Mental Health Awareness Month: 10 Nonprofits Advocating For Change
This Mental Health Awareness Month, we’re proud to highlight the innovative and impactful work of these Kindful customers. On this page, you’ll find their missions and ways to support their important work, as well as some resources for nonprofit professionals.
- Adolescent Counseling Services
- Colorado Mental Wellness Network
- Laughs for the Troops
- Next Rung
- Porter’s Call
- Robbie’s Hope
- STARS
- Tacoma Recovery Center and Café
- The Speedy Foundation
- Youth Homes
Adolescent Counseling Services
Mission: Adolescent Counseling Services (ACS) empowers youth in our community to find their way through social-emotional support and by building safe, accepting communities.
Impacting: Mental health
Headquarters in: Redwood City, CA
How To Support Adolescent Counseling Services
Learn more about Adolescent Counseling Center
Colorado Mental Wellness Network
Mission: Through education and advocacy, the Colorado Mental Wellness Network seeks to provide opportunities for individuals to improve the quality of their lives, give back to the community through meaningful roles, and to change the perceptions of mental health.
Impacting: Mental health
Headquarters in: Denver, CO
How To Support Colorado Mental Wellness Network
Learn more about Colorado Mental Wellness Network
Laughs for the Troops
Mission: Under the Laughs for the Troops umbrella, you will find many other great programs to help our veterans, increase awareness of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI), raise funds, and recruit volunteers.
Impacting: Mental health
Headquarters in: Riverview, FL
How To Support Laughs for the Troops
Learn more about Laughs for the Troops
Next Rung
Mission: Next Rung exists to make an impact in the lives of firefighters and first responders. Their goal is to provide quality resources that will help combat mental health issues that plague their profession.
Impacting: Mental health
Headquarters in: Covington, GA
How To Support Next Rung
Porter’s Call
Mission: Porter’s Call is a place where artists can find counsel, support, and encouragement, specifically attuned to their unique profession. It’s a safe and confidential refuge where they can deal with the issues and stresses they face in their careers and personal lives. And the services are provided at no charge.
Impacting: Mental health
Headquarters in: Franklin, TN
How To Support Porter’s Call
Learn more about Porter’s Call
Robbie’s Hope
Mission: Robbie’s Hope is an uprising of teens to help other teens. They’ve made it their mission to stop the suicide epidemic that’s taking the lives of their friends. Their goal is to cut teen suicide rates in half by 2028.
Impacting: Mental health
Headquarters in: Wheat Ridge, CO
How To Support Robbie’s Hope
Learn more about Robbie’s Hope
STARS
Mission: STARS’s mission is to help young people pursue their unlimited potential by providing hope, health, and connection.
Impacting: Mental health
Headquarters in: Nashville, TN
How To Support STARS
Tacoma Recovery Center and Café
Mission: The Tacoma Recovery Center and Café is a community of women and men impacted by substance disorders, addiction, homelessness, PTSD, and other mental health challenges. Their mission is to provide a safe environment where individuals with shared experiences provide hope, restoration, and resources that lead their members to a life unexpected.
Impacting: Mental health
Headquarters in: Tacoma, WA
How To Support Tacoma Recovery Center and Café
Learn more about Tacoma Recovery Center and Café
The Speedy Foundation
Mission: The Speedy Foundation’s mission is to prevent suicide, support mental health education, and promote conversations to end stigma. The Speedy Foundation raises funds for, and collaborates with, other advocacy groups to achieve their mission.
Impacting: Mental health
Headquarters in: Boise, ID
How To Support The Speedy Foundation
Learn more about The Speedy Foundation
Youth Homes
Mission: Youth Homes empowers and supports current and former foster youth, young adults with complex behavioral health challenges, and under-resourced children at risk of entering the foster care system.
We are fiercely committed to creating opportunities for youth to process and heal from trauma, develop self-sufficiency and confidence, build supportive networks, and create healthy, safe, and meaningful lives.
Impacting: Mental health
Headquarters in: Concord, CA
How To Support Youth Homes
Resources for nonprofits
- 3 Tips For Sharing Heavy Content Without Scaring Supporters Away – Kindful
- How To Share Vulnerable Nonprofit Stories Tastefully And Respectfully – Bloomerang
- How To Leverage The Power Of Nonprofit Stories When You Must Respect Identities – Bloomerang
- Work From Home Self Care: 11 Tips For Fundraisers – Bloomerang
- Useful Nonprofit Emergency Guide: Self-Love And Donor Love Strategies – Bloomerang
- 7 Self-Care Tips For Nonprofit Professionals – Bloomerang
- 3 Lessons Leadership Can Learn About Mental Health Management – Bloomerang
- Crisis of Confidence: Your Nonprofit’s Worst Fundraising Enemy – Bloomerang
- 6 Ways To Stay Motivated As A Fundraiser – Bloomerang
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