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The Hidden Genius Project trains and mentors Black male youth in technology creation, entrepreneurship, and leadership skills to transform their lives and communities. The Hidden Genius Project was founded in 2012 by five Black male entrepreneurs/technologists who were unnerved by the dramatic juxtaposition between the high unemployment of Black male youth and the plethora of career opportunities within the local technology sector. To address this challenge, the founders established a program to connect young Black males with the skills, mentors, and experiences that they need to become high-performing entrepreneurs and technologists in a 21st century, global economy.

The Literacy Project is a regional education nonprofit committed to developing student reading skills. Our mission is to eliminate the literacy gap of emerging 2nd-graders who are functionally illiterate. We believe raising reading achievement will prepare students for academic and life success.

The mission of the Edible Schoolyard Project is to build andshare an edible education curriculum for kindergarten through high school. Ourvision is for gardens and kitchens to become interactive classrooms foracademic subjects, and for every student to have a free, nutritious, organiclunch. If this program is integrated into schools, the curriculum couldtransform the health and values of every child in America.

Founded in 2009, The Grassroot Project (TGP) uses the power of sports and the platform of athlete role models to educate, inspire, and mobilize youth to live healthy lives. We are a team of more than 1,000 NCAA varsity athletes and 5,000 DC teens who are committed to making our city healthier. The Grassroot Project capitalizes on the excitement, relatability, and popularity of sports to provide much-needed health literacy and social empowerment programs to DC teens. The only way for us to succeed is to believe in the power of youth to make a difference. In addition to providing health education to DC teens, we invest in the leadership training, cultural competency, and professional skills of hundreds of NCAA varsity athletes who serve as our program facilitators. Also known as Athletes United For Social Justice.

We see a hungry kid. We buy food. We feed the kid.The Children's Hunger Project is in place to give hope to at-risk kids. Our objective is to nurture the body, mind, and heart of hungry elementary school-aged children in Brevard County. We aspire to provide these children with nutrition in a dignified and respectful manner thus giving them a reason to believe

The mission of The Campus Kitchens Project is to use service as a tool to: Strengthen Bodies by using existing resources to meet hunger and nutritional needs in our communities; Empower Minds by providing leadership and service learning opportunities to college students, and educational benefits to adults, seniors, children, and families in need; and Build Communities by fostering a new generation of community-minded adults through resourceful and mutually beneficial partnerships among students, social service agencies, businesses and universities.

We develop and grow programs that challenge the cycle of poverty in our community with a spirit of inclusion, compassion and justice. Founded almost ten years ago, The Shalom Project shares resources via a food pantry, clothing closet, medical clinic and the Circles initiative, an approach that combines Circles USA techniques with the individualized support of our dedicated volunteers and the resources of organizations and communities, creating an environment that educates, empowers and equips our members to move up and out of poverty successfully.

The GOD'S CHILD Project's mission is "to break the bitter chains of poverty through education, housing and healthcare." While GOD'S CHILD is rooted in education and health-care, we aim to support the communities we serve at every level of development. Through our wide range of programs, we help children and families living in extreme poverty to meet their basic needs and find a restored sense of hope, self-worth and human dignity. Religious affiliation is not a requirement for any program services.

The Grateful Garment Project’s mission is to ensure that every victim of a sexual crime who crosses the threshold of a Sexual Assault Response Team facility or who seeks medical attention and/or law enforcement involvement is provided with whatever new clothing, toiletries, snacks, and other miscellaneous items that he or she may require, to reduce further negative impact against their being. We have further expanded our mission and vision to encompass all victims of sexual violence. This includes, but is not limited to Commercially Sexually Exploited Children and victims of Human Sexual Trafficking.

The Survivor Mitzvah Project (SMP) mission is an urgent humanitarian effort bringing direct and continuous financial aid to elderly and forgotten Holocaust survivors scattered across 9 countries including war-torn Ukraine, who are ill, isolated, alone, and in desperate need of food, medicine, heat, shelter, and some loving kindness. Our primary goal is to ensure that no Holocaust Survivor who has experienced the darkest days of human history ever be hungry, cold, or neglected again. Our secondary goal is to encourage people to work towards a kind and compassionate future by imagining a world without hate. Through education and outreach, we encourage people from all walks of life, all ethnicities, all races, religions, and genders to come together to stand up for each other and stop hatred and violence wherever it takes hold.

To Manifest the Values of Dignity through Student Services, Teacher Collaboration, and Community Engagement

The Nashville FoodProject brings people together to grow, cook and share nourishing food, with the goals of cultivating community and alleviating hunger in our city.