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Help for Families: Free Resources for Parents and Kids

Free help for parents and kids: children's health coverage, food, child care and Head Start, diapers and school supplies, free lessons and activities, tax credits, and parenting support.

Emergency Help: Where to Turn First

Where to turn first in an emergency: crisis lines, shelter tonight, food, utility shutoffs, eviction, disasters, emergency bills, and more.

Food Help: How to Get Free Food and Groceries

How to get free food and groceries: food pantries and free meals, SNAP and the 2026 work rules, WIC, school and summer meals, food help for seniors, and more.

Giving Tuesday 2026: 25 Ways to Give, Even With No Money

Giving Tuesday 2026 is December 1. Simple ways to give, from free ideas that cost nothing to small gifts that go a long way, plus how to give safely.

Check Before You Give: How to Tell if a Charity or Fundraiser Is Legit

How to tell if a charity or GoFundMe is legit before you donate: free tools to look up any cause, warning signs of donation scams, and what to do if you gave to a scam.

Disability Help: Free Resources for People with Disabilities and Their Families

Free help for people with disabilities and their families: where to start, disability benefits, health coverage, equipment, work, ABLE accounts, housing, and your rights.

Help for Seniors: Free Resources for Older Adults and Their Families

Free help for older adults: meals, help at home, Medicare questions, lower drug costs, bills, legal help, scams, loneliness, and support for caregivers.

Help Chance Live

♥️ Help Keep Chance Alive Chance has a dream too. He wants to stay on Chances.org and continue helping people find opportunities for positive growth and change. But, he can't do it without you.

Give a Gift. Start a Conversation. Create a Chance.

Chances.org was created on one simple belief: everybody deserves a chance. Wearing "Be Someone's Chance" says something about you before you say a word.

Discover people and organizations sharing opportunities, resources, encouragement, knowledge, services, and kindness. One of these Chances may be the opening you, or someone you know, has been waiting for.

Chance Champions Gallery: Inspiring People Who Give Others a Chance

Browse the Chance Champions gallery: inspiring people and groups who use their time, talent, and resources to give others a chance, plus simple ways to follow their lead.

Karma Counter

Today's Chance Challenge: do a kindness, take a chance, and track your own Karma score. Can you reach 5 points this week?

25 Years of Chances: A Note from the Heart

1999-2024 Twenty-five years ago, the internet was a very different place. When I first registered Chances.org, I had a simple vision: to create a corner of the digital world where people could champion one another.