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The International Youth Foundation® (IYF®) stands by, for, and with young people. Founded in 1990 through a generous grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, IYF is a global nonprofit with programs directly benefiting 7.7 million young people and operations spanning 100 countries so far. Together with local community-based organizations and a network of corporate, foundation, and multilateral partners, we connect young people with opportunities to transform their lives. We believe that educated, employed, engaged young people possess the power to solve the world’s toughest problems, and we focus our youth development efforts on three linked objectives: unlocking agency, driving economic opportunity, and making systems more inclusive. Our vision is to see young people inspired and equipped to realize the future they want. The International Youth Foundation: Transforming Lives, Together.

The Boy Scouts of America is one of the nation’s largest and most prominent values-based youth development organizations. providing a program for young people that builds character, promotes good citizenship, and develops personal fitness. For over a century, Scouting has helped build the future leaders of this country by combining educational activities and lifelong values with fun. The Boy Scouts of America believes — and, through over a century of experience, knows — that helping youth is a key to building a more conscientious, responsible, and productive society. The Silicon Valley Monterey Bay Council currently serves 13,000 youth across the counties of Monterey, San Benito, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz. It is the mission of the Silicon Valley Monterey Bay Council, Boy Scouts of America to prepare young people to make ethical choices by instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath and Scout Law.

Since 1980, the Richmond Peace Education Center has been an unwavering voice for peaceful conflict resolution, social justice, and nonviolent social change in the Richmond, Virginia region. Over the years the center has evolved, developing new programs and areas of focus to meet new concerns. Today the Richmond Peace Education Center is working actively to build a more peaceful and just community and world. Through its workshops, public events, youth programs, and conflict resolution training, RPEC is making a difference in the region. In the past two years alone, the center has organized or co-sponsored nearly 100 events and programs involving thousands of participants, and its impact is growing. From the beginning, RPEC has been a grassroots, member-supported organization. We simply could not do what we do without the participation and support of community members like you. Please join us for an upcoming program or event and join our contact list today. Together we can build a more peaceful and just community and world.

Each year millions of youth across our nation are left to their own devices without adequate adult support and interaction. Statistics show that youth of all ages, ethnicity and economic backgrounds benefit from the existence of at least one caring adult in their lives. Mentoring supports many benefits to positive youth development including academic improvement, increased school attendance, decrease in drug/alcohol use and stronger family relationships.  Urban Truth is a non-profit organization who believe that our youth are our most precious asset. Our mission is to empower the youth of today and tomorrow with the tools they need for lifelong success.They are worth the investment of our time, money and resources for help in fostering the development of confidence, skills and support needed to realize their full potential. Urban Truth provides life changing relationships, skills preparation and support to youth in our community who are unprepared to face life.

VietHope was founded in 2002 by a group of university students in the Boston area. Coming together from all corners of the U.S. and the world, they shared a common idealism and energy. What began as an informal discussion about Vietnam evolved into a circle of friendship. Within this circle, our founders shared with each other their dreams for Vietnam, and their desire to make a difference in the lives of everyday people there. Thus VietHope was born as a dedication to youth and to Vietnam’s development. VietHope’s founders believed that development must be based on long-term and sustainable results, and that people and human capital development are necessary for such results. VietHope shares the dream that every child in Vietnam will grow up with the opportunity to reach his or her full potential. Therefore, our mission is to empower financially disadvantaged students in Vietnam to access education and rise out of poverty. With our help, these students will beat the odds. They will create a better world for themselves, their families and their communities.

Mission and Vision:  Chess in the Schools is a not-for-profit educational organization dedicated to improving academic performance and building self-esteem among inner-city public school children. Chess is a powerful teaching tool that can break through barriers to help the most disadvantaged students learn skills that translate into academic and lifelong success. Over the past two decades, we have seen how an effective chess education curriculum can change lives. But, learning chess is just the first stebut no one will dispute that the numbers are unsatisfactory. This appallingly low statistic is even lower for minority students and those who live in poverty. Many education experts agree that increasing the high school graduation rate starts with early intervention. Chess in the Schools believes that elementary school students need to develop basic analytical skills that lead to academic success throughout their school career. To develop these skills, Chess in the Schools teaches the complex game of chess to thousands of New York City public school children every year.

Extreme Kids & Crew, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, is a welcoming community center where children with disabilities can socialize, create and play, and their families can join in the fun while sharing disability specific resources with other caretakers. Through arts and play based programming, caregivers, siblings and children of all abilities come together to explore, connect and gain confidence. We believe in fostering and celebrating our local disability community and the larger community of disability around the country and world. Our playspaces allow children with disabilities to find, hone, and display their particular talents, fine tune their socialization and fine motor skills, and make friends among a diverse group of people. Our blog, cultural events, and the Felix Awards, use the arts to reach out to a larger sphere. We aim both to combat the isolation the disability community often feels when faced with a culture that rarely acknowledges the complexity and worth of people with disabilities, and to change the larger public’s concept of what it means to be disabled.

