Provides free online tax filing (MyFreeTaxes.com), financial education classes, support for in-home early childhood education, and distribution of books through mail and events. Bicycles for working individuals, car repair assistance, GED testing scholarships and trade school scholarships may be available to those who qualify and are subject to funding availability. Includes Family, Friend & Neighbor (FFN) and Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library.

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Programs that provide services which support people's ability to use bicycles for local transportation purposes. Included are programs that provide community bikes that people can use when they are available or bicycles made available on a rental or free loan basis; Earn-A-Bike programs that provide refurbished, donated bicycles for youth who complete a course where they learn the basics of bike repair and maintenance, safe urban riding, health, and nutrition; bicycle buddy programs that encourage people who have never commuted by bicycle to try it; bicycle commuting education programs that provide route information and other tips for commuters; and bicycle commuter registries that connect people who want to ride their bicycles from outlying areas to city centers in the company of other commuters, often using off-road trails and bicycle lanes or routes that funnel traffic from outlying/suburban areas into the city center. Commuters meet at pre-agreed locations along these routes, often park-n-ride lots to begin their common commute.

Local Bicycle Transportation

Programs that provide pre-service or in-service training for individuals entering or currently involved in the delivery of child care services in any of a variety of child care settings. The training may focus on the elements of a safe and healthy environment, childhood development, behavior management, inclusion of children with special needs and developmentally appropriate practices.

Child Care Provider Training

Programs that provide educational workshops, printed materials, Internet website information or other types of resources for individuals, families, business owners and others that deal with the essentials of money management, asset building and financial independence. A wide variety of money management issues may be addressed including banking services, consumer credit lending, debt consolidation/repayment, bankruptcy, small business development, retirement planning, investment management, savings, risk management, tax and estate law and other similar topics.

Financial Literacy Training

Programs that provide Internet sites where people can file individual, business or other tax return information electronically using specific software products. Users answer questions about their income, withholding, dependents, deductions and other details and the software completes the calculations. The returns may be filed electronically with the appropriate federal and state tax agencies or printed for mailing through the postal system. 

Online Tax Preparation/E-Filing Sites

Programs that make books available to people who want and/or need them, either at a discount or no charge. Included are book exchange programs that allow people to swap books they have read for new ones; programs that provide books for children and/or young adults as a means of encouraging their interest in reading, often working in cooperation with local schools and libraries; and book giveaways or low cost book sales that target other populations.

Book Distribution Programs

Programs that provide or assist students to apply for awards which usually involve money and/or reduced tuition. Included are both needs-based scholarships which are awarded to outstanding students who are in financial need and honorary scholarships which are awarded on the basis of merit alone and normally carry a nominal monetary award. Scholarship funds come from many sources including private endowments, alumni contributions, college or university funds, individual departments or outside organizations.

Scholarships

Programs that pay for or provide maintenance and repair services for people whose automobiles, trucks, trailers or other motorized vehicles are due for regular maintenance or have mechanical or structural problems. Also included are work experience programs that provide automobile repairs for the general public.

Automotive Repair and Maintenance

Joint fund-raising efforts usually administered by a nonprofit "umbrella" organization like United Way or United Jewish Appeal which, in turn, distributes the contributed funds to a diverse range of nonprofit agencies. Some of these programs may also provide direct services for individuals and organizations in their community. 

Federated Giving Programs

Divisions of businesses or nonprofit agencies that are responsible for developing products or delivering designated services to the public. Departments of NGOs are generally led by a manager, supervisor, director or vice president.

Nongovernmental Agency Departments

Programs that produce statistics which relate to services utilization patterns within the community and provide data regarding duplication of service and service gaps for use by public and private planning bodies and service providers in their allocation decisions.

Human Services Statistics

Governing boards, advisory boards, commissions, committees and other groups that provide advice, guidance and, in some cases, formal oversight, for public and private organizations that are responsible for the provision of services to the community; that assess existing social conditions and problems and develop and assist in the implementation of specific strategies for meeting the human service needs of the community; and/or which assist community agencies and organizations to coordinate the provision of services in an efficient, nonduplicative way. Also included are entities that are composed of community agencies which have an established networking relationship that provides a collaborative approach to addressing specific identified community needs and problems.

Planning/Coordinating/Advisory Groups

Provides basic bicycle maintenance classes and rents repair tools and space for fixing bikes. Sells low-cost refurbished bikes, bicycle parts, and bike art.

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Programs that accept new or secondhand tools and equipment that are necessary for employment, refurbish them if necessary, and keep them for use in their own programs, or donate them to other community-based organizations for their own use or for distribution to the people they serve.

Work Tools/Equipment Donation Programs

Programs that accept any of a wide variety of new or secondhand recreational gear that is required to participate in an individual or team sport or game, repair the items if necessary, and keep them for use in their own programs, donate them to other community-based organizations for distribution to the people they serve, or sell them to raise money for agency programs.

Sports Equipment Donation Programs

Programs that provide manuals, classes, individualized instruction or other opportunities for people to learn to perform routine maintenance on their bicycles (which generally involves lubricating, tightening, adjusting or replacing parts) or to make repairs when a part is broken or otherwise malfunctioning. Bicycle components that may need attention include the handlebars, hand brakes, shifters, seat, headset, brakes, crankset, chain, derailleurs and internal hubs, and wheels as well as fenders, racks and other accessories that may be attached.

Do It Yourself Bicycle Repair Instruction

Programs that accept bicycles, repair them, if necessary, and give them to individuals or families who have no means of transportation, donate them to other community-based organizations for distribution to the people they serve, or sell them to raise money for agency programs.

Bicycle Donation Programs

Nonprofit organizations that accept automobiles, trucks, vans and other vehicles used primarily for transportation purposes as donations from individuals who want a tax write-off. In most cases, donated automobiles are sold to raise funds for the organization, but some programs repair the vehicles, if necessary, and keep them for their own use, give them to individuals or families who have no means of private transportation or donate them to other nonprofit organizations for use in their program or for distribution to the people they serve.

Automobile Donation Programs

Gift shops, retail stores or other enterprises whose revenues benefit one or more nonprofit organizations.

Nonprofit Retail Stores

Government and nonprofit agencies that have positions within their organizations for individuals who have been convicted of an offense and ordered by the court to do community service in lieu of or in addition to incarceration, fines, restitution or other sanctions.