60 Plus Foundation Inc.

Mission

The 60 Plus Foundation, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-partisan educational organization formed to identify these problems and needs, and to seek alternative solutions developed through the private sector, financed through the free enterprise system, which enhance the quality of life, dignity, and security of American senior citizens. The foundation brings together segments of the public, representatives of civic institutions, leaders in private enterprise, and specialists in educational disciplines to restore the vigor, intentions and beliefs of our founding fathers, as those intentions and beliefs relate to senior issues. We work to rekindle a nation and a culture that assists, supports, and provides opportunities to its senior citizens, while respecting the constitutional right of every citizen to live in dignity and thrive in a democratic society, free from government reliance.

Parental Rights Foundation

Students for Life of America

Mission

Students for Life exists to transform culture by helping young people make abortion unthinkable and obsolete on their campus, in their community, and in our nation.

Council on Domestic Violence for Page County Inc.

Mission

To prevent both domestic and sexual violence through public awareness and education, and to serve as a resource and a safe haven to those affected.

Patient Advocate Foundation, Inc.

Mission

Patient Advocate Foundation was established in 1996 as a national 501(c)3 organization with a mission of “safeguarding patients through effective mediation assuring access to care, maintenance of employment and preservation of their financial stability." PAF serves as an active liaison between patients and their insurer, employer and/or creditors to resolve insurance, job retention, and/or debt crisis matters relative to their diagnosis through case managers, doctors and health care attorneys.

Hampton Roads Pride

Mission

Hampton Roads Pride unites the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) and allied communities in support of inclusion, dignity and equality of all people.

American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Virginia

Mission

To promote civil liberties and civil rights for everyone in the Commonwealth through public education and litigation with the goal of securing freedom and equality for all. We are an affiliate of the national ACLU, with which we share resources and expertise.

Institute for Justice

Mission

Through strategic litigation, training, communication, and outreach, the Institute for Justice advances a rule of law under which individuals can control their destinies as free and responsible members of society. IJ litigates to secure economic liberty, school choice, private property rights, freedom of speech, and other vital individual liberties and to restore constitutional limits on the power of government. In addition, IJ trains law students, lawyers, and activists in the tactics of public interest litigation. Through these activities, IJ illustrates and extends the benefits of freedom to those whose full enjoyment of liberty is denied by government.

Casa of Central Virginia, Inc.

Mission

Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Central Virginia's mission is to recruit, train, and support volunteers who advocate for children in the Juvenile & Domestic Relations Court system who have experienced abuse and neglect and to educate the community about the needs of these children. CASA of Central Virginia has offices in Lynchburg, Bedford, and Appomattox.

Rappahannock Casa Inc.

Mission

The mission of Rappahannock CASA is to advocate for abused and neglected children to grow up in safe permanent homes where they have the opportunity to thrive.

Center for the Defense of Civil Liberties Inc.

Mission

Gather information on terrorism in general

Us Foundation For Liberty And Human Rights

Mission

The U.S. Foundation for Liberty and Human Rights (“The Foundation") is a non-profit, tax-exempt and tax-deductible, 501C3 volunteer organization formed by U.S. citizens of Iranian descent and is a sister organization of U.S Foundation for Liberty. Many of the volunteers themselves have been victims of the Iranian regime's brutality. Having experienced firsthand the violation of their fundamental rights, these volunteers promote women's rights, the rights of victims of abuse, rights of minorities and dissidents, as well as refugees who have fled repression in Iran. The Foundation has led many projects focused on the resettlement of political refugees in third countries. In one of its most difficult, complex, but successful campaigns, it helped complete the transfer to Albania of thousands of residents of Camp Liberty (near the Baghdad International Airport) in Iraq in 2016. These refugees were designated as 'asylum seekers' and 'persons of concern' by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and as 'protected persons' under the Fourth Geneva Convention by the United States. One-third of the residents were former political prisoners and an equal number are women. They fled persecution in Iran and took refuge in Iraq in the 1980s. Iranian rulers view these dissidents and human rights advocates as a major threat and have actively been plotting to kill or capture them for a long time. Since 2003, the residents were repeatedly attacked by Iraqi security forces at the behest of Tehran, resulting in over 140 deaths and some 1,400 wounded. The residents were also denied vital medical treatment by Baghdad as a form of harassment and pressure. Due to sustained medical deprivation in Iraq, some of the residents' physical ailments have substantially worsened and in some cases turned into permanent disabilities. Now that these dissidents have been resettled in Albania, The Foundation is working hard to help them with access to food, shelter, medical care, and other basic needs. One of our major, and perhaps most expensive, projects is to provide for their medical care as many of the injured refugees are now in hospitals in Albania and need urgent medical care, including major surgeries. Another significant and costly initiative was to find the residents permanent housing because the UN Refugee Agency had given the residents until December 31, 2017, to vacate buildings it had provided temporarily. This was an extremely difficult task because, despite promises by the UN that the residents would be allowed to sell their properties in Iraq, the Government of Iraq reneged on that pledge and confiscated all their movable and immovable assets. The Foundation is currently focused on raising awareness about these and other Iranian refugees. It is also educating the public about ongoing protests by the people of Iran for freedom and democracy through sponsoring of seminars, symposiums, and conferences. These are meant to provide credible information and data on the overall situation and human rights violations in Iran.The Iranian people currently live under one of the most brutal and repressive regimes in the world. The theocracy in Iran not only murders, tortures and suppresses its own population, but it is also the world's largest state-sponsor of terrorism. It has been wreaking havoc in the Middle East by supporting the criminal regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, which has slaughtered close to half a million Syrians, including tens of thousands of children. It has also lent political, financial and military support to extremist groups in Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen and elsewhere, making it the biggest source of instability in the Middle East and the greatest foreign policy threat to the United States and moderate countries in the region. Yet the Iranian regime has an Achilles Heel: the Iranian people. It realizes that its existence is threatened by the people's yearning for freedom and democracy. It was this yearning that organized a progressive resistance movement to struggle for a secular, democratic and non-nuclear Iran. Thousands of members of the Iranian Resistance had sought refuge in neighboring Iraq for years. In September 2016, after spending years under siege and faced with threats from the Tehran regime, the final group of these dissidents was resettled in Europe, primarily in Albania. Nearly 1,000 of them are women, with many survivors of the Iranian regime's prisons. Prior to that, the thousands of Iranian refugees were residing in a prison-like Camp Liberty in Iraq as “protected persons" under international law. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees described them as “asylum seekers." Brutally pursued by the Iranian regime and its puppet government in Iraq since the 2003 Iraq War, these refugees are now settled outside of Iraq. However, given the harsh treatment, the medical siege and numerous deadly attacks they suffered, these injured refugees are in desperate need of medical support.

