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The Olympian Foundation (TOF) was established for the advancement of the values found in art and sport in line with the involvement of olympians and their quest for excellence in life; ". . . To promote the positive moral and educational values of sportsmanship, fair play, friendly competition, and the pleasure of participation, within the fundamental principles enshrined in Olympism". . . . And to "bring about better understanding between people, thereby helping build a better world."

Founded in 1976, Sunshine Foundation’s sole purpose is to answer the dreams of chronically ill, seriously ill, physically challenged and abused children ages three to eighteen, whose families cannot fulfill their requests due to financial strain that the child’s illness may cause. We answer dreams to children with life-long chronic conditions from income-limited families.

The BairFind Foundation is bringing and keeping more children home through community awareness programs and innovative solutions designed to change the cultural conversation around missing children. As a tax exempt 501(c)(3) , our objective is to expand the search through youth education and prevention, collaborative real-time response technologies and standing with families in their continued search.

The mission of the Afya Foundation of America: Supplies for Life is to provide the medical, surgical and community-health inventories needed to support well-established health initiatives in Africa and the Caribbean. The Afya Foundation serves as a donation-based clearinghouse, with the primary intent of partnering and supporting established organizations in the international health community. Since its inception in late 2007, the Afya Foundation has partnered with a vast network of donor hospitals, health organizations and corporations. It has successfully gathered and sorted supplies and repaired equipment that are being discarded due to the strict healthcare regulations under which they operate. Afya collects, sorts and packs these recovered supplies so they can be shipped via container filled with to Africa and the Caribbean. These efforts are only the beginning, and every single item in these shipments represents Afya's ongoing commitment to put all the materials gathered from the New York healthcare market to their optimal use abroad. Our reliability and efficiency has aided in our partnering with numerous organizations that represent program excellence in the international public health sector. We are a supply source for many international health organizations. We have established relationships with leaders in-country throughout Africa. Afya strives to be a highly efficient and effective source of recycled medical supplies, while simultaneously enabling systematic change in health care delivery abroad. Afya also contributes to positive health and environmental outcomes by reducing medical waste incineration.

The BARKA Foundation's mission is to serve as a catalyst for achieving the SDGs in Burkina Faso, West Africa. Our methodology is community-led, grassroots and combines indigenous and modern technologies to develop a set of best practices in areas of clean water accessibility, sanitation, irrigation, sustainable agriculture, women's empowerment, education, healthcare, and renewable energy. BARKA's work is ultimately about co-creating a culture of peace.

The Sunlight Foundation is a nonpartisan nonprofit that uses cutting-edge technology and ideas to make government open, transparent and accountable. We do so by creating tools, open data, policy recommendations, journalism and grant opportunities to dramatically expand access to vital government information and create accountability for our public officials. Visit http://sunlightfoundation.com/about/ to learn more and explore Sunlight’s projects.

The Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice is the only philanthropic organization working exclusively to advance LGBTQI human rights around the globe. We support brilliant and brave grantee partners in the U.S. and internationally who challenge oppression and seed change. We work for racial, economic, social, and gender justice, because we all deserve to live our lives freely, without fear, and with dignity.

Bamyan Foundation is a registered non-profit, non-partisan and an all-volunteer section 501(c)(3) charity in the Washington DC area. We are dedicated to promoting and providing support to at-risk populations in Afghanistan in the following key areas: education, healthcare, women empowerment, community development and youth programs. We believe that improvements in these areas will result in sustainable and equitable social development and stability in Afghanistan.

Breaking the Cycle of Homelessness in Orange CountyThe mission of Illumination Foundation is to provide targeted, interdisciplinary services for the most vulnerable homeless clients in order to break the cycle of homelessness. Our services include housing, medical and mental healthcare, substance abuse intervention, recuperative care, outreach, and childhood enrichment services. These services fill a critical gap in the continuum of care for the homeless with a focus on assisting families into stable housing.

ZanaAfrica Foundation supports adolescent girls in Kenya to stay in school by delivering reproductive health education and sanitary pads. We envision a world where girls in East Africa live healthy, safe, educated lives while defining their own purpose- a world in which Menstrual Health is recognized as a human right, and the onset of puberty as the most effective way to engage girls in a range of personal health decisions.

L. I. G. H. T. Foundation was established in 2014. We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to the personal and spiritual growth and development of children. Through our workshops, group and personal coaching and an abundance of classes, we teach children how to build self-esteem and self-confidence through self-love. We encourage universal virtues of love, honor, respect, vision, courage, faith, strength, truth, perseverance, compassion, prayer, laughter and integrity. My mission is be a servant leader that facilitates a supportive and organized environment of listening and sharing without judgment, in order to raise awareness of the true unlimited potential we all have inside ourselves. I embrace, educate, encourage and empower boys and girls of all ages. Through our mentoring program, after school program and Saturday workshops we provide a safe and sacred place for children to express their many talents. When they are at the L.I.G.H.T. Foundation mentoring program they are off the street.

We recognize the incredible ability that exists within people on the autism spectrum. Empowering through education, the McCarton Foundation helps young people with autism realize their full potential and celebrates their extraordinary talents. Every day we work to transform lives through: The McCarton School, where we continue to achieve unprecedented success in educating young people with autism Research, as we further develop our methodology by testing new strategies and techniques to teach people on the autistic spectrum more effectively Training professionals and parents around the world how to use the knowledge we gain Inspiring Events, like McCarton Foundation’s Genius of Autism, where we celebrate the remarkable talent possessed by autistic youth With one in every sixty-eight children in the United States identified as being on the spectrum, chances are that you—and most of the people you know—are somehow connected to a young person with autism. Join us in our mission to empower these young people today.