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Provides comprehensive citizenship initiatives including citizenship education, mentoring and interview preparation, application assistance, and post-naturalization support.

Educational Programs, Advocacy

• Maintains an online policy action center that connects residents to legislators and provides alerts

Provides education, referrals, support, and advocacy to help eliminate heart health disparities.

Helplines and Information, Advocacy

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- Focuses on African-American women and women of color

Promotes the protection and management of forest ecosystems through policy information, technology, and local action.

Public Health and Safety, Advocacy

Provides information, resources, education, and referrals addressing the root causes of sexual and intimate partner violence through primary prevention efforts, building awareness, and cultivating community leadership.

Helplines and Information, Advocacy

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- Offers prevention and education workshops, outreach and awareness events, youth leadership project, and more

Advocates for disabled veterans, specializing in spinal cord and neurological disease. Also assists ​veterans wounded outside of service.

Advocacy

Assists with urban tree infrastructures to promote health, employment, and climate resiliency.

Public Health and Safety, Advocacy

Provides education to the public about organ, eye, and tissue donation and registers donors.

Advocacy

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- Works with hospitals and transplant centers to facilitate donations

Provides assistance, learning opportunities, and resources.

Advocacy, Adoption and Foster Services

Tracks the status of MACO-sponsored legislative initiatives and publishes an annual legislative summary.

Political Participation

• Meets on the 2nd Thursday of each month at 7:00PM

Offers information, education, and resources on issues related to housing discrimination.

Legal Services, Advocacy

Offers information and referrals, conducts research, analyzes policies, develops best-practices, and works to increase awareness of family caregiver issues.

Helplines and Information, Advocacy

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- Serves as a coalition of grassroots groups, government agencies, and corporations

• Offers tax assistance and coordinates agencies to help individuals who are struggling with poverty 
• Provides information to the community, including minority groups and isolated communities

• Offers a 24-hour crisis line, counseling for victims and abusers, referrals, and emergency shelter 
• Helps victims seek legal protections for themselves and their children 
• Sends speakers to community groups and events to raise awareness on domestic violence

Provides information, education, and advocacy services related to topics that affect women.

Advocacy

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- Helps connect people to local area services
- Hosts workshops and fairs to teach about different topics
- Looks at problems that affect women and suggests ways to make things better
- Supports changes in public policy that improve the status of women

• Hands out OraQuick Home HIV test kits at no-cost 
• Helps make policies and processes of local organizations; city, county, state, and federal commissions; working groups; and agencies more affirming 
• Partners with Frederick County Public Schools to better support LGBTQ+ students 
• Partners with Frederick Health Hospital and Frederick County Health Department to address healthcare inequities for LGBTQ+ individuals 
• Provides training for local government agencies, businesses, social service groups, and non-profit organizations

• Works towards advancing civil rights and equal access on the local, state, and federal levels

Provides assistance with ADA compliance, guidance on accessibility issues, and employee training on ADA regulations.

Helplines and Information

Works with residents, groups, institutions, businesses, and agencies to decrease violence in the community and tackle its underlying causes.

Advocacy

Provides research assistance and information to consumer attorneys

Advocacy

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- Does not provide legal counsel or handle individual consumer complaints

Provides policy advocacy services to help women participate fully in society.

Advocacy

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- Virtual meetings available

Assists with conservation and restoration by planting trees and improving forest landscapes.

Public Health and Safety, Advocacy

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- Works to make forests more resilient to extreme events like drought, wildfires, and diseases

Offers support groups, education, and advocacy for LGBTQIA+ individuals, their families, and friends.

Support Groups, Helplines and Information

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- Maintains a website to locate monthly meetings, speakers, and educational materials
- Lists virtual and in-person meetings
- Options for adult and youth meetings are listed
- Provides information and referrals for LGBTQIA+ resources