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GRASSROOTS POWER PROJECT

Grassroots Power Project (GPP) believes structural transformation of our society is crucial. Stronger, more strategic community and labor organizing formations will help undo the damages of neoliberalism and racial capitalism. We believe our movements must collectively shift from short-term strategies aimed at winning incremental change towards long-term strategies to win governing power. GPP works to facilitate a shift towards this strategic orientation with our community and labor partners.

Berkeley, California

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KIDS AGAINST HUNGER-GREENWOOD

Making a difference in communities through dedicated service and impact.

GREENWOOD, Indiana

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Town Square Television

To provide our seven Northern Dakota County communities with access to local television programming

Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota

The Caring Place

We envision a community where every person has the access to the resources they need to thrive.

CLEVELAND, Tennessee

Hearts for Hearing Foundation

Hearts for Hearing creates life-changing opportunities for children and adults with hearing loss to listen for a lifetime.

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma

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COMMON BOND BASKETBALL CLUB INC

Making a difference in communities through dedicated service and impact.

YPSILANTI, Michigan

CONNECTIONS TO INDEPENDENCE

Connections to Independence (C2i) is a unique organization that provides services to connect permanent placement providers, community-based organizations and Counties in a formalized partnership to provide support for youth in foster care. Services are specifically designed to meet the County's goals for preparing youth for a healthy, balanced life as productive adults and citizens as they age out of the foster care system. C2i values are based on a healthy mind, body, and soul philosophy with service outcomes focused on five core competencies: Financial Literacy, Housing, Employment, Education and Personal Wellness. C2i services are individualized by meeting youth at their level and developing a comprehensive Independent Living Plan that encompasses the youth's dreams, goals, and aspirations for their life during and after foster care.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

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

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Crisis Services of North Alabama

Making a difference in communities through dedicated service and impact.

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama

COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORP

COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORPORATION, Chicagoland's Leading Multifamily Rehab Lender, is a nonprofit providing mortgage financing to buy and rehab apartment buildings with five units or more in the 6-county metropolitan Chicago area. Since 1999 over 14,000 landlords and managers have completed CIC property management training to help them better market, manage and maintain affordable rental property. CIC also provides below-market financing for multifamily energy improvements in the Energy Savers program. Since 1984 CIC has loaned over $1.1 billion for acquisition and rehab of over 2000 buildings with 55,000 units. In 2012 CIC received the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions.

Chicago, Illinois

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Maryland State Firemans Assn

Making a difference in communities through dedicated service and impact.

Deale, Maryland

WildEarth Guardians

WildEarth Guardians is a non-profit, environmental advocacy organization whose mission is to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the American West. The organization was founded in 1989 and has a long history of conservation successes protecting carnivores, ancient forests, rivers and other threatened landscapes and wildlife. We have more than 105,000 members and e-activists, the majority of whom live in the eleven Western states. The organization currently operates four major programs: Wildlife, Wild Places, Wild Rivers, and Climate and Energy. Our 25 person staff includes lawyers, policy experts, biologists, ecosystem restoration experts and fundraisers. Our 2015 budget is $3.5 million, which comes from diverse sources, including members and donors, foundations, government grants and recovered legal fees. We have offices in Santa Fe, New Mexico; Portland, Oregon; Salt Lake City Utah; Laramie, Wyoming; Missoula, Montana; San Francisco and San Deigo, California; Boulder and Denver, Colorado; and Tucson, Arizona.

Santa Fe, New Mexico