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City Parks Foundation improves New York City's parks through innovative programming, connecting people to parks and creating healthy and vibrant urban spaces with a dedicated constituency of people to champion them. We work in over 800 parks citywide, presenting a broad range of free arts, sports, and education programs, and empowering citizens to support their parks on a local level. Our programs and community building initiatives reach more than 600,000 people each year, contributing to the revitalization of neighborhoods throughout New York City.

Advocates for Youth champions efforts to help young people make informed and responsible decisions about their reproductive and sexual health.

The YMCA of Silicon Valley is committed to strengthening our community by improving the quality of life and inspiring individuals and families to develop their fullest potential in spirit, mind and body.

Our mission is to help Haiti’s abandoned and vulnerable children by nurturing them so they will live more productive lives.

Founded by Apple Distinguished Educator and Microsoft Innovative Educator Trainer Daphne Bradford, Mother of Many (M.O.M. http://www.motherofmany.com) is a grassroots nonprofit using technology and healthy eating programs to keep high school students engaged in school and gain workplace skills. Serving Los Angeles’ lowest performing inner city schools such as Locke, Crenshaw and Dorsey high schools in South Los Angeles—M.O.M. aims to “bridge the digital and STEM career divide” in order to close the achievement gap in neighborhoods where African American and Latino students have little access to technology and fresh foods.

We are helping thousands of families with every day living.

AHC is a private, non-profit housing developer of affordable housing. Our mission is to improve the quality of community life by expanding housing opportunities for low- moderate-income people, and assist our residents in their goals for economic self-sufficiency. We provide affordable rental housing; promote homeownership; coordinate and provide social services to children and families.

Playworks's mission is to improve the health and well-being of children by increasing opportunities for physical activity and safe, meaningful play.​

The Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice is the only philanthropic organization working exclusively to advance LGBTQI human rights around the globe. We support brilliant and brave grantee partners in the U.S. and internationally who challenge oppression and seed change. We work for racial, economic, social, and gender justice, because we all deserve to live our lives freely, without fear, and with dignity.

The Dictionary Project is a nonprofit organization that works with sponsors throughout the country to provide personal dictionaries for third grade students in public schools. The purpose of this program is to aid third grade teachers in their goal to see all their students leave at the end of the year as good writers, active readers, and creative thinkers. The dictionaries are for the children to keep, so that they can take the books with them into the fourth grade and use them throughout their school career.

As a vital East Harlem education and enrichment center, EHTP works with children from early childhood through adulthood to ensure that they have the resources needed to access opportunities for academic, social and career advancement while fully engaging parents and caregivers in their children’s development. We set high expectations for ourselves and our participants and continually measure our outcomes and community needs to deliver the highest quality, most effective offerings.

The Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation keeps music alive in our schools by donating musical instruments to under-funded music programs, and vital support services to school districts nationwide, giving economically-disadvantaged youth access to the many benefits of music education, leading them to success in school, and inspiring creativity and expression through playing music.