Free Public Assistance

We have provided all of the Maryland Free Public Assistance and programs.

Center For Poverty Solutions, Inc.     (410)366-0600 2521 N Charles St Baltimore, MD 21218 website: http://www.povertysolutions.org The Center for Poverty Solutions is a nonprofit charitable organization focused on the eradication of poverty by fostering self-sufficiency for those living in poverty, including the working poor. The Center pursues its mission through advocacy, community mobilization, technical assistance and in collaboration with public and private partners.
Central Scholarship Bureau, Inc.      1700 Reisterstown Rd Baltimore, MD 21208 website: http://www.centralsb.org CSB is the only agency in the Maryland area to offer financial aid and guidance for post-secondary students of all ages. We are the resource for students who require the funds to complete their educations without incurring unmanageable levels of debt. During the past 80 years, CSB has provided more than $7 million in interest-free loans to thousands of college, graduate and vocational students.
Legal Aid Bureau, Inc.     (410)951-7777 500 E Lexington St Baltimore, MD 21202 website: http://www.mdlab.org Provides high-quality legal services to Maryland's poor through a mix of services and brings about changes poor people want in the systems that affect them.
Maryland Association Of Non-Profit Organizations Inc     (410)727-6367 190 W Ostend St Baltimore, MD 21230 website: http://www.marylandnonprofits.org Maryland Nonprofits' mission is to strengthen and support nonprofits' ability to serve the public, while promoting the highest standards of ethics and accountability in nonprofit governance and management. Maryland Nonprofits strives to increase recognition of, trust in and support for the nonprofit sector and to expand the influence of the nonprofit sector on issues that impact the people and communities it serves.
Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service, Inc.     (410)539-6800 One N Charles St Baltimore, MD 21201 website: http://www.mvlslaw.org National studies have determined that 80% of the civil legal needs of the poor are unmet. MVLS strives to meet this critical need through volunteer lawyers who provide free legal representation to those who cannot afford to pay a lawyer.  Our clients typically need representation in the following areas: divorce and custody, foreclosure, landlord/tenant, housing conditions, consumer disputes, filing Chapter 7 bankruptcy, guardianship of adults or children, denial of public benefits, denial of long-term level of medical care, and criminal record expungement
Xemra Foundation Incorporated     (410)230-0950 101 W 22nd St 4TH Floor Baltimore, MD 21045 Xemra Foundation Inc was founded in 2001, to promote the development of fuller human potential and achievement of self-sufficiency through educational opportunity and empowerment. Our programs also include HIV, alcohol and drug treatment program, and community service provider. We look forward to a future where individuals especially in the impoverished neighborhood will achieve fuller participation as contributing members of the community thereby allowing them to experience the maximum degree of independence and acceptance in all aspects of their lives. Special emphasis will be given to issues of hunger, homelessness, youths, welfare to work, ex-offenders, and disadvantaged population.
Freedom Now Inc      PO Box 30155 Bethesda, MD 20814 website: http://www.freedom-now.org Freedom Now an all-volunteer, non-profit, non-partisan organization that seeks to facilitate representation for arbitrarily detained individuals who have neither used nor advocated violence and whose detention violates fundamental principles of international law. Our approach is to use focused legal, political, and public relations advocacy efforts designed to compel the release of individuals deprived of their liberty in violation of the rights and freedoms enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and other international human rights instruments. As a small organization with limited resources, Freedom Now works closely with other human rights organizations and lawyers to identify high-impact cases that would benefit from our approach.
Grassroots.Org, Inc.      7831 Woodmont Ave Bethesda, MD 20814 website: http://www.grassroots.org The mission of Grassroots.org is to serve as a catalyst for positive social change by leveraging modern technologies and business best practices.Often 501c3 organizations with the noblest of missions do not have adequate experience in the business world or adequate knowledge of modern technologies. This is because they must spend most of their time in the trenches making a difference and raising funds to stay afloat. This inadvertently leaves them unable to keep up with ever changing modern business and technology methods. Grassroots.org is committed to bringing these best practices to the doorsteps of nonprofits by offering free services that save precious cash resources and assist them in becoming more efficient. In turn, they can provide additional benefits to their constituents.
