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Mission: Special Olympics Wisconsin (SOWI) provides year-round sportstraining and competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage and experience joy while participating in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, Special Olympics athletes and the community.Vision: Special Olympics Wisconsin will be recognized as the premier organization to unlock the joy of sport to inspire people to accept, include and value those with intellectual disabilities in all aspects of life, and thereby unite people in a shared belief of a more just and welcoming world.Goal: SOWI's goal is to empower individuals with intellectual disabilitiesto become physically fit, productive and respected members of society, by offering opportunities to develop and demonstrate their talents through sports training and competition, and by increasing the public's awareness of their capabilities and needs.

Our mission is to inspire girls to be joyful, healthy and confident using a fun, experience-based curriculum which creatively integrates running.\n\nGOTRC empowers girls with vital social-emotional skills to help them succeed in school, at home, and within friendships. Every girl can participate in our program, no matter her physical ability or her family’s financial means. Since 1999, we've helped over 90,000 girls learn to “let her star shine." Our research-based, positive youth development program utilizes proven curriculum based in social-emotional learning (SEL) to deliver skills in building self-confidence, positive self-talk, managing emotions, navigating difficult conversations, standing up to bullying, and more.

KABOOM! partners with communities to design and build kid‑centered playspaces in neighborhoods that have been historically underserved, aiming to eliminate inequities in access to safe, high‑quality places to play. Their work combines community engagement, builds, research, and advocacy to increase play opportunities and belonging for children.

Special Olympics New Mexico provides year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community.

NEMBA is dedicated to creating epic riding experiences, preserving access to open space, and guiding the future of mountain biking in New England. NEMBA sponsors trail maintenance and promotes the stewardship of public lands. NEMBA utilizes a number of programs, including educational booths, a mountain bike patrol and recreational rides, to educate mountain bicyclists on how to be responsible and environmentally sensitive trail users. NEMBA acts as a liaison between bicyclists, government agencies and land managers in order to help protect and conserve existing trail systems and to create new ones.

HORSEPOWER's mission is to promote and enhance the welfare of individuals with disabilities by providing a program of therapeutic, educational and recreational value, and further, to empower individuals who are mentally, physically, emotionally and/or socially challenged through the use of horses, while providing therapeutic benefits in a safe and controlled atmosphere.

Providing opportunities for all youth, to achieve success in every aspect of life, through the game of golf.

Buddy Up For Life runs adaptive sports, fitness, camps, and life-skills programs for people with Down syndrome. They pair volunteer “Buddies” one-to-one with “Athletes” to promote athletic, social, emotional, and independent-living development through structured clinics (tennis, pickleball, fitness), camps, and community programs.

Our mission is to deliver a quality program that educates and prepares young girls for a lifetime of self-respect and healthy living. We strive to touch the lives of young girls throughout Montgomery County, Maryland regardless of their families' economic status.

Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA) was formed at Stanford University in 1998 as a 501(c)(3) with the mission of transforming the culture of youth sports to ensure that all young athletes have the opportunity for a positive, character-building experience. As John W. Gardner, founder of Common Cause, has said: "There isn't any other youth institution that equals sports as a setting in which to develop character. There just isn't. Sports are the perfect setting because character is tested all the time. It means a great deal if that time in sports is well used." Youth sports offer a virtual classroom for teaching life lessons, but only if the adults who work with athletes recognize and seize the many teachable moments provided. Research shows participation in youth sports improves academic performance and school attendance, results in better behavior and decreases risk-taking behavior, such as experimenting with drugs and alcohol. But kids are dropping out of sports, and if kids don't stay in sports, they won't reap these benefits. PCA is creating a movement to seize the latent educational potential of the playing field and ensure that all youth athletes have the opportunity for a positive, character-building experience. Recent events from the headlines (baseball player killed in attack with bat, increasing steroid use among high school and pre-teen athletes, banning post-game handshakes because of violence, parent brawls, etc.) show how far from the ideal youth sports is and why PCA's mission to "transform youth sports so sports can transform youth" is so needed today. The decentralized nature of youth sports does not lend itself to easy answers or approaches. Changing the culture of youth sports from the win-at-all-cost ethic of the professional sports entertainment business to an "educational-athletic" culture requires a sophisticated, research-based approach that can be applied on an organization-by-organization basis across the U.S. PCA is in the culture-change business, and we are entering a crucial stage in our history. Since our founding in 1998, we have developed our programs, refined our business model, and built credibility with key institutions and individuals. We have developed a systems approach to effecting cultural change with more than 600 (and counting!) Youth Sports Organizations (YSO's) in which we offer training to leaders, coaches, parents and athletes that gets all the key actors on the same page. We have assembled a world-class National Advisory Board of sports coaches such as Phil Jackson, Herm Edwards, and Larry Brown, as well as leaders in academia and business. We have developed our "model store" for how to operate in individual communities and learned what it takes to expand successfully into new geographic areas. The next three years are about building capacity to take our program to every corner of the U.S. Our national certification program will make our research-based model of coaching, the "Double-Goal Coach," the industry standard in youth sports. A Double-Goal Coach wants to win (goal #1) while using sports to teach life lessons. Our new on-line workshop makes this accessible to any coach in the U.S. We will fortify our management structure through a system of regional offices and position ourselves to expand our fundraising efforts to other regions of the U.S. This critical three-year period is designed to allow us to achieve our BHAG (big, hairy, audacious goal, in the words of Jim Collins and Jerry Porras) of training and certifying 1 million Double-Goal Coaches in the next decade. Ultimately, we intend to have an office in every major metropolitan area and a PCA Trainer within driving distance of every YSO in the U.S. If we can directly impact 25% of the four million youth coaches in the U.S., we know we will indirectly reach the entire youth sports industry and change the way the game is played forever.

At Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, we are building a nation connected by trails. We reimagine public spaces to create safe ways for everyone to walk, bike and be active outdoors.

TO ENRICH THE LIVES OF YOUTH IN THE UNITED STATES THROUGH WINTER SPORTS. Our goal is to help introduce youth to winter sports each year. We’re working with our programs and partners to create pathways to lifelong winter sports participation. Through our partnerships, we strive to make winter sports accessible to a broader, more diverse community, and share winter with 100,000 youth by 2028.