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WereldOuders focuses on the empowerment and personal development of vulnerable children and families in Latin America and the Caribbean. With us, they receive attention and the support that suits them. WereldOuders has a unique approach, based on four pillars: a safe home, health, education and independence. By providing a social safety net while building the children's self-confidence, they regain a future perspective, an opportunity to realize their dreams. WereldOuders has projects in nine countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. These are Bolivia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua and Peru. A home is the most important safe base for a child. When a home situation is scarred by poverty, addiction, violence or the death of one of the parents, the secure base falls away. WereldOuders and partner organization NPH are committed to creating or restoring a safe home base for children and youth in Latin America. Our vision of "a safe home" has changed significantly over the past years. NPH was founded in Mexico in 1954 with the opening of a children's home for children who had nowhere else to go. The organization continued to expand to include children's homes in the other eight countries. More than 19,000 children found shelter in an NPH home. These homes were called "family homes" by the organization. NPH placed great importance on creating a warm, loving family atmosphere in the homes. No matter how well this worked out, a family home can never replace a real family. With today's knowledge, arising from empirical evidence and in accordance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, we recognize the unintended harmful effect that institutionalization has on children and youth. Children and youth become alienated from their families and communities of origin. Stigmas attached to growing up in a children's home lead to (young) adults struggling to find their place in society. Having no family to fall back on makes it difficult to hold your own in society as an "uprooted" adult. 'Our' children can always come to NPH even later in life, but that is an exception in the world of children's homes. Uprootedness in general is a major problem: this group has difficulty raising their own children and keeping them from ending up in crime or on the streets. International child welfare organizations are therefore increasingly focusing on de-institutionalization. NPH, too, is going through this transition. We can and want to do more to really change the situation of families and children. We have to change course. We have therefore started to focus more and more on supporting vulnerable families and communities to prevent families from falling apart. This is not entirely new: since its founding, NPH has supported more than 80,000 children who did not live in an NPH family home.

Anime For Humanity is a 501©(3) charity non-profit dedicated to using Anime and Cosplay as a medium to challenge the stigma surrounding mental health. We attend conventions all over the nation to meet people face to face, start conversations that spark change, and hand out resources to anyone looking for support and community. We believe that Anime and Cosplay give us an opportunity to move people from silence to honesty, from isolation to community, from pain to hope and healing. Our vision is to use anime as a tool to create a world where mental illness is understood, effectively treated, and ultimately prevented. There are many who suffer from mental health issues silently. They might not be ready to reach out, know where to look for help, or find the courage to step into therapy. Our mission is to reach them and provide them with hope and the mental health resources they need. Taking time to understand their mental illness and celebrate what brings us together in conventions can be one of the most direct ways we can reduce social isolation and challenge the stigma surrounding mental health.

"Mentivity aims to mentor and support as many of our young people, families, schools and the wider community as possible, to enhance social cohesion, social mobility, improve educational outcomes and raise aspirations for our youth. "An opportunity to create a safe space where mentees can meaningfully engage through active collaboration, pursue experiences via guided discovery that will elevate their personal, academic and social advancement/progression/expansion. Established upon honesty, respect and trust whilst nurturing their passions. Equipping our mentees with increased resilience needed to overcome adversity and alter their life trajectories. To create safer communities in which individuals and families can thrive" Our passion and drive to improve the personal, social, educational and employment outcomes for our young people will always be at the very heart of our work. Mentivity are committed to helping and assisting our young people, giving them the opportunity to achieve their true potential and shape their futures through empowerment, accountability, critical thinking, perseverance, responsibility and humility. We believe in creating a long-lasting legacy so that our much needed work and support continues on within our communities indefinitely through our network of Mentivity mentees.

The mission of the Littleton Town Hall Arts Center is to enrich the cultural, social, and educational life of the community through professionally produced live theatre, concerts, other cultural events, and year round educational programs for children and adults.

The Welman Project connects schools and nonprofits with the community in ways that ignite creativity, environmental activism, and social responsibility. We serve as a free resource, distributing surplus materials from local companies for creative reuse in the classroom and beyond.

International WOW Company is a non-profit organization founded in 1996 by Josh Fox and a diverse group of international artists. International WOW Company is a film, theatre and civic engagement company made up of filmmakers, theater-makers, writers, activists, actors and artists from diverse cultural backgrounds, who collaborate to create new work that addresses current international social, environmental and political crises. The company was founded to create new socially conscious work and also, importantly, to engage with its audience to foster activism and participation in the political process.

Triad Pride Performing Arts consist of LGBTQ and their allies, who perform to entertain, enlighten, and enrich while promoting equality and social justice for all people regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity–fostering pride, understanding, and acceptance.

We are a non-profit performing arts organization committed to gradual and sustainable growth in order to remain true to our core mission: to produce exciting professional live music, theatre and humanities events rooted in strong social values.

Manitou Music Foundation (MMF) is a musician guided, community-based foundation supporting the Manitou Music scene. We promote MMF musicians, promote local venues along with state and national locations. Provide communication and social media.

The mission of the AFRP is to perpetuate and promote the rich, cultural Palestinian heritage of the Ramallah family and their descendants in the diaspora – estimated at approximately 40,000 in the U.S. – by providing programs that foster cultural and social interaction, as well as educational, humanitarian, civic and charitable opportunities.

Our mission as a social impact entertainment design academy is to educate, mentor and place some of the most gifted aspiring artists through merit-based scholarships in order for them to enhance the booming video game, animation and VFX industries.

Ashé Cultural Arts Center (an initiative of Efforts of Grace, Inc.), located at 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. in New Orleans, is an effort to combine the intentions of neighborhood and economic development with the awesome creative forces of culture, community and art. We use culture and art to promote individual, community and economic development. Central to this mission is the recognition that American society has a marginalized view of African-Americans and their participation in the social and culture of the nation. Our primary goal is to interrupt that social and cultural view, and to promote social and cultural equity. Thriving since 1998, Ashé is a gathering place for emerging and established artists to present, create and collaborate in giving life to their art. The center, a multi-faceted institution, contains two event halls and often houses concerts, banquets, seminars, theater, a year-round youth program and more. Visit www.ashecac.org or call (504) 569-9070 for more information.