Charity Improves the Lives of Children ONEXONE

Founded by entrepreneur and humanitarian Joelle Adler, ONEXONE believes that every single life is precious and that every one of us can make a profound difference in the life of another person, one by one.

Committed to improving the lives of children in Canada, the US, and around the world, ONEXONE focuses on the five areas that make up the totality of a child's well-being: water, hunger, health care, education, and play. To achieve its mission, the charity works closely with carefully selected local organizations on the ground across the globe. Together with its partner organizations, ONEXONE runs several charitable projects that align with its ultimate goal of supporting the health and wellness of children worldwide.

ONEXONE's programs include building water wells in Africa, providing healthy food to First Nations children in Canada, constructing a pediatric wing at the Mirebalais National Teaching Hospital in Haiti, building schools in Rwanda and Kenya, and delivering sport and play activities to children in refugee camps along the Sudanese border in Eastern Chad.

Success for All: An Education for Every Child

The Success for All Foundation (SFAF) is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping all students achieve at the highest levels, especially disadvantaged and at-risk kids in pre-K through grade eight. Headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, SFAF believes all students deserve an education that will inspire, challenge, and prepare them for a brighter future. Using research, the Foundation creates programs and services that help schools better meet the needs of their students.

SFAF was founded by Dr. Bob Slavin and Dr. Nancy Madden, who met in the 1970s as students at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. The duo shared a passion for improving education and spent hours talking about how to ensure all children received the education they deserved, particularly those from underprivileged backgrounds. Both Dr. Slavin and Dr. Madden were studying psychology and quickly became fans of experimental research. They subsequently moved to Maryland, Dr. Slavin's home state, to continue their studies and apply their ideas in the real world.

By 1980, Dr. Slavin and Dr. Madden's group at Johns Hopkins University had discovered how to harness the power of children working with children. The Success for All program evolved from this basic research on cooperative learning strategies. Dr. Slavin and Dr. Madden subsequently designed the Team Assisted Instruction and Cooperative Integrated Reading Composition programs, both of which were found to have strong positive effects on student achievement. In 1987, the Success for All program was implemented at a pilot school, Abbottston Elementary.

Since then, the Success for All Foundation has served many more schools, helping them make a difference in students' lives. At Success for All schools, social and emotional learning, cooperation, and behavior are given as much importance as academics.

SFAF continues to work closely with Johns Hopkins University to advance the quality of education and human services. In 2009, the Consortium for Policy Research in Education released a report on its comparison study of Success for All, America's Choice, and the Accelerated Schools Project. The study showed that SFA students scored 10 percent higher in reading proficiency than those in other comparison schools.

CARE: Caring for Those in Need Since 1945

Based in Atlanta, Georgia and working in 86 countries around the world, CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. CARE's mission is to serve the poorest individuals and families on the planet, with a special focus on working alongside underprivileged women – when given the proper resources, women help whole families and communities escape poverty. CARE's areas of work include women's empowerment, world hunger, HIV and AIDS, girls' education, clean water, maternal health, child marriage, poverty and social justice, youth empowerment, climate change, economic development, and violence against women. Ninety percent of the charity's expenses go toward program activities, with 76 percent spent on long-term solutions to poverty and 24 percent allocated to emergency response and rehabilitation.



Guided by the dreams of local communities, CARE creates lasting change by encouraging self-help, providing jobs, influencing policy decisions at all levels, delivering emergency aid, and addressing all forms of discrimination. CARE envisions a world of hope, social justice, and tolerance – one without poverty and where people live in dignity and security.

CARE was founded in 1945 when more than 20 American organizations came together to send lifesaving CARE Packages to World War II survivors. The first 20,000 packages, which reached Le Havre, France on May 11, 1946, were US Army surplus “10-in-1” food parcels designed to feed 10 soldiers during the planned invasion of Japan. When the “10-in-1” parcels ran out, CARE put together its own food packages with the support of American companies. Later, clothes, books, school supplies, blankets, carpentry tools, and medicine were also included in the packages, and delivery was expanded to other regions in need. Though the CARE Package was phased out decades ago, it remains a powerful symbol of compassion and generosity.

