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The American Cancer Society is a nationwide voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer. Established in 1913, the society is organized into six geographical regions of both medical and lay volunteers operating in more than 250 Regional offices throughout the United States.
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Zeta Chapter | University of Central Florida
Alpha Beta Chapter | University of Richmond
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Best Buddies International consists of volunteers that create opportunities for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). The program's main purpose is to allow volunteers to be paired up with a buddy with an intellectual and developmental disability and provide them with a friend or a mentor. Best Buddies is the world's largest organization dedicated to ending the social, physical and economic isolation of the 200 million people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. It is an international movement that has spread to over 54 countries worldwide.
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Alpha Theta Chapter | University of California, Riverside
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Camp Kesem is an active community throughout the United States, driven by college students, supporting children through and beyond their parent's cancer with free year-round services. Camp Kesem's main program is a week-long sleepaway summer camp for kids whose parents have or have had cancer.
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Lambda Chapter | Texas A&M University
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With a health care experience designed around kids' unique needs, Children's National Hospital is the premier provider of pediatric services in the Washington, D.C., metro area and its only health system specializing in kids. Last year, we saw more than 219,000 children from the nation’s capital, Maryland and Virginia as well as from across the country and around the world.
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Iota Chapter | George Washington University
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Doctors Without Walls - Santa Barbara Street Medicine is dedicated to providing free, volunteer medical care for the most vulnerable of Santa Barbara County, when and where they are in need, including in times of disaster through weekly neighborhood clinics, street rounds and more. Doctors Without Walls also aims to provide education and training for volunteers and others, in order to promote the excellent practice of humanitarian medicine in our hometown and elsewhere.
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Alpha Sigma Chapter | University of California, Santa Barbara
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The mission of Dravet Syndrome Foundation (DSF) is to aggressively raise research funds for Dravet syndrome and related epilepsies; to increase awareness of these catastrophic conditions; and to provide support to affected individuals and families.
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Alpha Eta Chapter | Florida International University
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The South Jersey Field of Dreams is a place where physically and mentally disabled children and adults can play and participate in that Great American Pastime, baseball. We're incredibly grateful to be able to give back to families, and special needs kids in this way.
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Alpha Pi Chapter | Stockton University
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As the leading provider of access to highly specialized reconstructive and plastic surgery for disadvantaged children, Fresh Start Surgical Gifts is a charitable organization that provides surgery and ongoing care for children from across the United States and around the globe with physical and cosmetic deformities.
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Alpha Lambda Chapter | University of California, San Diego
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Health Brigade–formerly FAN FREE CLINIC– carries on a 50 year legacy as Virginia’s oldest FREE and CHARITABLE clinic offering a growing array of medical, mental health, community outreach and care coordination services for low-income and uninsured persons. Health Brigade is known as a safe place to seek care for those who need it the most. We are committed to serving the most marginalized populations in the community not only those with few resources, but also those most oppressed and stigmatized.
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Eta Chapter | Virginia Commonwealth University
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La Clínica del Pueblo is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and Federally Qualified Health Center with over 90 employees and 50 volunteers dedicated to its mission “to build a healthy Latino community through culturally appropriate health services, focusing on those most in need.” Founded in 1983 as a free health clinic for Latino immigrants recently displaced by conflict, today La Clínica is known throughout the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area as a dependable source of integrated health care and health education for over 8,000 men, women and children.
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Gamma Chapter | University of Maryland, College Park
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Pioneer Medical Research Foundation‘s Project Palav implements a simple cost effective breathing support system that provides breathing support to newborns and saves lives.
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Alpha Alpha Chapter | Wayne State University
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Ronald McDonald House Charities is dedicated to improving the health and well-being of children. This is why we provide the opportunity for families to be by their child’s bedside as they face life-saving medical situations. We know that keeping families together is better for everyone.
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Alpha Xi Chapter | Nova Southeastern University