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PUENTE’s mission is stated within its name: People United to Enrich the Neighborhood Through Education. “Puente” is also the Spanish word for “bridge.” Since 1985, the organization has offered a bridge to opportunity by addressing barriers preventing individuals in its at-risk neighborhoods from building strong educational foundations and achieving financial self-sufficiency. PUENTE provides California Standards-aligned classroom instruction to more than 4,100 children, youth, and adults annually. Its tuition-free services address the needs of the entire family – enabling children to develop a life-long love of learning, helping parents to be their children’s first teachers, supporting youth as they move toward high school graduation, and assisting adults in need of English-language competency and workforce skills.

To empower society's most vulnerable youth to develop positive and self-sustaining lives by igniting their passion through Engaged Education and to serve as a model for systemic change and social justice in education.

Building long term, life changing relationships with urban youth. 

Denver Kids, Inc. is a nonprofit organization dating back to 1946, which provides long-term educational and social/emotional counseling and mentoring to boys and girls who are students in the Denver Public Schools who face challenges associated with higher-risk environments. The mission is to empower students to positively shape their lives, successfully complete high school, and pursue post-secondary options. Each student is guided by a Denver Kids Educational SEL Counselor who provides one-to-one counseling to address a variety of needs for each student on an individual basis. Denver Kids are also matched on a one-to-one basis with a volunteer from the community who commits his or her time and energy to serve as a volunteer mentor for a minimum of one year. The volunteer mentor receives training and guidance and serves as a positive adult role model in the student's life.

The mission of Focus Points Family Resource Center is to help build better communities by strengthening families.

Enable children to be multilingual and global citizens by teaching languages and culture.

Our mission is to strengthen our city’s public schools by designing and implementing innovative programs and engaging the public to ensure that every San Francisco student graduates from high school prepared for college, career, and civic responsibility. The San Francisco Education Fund is the largest and oldest nonprofit dedicated to making sure San Francisco public schools have strong teachers, engaged students, involved parents and robust community support. We want every San Francisco student to graduate from high school prepared for college, career, and civic responsibility. We invest in teacher quality. We recognize students as partners. We mobilize community members to embrace schools as an extension of themselves.

Our mission is to educate and inspire current and future generations about the experiences and contributions of women by collecting, preserving, and interpreting the evidence of that experience. . . . Respecting and honoring all women and their experiences . . . Respecting all individuals’ beliefs, cultures and ideas . . . Inviting and encouraging participation and open dialogue from women, men and children . . . Integrity of our collection and in our presentation of women’s history . . . Diversity, cultural competence, cultural democracy and inclusion in our organizational structure . . . An organizational environment that builds and fosters open, honest, considerate communication and a spirit of cooperative problem solving, consensus and community . . . Planning, responsible decision-making, well-designed systems accountability, and fiscal responsibility . . . Enthusiasm, positive attitude, creativity, recognition, humor, commitment, support, passion, acceptance . . . Human life and human rights.

The mission of College Bound is to provide comprehensive programs and services that prepare students for admission into and graduation from accredited four-year institutions of higher education.

The Techie Youth program serves youth age 16-22 who are currently in foster care or recently emancipated from it, or are classified by NYC as “vulnerable-youth” including kids who are homeless, juvenile-delinquent, transgendered, etc. Our target demographic is to serve youth who are statistically-likely to become homeless or incarcerated without our assistance. We help the youth establishing a profession and career path in the computer sector leading to a strong lifelong financial-security and self-sufficiency. By focusing on this demographic, we are ultimately reducing new cases of homelessness and crime in America.

Books & Breakfast is a before school program that provides a healthy morning meal and homework help to Evanston-Skokie School District 65 students in need of additional support. We exist so that every child can enter his or her classroom prepared physically, emotionally, and academically for the most critical 7 hours of the day.

We are a non-profit sea turtle hospital that promotes conservation of ocean ecosystems with a special focus on threatened and endangered sea turtles.