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Meet Your 2024 .ORG Impact Award Finalists
Scroll down or select a category to meet the 35 innovative, mission-driven organizations
and changemakers selected from over 1,700 applicants from more than 87 countries.
Community Building
Build Change
Build Change envisions a world where every home is disaster resilient. With partners, they protect people and livelihoods by preventing housing loss caused by disasters.
Centre for Renewable Energy and Action on Climate Change
Centre for Renewable Energy and Action on Climate Change provides clean energy and water to underserved communities, educating on climate change and renewable resources.
Green Empowerment
Green Empowerment improves living standards and promotes social progress in communities by providing clean water, renewable energy, and sustainable solutions.
Kiva
Kiva is an international nonprofit, founded in 2005 in San Francisco, with a mission to expand financial access to help underserved communities thrive.
Quality Education for All
Long Way Home
Long Way Home engages people in democracy and creates economic and environmental justice through green building, employment, and education.
Refúgio 343
Refugio 343 offers access to one of the most important human rights: education. Their curriculum includes Portuguese classes and intercultural education, as well as training courses.
Sahar Education
​​Sahar creates educational opportunities for girls and women in Afghanistan, empowering them to build peaceful, thriving communities.
School the World
School the World works to alleviate extreme poverty by providing quality education, transforming school systems, and inspiring local pride and ownership in rural communities.
Yellow Boat of Hope
The Yellow Boat of Hope Foundation aids Filipino children in remote areas by providing boats, classrooms, dormitories, and other initiatives to improve their access to education and enhance their learning journey.
Environmental Stewardship
Green Generation Initiative
The Green Generation Initiative (GGI) empowers children, youth, and local communities to drive local climate action and adopt regenerative solutions, fostering an environmentally conscious generation.
Share Our Spare
Share Our Spare supports Chicago-area children by providing essential items, empowering families, and fostering community resilience.
Subak Australia
Subak Australia helps build and strengthen climate and nature focused organizations looking to influence policy and shape narratives. They provide an experienced network, supporting nonprofits to use data to catalyze systemic change.
SOS Orinoco
SOSOrinoco illuminates the crisis in Venezuela’s Amazonia and Orinoquia regions, advocating for urgent measures to halt the unfolding human and environmental disaster.
TerraCycle Global Foundation
TerraCycle Global Foundation prevents and recycles plastic waste in rivers and canals, educating local communities on sustainable practices to stop pollution at the source before it reaches the oceans.
Diversity Equity and Inclusion
Anchal Charitable Trust
Anchal Charitable Trust makes a difference by supporting at-risk children in Delhi NCR, Uttar Pradesh, and Uttaranchal, addressing disability, HIV/AIDS, and child labor through holistic care.
Be THE Voice
Be THE Voice fosters positive change by teaching students communication skills that promote empathy and respect, fostering connections and countering prejudice.
Empowerment Collective
Empowerment Collective is driving change towards a world free from modern slavery, promoting dignity, opportunity, and survivor-led leadership to uphold human rights and economic growth.
For The People
For The People reshapes the justice system by empowering prosecutors to safely release people from prison, reunite families, and ensure true justice.
The Center for Courageous Kids
The Center for Courageous Kids transforms lives by empowering children with serious illnesses through camp experiences, fostering courage, joy, and lifelong friendships.
Health and Healing
Fistula Foundation
Fistula Foundation restores health and hope to women with childbirth injuries by providing life-transforming surgeries and support.
Global Response Medicine and help.me.live
Through their work, Global Response Medicine and help.me.live are dedicated to preserving life and health for children growing up in the shadow of war.
Kids Operating Room
Kids Operating Room strives for a world where every child has access to safe surgery. They build pediatric operating rooms, train local doctors, and improve access to essential medical care.
ONG Zoe
ONG Zoé is providing life-changing healthcare to the Amazon’s Rainforest guardians, caring for those who care for the forest.
Penta Medical Recycling
Penta Medical Recycling collects used and excess prostheses and delivers this high-quality, low-cost prosthetic equipment to amputees around the world.
Hunger and Poverty
FarmSahel
FarmSahel empowers Sahel communities by teaching regenerative agriculture to women farmers, enhancing food security and soil fertility.
MicroLoan Foundation USA
MicroLoan Foundation USA alleviates poverty and advances gender equality for women in sub-Saharan Africa through microfinance and business training.
Solidarités International
Solidarit̩s International provides emergency aid for food, water, and shelter, helping disaster and conflict Рaffected communities regain self-sufficiency and sustainable livelihoods.
U-turn Homeless Ministries
U-turn Homeless Ministries transforms lives in South Africa by providing holistic support services, empowering people to overcome homelessness through Mi-change vouchers, an engagement tool.
Villages in Partnership
Villages in Partnership seeks to eradicate extreme poverty in Malawi by partnering with villages to provide clean water, food security, healthcare, education, infrastructure, and economic opportunity.
Rising Star
Joy Oluwatoyin Adeboye- Resilient Girl Initiative
Resilient Girl Initiative is a feminist-led organization, working to support survivors of sexual and gender-based violence and builds leadership capacity among girls and women.
Foday David Kamara – EcoVironment
Ecovironment empowers young people from underserved backgrounds to promote environmental and climate sustainability through plastic recycling.
Ella Lambert – The Pachamama Project
The Pachamama Project is an organization growing a network of volunteers around the world to make reusable sanitary pads for refugees and vulnerable communities, in a bid to combat global period poverty.
Clinton Okechukwu – The R.E.T.I.N.A. Initiative
The R.E.T.I.N.A Initiative which promotes primary eye care and combats preventable blindness in underserved African communities through innovative solutions.
Abdul Karim Sesay- Altruistech Luminary Center
Altruistech Luminary Center transforms education in Sierra Leone through STEM and environmental sustainability, empowering youth to create impactful change.
.ORG Impact Awards 2024 Timeline
May 01
Submissions
Open
Open
Jun 19
Submissions
Close
Close
Jun 20
Application
Processing
Processing
Aug 13
Finalists
Announced
Announced
Oct 08
Winners
Announced at
Awards Celebration
Announced at
Awards Celebration
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