Causes: Children & Youth, Philanthropy, Philanthropy, Voluntarism & Grantmaking Foundations, Youth Development

Mission: The Kimberly Moore Foundation is about the world joining together to create a better tomorrow and future for children. The Kimberly Moore Foundation is dedicated to creating a variety of innovative programs that bring hope to children in need all over the world, helping those without a voice, empowering individuals and communities to change lives. Our objective is to fulfill the wishes of underprivileged children through an element of surprise. . . . a "WOW" moment whenever possible!Some of our programs include: "Adopt-A-Letter", "Keeping Harmony Alive" , "Better Minds through Reading", "Adopt A Country", "Adopt A Light", "Career Exploration", and the "Hope Ambassador" program for teens who wish to pay it forward. The Kimberly Moore Foundation recognizes there are many children, due to financial struggles and lack of resources, who are never exposed to opportunities that allow them to see the hope and possibilities that exist in our world. Granting a dream can help change a child's outlook towards life for the better and can be seen in each of the kids we kept in touch with.

Results: The Kimberly Moore Foundation's - Adopt A Letter program was founded in 2007 Christmas after Kimberly Moore found a letter at the U. S. Post Office addressed to Santa Claus of a child asking for food. That very Christmas Kimberly picked up hundreds of letters from the U. S. post office shredding facility and personally traveled door to door delivering hope to 1,700 children. Today Kimberly Moore has adopted the wishes of over 100,000 children in the community surprising each one at their doorstep with food, groceries, clothing, furniture, school supplies, computers, educational scholarships and more. Today Kimberly Moore is known as the "Real Santa Claus" in the community and on television. Her efforts have been widely recognized in several media outlets with special guests appearances on The Doctors TV show (Holiday Extravaganza) on CBS as a hometown hero. Other popular programs include: 1) Keeping Harmony Alive - a program dedicated to saving music programs in schools that are slowly being eliminated due to state education budget cuts. KHA focuses on collecting instruments and funds to supply the appropriate tools and mentoring to keep the music programs alive. The Kimberly Moore Foundation has worked with the city of Bell Garden's and proud to secure their music program for the next 15-20 years. 2) Better Minds Through Reading - We believe that every child should have access to books and the opportunity to build their own home library. Today the Kimberly Moore Foundation has partnered together with various non-profits collecting over 8,500 books for children in need!3) Hope Ambassador program: The Kimberly Moore Foundation grooms a select group of teen leaders who wish to pay it forward to activate their own communities in making a difference. Hope Ambassadors (the very own children who were helped through Adopt A Letter) have now assisted in community service making wishes come true for other children and families, bringing hope to over 5,000 children in the community. 4) Adopt A Country- Every year with your help we adopt a letter of a country in need! Today we have adopted EL Salvador and proud to launch 5 Kimberly Moore Foundation Learning Centers in 5 cities. We are also in the process of constructing our first "Girl Friendly" school in Liberia, West Africa through our partnership with A New Dimension of Hope. 4) Adopt A Light: This is a program we created through our partnership with LUCI Solar lights, after learning that most of the children we are helping with education in developing countries do not have access to electricity and are unable to do homework once the sun goes down. Today we have provided over 350 homes with inflatable solar lights.

Target demographics: underprivileged children and families

Direct beneficiaries per year: 1,000 - 5,000 children

Geographic areas served: United States, Los Angeles (primary), El Salvador, Africa (Adopt A Country program)

Programs: Community Service, Education, Mentoring, Leadership