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Alternatives in Action inspires Bay Area youth to realize their leadership potential and prepares them for college, career and community life through dynamic educational, skill-building and real world experiences. Our schools, programs and partnerships provide innovative opportunities and supports that help children and youth succeed and ultimately become contributing adults.

LAEP’s mission is to work as a collaborative partner in high-poverty communities to foster great schools that support the personal and academic success of children and youth from birth through high school.Each year, we serve more than 1,400 educators and 60,000 students in high-poverty, multicultural communities across Los Angeles County.

The Shark Angels are leading a positive, contagious movement to save sharks – and the oceans. We are a passionate, global community that believes in the power of education, media and local grassroots campaigns. We raise awareness to the critical issues, educate children, change perspectives, and empower and connect advocates to act locally to save sharks and the critical ecosystems they support.

Nestled in the nation’s capital in the richest museum complex in the world is the Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center, a model early childhood program that places children at the center of every experience. The vast collections are the foundation for the culturally diverse curriculum, which offers a rare opportunity for learning. As an organization, SEEC is a leader in the field of museum-based education and influences practice within museums and schools. Our educators apply best practices recognized in the early childhood field and enrich the children’s learning through an object-based approach to teaching, sharing the rich stories associated with these objects in ways that make the curriculum deeper and richer. Museum educators within the program build on the practice established within the SEEC model, serving as content experts on the museums and blending theory and practice as a basis for outside consulting and professional development.

For more than 30 years, the Santa Barbara Education Foundation (SBEF) has provided financial resources for a multitude of projects that enhance the educational opportunities for every student in the Santa Barbara Unified School District. SBEF is the only funding organization that has the unique and specific mission of supporting all 15,000 students throughout 22 schools in the district. SBEF provides and supports programs that enrich the academic, artistic, and personal development of all students in the Santa Barbara Unified School District.

New Hope Academy was founded to provide a quality educational experience to all students within he Franklin, TN community regardless of socio-economic status, with a mission to be a Christ-centered school educating children of diverse racial and socio-economic backgrounds by establishing a biblical worldview and preparing each child to flourish academically, emotionally, socially, and spiritually.

The Quad Preparatory School transforms the lives of twice-exceptional students -- gifted children with learning differences -- by redefining the experience of school. Our unparalleled and personalized model fully integrates social and emotional learning with engaging academics. By teaching to the way each individual student learns, we empower them to rise to the level of their talents and go on to contribute to communities of excellence.

The mission of the Pratyush Sinha Foundation is to assist local communities in achieving health and harmony through yoga and mindfulness programs. PSF believes that every child has the potential to become a healthy, happy, and conscious citizen of the world. We believe that we can create healthier communities by teaching children skills that will help them cope with social, economic, and environmental factors

Our mission is to produce successful, independent children capable of reaching their ultimate potential. UP Academy will cultivate a generation of creative, curious, free thinking, problem solvers through an education that embraces differing abilities. Our neuro-development program will transform inclusion education with an integrated therapeutic method that views both life skills and academic achievement with equal value.

International Book Project collects, sorts, and ships donated books in response to requests from around the world. Our vision is to promote literacy in under-served areas of the world, both domestic and abroad. Our core values include: Literacy empowers individuals and provides opportunity; everyone deserves access to books; worthy books deserve a second life. International Book Project believes in building relationships with local and global organizations to fulfill its mission and is committed to building a grassroots donor base to achieve its funding.

The purpose of the Stuyvesant High School Alumni Association is: (a) to award scholarships and other grants to deserving students of Stuyvesant High School ("the School"), (b) to maintain the relationship of alumni to the School and to each other through written and other communications, and social, academic and other events, (c) to render aid and cooperation to the School in order to facilitate academic and extracurricular programs and other student activities, and (d) to raise funds, by dues, contributions, events and otherwise, in order to support those activities which result in the furtherance of items (a) through (c) above.

The Waldorf School of Princeton, part of an independent educational movement of more than 1,000 schools worldwide, is dedicated to recognizing the unique spirit in each child. Through a rich curriculum integrating the academic, artistic, and practical, the Waldorf School of Princeton guides children toward self-knowledge, to meet the world by awakening within them warmth of heart, clarity of thought, and strength of purpose.