The list below includes 501(c)(3) organizations that have already been vetted and are eligible to be nominated.

Nominations Do Not need to come from this list. If you would like to nominate, this may be a good place to start if you don’t already have a charity in mind.

Past 100WWCA recipients are not eligible for nomination for a period of 2 years.

• Big Brothers Big Sisters of The Capital Region
• Bethlehem Community Fund
• Brain Injury Association of New York
• Bus Stop Club Inc
• Capital District Women Veterans (recipient 8/2021)
• Capital Region Miracle League
• Capital Region Sponsor-A-Scholar (recipient 2/2020)
• Capital Roots (recipient 11/2018)
• Center for Community Justice – Supervised Family Visitation Program
• Christopher House With the Capital District Women’s Veteran Program
• Community Hospice Foundation
• The Donna Crandall Foundation (recipient 2/2016)
• Empire State Youth Orchestra
• Equinox, Inc
• Family Promise of the Capital Region (recipient 2/2021)
• 15 LOVE Capital Region Youth Tennis
• FOCUS Interfaith Food Pantry
• Girls, INC (recipient 8/2019)
• Girls On The Run Capital Region
• Grassroot Givers (recipient 2/2018)
• HATAS Homeless & Travelers Aid Society
• Interfaith Partnership for the Homeless (recipient 11/2017)
• Joseph’s House & Shelter (recipient 5/2017)
• Junior Achievement of Northeastern NY (recipient 5/2021)
• Koinonia Primary Care (recipient 5/2019)
• Let’s Be Superheroes: the Karen Mosseau Fund
• Literacy Volunteers of Rensselaer County
• Mission Accomplished Transition Services
• Night Out for You, Inc
• Northeast Avian Rescue Inc
• Northern Rivers Family of Services
• Operation AT EASE
• The Pine Hollow Arboretum
• The Red Bookshelf (recipient 2/2018)
• Refugee Community Health Partnership of Trinity Alliance of the Capital Region
• RISSE – Refugee and Immigrant Support Services (recipient 11/2020)
• Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Capital Region
• St. Anne Institute (recipient 2/2019)
• Samaritan Counseling Center
• Songwriting With Soldiers (recipient 11/2016)
• South End Children’s Café (recipient 8/2017)
• TAUM (recipient 11/2019)
• Things of My Very Own (recipient 8/2020)
• To Life! (recipient 2/2017)
• Troy Albany Hockey Association
• Underground Railroad History Project of the Capital Region
• Unity House (recipient 8/2018)
• USCRI US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants
• Vanderheyden
• Westhill Refugee Welcome Center
• Wizard’s Wardrobe