Center for Social Impact: Impact 500 Organizations

The Varkey Foundation believes in quality education for every child. That’s why, together with their partners, they work to build the status of teachers to ensure that the quality of teaching is enhanced, and outcomes will improve. Their vision is quality education for every child – through boosting the status of teachers and celebrating the profession. They work, research, and campaign all around the world, and everything they do is driven by one simple belief: teachers matter.

Vía Educación’s programs serve students from pre-school through high school (ages 3-18). In their school-based programs, the direct beneficiaries are teachers and administrators. Through the design, implementation, and evaluation of educational strategies and methodologies for the renewal of school culture, Vía Educación empowers educators to transform their schools and improve education for their students. In addition to the school-based programs, Vía Educación also operates community programs that engage adults and young people to transform their social environment.

Vidya is a 35-year old NGO based in India that believes in social change through empowering the most vulnerable members of underprivileged communities: the children, youth and women.

Vidya and Child was started in 1998 with the single aim of making a difference in the lives of underprivileged children belonging to socio-economically marginalised sections of society. Today, the majority of its learners are first-generation school-goers. The organisation is helping over 1,800 children across five locations in semi-rural and rural settings through its school and after school support programmes.

Vidya Poshak strongly believes Education is the solution for Ending Poverty. When we invest in a Young, economically challenged meritorious youth for a few years, we can break the poverty cycle of a family forever.

The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and their other free knowledge projects. wanting to make it easier for everyone to share what they know. To do this, it keeps Wikipedia and Wikimedia sites fast, reliable, and available to all. Protecting the values and policies that allow free knowledge to thrive. Building new features and tools to make it easy to read, edit, and share from the Wikimedia sites. supporting communities of volunteers around the world working on Wikimedia projects.

World Leadership School, a Founding B Corp, partners with K-12 schools in order to reimagine learning and create next-generation leaders

World Learning has equipped individuals and institutions to address the world’s most pressing problems

For 17 years World Savvy has been the leader in global education.World Savvy empowers educators to make school inclusive, relevant, and engaging for all students, inspiring them to learn, work, and thrive as responsible global citizens. It works with educators, schools, and districts to integrate the highest quality of global competence teaching and learning into K-12 classrooms, so all young people can be prepared to engage, succeed, and meet the challenges of 21st century citizenship.

World Vision is a Christian relief, development and advocacy organisation dedicated to working with children, families and communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice.

World’s Largest Lesson promotes use of the Sustainable Development Goals in learning so that children can contribute to a better future for all. They are a programme from Project Everyone.

Worldreader provide a library of thousands of digital books so that anyone can be a reader. They combine digital technology with relevant content, smart programming and strong partnerships to make a lasting impact.