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Merit School of Music transforms the lives of Chicago-area youth by providing the highest quality music education – with a focus on underserved communities – inspiring young people to achieve their full musical and personal potential.

Eisenhower Dance Detroit (founded in 1991)is a professional dance repertory company. Through performances, education, and community engagement, Eisenhower Dance Detroit will deepen the understanding and appreciation of contemporary dance regionally, nationally, and internationally.

To reduce the number of homeless cats in our community through sterilization of homeless and owned cats, to adopt cats into permanent homes, to educate the public on all things cat, and to provide for the wellbeing of our sanctuary cats.

PTSA is MLA's parent, teacher, student organization. The organization is dedicated to supporting the education of all students. PTSA does this by raising funds, organizing volunteers, and by hosting and supporting community events throughout the school year.

The Huntsman has been an active steward of the ocean resource by finding ways to educate citizens about the oceans for the past 40 years. The education programs of the Huntsman have been pioneering; knowledge-based activities that have influenced the development of highly qualified personnel in the marine sciences and the oceans industry sector of the Canadian economy. The hands-on school programs have engaged over 35,000 students - ranging from elementary school age to university graduate level. For many, it is their first introduction to the Canadian Atlantic region.

Community Voices Heard is an organization of low income people, mostly women on welfare and public housing residents, working together to improve the lives of our members' families and all poor people in New York City and State. We are directed, run and being built by low-income people. We are a growing grass roots organization that uses public education, public policy research, community organizing, leadership development, voter education & mobilization, and direct action issue organizing to build our membership and to organize around issues that are defined by our membershiwe broadly define "welfare activism" to be multi issue, and thus must include issues such as education, training, jobs, housing, economic development and other community issues. We fill a critical gap in that our organization connects public policy with grass roots organizing and leadership development.

Overpopulation threatens the quality of life for people everywhere. Population Connection is the national grassroots population organization that educates young people and advocates progressive action to stabilize world population at a level that can be sustained by Earth's resources.

SYSTEMATIC CHANGE THAT ACHIEVES RACIAL JUSTICE, GENDER, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS THROUGH PUBLIC EDUCATION AND ENGAGEMENT INITIATIVES THAT ATTEND EQUALLY TO HEARTS AND MINDS AS WELL AS THE SOCIAL SYSTEMS AND STRUCTURES IN WHICH THEY EXIST

Public Citizen Foundation supports the research and educational work of Public Citizen, Inc. founded in 1971 to promote consumer rights, open government, corporate responsibility, clean energy, fair trade, environmental protection, and workplace safety.

The Junior League of Stamford-Norwalk, Inc. (JLSN) is an organization of women committed to promoting voluntarism, developing the potential of women and improving the community through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers. Our purpose is exclusively educational and charitable.

Latino Literacy Now is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in North San Diego County. The mission of the organization is to promote literacy in the community in all forms: reading, educational, financial, health, and community awareness. We strive to achieve this through partnerships with appropriate other organizations as well as with our own programs. To date, over one million people have been involved in some way with the organization’s programs which are divided among two main program areas: Author Programs, and Education and Literacy Programs.

Points of Diversity seeks to support the creation of an environment where people want to live, learn and grow by working to ensure that all community members have the tools to succeed by connecting, engaging, and being educated in cross-cultural discussions and experiences.