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Our vision is that every child in foster care feel important, cared for, and deeply loved. We firmly believe the well-being of these 400,000+ traumatized children improves when communities make an intentional effort to better understand and address the significant, emotional pain of the children in their midst. Our mission is to find and develop child advocates who care deeply about the emotional well-being of children living in foster care, provide these individuals and organizations innovative, "great ideas" that address the children's concerns, and measure the impact on each child. Finally, we invite advocates into a larger, national network for mutual learning and policy development.

Minds Matter connects drive and determined students from low-income families with the people, preparation, and possibilities to succeed in college, create their future, and change the world.We believe a students zip code shouldnt limit their opportunities for college or life. No matter where our students are from, they have strong visions for where they want to go. We work every day to deliver progressive and tailored programs that empower dreams, cultivate growth, and tackle challenges. Because college shouldnt be a barrier it should be a beginning.We specialize in creating equitable access to higher education, but our true goal is to eliminate systemic inequities and create long-term impact for our students, their families, and society.

Teaching life lessons through education and sport. At the Maurice Lucas Foundation, kids come first. We are passionate about their success and believe in their ability to dream, learn, and achieve. Our programs, middle school through high school - and beyond, are built on academics, character development, physical activity, and community. We partner with families, teachers, schools, like-minded individuals, and organizations to create a community of champions who provide transformational opportunities and experiences for students. Together we encourage and support students' resilience as they navigate an increasingly challenging world. Our goal is for all students to have a fair and equitable opportunity to access a high-quality education and pursue their dreams.

We believe that by working together, residents can improve the social, economic and physical conditions of their community. Since its inception in 1993, BT has united thousands of people around multiple community issues, including housing, education, healthcare, safety, city services, and youth programming. Our goals are to: increase the community's capacity to take action to address important issues; challenge members to develop skills to advocate for their community and themselves; address the root causes of poverty and inequality in the community; create neighborhood stability by ensuring that needed resources are invested in the community; and include all people regardless of class, race, age, ethnicity, gender, disability, religion, or sexual orientation.

Gamers Outreach is a for-purpose organization restoring a sense of joy and normalcy in the lives of hospitalized kids. Each year, millions of children and their families receive medical care inside hospitals. For many, the process can be scary and isolating. During hospitalization, kids lose access to friends, school, and moments that typically define childhood. Gamers Outreach believes the world is better when kids can play, and gamers have the power to help. Through equipment and software, the 501(c)(3) charity is on a quest to make play accessible – building a world where every hospital is enabled to provide kids with activities alongside care. Learn more and get involved at www.GamersOutreach.org.

Since launching in 1995, Dolly Parton's Imagination Library has become the premier early childhood book gifting program in the world by mailing over 200 million books in Australia, Canada, Ireland, United Kingdom and the United States. Currently, the program mails over 2.2 Million specially selected, age-appropriate books monthly to registered children from birth to age five. Dolly's vision was to create a lifelong love of reading, prepare children for school and inspire them to dream more, learn more, care more, and be more. Multiple independent studies suggest participation in the Imagination Library program is positively and significantly associated with higher measures of early language and math development. If you would like to partner with Dolly Parton's Imagination Library to start a program in your community please visit: http://www.imaginationlibrary.com

B.E.S.T. Youth help their Oak Park neighbors building empowerment skills today B.E.S.T. A subsidiary WM development. We believe one of the critical ways to stop violence and crime in our communities is by exposing underserved youth to activities, which bolster their job experience, give them a sense of self-worth and keep them off the streets. The Oak Park community that we serve is riddled with deprivation, crime and a sense of isolation. Our program recruits youth, ages twelve to eighteen, from the Oak Park area. Our program is a three-week, three-day-a week, summer youth development non-profit organization, paying the youth a $20.00 a-day stipend.

Statement Junky is a youth development and global leadership program for girls of color in High School. We create a safe and inspiring space for girls to thrive and build lifelong relationships while focusing on the development of the whole girl. In partnership with schools and community-based organizations, our program equips girls to navigate economic and social barriers within their community and abroad through leadership, education, exploration, and positive identity development. At the conclusion of each program, all girls are gifted with an essential key to access the world – her first passport. We believe travel is not reward for working but experience for living. We’re devoted to creating future world leaders by changing the way our girls see the world.

Freewheelin' provides accessible bicycles and teaches youth life and leadership skills that improve their physical and mental well-being. Freewheelin' believes in: The worth and gifts of each person to enrich the world; Bicycling as accessible transportation for recreation, employment, and healthy living; The importance of positive youth/adult mentorship; Empowering youth as leaders who give back to their communities; Lifelong learning, resiliency and persistence; Positive neighborhood and community connections; Making bicycling accessible and affordable; and, Being welcoming to people of all backgrounds, abilities, and incomes. We serve aged 10-18 in our educational programs, and young adults ages 16-22 in employment programs with a primary focus on under-resourced youth

Made in Brownsville wants to make technology and design/build creativity accessible to at-risk youth in Brownsville. We seek to employ youth to learn iterative design, fabrication, multimedia marketing and communication skills to give them the technical and leadership tools they need to change the narrative for themselves and their community. We believe that there are incredible gifts in Brownsville youth that can be triggered through actively engaging their interest through science, technology, engineering, art and math (STEAM) content; and bridging the gap between them and opportunities to exercise those principles with real projects. Made in Brownsville engages at-risk youth to change the narrative and reality of violence and chronic disease through community organizing, planning and design.

Camp BYOC’s mission is to build a pipeline of minority youth for technology careers. We ignite a passion for technology in youth by exposing them to the fundamentals of computer hardware and software. Youth who experience all phases of our program build their own computer and get an accelerated dip into the world of technology. Our campers take pride in what they create. The knowledge, skills, and confidence acquired by attending the camps provide a solid foundation and competitive edge as they pursue future careers. Affordability of camps is achieved through a combination of grants and donations that make programs accessible to all levels of the community. Camp BYOC believes that all youth with drive, interest and initiative should have an opportunity to participate.

We appreciate all donations of canned food, medicines and water, and will distribute those to all in need with the help of our allies. But we ask you to consider a monetary donation, which will enable us to tend other needs: buy fuel, contract local construction workers and, specially, implement community development projects P.E.C.E.S. fosters social, economic, educational development of individuals and communities in social disadvantage. The project began in Punta Santiago, Humacao in 1985 and has expanded its services to the eastern region of Puerto Rico. We want to inspire leaders, with special attention to youngsters, so they become champions of their own communities. Our work helps participants insert themselves into community processes and become protagonists of their own transformations. We do this through several programs tied to our three core service areas: education (including an alternative education high school); prevention services for at-risk populations; and entrepreneurship and development training.