

MAIA is an organization led by Indigenous women for Indigenous girls. MAIA connects talent with opportunity, maximizing the potential of young women to lead transformational change and working to break cycles of poverty, discrimination, and injustice through the education and empowerment of Indigenous girls in Guatemala.
OLPS empowers disadvantaged members of communities in Kenya to take care of their social and economic needs by providing care and support to persons infected and affected by HIV/AIDS and other crosscutting issues such as poverty, climate change and energy crisis, through community participation in partnership and collaboration with like-minded organizations.
Spark works with communities, governments, and local organizations to catalyze sustained collective action in villages facing poverty by providing communities the resources and skills they need to design and implement a development project of their choosing — this could mean building a school, planting crops, starting a local business, or anything else the community feels best serves their needs. Through Spark’s Facilitated Collective Action Process (“the Spark Process”), communities are led through weekly meetings and trainings to organize, conceptualize and implement their chosen project and receive a microgrant to fund it.
StrongMinds is social enterprise dedicated to expanding access to depression treatment globally.
Tostan is a community development organization with over 30 years of commitment to empowering communities to realize their vision of wellbeing based on respect for human rights. Our holistic programs focus on empowering women and girls, protecting children’s rights, promoting education, improving maternal and child health, protecting the environment, promoting respect for human rights, and abandoning harmful social practices such as child marriage and female genital cutting.
Slum Children Foundation supports children and youth from extremely poor families by giving them access to better education and also by improving their standards of living through life skills and vocational trainings.
Beso Foundation breaks the cycle of poverty in East Africa by ensuring that rural learners have access to quality education that can enable them grow up into critical thinkers and problem solvers.
Dost Education empowers parents of any literacy level to take charge of their child’s early development.
dZi works with rural communities in Nepal to achieve prosperity by eliminating barriers to basic needs, fostering opportunities for sustainable livelihoods, and building their capacity to catalyze transformational change.