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The GWHS Alumni Association ensures GWHS' status as San Francisco's leading comprehensive public high school, enabling faculty to provide all students with opportunity for academic success at GWHS and beyond, and strengthen graduates' bonds with each other and with GWHS, by: - funding over $33,000 in fiscal year 2021-22 to teachers and coaches for classroom supplies and student activities. - giving over $28,000 in scholarships to over 3 dozen deserving graduating seniors in May 2022. - sharing alumni and school news and publicizing reunions and related events to over 6,600 alumni members by mail, email and social media. - honoring distinguished graduates with Hall of Merit and Lifetime Service Awards. - preserving and documenting GWHS' rich history with personal interviews and archiving artifacts and ephemera we plan to display in a permanent location.

The Los Angeles Maritime Institute (LAMI) serves to empower youth to discover their greater potential through extraordinary at-sea experiences aboard educational sailing vessels built to train and equip young people with 21st-century leadership skills, and inspire maritime and STEM career paths.

The mission of Words Alive is to open opportunities for life success by inspiring a commitment to reading. We believe that if you value reading and understand its fundamental connection to all aspects of your life, you will thrive as a lifelong learner, ready to transform your community.

Helping children understand and value our natural world

CHANGING LIVES ONE BOOK AT A TIME To foster good reading habits and develop a love of books and reading at an early age, In A World With Books provides free books for disadvantaged and underprivileged children.

Friends in Kneed encourages young athletes to support one another through sharing their experiences in a forum, while learning about their injuries and how to prevent future injuries during the rest of their athletic careers. It gives athletes a community and a support network to let them know that they are not the only ones in their situations and that there are other athletes that are going through and have been through the same process. Friends in Kneed creates a student athlete knee-rehabilitation support group that in the future hopes to provide other injured athletes in financial need with aid for knee-related operations and proper rehabilitation.

The Wheels Of Happiness Foundation helps people with disabilities to become independent and reintegrate, and add value to their communities. We provide people with motor disabilities with medical equipment and supplies, scholarships, psychological help and inspiration to make them independent and therefore more productive. By doing this, we believe that everybody wins. The Foundation is funded by the help of corporate and individual donors and by special events.

The Horace Mann League exists to perpetuate the ideals of Horace Mann, the founder of the American public school system. Its basic purpose and activities are to strengthen our public schools. The League believes that the public school system of the United States is an indispensable agency for the perpetuation of the ideals of our democracy and a most necessary unifying and dynamic influence in American life.

Haiti On The Rise supports the reconstruction and development of structures and programs that benefit those affected by the 2010 Earthquake and recent catastrophes in Haiti. They identify community needs, select projects that meet those needs, and plan for and fund our selections. Their extensive work is focused in the areas of education, healthcare, sustainable housing, and pastoral endeavors. They aim to improve people’s lives and transform communities.

The Best Foot Forward Foundation, Inc. (BFF) is the only nonproêtorganization in Palm Beach County exclusively dedicated to theeducational success of foster care children who have been abused,neglected, or abandoned. Established in 2010, its mission is to empower foster care youth to maximize their potential by providing essential academic support and guidance. BFF co-founders DonnaBiase and Debbie Ellman volunteered in the Palm Beach Countyschool system for many years before founding Best Foot Forward. In2010, Best Foot Forward Foundation was founded and in 2011, oneyear after its existence, BFF was recognized for its innovative workwith foster care students in Palm Beach County and was selected as“Child Advocates of the Year” by Florida's Children First.

The Mission of the USS Midway is to preserve the historic USS Midway and the legacy of those who serve. Inspire and educate future generations. Entertain our museum guests and visitors.

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.