Earth Train is an International Program dedicated to training and unifying the development leaders of the future. Located at the narrowest point of the western hemisphere, Earth Train's 14,000 acre Upland Rainforest Preserve sets the stage for a unique focus on sustainable development. Earth Train blends course work, home stays, and community specific field service to provide excellent coaching in a challenging multi-cultural environment. The Earth Train International Center draws students, aspiring professionals, educators, and prominent indigenous leaders into a learning community that promotes increased cross-cultural awareness and understanding of the challenges facing the developing world.

WAVES is an affiliation of nonprofits that believe surf travel should benefit the people and communities where it happens. Their mission is to use surfing to make the world a better place by combining Educational Surf programs that develop Peruvian youth into healthy and empowered adults with Adventure Voluntourism programs that engage travelers and transform their world view.

The Tropical Adventures Foundation is a non-profit organization providing volunteer tour packages for individuals, families and groups interested in exploring the culture, language and natural beauty of Costa Rica. Our local volunteer projects offer the adventure of a lifetime for those willing to share their love, skills and time with those less fortunate.

The REDLIGHT CHILDREN campaign seeks to generate conscious concern and inspire immediate action against child sexploitation. It is a worldwide grassroots initiative whose mission is to reduce the number of children sold to the sex industry and exploited on the internet.

Drawn from Water, an Ethiopian based orphanage, houses children who have been relocated from local tribes whose beliefs and traditions can be a life threat to the children and tribe members deemed to have "mingi", alias a curse or bad omen. Drawn from Water has created a safe haven for those children at risk. The orphanage was formed in February 2009.

Love Light & Melody is a nonprofit organization dedicated to battling the physical, emotional, and spiritual affects of extreme poverty. We use music and the arts to rebuild, restore, and bring healing to communities ravaged by extreme poverty. We are committed to becoming experts on the life and culture inside the city trash dump in Managua, Nicaragua. Our goal is to identify and meet the immediate physical needs, raise awareness about trash dump communities, and fight social injustice.

Founded on the belief that journalism is a dynamic tool that fosters personal empowerment, community development and global awareness, PI operates independent Global Training Sites and News Desks and collaborates with organizations dedicated to human development and responsible journalism in order to offer its original award-winning journalism training curricula to media outlets and individuals around the world. The Press Institute has trained and employed over 100 women in the developing world to be responsible, ethical journalists. They target marginalized women, such as the untouchable caste in Nepal, indigenous women in Mexico, and former prostitutes and HIV women in Kenya. Receiving journalism training provides these women, the opportunity to take on semi-public professions, establish themselves as literate leaders, provoke social change and mindfulness, challenge discrimination, speak for the silenced, and earn strong living wages with a dignified profession.

We believe that peace, security and respect for human dignity are inseparable. Our Mission is to build hope and empower communities afflicted by armed conflict and severe poverty. Our people-to-people initiatives integrate health, education, arts, and livelihood as a basis for community development and to create stability. Our goal is to develop programs as sustainable models that can be replicated globally.

Is a fundraising art installation designed to recognize the millions of victims killed or displaced by ongoing genocides occurring on our watch.Our Mission is to increase global awareness of these atrocities while raising the critical funds needed to protect and aid displaced and vulnerable victims. One million people will each create one bone to represent one victim. Installed together, these million bones will flood the National Mall in Washington, D.C., unearthing the memory of these victims while calling citizens to action.

PEPY's mission is to aid rural communities in improving their own standards of living, with a focus on increased access to quality education. Through our partner government schools, and our informal education initiatives, PEPY is supporting education for over 1,700 families in 12 villages and 6 schools in rural Siem Reap. We believe that education is the key to sustainable change, and are committed to a holistic developmental approach which empowers children, parents, teachers, and communities to make the positive changes they want to see in their lives.

African Leadership Academy (ALA) seeks to transform Africa by developing and supporting future generations of African leaders. Since 2008, ALA brings together the most promising 15-18 year old leaders from all 54 African nations and beyond for an innovative two-year program designed to prepare each student for a lifetime of leadership on the continent. Students are selected to attend the Academy based on merit alone and complete an innovative curriculum with a unique focus on leadership, entrepreneurship, and African studies. ALA graduates will attend the world's finest universities and will lead Africa toward a peaceful and prosperous future.

Love in Action Asia (LIAA) was formed in Thailand just six months prior to the December 2004 tsunami. Love in Action's desire was to bring hope and aid to Thailand's coastal villages in the wake of the disaster. Since then, LIAA has broadened it's focus on several fronts -- including the needs of Thailand's neighboring country, Burma. The hope and livelihood of the Burmese and its ethnic minority have been crushed by a brutal military regime for nearly 60 years. Thailand has absorbed hundreds of thousands of Burma's refugees, and most of those refugees are comprised of Burma's largest ethnic minority, the Karen. LIAA's services now range from school, medical and and spiritual support for several displaced populations in Thailand.

See Change Global is an online media community that connects change agents and their campaigns to the people and resources that can bring their work to scale.

Since 1974, Wide Horizons for Children has placed over 10,000 children with adoptive families, and worked in more than 50 countries around the world. Building enduring relationships of trust and professionalism with their overseas partners has been key to their success in facilitating thousands of adoptions over the years. Currently, WHFC offers adoption programs in 12 countries: China, Colombia, Ethiopia, Guatemala, India, Kazakhstan, Korea, The Philippines, Russia, Taiwan, Ukraine, and the United States.

Launched by the producers of the award-winning documentary As We Forgive, Living Bricks is an initiative to restore hearts and homes in Rwanda following the destruction of the 1994 genocide. Living Bricks equips genocide perpetrators with the tools to build much-needed housing for their victims' families, establishing new villages where former killers and survivors live together again as neighbors through practical reconciliation. To date, over 10,000 ex-prisoners have asked for the supplies to build these houses of hope.

GCN works to promote peace, justice and tolerance through cross-cultural understanding and cooperation. We are committed to enhancing quality of life around the world while preserving indigenous cultures, traditions and ecologies. Volunteer around the world, working side-by-side to build relationships with members of our indigenous partner communities in the U.S. and abroad. Participate in community development projects driven by the community.

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