Changemakers
Changemakers is an initiative of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public that focuses on the rapidly growing world of social innovation. It provides solutions and resources needed to help everyone become a changemaker and presents compelling stories that explore the fundamental principles of successful social innovation around the world.
Changemakers is building the world's first global online "open source" community that competes to surface the best social solutions, and then collaborates to refine, enrich, and implement those solutions. Changemakers begins by providing an overarching intellectual framework for collaborative competitions that bring together individual social change initiatives into a more powerful whole.
The Global Youth Leadership Institute
The Global Youth Leadership Institute incorporates performing arts, leadership development, and research to empower & educate youth and young adult leaders to critically reflect and creatively respond to social issues. We are committed to actions that create a measurable & sustainable difference in the world, NOW!
The Global Youth Leadership Institute operates upon the belief that each individual is a valuable contribution to society. Utilizing the performing arts mediums of step, dance, spoken word, and song, our youth and young adults inspire their peers and surrounding community to pledge themselves to pro-social causes which resonate themes of human rights, equality, justice, acceptance, giving, and love. Through this model, we strive to provide opportunities for youth and young adults to harness their unique talents & gifts in the shaping and building of a better world.
Global Giving
Global Giving's mission is to Build an efficient, open, thriving marketplace that connects people who have community and world-changing ideas with people who can support them.GlobalGiving is an online marketplace that connects you to the causes and countries you care about. You select the projects you want to support, make a tax-deductible contribution, and get regular progress updates - so you can see your impact.
Positive Coaching Alliance
Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA) is transforming youth sports so sports can transform youth. Through partnership with more than 1,100 youth sports organizations, leagues, schools and cities nationwide, PCA has conducted 6,000-plus workshops for youth sports coaches, parents, organizational leaders and athletes.
Since Executive Director Jim Thompson founded PCA as a non-profit within the Stanford University Athletic Department in 1998, they have helped create a positive, character-building youth sports environment for more than 3 million youth athletes.
Kids in Sports, LA
Kids In Sports (KIS) is a non-profit organization created to provide quality youth sports programs in communities in Los Angeles County that lack or offer few organized, instructional opportunities. Kids In Sports currently operates 15 clubs that deliver sports activities in baseball, basketball, soccer, softball, swimming and volleyball, and serves 9,000 youth annually. Boys and girls, ages 5 to 17, participate in year-round sports programs at parks and schools. Regularly scheduled practices and competitions are conducted after school and on weekends during the consecutive sports seasons.
