WhyHunger
WhyHunger is a global organization working to end hunger by advancing the human right to nutritious food and supporting community-led solutions rooted in justice. Founded in 1975 by musician Harry Chapin and radio DJ Bill Ayres, the organization emerged from the belief that hunger is not caused by scarcity, but by systemic inequities—racism, economic injustice, […]
Waterkeeper Alliance
Waterkeeper Alliance is a global movement of community-based advocates united for clean, healthy, and abundant water for all people and the planet. The organization preserves and protects water by connecting local Waterkeeper groups worldwide, ensuring they are as connected to each other as they are to their local waters and organizing the fight for clean […]
Open Source Seed Initiative
The Open Source Seed Initiative (OSSI) is dedicated to maintaining fair and open access to plant genetic resources worldwide to ensure the availability of germplasm to farmers, gardeners, breeders, and communities of this and future generations. OSSI engages in education and outreach that promotes sharing rather than restricting access to plant germplasm, recognizes and supports […]
AI for Good
AI for Good was established in 2017 by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations’ leading agency for digital technologies, with a mission to unlock AI’s potential to serve humanity through building skills, AI standards, and advancing partnerships. Organized by ITU in partnership with over 50 UN Sister Agencies and co-convened with the Government […]
OpenAQ
OpenAQ is an environmental tech nonprofit that aggregates and harmonizes open air quality data from across the globe onto an open-source, open-access data platform so that anyone concerned about air quality has unfettered access to the data they need to analyze, communicate, and advocate for clean air. The first to aggregate disparate ground-level ambient air […]
Global Indigenous Data Alliance
The Global Indigenous Data Alliance (GIDA) advances Indigenous Data Sovereignty, recognizing that the current movement toward open data and open science does not fully engage with Indigenous Peoples’ rights and interests. Existing principles within the open data movement—such as FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable)—primarily focus on characteristics that facilitate data sharing among entities while ignoring […]
Zooniverse
Zooniverse is the world’s largest and most popular platform for people-powered research, made possible by millions of volunteers around the world who come together to assist professional researchers. The platform enables research that would not be possible or practical otherwise, with results including new discoveries, datasets useful to the wider research community, and many publications. […]
Artolution
Artolution is a global community-based arts organization that works at the intersection of creativity, trauma recovery, and youth empowerment in crisis-affected communities. In a world marked by unprecedented displacement, conflict, and social fragmentation—especially for children and young people—Artolution partners with local artists to transform walls, classrooms, and public spaces into platforms for expression, connection, and collective […]
Global Disaster Preparedness Center
The Global Disaster Preparedness Center (GDPC) was established by the American Red Cross and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) as a reference center to support innovation and learning in disaster preparedness. As one of 12 reference centers in the international Red Cross Red Crescent network, the GDPC enhances disaster […]
The Great Simplification
The Great Simplification is a sensemaking platform for global conversations about where we’re headed as a species. The platform examines how energy, the economy, society, and the environment all connect—and what that means for our future on Earth. By distilling complex global challenges into clear insights, The Great Simplification helps audiences understand the interconnected realities […]
International Living Future Institute
The International Living Future Institute (Living Future) cultivates a society that is socially just, culturally rich, and ecologically restorative by envisioning a living future and showing that it works better in practice and policy. Premised on the belief that providing a compelling vision is needed to reconcile humanity’s relationship with the natural world, Living Future’s […]
Transparency International
Transparency International is a global movement working in over 100 countries to end the injustice of corruption. The organization focuses on issues with the greatest impact on people’s lives and holds the powerful to account for the common good. Through advocacy, campaigning, and research, Transparency International exposes the systems and networks that enable corruption to […]
Corruption and Economic Crime Branch
The Corruption and Economic Crime Branch (CEB) of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) works at the core of global anti-corruption efforts, joining forces with governments, anti-corruption practitioners, the private sector, civil society, youth, and academia to address corruption at all levels and restore trust where it has been eroded. At headquarters […]
Global Impact Investing Network
The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) is the global champion of impact investing, dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing around the world. Impact investments are investments made into companies, organizations, and funds with the intention to generate positive, measurable social and environmental impact alongside a financial return, made in both emerging […]
Women’s World Banking
Women’s World Banking operates as both an NGO partnering with financial institutions and policymakers to design gender-intentional solutions facilitating systemic change, and as an investor through Women’s World Banking Asset Management (WAM) advancing women through direct equity to bring financial security, prosperity, and independence. Founded in 1979 by Michaela Walsh, Esther Ocloo, Ela Bhatt, and […]
Institutional Shareholder Services
Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) empowers investors and companies to build for long-term and sustainable growth by providing high-quality data, analytics, and insight. Founded in 1985 and majority owned by Deutsche Börse Group along with ISS management, ISS is a leading provider of corporate governance and responsible investment solutions, market intelligence, fund services, and events and […]