Prevent Child Abuse (PCA) America is a network of more than 45 chapters across the US that works to prevent child abuse by raising awareness and providing education. Prevent Child Abuse America programs at the national level include Healthy Families America for newborns and their parents, National Center on Child Abuse Prevention Research, prevention education, and resource development. Prevent Child Abuse America also lobbies all levels of government, advocating policies to protect children and strengthen families. PCA America publishes comics on topics like preventing bullying and puts out parenting and advocacy newsletters and tip sheets for parents. Local chapters host conferences and do other advocacy and education work.

Prison Rehabilitative Industries and Diversified Enterprises (PRIDE Enterprises), a not-for-profit corporation, enables inmates in some 20 Florida prisons to learn job skills. PRIDE operates in about 40 industries, employing inmates in activities such as furniture making, license plate embossing, meat processing, and eyewear production. Customers such as schools, local governments, and nonprofits buy the products made by the inmates. PRIDE also offers labor outsourcing to private businesses. Prison Rehabilitative Industries and Diversified Enterprises revenue is dedicated to inmate room and board, inmate wages and transition services, and victim restitution. PRIDE was founded in 1981.

Public Heath Solutions (formerly Medical and Health Research Association of New York City) is here to help. Public Health Solutions (PHS) is a not-for-profit organization that works with the NYC Department of Health to create and administer projects aimed at providing better healthcare to the city's low-income at-risk population. Public Health Solutions helps about 200,000 people a year with studies like the Human Papillomavirus Screening Project and others looking at disease awareness and prevention in minority groups. Services include women's and children's health, HIV/AIDS health care, smoking cessation counseling, and access to health care. Public Health Solutions was founded in 1957 to conduct health research projects.

Reading Is Fundamental is a not-for-profit literacy organization that delivers free books and resources focusing on at risk children ages 8 and under. Through Reading Is Fundamental, Inc. flagship Books for Ownership program, the group gives more than 16 million new free books to some 5 million kids each year. RIF seeks to increase children's interest in reading by providing motivational support, family involvement, and free books the children get to choose. Reading Is Fundamental, Inc. is supported by the US Department of Education and donations from foundations, companies, and individuals. Margaret McNamara began the program in 1966 with a group of school volunteers in Washington D.C.

Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic (RFB&D) makes the written word accessible to individuals with print disabilities, such as blindness, visual impairments, and dyslexia. The not-for-profit group makes tapes and CDs of textbooks for students in kindergarten through postgraduate studies, as well as recordings of reference and professional materials. In 2008 its 240,000 members borrowed or purchased some 530,000 books. RFB&D operates recording studios through half a dozen regional offices and is beginning to use digital recording. Funded by private donations and government support, RFB&D was founded by Anne MacDonald in 1948 to record textbooks for blind WWII veterans.

Regis Corporation engages in the ownership, operation, and franchising of hairstyling and hair care salons in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Puerto Rico, and internationally. Regis Corporation offers haircutting and styling, including shampooing and conditioning; hair coloring; and waving to men, women, and children. Regis Corporation also owns and operates hair restoration centers, which provide hair systems, hair transplants, and hair therapy services, as well as hair care products. Regis Corporation's salons operate primarily under the Regis Salons, Supercuts, MasterCuts, SmartStyle, Cost Cutters, Hair Masters, First Choice Haircutters, Magicuts, and Hair Club trade names in malls, strip centers, lifestyle centers, Wal-Mart supercenters, department stores, mass merchants, and high-street locations. As of June 30, 2009, Regis Corporation owned, franchised, or held ownership interests in approximately 12,900 locations. Regis Corporation was founded in 1954 and is headquartered in Edina, Minnesota.

Res-Care, Inc., a human service company, provides residential, therapeutic, job training, and educational support services in the United States and Canada. Res-Care, Inc. operates in three segments: Community Services, Job Corps Training Services, and Employment Training Services. The Community Services segment offers services for individuals with intellectual, cognitive, or other developmental disabilities, as well as provides periodic in-home care services to the elderly. Its services include social, functional, and vocational skills training; supported employment; and emotional and psychological counseling. As of December 31, 2009, Res-Care, Inc. served approximately 41,000 individuals in 36 states and Canada. As of December 31, 2008, this segment operated 300 career centers in 21 states and Washington, D.C. These career centers provide various services comprising information on the local labor market, vocational assessments, career counseling, workshops to prepare people for the jobs, referrals to occupational skill training for various occupations, job search assistance, job placement, and help with job retention and career advancement to job seekers, as well as offer job matching, screening, referral, and other specialized services for employers. Res-Care, Inc. was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky.

Rock of Ages (ROA) is into hard rock -- as long as it's granite. Rock of Ages Corporation, which is known for its personalized cemetery memorials (including a full-size Mercedes Benz replica), quarries its own granite and makes finished granite memorials. ROA operates about 10 quarries and a handful of manufacturing and sawing facilities, mostly in Vermont and in Quebec, Canada. ROA has sold its Rock of Ages Memorials retail operation in 2008, which accounted for more than a third of the firm's sales. ROA is also a wholesaler, serving about 100 independent retailers in the US and Canada. Chairman Kurt Swenson and his brother Kevin together control the firm's voting power. ROA was founded in Vermont in 1885.

Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) provides temporary housing to families of seriously ill children undergoing treatment. Ronald McDonald House Charities, Inc. signature Ronald McDonald House program maintains some 270 facilities near hospitals in more than two dozen countries. RMHC also offers more than 80 Ronald McDonald Family Rooms, designed to provide places of respite within hospitals. Its Ronald McDonald Care Mobile program brings routine medical services, including immunizations, to children in underserved communities. RMHC operates through local chapters in about 50 countries and regions worldwide. The first Ronald McDonald House opened in 1974, in memory of McDonald's founder Ray Kroc. RMHC was founded in 1984.

The Royal Institute of Navigation is a not-for-profit society that promotes the development of navigation. Royal Institute of Navigation brings together people and organizations interested in all kinds of navigation from command and control, astronomy, mathematics, cartography, electronics, and information technology. Royal Institute of Navigation supports research and promotes education and communication through conferences and symposia that range from international events to single lectures. Royal Institute of Navigation also holds meetings to help in the formation of policies to be adopted by governmental or international bodies in navigationally-related topics. The Royal Institute of Navigation formed in 1947.

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