CARE is currently headed by president and CEO Dr. Helene Gayle, who has been with the organization since 2006.

Earthworks: Sustainable Solutions for Vibrant Communities

Headquartered in Washington, DC, Earthworks is a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting people and the planet from the impacts of irresponsible energy and mineral development while searching for sustainable solutions. Standing for clean water, healthy neighborhoods, and corporate accountability, Earthworks partners with communities and grassroots groups to influence investment decisions, reform government policies, improve corporate practices, and promote the responsible sourcing and consumption of materials.

Earthworks was founded in 2005 following the merging of Mineral Policy Center and the Oil & Gas Accountability Project. Launched in 1988 to help reform mining laws and practices, Mineral Policy Center has protected Yellowstone National Park, Rocky Mountain Front, Yosemite National Park, and Argentina's Patagonia region, among others, from destructive mineral developments. Meanwhile, the Oil & Gas Accountability Project (OGAP) was started in 1999 to help people in rural, urban, and tribal communities protect their homes and surroundings from oil and gas development. OGAP's accomplishments include the permanent protection of Valle Vidal in New Mexico and the first-ever government requirements for disclosure of gas drilling chemicals in Colorado.

Youth Food Movement: Helping Young Australians Make Better Food Choices

Youth Food Movement (YFM) is a volunteer-based, non-profit organization aiming to help young Australians deepen their relationship with food, both with their mind and their stomach. YFM believes all Australian youths are capable of making food choices that demand and support a healthy and sustainable food system.

Looking to increase the food literacy levels of Australian young adults, YFM starts conversations and challenges ideas about the definition of good food. The non-profit also integrates new concepts about the food system into daily life, giving the younger generation the chance to constantly experience and engage with the food system in an honest manner.

Youth Food Movement aspires to be a nationwide campaign that brings young people together over food and makes them aware of their power as conscious consumers. YFM also hopes to be a collective voice for young Australians that can be heard in political and other conversations about food.

Launched in 2011, YFM was started by a group of young people who came together in Sydney to share a delicious dinner of locally sourced, seasonal produce.

Change the Truth: Changing the Reality of Ugandan Orphans

Based in Kansas City, Missouri, Change the Truth is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping the children of St. Mary Kevin Orphanage Motherhood in the small town of Kajjansi, Uganda. About 2.2 million children in the country have lost one or both of their parents and are often left to fend for themselves. Many end up living on the streets, while others are taken in by relatives who have few resources themselves. Those who are lucky find their way to a boarding school or orphanage.  St. Mary Kevin Orphanage Motherhood houses approximately 180 children, providing them with food, shelter, security, clothing, medicine, care, education, and vocational skills training. Due to lack of government support, the orphanage has limited resources.



Since partnering with St. Mary Kevin Orphanage Motherhood, Change the Truth has significantly improved the lives of the kids living at the orphanage. The non-profit's major accomplishments to date include ensuring the children get three meals each day, acquiring new bedding, establishing a computer lab and textbook library, providing glasses and hearing aids to those who need them, and installing a safer kitchen. Change the Truth has also provided more than 30 kids with academic scholarships for secondary school, college, or vocational school. In addition, musical instruments and uniforms have been supplied to form the SMK Marching Band, which serves as an enrichment opportunity for the children and an extra source of income for the orphanage.

Change the Truth was founded by fine art and portrait photographer Gloria Baker Feinstein, who traveled to east Africa in 2006 as a participant in a photography workshop. It was on this trip that she met the children of St. Mary Kevin Orphanage Motherhood. Feinstein couldn't stop thinking about the children after her return home, so she decided to do something to help and launched Change the Truth within three months. She visits the orphanage every year and continues to take on photography projects.