Our Commitment to Making a Positive Impact
Wildlife Conservation Society’s goal is to conserve the world’s largest wild places in 14 priority regions, home to more than 50% of the world’s biodiversity. WCS continues to set the bar for science, conservation action, and education that has driven the success in protecting wildlife and wild places for over a century.
Vision:
WCS envisions a world where wildlife thrives in healthy lands and seas, valued by societies that embrace and benefit from the diversity and integrity of life on earth.
Mission:
WCS saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.
Ocean Conservancy works with millions of volunteers of all ages, from all around the world, on our International Coastal Cleanup for more than 30 years. Ocean Conservancy is a collection of people who love the ocean, our coasts, and coastal communities.
Vision:
Ocean Conservancy envisions a healthier ocean, protected by a more just world.
Mission:
Ocean Conservancy is working with you to protect the ocean from today’s greatest global challenges. Together, we create evidence-based solutions for a healthy ocean and the wildlife and communities that depend on it.
Best Buddies is the world’s largest organization dedicated to ending the social, physical and economic isolation of the 200 million people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Our programs empower the special abilities of people with IDD by helping them form meaningful friendships with their peers, secure successful jobs, live independently, improve public speaking, self-advocacy and communication skills, and feel valued by society.
Vision:
Best Buddies envisions a world where people with IDD are so successfully integrated into schools, workplaces and communities that its current efforts and services will be unnecessary. Until that vision becomes a reality, the organization will continue to educate middle school, high school and college students, community members, corporations and employers about the emotional, functional, and natural needs and abilities of people with IDD.
Mission:
Best Buddies International is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to establishing a global volunteer movement that creates opportunities for one-to-one friendships, integrated employment, leadership development, and inclusive living for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).
Kiva
More than 1.7 billion people around the world are unbanked and can’t access the financial services they need. Kiva is an international nonprofit, founded in 2005 in San Francisco, with a mission to expand financial access to help underserved communities thrive.
Vision:
Kiva envisions a financially inclusive world where all people hold the power to improve their lives.
Mission:
Kiva’s mission is to improve the quality and affordability of financial services for the underserved, as well as address the barriers to financial access around the world via crowdfunding. Through Kiva’s work, students can pay for tuition, women can start businesses, farmers are able to invest in equipment and families can afford needed emergency care.