Art Of Living Foundation

Seeking to help build a global society that is free of stress, violence, and misery by nurturing the spirit and compassion of every individual.

Watch videos: Living human values, global peace initiative, global service, Indian sustainability, youth empowerment.

Australian Volunteers International

Supporting Australians and other nationals in a wide variety of projects in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, Africa and the Middle East.  Watch video

Better World  Books

Supporting literacy initiatives in the United States and around the world.  Collect, sort, ship and distribute books to children in Africa.  Watch video.

Books For Africa

Collecting, sorting, shipping and distributing books to children in Africa.  Watch video.

Coming of Age

Promoting civic engagement, lifelong learning and community leadership among 50+ year olds in Greater Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.  Watch video.

Common Cents

Creating and managing service-learning programs for young people in the United States.

Watch videos: The Power of Children, the Promise of Community, Global Access to Education written, edited and produced by high schoolers

Delancy Street

A residential self-help organization for former substance abusers, ex-convicts, homeless and others who have hit bottom.  Located in  the U.S.A.

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First Book

Giving children from low-income families in the United States the opportunity to read and own their first new books.  Watch videos.

Free Rice

            Providing free rice through the educational experience of an internet vocabulary game.  Watch video.

Fresh Air

Providing free summer vacations to New York City children.  Allows children from disadvantaged communities to experience suburban or rural vacations.  Watch video.

Global Volunteer Network

Providing volunteer opportunities in 28 community projects throughout the world.

Watch videos:  Ecuador,  El Salvador,  Kenya,  New Zealand.

Grupo Union

United States immigrants supporting homeland communities in Mexico.

Habitat For Humanity

Eliminating poverty housing and homelessness from the world.  Watch video.

Heifer Project

Ending hunger and poverty worldwide through helping people obtain a sustainable source of food and income.  Watch videos.

Junior Achievement

Educating and inspiring young people to succeed in a global economy.  Watch video.

Jericho Road

Matching professional expertise of suburban volunteers with the needs of those community-based organizations and small businesses that can help individuals and families become economically self-sustaining. Location: Lowell, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  Watch video.

Jill Bolte Taylor 

Kiva

Enabling individuals throughout the world to connect with and loan money to unique small businesses in the developing world.  Watch videos.

Mentor L.A.

Improving schools and empowering neighborhoods in Los Angeles, USA.  

National Center for Family Literacy

Helping parents and children in the United States form a learning partnership that ends the cycle of poverty and low literacy.

One Million Voices

Generating a grassroots peace movement between Israelis and Palestinians.  Watch video.

Pennies For Peace

Teaching children the rewards of sharing and working together to bring hope and educational opportunities to children in Pakistan and Afghanistan. A penny in the industrialized world is virtually worthless, but in Pakistan and Afghanistan a penny buys a pencil and opens the door to literacy.  Watch video.

PlayPumps

Providing easy access to clean drinking water, enhancing public health, for millions of people across Africa.  Uses a unique and innovative solution to solve the water problems faced by rural areas by using a children's merry-go-round as the pumping mechanism.  Watch video. 

Public Allies

Training the next generation of community leaders in the U.S.A.  Watch video.

Randy Pausch Honorary Fund

Randy Pausch’s inspirational lecture on Achieving Your Childhood Dreams  is different from most of the promotional programming on Imagine A Difference.  Viewers are encouraged to support The Pausch Fund which will enable his university, Carnegie Mellon, to continue and complete his academic work.

Rare

Working globally to equip people in the world’s most threatened natural areas with the tools and motivation they need to care for their natural resources. 

Watch videos:  Intro to Rare Pride,  Rare Enterprises,  China interview,  Gabon interview,  Mexico,  Philipines interview

Real Gap Experience

Offering life-changing volunteer and travel opportunities in 45 countries around the world for people on a "gap year" (between high-school and college) or on a career break.

Room to Read

Partnering with local communities throughout the developing world to establish schools, libraries, and other educational infrastructure.  Watch videos.