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Our mission is to protect endangered turtles through supporting turtle nesting beaches, cleaning up plastic waste, reducing the tortoiseshell trade, promoting equity in the sea turtle community, and educational programs.

We are a global champion for the human rights of women and girls. We use our powerful networks to find, fund, and amplify the courageous work of women who are building social movements and challenging the status quo. By shining a spotlight on critical issues, we rally communities of advocates who take action and invest money to empower women.

Healthy ecosystems underpin everything that humanity needs, but 75% of our Earth is degraded. Climate Disruption, the biodiversity crisis, desertification, flooding, loss of livelihoods, poverty and hunger are directly linked to collapsing ecosystems. Humanity is degrading and depleting its most important resource: functioning natural systems. The need for addressing these crises and for a change to a resilient, regenerative and sustainable co-existence with our natural world is understood. Yet, worldwide, people feel powerless to turn the tide. In response, we are catalyzing a global movement to restore and rehabilitate our degraded ecosystems and change the way we live with nature through introducing regenerative productive systems. Ecosystem Restoration Camps ("ERC") is a global, inclusive, bottom-up movement. We catalyse action towards restoring and rehabilitating natural systems to maintain the web of life. We do this by facilitating the emergence of Camps around the world. Camps are living labs where local communities, lay people, experts and scientists come together to restore and rehabilitate degraded ecosystems. Camps empower local communities to restore their environments and livelihoods by providing them with the tools, skills, and knowledge to bring back abundance and increase their resilience. OUR VISION: We envision a fully-functional, peaceful, abundant, biologically diverse Earth brought about through cooperative efforts for the ecological restoration of degraded lands. OUR MISSION: To work together to restore ecological functionality, to build Research, Training and Innovation Centers for Ecological Restoration, to engage people in inquiry into ecological restoration, and train people in how to restore degraded lands in perpetuity. OBJECTIVES - To train people in techniques for restoring land and provide practical opportunities for people to practice new approaches to landscape restoration. - To build research, training and innovation centers to engage people in ecosystem restoration. - To manage a flow of volunteers of all ages to restore agricultural and natural ecosystems. - To increase the organic matter, carbon content and water retention capacity of the soil to stimulate large scale carbon sequestration. - To improve the livelihoods of farmers, landowners and local communities around the camps. OUR VALUES Restoring Earth positively impacts both livelihoods and communities. To ensure that our contribution to humanity is ethically sound, we have embraced a set of core values that guide the work of the Foundation: - We believe that all beings are equal and endowed with certain inalienable rights; - We recognise that without thriving ecosystems we are nothing and feel a profound obligation to preserve and restore degraded land where it may be found; - We are not self-seeking but rather committed to working together towards a collective outcome that is bigger than any individual, that benefits us all, and that benefits future generations; - We voluntarily, joyfully and with peaceful intent wish to restore basic ecological function so that all people and other living things can live together in harmony; - We willingly share our knowledge, our time, our expertise and our labour, making it as accessible as possible, knowing that we are doing the right thing; - We treat one another with respect and as equals in our shared endeavour, no matter how much or how little each of us may be able to give; - We believe in collaboration, and therefore work with organisations, experts, and local communities in partnership; - We work as a bottom-up movement, each Camp is an independent entity designed and organised according to its own local context, ensuring that the benefits are really felt by the local population; - We communicate openly and honestly celebrating our diversity, and embracing our differences without allowing these to impede progress towards our shared goal; - We act with open minds and hearts, prepared to learn new skills and methods for land restoration from those with knowledge and expertise in this area; - We strive to communicate the essence of our work to others such that together we can build a movement that restores resilient abundance to land and ecosystems that we have degraded. ERC Foundation works with an executive Board of Directors, a volunteer and financially responsible Supervisory Board and a strategic Advisory Council made by the world's leading experts in agroforestry, permaculture, regenerative farming, and ecosystem restoration. ERC is a supporting partner to the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.

Our mission is to improve the quality of education that children recieve in public elementary schools in Mexico through the integral development of the school community.

Move Forward is a dance, basketball, rap program to uplift traumatized children. Our coaches work in refugee camps, shelters and slums. We believe movement and music are effective ways for coping with trauma.

