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Feeling Charitable? These Groups Could Use Your Help

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A Tribune staff report

Published: November 19, 2007

ACTS (Agency For Community Treatment Services) provides an environment that ensures safe detoxification and supports physical, mental and emotional stabilization of adolescents with substance abuse and corresponding psychiatric disorders.

Call (813) 246-4899, or go to www.actsfl.org.

Alpha House Of Tampa serves pregnant women in crisis and their families, offering a maternity home and transitional facilities following birth. It helps pregnant and parenting women break cycles of poverty and abuse and create promising lives. It also provides education, counseling, parenting and life skills training, vocational training and assistance, and spiritual support.

Call (813) 875-2024, or go to www.alphahouseoftampa.org.

Best Buddies Tampa enhances the lives of people with intellectual disabilities by providing opportunities for one-on-one friendships and integrated employment.

Call (813) 254-9025, or go to www.bestbuddiesflorida.org.

Caregiver's Helping Hand delivers gift baskets to residents of nursing homes and assisted-living centers; teaches young volunteers the importance of making a difference in the lives of others; and helps people understand aging and ageism and dispels aging myths.

Call (813) 248-5897.

Children's Home Society serves more than 7,600 children throughout the Tampa Bay area through foster care, adoption, mentoring, case management, and residential and counseling programs.

Call (813) 740-4266, or go to www.chsfl.org.

Cornerstone Family Ministries makes a lasting positive difference for families, empowering them to improve all aspects of their physical, social, educational and spiritual lives.

Call (813) 241-6305, or go to www.cornerstonefamilyministries.org.

Critter Adoption and Rescue Effort (CARE) is a no-kill, all-volunteer animal shelter that rescues, rehabilitates and places for adoption homeless cats and dogs. It temporarily houses 45 homeless pets at any one time. It also operates a discount clinic to spay and neuter pets owned by low-income residents.

Call (813) 645-2273, or go to www.careshelter.org.

Enable America Inc. helps people with disabilities live independently and find employment.

Call (813) 222-3212, or go to www.enableamerica.org.

Epilepsy Services Foundation is committed to creating a better future and environment for people affected by epilepsy. It raises money to provide medical and other support services for affected people in West Central Florida.

Call (813) 870-3414, or go to www.epilepsyservices.com.

Family Resources Inc. operates a shelter for at-risk youth; offers supportive services for grandparents raising grandchildren; and provides prevention, support and counseling services for children, teens and families in Pinellas and Manatee counties.

Call (727) 521-5200, or go to www.family-resources.org.

Francis House is a shelter for people with or affected by AIDS.

Call (813) 237-3066, or go to www.francishouse.org.

Girls Inc. aims to inspire all girls to be strong, smart and bold.

Call (727) 544-6230, or go to www.girlsinc.org.

Healthy Start Coalition Beds 4 Babies Program provides safety-approved cribs for infants of needy parents in Hillsborough County to prevent Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and suffocation.

Call (813) 233-2800, or go to www.healthystartcoalition.org/index.cfm/fuseaction....

Heartbeat International provides pacemakers and implant surgery free of charge to needy people.

Call (813) 243-8769, or go to www.heartbeatintl.org.

The Home Association is a 96-bed nonprofit nursing and rehabilitation center in Tampa serving elderly people of modest means.

Call 1-866-501-9686, or go to www.thehomeassociation.org.

House of Hope Tampa Bay is a regional resource for teens who are hurting. It aims to bring reconciliation and restoration to the family, and it is an affiliate of the National House of Hope in Orlando.

Call (813) 920-3800, or go to www.houseofhopetampabay.org.

Humane Society aims to prevent cruelty to animals, relieve suffering among animals, offer humane education and provide shelter-based services

Call (813) 876-7138, or go to www.humanesocietytampa.org.

Judeo Christian Health Clinic provides free health care to medically indigent residents of the Tampa Bay area who have no other resources for their health-care needs. All care is provided by doctors and nurses who volunteer their time.

Call (813) 870-0395, or go to www.judeochristianhealthclinic.org.

Liberty Manor for Veterans provides residential services in Tampa for homeless veterans.

Call (813) 352-7856.

Life Enrichment Center provides academic, fitness and creative classes for Bay area adults to challenge and nurture them mentally, physically and creatively.

Call (813) 932-0241, or go to www.lifeenrichmenttampa.org.

Metropolitan Ministries is a nondenominational, faith-based organization that helps poor and homeless families and instills self-sufficiency.

Call (813) 209-1000, or go to www.metromin.org.

PACE Center For Girls provides girls and young women an opportunity for a better future through education, counseling, training and advocacy.

Call (813) 739-0410, or go to www.pacecenter.org.

Ronald McDonald House of Tampa Bay provides a home away from home for families with children receiving medical treatment at area hospitals.

Call (813) 258-6430, or go to www.rmhctampabay.com.

Soccer for Souls is dedicated to the collection and distribution of usable soccer equipment to disadvantaged children in the United States and throughout the world. The goal is to use the universal language of soccer to promote citizenship, confidence, leadership and self-respect.

Call (813) 997-2790, or go to www.soccerforsouls.org.

Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals makes shelter pets more adoptable, helps adopted animals stay in their new homes, helps pet owners in the community resolve pet behavior issues and keep their pets at home, and helps other shelters implement behavior programs.

Call (727) 586-3591, or go to www.spcafl.org.

Voices For Children provides support and advocacy for abused, neglected and abandoned children of Hillsborough County in partnership with the Guardian ad Litem program.

Call (813) 902-9300, or go to www.vfcgal.org.

Wheels Of Success helps families obtain or continue work by providing reliable transportation through a program of car repairs, vehicle replacement, related licensing services, car payments, down payments and car-care classes in Hillsborough, Pasco and Pinellas counties.

Call (813) 490-9443, or go to www.wheelsofsuccess.org.

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