American Health Assistance Foundation     (301)948-3244 22512 GATEWAY CENTER DR CLARKSBURG, MD 20871 website: http://www.ahaf.org
Labrador Retriever Rescue Inc     (301)868-3524 PO Box 307 Clinton, MD 20735 website: http://www.lrr.org With Labrador Retrievers being one of the most popular dogs in the US, there is an increasing number of pure bred labs in shelters, being abandoned, abused and neglected. LRR's mission to reduce or assist in the rescue of those Labs and find them suitable new homes. Advocating spay/neuter programs and offering financial assistance when needed, LRR is doing it's part to curtail the overpopulation of animals.
Spina Bifida Association Of The Eastern Shore Of Maryland, Inc.     (800)621-3141 316 Prospect Ave Easton, MD 21601 website: http://www.sbaa.org/ The Mission of the Spina Bifida Association of America is to promote the prevention of spina bifida and to enhance the lives of all affected. The Association was founded in 1973 to address the specific needs of the spina bifida community and serves as the national representative of over 70 chapters. SBAA's efforts benefit thousands of infants, children, adults, parents and professionals each year.
Forestville Pregnancy Center, Inc.      3426 Donnell Dr Forestville, MD 20747 website: http://forestvillepregnancycenter.org The Forestville Pregnancy Center is dedicated to educating, empowering, and protecting the right of women to make healthy choices about their pregnancies and their sexuality.
Gaithersburg Help, Inc.     (301)216-2510 431 N Frederick Ave Gaithersburg, MD 20877 website: http://www.gaithersburghelp.org Gaithersburg HELP is an all-volunteer organization which was founded in 1968 by a consortium of Gaithersburg congregations to provide emergency assistance to area residents in need of food, medical prescriptions, infant needs, transportation for medical services, financial assistance to prevent eviction or utility cutoff and to provide referrals to providers of services not available through HELP. More than 30 years later our mission remains the same, meeting the increasing emergency needs of the Gaithersburg area.
National Fatherhood Initiative      101 Lake Forest Blvd Gaithersburg, MD 20877 website: http://www.fatherhood.org National Fatherhood Initiative's mission is to improve the well-being of children by increasing the proportion of children growing up with involved, responsible, and committed fathers.
A Global Healthcare Public Foundation Inc      1807 Fox Street Hyattsville, MD 20783 website: http://www.aglobalhf.org AGHPF works with small grass roots organizations providing assistance to help increase local capacity. AGHPF provides technical assistance to both MOH and local clinical Laboratories towards accreditation.
Interchurch Medical Assistance Inc     (410)635-8720 PO Box 429 New Windsor, MD 21776 website: http://www.imaworldhealth.org IMA World Health advances health and healing to vulnerable and marginalized people.
Maryland Classic Youth Orchestras, Inc     (301)582-5801 5301 Tuckerman Lane North Bethesda, MD 20852 website: http://mcyo.org Our purposes are twofold. First, and most importantly, MCYO seeks to provide the diverse children of greater Washington with an exceptional orchestral training program. Our region is rich with talented young children, who come from many social, economic, and ethnic backgrounds. Our goal is to bring them together in a program that spurs their musical talents to new heights. MCYO seeks to meet the need of serious young musicians, whose intellectual and musical development profit enormously from a serious ensemble playing experience. Research continues to show a strong link between the study of music and brain development in children. Students from our program demonstrate the point, going on to distinguished careers, often, but not necessarily in music. Many of them credit MCYO as a formative feature of their early lives, having given them skills and confidence to succeed in music or any discipline they choose. Our second purpose is to provide the Washington community with quality orchestral programs performed by an extraordinarily talented and diverse group of young people. MCYO's move into residence at the Music Center at Strathmore gives us the opportunity to present more music, inexpensively, to more people. From Strathmore, we also hope to send our five orchestras, particularly our elite and mobile string orchestra, Sinfonia, out into the community to provide music where perhaps it has not often been heard before.
