Our Mission

• Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.
• Prevents and alleviates human suffering in the face of emergencies by mobilizing the power of volunteers and the generosity of donors.​
• Seeking to put God’s love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
• To provide better care of the sick, investigation into their problems, and further education of those who serve.
• To put Christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind, and body for all.
• Give Kids The World Village is an 84-acre, nonprofit resort in Central Florida that provides weeklong, cost-free vacations to children with critical illnesses and their families.
• Enable all children to reach their optimal physical and emotional health and well-being.
• To feed America and UK’s hungry through a nationwide network of member food banks and engage our country in the fight to end hunger.
• To prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes.
• The Transparent Soul’s mission is to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease. We do this through education, advocacy, and research.
• Transformational development that is community-based and sustainable, focused especially on the needs of children.
• Emergency relief that assists people afflicted by conflict or disaster.
• Promotion of justice that seeks to change unjust structures affecting the poor among whom we work.
• Public awareness that leads to informed understanding, giving, involvement, and prayer.

We Value People

We regard all people as created and loved by God. We give priority to people before money, structure, systems, and other institutional machinery.

We act in ways that respect the dignity, uniqueness, and intrinsic worth of every person — the poor, the donors, our staff and their families, boards, and volunteers. We celebrate the richness of diversity in human personality, culture, and contribution.

We practice a participative, open, enabling style in working relationships. We encourage the professional, personal, and spiritual development of our staff.

We Are Stewards

The resources at our disposal are not our own. They are a sacred trust from God through donors on behalf of the poor. We are faithful to the purpose for which those resources are given and manage them in a manner that brings maximum benefit to the poor.

We speak and act honestly. We are open and factual in our dealings with donor constituencies, project communities, governments, the public at large, and each other. We endeavor to convey a public image conforming to reality. We strive for consistency between what we say and what we do.

We demand of ourselves high standards of professional competence and accept the need to be accountable through appropriate structures for achieving these standards. We share our experience and knowledge with others where it can assist them.

We are stewards of God’s creation. We care for the earth and act in ways that will restore and protect the environment. We ensure that our development activities are ecologically sound.

Our Vision

• Our vision is an America and United Kingdom where no one is hungry.
• United Way envisions a community where all individuals and families achieve their human potential through education, financial stability and healthy lives.
• A world where all children have access to medical care and their families are supported and actively involved in their children’s care.
• Change the course of poverty in our nation.
• To accelerate progress against catastrophic disease at a global level.
• We envision a future in which all people – no matter who they are or where they come from – get the support they need, when they need it, to reach their full potential.
• Our vision is a world where every young person in every community has the resources and opportunities to reach their unlimited potential.
• We envision a Southern Illinois where all individuals are contributing to a community that is safe and vibrant for everyone.
•  A world free of cancer and related burden. Giving medical support to anyone

We Are Committed to the Poor

We are called to serve the people in greatest need around the world, to relieve their suffering and to promote the transformation of their condition of life.

We stand in solidarity in a common search for justice. We seek to understand the situation of the poor and work alongside them toward fullness of life.

We seek to facilitate an engagement between the poor and the affluent that opens both to transformation. We respect the poor as active participants, not passive recipients, in this relationship.

They are people from whom others may learn and receive, as well as give. The need for transformation is common to all. Together we share a quest for justice, peace, reconciliation, and healing in a broken world.

We Are Partners

We are members of an international World Vision partnership that transcends legal, structural, and cultural boundaries. We accept the obligations of joint participation, shared goals, and mutual accountability that true partnership requires. We affirm our interdependence and our willingness to yield autonomy as necessary for the common good. We commit ourselves to know, understand, and love each other.

We are partners with the poor and with donors in a shared ministry. We affirm and promote unity in the Body of Christ. We pursue relationship with all churches and desire mutual participation in ministry. We seek to contribute to the holistic mission of the church.

We maintain a cooperative stance and a spirit of openness towards other humanitarian organizations. We are willing to receive and consider honest opinions from others about our work.

We Are Responsive

We are responsive to life-threatening emergencies where our involvement is needed and appropriate. We are willing to take intelligent risks and act quickly. We do this from a foundation of experience and sensitivity to what the situation requires. We also recognize that even in the midst of crisis, the destitute have a contribution to make from their experience.

We are responsive in a different sense where deep-seated and often complex economic and social deprivation calls for sustainable, long-term development. We maintain the commitments necessary for this to occur.

We are responsive to new and unusual opportunities. We encourage innovation, creativity, and flexibility. We maintain an attitude of learning, reflection, and discovery in order to grow in understanding and skill.