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The Chelsea Hutchison Foundation grants comfort and hope to those affected by epilepsy through providing monitoring resources, vital information, and a safe haven for conversation and community. Our main goal is to raise awareness of SUDEP and to make a positive difference in the lives of individuals and families living with epilepsy. We raise funds to provide education about SUDEP and to provide seizure response dog grants and movement monitors that help to protect against SUDEP. We stay up-to-date on current trends in medical technology in order to be able to provide the most effective devices as they become available. We provide financial assistance for what we believe to be life-saving movement monitors, grants for seizure-response service dogs and Chelsea's Wish Trips to Epilepsy Expos across the US each year. We respect the value and quality of life of every person living with epilepsy. We are dedicated to providing opportunities that allow individuals and families greater independence, increased confidence, ability to enjoy social environments, and community understanding.

The Children's Radio Foundation (CRF) uses radio training and broadcast to create opportunities for youth dialogue, participation, leadership, and active citizenship. Through giving youth the tools and skills to produce radio, young people are mobilized to engage in productive dialogue about the issues they face, and work together to improve their lives and communities. With 74 youth radio projects across six African countries, CRF works with radio stations and CBOs to create local platforms for discussion, information sharing, social engagement, and action. Our reporters take on issues that resonate with youth in their community, including but not limited to children's rights, sexual reproductive health and rights, power dynamics in teenage relationships, gender norms and stereotypes, HIV and AIDS-related issues, climate change, and the environment. Speaking in local languages and in a youth-friendly style, they interview community members, host debates, and bring out local perspectives. Their reporting projects, broadcasts, and outreach activities are geared to generate discussion about issues facing youth.

Denis Miki Foundation supports the development of underdeveloped communities and groups through empowerment, capacity building, education for sustainable development, talent promotion and wealth creation. Our mission is to reduce poverty by running community empowerment programs and solutions like the DMF Impact Hub and Efeti Ventures Inc. We support the development of underdeveloped communities and groups through capacity building, education for sustainable development, health, peacebuilding, leadership, creativity, wealth creation, policy advocacy and activism for peaceful and sustainable and communities. Our goals are to: 1. Inspire - Inspire youth and women toward social action, increasing both personal, national and international aspirations. 2. Equip - Equip youth and women with social and emotional skills - real world skills that unlock opportunities for future success. 3. Connect - Connect youth and women across diversity, creating valuable networks and building understanding. 4. Deploy - Bring youth and women into service and action for sustainable and innovative community development.

The Close Up Foundation brings citizens from throughout the nation and around the world to Washington, D.C., for a firsthand look at the federal government and the development of public policy. A nonprofit, nonpartisan civic education organization, Close Up connects individuals of all ages to their communities and institutions through challenging education programs and products. By building partnerships with the education community, the private and philanthropic sectors, and all branches and levels of government, Close Up makes civic participation a dynamic and meaningful experience. Since its founding in 1970, Close Up has remained focused on the values of citizenship and the importance of an educated electorate, aware that democracy is a constantly renewing experience that must be taught and shared with each new generation. It has continued a strong organizational determination to make the democratic process available to students from every background, and places special emphasis on outreach to disadvantaged young people, with fellowship programs for low-income students, minority students, migrant students, recent immigrants, American Indians, Alaska Natives, the hearing and visually impaired, and other students with special needs.

Toigo's mission is to inspire change—to advance more inclusive leadership within finance and beyond. Diversity in Finance | Access to Talent: We develop leaders and foster the career advancement of highly talented women and men throughout their MBA experience. Our 1,700 Toigo alumni are the foundation on which we have built programming to support the career ascension and retention of minority leaders in finance. Sustained Partnerships | Inclusive Leadership: Over the past 30+ years, Toigo’s partnerships have persisted during times of both abrupt change and innovation. The trust we have earned and the lessons learned allow Toigo to help organizations fulfill the promise of more inclusive workplaces through tailored strategies. Toigo’s strong relationships with industry leaders allow us to advocate on behalf of our Alumni with C-suite and corporate board aspirations, entrepreneurial passions and more. We have built a model with a conviction to encourage thinking beyond what is comfortable to what is possible. Today, Toigo Alumni demonstrate the amazing power of combining talent with compassion, impact with community, and business with family. This is the Toigo Legacy.