Train and support people to develop their entrepreneurial potential and become agents of change.

To strengthen Mexico's community foundations.

EDUCIAC promueve y defiende el reconocimiento colectivo de las personas como sujetas de derecho a través de procesos participativos y de incidencia política que dignifiquen la vida, para la transformación social. EDUCIAC promotes and defends the collective recognition of people as subjects of rights through participatory processes and political advocacy that dignify life, for social transformation.

Futebol da forca [football gives strength] is an independent international foundation, educational platform and community for purpose-driven football coaches. The organisation was founded in Mozambique in 2012 to work within football to empower girls with agency to make informed decisions and live a life they value. Futebol da forca engages, trains and supports voluntary football coaches to empower girls within football, while changing attitudes and norms that today prevent girls from reaching their full potential, in order for girls to thrive far outside the football field.

We are ChildFund, a global non-profit civil society organization present in 24 countries in Asia, Africa, and the Americas, founded as a civil association in Mexico in 1973. We connect more than 144,000 children, adolescents, and youth (NNAJ) in situations of deprivation, exclusion, and vulnerability, with everything they need to grow up safe, healthy, and educated, in 7 states of the country (Chiapas, State of Mexico, Hidalgo, Michoacan, Oaxaca, Puebla, and Veracruz), in more than 300 communities. Our vision is of a world where children and youth exercise their rights, live in conditions that allow optimal development at every stage of their lives, and reach their potential. Our mission is to develop their capacities to improve their lives and become leaders who bring lasting, positive change to their communities.

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.

At Nuup, we believe that agriculture can be a force for positive change. That's why we devise, incubate, and accompany agriculture and trade projects and initiatives that reimagine and transform the agri-food system. In Mexico, 17 million people live in poverty in rural areas, and most depend on small-scale agriculture for their food and income. To address this challenge, we focus on developing and scaling solutions for small-scale agriculture. By working with large companies, support organizations, investors, and cooperatives of small-scale producers throughout the country and in different value chains, we aim to change the relationships between producers, buyers, and other parties, establishing new information flows, tools, and incentives for the transition to new models of production and trade. Our approach is based on four systemic intervention strategies: 1. Agronomic and regenerative solutions: We believe that it is possible for producers to generate greater prosperity while driving agroecosystem regeneration. To achieve this, we identify knowledge, experiences, and technology that are appropriate and appropriable for producers, and that in turn are scalable and useful for other key actors. We conduct pilots to evaluate innovative and disruptive practices and technologies with more sustainable production systems, and we scale up the adoption of validated practices and production systems through their dissemination, the implementation of incentives, and partnerships. Some of the innovative methodologies we incorporate include regenerative livestock farming, agroforestry systems, organic production techniques, and innovative technologies for monitoring and optimizing resources. 2. Fairer, more transparent, and direct value chains: We believe in fair trade based on dialogue, transparency, and respect. We promote trade models that generate opportunity and development for producers, new competitive supply channels for companies, and the opportunity to consume healthy and accessible products. To achieve this, we research and develop a deep understanding of the functioning and dynamics of agricultural value chains, design new linkage models and short value chains that generate value for all, advise both companies and producer organizations in the diagnosis, incubation, and scaling up of innovative supply or marketing schemes, and accompany new alliances between buyers, producer organizations, NGOs, social entrepreneurs, and even consumers. 3. Digital and data tools: At Nuup, we are convinced that technology can change the rules of the game by bringing information closer to producers to strengthen their productive practices, facilitate decision-making, and better link with the value chain. To achieve this, we develop technology based on the needs of farmers and their organizations, using research, prototyping, and co-design methodologies that put the user's point of view at the center. We provide a range of mobile tools for producers to meet the needs of different types of production, such as strawberry, vegetables, or dairy farming. We also offer digital systems to strengthen, make more efficient, and competitive 4. We facilitate access to financing: To achieve the transformation we seek in small-scale agriculture, producers and their organizations need affordable financing adapted to their needs throughout their growth. Therefore, through partnerships with foundations, financial institutions, investors and other actors in the sector, we are working to develop a diversified offer of financial products that generate impact. These include non-refundable financial support (such as for bioeconomy projects) and loans, among others.