.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.

Emilio Nares
Foundation

The Emilio Nares Foundation helps children with cancer and other life-threatening diseases by providing transportation, family support services, and essential resources that ensure every child can access the care they need, regardless of financial circumstances.

Preterm Infants Parents
Network Uganda

PIPNU is a parent-led nonprofit that empowers families of preterm babies through education, peer support, psychosocial care, and advocacy while partnering with healthcare providers to improve survival and long-term outcomes for premature infants across Uganda.

E-Blood Bank Makila

Inspired by a founder's personal loss, EBLOOD improves emergency healthcare in the Democratic Republic of the Congo via a real-time platform connecting hospitals, blood banks, donors, and pharmacies to quickly coordinate lifesaving blood and essential medical supplies.

Hope To Walk

Hope to Walk provides low-cost prosthetic legs and prosthetic training programs to help amputees in underserved communities abroad regain mobility, independence and the ability to walk

Unchained At Last

Unchained At Last is a survivor-led nonprofit organization dedicated to ending forced and child marriage in the United States through direct services and systems change.

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.

AzuKo

AzuKo works alongside women and their families, in Bangladesh and the UK, to build homes that last. They design with communities, not for them – turning housing poverty into homes families can thrive in.

Love Binti International

Love Binti International (LBI) is a global NGO dedicated to creating sustainable, community-led solutions to the socio-economic and environmental challenges faced by women and girls in rural African communities.

One Village Partners

One Village Partners enhances collective wellbeing across Sierra Leone by partnering with communities to develop sustainable, locally led solutions that strengthen leadership, economic opportunity, and long-term wellbeing.

TECHO

TECHO is a youth-led organization working across 18 Latin American countries, mobilizing volunteers and communities to overcome poverty through housing, civic engagement, and community-building programs that promote dignity and social justice.

The Sparkle Foundation

The Sparkle Foundation Malawi breaks the cycle of poverty through community-led programs improving education, healthcare, nutrition, and economic opportunity.

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.

Acceso

Acceso is a nonprofit social enterprise working to transform rural livelihoods through a scalable, market-based model that connects smallholder farmers to support within their own communities.

Food4Education Foundation

Food4Education works to ensure no child has to learn hungry by partnering with governments and communities across Africa to build locally rooted, financially sustainable school feeding systems that nourish children and strengthen local economies.

Global Fund for Widows

Global Fund for Widows supports widows and female head of households to overcome poverty through entrepreneurship, access to capital, skills training, and legal education.

HERVeg.05

HERVeg.05 combats malnutrition in rural Tanzania by promoting sustainable agriculture, empowering farmers, and providing nutritious, chemical-free food solutions that improve health and livelihoods.

Upaya Social Ventures

Upaya Social Ventures is a nonprofit impact investor dedicated to fighting poverty by supporting early-stage businesses across India that create dignified, sustainable jobs.

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.

UmRio / OneRio

UmRio/OneRio works to end intergenerational poverty in Brazil by using rugby as a platform to connect children, young people, and families with education, healthcare, employability, and social support that create lasting opportunities for personal and community development.

Ideas Beyond Borders

Ideas Beyond Borders (IBB) equips individuals and communities across the Middle East and Afghanistan with the information, skills, and resources to build a freer and more prosperous future.

Markoding

Markoding is an Indonesian nonprofit that uses technology and innovation to expand access to quality education, equipping women, youth, and children with digital skills that create pathways to education and employment.

Native Forward Scholars Fund

Native Forward Scholars Fund is the largest provider of direct scholarships to Native students in the United States, having awarded over $350 million to over 22,000 Native students from all 50 states and over 500 Tribes since 1969.

Style Her Empowered (SHE)

Style Her Empowered (SHE) is a nonprofit that partners with communities across West Africa to expand educational opportunities for girls and create dignified employment for women through their innovative School Uniforms that Grow, helping build sustainable pathways out of poverty.

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.

Lwiro Primates
Rehabilitation Center

Lwiro Primates Rehabilitation Center protects and rehabilitates orphaned primates rescued from poachers and wildlife traffickers in the Democratic Republic of Congo, while advancing wildlife conservation, research, and environmental education.

Ulinzi Africa
Foundation

Ulinzi Africa Foundation protects some of Kenya's most geographically isolated and vulnerable ecosystems in Tana Delta and Lamu by conserving biodiversity, safeguarding critical wildlife habitats, and working with local communities to address poaching, extractive industry impacts and human-wildlife conflict.

Friends of Tonga

Friends of Tonga is a volunteer-led nonprofit that partners with local organizations across the Kingdom of Tonga to advance education, environmental stewardship, human development, and disaster resilience while fostering cultural exchange and lasting community connections.

Fruity Schools Africa

Fruity Schools Africa, through its Little Gardens of Eden initiative, plants fruit trees in schools and communities to improve children's access to nutritious food, create green employment opportunities, support climate action, and build healthier, more sustainable communities.

Ripple Africa

Ripple Africa works with communities in Malawi to improve the environment and local livelihoods through conservation initiatives, sustainable resource management, education, and community-led development programs.

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.

Boys Champions
Foundation

Boys Champions Foundation empowers boys and men across Nigeria through schools, communities, sports, and fellowships, promoting caring masculinity, mental health, and gender equality for over 26,000 participants.

The Special Youth
Leadership Foundation

The Special Youth Leadership Foundation is a Nigerian nonprofit founded in 2018 that empowers underserved children and young people through education, leadership development, and opportunities that help ensure no child is left behind, regardless of socioeconomic circumstances.

Found in Translation

Found in Translation trains low-income bilingual women as medical interpreters, advancing health equity and economic mobility in underserved communities.

Nadia’s Initiative

Nadia's Initiative is a survivor-led organization working to end conflict-related sexual violence, advance justice and accountability for survivors, and support the long-term recovery of communities affected by conflict.

Transfrontier Africa

Transfrontier Africa works to protect wild places in and around the Greater Kruger by strengthening ecosystems and empowering women and local communities through conservation, education, and sustainable development.

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.

Dr. Adriana Viola Miranda

1000 Days Fund

1000 Days Fund empowers communities across Indonesia to give every child a healthy start during the first 1,000 days of life by advancing maternal and child health, preventing stunting, and strengthening community health systems.

Jovany Florvil

Educare Now

Educare Now expands access to education, STEM, and sustainable community development in Haiti, Uganda, and Tanzania, empowering children and young people to become the next generation of leaders and innovators.

Razel Suansing

Klima

Klima answers a climate curriculum written in English, overly scientific, and authored elsewhere: it teaches Filipino children comprehensive climate education from a deck of cards in their own language, equips them to build funded solutions for their own communities, and carries what they build into national policy.

Robyn Mijares

Grow School Philippines

Grow School Philippines, a nonprofit organization and the country's first bamboo farm school that provides free accessible environmental and agricultural education that equips public school youth across the Philippines with the knowledge and skills to transform hunger into opportunities for learning, growth, and lasting change.

Smart Israel

Smartel

Smartel restores degraded land and protects biodiversity by deploying smart, soil-free hydroponic systems that enable communities in climate-vulnerable regions to grow food sustainably without degraded land, chemical fertilizers or excessive water use.