Non Profits
The Agahozo Shalom Youth Village is a home for youths orphaned in the Rwandan genocide. In addition to providing basic needs like food and shelter, the ASYV also serves as a school. The goal of the ASYV is to prepare the children to be leaders in the mending of their society.
Bedford-Stuyvesant New Beginnings Charter School is a new charter school that opened in New York City in September 2010. Currently serving students in kindergarten through third grade, the school uses a holistic approach to learning that includes focus on community service and the arts as well as academics. The HPA called on all of it’s members to donate books to build the school a library during the March 2011 Accio Books! campaign.
The Enough Project works to help individuals from all over the world understand the practical action they can take to prevent genocide by conducting field research, formulating policies and providing tools to individuals and organizations working for change.
Freepress.net seeks to reform the media to ensure independent and diverse media ownership and to encourage and promote high quality journalism. Their goal is to demand a public voice in media policy.
The Gay-Straight Alliance Network is a youth leadership organization that connects school-based Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs) to each other and community resources through peer support, leadership development, and training.
The Genocide Intervention Network works with policy-makers, world leaders and activists around the world the empower individuals and communities to stop and prevent genocide.
The International Quidditch Association is the organizing body of the hundreds of muggle Quidditch teams worldwide. The IQA serves to promote Quidditch as a new sport and lead outreach programs to increase athletic participation among children and young adults and bring magic to communities.
Maine Equality works for equal rights for LGBT people in Maine, focusing particularly on the fight for marriage equality.
The Make it Better Project gives youth the tools they need to make their schools better now! Through their website and YouTube channel, youth and adults work together to make schools safer for LGBT youth right now.
Massachusetts Equality, based in Massachusetts, is an organization that works to achieve full equality for LGBT individuals. In addition to the work they do in their own state, they also partner with LGBT organizations in other states to promote equal rights everywhere.
The Mississippi Delta Center for Cultural Learning, located at Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi, has a two-fold purpose. The first is to preserve the rich cultural tradition of the Delta region, and to continue to promote Delta blues music and folk art. The second is to promote education and further opportunities for Delta residents.
Partners In Health works to provide health care for impoverished communities across the world by improving health education, access to health care and addressing root social and economic causes in partnership with local communities.
Reach Out is a safe, supportive place where teens and young adults like you can find resources and share real stories about how they got through a tough time. All content is written by teens and young adults to meet them where they are, help them recognize their own strengths and use those strengths to overcome their difficulties and/or seek help if necessary.
Rock the Vote is dedicated to promoting political action by young people in the US through voter registration drives and raising awareness around ballot initiatives.
STAND is the entirely student-run division of the Genocide Intervention Network. They provide students and communities around the world with the tools, resources and support to fight genocide.
