Candlelighters supports, serves and advocates for children and adolescents with cancer and other blood disorders, their families, long term survivors, bereaved families, and the professionals that care for them.
Candlelighters currently serves approximately 300-450 children and family members annually. In Southern Arizona about 70 children a year are diagnosed with cancer, and treatment lasts an average of 2 ½ years. For many children, the long term effects remain for a life time and navigating a new normal in school is very difficult. School advocacy is an area for which we provide numerous resources.
GAP Ministries
Creates lasting solutions to help individuals and families reach financial freedom through housing support, education, and partnership. Family Housing Resources is a nonprofit 501(c) (3) Arizona corporation.
Mobile Meals of Southern Arizona
Began in 1968 as a project of Meals on Wheels, when a grant was received to provide a more robust meal delivery service to older persons than what Meals on Wheels offered. We began providing special diet meals, and two meals daily, to meet this need, and continue to do so today.
San Miguel High School
San Miguel High School opened in 2004 in order to create a learning community where students from communities of limited resources have the opportunity to develop to their full potential. Like other Cristo Rey Network schools, we are located where we may have the most impact.
OUR FAMILY SERVICES
The mission of the Student & Family Support Services Department is to ensure that ALL students have an equal opportunity to succeed in school by removing barriers to achieving academic and personal excellence. Our department offers a wide range of programs and services to MUSD students and the community. These programs and services are designed to address the academic and social needs of our students.
MAKE WAY FOR BOOKS
Make Way for Books is an early literacy nonprofit that provides proven programs, services, and resources to more than 18,000 young children, parents, and educators throughout southern Arizona each year. Our mission is to give all children the chance to read and succeed.
I AM YOU 360
I Am You 360 Hygiene Dispensaries trains and employs primarily at risk youth to serve our Empowerment Hygiene Bags to their peers and refill every 6 weeks. Hygiene Dispensary Coordinator duties include soft and hard skills, excel spreadsheet, customer service skills, inventory, document incoming donations, and organizational skills. Youth Hygiene Dispensary Coordinator receive a monthly stipend.
ANGEL HEART PAJAMA PROJECT
Angel Heart Pajama Project’s mission is “to provide new pajamas and books and to foster literacy development in children who are abandoned, abused, removed from homes and placed in foster care or living in homeless shelters in the City of Tucson, South Tucson, and surrounding counties in Southern Arizona including Pima, Cochise, and Santa Cruz”.
CONGENITAL HEART DEFECT FAMILIES OF TUCSON
Stacy Lipinczyk and Melissa Nail are both moms of children born with Congenital Heart Defects. Their friendship has blossomed over their passion of wanting to make a difference in our local CHD community by providing accessible resources to other local families, thus they created CHD Families of Tucson, a non-profit organization.
PAST RECIPIENTS:
Act One, Alzheimer’s Association, American Red Cross of Southern Arizona, Amphitheater Public Schools Foundation, Angel Charity for Children, Angel Heart Pajama Project, Arizona Blind & Deaf Children's Foundation, Arizona Housing Fund, Arizona Theatre Company, Arizona Youth Partnership, Arts Express, Inc., Assistance League of Tucson, Aviva Children's Services, Boys & Girls Clubs of Tucson, Boulder Crest Foundation, Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation, Care Fund, Casa de los Niños, Chicanos Por La Causa, Children’s Clinic , Children's Musuem Tucson | Oro Valley, Community Food Bank, Community Home Repair Projects of Arizona, Congenital Heart Defect Families of Tucson, Courtney's Courage , Dancing in the Streets, Diaper Bank of Southern Arizona, earn to learn, Easter Seals Blake Foundation, Educational Enrichment Foundation, Emerge! Center Against Domestic Abuse, Family Housing Resources, First Book - Tucson, Fred Lewis Foundation for Youth Handball, Gabriel's Angels, Gaitway, Habitat for Humanity, Handi-Dogs, Inc., Haven Totes, The Hearth Foundation, Homicide Survivors Inc., Honor Flight Southern Arizona, Humane Society of Southern Arizona, I am you 360, Integrative Touch for Kids, Interfaith Community Serices, JobPath, Kent’s Heart and Hope Foundation, LEWC, Make Way for Books, Marana Schools 2340 Foundation, Mobile Meals of Tucson, Our Family Services, Parent Aid, Primavera Foundation, Reach-Out Pregnancy Center, Renewal Centers, Inc., San Miguel High School, Shayann Kindness, Soldier's Best Friend, Southern AZ AIDS Foundation, St. Luke's Home, St. Piux X Roman Catholic Church dba CarePortal, Sun Sounds of Arizona, The Salvation Army , The Shyann Kindness Project , Therapeutic Riding of Tucson, Tu Nidito, Tucson Alliance for Autism, Tucson Arizona Boys Chorus, Tucson Arts Brigade, Tucson Aztecs Soccer, Tucson Botanical Gardens, Tucson Clean & Beautiful, Tucson Hospitality Inn, Tucson Interfaith HIV/AIDS Network, Tucson Jewish Community Center, Tucson Police Officers Charitable Foundation, Wheels for Kids, Youth On Their Own