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GUTTMACHER INSTITUTE INC
Now in its fifth decade, the Guttmacher Institute remains committed to the mission and goals that led to its creation. The Guttmacher Institute was founded in 1968 as the Center for Family Planning Program Development. At the time, Presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon had begun to call the public's attention to the problem of unplanned and unwanted childbearing and its consequences for individual women and men, their children and their communities both at home and abroad. Concurrently, the United States Congress was taking its first steps toward the development of an international population assistance program, as well as a multifaceted, national program aimed at providing equitable access to modern methods of birth control in the United States. By integrating nonpartisan social science research, policy analysis and public education, the Center hoped to provide a factual basis for the development of sound governmental policies and for public consideration of the sensitive issues involved in the promotion of reproductive health and rights. This purpose and commitment continue today. The Center was originally housed within the corporate structure of Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA). Its program, however, was independently developed and overseen by a National Advisory Council separate from the PPFA Board of Directors. Its early development was nurtured by Alan F. Guttmacher, an eminent obstetrician-gynecologist, teacher and writer who was PPFA's president for more than a decade until his death in 1974. The Center was renamed in Dr. Guttmacher's memory, and the Guttmacher Institute incorporated as an entirely independent nonprofit policy research institute with its own Board in 1977. The Guttmacher Institute maintains offices in New York and Washington. Its current staff of 81 comprises demographers, social scientists, public policy analysts, editors, writers, communications specialists, and financial and technical personnel. A few of its employees have been with the organization for most of its existence, and an affiliation that goes back 10 or 15 years is not unusual. The Institute's work is guided by a 39-member board made up of eminent professionals from a rich variety of disciplines, as well as civic leaders from across the United States and around the world. The Guttmacher Institute's annual budget of approximately $17 million is derived largely from private foundations, government agencies, multilateral organizations and individual contributions.
New York, New York
MARS SOCIETY INC
The time has come for humanity to journey to the planet Mars. We’re ready. Though Mars is distant, we are far better prepared today to send humans to the Red Planet than we were to travel to the Moon at the commencement of the space age. Given the will, we could have our first crews on Mars within a decade. The reasons for going to Mars are powerful. We must go for the knowledge of Mars. Our robotic probes have revealed that Mars was once a warm and wet planet, suitable for hosting life’s origin. But did it? A search for fossils on the Martian surface or microbes in groundwater below could provide the answer. If found, they would show that the origin of life is not unique to the Earth, and, by implication, reveal a universe that is filled with life and probably intelligence as well. From the point of view learning our true place in the universe, this would be the most important scientific enlightenment since Copernicus. We must go for the knowledge of Earth. As we begin the twenty-first century, we have evidence that we are changing the Earth’s atmosphere and environment in significant ways. It has become a critical matter for us better to understand all aspects of our environment. In this project, comparative planetology is a very powerful tool, a fact already shown by the role Venusian atmospheric studies played in our discovery of the potential threat of global warming by greenhouse gases. Mars, the planet most like Earth, will have even more to teach us about our home world. The knowledge we gain could be key to our survival. We must go for the challenge. Civilizations, like people, thrive on challenge and decay without it. The time is past for human societies to use war as a driving stress for technological progress. As the world moves towards unity, we must join together, not in mutual passivity, but in common enterprise, facing outward to embrace a greater and nobler challenge than that which we previously posed to each other. Pioneering Mars will provide such a challenge. Furthermore, a cooperative international exploration of Mars would serve as an example of how the same joint-action could work on Earth in other ventures. We must go for the youth. The spirit of youth demands adventure. A humans-to-Mars program would challenge young people everywhere to develop their minds to participate in the pioneering of a new world. If a Mars program were to inspire just a single extra percent of today’s youth to scientific educations, the net result would be tens of millions more scientists, engineers, inventors, medical researchers and doctors. These people will make innovations that create new industries, find new medical cures, increase income, and benefit the world in innumerable ways to provide a return that will utterly dwarf the expenditures of the Mars program. We must go for the opportunity. The settling of the Martian New World is an opportunity for a noble experiment in which humanity has another chance to shed old baggage and begin the world anew; carrying forward as much of the best of our heritage as possible and leaving the worst behind. Such chances do not come often, and are not to be disdained lightly. We must go for our humanity. Human beings are more than merely another kind of animal, -we are life’s messenger. Alone of the creatures of the Earth, we have the ability to continue the work of creation by bringing life to Mars, and Mars to life. In doing so, we shall make a profound statement as to the precious worth of the human race and every member of it. We must go for the future. Mars is not just a scientific curiosity; it is a world with a surface area equal to all the continents of Earth combined, possessing all the elements that are needed to support not only life, but technological society. It is a New World, filled with history waiting to be made by a new and youthful branch of human civilization that is waiting to be born. We must go to Mars to make that potential a reality. We must go, not for us, but for a people who are yet to be. We must do it for the Martians. Believing therefore that the exploration and settlement of Mars is one of the greatest human endeavors possible in our time, we have gathered to found this Mars Society, understanding that even the best ideas for human action are never inevitable, but must be planned, advocated, and achieved by hard work. We call upon all other individuals and organizations of like-minded people to join with us in furthering this great enterprise. No nobler cause has ever been. We shall not rest until it succeeds.
