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The National Veterans Network (NVN)’s mission is to educate current and future generations about the extraordinary legacy of American WWII soldiers of Japanese ancestry in order to promote equality and justice. Our vision is a world free of racism where everyone is treated equally with dignity and respect.

Our goal is to achieve social justice and democracy by telling the stories and lessons of the American WWII soldiers of Japanese ancestry, through national initiatives that include museum exhibitions, teacher training, curriculum, and public outreach.

The NVN was established in 2010 through its grassroots campaign to award the Congressional Gold Medal, the nation’s highest civilian honor, to the Japanese American WWII veterans of the 100th Infantry Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team and Military Intelligence Service.

To learn more, please visit www.nationalveteransnetwork.com or email us at [email protected].

The NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security is a coalition of 14 international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working to advance the Women, Peace and Security agenda at the United Nations and around the world.

We believe that sustainable peace can only be achieved if women’s human rights are promoted and respected and that women have meaningful participation across all conflict prevention and resolution efforts, as well as in post conflict rebuilding activities.

Our members work in over 50 countries that have been affected by conflict and partner with over 200 NGOs and 75 networks of civil society actors and activists. We are the only civil society of its kind working on the women, peace and security agenda in New York. Through targeted advocacy, monitoring and gender analysis, we hold the Security Council, UN leadership and Member States accountable for their obligations under Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) and subsequent resolutions which form the women, peace and security agenda.

Since 2000 we have been working to bring the voices of women’s rights defenders and local peacebuilders into the New York peace and security discussions. We serve as a bridge between women’s human rights defenders and peacebuilders working in conflict-affected situations and senior policy-makers at UN Headquarters.

On behalf of women, peace and security civil society we are formally and regularly invited to provide the UN Security Council with the civil society perspective on the women, peace and security agenda. We are publicly credited as increasing the Security Council’s engagement with civil society by advocating for entry to Council spaces.

Grants primarily for health and cardiovascular, diabetes, and arthritis research.

Founded in 1999, the mission of Oasis For Girls is to partner with girls and young women of color from under-resourced communities in San Francisco to help them cultivate the skills, knowledge, and confidence to discover their dreams and build strong futures.

Oasis For Girls partners with young women of color aged 14-18 from under-resourced communities in San Francisco to cultivate the skills, knowledge, and confidence to discover their dreams and build strong futures, redefining their communities in their wake. Our Springboard Series of programs empowers girls to pave paths to successful academic and career goals; understand social justice issues and advocate for change in their communities; and develop confidence, advocacy, and self-care tools for healthy growth through high school and college, the workplace, and beyond.

Oasis’ signature Springboard Series for Girls is a sequence of three programs emphasizing comprehensive girls’ development, internal awareness, and external skills in a gender-specific and culturally-relevant setting. The Series encourages girls to stretch their perspective and skills while drawing on their own diverse experiences through the creative arts, women’s rights and life skills, and career and academic exploration. Our programs provide girls with opportunities to create trusting relationships with positive, supportive adults; to develop a sense of identity and partnership with each other and the San Francisco community; and build skills and knowledge for their future dreams.

The Orphaned Starfish Foundation is dedicated to helping orphans, victims of abuse, victims of trafficking and at-risk youth break their cycles of abuse and poverty through computer based education, job training and job placement assistance.

Since our beginning in 2001, ORPHANED STARFISH programs address the challenges facing orphans, victims of abuse and at-risk youth by providing them with technology training. OSF funds the construction and operation of vocational training facilities, including funding for furnishings, purchasing required equipment, teacher salaries, job placement services and scholarships for higher education.

OSF also provides English language software & classes, a Life-Skills Program, Scholarships & helps with job placement whenever possible.

Since 1993, Pacific Forest Trust has epitomized innovation, daring, and a savvy understanding of market forces to create new economic incentives that reward private forest owners for conserving their lands and practicing sustainable forestry.

We’re a visionary think-and-do-tank of scientists, conservationists, policy wonks, entrepreneurs, and outdoor enthusiasts that have helped shape forest conservation and climate policy. Working closely with other forest stakeholders, from landowners to agencies to environmental nonprofit partners, we create and advance high-leverage, catalytic strategies that engage the commitment, imagination, and resources of many individuals, businesses, and organizations to make it easier and more rewarding to do good things for the forests—and forest landowners—on which we all depend.

The only conservation organization focused on private forests in California, Oregon, and Washington, we’ve conserved more than 270,000 acres of vital forestland regionally, holding easements on more than 105,000 acres. Our work has been recognized for its excellence by government agencies, philanthropies, and non-profit organizations.

Partnerships For Change®(PFC) is a team of social impact strategists and practitioners. PFC disrupts the status quo and implements lasting change. Since 1990, we have harnessed the power of stories and partnerships to accelerate change through direct action projects with all forms of media. We continue to perfect the craft of transformation. We strategically engage local partners around the globe and mobilize filmmakers, authors, artists, political advocates, broadcast and print journalists, social media, web and mobile platform architects to bring change.

Our sustainable forays are to advance compassion and abolish cruelty to people, animals and the environment by accelerating economic, social and health empowerment projects, awaken the conscience from compelling stories, and build advocacy with awareness and policy change.

Advance compassion and Abolish cruelty, Awaken conscience, and Advocate change.

The goal of the Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity (PRE) is to increase the amount and effectiveness of resources aimed at combating institutional and structural racism in communities through capacity building, education, and convening of grantmakers and grantseekers.

Since its inception in January 2003, PRE has directly engaged hundreds of foundation representatives (including program staff, management, board members and individual donors) in discussions of racial equity and, in particular, how they can advance the mission of achieving racial equity through their own philanthropic institutions.