causes we support
African Wildlife Foundation
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The African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) is the leading international conservation organization focused solely on Africa. We believe that protecting Africa’s wildlife and wild landscapes is the key to the future prosperity of Africa and its people – and for over 45 years, we have made it our work to help ensure that Africa’s wild resources endure. Founded in 1961, the AWF boasts a staff that is 80% African, and is dedicated to conserving elephants, mountain gorillas, lions and other threatened species. AWF’s tool kit includes land and habitat protection; species-specific conservation projects and partnerships with local communities to create solutions which allow people and wildlife to coexist.
American Community Gardening Association
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The American Community Gardening Association (ACGA) is a bi-national nonprofit membership organization of professionals, volunteers and supporters of community greening in urban and rural communities.
ACGA and its member organizations work to promote and support all aspects of community food and ornamental gardening, urban forestry, preservation and management of open space, and integrated planning and management of developing urban and rural lands. The Association supports community gardening by facilitating the formation and expansion of state and regional community gardening networks; developing resources in support of community gardening; and, encouraging research and conducting educational programs.
Architecture for Humanity
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Architecture for Humanity is a nonprofit design services firm founded in 1999. The organization works to build a more sustainable future through the power of professional design. By tapping a network of more than 40,000 professionals willing to lend time and expertise to help those who would not otherwise be able to afford their services, AFH brings design, construction and development services where they are most critically needed. Each year 10,000 people directly benefit from structures designed by Architecture for Humanity. AFH's advocacy, training and outreach programs impact an additional 50,000 people annually and their clients include community groups, aid organizations, housing developers, government agencies, corporate divisions, and foundations.
A's and Aces
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A’s & Aces' mission is to provide academic assistance, life skills, and tennis instruction to New Orleans public school children in a safe and secure environment. The organization serves over 500 children through in/after-school and summer programming.
CARE
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CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. CARE places special focus on working alongside poor women because, equipped with the proper resources, women have the power to help whole families and entire communities escape poverty. Women are at the heart of CARE's community-based efforts to improve basic education, prevent the spread of HIV, increase access to clean water and sanitation, expand economic opportunity and protect natural resources. CARE also delivers emergency aid to survivors of war and natural disasters, and helps people rebuild their lives.
DonorsChoose
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DonorsChoose.org grew out of a Bronx high school where teachers experienced first-hand the scarcity of learning materials in our public schools. Charles Best, then a social studies teacher, created DonorsChoose.org in 2000 so that individuals could connect directly with classrooms in need. Its mission is to improve public education by empowering every teacher to be a change-maker and enabling any citizen to be a philanthropist. The organization's vision is a nation where students in every community have the resources they need to learn.
Embrace
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The Embrace mission and vision are simple ones. The Infant Warmer is the first in a line of affordable products that Embrace will innovate for low income communities. The organization is not alone in this fight to decrease infant mortality. In 1990, world leaders at the United Nations Millennium Summit pledged to reduce the deaths of children under 5 years of age by two thirds by 2015. The Embrace Infant Warmer is an innovation that will help families save their children, and governments work towards the United Nations Millennium Development goals.
Fashion Targets Breast Cancer
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Fashion Targets Breast Cancer® (FTBC), a charitable initiative of the Council of Fashion Designers of America/CFDA Foundation, marshals the goodwill and services of every element of the fashion industry to raise public awareness and funds to fight breast cancer.
First Book
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First Book provides new books to children in need addressing one of the most important factors affecting literacy – access to books. By providing new books to children in preschools and after-school programs, mentoring and tutoring programs, shelters and day care centers and beyond, First Book provides resources to empower teachers and administrators. With access to high-quality books, educational materials and more, these caring leaders can better teach, plan curriculum and impart a love of learning, elevating the quality of the programs and opportunities available to children in need.
Over the past 20 years First Book has delivered more than 70 million books to programs serving children in need across the United States and Canada.
The Lake Tanganyika Floating Health Clinic
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The primary focus of The Lake Tanganyika Floating Health Clinic is to provide health care access to these otherwise hard-to-reach populations residing in the coastal regions of Lake Tanganyika. Using green technology and practices to outfit and run a well-founded marine vessel with modern medical facilities and accommodations supporting a full medical staff and crew, the Floating Health Clinic will provide desperately needed health care access to individuals and communities who otherwise would not benefit from basic healthcare services, much less cutting-edge medical care.
Girls Write Now
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Girls Write Now is the first organization to combine mentoring and writing instructions within the context of all-girl programming. Since 1998, it has given more than 3,000 at-risk girls from New York City's under-funded public high schools access to a supportive mentoring relationship, a safe place to share ideas, and an intergenerational writing community. While half of New York City's youth fail to complete high school, 100% of Girls Write Now seniors graduate and move on to college -- bringing with them awards, scholarships, writing skills, and a new sense of confidence. In 2010, their students were awarded a total of 30 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Girls Write Now is distinguished by the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities as one of the top after-school arts and culture programs in the nation.
