Center for Social Impact: Impact 500 Organizations

Find the world's leading impact organizations and initiatives committed to transforming education for human flourishing

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AMP Global Youth

International
Non-Governmental Organization
Education for Sustainable Development

A youth-driven organization that envisions a more peaceful, healthy, just, and sustainable world by helping the youth build skills that can be applied to work and life.

Headquarters:
Washington, DC

Anubhuti Social Foundation

Local
Non-Governmental Organization
Transformative Education Initiatives

Anubhuti is a non-profit organization that takes an active part in empowering women and small farmers along with their pledge of brightening up the future of the village children.

Headquarters:
Pune

Apni Shala

Local
Non-Governmental Organization
Social and Emotional Learning

Apni Shala's team focuses on building social and emotional competencies among individuals to engage with society and have a harmonious co-existence constructively. Individuals form them from diverse backgrounds, experiences, expertise, and identities such as gender, sexuality, religion, caste, mental health diversity, neurodiversity, and economic environment. Our team strives towards diverse representation and voices at all levels of the organization.

Headquarters:
Mumbai

Asante Africa Foundation

International
Non-Governmental Organization
Education for Sustainable Development

Rooted in the UN Sustainable Development Goals, Asante Africa achieves results through a set of related programs designed to alleviate poverty by fostering the development of educated and resilient youth. Programs emphasize quality learning in the classroom, gender equity, work-life skills, and the power of technology. Students develop the cognitive skills, decision-making capacity, and leadership qualities needed to succeed far beyond the classroom.

Headquarters:
Kenya

Asha for Education

National
Non-Governmental Organization
Education for Sustainable Development

Asha for Education is a secular organization dedicated to change in India by focusing on basic education in the belief that education is a critical requisite for socio-economic change. In keeping with this focus, our volunteers are involved with and support projects that are secular and have an education-related component to them

Headquarters:
California

Ashoka Foundation

International
Non-Governmental Organization
Transformative Education Initiatives

Their mission is to identify and support the world's leading social entrepreneurs, learn from the patterns in their innovations, and mobilize a global community that embraces these new frameworks to build an "everyone is a changemaker world."

Headquarters:
Bangalore

Asia South Pacific Association for Basic and Adult Education

International
Non-Governmental Organization
Global Citizenship Education

ASPBAE works towards promoting the right to quality education and transformative and liberating lifelong adult education and learning for all. Through its work, ASPBAE lobbies with governments to uphold education as an empowering tool to combat poverty and all forms of exclusion and discrimination, enable active and meaningful participation in governance, and build a culture of peace and international understanding.ASPBAE's fundamental purpose is to advance and defend the right of all people to learn and have equitable access to relevant and quality education

Headquarters:
Quezon City

Asociación Mexicana para la Educación Internacional [AMPEI]

National
Non-Governmental Organization
Transformative Education Initiatives

The Mexican Association for International Education, AC AMPEI, is a non-profit association, founded in July 1992, with the intention of helping to strengthen the academic quality of higher education institutions through internationalization and cooperation

Headquarters:
Chihuahua

Aspire Rwanda

Local
Non-Governmental Organization
Social and Emotional Learning

Aspire Rwanda is dedicated to equipping vulnerable and impoverished women, men, and youth with the knowledge, skills, self -esteem and mutual support networks to lift themselves and their families out of poverty.

Headquarters:
Kigali

Association for Learning Environments

International
Non-Governmental Organization
Education for Sustainable Development

The Association is a worldwide professional non-profit association whose sole mission is improving the places where children learn. Leading innovation at the intersection of learning and place.

Headquarters:
Arizona

AWO International

International
Non-Governmental Organization
Education for Sustainable Development

AWO International was founded in 1998 as a professional association for development cooperation and humanitarian action within the framework of the German welfare organization “Arbeiterwohlfahrt”. In cooperation with local partner organizations, AWO International is committed to supporting marginalized and disadvantaged groups of society to sustainably improve their living conditions.

Headquarters:
Berlin

Azim Premji Foundation

National
Non-Governmental Organization
Education for Sustainable Development

Azim Premji Foundation is a not-for-profit organization working since 2000 with the elementary education system in rural government schools. The Foundation's primary goal is to contribute to a society that is “a just, equitable, humane and sustainable society” as envisaged in the Constitution of India.

Headquarters:
Bangalore