One Laptop Per Child works to create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning. When children have access to this type of tool they get engaged in their own education. They learn, share, create, and collaborate. They become connected to each other, to the world and to a brighter future.

350.org works to raise awareness around the necessity of reducing carbon dioxide in our atmosphere to 350 parts per million. Through grassroots movements, they work to empower individuals to pressure their political leaders on the issue of global climate change.

Grameen Health works to extend the success of the microfinance model to health care by designing and developing a bottom-up health care infrastructure built from sustainable best practices in a broad range of health care services around the world, and improving upon them to deliver the highest quality health care in an efficient and sustainable manner for a broad market, including the poorest of the poor.

In June of 2010, along the rim of Kilauea, a volcano on the island of Hawai’i, two hundred leaders from many cultures and professions will gather in an exploration of Malama Ola, reverence for and service to life. The purpose of the gathering is to explore the shifts in consciousness necessary to achieve global sustainability for future generations. Leaders of the traditional peoples of Hawai‘i and the rest of the world will be joined by one hundred and seventy-five educators, documentary filmmakers, scientists, NGO leaders, youth, environmentally conscious business leaders, government policy makers, and philanthropists. All participants will explore how to bring into being a "Culture of Leadership, Built on a Platform of Reverence."

ACCION International is a private, nonprofit organization with the mission of giving people the financial tools they need―microenterprise loans, business training and other financial services―to work their way out of poverty. A world pioneer in microfinance, ACCION was founded in 1961 and issued its first microloan in 1973 in Brazil. ACCION International’s partner microfinance institutions today are providing loans as low as $100 to poor men and women entrepreneurs in 22 countries in Latin America, Asia, Africa and the United States. In the last decade alone, ACCION partners have disbursed more than 28.5 million loans totaling more than $23.4 billion; 97 percent of the loans have been repaid.

The Pachamama Alliance's mission is two-fold: To preserve the Earth’s tropical rainforests by empowering the indigenous people who are its natural custodians. To contribute to the creation of a new global vision of equity and sustainability for all.

PlayPumps International improves the lives of children and their families by providing easy access to clean drinking water, enhancing public health, education, gender equality, economic development and offering play equipment to millions across Africa through PlayPump® water systems. The PlayPump system is a children’s merry-go-round that pumps water from underground as it is spun. Water is pumped into a storage tank and accessed through a tap. PlayPumps International strives to bring joy into the lives of African children and better health for millions.

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