Dishaa Inc      66 N Ritters Ln Owings Mills, MD 21117 website: http://www.dishaa.org Provide the resources needed for deserving young children from low income and poor families to realize their educational dreams.
Wumco Help, Inc.     (301)972-8481 PO Box 247 Poolesville, MD 20837 website: http://www.bigfoot.com/~wumco WUMCO Help is a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to providing quick and friendly emergency assistance to needy residents of Western Upper Montgomery County, Maryland--the postal districts of Poolesville 20837, Barnesville 20838, Beallsville 20839, Boyds 20841, and Dickerson 20842.
Als Association - Dc/Md/Va Chapter      7507 Standish Place Rockville, MD 20855 website: http://www.ALSinfo.org To lead the fight to cure and treat ALS through global cutting-edge research, and to empower people with Lou Gehrig?s disease and their families to live fuller lives by providing them with compassionate care and support.
American Kidney Fund, Inc.      6110 Executive Blvd Rockville, MD 20852 website: http://www.kidneyfund.org In 1971, the American Kidney Fund was established to pay for dialysis for people who otherwise would have died. Today, almost all Americans with end stage renal disease (ESRD) have access to dialysis and transplantation. Yet many of the costs associated with treatment remain the patient's responsibility, a heavy burden for many. For 38 years, the primary mission of AKF has remained constant: to provide financial aid for the urgent needs of people with chronic kidney disease.
Interfaith Works, Inc.      114 W Montgomery Ave Rockville, MD 20850 website: http://www.iworksmc.org Interfaith Works is an interfaith coalition of 140 congregations, working together to meet the needs of the poor. Last year, with the help of 7,000 volunteers, more than 30,000 men, women and children received assistance at our doors.We shelter homeless men and women, provide free clothing, new school supplies and baby layettes to income-qualified individuals and families, mentor at-risk families and independent foster youth, provide homeless families with affordable housing and intensive case management, mentor and provide loans for entrepreneurs from our low income community, and prevent evictions, provide prescription, rent and utility assistance.
National Association For Children Of Alcoholics      11426 Rockville Pike Rockville, MD 20852 website: http://www.nacoa.org National Association for Children of Alcoholics, founded in 1982, is dedicated to responding to the needs of young children experiencing a broad constellation of problems in families with parental alcoholism and drug dependencies. NACoA's goals are to raise public awareness, provide leadership in public policy, inform and educate academic and other community systems, advocate for appropriate education and prevention services, facilitate the exchange of information and resources, initiate and advance professional knowledge and understanding, and to advocate for accessible programs and services.
Little Sisters Of Jesus And Mary, Inc.      PO Box 1755 Salisbury, MD 21802 website: http://www.thejosephhouse.org Our purpose is to help stabilize family life and promote social justice by offering direct assistance to the poor, whatever their needs may be. The Joseph House is based in Salisbury, Maryland.
Metropets Online, Inc.     (301)873-0846 43 Randolph Rd Silver Spring, MD 20904 MetroPets Online was founded in 1999 by animal shelter volunteers who saw the need for bringing together and technologically supporting the efforts of the many shelters and rescue groups working in the Washington, DC area. MetroPets is run by animal lovers and computer professionals, all of whom are volunteers. MetroPets runs an active web site featuring extensive listings of local animals groups and a search engine for finding animals currently available for adoption from more than 70 animal rescue groups and shelters in the area. MetroPets also provides free computer technical assistance to the local animal groups.
The Theatre Pages, Inc.      4005 Adams Drive Silver Spring, MD 20902 website: http://theatrepages.org Providing Free Internet Services, website and e-mail domain hosting, support, and information enabling individual artists and arts organizations to maintain an otherwise cost or resource prohibitive internet presence.
