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Project Inform fights the HIV and hepatitis C epidemics by assuring the development of effective treatments and a cure; supporting individuals to make informed choices about their health; advocating for quality, affordable health care; and promoting medical strategies that prevent new infections.

Founded in 1991, Healthy Child Healthy World (formerly the Children's Health Environmental Coalition) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting the health and well-being of children from harmful environmental exposures. We educate parents and caregivers, support protective policies, and engage households and communities by providing access to critical information that encourages smarter lifestyle choices to reduce toxic chemicals exposure. Our programs and initiatives are centered around expanding awareness of environmental hazards to children's health; helping the public learn about healthier practices, solutions, and products in the marketplace; creating standards and policies for safer products, foods, materials, and chemicals used in the home; and advocating for and supporting corporate policies and governmental legislation that protect children from environmental risks. Our vision is a world where every child has the opportunity to grow up in a healthy and safe environment.

To empower children with visual impairments and other disabilities to achieve their fullest potential.

CWLA will lead the nation in building public will to ensure safety, permanence, and well-being of children, youth, and their families by advancing public policy, defining and promoting practice excellence and delivering superior membership services. CWLA challenges Americans to make children a national priority. Our mission is to engage people everywhere in promoting the well-being of children, youth, and their families, and protecting every child from harm. We envision a future in which families, neighborhoods, communities, organizations, and governments ensure that five universal needs of children are met. They include (1) basics such as food, shelter, education, and health care, (2) nurturing relationships, (3) opportunities for optimal development, (4) protection from harm, (5) and healing from harm if it occurs.

To provide substitute home for dependent and neglected children and to restore the broken lives of children and families.

The Children's Place at Home Safe provides shelter, therapy and residential placement for abused, abandoned, neglected children, and those impacted by family violence.

Ensures comprehensive health care of children 0-5 years of age by strenghtening families and cooordinating community resources through a public/private partnership.

World Pediatrics is a nonprofit humanitarian organization linking worldwide pediatric surgical, diagnostic and preventative resources to heal children in developing countries. World Pediatrics also helps build local health care capacity - saving kid's lives now and transforming pediatric health outcomes for years to come.

We help heal the hurt for boys and girls in need.

Our mission is to take swift and decisive action to protect and restore marine species and their habitats and to inspire people in communities all over the world to join us as active and vocal marine species advocates. The Sea Turtle Restoration Project (STRP), founded in 1989, TIRN's oldest and largest project, works to protect and restore endangered sea turtle populations worldwide in ways that meet the needs of the turtles and the needs of neighboring local communities using grassroots action, multimedia campaigns, hands-on conservation, environmental education, and litigation. STRP's sponsoring nonprofit is Turtle Island Restoration Network or TIRN.

The Alzheimer's Research and Prevention Foundation (ARPF) was founded in 1993 by Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D., with the belief that memory loss is not a normal part of aging, and that your lifestyle can help maintain optimal brain function. The ARPF is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing Alzheimer's disease by funding integrative medicine research and providing educational outreach and memory screenings.

Founded in 1981, AFAR is a national non-profit organization whose mission is to support and advance healthy aging.  AFAR helps researchers begin and further their careers in aging research and geriatric medicine.  Over the past 26 years, AFAR has awarded more than $132 million to approximately 2,800 MD’s, PhD’s, and students.