Advocates for Youth champions efforts to help young people make informed and responsible decisions about their reproductive and sexual health. Their Young Women of Color Initiative addresses the alarming and disproportionate rates of negative sexual health outcomes among young women of color, Advocates for Youth seeks to build the capacity of community-based organizations serving young women of color 13 to 24 years old to provide culturally appropriate, science-based prevention programming. Advocates also seeks to build young women of color leaders in reproductive and sexual health. Advocates for Youth

Break the Cycle is still the only agency to provide comprehensive dating abuse prevention programs exclusively to young people since 1996. We believe everyone has the right to a safe and healthy relationship and work every day to make that right into a reality. Break the Cycle engages, educates, and empowers young people to build lives and communities free from domestic and dating violence. Break the Cycle

 

Since 1982, CHCF (The Committee for Hispanic Children and Families, Inc.) has been dedicated to combining education and advocacy to expand opportunities for children and families and strengthen the voice of the Latino community. Believing that the most effective way to support Latino families is by building upon their existing strengths and fostering self-sufficiency, CHCF provides a number of programs and services to the community through Youth Development programs and an Early Care & Education Institute. CHCF

 

Children’s Heartlink was founded in 1969 and is a nonprofit organization working in partnership with healthcare centers in underserved regions of the world to promote sustainable cardiac care for children with congenital or acquired heart disease. Their purpose is to assure that children around the world have access to quality care for the treatment of heart disease. They aspire to achieve their mission by empowering medical professionals to meet the needs of children with heart disease, supporting communities, and supporting the development of self-sustaining centers of excellence in pediatric and congenital cardiac care and training in areas of need. Children’s Heartlink

 

The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing pediatric HIV infection and eliminating pediatric AIDS through research, advocacy, and prevention, care, and treatment programs. Founded in 1988, EGPAF works in 17 countries around the world. The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation seeks to prevent pediatric HIV infection and  eradicate pediatric AIDS through research, advocacy, and prevention and treatment programs. Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation

 

EMpower, The Emerging Markets Foundation, is a not-for-profit organization that connects the resources of Emerging Markets (EM) professionals worldwide with the vitality of local organizations in emerging market countries.  Founded in 2000 by financial professionals from the EM community who wanted to give back to the countries where they did business, EMpower makes grants to local organizations working to improve conditions in their communities. EMpower narrowed its focus to strategically invest in at-risk youth, aged 10-24. We provide funding and other critical support to organizations in EM countries that are working to improve the lives of young people. EMpower

 

Firelight Foundation believes in the power of African communities to create lasting change for children and families affected by poverty, HIV, and AIDS. We identify, fund, and strengthen promising community organizations that support the health, resilience, and education of children in Africa. Firelight Foundation

 

WE Charity, formerly known as Free the Children, is an international development charity and youth empowerment movement founded in 1995 by human rights advocates Marc and Craig Kielburger. WE Charity is an international charity and educational partner. The organization is unique in that it operates collaborative programs both domestically and internationally. In the US, Canada, and the UK, WE Schools is a year-long service-learning program that nurtures compassion in students and gives them the tools to create transformative social change. WE

 

Kidsave’s mission is to create change so forgotten older orphanage and foster kids grow up in families and are connected to caring adults. With family support, most of these children can lead happy, productive lives. Many will have some lasting damage, learning challenges, and emotional problems — but with the help of patient, compassionate parents they can learn and succeed. They have tremendous abilities to be contributing members of society. This is the work of Kidsave: to create change so forgotten orphanage and foster kids are found —and connected to families and caring adults. Kidsave

 

National Children’s Alliance empowers local communities to provide comprehensive, coordinated, and compassionate services to victims of child abuse. It equips local children’s advocacy centers, multidisciplinary teams, and child abuse professionals with the training, support, and technical assistance to respond appropriately and effectively to allegations of child abuse or neglect.  By facilitating coordinated investigations and intervention services through the multidisciplinary team approach and through local children’s advocacy centers, NCA helps communities ensure that children are not revictimized by the very system designed to protect them. NCA

 

