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Welcome to the Community Wishbook. This tool allows you to become more aware of the needs in the local nonprofit community by identifying items needed to run the day-to-day operations of an organization that may not be funded by grants. This document lists profiles of nonprofits working in our community by different areas of focus. Being listed in this Wishbook does not constitute an endorsement by the Community Foundation. We encourage you to contact the organization to learn more about their work.
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Arc of Mississippi Mission: To secure for all people with cognitive disabilities the opportunity to choose and realize their goals of where and how they learn, live, work and play. Population served: Individuals of all ages with cognitive and related developmental disabilities and their families and caregivers. Needs:
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Ballet Magnificat! Population Served: Needs:
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Belhaven College Mission: To help prepare men and women to serve Christ Jesus in their careers, in human relationships, and in the world of ideas. Population served: Undergraduate and graduate traditional students (18-22) and adult students desiring to receive a bachelor’s and/or master’s degree. Needs:
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Bethany Christian Services of Mississippi Population served: Women with unplanned pregnancies, children and families seeking adoption. Provides pregnancy counseling and adoption services. Needs:
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Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mississippi Mission: To provide children and youth with a supportive and meaningful relationship with a caring volunteer. Population served: Children between the ages of 5 and 15. Needs:
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Boys and Girls Club of Central Miss. Mission: To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens. Population served: At-risk inner-city youth ages 6-18 who live in neighborhoods around six area clubs in Jackson, Bolton and Canton. Needs:
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Catholic Charities, Inc. Population served: Individuals, families, and children Needs:
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Center for Violence Prevention Population served: Victims of domestic violence. Provides shelter service, crisis line, therapy, case management, job placement and housing assistance. Needs:
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Central Jackson Soccer Organization Mission: To offer and teach sportsmanship, discipline, leadership, teamwork, and physical conditioning through the playing and promotion of soccer. Population served: Youth ages 4-18. Provides services for children to compete at a recreational and competitive level. Needs:
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Central Mississippi Down Syndrome Society Population served: Families and individuals with Down Syndrome. Needs:
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Central Mississippi Operation Unlock, Inc. Mission: To create a safe environment for children of incarcerated parents; to help them learn effective coping skills and develop competencies to prepare them for a productive future. Population served: At-risk children and youth ages 8-18 affected by incarceration in the city of Canton.
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Children's Justice Center-UMMC Mission: To provide medical examinations and treatment for physically abused, neglected, or sexually abused children, ages birth to 18. Needs:
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Common Bond Association Mission: Common Bond is a faith-based, non-profit, residential treatment center for veterans and non-veterans with addictions. It exists to help clients rebuild whole, sober, and productive lives by providing an environment of hope and healing, and by operating programs of excellence at an affordable cost to meet their needs for drug and alcohol treatment, including food, shelter, life skills training and transition to independent living. Population served: Men 18 and older with alcohol and/or drug addictions. Provides 28-45 days of primary intensive in-patient treatment and off-campus night 12-step groups, and 6 months to 2 years of secondary treatment. Needs:
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Community Outreach, Resources & Educational Service (CORE) Mission: To improve the quality of life for families by establishing strong communities, ensuring social and economic justice, and creating pathways out of poverty through community services, asset-building, and leadership development. Population served: At-risk youth, high-risk youth, families and children, and rural communities. Provides family preservation, prevention/intervention, addresses youth obesity, youth tobacco prevention, early childhood development and literacy, community planning and development, and community partnership and service networking. Needs:
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Community Place Mission: To compassionately serve our residents with dignity, while promoting quality care in a comfortable environment. Population served: Elders on Medicare and Medicaid through short-term rehabilitation and long-term care. Needs:
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CONTACT the Crisis Line Population served: Troubled callers from principally within the Jackson local dialing area and the Pike and Warren County areas. Needs:
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Craftsmen's Guild of Mississippi Population Served: Needs:
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Downtown Jackson CDC Mission: To provide quality services and opportunities to enrich lives and meet communities and individual needs through educational training, environmental, leisure and community-based activities. Population served: Families with small children, teens, and senior citizens. Provide summer and after-school care, job development and placement.
