puerto Rico with fierce winds and powerful rains. In response, Save the Children stands ready to help children and families with emergency assistance during this difficult time.
We need your generous gift to support our efforts. Your support will help us protect vulnerable children and provide desperately needed relief to families. Save the Children
Hurricane Harvey Distribution Center
Hurricane Harvey was an extremely destructive Atlantic hurricane which became the first major hurricane to make landfall in the United States since Wilma in 2005, ending a record 12-year span in which no hurricanes made landfall at such an intensity in the country. In a four-day period, many areas received more than 40 inches (100 cm) of rain as the system slowly meandered over eastern Texas and adjacent waters, causing catastrophic flooding. With peak accumulations of 64.58 in (164.0 cm), Harvey is the wettest tropical cyclone on record in the United States. The resulting floods inundated hundreds of thousands of homes, displaced more than 30,000 people, and prompted more than 17,000 rescues.
Hyper Linked Youth of Iglesias Fe Y Poder has opened their doors as a distribution center to collect and distribute food and supplies to those in need.FYP Youth Facebook
B Strong & Delivering Good
B Strong program for women and their families in crisis is working with the national disaster relief charity Delivering Good to provide people affected by the recent hurricanes with much-needed gift cards, bank cards and critical supplies.
B Strong and Delivering Good are working with community partners on the ground throughout the affected areas to assess the most pressing needs and provide help. The supplies will help people deal with their immediate needs, and the gift and bank cards will allow people to choose exactly what they and their families need when shopping is available.
United Way Of Genesee County :
Flint Water Fund
The United Way of Genesee County has set up this fund for the purchase of filters, bottled water, emergency support services and prevention efforts. 100% of the fund is used for these projects and no Administrative Fee is assessed.
The UWGC has sourced more than 11,000 filters systems and 5,000 replacement filters, ongoing sources of bottled water to the Food Bank of Eastern Michigan and also supports a dedicated driver for daily distribution.
Flint Water Fund21 US Virgin Island Relief Fund
On September 6th , Hurricane Irma tore through the Caribbean, meeting the United States Virgin Islands and British Virgin Islands head on. Irma was the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic, with winds reaching over 220 miles per hour. In its wake, a post-apocalyptic trail of devastation remains.
Trees and telephone poles were snapped in half; the storm decimated businesses, and left up to 80% of the population without habitable homes. Many parts of the islands project to be without power for months. The scale of destruction is truly unfathomable; the beautiful islands that residents and visitors knew and loved now face years of recovery.
The people of the Virgin Islands are incredibly resilient and optimistic even in the face of this tragedy; stories of islanders helping each other in such trying times have been truly inspirational.
Unfortunately, because of large-scale storm destruction in Texas and Florida, media coverage of our plight has been limited, and federal relief agencies are only now beginning to make a dent in recovery efforts. The Virgin Islands Relief Fund has already begun the effort of supplying those in the greatest need with resources on the ground, but our accomplishments thus far are just the tip of the iceberg relative to the massive task ahead of us. Combining our resources, we have enlisted a team of individuals with a wide range of experience and backgrounds on St. Thomas, St. John, and the British Virgin Islands, and will be tackling the challenging months ahead with unyielding resolve.
The Thurgood Marshall College Fund
The Thurgood Marshall College Fund is only about 30 years old, but it's the largest organization in the nation that represents HBCUs (historically black colleges and universities) and predominantly black institutions. Providing leadership, lobbying, job recruiting, and scholarships, TMCF helps to groom the next generation of cultural leaders.
The Thurgood Marshall College Fund
Minnesota Freedom Fund
The Minnesota Freedom Fund pays criminal bail and immigration bond for those who cannot afford to as we seek to end discriminatory, coercive, and oppressive jailing.
