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Seeds in the Middle, named by fourth graders in central Brooklyn, inspires parents, educators, students and their community to access all opportunities beginning with improving their health, enhancing arts education and greening their environment. We are joyful, respectful, educational and engaging. We nurture the whole child. Our innovative strategy to fight obesity and combat health disparities initiates at schools. We weave proven programs into a comprehensive package to turn around ills driving down opportunity and advancement. We empower and educate all to get healthy and scale disparities. Our pilot Hip2B Healthy schools are in central Brooklyn, a neighborhood with one of New York City's highest obesity, diabetes, and heart disease rates. Our programs are models for replication. We have run community farmers markets and founded Soccer for Harmony tournaments, inspiring social change through soccer. We are proud to boast that our focus 4th grade class test scores in 2012 surpassed the citywide average! At Seeds in the Middle, we partner with faculty. We teach how to grow, market, access and prepare nutritious food, how to exercise and engage in the arts, all the elements needed to promote life-changing lifelong health. Our partners come from all walks of life: chefs, athletes, educators, artists, builders and more. We cross cultures. We transform gray into green, destitution into inspiration.

The Center for Excellence in Education (CEE) has a successful history of contributing to the scientific leadership of this country. CEE was founded in 1983 by the late Admiral H. G. Rickover, the father of the nuclear navy and of civilian uses of nuclear power and Joann DiGennaro, CEE's President. They recognized that the nurturing of careers of excellence and leadership in science and technology in young scholars is an essential investment in our national and global future. CEE is a private, (501)(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation that provides cost-free programs to its student scholars through collaboration with educational institutions, private foundations, corporations and government agencies who share a commitment to educational excellence and leadership in science and technology. Central to all of CEE's programs is the understanding that talent in scientific and mathematical disciplines achieves its greatest fulfillment of promise when it is nurtured from an early age. All programs are designed to provide the ongoing nurturing that will assure that the nation and the world benefit from the future leadership that will come from fulfillment of the promise shown by the students accepted to participate.

The mission of Communities In Schools is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.

To rescue and restore orphans and at-risk children in Romania who cannot be adopted out of country. Godly foster care homes are supported who provide loving and safe environments for fatherless children.

In This With You is a nonpolitical nonprofit that builds helpful online resources, conversation, and community for those experiencing crisis pregnancies, those who have chosen abortion in their past, and those who just want to offer practical assistance, grace, and love to their friends in need.

Friends in the City Foundation is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide youth mentoring and educational resources that impact urban communities. We will accomplish our mission through the vision of encouraging a growth mindset, enhancing our outreach, empowering the youth, embracing diversity and expanding our network.

Powered by a national network of foster youth-led groups, Foster Youth in Action (FYA) builds a movement of foster youth leaders that empower their peers with hope and purpose to create just systems and supportive communities for generations to come. Formerly known as National Foster Youth Action Network.

A Light in Dark Places (ALIDP) breaks down the stigma surrounding the topic of suicide by using the performing arts to encourage healthy discussion, create community, and offer hope to those affected.

To inspire and challenge youth through mental, physical, and social activities that foster self-respect and respect for the world around them.

High Tech Kids delivers fun, hands-on science, engineering and technology programs and events that inspire Minnesota kids in their formative years. We inspire kids to BUILD confidence, CREATE opportunities and THRIVE in the 21st century.

LSPC organizes communities impacted by the criminal justice system and advocates to release incarcerated people, to restore human and civil rights and to reunify families and communities. We build public awareness of structural racism in policing, the courts and prison system and we advance racial and gender justice in all our work. Our strategies include legal support, trainings, advocacy, public education, grassroots mobilization and developing community partnerships. We Believe We believe in fighting racism and economic injustice as a means to ending mass incarceration. We believe in the human dignity of people in prison and recognize that they come from and are part of our communities. We believe in the right and responsibility of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people to speak and be heard in our own voices, transform our lives and communities, and fully participate in all aspects of society. We believe in public safety, and that it is achieved when all people have voice, communities thrive and our society is just. We believe in the equality of all people, regardless of race, sex, gender, sexual identity, national origin, religion, physical or mental ability, and age. We believe in and fight for the leadership of people most impacted by the prison industry. We believe in maintaining our core principles in our work and relationships. We believe in living the change we want to see in the world.

Future in Our Hands - USA, founded December 2005, funds social and economic projects that foster human dignity and sustainable development in East Africa.  We have close and personal relationships with those we serve. We fund projects that support education, health care, and to help obtain potable water for those we serve. FIOH-USA is dedicated to more equitable use of world resources, and stands for a commitment to co-operation and active consideration (rather than competition) for our fellow human beings; equal rights for everyone; and co-responsibility to safeguard the environment for current and future generations.