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The mission of the Center For Leadership Development (CLD) is to foster the advancement of minority youth as future professional, business, and community leaders by providing experiences that encourage personal development and educational attainment. Our youth development programs and services are infused with our five Principles for Success: character development, educational excellence, leadership effectiveness, community service and career achievement. We serve youth from 4th grade through college completion with value-based college readiness programs, counseling and tutoring services.

Merit School of Music transforms the lives of Chicago-area youth by providing the highest quality music education – with a focus on underserved communities – inspiring young people to achieve their full musical and personal potential.

Eisenhower Dance Detroit (founded in 1991)is a professional dance repertory company. Through performances, education, and community engagement, Eisenhower Dance Detroit will deepen the understanding and appreciation of contemporary dance regionally, nationally, and internationally.

To reduce the number of homeless cats in our community through sterilization of homeless and owned cats, to adopt cats into permanent homes, to educate the public on all things cat, and to provide for the wellbeing of our sanctuary cats.

Community Voices Heard is an organization of low income people, mostly women on welfare and public housing residents, working together to improve the lives of our members' families and all poor people in New York City and State. We are directed, run and being built by low-income people. We are a growing grass roots organization that uses public education, public policy research, community organizing, leadership development, voter education & mobilization, and direct action issue organizing to build our membership and to organize around issues that are defined by our membershiwe broadly define "welfare activism" to be multi issue, and thus must include issues such as education, training, jobs, housing, economic development and other community issues. We fill a critical gap in that our organization connects public policy with grass roots organizing and leadership development.

Overpopulation threatens the quality of life for people everywhere. Population Connection is the national grassroots population organization that educates young people and advocates progressive action to stabilize world population at a level that can be sustained by Earth's resources.

FLY’s mission is to prevent juvenile crime and incarceration through legal education, leadership training, and one-on-one mentoring. At FLY we believe ALL our children deserve a chance to become more than their past mistakes.

The Junior League of Stamford-Norwalk, Inc. (JLSN) is an organization of women committed to promoting voluntarism, developing the potential of women and improving the community through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers. Our purpose is exclusively educational and charitable.

Latino Literacy Now is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in North San Diego County. The mission of the organization is to promote literacy in the community in all forms: reading, educational, financial, health, and community awareness. We strive to achieve this through partnerships with appropriate other organizations as well as with our own programs. To date, over one million people have been involved in some way with the organization’s programs which are divided among two main program areas: Author Programs, and Education and Literacy Programs.

Points of Diversity seeks to support the creation of an environment where people want to live, learn and grow by working to ensure that all community members have the tools to succeed by connecting, engaging, and being educated in cross-cultural discussions and experiences.

Autism Speaks Canada is the leading autism organization in Canada dedicated to raising money to support autism research, awareness, advocacy and family/community services. Every dollar raised in Canada stays in Canada. Through Walk Now for Autism Speaks Canada Walk program and other events and fund raising activities, Autism Speaks Canada has granted over $6.5 million to the Canadian autism community from coast to coast since 1998. Since 2010, Autism Speaks Canada has granted over $1.5 million to Family/Community Services initiatives including Community Grants program, bilingual Community Services Database and a First 100 Days kit for families who children have just been diagnosed with autism.

Founded in 2016, the Dandan Performing Arts Center's mission is to provide equal access to high-quality contemporary music and arts education to the youth in the east bay community. Our goal is to inspire and empower the youth to find their voice, sound, and become the next generation leaders.