Our Mission at Project Ladybug is to enrich the lives of children with life threatening conditions.

The Fund strives to help families face the financial and the emotional hardships during their child's treatment to help meet the needs of seriously ill and less fortunate patients in our region. Through improving the quality of life for these children and families during treatment, Project Ladybug hopes to improve outcomes for these patients.

Here at Project Ladybug, you will be pleased to know that the proceeds from our fundraising events are used to better the lives of these children in need.

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FATE as an organization had its roots in another organization called POAC (Parents of Autistic Children). In the late 1990s, a small group of parents of children with autism in Ocean County, New Jersey formed this small non-profit organization with the intent of improving educational programs for children with autism. They began to research alternative methods of teaching children with autism, including other strategies, interventions, and treatments which might help their children better succeed.

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The Julien Collot Foundation was formed in September 2007, in honor of my son who had previously undergone two bone marrow transplants.

Our lives were turned upside down when on March 9, 2006 our 3-year-old son was diagnosed with AML leukemia. This is the adult-type leukemia that rarely affects children.

Julien's Foundation is a non-profit, IRS credited 501(c)3 charity.

After living with this disease and suffering from the complications of treatments, we are determined more than ever to raise awareness, to fund research and trials for Pediatric Cancers and to assist families in need as they fight their formidable fight.

Have you ever had to look someone in the eye who has been handed a death sentence? I certainly hope not, I can tell you first hand, that there is nothing more difficult in this world than trying to understand how this can happen. We are lucky, we are still here, still fighting, but so many of the people that we've met since Julien was diagnosed have lost their battles.

We all know that this is unacceptable; and we are committed to do whatever we have to in order to help find a cure, to make a better world and to care for our future, our children.

We support the Bone Marrow Transplant Research Team at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. We have seen what trials can do. Without the support of trials, some of these 'treatments' would not be available for many years. It was trial that saved my sons life after his second bone marrow transplant when he had serious problems with his liver. We have seen miracles first hand, and we need more.

We thank you in advance for your cooperation in the matter.

Jacqueline Collot, President and Mother

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Oasis - A Haven for Women and Children is committed to fostering healthy family relationships. We seek to preserve the dignity of people and their culture.

A Haven for Women and Children is dedicated to feeding and clothing the needy women and children and to offering them educational resources and skills needed to obtain meaningful employment and to break the cycle of poverty.

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Best Friends Animal Society is guided by a simple philosophy: kindness to animals builds a better world for all of us. In the late 1980s, when Best Friends was in its early days, roughly 17 million dogs and cats were being killed in shelters every year. Despite the commitment of shelter workers to the animal in their care, the conventional belief was that little could be done to lower that terrible number.

Best Friends' No More Homeless Pets campaign created a new vision: A grassroots effort to place dogs and cats who were considered "unadoptable" into good homes, and to reduce the number of unwanted pets through effective spay and neuter programs. Since then, the number of dogs and cats being destroyed in shelters has fallen to approximately 5 million a year. There has been much progress,but there is still much more to do.

The next phase of this work - bringing the number down to essentially zero - will take more work and some bold new initiatives. Shelters are crowded with pit bulls, dogs abandoned after being bought from pet stores, stray cats rounded up on the streets and not looking their very best when they're brought in, and other pets abandoned or neglected.

As the flagship of a grassroots network of people and organizations that care about animals, Best Friends continues to lead the way towards this future. And that's why our purpose remains: A better world through kindness to animals.

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