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Basket Beat is an organisation dedicated to people, especially those in environments with fewer opportunities, supporting their personal, collective, social and community growth through making, creating and learning music together using basketballs. Our mission is to promote critical thinking and meaningful encounters between people, as well as to recognise diverse bodies and ways of living. Beyond supporting groups that experience vulnerability, the organisation is also committed to engaging and accompanying the professionals and institutions we work with.
We help trans*, intersex, and other queer people flee places where it is dangerous to be trans. We help them reach places of safety and reasonable quality of life. We do so legally and securely.
One Acre Stichting is a Dutch (Netherlands-based) ANBI (charity) organization, that raises and deploys charitable funds for One Acre Fund to equip African smallholder farmers with the supplies and training they need to thrive.
Backup Uganda's mission is to promote and provide individual attention for learners in Uganda, particularly for learners with learning challenges.
Using education, entrepreneurship and local leadership to empower families in Uganda
The Favela Street Foundation creates a new generation of role models with the power of street football in deprived neighborhoods around the world. This new generation of role models will change their neighborhoods into a more positive and safer place. Although our programs targets 20 to 30 young people per program, we are convinced that the entire community can be reached. We base this on the social network theory. Within six steps (six degrees of separation) the whole world knows each other because acquaintances of yours know others. So within three to four steps our participants quickly reach the entire community with a positive change. We want to bring a culture change and that requires more. It's therefore important that we "touch" people so that they too start to believe in a positive change. Studies of cultural changes - and in particular influencing current stereotypes - show that a critical mass (percentage of people who disagree with the current standard) of 30% is necessary to bring sustainable change. For Favela Street, this means not reaching the entire neighborhood, but showing 30% of the people within our reach that things can be done differently. Favela Street programs target young people facing social exclusion as they grow up in deprived neighborhoods. Because of this social exclusion, they are less likely to receive good education, work or prospect of a positive future. Society says to these young people "you are not participating". In addition, they grow up in neighborhoods where they often have to deal with negative influences such as drugs, gangs, police violence and poverty. These factors can have a huge impact on the self-image, well-being and mindset of young people. By focusing on the development of young people, we ensure sustainable positive change in the neighborhood. Because we believe in the strength, talent and potential of these young people, we have created a program that supports them towards a positive (er) future. We teach them practical skills, how they can organize sports activities as a coach for their neighborhood. They develop their (psycho) social skills, they learn to take responsibility for and direct their future, they are better able to make conscious and sensible choices, they are less negatively influenced. In short, a new generation of role models is emerging. This new generation ensures a lasting positive change in the neighborhood. Because we want to make sure that our program actually makes a positive change in the lives of young people and their neighborhoods, we have developed a special measuring instrument. This was done by research agency XOET, the measuring instrument provides insight at two levels: 1. In the objectives and progression of our participants. 2. In the impact of the individual progression of participants on their communities. We believe that you can only bring sustainable (cultural) change in young people and their communities if you apply a qualitative and personal approach for a longer period. By comparing results at different times, we - and the young people themselves - gain insight into their progress, which provides even more motivation to keep moving forward. In addition, we can determine whether the program really works. Because we want to know whether our program is causing a culture change within the community, gaining insight into our impact is part of the measuring instrument. Based on principles from social network theory, we find out whether we are achieving sufficient "critical mass" to bring a cultural change in the neighborhood. We do this through the young people we train in our programs, but also through the activities organized in the neighborhood.
The mission of Pride and Sports (specifically the Stichting Pride and Sports foundation based in the Netherlands) is to create a safe, inclusive, and diverse sports world where every individual can be themselves, regardless of their sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or sex characteristics. Their core philosophy is summarized by the motto: "Being yourself in sport." Core Objectives To achieve this mission, the organization focuses on three primary pillars: Visibility: Increasing the visibility of LGBTQ+ athletes and role models in both amateur and professional sports to challenge stereotypes and inspire others. Acceptance & Education: Providing workshops, educational materials, and professional knowledge to sports clubs and governing bodies to help them foster a more welcoming culture. Safety & Policy: Lobbying for policy changes at the national and local levels to ensure that sports environments are socially safe and that discrimination is actively addressed.
The Special Social Club believes in a world without limitations! Our mission is to lower the barriers in today's society, so that people with a disability also enjoy full participation within our society. We provide a social platform where basic rights such as sports, dancing, social interactions and dating are also basic rights for people with disabilities. We are building an inclusive world. Will you join us?
Our Mission is to provide actors across Africa with the resources, knowledge and skills that create sustainable solutions against criminal impunity, that address injustices, and that remedy the infringement of human rights across the continent.
The association's non-profit goal of international benefit is to create a platform for young people in order to advocate for a just and green transition in Europe. More specifically, the association aims to: 1. Facilitate internal coordination and collaboration between its member organizations; 2. Empower young people to engage meaningfully in the processes EU decision-making regarding climate, the environment and sustainable development; 3. Advocate for strengthened environmental and climate action by and within the European Union which proactively and regularly integrates the voice of young people.
We are striving for a society where all children and young people grow up happy, healthy, confident and respected as individuals in their own right. We aim to bring about positive changes in the lives of children, in particular those affected by poverty and disadvantage. We reach our goal by influencing policies, building civil society capacity, facilitating mutual learning and exchanging practice and research. We are committed to child participation and to actively involve children in different aspects of our work.
To harness the power of giant kelp to restore the health of our oceans and planet.