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PADI AWARE Foundation is a global nonprofit, powered by the world’s largest network of divers, dive professionals, and marine advocates. With three registered charities worldwide, we connect local action with global impact to protect the ocean. As the conservation partner of PADI®, we harness the strength of the dive community to address the ocean’s most urgent threats - driving meaningful change through marine policy advocacy, citizen science, and direct conservation efforts. Together, we are working to restore the ocean’s health and achieve a future where humanity and the ocean thrive in balance.

The Foundation's goal is to provide the ultimate environment for a child to become their best in all areas of their life, including academic, athletic, interpersonal skills, leadership, as a mentor, and someone willing to be mentored. They hope to arm children with a variety of ways to grow intellectually, spiritually, physically, and in their relationships with themselves and others. Their program is designed to go deeper into the subjects of life, excellence, and how to pursue happiness. In the end, our long-term goal is to help them become professionals in life, to find peace of mind, so they can share this wisdom with their families, friends, and communities as leaders and examples of extraordinary living and happiness.

Heal the Bay is an environmental nonprofit dedicated to making the coastal waters and watersheds of Greater Los Angeles safe, healthy and clean. To fulfill our mission, we use science, education, community action, and advocacy. Our passionate team conducts hundreds of beach and community cleanups each year, informing people about the root causes of pollution along the shorelines and in their neighborhoods. We advocate for strict water quality regulations that protect the health of both humans and the aquatic life who call local creeks, rivers, and the Santa Monica Bay home. In the past year, Heal the Bay sponsored-Assembly Bill 1066 to protect people who participate in water recreation activities in California. Our Nothin' But Sand public group cleanups were accomplished with 5, 800 cleanup volunteers that helped remove 111,000 pieces of trash from Los Angeles Country beaches, rivers, and neighborhoods.

The Council for Economic Education (CEE) is the leading organization in the United States that focuses on the economic and financial education of students from kindergarten through high school. For the past 60 years, of our mission has been to instill in young people the fourth “R”—a real-world understanding of economics and personal finance. We carry out our mission by providing professional development to teachers, teaching resources across the curriculum and nationally-normed assessment tools. We deliver our programs through in-person local workshops, partner organizations and online. It is only by acquiring economic and financial literacy that children can learn that there are better options for a life well lived, will be able to see opportunity on their horizon line and, ultimately, can grow into successful and productive adults capable of making informed and responsible decisions.

To motivate young children to read by working with them, their parents, and community members to make reading a fun and beneficial part of everyday life. RIF's highest priority is reaching underserved children from birth to age 8.

NEW YORK STAGE AND FILM IS A NON-PROFIT COMPANY DEDICATED TO ARTISTS DEVELOPING NEW STORIES FOR THEATER, FILM AND BEYOND BY SUPPORTING RESPONSIVE PROCESSES.

To be a center of tourism knowledge, empowerment, and action for destination communities.

EQuip Our Kids!, a project of Earthways Foundation, is a national nonprofit campaign raising needed awareness about and support for EQ life skills, especially among parents and businesses. Founded by civic-minded media, business and social entrepreneurs with no financial stake in the outcomes, our goal is comprehensive EQ life skills instruction in every U.S. pre-K-12 classroom by 2030.

We serve American children as their national arts organization, seeding their imagination, cultivating creativity, and fostering mutual empathy among them (for “a more perfect union”) and with their peers worldwide (for a peaceful future). Founded in 1997, the International Child Art Foundation (ICAF) organizes the Arts Olympiad, a school art program that has grown over the years into the world’s largest; it also produces the World Children’s Festival at the National Mall, located across from the U.S. Capitol. ICAF's ad-free ChildArt quarterly magazine enhances cross-cultural understanding and global competencies. ICAF has organized Healing Art Programs to revive faith in nature of child victims of natural disasters, and Peace through Art Programs to restore trust in humanity of children in conflict zones.

Saint David's is an elementary school for boys of all faiths whose parents seek a school program rooted in the moral and theological traditions of the Catholic Church. Pupils are admitted to Pre-Kindergarten through Grade Eight. The school is located at Twelve East Eighty-ninth Street in Manhattan. 

Big Cat Rescue, one of the world’s largest accredited sanctuaries for exotic cats, is a leading advocate in ending the abuse of captive big cats and saving wild cats from extinction. Care of our cats. The narrow mission of Big Cat Rescue is to provide the best permanent home we can for the abused, abandoned and retired cats in our care. We do this by building enclosures in a very natural habitat with foliage and shelter on our 67 acre site, by providing the best nutritional and medical care possible, and by having active operant conditioning and enrichment programs to provide for their physical and psychological well being. Education. The broader mission of the sanctuary is to reduce the number of cats that suffer the fate of abandonment and/or abuse and to encourage preservation of habitat and wildlife. We urge people to behave in a way that will support these goals by teaching people about the plight of the cats, both in the wild and in captivity. We accomplish this through educational guided tours, educational programs for young people, and by maintaining a website that is the world's largest and best resource for information about exotic cats.

Children's Community School is an independent, non-profit PreK through Grade 8 school that lays the foundation for students of an urban community to achieve educational success by offering a robust curriculum and unique experiences by developing their individual character and by cultivating strong family involvement.