Non-Profit Corner

Our local Boys & Girls Clubs are steadfast in promoting greatness in our Club youth and their families through inspirational leadership and transformational programs. The Club mission along with the vision “Recognizing Greatness in Every Club Member” is the foundation of the organization’s Strategic Plan for 2021-2026, which includes programming excellence, enhancing community partnerships, building exceptional infrastructure, and growth and sustainability.  

Since 2002, Northland Cares has provided services to, and advocated on behalf of, locals infected with HIV and AIDS. Founded by parents, partners, and friends of those who succumbed to the devastation of the disease in the early days, this small, nonprofit 501c3 community-based AIDS Service Organization (ASO) was born when Yavapai HIV/AIDS Action and AIDS Outreach of Northern Arizona combined.

Yavapai CASA for Kids Foundation (YKFKF) staff and other community partner agencies find that the opportunities to help vulnerable foster youth seem endless. We offer a variety of programs designed to meet their needs in several key, often-neglected areas. From the recently opened Family Visitation Center to the other eight progams provided to our communities, we see positive changes in children impacted by difficulties during times of family separation.

For three decades, Prescott Creeks, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, has worked to benefit people and wildlife through protection, restoration, education, and advocacy. Established in 1990, Prescott Creeks promotes watershed awareness with programs and projects that enhance water quality and riparian habitat in Prescott.

“Home should be a source of happiness and hope.  Home should offer a safe and stable environment.  Home should help, not hinder, a person’s ability to thrive.” – Shaun Donovan, former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

Do you have a decent, safe, and affordable place to live?

Many do not. Families living in substandard and deteriorating housing conditions are in every community. It’s a real and ever-growing problem. Those living in poor conditions are exposed to greater personal and environmental health risks, are less well-nourished and have a higher risk of illness and disability. 

Many Prescott-area residents will forever remember the protest and counter-protests that took place on The Courthouse Square in early September. What many people do not know is that local teens organized and facilitated the September 4 Black Lives Matter protest as a way to practice their First Amendment rights, and display a representative and visible presence of the BIPOC community from the Prescott area. When they arrived, they said, they were met with a terrifying counter-protest.

As a Prescott fourth grader, Mary Maroon couldn’t even imagine a life as a cycling professional … much less where such a life might take her.

Now, she knows. She recently retired from professional bicycling, and her career took her around the world: to Australia, Canada, Guatemala, China and Europe.

She credits her Big Sister through Yavapai Big Brothers Big Sisters (YBBBS) “for planting seeds and teaching me different ways to connect ideas. I would generally be the same person without my Big, but my brain would work differently.”

One woman can make a difference. One hundred women or more—they can make an impact. That is the philosophy and the mission of Prescott Area Women Who Care (PAWWC), a “giving circle” of generous women who are dedicated to helping the community thrive by supporting the tireless efforts of local nonprofits.

Many of us are all too familiar with the frustration of trying to juggle an overwhelming number of tasks in systems over which we have little control.  It is hard and excruciating work!  For those in our community who do not drive, are elderly, have physical limitation, are not familiar with new technology, or are new to being a patient, these tasks may seem nearly impossible!  

One little-known but remarkable service organization in the greater Prescott area is The Quad City Interfaith Council (QCIC).  The organization brings together leaders of faith and humanitarian organizations, and they combine their resources to help the homeless during the cold winter months.