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The mission of DC SCORES is to build teams for low-income DC youth by instilling self-expression, physical fitness, and a sense of community. DC SCORES accomplishes its mission through a holistic model which engages the whole child through soccer, poetry, and service-learning, and creates supportive teams rooted in local school communities.
To educate, cultivate creativity and rediscover clarity through yoga, art and science.
MEDA is a non-profit organization dedicated to the prevention and treatment of eating disorders and disordered eating. MEDA's mission is to prevent the continuing spread of eating disorders through educational awareness and early detection. MEDA serves as a support network and resource for clients, loved ones, clinicians, educators, and the general public.
Asian University for Women seeks to graduate women who will be skilled and innovative professionals, service-oriented leaders in the businesses and communities in which they work and live, and promoters of intercultural understanding and sustainable human and economic development in Asia and throughout the world.
As a non-profit organization rooted in a global movement of university students, UAEM aims to (1) promote access to medicines and medical innovations where barriers exist primarily by changing norms and practices around academic patenting and licensing, supported by our own independent research, (2) ensure that university medical research meets the needs of people worldwide and actively supports the creation of new needs-based approaches to R&D and (3) empower students to respond to the biomedical access and innovation crisis by advocating for the most promising global biomedical R&D system that works for all.
Yspaniola empowers marginalized batey communities of Dominicans and Haitians in the Dominican Republic. Through university scholarships, a literacy center, and community development, we provide resources for individuals and bateys to access local networks and rise out of poverty.
BELL exists to transform the academic achievements, self-confidence, and life trajectories of children living in under-resourced, urban communities. In an effort to reverse a history of educational inequality, BELL offers robust after school and summer learning experiences to over 10,000 children in grades K-8 across the nation. Founded and headquartered in Dorchester, MA, BELL has been partnering with Boston Public Schools for twenty years to deliver programming for Boston children who may not otherwise have free access to quality tutoring, enrichment learning, and social support. BELL currently serves approximately 2,000 children across Boston, with a primary focus on families in traditionally underserved communities, such as Roxbury, Dorchester, and Mattapan.
We believe that the strongest way to assure healthy child development is to ensure the quality of relationships each child has in the critical early years with parents, caregivers and nurturing adults. FamilyACCESS strengthens families and the community by providing programs that nurture child development, promote effective parenting skills, and support working parents. In doing so, we actively engage a racially, economically, and culturally diverse population.
The mission of Haiti Projects is to empower women in rural Haiti to achieve self-sufficiency and build community.
The Iraqi Children Foundation intervenes with love and hope in the lives of Iraqi orphans, child laborers, and displaced children who are vulnerable to abuse, neglect, and exploitation by criminals, extremists, and human traffickers. The mission of the Iraqi Children Foundation is to invest in Iraq's orphans, street children, and displaced children by; being a voice for children with no voice, mobilizing resources to invest in education, health, protection, and trauma care, emphasizing sustainable hand-up initiatives over hand-outs, and, investing in training and capacity-building of Iraqis caring for children.
SustainUS is a youth-led organization advancing justice and sustainability by empowering young people to engage with policy at the international and domestic levels. Our vision is a sustainable world free from systemic injustice.