GlobalGiving
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GlobalGiving is a leader in global philanthropy, providing a robust online marketplace linking donors to high-quality development projects around the world. Since 2003 GlobalGiving has helped catalyze lasting change by making it possible for over 120,000 donors to support thousands of innovative social entrepreneurs and organizations addressing social and economic problems in their communities.
GO Campaign
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GO Campaign is dedicated to empowering orphans and vulnerable children throughout the world to secure a better future. The organization is a youth-driven nonprofit that cuts out the red tape and provides a direct connection to deserving grassroots organizations serving children in need. GO Campaign raises awareness and funds for programs which provide basic human needs to children such as shelter, food, clean water, education, and medical care.
Grassroot Soccer
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Founded by former professional soccer players in 2002, Grassroot Soccer (GRS) trains African soccer stars, coaches, teachers, and peer educators in the world’s most HIV-affected countries to deliver an interactive HIV prevention and life skills curriculum to youth. Translating research into action and leveraging the excitement around professional soccer, GRS attracts and engages young people through schools, community outreach, and social multimedia. GRS has educated more than 300,000 kids via its ‘Skillz’ curriculum, and is a leader in the sport for development movement.
Greyston Foundation
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Greyston Foundation is a national model for comprehensive community development. Greyston uses entrepreneurship to solve the problems of the inner city and reduce reliance on external funding sources. Greyston programs reach 2,200 community members annually.
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society
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HIAS, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, is the international migration agency of the American Jewish community. The organization provides rescue and refuge for persecuted and oppressed Jews around the world. In recent years, as the population of Jewish refugees has diminished, HIAS has directed its expertise to assist refugees and immigrants of all backgrounds. HIAS also advocates in Congress for fair and effective policies affecting refugees and immigrants. Since 1881, HIAS has assisted more than 4,500,000 people worldwide.
Honey Bee Research Fund
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The UC Davis campus has had an active bee research program for 76 years. It is one of the oldest in the country. This unique research and teaching facility is essential because honey bees are so important for pollinating most agricultural crops. Honey bees are as vital to many crops as water, fertilizer, and sunlight. For example, almonds cannot be grown at all without bee pollination. Healthy bees in abundant populations require a research staff to solve continuing problems concerning nutrition, breeding, pathology, parasitology, toxicology, behavior, cultural techniques, and general management practices under field conditions.
The Humane Society of the United States
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The Humane Society of the United States is the nation's largest animal protection organization, backed by 11 million Americans. The nonprofit works to reduce suffering and improve the lives of all animals by advocating for better laws; investigating animal cruelty; encouraging corporations to adopt animal-friendly policies; conducting disaster relief and animal rescue; and providing direct care for thousands of animals at its sanctuaries, emergency shelters, wildlife rehabilitation centers, and mobile veterinary clinics.
International Rescue Committee
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The International Rescue Committee responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. At work today in over 40 countries and in 22 U.S. cities, the IRC restores safety, dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure. The IRC leads the way from harm to home.
Inveneo
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More than 2 billion people in the developing world live in rural and remote communities that lack basic access to information and communications technologies, such as telephony, computing, and Internet access. Access to these technologies, directly or via service organizations, can improve their lives in simple yet profound ways. Inveneo's mission is to get the tools of information communications technology, such as computers, telephony, and Internet access to those who need it most — people and organizations in rural and highly underserved communities of the developing world.
KaBOOM!
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KaBOOM! is a national non-profit dedicated to saving play for America's children. KaBOOM's mission is to create great playspaces through the participation and leadership of communities. KaBOOM! ultimately envisions a place to play within walking distance of every child in America. In saving play, KaBOOM! is helping create: Healthier, happier, and smarter children, greener cities, better schools and stronger neighborhoods. To date, KaBOOM! has built over 1,800 playgrounds, saving play for over 3.5 million children.
The List Project
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The List Project is a non-profit operating in the U.S., founded with the belief that the United States Government has a clear and urgent moral obligation to resettle to safety Iraqis who are imperiled due to their affiliation with the United States of America. The List Project has two pillars. First, help as many of the hundreds of Iraqis on its constantly-expanding List make it to the United States through a groundbreaking partnership with several of the country's top law firms and over 150 attorneys. Second, provide a "cushion" for resettled Iraqis upon their arrival to America by building an integration support fund to help defray emergency expenses, and helping them find meaningful employment through our expanding network of partnerships.
