.ORG Impact Award Finalists

HEALTH & HEALING IN A
TIME OF PANDEMIC

Recognizes an organization or individual whose efforts helped manage Covid-19 outbreaks, provided essential information, provided essential products or services, helped create policies to combat coronavirus, or created solutions to medical equipment shortages

Good Sports

Good Sports works to give kids in need the benefits of sport and physical activity by providing new equipment, apparel, and footwear to youth organizations in high-need communities.

Hispañola Health Partners

HHP is giving rural Haitians a real healthcare home, working to combat the inaccecibility of healthcare in Haiti. The HHP clinic offers full primary and 24/7 emergency care to 30,000 of the most vulnerable rural poor across Southeast Haiti.

Angel Flight West

Angel Flight West’s network of volunteer pilots provide free medical transportation to people in need. Over the past four decades, they have provided thousands of flights, creating pathways to healthcare across the Western United States.

Fondazione Ronald McDonald

For over 25 years, the Fondazione Ronald McDonald has been supporting families experiencing the dramatic impact of a child's illness.

Sense International Kenya

Sense International is working in Kenya to identify children with deafblindness and other complex disabilities and ensure that they receive a quality education and the skills to start a business.

OVERCOMING CLIMATE CHANGE

Recognizes an organization or individual whose efforts advanced or will advance a clean, healthy environment without damage to our environment or depletion of nonrenewable resources.

ADES

Over the last two decades, ADES has saved over two million tons of wood and reduced carbon dioxide emissions by three and a half million tons.

Saahas

Saahas plays the role of an enabler in India’s path towards Circular Economy, helping to build holistic and scientific solutions to reduce and manage solid waste based on the principles of Circular Economy.

Canopy

Canopy's mission is to protect forests, species, and climate through working collaboratively with brands, producers, local NGOs, Indigenous leaders, and decision-makers. 

Seacology

Seacology protects the unique habitats and cultures of islands worldwide, focusing only on islands, because they are uniquely vulnerable.

Climate Action 100+

Climate Action 100+ is an investor-led initiative to ensure the world’s largest corporate greenhouse gas emitters take appropriate action on climate change in order to mitigate financial risk and to maximize the long-term value of assets.

FIGHTING HUNGER & POVERTY

Recognizes an organization or individual who has made significant contributions to combat hunger, reduce poverty, and create lasting economic opportunities that uplift individuals and communities.

Zoe Empowers

Zoe Empowers equips orphaned children and vulnerable youth with tools and training to help them overcome life-threatening poverty.

No Food Waste

No Food Waste is an organisation which aims to redistribute excess food from weddings, parties, events to those who are hungry.

Venice Family Clinic

Venice Family Clinic delivers high-quality care that ensures everyone in communities from the Westside, Inglewood, the South Bay and everywhere in between can get healthy and stay healthy.

Bountifield International

iDE powers entrepreneurs to end poverty by providing access to technology and finance combined with business knowledge, and connections to market ecosystems where entrepreneurs can flourish and communities can thrive.

SeSTA

SeSTA's mission is to catalyze inclusive and sustainable development in North East India by enhancing livelihoods and institutional capacities of the rural communities.

QUALITY EDUCATION FOR ALL

Recognizes an organization or individual breaking down barriers to education, fostering learning opportunities that empower individuals, and creating paths to a brighter future for all.

Skateistan

Skateistan is the first international development organization dedicated to empowering children through education and the power of skateboarding.

Thaki

Thaki uses technology to empower refugee and vulnerable children to learn and thrive.

LEAD

LEAD Edu shapes future leaders through education and sport, equipping youths with the leadership skills and mindsets to transform themselves, their communities, and the world.

17000 ft Foundation

17000 ft Foundation works to transform lives in the frontier villages of the Indian Himalayan Region by facilitating Quality Education to the children near their homes even in the remotest hamlets of the IHR.

Sense India

Sense India is committed to helping persons with deafblindness and multiple disabilities and their families by raising awareness and campaigning for rights, opportunities, and services throughout the nation.

BUILDING BETTER COMMUNITIES

Recognizes an organization or individual whose efforts are strengthening the fabric of their community, fostering connections, and driving meaningful change on a local, national, or global level.

Litro de Luz Colombia

Litro de Luz Colombia is a decentralized solar energy company that operates in rural areas and post-conflict zones in Colombia and Latin America.

Do Bold

Do Bold addresses systemic and widespread issues that affect migrant workers, working together with migrant workers in the Gulf Countries.

Good360

For over 40 years, Good360 has transformed product donations into sustainable support for communities facing disaster, hardship, or urgent need.

The Safe Water Network

The Safe Water Network reaches millions in underserved communities by developing affordable, equitable solutions and accelerate access by providing technical assistance and catalyzing sector-wide collaboration.

Global Volunteers

Global Volunteers engages short-term volunteers in long-term, community-driven, sustainable human and economic development. 

CHAMPIONING DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION

Recognizes an organization or individual fostering a more inclusive and equitable world by breaking down barriers, amplifying underrepresented voices, and driving meaningful change that creates opportunities for all.

MAIA

MAIA educates and prepares indigenous girls in rural Guatemala to become the next generation of empowered female leaders in the country.

Clear My Record

Clear My Record connects individuals to trusted public defenders or legal aid to help with their petitions for record clearance in California.

ISF Cambodia

ISF Cambodia's education and football programmes are designed to establish a strong foundation for lifelong learning, while their Community Projects work to address immediate challenges faced by the families.

Ability Sports Africa

Ability Sports Africa empowers children and youth with disabilities through equipping children with fundamental sports skills. This enables them to develop leadership skills and build confidence.

The Bail Project

The Bail Project pays bail for those in need while working to take money out of justice. The Bail Project mission is to create a fairer system, one that truly treats people as innocent until proven otherwise.

RISING STAR

Recognizes a person or organization that started less than five years ago and demonstrated experience for exceptional contributions by demonstrating initiative and leadership around a specific task, project or campaign.

TriHealthon

Rising Star Esther Ejiroghene Ajari promotes health equity in Nigeria through through TriHealthon, a nongovernment organization.

EEqual

A for youth by youth nonprofit increasing access to higher education for students experiencing homelessness.

Foundation for Girls

Foundation for Girls advances financial resilience & economic mobility for marginally housed women and their children through four program pillars: financial wellbeing, digitally forward, career journey, and circle of care. 

Letters to Strangers

Letters to Strangers (L2S) is the largest global youth-run nonprofit seeking to destigmatize mental illness and increase access to affordable, quality treatment, particularly for youth

Kayla Cares 4 Kids

Kayla Cares 4 Kids’ mission is to help sick kids feel better by providing entertainment and educational resources to children’s hospitals, Ronald McDonald Houses and related pediatric facilities worldwide.