Public Interest Registry is honored to recognize the winners of the 2024 .ORG Impact Awards.
These outstanding organizations and individuals have demonstrated exceptional commitment to creating positive change in their communities worldwide. Learn more about their impact and join us in celebrating their remarkable achievements!
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Community Building Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Environmental Stewardship Fighting Hunger & Poverty Health & Healing Quality Education for All Rising Star
Community Building
Kiva
Kiva expands financial access to underserved communities worldwide by offering crowdfunded loans. These loans help business owners, farmers, students, and social enterprises access the funding they need to grow and succeed. Through Kiva’s platform, individuals can contribute to life-changing loans, empowering borrowers to improve their livelihoods, create opportunities, and drive positive change in their communities.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
The Center for Courageous Kids
The Center for Courageous Kids provides life-changing camp experiences for children with serious illnesses, offering them a safe space to have fun, build courage, and form lasting friendships. Through a variety of activities tailored to their needs, the camp fosters joy and resilience, allowing kids to experience the joys of childhood while managing their health challenges.
Environmental Stewardship
Share Our Spare
Share Our Spare supports Chicago-area children by providing essential items such as diapers, clothing, and baby gear to families in need. By addressing these basic needs, the organization helps empower families, reduce financial stress, and strengthen community resilience. Through donations and partnerships, Share Our Spare works to ensure that every child has access to the essentials for a healthy start in life.
Fighting Hunger & Poverty
Solidarités International
Solidarités International delivers critical emergency aid, focusing on providing food, clean water, and shelter to communities affected by disasters and conflicts. Their efforts help vulnerable populations meet their immediate needs while supporting them in rebuilding self-sufficiency and creating sustainable livelihoods for the long term. Through their humanitarian work, Solidarités International aims to restore dignity and stability to those facing crisis.
Health & Healing
Kids Operating Room
Kids Operating Room is dedicated to ensuring that every child has access to safe surgery. They build specialized pediatric operating rooms, train local medical professionals, and enhance access to vital surgical care for children in underserved regions. By focusing on sustainable healthcare solutions, Kids Operating Room works to improve outcomes and save lives in communities where surgical resources are limited.
Quality Education for All
Yellow Boat of Hope Foundation
2024 .ORG of the Year
The Yellow Boat of Hope Foundation supports Filipino children in remote areas by providing boats, allowing them to safely travel to and from school, often across challenging waterways. In addition to these boats, the foundation builds classrooms and dormitories, helping to improve access to education and create a more supportive learning environment for children in underserved communities. Through these initiatives, the foundation works to enhance the overall educational experience and opportunities for these students.
Rising Star
Clinton Okechukwu: The R.E.T.I.N.A. Initiative
The R.E.T.I.N.A Initiative promotes primary eye care and works to combat preventable blindness in underserved African communities. Through innovative solutions like mobile eye clinics and community outreach, the initiative provides essential screenings, early diagnosis, and treatment for common eye conditions. By focusing on sustainable care and empowering local healthcare workers, The R.E.T.I.N.A Initiative aims to reduce the incidence of preventable blindness and improve overall eye health in these communities.