National Women's History Museum
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The Museum researches, collects and exhibits the contributions of women to the social, cultural, economic and political life of our nation in a context of world history. The museum will use innovative and engaging means including permanent and online exhibits, educational programs, and outreach efforts to communicate the breadth of women's experiences and accomplishments to the widest possible audience. The sharing of this knowledge will illuminate and encourage women and men, people of all classes, races and cultures to move into the future with respect, equal confidence, greater partnership, and opportunity.
The Nature Conservancy
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The Nature Conservancy is the leading conservation organization working around the world to protect ecologically important lands and waters for nature and people. The organization addresses threats to conservation involving climate change, fresh water, oceans, and conservation lands. With the support of more than 1 million members, The Nature Conservancy has built a tremendous record of success since its founding in 1951: it has protected more than 119 million acres of land and 5,000 miles of rivers worldwide — and operates more than 100 marine conservation projects globally. The Nature Conservancy works in all 50 states and more than 30 countries — protecting habitats from grasslands to coral reefs, from Australia to Alaska to Zambia.
Operation Gratitude
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Tens of thousands of American Service Members are deployed in hostile and remote regions of the world, including the Middle East, Afghanistan, and on ships throughout international waters. The physical conditions they must endure are difficult and they may be separated from loved ones for long periods of time. Operation Gratitude seeks to lift morale and put smiles on faces by sending care packages addressed to individual Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines deployed in harm's way. Operation Gratitude care packages contain food, hygiene products, entertainment items and personal letters of appreciation, all wrapped with good wishes of love and support.
OrchKids
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Through the OrchKids initiative, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is providing opportunities for personal development to Baltimore's most vulnerable children. The organization's aim is to help them overcome the social challenges that they face, including poverty, crime and failing public schools. Many similar music education programs focus solely on developing professional musicians; however, the BSO is committed to serving its community and helping to develop the well-rounded citizens of tomorrow through music.
PeacePlayers International
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PeacePlayers International (PPI) is an innovative global organization that uses sport to unite and educate young people in divided communities. PeacePlayers International was founded in 2001 by Sean Tuohey, on the premise that “children who play together can learn to live together.” PeacePlayers International currently operates programs in Northern Ireland, South Africa, Cyprus, and the Middle East that bring together thousands of children to form positive relationships, develop leadership skills, and improve their futures. Over the past six years, the organization has worked with over 45,000 children. PeacePlayers International is led by global network of youth leaders who work together as coaches, mentors and facilitators.
See Jane
Six years ago, while watching children's entertainment with her young daughter, Academy Award winner Geena Davis noticed a remarkable imbalance in the ratio of male to female characters. From that small starting point, Davis commissioned the largest research project ever undertaken on gender in children's entertainment. The research showed that in the top-grossing G-rated films, there were three male characters for every one female - a statistic that still has not improved. SEE JANE is a program of theGeena Davis Institute on Gender in Media that utilizes research, education and advocacy to engage the entertainment industry, parents and the public to recognize the need for gender balance in movies, TV, and other media aimed at children 11 and under.
Sea Turtle Conservancy
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The Sea Turtle Conservancy is the world's oldest sea turtle research and conservation group. The organization was founded in 1959 by world-renowned sea turtle expert Dr. Archie Carr to save sea turtles from eminent extinction through rigorous science-based conservation. Headquartered in Florida, the organization carries out worldwide programs to conserve and recover sea turtle populations within the Caribbean, Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through research, education, advocacy and the protection of their natural habitats.
The Smithsonian's National Zoo
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The Smithsonian’s National Zoo has been studying giant pandas for 30 years, both in the wild and in captivity. With as few as 1,600 pandas left scientists need to learn quickly how to save them from extinction. Friends of the National Zoo (FONZ) is the dedicated partner of the National Zoological Park raising money to support its worldwide science and conservation projects.
TechnoServe
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Climbing out of poverty in the developing world takes more than hard work; it takes economic opportunities. Entrepreneurs create these opportunities by identifying and capitalizing on good business ideas. TechnoServe helps them turn their visions into reality. The organization's programs focus on developing entrepreneurs, building businesses and industries, and improving the business environment. Over the course of four decades, TechnoServe has learned what does and doesn't work. Its scaled-up initiatives and expansion into new industries and regions build upon and adapt our successful business models and programs.
Toys for Tots
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The U. S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots program collects new, unwrapped toys during October, November and December each year, and distributes those toys as Christmas gifts to needy children in the community in which the campaign is conducted. Toys for Tots goal is to help less fortunate children throughout the United States experience the joy of Christmas; to play an active role in the development of one of our nation’s most valuable resources – children; to unite all members of local communities in a common cause for three months each year during the annual toy collection and distribution campaign; and to contribute to better communities in the future.
The Envision Foundation
Seeing the world through a camera lens gives kids a new perspective, changing the way they view their communities and the world around them. The Envision Foundation uses photography and digital media to empower teenagers in Haiti, China and the US, giving them a vital outlet to share their stories. We think that's excellent exposure!
