Center for Social Impact: Impact 500 Organizations

WWF is the world’s leading independent conservation organization. It’s mission is to create a world where people and wildlife can thrive together. To achieve our mission, WWF is finding ways to help transform the future for the world’s wildlife, rivers, forests and seas; pushing for a reduction in carbon emissions that will avoid catastrophic climate change; and pressing for measures to help people live sustainably, within the means of our one planet.

Yesh Din is a group of volunteers who have organized to oppose the continuing human rights violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

Inspired by the spirit of the International Youth Year declared by the United Nations in 1985, some socially conscious youths of Sitakund Upazilla under Chittagong District of Bangladesh began to motivate and organize the youth community to establish a development organization. YPS took action for development by active initiation of the socially conscious youth and began its course of participation in the development process.

The Youth Advocacy Network Bhutan is an informal, organized youth-led network made and run by the youth volunteers of Bhutan, aimed at creating a forum for dialogue, discussion, and cooperation to advocate for meaningful partnership in all policies and programs related to young people at all levels. They work on imparting advocacy skills, replicating ideas, raise awareness amongst the youth and multi-stakeholders in civic education, peace, and intercultural/interfaith harmony.

Their aim is to see a Tanzanian society that respects and protects the rights of young people to have access to youth-friendly sexual reproductive health information and services as one of the key elements to achieve sustainable development goals.

The Youth Association for Development (YAD) is a youth lead, peacebuilding civil society initiative based in Baluchistan and whose roots lie with a core of volunteers in different districts of Pakistan. YAD is a human rights-based approach with a multi-sector development organization working on a participatory development approach to bring long-term change & sustainable development in the society.

YDF exists to foster social cohesion in Pakistani society by initiating a youth-led movement that would teardown socio-cultural, religious, and communal barriers; cherish the immense social diversity and protect the rights of minorities and other marginalized groups.

Youth for Peace and Dialogue between Cultures, a non-profit organization whose mission is to build a world where young people from different religions and backgrounds can come together to create understanding and respect by serving their communities. Promoting the culture of peace and Human Rights They work to inspire youth around the Globe to become valuable advocates for tolerance. Each year since 2011 the association organized its annual World Interfaith Harmony Week in Morocco,

Youth Guidance operates in more than 100 Chicago Public Schools, serving 13,000 youth and their families, across the city of Chicago, with a central office located in the downtown loop. They also have BAM & WOW programming in Boston, Kansas City, King County Washington and Los Angeles County; and are currently exploring opportunities to expand our programs to other communities most in need.

Zindagi Trust adopted two government schools as pilot projects of school reform involving interventions in infrastructure upgrades, governance, administration, teacher professional development, academic innovation and tracking and a rich menu of co-curricular and extra-curricular activities.

Zizi Afrique envisions a world where all children and youth learn and thrive committed to improving learning outcomes for children and youth furthest behind. They contribute to the nurturing of a generation of children and youth who are well-equipped with skills for learning, skills for living, and skills for working. With a mission to consolidate evidence, innovate solutions through collaborative networking, shape policy and practice to equip all children and youth with competencies for life and work

The Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens is a Quasi-International Organization based in Vienna, Austria. The Centre which was established in January 2018 empowers women and youth to live in a peaceful and prosperous world. They strive for a world based on universal respect for human rights, regardless of age, gender, identity, religion, and nationality, where sustainable development is achieved through global citizenship in shared responsibility, understanding and empathy. It is co-chaired by Ban Ki-moon, 8th Secretary-General of the UN and by Heinz Fischer, 11th President of the Republic of Austria