Giving Good

Living Classrooms Foundation is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to strengthen communities and inspire young people to achieve their potential through hands-on education and job training, using urban, natural, and maritime resources as “living classrooms.” We operate a wide variety of education, workforce development, and community development programs. We focus on hands-on education to engage students in learning, while also aiming to provide services for the whole family to disrupt the cycle of poverty. In addition, many of our programs connect to Baltimore’s maritime heritage and we operate several sites directly on the waterfront.

The Clean the World Hygiene Kit Program is a mobile team building and community engagement activity that can be sent to any hotel, company event or conference in North America. It allows meeting professionals & event planners to eliminate the logistics of taking small or large groups out of their hotels and events to serve the local community. Clean the World provides all of the materials so that attendees can build hygiene kits and donate them to a local mission that needs them. Standard, hygiene kits contain soap, shampoo, conditioner, lotion, toothbrush, toothpaste, razor, washcloth, and an inspirational card. Clean the World offers children’s kits, too, and is launching a veterans kit. Clean the World also provides a Best Practices Guide, instruction cards for each station, and a dedicated hygiene kit manager to assist with logistics such as shipping, charity matching and more. Over 1.1 million hygiene kits have been built and distributed in the United States – Clean the World welcomes your group’s assistance to get these valuable products into the hands of people who need them.

Business Volunteers Maryland has the capacity to coordinate donation drives (back to school, holiday, winter clothing, etc.), as well as organizing logistics and management of volunteer projects and activities with nonprofits throughout Baltimore.

Seamark Ranch is a nurturing Christian home and family system that gives children from families in crisis the tools they need for a brighter future. Through a family home model, a specialized residential school and the lessons of life on a working farm community, Seamark Ranch provides the ideal setting for love, stabilization, healing, education and empowerment. Seamark Ranch’s vision is to break the generational cycle of failure that affects the families we serve, and to nurture purposeful living in children who have experienced the impact of broken families. The children of Seamark Ranch will be equipped with a worldview and life skills that will enable them to productively contribute to our community. Our children will be healed in heart and formed for service.

The Museum of Science & History (MOSH), an accredited museum since 1983, has actively served Northeast Florida since 1941. It is the largest science and history museum in the region serving 225,00 visitors last year. The Bryan-Gooding Planetarium is one of the largest single-lens digital dome planetariums in the United States carrying the Museum’s legacy of leading the region as an expert resource for space science since 1951. MOSH combines exhibits and programs to maximize the visitor experience and provide platforms for dynamic and interactive learning for every generation. Core, traveling and signature exhibits aligned with programming are designed to serve adult, family and student audiences.

Renaissance Jax is responsible for the regional growth and development of an international youth robotics program called FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology). We have a vision to build a FIRST team in every school in the region and provide program access to over 6000 students who design, build, and program robots for competition. We are generating the Cognitive Capital that our region needs to attract top employers. FIRST participants are eligible for over $25 Million in scholarship money.

The Farm Life Foundation is a non-profit educational organization located at NaVera Farms in Callahan Florida. It was established to serve as a local and regional destination for children and adults who want to learn as well as remember what is important for independent sustainability and living responsibly. This day to day learning is focused on the value of “true” food awareness for both the human and animal species. Our Foundation also serves as a leading role model of respect and management for all living entities. Our mission gives priority to the animals and the land which supply all life forms with a safe and healthy home. Most of the animals at Farm Life Foundation have been either rescued or adopted. Supporting the mission of Farm Life Foundation also ensures a commitment to raising awareness for the prevention of over population of animals. Our Foundation offers Tours, Programs and events which brings together people with animals and plants.

The Jacksonville Humane Society provides care, comfort and compassion to animals in need while engaging the hearts, hands and minds of our community to bring about an end to the killing of abandoned and orphaned shelter animals. There are a number of ways groups can volunteer at JHS. These include: reading to, interacting with and providing enrichment to our animals, grounds beautification and supply drives.