Locks of Love is a public non-profit organization that provides hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children in the United States and Canada under age 21 suffering from long-term medical hair loss from any diagnosis.  They meet a unique need for children by using donated hair to create the highest quality hair prosthetics. Most of the children helped by Locks of Love have lost their hair due to a medical condition called alopecia areata, which has no known cause or cure. The prostheses that Locks of Love provides help to restore their self-esteem and their confidence, enabling them to face the world and their peers.

Locks of Love's mission is to return a sense of self confidence and normalcy to children suffering from hair loss by utilizing donated ponytails to provide the highest quality hair prosthetics to financially disadvantaged children. The children receive hair prostheses free of charge or on a sliding scale, based on financial need

 To learn more, please visit:

http://www.locksoflove.org/

Children International is a nonprofit, humanitarian organization dedicated to easing the burdens of poverty on poor children. Their child sponsorship solution provides, health, educational, material and emotional aid to very poor children from around the world. One-to-one sponsorship gives them the opportunity to break the cycle of poverty and realize their full potential.

Matter of Trust is collaborating with thousands of salons throughout the US and abroad, that donate their hair clippings to soak up oil spills. Last year over 2,600 oil spills occurred in the world. They weren't all are high profile, but most had an impact on the environment. Phil McCrory, a hair stylist from Alabama, first discovered how hair can help. He was watching CNN coverage on the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. He noticed the fur on the Alaskan otters completely soaked with oil. He began testing how much oil he could collect with the hair clipping from his salon. Phil then invented the hairmat which has other uses as well.

To learn more about this program visit:

http://http://www.matteroftrust.org/programs/hairmatsinfo.html

Parents Without Partners provides single parents and their children with an opportunity for enhancing personal growth, self-confidence and sensitivity towards others by offering an environment for support, friendship, and the exchange of parenting techniques.

http://www.parentswithoutpartners.org/