Support Causes

Checkout what these great community organizations are doing to make the world and our communities a better place.

The Misunderstood Youth Development Center (MYDC) "Helping to understand, develop, and stimulate the minds of our youth." The Misunderstood Youth Development Center’s (MYDC) vision is to empower youth in communities throughout New York and neighboring states giving them the necessary tools to develop positive self-expression among their peers, families, and society while gaining independence and leadership qualities using positive decision-making skills.

MYDC’s mission is to create various peer-oriented programs building self-expression while Helping to Understand, Develop and Stimulate the Minds of Our Youth.

For more information visit their Facebook Page

Farmers Boulevard Community Development Corp (FBCDC). Is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to revitalize Farmers Boulevard into an inspiring, convenient and vibrantly utilized main street serving the residents and visitors of southeast Queens, New York. 

FBCDC works to attract new businesses to Farmers Boulevard, and to organize its existing merchants and residents around initiatives and events that enhance the local community. For more information visit Farmers Boulevard Community Development Corp

The MACEDONIA SUPPORT NETWORK Against Domestic Violence is to organize for collective power by advancing transformative work, thinking and leadership of communities and individuals working to end the violence in our lives. We believe violence against women and children results from the use of force or threat to achieve and maintain control over others in intimate relationships, and from societal abuse of power and domination in the forms of sexism, racism, homophobia, classism, anti-Semitism, able-bodyism, ageism and other oppressions.

MACEDONIA SUPPORT NETWORK recognizes that the abuses of power in society foster battering by perpetuating conditions, which condone violence against women and children. Therefore, it is the mission of MACEDONIA SUPPORT NETWORK to work for major societal changes necessary to eliminate both personal and societal violence against all women and children.

MACEDONIA SUPPORT NETWORK's work includes coalition building at the local, state, regional and national levels; support for the provision of community-based, non-violent alternatives - such as safe home and shelter programs - for battered women and their children; public education and technical assistance; policy development and innovative legislation; focus on the leadership of MACEDONIA SUPPORT NETWORK's caucuses developed to represent the concerns of organizationally under represented groups; and efforts to eradicate social conditions which contribute to violence against women and children. To learn more about Macedonia Support Network Click Here

Future Executives, Inc. is an in person and virtual resource center for 8-25 year olds to explore, cultivate and hone entrepreneur behaviors and personal development using a multi-media platform. The organization partners, collaborates, develops workshops, lesson plans and symposiums to support the process. We offer entrepreneurship training and support, multi-media virtual learning & volunteering platform, children & parent advocacy.

In 1994, Future Executives, Inc. (FE) received it’s NYS incorporation and 501(c)(3) tax exempt status. Our services have included but are not limited to workshops, tutoring, internships, career training and exploration. FE has worked with general and at-risk students in the NYC-tristate area. FE has sponsored career-day field trips including; concerts (a look behind the scenes), Yankee and Knick games, media corporations such as VIBE and MTV as well as other businesses. In addition, the founding members facilitated a panel “I Don’t Wanna be a Rapper”; Alternative Careers in Entertainment: at high schools, New York University, The NAACP youth division, The Albany Black Caucus (1994) and several entertainment conferences.

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World of Money, Based in New York City, the WorldofMoney.org was founded in 2005 as a non-profit 501(c)(3), quickly amassing an ambitious roster of financial experts who remain committed to empowering youth with a  sound financial foundation, graduating hundreds of students. The WorldofMoney.org Youth Financial Education Institute graduated 142 children this year.

The WorldofMoney.org has opened the NASDAQ Stock Exchange four times and educates youth, ages 7- 11: Young Moguls and Moguls: ages 12 – 18, with the empowering tools to survive economic cycles, by examining their own money mindsets to create budgets, home ownership, establish savings plans, manage/avoid debt, understand investment strategies, set financial legacies and make sound decisions for their education and retirement. Having these basic financial planning tools encourages youth to become family team players, maximize their longer-term financial well-being and to balance consumer and investor behaviors. The curriculum also includes Mandarin Chinese. In August 2013, our group of 85 youth and parents will tour mainland China. A Parent "Money Matters" Forum is held annually.

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Personality Disorders Awareness Network (PDAN) was established in 2001 as a not-for-profit organization dedicated to increasing public awareness about the impact of all Personality Disorders on children, families, relationships, and the society-at-large. The organization was restarted in 2012 and is now headquartered with Atlanta, with presence in New York, Phoenix AZ, Los Angeles and the United Kingdom.

PDAN Staff:
Frederic Bien, President in Atlanta
Daniel Mattila, Director in New York
Gerard Gibbons, Director in Los Angeles
Susan Tomlinson, Director, London UK
Marketing, Communications & Admin: contact info@pdan.org 

Social Media and to volunteer for PDAN: please contact volunteers@pdan.org

Personality Disorders include:

- Borderline Personality Disorder
- Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder
- Avoidant Personality Disorder
- Schizotypal Personality Disorder
- Antisocial Personality Disorder (Dyssocial Personality Disorder)
- Narcissistic Personality Disorder
- other types of Personality Disorder with Trait Specified

For information on personality disorders, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_disorders

For recent medical information, please read the new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM5)
http://www.dsm5.org/proposedrevision/Pages/PersonalityDisorders.aspx

PDAN is a network for awareness and prevention of personality disorders. We seek empathy toward people with BPD or another PD, for what they are going through. We often present topics from the viewpoint of the caretakers.

If you have recovered from BPD or are able to control its symptoms, PDAN is a good community for you. If you are in treatment, we recommend you look for a support group for people in treatment; (we can suggest some). You are welcome to be here too, and your viewpoint is very much valued. Yet some things being said here might trigger you.

The three main goals of PDAN are to:
- increase public awareness of personality disorders,
- alleviate the impact of personality disorders on families,
- prevent the development of personality disorders in children.

PDAN is here to offer ongoing support, education, commitment, and compassion to the individuals and families enduring the relational trauma caused by Personality Disorders. Through our informative books, child- and adult-friendly website, social media presence and community of online professionals, we remain dedicated to the healing processes, and empowerment, of those who are either directly or indirectly affected by these challenging mental illnesses.

For more information visit their website