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Downtown Jackson Partners Mission: To work with stakeholders to implement improvement projects to enhance the downtown Jackson area. Needs:
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DREAM Mission: To prevent youth substance abuse and promote healthy life styles. Population served: Youth and adults. Needs:
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Dress for Success Metro Jackson Population served: Low income women and women transitioning back into the workforce. Needs:
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Elementary Division of Mississippi Music Educators Mission: To promote excellence in music teaching in schools and communities. Targets students in grades K-6. Needs:
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The Elijah Lovejoy Society
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Gateway Rescue Mission Mission: To offer life changing hope through the Gospel of Jesus Christ to homeless men, women, and children through programs to deliver food, shelter, counseling and discipleship. Population served: Homeless men, women, and children Needs:
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Genesis and Light Center
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Girl Scout Council of Middle Mississippi Population served: Girls, grades K – 12, in 24 central, southwestern Mississippi counties. Needs:
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Grace House Needs:
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Greater Belhaven Neighborhood Foundation Vigi Lindsay Jackson, MS Mission: The GBNF focuses on historic preservation, economic and community development, green space enhancement, preservation, and improvements to commercial and residential properties. Population Served: 2000 households of other people who travel in the downtown area and use our neighborhood amenities, including three urban neighborhood parks. Needs:
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Habitat for Humanity/Metro Jackson Population Served: Low income families in metro Jackson area in need of better housing. Needs:
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Henley Young Juvenile Justice Center Population served: Adolescent male and female detainees. Needs:
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Hinds Community College Development Foundation Population served: Students in Hinds Community College District, normally between the ages of 18 to 35. Needs:
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Hinds County Sheriff's Department Population served: Adult female detainees Needs:
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In His Steps Ministries Population served: At-risk children, juvenile offenders and their families in the Canton, MS area.
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Innovative Behavioral Services, Inc. Population served: Children and adults between ages of 5 to elderly who have behavioral health, alcohol, substance abuse, and mental health issues. Needs:
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Jackson Medical Mall Foundation Mission: To foster a holistic approach to healthcare and promote economic and community development in the Jackson Medical Mall District. Population served: Children, youth, teens, and very low to moderate income families and senior citizens. Needs:
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Jackson Public School District (JPS) Mission: Jackson Public Schools, an innovative urban district committed to excellence, will provide every student a quality education in partnership with parents and the community. Population served: Nearly 32,000 students in grades Pre-K through 12. JPS provides free educational opportunities as a public education institution accredited by the Mississippi Department of Education. JPS also provides counseling, social and health services through publicly funded and collaborative volunteer programs. Needs:
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Jackson Zoological Society, Inc. Population served: Serves 200,000 visitors annually, with 47% from Jackson area, 43% from other counties and 10% out-of-state Needs:
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Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Population served: All persons living with diabetes Needs:
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Keep Jackson Beautiful, Inc. Needs:
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Kindness is Donating Sound (KIDS) Mission: To provide musical instruments to needy children. Population served: Public school children in Mississippi. Needs:
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Living Independence for Everyone (LIFE) Mission: To empower individuals with disabilities in their efforts to live independently in their own homes and communities. Population served: Individuals with disabilities, of any age throughout the state of Mississippi. Needs:
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Lutheran Episcopal Services in Mississippi Mission: Guided by Christ’s love and grace, Lutheran Episcopal Services in Mississippi serves to bring dignity, healing, justice, hope, and encouragement to all people. Population served: Katrina and other natural disaster survivors in Mississippi in federally designated disasters; academically at-risk children in high poverty areas in Mississippi; incarcerated persons in MS prisons and their children; families of those who are incarcerated; chemically dependent, homeless women in Central Mississippi. Needs:
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Magnolia Speech School Mission: To enable children with hearing loss or language disorders to listen and understand, to speak and be understood and to read, learn, and thrive. Population served: Low to moderate income families and children from birth to 8th grade. Needs:
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Mission Mississippi Mission: To offer the statewide Christian community the opportunity to build relationships across racial and denominational lines in a non-threatening environment. Needs:
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Mississippi Blood Services, Inc. Mission: To collect, process and distribute blood and blood products to area hospitals and provide educational programming for blood bank professionals statewide. Population served: Serves hospitals in Hinds, Madison and Rankin counties and others throughout the state. Needs:
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Mississippi Boychoir Population Served: Needs:
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Mississippi Center for Nonprofits Statewide association to help nonprofits operate legally, efficiently and effectively. Needs:
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Mississippi Center for Public Policy Mission: To research public policy issues and dispense information to policy makers, business leaders, media, and the general public. Needs:
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MS Faith Based Coalition for Community Renewal, Inc. Population served: Statewide rural and metropolitan communities. Needs:
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Mississippi Food Network Population served: Individuals in Mississippi facing hunger and/or food insecurity. Needs:
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Mississippi Museum of Art Mission: To engage Mississippians in the visual arts. Population served: Primarily residents of the greater Jackson area, residents of the state of Mississippi, and residents of the other southeastern United States.
