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AAA Academy For Children
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2008. Location: Denville, NJ 07834
We are dedicated to Academics, Achievement, and Advancement for children. Programs are for children of all ages improving self-esteem, teaching healthy lifestyles, and building skills for life-long success. Programs are designed to be affordable or free of cost for low-income families and include childcare, tutoring, charter schools and educational enrichment with physical education (Taekwondo).
All Saints Catholic School
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2006. Location: Pottsville, PA 17901
All Saints Catholic School aspires to create a foundation for the academic, moral, and social development of our students. We incorporate Jesus teaching into all areas and promote Christian values with a special emphasis on service to our community. High expectations, attainable goals, a structured environment, and self-discipline are key ingredients for student success. We envision our students living fulfilled lives, serving others, worshiping God and growing as productive citizens.
America's Promise Alliance
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2007. Location: Alexandria, VA 22314
Founded by General Colin Powell, America s Promise Alliance is the nation s largest alliance of corporations, nonprofit organizations, foundations, policymakers, advocacy and faith groups committed to ensuring that children receive the fundamental resources, the Five Promises, they need to lead successful, healthy lives.
American Association of University Women Educational Foundation
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2003. Location: Washington, DC 20036
Give deserving women a chance to excel through programs advancing education, research, and self-development for women and girls - fostering equity and positive societal change.
Art Creation Foundation For Children
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2008. Location: Atlantis, FL 33462
Art Creation Foundation for Children is a grassroots non-profit for education + personal growth of children in Jacmel, Haiti. Arts education, food, health care, schooling and support for children ages 6+ who had not been eating regularly nor attending school. Pacifist NGO, no religious or gov't affiliation. Our goal is to help these children become self sufficient via the arts. In Haiti, an artist can earn enough to buy a cup of rice. We are working hard, on the ground, in response to the Haiti earthquake.
Augusta Levy Learning Center
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2008. Location: Wheeling, WV 26003
Located in Wheeling, West Virginia, the Augusta Levy Learning Center is the first intensive autism treatment program in the Ohio Valley. Utilizing methods pioneered and proven by Dr. O. Ivar Lovaas of UCLA and his colleagues, and under the guidance of the Lovaas Institute For Early Intervention (LIFE), the Levy Center aims to enhance the language, social, academic and independent living skills of its students.
Autism Play Lab at the University of Mary Washington
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2010. Location: Fredericksburg, VA 22401
UMW Play Lab and Autism Clinic works to provide much needed educational intervention to children with a wide variety of developmental disabilities (ID, Autism, DD, MR, SPD, ADHD, etc.). UMW students (future teachers) are trained in research-based strategies, run the play lab under faculty supervision and help train parents to work with their children with special needs.
Barakat, Inc.: Advancing Education in South Asia
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2008. Location: Cambridge, MA 02139
Barakat, Inc., is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the well-being of marginalized communities in Afghanistan, India and Pakistan by increasing access to education. Since its inception in 1999, Barakat, Inc. has developed rapidly and now serves over 2,900 women and children in its 7 schools and 26 literacy programs. The majority of people we serve are very poor and have no access to an education.
Big Brothers Big Sisters
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2004. Location: Philadelphia, PA 19107
For more than 100 years, Big Brothers Big Sisters has operated under the belief that inherent in every child is the ability to succeed and thrive in life. As the nation's largest donor and volunteer supported mentoring network, Big Brothers Big Sister's mission is to provide children facing adversity with strong and enduring, professional supported one-to-one relationships that change their for the better, forever.
Books for America
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2003. Location: Washington, DC 20037
Our mission is to promote literacy, life-long learning and understanding by distributing donated new and used books of all types and other forms of educational media to organizations in the United States serving disadvantaged communities and individuals.
Boys & Girls Clubs of America
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2005. Location: Atlanta, GA 30309
To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.
Boys Hope Girls Hope
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2003. Location: Bridgeton, MO 63044
We help academically capable and motivated children-in-need to meet their full potential and become men and women for others by providing value-centered, family-like homes, opportunities and education through college.
Building For Generations
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2009. Location: Santa Cruz, CA 95062
We support education projects worldwide with a focus on persons with special needs. We build facilities or provide resources to existing projects. Our current projects are in Tanzania, Peru and Colombia with a planned project for Santa Cruz, CA 2010.
buildOn
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2011. Location: Stamford, CT 06905
buildOn breaks the cycle of poverty, illiteracy, and low expectations through service and education. Our afterschool service programs in the U.S. mobilize urban youth to contribute intensive service to their own communities. Through buildOn, these same students build schools in developing nations, like Haiti and Malawi, where more than 60,000 children and adults are educated each day. 95% of buildOn youth in the U.S. go on to college. At home and abroad, we are inspiring the next generation of leaders.
Bullard Community Library
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2005. Location: Bullard, TX 75757
The Mission of Bullard Community Library is to be a community resource to people of all ages and capabilities. These resources include the development, promotion and administration of programs and services in the fields of education, information, technology, arts and recreation.
California Dictionary Project
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2007. Location: San Francisco, CA 94131-0939
California Dictionary Project, founded in April 2002, grew out of the need to improve literacy rates in California's public schools. We believe that by reaching children early (third grade), providing them with tools (dictionaries), personalizing the delivery (volunteers from the local community), and teaching them how to use those tools (presentations and teacher lesson plans), we grow "readers."
Catholic Education Foundation of the Southern Tier
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2008. Location: Binghamton, NY 13905
The mission of the Catholic Education Foundation is to build a better world for future generations through quality education and spiritual confidence. We will serve the Catholic Schools of the Southern Tier through alternative funding sources, servant leadership and proactive planning.
