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COVENANT HOUSE

Covenant House builds a bridge to hope for young people facing homelessness and survivors of trafficking through unconditional love, absolute respect, and relentless support. Their doors are open 24/7 in 31 cities across six countries and their high-quality programs are designed to empower young people to rise and overcome adversity, today and in the future.

MALALA FUND

Inspired by Malala and Ziauddin’s activist roots, Malala Fund believes that local educators and advocates provide the greatest insight, innovation and energy needed to address barriers that keep girls out of school in their communities. Through their Education Champion Network, they invest in their work so they can scale their efforts and leverage their collective power to create broader change to make it easier for all girls to learn.

FIRST BOOK

First Book believes that education is the best way out of poverty for children in need. They address the needs of the whole child supporting their education, basic needs, and wellness – all of which are essential to educational equity. All of these resources are made affordable to their member network of more than 500,000 educators who exclusively serve kids in need. First Book is rooted in diversity, inclusion, and togetherness and they aim to apply their expertise to join the fight for racial equity.

The Trevor Project

Founded in 1998 by the creators of the Academy Award®-winning short film TREVOR, The Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer & questioning (LGBTQ) young people under 25.

Stand Up For Kids

Stand Up For Kids serves unaccompanied homeless and at risk youth – and young parents with children of their own – up to their 25th birthday. Their ongoing mission is to end the cycle of youth homelessness. To do this, they have built four core programs in many of the cities where they operate in volunteer teams: Street Outreach, Outreach Centers, Mentoring, and Housing. They are quite proud of the fact that their volunteer teams build trust and become a consistent resource to stabilize and otherwise help those youth that the rest of society ignored.

Global Citizen

Global Citizen is a movement of engaged citizens who are using their collective voice to end extreme poverty by 2030. On their platform, Global Citizens learn about the systemic causes of extreme poverty, take action on those issues, and earn rewards for their actions — as part of a global community committed to lasting change.

Their mission is to build a movement of 100M action-taking Global Citizens to help achieve our vision of ending extreme poverty by 2030.

Create Now

Create Now’s mission is to empower at-risk and high-risk youth and young adults from ages 3 to 24 through a variety of arts programs in multi-disciplines that help them to heal and thrive. Their goal is to assist them to get out of poverty and learn skills that can lead to jobs and careers. They focus on the most vulnerable kids who are abused, neglected, orphaned, homeless, victims of domestic violence and sex trafficking, on probation, incarcerated or experiencing other severe challenges. Although small in size, their staff taps into many resources in the community to provide quality arts programs and services. Create Now has reached 49,000+ youth in 24 years!