Daughter For The Day, Inc.      4400 Stamp Road Temple Hills, MD 20748 website: http://www.daughterfortheday.org Daughter For The Day volunteers are able to provide a myriad of services to our seniors. From reading mail, to accompanying seniors on doctor visits, to helping seniors complete and file insurance forms, our services are many and varied. One of the main services we provide is the ability to help with the running of errands; the various outings that most people take for granted, but that can become challenging to people in their golden years. These outings, to the grocery store or to the shopping mall, obviously provide the direct benefit of allowing the senior to accomplish whatever errand needs to be accomplished. However, we also encourage and expect our Daughters to take advantage of the time spent with our clients to establish personal relationships above and beyond the scope of the task at hand. It is within our purview to stop for tea or for lunch on the way home, or to otherwise design an outing in such a fashion, as to encourage and facilitate personal interactions. We encourage the senior to view the running of an errand as an opportunity to get out of the house and spend a little quality time with someone whom they will come to view in much the same way as they would view a close friend or a daughter.
Roots Of Mankind Corp     (301)899-6800 Professional Bldg Temple Hills, MD 20748 website: http://www.romkind.org Roots of Mankind's mission is to promote successful community development and expand economic opportunity.
Humane Society Of Charles County, Inc.     (301)645-8181 71 Industrial Park Dr Waldorf, MD 20604 website: http://www.humanesocietycc.org The Humane Society of Charles County started in 1978 with only 25 members and less than $100. Our single objective was to rescue dogs and cats hit by cars. Our services have greatly expanded over the years and we are now able to shelter and rehabilitate rescued animals in our modern facility on Industrial Park Drive in St. Charles. In 1989, we expanded our dog run area from 10 to 24 runs. Thanks to contributions and generous grants, we now operate a spay/neuter clinic on the premises! As demand for our services grows with ever increasing population, our goals are to provide exceptional humane services, including care, adoption and humane education, to save a growing number of animals in need, and to ensure a safe environment for animals and people alike.
Tri-County Youth Services Bureau Inc     (301)645-1837 PO Box 1798 Waldorf, MD 20604 website: http://www.tcysb.org Tri-County Youth Services Bureau, Inc. is a model agency with a highly qualified, diverse staff and Board, dedicated to providing contemporary, accessible services to youth and their families in Southern Maryland; helping families to define and achieve their goals more effectively.
Human Services Programs Of Carroll County, Inc.     (410)857-2999 PO Box 489 Westminster, MD 21158 website: http://www.hspinc.org Founded in 1987, Human Services Programs of Carroll County, Inc.(HSP)is Carroll County's designated Community Action Agency. HSP offers a continuum of in-house services to meet social needs, resolve crisis situations and make referrals to other local service agencies. HSP partners with other agencies to ensure that solutions are provided and that services are unduplicated by coordinating its programs with other agencies.
Rape Crisis Intervention Service Of Carroll County Inc     (410)857-0900 PO Box 1563 Westminster, MD 21158 website: http://www.rapecrisiscc.org The mission of Rape Crisis is to provide counseling and support services to people in the community hurt by sexual violence, and to reduce sexual violence through education and advocacy.
Wheaton Rescue Squad Inc      11435 Grandview Ave Wheaton, MD 20902 website: http://www.wvrs.org The Wheaton Volunteer Rescue Squad was formed in 1955, and has served the community of Wheaton and surrounding areas of MontgomeryCounty for over 40 years. The Wheaton Volunteer Rescue Squad is a corps of volunteers who own, maintain and staff a fleet of 2 rescue squads,3 medic units, 3 ambulances, 3 utility vehicles, and associated equipment. Each member volunteers his or her own time one night a week from 6 p.m. until 6 a.m. and one day every third weekend. The station is staffedentirely by volunteers at all times except for weekdays, 6 a.m. until 6 p.m. when staffing is provided by both volunteers and the MontgomeryCounty Department of Fire and Rescue Services. Together, the Wheaton Volunteer Rescue Squad provides service 24 hours a day, 7 days aweek, 365 days a year at no charge to those served.