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Our mission is to empower the homeless to get an education by providing student housing, financial assistance for tuition, therapy, and assistance with learning disabilities.

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.

Founded in 1983, The Wooden Floor is one of the most progressive arts-for-youth nonprofit organizations in the country. We transform the lives of young people in low-income communities through the power of dance and access to higher education. In Orange County and through our national licensed partners, we use a long-term approach grounded in exploratory dance education to foster the resources within each child to innovate, communicate, and collaborate – skills necessary for success in school and in life. 100 percent of students who graduate from The Wooden Floor immediately enroll in higher education. Our students become change agents and beacons of hope within their own families, their neighborhoods, our community, and our world.

Hannah's House is a supervised visitation and safe exchange family center that provides a safe place for children caught in the middle of Family Court custody disputes, a place where children can come together with their parents in a nurturing, supportive and protective environment. We help kids safely spend time with parents who are overcoming issues affecting their ability to parent independently. We help parents through a variety of classes: parenting, co-parenting, anger management, and substance abuse. Hannah's House prevents family violence/abductions during break-up/transition of the family. We reduce conflict in the families & communities we serve.

Words Alive connects children, teens, and families with the power of reading. Our mission is to open opportunities for life success by inspiring a commitment to reading. We envision a world where everyone is connected to the power of reading and the innumerable ways that it enriches our lives. We also know that empowering experiences turn individuals into agents of change and advocates for their own education, and that when everyone can read, whole communities thrive. At Words Alive, we believe that the world we envision is made possible through the simple, essential, and effective act of reading together.

Our Mission is to engage, educate, and inspire youth from urban and diverse backgrounds through science-based exploration of the ocean and nature, preparing them to be tomorrow's scientific and environmental leaders. Our Vision is to empower these young people to protect our ocean and natural environment, improve the health of our communities, and strengthen the quality of life in our world.

To provide children and young adults with opportunities for success in life as responsible citizens through a long-term relationship based upon: Mutual Trust and Respect, Exemplary Character, Skills Building, Leadership, Teamwork, and Learning. We guide and coach low income, high potential students for success to and through higher education.

To empower youth to succeed in life by providing them the tools, skills, and knowledge to transition from middle school, high school, and on to college.

10 Books A Home (10BH) is an early childhood education nonprofit founded in 2009 in East Palo Alto, CA that provides free home tutoring to high poverty preschoolers and their parents. Our mission is to prevent the achievement gap by ensuring high poverty preschoolers enter kindergarten above grade level and with families who are permanently invested in their learning.

The mission of DeLaSalle Education Center is to provide a holistic environment that offers students an opportunity to improve learning and life skills. Vision Statement: We envision a community in which all young people achieve a quality education that fosters and stimulates their true potential. Strategy Statement: DeLaSalle Education Center seeks to address the significant life barriers of Kansas City's most underserved urban youth seeking life-long success through a personalized and rigorous course of study, holistic network of services and workforce development.

EMERGE empowers & prepares high performing students from underserved communities to attend and graduate from selective colleges & universities across the nation.

LIFE TEACHES THEM TO HOPE BUT NOT EXPECT. WE ARE AN ORGANIZATION THAT IS COMMITTED TO CHANGING THAT. "Them" are kids with no access to education. We make impart education to children in remote villages in India. This is our small attempt to break the vicious circle of poverty.