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Mississippi Museum of Natural Science Mission: To promote understanding and appreciation of Mississippi’s biological diversity through collections research, exhibits, and educational and community programs statewide. Population served: 149,901 visitors to Jackson facility and 290,412 access direct services and programs across the state annually. Museum programs include camps, pre-school classes, community, family and adult programs, state outreach programs (technical teacher support and classroom visits), and teacher workshops. Needs:
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Mississippi Opera Association, Inc. Mission: To provide premium opera productions to children and adults. Needs:
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Mississippi State Fire Academy Mission: To serve the Mississippi Fire Service community and the world by providing quality education and training in fundamental and advanced skills to save life and property. Population served: Approximately 15,000 fire fighters/emergency response personnel per year. Needs:
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Mississippi Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks Foundation Needs:
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Mustard Seed Mission: To meet the spiritual, physical, emotional, and intellectual needs of adults with developmental disabilities by providing a loving and protected Christian community and meaningful activities. Population served: Mentally challenged adults, predominantly lower income, ranging in age from 21 to 66 years old. Needs:
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NAMI Mississippi Population served: NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) is a grassroots organization of individuals with serious mental illnesses and their family members. NAMI’s mission is to eradicate the stigma of serious mental illnesses and to improve the quality of life of persons of all ages who are affected by them, through support, education, and advocacy; through research and services; and through the education of all professionals, providers, and the general public. Needs:
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Neighborhood Christian Centers Population served: NCC serves children and families in need throughout the Jackson metro, with a specific focus on its surrounding community: Georgetown. Needs:
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Pearson Foundation Mission: To provide services and activities that add value to people’s lives so that entire neighborhoods are transformed. Population served: 50 to 75 elementary, middle, and high school students in the Pearson/Carver area in Pearl, MS. The Foundation provides ongoing tutorial, after-schools, summer enrichment programs and offers, on an occasional or as-needed basis, clothes closet, food pantry, and computer applications training for parents to upgrade job skills. Needs:
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PERICO Institute for Youth Development and Entrepreneurship, Inc. (PRIYDE) Population served: Youth Service Providers; School Districts; Faith and Community-based organizations, and foundations that serve youth ages 14-21. Needs:
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Piney Woods School Population served: Primarily African-American youth (grades 9-12) from across the United States and 7 foreign countries. Needs:
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Ronald McDonald House Charities of Mississippi Mission: Supports families who have a child in a local hospital by providing caring, home-like lodging. Population served: Families who have children being treated in Jackson area medical facilities. Needs:
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Society of St. Andrew Mission: To provide hunger relief for families and individuals of any age. Needs:
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Southern Christian Services for Children and Youth Population served: Vulnerable children, youth, and families (adolescents, homeless teens, adoption and foster care for children and youth with special needs) Needs:
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Stewpot Community Services Population served: Poverty-level individuals in the Jackson area and their children. Needs:
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Stork's Nest Mission: To assist low-income women during pregnancy. Population served: Low-income pregnant women in Jackson. Needs:
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Universal Learning Center Mission: To provide quality childcare and preschool services for children 6-weeks to five years of age. Population served: Primarily serves low-income families. Needs:
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University Press of Mississippi Mission: The University Press of Mississippi, the state’s only not-for-profit publisher and press for all eight of Mississippi’s public universities to educate all citizens of the state's rich history and vibrant present and future. Needs:
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Voice of Calvary Ministries Population served: Residents of Downtown and West Jackson Needs:
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