Bududa Learning Center is an umbrella organization that includes a vocational high school, an orphans program for children, and a microfinance program for women. It is located in the isolated mountain district of eastern Uganda. It was founded by Canadian-born Barbara Wybar, who has been living on site a portion of each year for the past 14 years. This isolated region, one of the poorest in Uganda, is over-populated with most families having an average of 8 children. They live by growing their own food. Most of the region has no running water or electricity. Both the education and health care system are severely under-funded and inadequate. Jobs are scarce. Most people are hungry most of the time. How & Who We Help. We work to address the problems in three ways: 1. Training young people in basic trades: carpentry; brick-laying; dress-making and tailoring; nursery teacher training; computer skills training; and hairdressing training. 2. Providing broad support to 170 children and young people, many of them orphans from AIDS, by providing education enrichment, food, and health care. 3. Training and providing micro finance loans to single mothers and grandmothers in the region who are bringing up children on their own and have no means of support, so they can start small businesses. How It Is Run The Center is staffed by Ugandans working in a professional capacity. Barbara Wybar acts as Executive Director and works in a volunteer capacity. There is a growing volunteer contingent of people from the west who visit and do volunteer work there and others who take on management and administrative work in Canada and the US in a volunteer capacity. A guest house and annex provide housing for up to 12 visiting volunteers at a time. Local Oversight A local Advisory Board of the Center, led by Father Paul Buyela, provides oversight to the headmaster of the school and the directors of the two other programs. It is made up of representatives of the teachers, the parents, the regional education board, and the community as well as the executive director. The chairman is a highly respected educator as well as clerical leader in the region at large. Governance and Financial Support Bududa Canada Foundation provides governance to the Center and raises funds from individuals, foundations, and organizations to support the Center. It is incorporated in Canada holds charitable status from the Canadian Revenue Authority (#82535 8286 RR0001). There is a board directors of five people, three of whom are Canadian and two American. Financial support comes from Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Officers & Board of Directors Sally Bongard (Toronto), Chairman and Secretary Scott Douglas (Connecticut) Cecily Lawson (Montreal) Lizette Gilday (Montreal), President Barbara Wybar (Philadelphia, Quebec, and Uganda), Treasurer

Research and Development of local language ICTs for education innovations for 21st Century for the empowerment of marginalized youth. It focuses on providing access to national education and local language advanced technology skill development. Shilpa Sayura has significantly contributed to rural education via Nenasala Telecentres and schools nationwide. Currently, the organization is at the forefront of equipping youth with skills in programming, IoT, Machine Learning, AI, and robotics, steering them towards careers in emerging technologies. This initiative is bolstered by support from Google Education, Internet Society, Adobe Inc., and the APNIC Foundation. Awards 2020 - UNESCO Prize for Girls and Women's Education 2020 - Champion of WSIS Prizes 2020 - ITU 2020 - Finalist for AFS Global Citizen Award 2017 - Internet Society 25 Under 25 Award 2017 - TADHACK Sri Lanka Hackathon 2013 - World Summit Youth Award (WSYA) 2013 - Adobe UNICEF Challenge 2013 - Microsoft World Bank Youth Solutions 2009 - Lien I3 Challenge, Singapore Management University 2008 - Stock Home Challenge, Sweden 2008 - DISKOBOLOS international award 2008 - Best Corporate Citizen Award Sri Lanka 2007- Global Knowledge Partnerships Award, Malaysia 2007 - I4D Award, e India

Goal To offer education empowerment, sustainable livelihood, create awareness and support on issues of health, gender, research, education and poverty reduction to be participant in nation building. Vision Statement To create an environment and society where families and communities hosting OVCs and destitute are stable and self reliant. Mission Victory Foundation Programme is dedicated to promote education to the orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs) to enable them to be participants towards nation building and to alleviate poverty in the affected communities through:- Working with Children, families and their communities by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. Create awareness and support for those infected/affected by HIV/AIDS; Address the endemic issues of drug abuse, gender, education and health and Democracy and Governance in Kenya. Objectives To open up centers and help the orphans, destitute and widows in the community. To facilitate of HIV/AIDS seminars. To Network with community based Organization (CBOs) and Non-governmental Organization (NGO's). To promote income generating activities (IGA) to rural poor. To offer vocational training to the drop outs and those who have completed secondary education. To offer guidance and counseling services. To network with community in recreational activities. To facilitate both primary and secondary education to the needy children. To do all such other thing as are incidental or conducive to attainment of any of the above objects To raise, mobilize and disburse funds and other resources for the promotion of the objectives.

