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The Hidden Genius Project trains and mentors Black male youth in technology creation, entrepreneurship, and leadership skills to transform their lives and communities. The Hidden Genius Project was founded in 2012 by five Black male entrepreneurs/technologists who were unnerved by the dramatic juxtaposition between the high unemployment of Black male youth and the plethora of career opportunities within the local technology sector. To address this challenge, the founders established a program to connect young Black males with the skills, mentors, and experiences that they need to become high-performing entrepreneurs and technologists in a 21st century, global economy.

We believe every child deserves a lifelong, permanent connection. We believe that people raise children, not systems. Through this belief, we have created our Promise of Permanency. For every child that enters a Boys & Girls Aid program, we promise to prepare youth for permanency, advocate on their behalf for permanency and help them find resources for their permanency. Permanency means a lifelong commitment between and with an adult and child. By providing each child with a permanent committed adult, they will receive the guidance, stability and emotional support needed to be a successful adult in their community.

The Pedagogical Institute of Los Angeles is a meeting place – a place for educators to exchange ideas and share research, stories and inspiration. It is a place where teachers can refuel, question old paradigms and reconsider what it means to teach young children. Connecting local and international early childhood educators through innovative programming, the Institute offers lectures, workshops, book studies, documentation labs, community research forums and onsite mentoring for underserved communities. Through high-level discourse on the craft of teaching, teachers are challenged to reimagine childhood as a time of enormous competence and creativity.

Mission: Forging ways for women & girls in extreme poverty to learn, connect and lead. We operate only in places of extreme poverty: villages of South Sudan, Haiti, Malawi, and refugee camps in Kenya and Uganda. Our programs create opportunities for marginalized and displaced women and girls in critical areas: Education: We increase girls' access to education (K-University) through scholarships, extracurricular enhancements, and leadership skills workshops. Advocacy: We train all of our Scholars in leadership and advocacy. As MBB alumnae they use their voices to promote human rights for all, especially marginalized women and girls.

The Opportunity Network is an intensive, six-year program designed to equal the playing field for high-achieving, underserved high school and college students by creating access for them to career opportunities, professional networks and competitive colleges. The Opportunity Network believes influential networks are essential ingredients for success not emphasized in career development programs for youth, so we take an innovative approach by underscoring the power of personal connections and professional relationships as vital complements to skills and experience. Through interaction with executives, intensive networking training, coursework in careers, internships and college counseling, our students dramatically change the course of their futures.

Building a strong tomorrow by inspiring youth today Welcome to SowGoodNow, a 501c3 nonprofit organization that is growing the next generation of philanthropic athletes through the sports they love. Our mission is to: Engage and empower young athletes to share their time, talent, and treasure through the sports they love to benefit youth and communities and revolutionize the philanthropic world. We fulfill our mission by: TEACHING PHILANTHROPY by offering opportunities for service learning through sports; BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS IN DIVERSE COMMUNITIES and partnering with their leaders and the causes they support; INSPIRING ATHLETES TO CONNECT WITH THEIR PASSION by engaging them in a lifelong practice of giving and sharing with a spirit of generosity.

In 2010, we started Love is Louder with The Jed Foundation to amplify a simple message – love and support are louder than any voice that tries to bring us down. Our movement started at a time when there was a lot of anger and confusion online after a series of tragedies involving bullying. Six years later, hundreds of thousands of you have grown the movement around the world. We’ve relaunched Love is Louder as a community because we want to turn our message into action. We want individuals and communities all over the globe to commit to taking actions that make us all feel more connected and supported.

The Habonim Dror Foundation, established in 1996, provides support to the Labor Zionist youth movement Habonim Dror North America. The Foundation, comprised primarily of movement alumni, raises money for the operating budget of the National Office of the youth movement. This funding enables the movement to run Israel programs, national seminars, and publish movement newsletters. The Habonim Dror youth movement provides progressive Jewish programming to over 2,000 children each year. Habonim's unique summer camps, based on the ideals of the kibbutz movement, create a space for youth to explore their Jewish identity, culture and connection to Israel in a creative, peer-lead environment.

At Rachel’s Gift Inc. we partner with hospitals to assist parents through the initial phase of infant loss through a base of caring and knowledgeable volunteers. We provide grief assistance for the families as well as a training program for nursing professionals and care-givers on companioning patients through infant loss. Our ultimate goal is to provide a healthy environment to begin the grieving process to minimize long-term psychological damage to individuals and their families experiencing infant loss while at the same time providing lifetime keepsakes of their child. These keepsakes will be a lifetime reminder and a physical connection to the child that was only in their arms a matter of minutes or hours.

THEIR MISSION: Exceeding Expectations, a program in San Bernardino that serves an inner-city population, is designed to encourage at-risk kids to move their lives in a positive direction, using the sport of triathlon as the vehicle. The goal is not to develop the kids into elite athletes, but rather to offer them opportunities to participate in a lifestyle that is healthy, goal-oriented and very unlike that which they experience in their everyday lives. We strive to replace negative influences with positive role models and to instill in the kids a powerful new discipline of setting measurable goals and working hard to achieve them. Our highest priority is education, and our ultimate objective is to ensure that every one of the kids graduates high school and goes on to college. Exceeding Expectations has no paid staff and no non-program costs other than insurance. Every penny we receive goes for race entry fees, bicycles and other equipment, tuition and other college expenses, etc.

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.

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.