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Detroit Food Academy is a non-profit youth leadership program that works with local educators, chefs, and business owners to inspire young Detroiters (ages 13-24) through self-directed entrepreneurial experiences rooted in food--experiences, which open doors, create connections, and cultivate confidence. From cooking delicious healthy meals for friends and family to facilitating complex conversations with community to developing artisan food projects from scratch to market, students learn by transforming their ideas into reality.Through this process, they grow as holistic leaders who are healthy, connected, and powerful to affect change within and beyond the local food system. Students graduate our program as entrepreneurial thinkers confident in their own power, conscious of the food system, familiar with business principles, and connected to networks of mentorship and support.

Connecting Students to SuccessIn 1995, PENCIL was founded with the goal of raising awareness about public education by inviting civic and business leaders into New York City public schools. From those early days to our work today implementing hands-on, immersive programs that open eyes, open minds, and open doors, PENCIL realizes its mission “to connect students to success.” PENCIL makes it easy for business professionals, educators, and students to work together—in schools and the workplace.

Our mission is to support children and adults to develop deeper relationships with nature, self, and community through long-term nature connection mentoring and community-based wilderness rites of passage. Our vision is to help raise young people who are ready to meet life's challenges and be of service in the world: youth who have a positive sense of themselves as young women and men; who know what their gifts are; feel deeply connected with nature; have strong community support; and are full of resilience and vitality.

Toronto Arts Foundation is a charitable organization that provides the opportunity for individuals, private and public foundations, corporations, and government agencies to invest in and strengthen the arts in Toronto. We are powered by a vision: Creative City: Block by Block, a commitment to connect every Toronto neighbourhood to the transformative social and economic benefits of the arts. Through sponsorships, legacy gifts and donations to our Creative City Funds, Toronto Arts Foundation gives voice to the arts, shines the spotlight on Toronto’s exceptional talent, and connects communities to the arts.

TELSA has carved out two areas of action for its mission; one is long-term and the other is short term. Its area of action is India, particularly rural India. The long term goal is to promote the concept of a master plan approach to rural change whereby each village is encouraged to prepare a master plan for its overall development in order to address the long-term needs of its population in a holistic manner across all aspects of living: childhood development, literacy, education, human resource development,rural infrastructure development, industrial development, job creation, retirement and so on. The goal here is to reverse the trend of distress migrations to cities where rural populations end up in slums with all the concomitant problems of ill-health, crime and alienation. This goal is sought to be accomplished by carrying on campaigns amongst indian populations in villages, urban slums, academia and policy-formulation circles. For its short term goal TELSA strives to provide immediate help to poorer sections of the population in villages, especially in the area of children's education. The method chosen is to make school attendance a more attractive proposition to both children and parents in disadvantaged households. Children from poor households suffer from several disadvantages, such as first generation exposure to education, lack of access to existing schools due to lack of transportation, loss of income to families deprived of child labor earnings and so on. Besides, schools in villages lack basic infra-structure in terms of sanitation, drinking water, class room furniture, classroom supplies, teacher motivation etc. The help sought to be provided by TELSA attempts to address one or several of these deficits.

Our mission is to develop new ideas and implement new solutions to address the short and long-term threats to elephant survival, providing them a new future free of cruelty and death at the hands of humans. Our unique approach of developing communities that will end poaching and illegal trafficking, implementing humane economies within host countries and by creating non-invasive research facilities, we will bring transformational change to this epic struggle while bettering the lives of the indigenous population and the host government. The Elephant Project will create self-sustaining and self-funding sanctuaries and communities reducing the need to constantly fundraise for the project. This project is designed to be a model that can be used all over the world to protect endangered species, better the economies of the host country, provide skills training, jobs, healthcare and educational opportunities for the indigenous population.

The mission of the Duxbury Bay Maritime school is to connect people of all ages, abilities and means to Duxbury Bay through educational and recreational programs that stimulate individual growth and an enduring love and appreciation of the sea.

EYES-SL as an indigenous Community Based Organization that engages in advocacy, empowerment and strengthens the capacity of its staff and Volunteers to create community change and connect people through community engagement to alleviate poverty.

The Kindertransport Association connects Kindertransport survivors and their descendants, preserves and shares their stories to educate new generations about the Kindertransports and Holocaust history, and supports/advocates for children at risk today (including refugee children).

The mission of the Bahamas Resilience Center is to promote healthy adaptation and growth in the face of change, challenge and stress, through the provision of education, wellness, therapeutic services and opportunities for connection to individuals, families, and the community as a whole.

We create 1)safe places to play for children and 2) a social platform to support children in need through bringing power of football communities, and connect them as lasting legacies to next generations.

Mustard Seed Communities (MSC) is a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to caring for the most vulnerable populations in society. Founded in 1978, MSC provides care to children and adults with physical and mental disabilities, children affected by HIV/AIDS, teenage mothers, impoverished families, and marginalized communities throughout Jamaica, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, and Zimbabwe.