Lakewood, Colorado
Buy The Change
Buy The Change is a social enterprise, accessories and home goods company, focused on bringing economic empowerment to marginalized and rescued women around the world.
Monroe, Michigan
CASA OF BROWN COUNTY INCORPORATED
CASA of Brown County is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that recruits, screens, and trains everyday citizens from the community to be the voices of abused and neglected children in the courtroom, seeking to ensure them safe and permanent homes.
Green Bay, Wisconsin
WildEarth Guardians
WildEarth Guardians is a non-profit, environmental advocacy organization whose mission is to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the American West. The organization was founded in 1989 and has a long history of conservation successes protecting carnivores, ancient forests, rivers and other threatened landscapes and wildlife. We have more than 105,000 members and e-activists, the majority of whom live in the eleven Western states. The organization currently operates four major programs: Wildlife, Wild Places, Wild Rivers, and Climate and Energy. Our 25 person staff includes lawyers, policy experts, biologists, ecosystem restoration experts and fundraisers. Our 2015 budget is $3.5 million, which comes from diverse sources, including members and donors, foundations, government grants and recovered legal fees. We have offices in Santa Fe, New Mexico; Portland, Oregon; Salt Lake City Utah; Laramie, Wyoming; Missoula, Montana; San Francisco and San Deigo, California; Boulder and Denver, Colorado; and Tucson, Arizona.
Santa Fe, New MexicoNeedyMeds
Making a difference in communities through dedicated service and impact.
Legacy House
Legacy House, a public 501(C)(3), is a long-term aftercare program created to support human trafficking survivors, providing a loving and stable home environment where we work with survivors toward self-sufficiency.
Willits, California
Surf Bus Foundation
The Surf Bus Foundation's mission is to empower people to have a healing connection to the sea. We do this by engaging in ocean sports like surfing, swimming, and beach games; while exploring the wonder and beauty of the sea. Our teaching and mentoring provides understanding that encourages a lifelong commitment to share and protect our oceans for all to enjoy.
Santa Monica, California
Big Brothers Big Sisters of San Diego County
The Big Brothers Big Sisters Mission is to provide children facing adversity with strong and enduring, professionally supported one-to-one relationships that change their lives for the better. The Big Brothers Big Sisters Vision is for all children to achieve success in life.
San Diego, California
Not A Glum Lot
The mission of NOT A GLUM LOT is to provide opportunities for growth to addicts and alcoholics who are new to recovery and to teach them that joy and satisfaction are possible in sobriety.
Austin, Texas
Central Rivers Farmshed
Making a difference in communities through dedicated service and impact.
Stevens Point, Wisconsin
America SCORES Dallas
America SCORES Dallas targets DISD elementary-aged at-risk children with a unique program of organized after-school activities combining soccer, poetry and community service learning designed to help them lead healthy lives, be engaged students and have the confidence and character to make a difference in the world. Children learn lessons in sportsmanship, discipline and teamwork through soccer, as well as receive daily physical exercise. Poetry lessons help them improve language skills and creative thinking as well as gives them an outlet to write about personal issues and develop emotionally. Service-learning projects help children develop empathy, social responsibility and a sense of personal worth. They learn to use their voices to make changes in their communities. SCORES operates in urban schools with certified teachers and coaches. 97% of participants live at or below the poverty level and some are homeless; 88% are Hispanic, most are first-generation Americans.
Dallas, Texas