.ORG Impact Award Finalists

HEALTH AND HEALING

Recognizes an organization or individual dedicated to advancing health and well-being in their community by ensuring access to care, resources, and support.

Cornerstone Jamaica

Cornerstone Jamaica connects people and resources to improve community health and education in Western Jamaica.

Green Empowerment

Green Empowerment partners with in-country organizations to build clean water and renewable energy infrastructure with rural and Indigenous communities across the globe.

HERhealthEQ

HERhealthEQ was born out of a need to reduce the equity gap in access to healthcare for women around the world.

Lagos Food Bank

Lagos Food Bank creates sustainable means of nutrition by establishing, supporting livestock and crop farming programs within selected communities.

Penta Medical Recycling

Penta collects used and excess prostheses and delivers this high-quality, low-cost prosthetic equipment to amputees around the world.

COMMUNITY BUILDING

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.

Andando

By focusing on the growth of the whole village - water, health, education, agriculture, literacy, and small business, Andando strives to create thriving communities rooted in sustainable solutions that give ownership to those participating in our programs.

Creativity Explored

Creativity Explored is a nonprofit art studio and gallery that partners with developmentally disabled artists to celebrate and nurture the creative potential in all of us.

Kakenya’s Dream

Kakenya’s Dream invests in girls from rural Kenya through educational, health, and leadership initiatives to create agents of change.

The Citizens Foundation

The Citizens Foundation (TCF) supports the education of underprivileged children and works towards increased gender equity in Pakistan.

Valpo Surf Project

Valpo Surf Project uses surfing and academic tutoring to encourage English language skills, personal character development, and environmental consciousness among underprivileged and at-risk youth.

HUNGER AND 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.

Children’s Place International

Children’s Place International works with in-country partners to support vulnerable children in regaining their health and pursuing their dreams.

Cities Without Hunger

Cidades Sem Fome (Cities Without Hunger) develops sustainable agricultural projects in urban areas.

Sanku Project

Sanku scales technology and business solutions that put critical nutrients into the food that hundreds of millions of malnourished people eat the most.

Second Mile Haiti

Second Mile Haiti combats acute childhood malnutrition through innovative residential treatment, empowers women with education and income-generation, and tackles systemic barriers to health and wellbeing in Haitian communities.

WHOlives

WHOlives is committed to bringing clean water to developing communities in a self-sustainable process and creating local ownership, economic incentives, and accountability.

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.

FORA

Forging Opportunities for Refugees in America (FORA) provides high impact tutoring and educational programs to SLIFE (Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education) refugee children.

Fundi Bots

Fundi Bots works to accelerate science learning in Africa by providing practical, hands-on science education through robotics training and enhanced classroom science learning experiences.

Moinee Foundation

Moinee Foundation is working for the Right to quality education for underprivileged society specially in rural and tribal area, by ensuring effective last mile delivery and breaking barriers of cost, access & language through techno-social innovations.

Our Sansar

Our Sansar aims to free Nepalese children in need from abuse and give them a route out of poverty.

Seeding Labs

Seeding Labs works to unleash the full potential of scientists worldwide to fight global diseases, feed our growing population, and protect our planet.

ENVIRONMENTAL
STEWARDSHIP

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

Borderlands Produce

Borderlands Produce rescues, recycles and redistributes produce to ensure that the community is able to access fresh ingredients, curbing food waste and helping save the planet.

Burn Design Lab

Burn Design Lab designs clean-burning cookstoves and cookstove manufacturing systems to save lives, reduce deforestation, and promote the economic empowerment of women in the developing world.

CorpoAyapel

CorpoAyapel promotes the sustainable development of the Ayapel wetland ecosystem and its community.

CREATE Borneo

CREATE Borneo equips indigenous youth with the means to preserve their culture while competing in a growing economy, taking responsibility for their environmental stewardship through technology.

Sodzo Foundation

Sodzo Foundation works to address the pressing challenge of macro plastic pollution on the shores of freshwater bodies by leveraging the power of real-time drone and smartphone imagery to safeguard these ecosystems while empowering communities for a sustainable environment.

DIVERSITY, 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.

Custom Collaborative

Custom Collaborative is a NYC-based nonprofit that trains, mentors, and advocates for and with no/low-income and immigrant women to build the skills necessary to achieve economic success in the sustainable fashion industry.

GirlLEAD

GirlLEAD provides an all-inclusive, accessible and affordable platform for women and girls in marginalized communities to acquire world-class science, technical, entrepreneurial, and leadership skills, enabling them in their unique capacity to change the world.

Hope for Justice

Hope for Justice exists to bring an end to modern slavery by preventing exploitation, rescuing victims, restoring lives, and reforming society.

Pinkishe Foundation

Pinkishe Foundation runs multiple programs for the benefit of girls and women, the flagship of them being PadBank, to spread Menstrual Hygiene awareness and distribute free reusable sanitary pads.

Project C.A.M.P.

The Center for Courageous Kids (CCK) provides an overnight camp experience free of charge to children with serious illnesses and disabilities, so they can build community and freely engage in respite and recreation.

RISING STAR

Recognizes an individual under the age of 30 who is shaping the future, demonstrating leadership, and driving impact through their passion, innovation, and commitment to positive change.

For The Future Ghana

For The Future Ghana (FTF Ghana) is an organization mainly made up of young people with the aim of organizing outreaches and impactful projects to alleviate the plight of underprivileged children.

LightEd

LightEd is a renewable energy company that focuses on using waste material to build renewable energy solutions that can light up homes and families in rural and some urban communities.

Linens N Love

Linens N Love empowers students to lead industry-transforming partnerships between hotels and shelters; the youth-led organization collects castoff linens from hotels and donates them to homeless families, low-income households, animal shelters, and more.

Project Rebirth

Project Rebirth provides free skills acquisition training in eco friendly fashion, mentorship and resources (soft loans) to low income earning women and youths in underprivileged communities to enhance gender equality and youth empowerment.

Start:Empowerment

Start:Empowerment works to mobilize education and activism to achieve social -environmental justice and liberation for all.