Established in 2000 by a number of philanthropies and the U.S. Department of Education, the Afterschool Alliance works with government agencies and elected officials, business and community leaders, afterschool networks, and program providers to boost support for afterschool programs....

Founded in 2006, the organization brings classic poetry to the streets and street poetry into the classroom, with the goals of boosting literacy, empowering youth, and inspiring commmunities.....

Established in 1978, the Rural Community Assistance Corporation supports efforts to create vibrant, healthy, and enduring rural communities across the western United States....

Founded by Alvin Ailey and the Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey, AileyCamp is a six-week summer day camp where young people between the ages of 11 and 14 learn to explore their creativity and develop their self-confidence in an atmosphere of warmth, respect, and trust....

Founded in 1996, Career Girls works to help young girls attain their dreams and professional goals by closing the "imagination gap" — bringing inspiring female role models directly to girls, wherever they are, via video....

The organization works to catalyze social change by providing financial, logistical, and mentorship assistance to documentary filmmakers and social impact media....

Founded in 2013, RespectAbility works to ensure that children and adults with disabilities receive the education, training, and employment opportunities they need to succeed....

Founded in 1992 by a group of African-American and Latino students at Harvard University as an afterschool tutoring program called BELL (Building Educated Leaders for Life), BellXcel today provides evidence-based solutions designed to make it easy to deliver high-quality summer and afterschool learning programs for children in underresourced communities....

Founded in 1987 by singer-songwriter Paul Simon, pediatrician and child advocate Irwin Redlener, and Karen Redlener, Children's Health Fund works to ensure high-quality health care for America's most disadvantaged children....

Waterford brings the best aspects of learning science, mentoring relationships, and innovative technologies together to create community, school, and home programs that deliver excellence and equity for all learners....

Orbis conducts training programs in more than ninety developing nations and operates more than forty long-term projects deigned to empower local teams to fight avoidable blindness....

Established in 2001 as the 501(c)(3) arm of Pua Aliʻi ʻIlima, a school of Hawaiian dance, the PA'I Foundation works to preserve and perpetuate Native Hawaiian arts and cultural traditions....

Launched in 1988 with the goal of closing the literacy achievement gap that exists between disadvantaged children and their more affluent peers, the Children's Literacy Initiative works with pre-K through fifth-grade teachers to improve early literacy instruction....

Founded in 2012 by survivors of Liberia's civil war and American volunteers, Last Mile Health trains and supports community health workers in poor, remote communities around the world....

The Syracuse-based organization works to advance public awareness, understanding, and use of evidence-based reading instruction....

The American Alliance of Museums has worked since 1906 to strengthen leadership, advocacy, and collaboration in the museum field through the development of standards and best practices, advocating for issues that affect all museums, and providing opportunities for museum staff and volunteers....