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In 2007, the Playing for Change Foundation was established as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization created to inspire, connect, and bring peace to the world through music. Our mission is to create positive change through music and arts education. 15 music programs have been created in Bangladesh, Brazil, Ghana, Mali, Nepal, Rwanda, South Africa, Morocco, Mexico, Argentina and Thailand. More than 2,000 young people attend free classes in dance, instruments, languages and musical theory, all taught by qualified local teachers. Learning music has been shown to increase self-esteem and foster resilience, which is critically important to children who are vulnerable due to poverty, conflict, drugs, and neglect.

The Hopi Foundation builds and manages permanent community funds to provide grants that enhance the quality of life for 12,000 Hopi people throught the Hopi Nation. Itam naapyani, is a Hopi phrase that means "doing the work ourselves". Inspired by this teaching, the Hopi Foundation is committed to meeting the charitable needs of the Hopi comunity. The mission of the Hopi Foundation is to foster self reliance, self sufficiency, a sense of pride; to recognize ability and the commitment to pass on learning to our own people; and to give back. We are driven by the honest motivation to sincerely try to help others help themselves. Since its inception, the Foundation has initiated innovative approaches to enhance and preserve the Hopi traditional way of life, while at the same time, meeting the challenges of a modern and highly technological era.

Founded in 1981 under the guidance of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, The Tibet Fund is the primary funding organization for the health, education, refugee rehabilitation, cultural preservation and economic development programs that enable Tibetans in exile and in their homeland to sustain their language, culture and national identity.

Catalyst Foundation works with ethnic minority families in rural Vietnam to build communities and prevent human trafficking.

International Sephardic Education Foundation's mission is to narrow Israel's socio-economic gap through higher education its unique methodology combines scholarship support for gifted young people from disadvantaged backgrounds with community service, leaders hip training, and social conscience-building. 

BHeart is a volunteer organization that focuses on issues and supports projects important to Bosnian and Herzegovinian women and their families.

The International Institute of the Bay Area (IIBA) provides high-quality immigration legal services, education, and civic engagement opportunities to immigrants, refugees, and their families as they join and contribute to the community.

The mission of The Refugee Response is to empower refugees to become self-sufficient and contributing members of their new communities.

The Pad Project’s mission is to create and cultivate local and global partnerships to end period stigma and to empower women and all menstruators worldwide.

The Nation Institute's primary exempt purpose is to undertake and support activities with an emphasis on the independent media, civil liberties, social justice and peace.