TOUCHLIVES ALBERT FOUNDATION, based in Portharcourt, Rivers state, Nigeria, West Africa. Is a duly registered nonprofit, non political, and non governmental organization, with Corporate Affairs Commission CAC/IT/REG NO: 7149127, in accordance with the laws of the federal republic of Nigeria. That Carter's to the welfare and wellbeing of the orphans, vulnerable and lesspriviled children (OVC) in our communities in Nigeria. For the past few years, we have been working with good spirited and compassionate philanthropic partners to support the children (OVC) by sponsoring them with: Free Education, Quality Healthcare services, Shelter, Clean water and Sanitation, Provisions of Food and Clothing. We also render assistance to the vulnerable men/women, the windows and young people (Youths), graduates and non graduates, with unemployment through our community outreach programs, where we engage, encourage and train them in various skills acquisition. And also give them monetary empowerment in order for them to become self sufficient and employers of labour to take care of their needs and that of their families, and also contribute to the development of their communities and the world. Aims and Objectives To provide neccessary assistance to Orphans and Widows. Assistance to young people through advancement of education and employment skills development, with particular emphasis on children from deprived backgrounds. To provide and ensure easy access to healthcare to lessprivilage in the society. To empower and support the lessprivilage. Our Mission Is to help eradicate: Hunger, Illiteracy, and Unemployment in our communities and the world. Our Vision To raise Godly, healthy, and academic genius children that will make impact in the society. Our Core Values Integrity. Accountability. Teamwork. Community. Empowerment. Sustainability. Compassion. Motto Making impacts for a better future.

The TimeHeroes Foundation was founded in 2011 with the goal to build and develop the volunteering culture in Bulgaria. Today the organisation runs the largest volunteering platform in Bulgaria - TimeHeroes.org. By the end of January 2018, TimeHeroes.org has matched 638 organisations which need support for their causes with over 40 000 individuals who wish to donate their time and skills. So far the volunteers have taken part 65 379 times in 1400 volunteering initiatives (called missions) in 175 towns across Bulgaria. The platform is the main, and often sole, source for Bulgarian nonprofit organizations and active citizens to recruit volunteers. To achieve our mission to develop Bulgaria's volunteering culture, we run several further projects. ANNUAL AWARDS We established the annual volunteering awards THE HEROES, which reward outstanding volunteers, organisers, responsible companies and media (after open nominations), and promote and stimulate volunteering as a whole. In 2017 a jury selected 23 of the 226 nominees and these were announced at an official ceremony that was widely covered in media, was attended by 250+ guests and was streamed 26 000 times. YOUTH VOLUNTEERING We are growing a network of school and university volunteer clubs across the country. Over 30 clubs are currently active with 500+ student members organising their own community-based initiatives or supporting existing volunteer missions held by local nonprofits. SENIORS' VOLUNTEER PHONE LINE We operate a National Volunteers' Phone Line volunteering telephone line as an alternative to the website for people without access to the internet or a computer, mainly targeting seniors and retirees. This project aims to tackle the pervasive societal isolation in this age group in Bulgaria. CAPACITY BUILDING Through workshops and systematised good practices we are actively building the capacity of Bulgarian nongovernmental organisations for working with volunteers. In 2015-2016 we collected and systematised the experience of 250 Bulgarian NGOs working with volunteers. We are sharing this know-how in a wiki platform, a 100-page handbook and a series of workshops. Over 1000 NGOs have received the handbook, about 100 have so far participated in our highly-rated workshops. We also fundraise and distribute monthly small grants enabling volunteer involvement in causes.

EPF's mission is to protect captive and wild primates by supporting in-country conservation programs, educating the public on the hazards of owning primates as pets, and providing expert husbandry for rescued primates housed at EPF's Prosimian Sanctuary. The Prosimian Sanctuary is the only sanctuary in the US dedicated solely to providing behavioral rehabilitation and lifelong care for lemurs and other prosimians rescued or surrendered from the pet trade, roadside zoos, and other inappropriate environments.

IMPROVE AND ENHANCE ECONOMIC VIABILITY BY SUPPORTING THE PRESERVATION OF UNIQUEEXISTING STRUCTURES AND ENCOURAGING NEW DEVELOPMENT BY ATTRACTING VISITORS,CUSTOMERS AND RESIDENTS TO DOWNTOWN OCEANSIDE.