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UMFS is a nonprofit agency that provides a comprehensive array of programs to meet the needs of high-risk children and parents to enable them to overcome challenging circumstances and succeed. A national leader in helping children, we also proactively identify unmet social service needs throughout Virginia and develop appropriate partnerships to address them.
Grow Cedar Valley is your first point of contact for economic and community development services and information for the Waterloo-Cedar Falls metro and surrounding six-county region.
THON is the world`s largest student-run philanthropy, engaging more than 16,000 students and over 25,000 alumni in the fight against childhood cancer. THON`s yearlong fundraising and awareness campaign culminates in a 46-hour no-sitting, no-sleeping dance marathon every February. Since 1977, Penn State students have raised more than $167 million for THON`s sole beneficiary, Four Diamonds at Penn State Children`s Hospital, funding comprehensive care and critical research.
IDA (Institute for Defense Analyses) – a not-for-profit corporation headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia just outside Washington, DC – operates three Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs) in the public interest: the Systems and Analyses Center, the Science and Technology Policy Institute, and the Center for Communications and Computing. IDA exists to promote national security, preserve the public welfare, and advance scientific learning by analyzing, evaluating, and reporting on matters of interest to the United States Government.
At the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children we believe every child deserves a safe childhood. For 30 years we have been at the forefront of the fight to keep our children safer from abduction and sexual exploitation. In all of our work we collaborate with law enforcement, legislators, corporations, and communities. We serve as the national clearinghouse – providing the resources, information, and focus needed to help recover and protect children, bring perpetrators to justice, and prevent these devastating crimes committed against children.