National Council on Aging, Inc.

Mission

Improving the lives of 40 millions older adults by 2030.

Lynnhaven River Now

Mission

Our mission is clean and healthy Virginia Beach waterways and we accomplish that through: --Identifying and reducing sources of contamination in our waterways; nutrients, sediments and chemicals running off of our lawns, parking lots, roadways, farmland and out of our septic systems. --Educating and engaging the community and partner organizations in restoring and protecting our waterways and natural areas. --Restoring lost habitats such as oyster reefs, salt marshes, native plants, forests and other buffers that help to filter polluted runoff and protect our waterways and their marine life.

Bill Of Rights Institute

Mission

Established in September 1999, the Bill of Rights Institute is a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization that works to engage, educate, and empower individuals with a passion for the freedom and opportunity that exist in a free society. The Institute develops educational resources and programs on U.S. history and civics education for a network of more than 50,000 educators and 70,000 students nationwide.

The Rutherford Institute

Mission

The Rutherford Institute, a nonprofit civil liberties organization based in Charlottesville, VA, is deeply committed to protecting the constitutional freedoms of every American and the integral human rights of all people through its extensive legal and educational programs. The Institute provides its legal services at no charge to those whose constitutional and human rights have been threatened or violated. The Institute fights to preserve free speech in public, public schools, churches, and other organizations without government intrusion.

Christian Freedom International

Mission

Christian Freedom International (CFI) aids, equips and advocates for Christians who are oppressed or persecuted for their faith. CFI provides spiritual and physical help for suffering Christians to live in the dignity of God’s love and rise above their circumstances. CFI offers ways for Christians to ease the burdens of persecuted Christians through prayer, action, and giving, including emergency and disaster relief, Bible distribution, medical assistance, refugee aid, food, clothing, shelter, education, scholarships, pastor assistance, aid to the disabled, asylum case-work, and vocational training. CFI sponsors schools, children, pastors, and families.

Fairfax Court Appointed Special Advocates, Inc.

Mission

The mission of Fairfax CASA is to advocate for the best interests of each abused and neglected child referred by the Fairfax County Juvenile & Domestic Relations District Court through the promotion and support of quality volunteer representation. We seek to ensure that each child’s needs are identified and addressed with the goal of living in a safe and permanent home. As permitted by our legislative charter, we also provide assistance to youths entering adulthood who have been referred to the CASA program by the Court, up to the age of 21. www.fairfaxcasa.org

Independent Womens Forum

Mission

The Independent Women's Forum is dedicated to building support for free markets, limited government, and individual responsibility. IWF, a non-partisan, 501(c)(3) research and educational institution,seeks to combat the too-common presumption that women want and benefit from big government, and build awareness of the ways that women are better served by greater economic freedom. By aggressively seeking earned media, providing easy-to-read, timely publications and commentary, and reaching out to the public, we seek to cultivate support for these important principles and encourage women to join us in working to return the country to limited, Constitutional government.

Virginia Beach Court Appointed Special Advocate Program Inc.

Mission

The Virginia Beach CASA program is a private, non-profit organization committed to advocating for the best interests of children involved in the juvenile and domestic relations district (see continuation on schedule O)