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The Peace & Justice Center is a Vermont-based non-profit, membership organization. Our mission is to create a just and peaceful world. To this end, we work on the interconnected issues of economic and racial justice, peace, and human rights through education, advocacy, training, non-violent activism and community organizing.

LatinoJustice PRLDEF ( Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund) champions an equitable society. Using the power of the law together with education and advocacy, LatinoJustice PRLDEF protects opportunities for all Latinos to succeed in work and school, fulfill their dreams, and sustain their families and communities. LatinoJustice PRLDEF’s work fully embraces the diversity of the Latino community – especially the most vulnerable – new immigrants and the economically vulnerable. LatinoJustice PRLDEF’s work encompasses three guiding principles – protecting civil rights, cultivating Latino leaders and increasing civic participation – that conveys our work, and showcases our exceptional role within the Latino rights community. Our work primarily consists of impact litigation, legal advocacy, leadership development and legal education and pipeline programs that address a variety of civil and human rights issues, including immigrant justice, voting rights, worker's rights, economic justice and criminal justice reform.

To transform, alleviate, educate and protect the lives of underprivileged, individuals and minority communities impacted by disasters, natural or man-made, suffering from hunger, illiteracy, diseases, or from violation of civil and human-rights into informed and vibrant members of society by fostering sustainable programs regardless of color, race, religion or creed.

"It is the right of every pregnant woman to give birth, and the right of every child to be born."

The Peace Development Fund works to build the capacity of community-based organizations through grants, training, and other resources as partners in the human rights and social justice movements. As a public foundation, we nourish, foster, and encourage the diverse, self-sustaining and economically viable communities that are essential to building a peaceful, just and equitable world.

Shared Interest's mission is to mobilize the resources for South Africa's economically disenfranchised communities to sustain themselves and build an equitable nation. Shared Interest's envisions: A just and vibrant South African economy that eliminates disparities and upholds the basic human rights enshrined in the nation's constitution. A South African society that serves as a model of economic justice.

Founded in 1998, AIDA is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) environmental law organization that works in Latin America to defend threatened ecosystems and the human communities that depend on them. Our mission is to strengthen people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

The mission of The San Diego LGBT Community Center is to enhance and sustain the health and well-being of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and HIV communities by providing activities, programs, and services that Create community, Empower community members, Provide essential resources, Advocate for civil and human rights, and Embrace, promote and support our cultural diversity.

Durga Tree International is a heart-centered, collaborative organization that raises funds and empowers multiple non-profits around the world who are on the ground actively working to fully end Modern Slavery. We believe it is the basic human right of every individual to have personal freedom, whatever their socio-economic status, race, gender, or religion.

Our mission at the Social Impact Media Awards (SIMA) is to advance global awareness, social justice, human rights, and humanitarian development by catalyzing creative works of visual storytelling that inspire activism, compassion and social transformation. We celebrate social-documentary storytelling of excellence and connect international audiences, educators and organizations with the best global impact cinema.

Together we advocate, educate, and provide exceptional health care supporting sexual health, wellness, and reproductive freedom — without judgment, without fear, without fail. Planned Parenthood has been a trusted provider of reproductive health care and comprehensive sexual health education for over 100 years. We believe that reproductive rights are basic human rights and that everyone should have access to quality health care. Our clinical care, advocacy, and education programs work hand-in-hand to create stronger, healthier, and more equitable communities.

The mission of the Center for Investigative Reporting, the nation's oldest nonprofit producer of investigative reporting, is to inform the public and hold the powerful accountable, providing citizens with the information they need to participate in the democratic process.  CIR produces multimedia reporting on important topics, from the environment to human rights to government accountability and transparency, and distributes them locally, regionally, nationally and internationally for maximum impact.