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Volunteers For Peace

Volunteers For Peace (VFP) organizes, promotes and supports voluntary service opportunities in the USA and abroad as an effective means of intercultural education, service learning, and community development.

Burlington, Vermont

CHANGING EXPECTATIONS CORP

Changing Expectations mission is to provide the highest impact STEM and computer science education programs to inspire young people from ethnically underrepresented backgrounds and prepare them to pursue STEM and computing careers. We focus our work on reaching out to young people who might otherwise not have access to quality STEM and computer science education programs. Changing Expectations provides technical assistance specializing in inspiring and raising STEM and computer science academic achievement for African American, Hispanic, and other traditionally underserved students who eat free/reduced lunch and their teachers, parents and (2) STEM and computer science educator preparation and professional development. Changing Expectations Corp also provides STEM education outreach services and informal learning opportunities to the community and the public. Changing Expectations provides the WeTeach_CS professional development collaborative for Central Texas computer science teachers. We also provide the My Brother's Keeper Coding Makerspace on cybersecurity for underrepresented Black and Hispanic male students supported by the National Science Foundation and a CSforALL Project on artificial intelligence for Black and Hispanic students with disabilities supported by the National Science Foundation.

Round Rock, Texas

NEBRASKA FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION

The mission of the Nebraska FFA Foundation is to enhance quality education/FFA programs in order to achieve excellence in leadership development, curriculum innovation and scholastic advancement of students. That's the official mission, but what we really do is prepare young people to become successful adults, leaders in their communities and successful agriculture producers and business people.

Lincoln, Nebraska

COALITION FOR THE UPPER SOUTH

A non-profit watershed protection and forest health group located in central Colorado.

Lake George, Colorado

ROCKY MOUNTAIN WILD INCORPORATED

Rocky Mountain Wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the Southern Rocky Mountain region.

DENVER, Colorado

Scripture Union USA

Working with churches and partners, Scripture Union seeks to: • make God’s Good News known to children, young people and families, and • encourage people of all ages to meet God daily through the Bible and prayer Our vision is to see people of all ages coming to faith in Christ, committed to God and his Word and living as salt and light. STRATEGY Through a range of activities, multi media resources, and publications, Scripture Union USA provides opportunities for children, young people and adults to explore the Bible, respond to Jesus and grow in faith. We also provide training and partnership opportunities to help churches, organizations and other leaders do the same. Board and staff work together to regularly review SU ministry and materials, to identify future needs and opportunities and to develop strategies and plans.

Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

MARS SOCIETY INC

The time has come for humanity to journey to the planet Mars. We’re ready. Though Mars is distant, we are far better prepared today to send humans to the Red Planet than we were to travel to the Moon at the commencement of the space age. Given the will, we could have our first crews on Mars within a decade. The reasons for going to Mars are powerful. We must go for the knowledge of Mars. Our robotic probes have revealed that Mars was once a warm and wet planet, suitable for hosting life’s origin. But did it? A search for fossils on the Martian surface or microbes in groundwater below could provide the answer. If found, they would show that the origin of life is not unique to the Earth, and, by implication, reveal a universe that is filled with life and probably intelligence as well. From the point of view learning our true place in the universe, this would be the most important scientific enlightenment since Copernicus. We must go for the knowledge of Earth. As we begin the twenty-first century, we have evidence that we are changing the Earth’s atmosphere and environment in significant ways. It has become a critical matter for us better to understand all aspects of our environment. In this project, comparative planetology is a very powerful tool, a fact already shown by the role Venusian atmospheric studies played in our discovery of the potential threat of global warming by greenhouse gases. Mars, the planet most like Earth, will have even more to teach us about our home world. The knowledge we gain could be key to our survival. We must go for the challenge. Civilizations, like people, thrive on challenge and decay without it. The time is past for human societies to use war as a driving stress for technological progress. As the world moves towards unity, we must join together, not in mutual passivity, but in common enterprise, facing outward to embrace a greater and nobler challenge than that which we previously posed to each other. Pioneering Mars will provide such a challenge. Furthermore, a cooperative international exploration of Mars would serve as an example of how the same joint-action could work on Earth in other ventures. We must go for the youth. The spirit of youth demands adventure. A humans-to-Mars program would challenge young people everywhere to develop their minds to participate in the pioneering of a new world. If a Mars program were to inspire just a single extra percent of today’s youth to scientific educations, the net result would be tens of millions more scientists, engineers, inventors, medical researchers and doctors. These people will make innovations that create new industries, find new medical cures, increase income, and benefit the world in innumerable ways to provide a return that will utterly dwarf the expenditures of the Mars program. We must go for the opportunity. The settling of the Martian New World is an opportunity for a noble experiment in which humanity has another chance to shed old baggage and begin the world anew; carrying forward as much of the best of our heritage as possible and leaving the worst behind. Such chances do not come often, and are not to be disdained lightly. We must go for our humanity. Human beings are more than merely another kind of animal, -we are life’s messenger. Alone of the creatures of the Earth, we have the ability to continue the work of creation by bringing life to Mars, and Mars to life. In doing so, we shall make a profound statement as to the precious worth of the human race and every member of it. We must go for the future. Mars is not just a scientific curiosity; it is a world with a surface area equal to all the continents of Earth combined, possessing all the elements that are needed to support not only life, but technological society. It is a New World, filled with history waiting to be made by a new and youthful branch of human civilization that is waiting to be born. We must go to Mars to make that potential a reality. We must go, not for us, but for a people who are yet to be. We must do it for the Martians. Believing therefore that the exploration and settlement of Mars is one of the greatest human endeavors possible in our time, we have gathered to found this Mars Society, understanding that even the best ideas for human action are never inevitable, but must be planned, advocated, and achieved by hard work. We call upon all other individuals and organizations of like-minded people to join with us in furthering this great enterprise. No nobler cause has ever been. We shall not rest until it succeeds.

Lakewood, Colorado

New Bridge Cleveland Center for Arts & Technology

For all of our students to achieve optimal health by integrating mental and physical well-being and life purpose for themselves and our community.

Cleveland, Ohio

FAMILY TO FAMILY NETWORK

Creating success for children with disabilities by empowering their families with information, training, referrals and support as they navigate the complex education, health care, and social service systems.

Houston, Texas

Sole Hope

A licensed Ugandan NGO and non profit 501(c)3. Est. 2010. Trying to love well... Sole Hope exists to offer HOPE, healthier lives and freedom from foot related diseases through education, jobs and medical relief. By doing this, adults who need work get paid by Sole Hope to make the Sole Hope shoe for children in villages in the Busoga region. By not wearing closed-toed shoes, children and adults alike are becoming ill due to diseases (specifically a parasite called jiggers) that enter through the feet and rob the body of the little nutrition it has. This can also cause secondary infections like tetanus and gangrene. Many lose their childhood to this parasite and others are unable to attend school because their feet have been so badly mutilated by jiggers.

Asheville, North Carolina

CROSSROADS CARE CENTER

We are a non-profit, Christian organization dedicated to assisting abortion-vulnerable women and men who may be involved in an unplanned pregnancy, in choosing life for their unborn children. We are committed to encouraging Godly sexual attitudes and practices.

Auburn Hills, Michigan

FISH AND LOAVES COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY

"Ensuring No One Goes Hungry"

TAYLOR, Michigan