The list that follows is illustrative and overly U.S.-centric.

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Alamo Academies familiarizes high school students with STEM careers with excellent employment prospects. Program graduates have an average starting salary of $42,000  (www.alamoacademies.com).

Beyond Differences promotes inclusion through social-emotional learning (SEL), a transformative proprietary curriculum that has been used in more than 8,500 schools across all fifty U.S. states. SEL has helped more than 3.5 million students

move beyond isolation and loneliness toward community (www.beyonddifferences.org ).

Botvin LifeSkills Training is a three-year universal substance abuse and violence protection program targeted at middle, junior, and high school students. LST has been proven to cut teen drug use by 75 percent, tobacco use by 87 percent, and

alcohol use by 60 percent (www.lifeskillstraining.com ).

C40 Cities is a group of ninety-seven cities around the world dedicated to sharing best practices for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and mitigating climate risks (www.C40.org ).

Career Academies are accredited counseling programs applied in small learning communities at the high school level across the United States. Their “school-within-school” programs provide actionable advice on local career opportunities

as well as the technical skills needed to transition to the workplace upon graduation

(www.evidencedbasedprograms.org/programs/career-academies ).

Catholic Charities Fort Worth has a mission to provide service to those in need, advancing compassion and justice in the structures of society while encouraging all people of good will to do the same. Their Out of Poverty Pathways program

is strictly outcome driven and evidence based. The program has helped tens of thousands of families across CCFW’s twenty-eight-county diocese (www.catholiccharitiesfortworth.org ).

Charter for Compassion was founded by the religious scholar Karen Armstrong. The CFC invites every human being to co-create a world that is peaceful, kind, inclusive, and rewarding. Charter signatories believe compassion can and should

infuse every human relationship and approach to societal life (www.charterforcompassion.org ).

Critical Time Intervention provides short-term interventions for individuals who have been living in shelters and homeless centers, providing them the help they need to return to normal life. Longer-term goals include reintegration and independence of community support networks (www.criticaltime.org ).

EMPath (Economic Mobility Pathways) provides intensive counseling to help people living in poverty and those at risk of living in poverty achieve economic independence. EMPath also provides affliated institutions and organizations with the

tools they need to implement their proven programs (www.empathways.org ).

The Environmental Defense Fund ranks among the world’s leading environmental organizations, with more than 2.5 million members and a proven fifty-year record of making the environment safer and healthier. They advise companies, communities, and countries on sustainability best practices (www.edf.org ).

FAME USA (the Federation for Advanced Manufacturing Education) provides workforce development skills, helping to place 85 percent of its participants with more than four hundred companies across twelve U.S. states (www.fame-usa.com ).

The George Kaiser Family Foundation is dedicated to providing every child in and around Tulsa, Oklahoma, an equal opportunity to succeed in life. They employ a wide range of both local and national public–private partnerships to scale evidenced-based practices that narrow opportunity gaps up until age eight (www.gk&.org).

The Good Things Foundation is a UK-based social change charity that improves people’s lives by helping to close the digital divide. Their Make It Click program provides free courses, tools, and templates across the United Kingdom and around the globe to improve digital literacy (www.goodthingsfoundation.org ).

The Green Belt Movement was founded in 1977 by Professor Wangari Maathai and has planted tens of millions of trees across Africa. GBM works at the local, national, and international levels to promote environmental conservation, climate

resilience, and gender equality (www.greenbeltmovement.org ).

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies hope to inspire, encourage, facilitate, and promote humanitarian activities through 192 national societies located in countries all around the world. They do so with a

view to preventing and alleviating human suffering and contributing to the maintenance and promotion of human dignity and peace (www.ifrc.org ).

KIPP Public Schools are a network of hundreds of tuition-free public charter schools across the United States, with more than 10,000 educators and 160,000 students and alumni. KIPP affiliation requires specific governance and pedagogical

tools. Because of the excess demand for their services, admission is only open by lottery (www.kipp.org).

Lutheran Services in America runs one of the largest health and human services networks in the United States. They help care for more than six million Americans in 1,400 communities across the country, as well as a large number of immigrants and refugees. Lutheran Services has more than 150,000 active volunteers (www.lutheranservices.org ).

Nurse-Family Partnership is a nationwide community health program that empowers first-time moms to improve their lives and the lives of their babies through the dedicated use of best practices. They envision a future in which all children

are healthy, families thrive, and the cycle of poverty is broken (www.nursefamilypartnership.org ).

Operation HOPE is dedicated to expanding economic opportunities by making free enterprise work better for everyone. Their primary focus is on promoting financial dignity, literacy, and inclusion among the underserved. Their Financial

Literacy for All movement is developing content for universal use in America and around the world. (www.operationhope.org ).

Ready, Willing & Able (a.k.a. the Doe Fund) provides men with a history of incarceration, homelessness, and unemployment with paid work and career development services, providing proven pathways from insecurity and want to a full-time job and a permanent home. Their Work Works model verifiably reduces recidivism and has the potential to save hundreds of millions of public program dollars while improving tens of thousands of lives (www.doe.org ).

Robin Hood has successfully fought poverty in New York City and its environs for more than thirty years. During the COVID pandemic, they prioritized getting families back on their feet, kids back on track, and able-bodied New Yorkers back to work (www.robinhood.org ).

Rumie was founded by the former BlackRock executive Tariq Fancy. Rumie is a Canadian NGO and technology company that has provided educational assets and tools to more than three hundred thousand active learners in more than 191

countries. Rumie has curated more than 1,100 free and open courses and hopes to reach twenty million learners by 2024. (www.rumie.org ).

Year Up is dedicated to ensuring every young adult reaches their full potential, closing the opportunity divide by providing access to skill attainment and proven personal empowerment programs (www.yearup.org ).

YMCA is a worldwide youth organization headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, that serves more than one hundred million beneficiaries in 120 countries. It strives to put Christian principles like compassion, patience, self-control, and kindness into practice while developing healthy bodies, minds and spirits. (www.ymca.int ).