Facing History and Ourselves uses lessons of history to challenge teachers and their students to stand up to bigotry and hate. At Facing History and Ourselves, we believe the bigotry and hate that we witness today are the legacy of brutal injustices of the past. Facing our collective history and how it informs our attitudes and behaviors allows us to choose a world of equity and justice. Facing History’s resources address racism, antisemitism, and prejudice at pivotal moments in history; we help students connect choices made in the past to those they will confront in their own lives. Through our partnership with educators around the world, Facing History and Ourselves reaches millions of students in thousands of classrooms every year. Independent research studies show that experience in a Facing History classroom motivates students to become upstanders in their communities, whether by challenging negative stereotypes at the dinner table, standing up to a bully in their neighborhood, or registering to vote when they are eligible. Together we are creating the next generation of leaders who will build a world based on knowledge and compassion, the foundation for more democratic, equitable, and just societies.

Frequent Flyers® mission is to create and promote the magic of aerial dance through performance and education. Our vision is to help people to see the world from a new perspective through experiencing the upside-down realm of aerial dance. We believe this expanded consciousness helps people to maximize their creative potential. Frequent Flyers® Aerial Dance is a non-profit founded in 1988. Our Organization has a robust education program encompassing over 30 community classes a week, summer camp and intensives, a nine month Professional Training program, a student company with over 40 members, and outreach programming for at-risk youth. We have taught over 20,000 students the joy of dancing in the air. The Professional Performing Company has won many awards and accolades, including the recently resounding success at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Over 190,000 audience members have experienced the beauty and strength of our performances. Frequent Flyers® also created the first international Aerial Dance Festival, now in its 19th year.

United We Dream is the largest immigrant youth-led community in the country. We create welcoming spaces for young people – regardless of immigration status – to support, engage, and empower them to make their voice heard and win! We have an online reach of over 4 million and are made up of over 400,000 members as well as 5 statewide branches and over 100 local groups across 28 states. Over 60% of our members are womxn and 20% identify as LGBTQ. We are made up of fearless youth fighting to improve the lives of ourselves, our families and our communities. Our vision is a society which celebrates our diversity and we believe in leading a multi-ethnic, intersectional path to get there. Whether we’re organizing in the streets, building cutting edge technology systems, opening doors for LGBTQ immigrant youth, clearing pathways to education, stopping deportations or creating alliances across social movements, United We Dream puts undocumented immigrant youth in the driver’s seat to strategize, innovate and win.

Our Christian mission organization serves in various barrios of Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Our mission is to bring hope for a brighter and stronger future of Honduras by promoting the spiritual, educational and physical well-being of disadvantaged children, young people and their families. We believe that a faith based, well educated person will make Honduras a stronger and more independent country where people will want to live and work and prosper. We do this by living, sharing and teaching the gospel. We host short-term construction teams that improve and refurbish public schools. Each school receives a complete kitchen, supplies and instruction on feeding the children. We have established a program called "One Child Sponsorship" which pays tuition and provides uniforms and supplies for the school year for children from kindergarten all the way through college. We also host medical teams that provide basic services to all who come to the clinics. We have established youth groups for young boys and girls at various schools that provides leadership, Christian education and a variety of activities. We also have ministry in area prisons.

Ada’s Café is a Palo Alto-based 501(c) 3, non-profit that provides training and jobs for adults with developmental disabilities living primarily in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties. The social mission of Ada’s is three-fold: (i) to hire and train adults with disabilities to work in its café and catering businesses, (ii) to engage teens and young adults through work and involvement with Ada’s disabled employees and (ii) to foster a better understanding among the general population about the contributions that can be made by developmentally disabled adults. The benefits of empowering and employing adults with developmental disabilities are clear, innumerable and easy to document with social science statistics. The population of adults with intellectual disabilities is one of the most marginalized in our society, is often ignored and suffers from an unemployment rate estimated at nearly 80%. The self-esteem and health benefits that come from having a job, the satisfaction that comes from making an important contribution to a sustainable enterprise and reducing the burden on an already overwhelmed and under-funded social welfare support system are just a few of the many benefits created by Ada’s. In addition, Ada’s believes that youth engaged in meaningful work will feel more connected to and invested in their communities. In all of its ventures, Ada’s Café brings diverse groups of people together in a warm and welcoming environment with a mission of creating good food and community.