The members of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform (NCCPR) have encountered the child welfare system in their professional capacities. Through NCCPR, we work to make that system better serve America’s most vulnerable children by trying to change policies concerning child abuse, foster care, and family preservation.  NCCPR

 

NoVo Foundation is dedicated to supporting the development of capacities in people both individually and collectively to help create a caring and balanced world. We envision a world that operates on the principles of mutual respect, collaboration, and civic participation, thereby reversing the old paradigm predicated on hierarchy, violence, and the subordination of girls and women. NoVo believes that supporting the spirit and agency of girls and women (specifically Black, Brown, and Indigenous) everywhere was a clear way to rebalance an intensely patriarchal global culture. When girls reach their full potential, the balance of power within society is shifted, creating conditions whereby equality and partnership can flourish. They listen to girls so we can understand their most critical needs and aspirations, and we make direct investments in girls. We build girls’ capacity to reach their full potential and work to shift cultural and social norms so that communities and nations positively value girls. NoVo Foundation 

 

GEMS (Girls Educational & Mentoring Services) was founded by Rachel Lloyd in 1998, it is the only organization in New York State dedicated specifically to helping young women and girls who have experienced commercial sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking.  GEMS mission is to help young women and girls leave the commercial sex industry and grow to their full potential by providing them with support and opportunities for change.  GEMS offers free direct intervention services which include transitional services with housing for young women and girls as well as their children.  GEMS also provides prevention and outreach services in New York State.  GEMS

 

Girls Not Brides is a global partnership of more than 1,600 civil society organisations from over 100 countries committed to ending child marriage and ensuring girls can reach their full potential. Members are based throughout Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas and work on child marriage in many different ways – by working directly with girls and child brides in their communities or focusing on research and advocacy to bring greater attention to this neglected problem. By coming together in partnership, members are raising their voices to call for action on child marriage locally, nationally, and all over the world. Girls Not Brides

The International Youth Foundation prepares young people to be healthy, productive, and engaged citizens.  Recognizing that no one sector of society alone has the resources or expertise to effectively address the myriad challenges facing today’s youth, IYF is mobilizing a global community of businesses, governments, and civil society organizations — each committed to developing the power and promise of young people. Since 2015, has now engaged 175 active partners in 78 countries. Through this network, IYF has mobilized US$163 million cumulative grant statistics in grants benefiting youth in all parts of the globe. International Youth Foundation

 

Sanlaap North America is a rapidly growing and successful non-profit with 42 volunteers, over 400 donors, and 4 partner organizations. Recently awarded Top Nonprofit by GreatNonprofits, SNA has made a tremendous impact in the fight against human trafficking. We fight trafficking in two ways. The first is a direct impact initiative that involves providing shelter, education, and medical rehabilitation for girls we rescue from brothels. Our second approach, a very important one, is raising awareness on the issue and encouraging those around us to take action. Sanlaap North America

 

Save the Children gives children in the United States and around the world what every child deserves: a healthy start, the opportunity to learn, and protection from harm, especially when disaster strikes. We advocate and achieve lasting change for millions of children. We save children’s lives. We advocate for disaster relief, education, health and nutrition, HIV/AIDS, hunger, and child survival. Save the Children

 

The Third Wave Foundation centers youth most impacted by inequity as the architects for community and systemic change. Their investments recognize the resilience and leadership of young women, transgender, and gender non-conforming youth. They support this work; at the intersection of race, gender, sexuality, disability, and class because they believe in equality for all. They are a grassroots organization that focuses on reproductive health and justice, emergency abortion funds, and advocacy. Third Wave Foundation

 

UNICEF is the driving force that helps build a world where the rights of every child are realized. We have the global authority to influence decision-makers, and a variety of partners at a grassroots level to turn the most innovative ideas into reality.  That makes us unique among world organizations, and unique among those working with the young. We believe that nurturing and caring for children are the cornerstones of human progress.  UNICEF was created with this purpose in mind – to work with others to overcome the obstacles that poverty, violence, disease, and discrimination place in a child’s path.  We believe that we can, together, advance the cause of humanity. UNICEF