.ORG Impact Award Finalists

COMBATING CORONAVIRUS

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

Days for Girls
International

Days for Girls works to eliminate the stigma and limitations associated with menstruation so that women and girls have improved health, education and livelihoods.

The Molecular Sciences
Software Institute

The Molecular Sciences Software Institute aggregates critical information to accelerate COVID-19 drug discovery for the molecular modeling and simulation community.

Carolina for Kibera

Empowering youth In Slums for 25 years, envisioning a future where a generation of healthy, educated, and innovative youth in informal settlements become visionary leaders and change-makers, facilitated by digital connectivity.

Heart to Heart International

Heart to Heart International seeks to improve healthcare access in the U.S. and around the world by ensuring quality care is provided equitably in medically under-resourced communities and in disaster situations.

Salvation Army: SoCal

We are motivated by the love of God, with a mission to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and to meet human needs in His name without discrimination.

INNOVATION

Recognizes an organization or individual who has broken new ground for an organization by demonstrating new ways of thinking, approaching and/or solving issues or challenges.

Crisis Tracker

The Crisis Tracker is a geospatial database and reporting project that tracks armed group activity and conflict-related incidents in the remote border region encompassing northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo and eastern Central African Republic.

Truth Initiative

To achieve a future free from nicotine addiction, Truth Initiative focuses on behavior change and policy change that prevents addiction, supports quitting, expands cessation access, and addresses systemic inequities.

Synergies Work

Synergies Work is empowering founders with disabilities at every stage of their journey to build a world where entrepreneurs with disabilities belong.

WaterScope

WaterScope is working to overcome global water inequality by breaking barriers to reliable bacterial testing.

Bibliothèques Sans Frontières

Bibliothèques Sans Frontières creates innovative cultural and educational spaces to reach people affected by crises and allow them to have fun, continue learning and dreaming, create connections and build their future.

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.

Food For Free

Food For Free improves access to healthy food through establishing innovative programming and partnerships to overcome barriers and strengthen the community food system.

Mandela Partners

Mandela Partners builds local wealth by sourcing from sustainable farmers, creating affordable food access points, incubating community businesses, and increasing capital for BIPOC entrepreneurs.

CalFresh

CalFresh is California’s SNAP program. It helps people buy groceries

Center for Food Action

Center for Food Action provides emergency food, homelessness prevention, and utility assistance services to residents in Bergen and Passaic counties. 

Hole Food Rescure

Hole Food Rescue's mission is to reduce food waste and cultivate food security in Teton County, Wyoming.

PROMOTING EDUCATION

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.

SMASH

SMASH aims to build a strong STEM workforce through academic learning and experiential engagement for high school and college students.

SchoolHouse Connection

SchoolHouse Connection works to overcome homelessness through strategic advocacy and practical assistance in partnership with youth, families, schools, early childhood programs, institutions of higher education, and service providers.

Council on Legal 
Education Opportunity

The mission of CLEO is to enhance the legal profession by supporting aspiring lawyers from all backgrounds in accessing a legal education and achieving professional success.

Jacksonville Speech &
Hearing Center

Jacksonville Speech & Hearing Center (JSHC) is dedicated to providing comprehensive speech, language, and hearing health services to children, adults, and seniors.

Yayasan Tunas
Aksara

Yayasan Tunas Aksara equips educators and parents to teach literacy effectively, so that children across Indonesia develop a love for reading.

ADVANCING ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

Recognizes an organization or individual leading the way in protecting our planet, promoting sustainability, and inspiring communities to create a healthier, more resilient future.

Mangrove Action
Project

MAP provides the training needed to effectively conserve and restore vital mangrove ecosystems, to help coastal communities and reduce the effects of climate change.

Citizens of the
Great Barrier Reef

Citizens of the Reef works to close the gap between surveying the state of reef systems and implementing practical conservation where it matters most. 

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.

Plastic Pollution Coalition

Plastic Pollution Coalition is a communications and advocacy organization that collaborates with an expansive global alliance of organizations, businesses, and individuals to create a more just, equitable, regenerative world free of plastic pollution and its toxic impacts.

Rainforest Alliance

Through sustainability programs and certification, the Rainforest Alliance is protecting forests, healing the Earth, and partnering with local communities.

CHAMPIONING EQUALITY, EQUITY, AND 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.

ChangeLabs

Change Labs is an award-winning, Native-led organization on the Navajo and Hopi Nations growing the next generation of Native American entrepreneurs.

SEED SPOT

SEED SPOT is dedicated to empowering diverse, impact-driven entrepreneurs who are using their business ventures to create social change locally and around the world. 

Carolina For Kibera

Carolina for Kibera has been empowering youth In Slums for 25 years, envisioning a future where a generation of healthy, educated, and innovative youth in informal settlements become visionary leaders and change-makers, facilitated by digital connectivity.

Kiva

Kiva is an international nonprofit, founded in 2005 in San Francisco, with a mission to expand financial access to help underserved communities thrive.

Metamorphasis Powerhouse

The mission of Metamorphasis Powerhouse Comapany, Inc is to turn everyday places into public learning classrooms. This equips students for pathways of the future, supports parents in creating healthy family foundations, and empowers mutlgenerational learning so communities thrive where historically underserved citizens live, work, and play. 

PROMOTING A SAFER INTERNET

Recognizes an organization or individual advancing a safer and more trustworthy internet by protecting users, combating online harm, and driving meaningful change that makes digital spaces more secure for all.

Child Rescue Coalition

Child Rescue Coalition (CRC) is a nonprofit organization that rescues children from sexual abuse by building technology for law enforcement, free of charge, to track, arrest and prosecute child predators.

Cyber Threat Alliance

The Cyber Threat Alliance is working to improve the cybersecurity of the global digital ecosystem by enabling near real-time, high-quality cyber threat information sharing among companies and organizations in the cybersecurity field.

Center for Cyber Safety 
and Education

The mission of the Center for Cyber Safety and Education is to grow the cybersecurity profession and its positive impact on the world by raising awareness, building a diverse pipeline of cybersecurity professionals, and activating a more secure digital world.

APWG

APWG is unifying the global response to cybercrime through curated data exchange, research, public policy and awareness messaging.

National Center for Missing
and Exploited Children

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children is the nation’s largest and most influential child protection organization, leading the fight to protect children by creating vital resources for them and the people who keep them safe.

.ORG NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR

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.

INARA

INARA is a non-profit that provides access to life-altering medical and mental health care to children impacted by human-induced or natural disasters.

Tzedek DC

Tzedek DC’s mission is to safeguard the legal rights and financial health of DC residents with low incomes dealing with the often devastating consequences of abusive debt collection practices and other consumer related issues.

SHE

SHE is committed to fostering sustainable health care by equipping people with knowledge and empowering them to continue self-care under the leadership of local healthcare professionals after volunteers have left the country.

ANGELAID Cares

Raregivers Inc is a global network that delivers emotional support to caregivers, patients and professionals in rare, chronic and complex disease communities. 

Fleece & Thank You

Fleece & Thank You is dedicated to providing connection, comfort, and hope to children facing illness and their families supporting them. Their goal is to provide every child facing hospital treatments with a colorful, comfortable fleece blanket and a video message of support from its maker.