Children of Fallen Soldiers Relief Fund
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2005. Location: Sarasota, FL 34276
The Children of Fallen Soldiers Relief Fund was founded to help support surviving U.S. Military children who have lost a parent in the Afghanistan or Iraq wars by providing them with College Grants and/or Financial Assistance. Our College Grant Program has been expanded to include both U.S. Military children and spouses who have either lost a loved one as a result of the Afghanistan or Iraq wars or have a disabled parent or spouse who was injured during a deployment to either war.
ClassWish.org helps teachers and schools get the supplies they need for children to excel
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2009. Location: Florida, NY 10921
ClassWish.org provides K-12 teachers and schools the supplies they need for students to excel. When you sell items on ebay and support ClassWish, our share will go into your ClassWish account to fund supplies and equipment for your favorite teachers and schoolsâeven your own childâs school. Please contact ebay@ClassWish.org or visit http://www.ClassWish.org.
Clearpool, Inc
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2006. Location: Carmel, NY 10512
Vision The Clearpool Education Center (CEC) will be widely recognized as a highly successful year round resource serving the physical, mental, and social needs of underprivileged children in collaboration with partner organizations. Mission To successfully leverage the Clearpool Education Center s unique resources at its year-round educational facilities located in Carmel, NY as a camp for the physical, mental, and social development of children lacking opportunities.
Communities In Schools of Albany/Dougherty
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2004. Location: Albany, GA 31702-1726
To champion the connection of needed community resoces with schools to help young people successfully learn, stay in school, and prepare for life.
Communities In Schools of the Midlands, SC
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2005. Location: Columbia, SC 29204
Communities In Schools of the Midlands mobilizes community resources into schools to help vulnerable students stay in school and prepare for life.
Communities In Schools, Inc.
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2000. Location: Arlington, VA 22202
We are a nationwide network of passionate professionals working in public schools to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.
Community Christian School
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2005. Location: Richmond, IN 47374
Community Christian School exists to assist Christian parents and the local church in educating the next generation for Christ.
Computers for Youth
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2004. Location: New York, NY 10001
Computers for Youth (CFY) is dedicated to improving the home learning environment of low-income school children. We believe that the home holds the greatest untapped potential for improving children's academic and life-long success. CFY works directly with schools and our affiliates to improve the educational resources available in children's homes, improve parent-child interaction around learning at home and help teachers connect classroom learning with the home.
Curriki
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2008. Location: Washington, DC 20036
Curriki is a social entrepreneurship organization that supports the development and free distribution of open source educational materials to improve education worldwide. The online community gives teachers, students and parents universal access to peer-reviewed K-12 curricula, and powerful online collaboration tools. Curriki is building the first and only Web site to offer a complete, open course of instruction and assessment.
Deaf Children's Literacy Project
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2003. Location: Brooklyn, NY 11230
Deaf Children's Literacy Project champions effective communication, language development and literacy through the use of Cued Speech. Although developed for the Deaf, Cued Speech is proving to aid children with other pervasive communicative disorders, such as Autism and Down Syndrome.
Detroit College Promise
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2009. Location: Bingham Farms, MI 48025
The Detroit College Promise is a 501(c)(3) public charity that provides tuition scholarships to Michigan public colleges and universities for Detroit Public School students. It is improving the Detroit Public Schools by encouraging DPS parents and students to plan for a college education, and by motivating parents with college aspirations for their children to move into Detroit and the Detroit Public Schools.
DonorsChoose.org
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2005. Location: New York, NY 10018
At DonorsChoose.org, teachers submit project ideas, requesting materials their students need for learning. Individuals search the projects and choose to fund those they find most compelling.
Eagle County Charter Academy
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2007. Location: Wolcott, CO 81655
The ECCA community creates lifelong learners and productive global citizens through challenging college prep curriculum and character education. This is accomplished through: small class size, parental involvement and an emplowered staff.
Earth School Parent Association
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2006. Location: New York, NY 10009
The Earth School community nurtures the development of our students through our deep commitment to knowing each child through her unique strengths and interests. Our mission is to support children's inherent love of learning through curriculum that is playful, socially-conscious, and rigorous. The Earth School's educational program is designed to support children's academic achievement and to encourage their commitment to the peaceful resolution of conflict and the preservation of the Earth's resources.
East Mountain High School Foundation
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2008. Location: Sandia Park, NM 87047
East Mountain High School is an exceptional public charter high school that provides the students of the East Mountains and New Mexico an educational program of excellence using research-based methods of teaching and learning.
Eastern Mennonite University
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2005. Location: Harrisonburg, VA 22802
EMU educates students to live in a global context. Our Anabaptist Christian community challenges students to pursue their life calling through scholarly inquiry, artistic creation, guided practice, and life-changing cross-cultural encounter. We invite each person to experience Christ and His call to witness faithfully, serve compassionately, and walk boldly in the way of nonviolence and peace.
Educate the Children
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2003. Location: Ithaca, NY 14851
Educate the Children works with women and children in Nepal to overcome poverty, illiteracy, and discrimination through integrated community development
Educate Tomorrow
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2006. Location: Miami, FL 33132
Educate Tomorrow (Miami, FL), is a non profit organization whose primary mission is to provide one-on-one educational mentors to foster care children that are turning 18 and "aging out" of the system.
Educational Dynamix, Inc.
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2007. Location: Smyrna, GA 30080-6989
Our mission is to help all children to learn in innovative ways by providing products, services and experiences to educators and children that encourage, support and improve intellectual, emotional, and academic development and promote learning for all students. Our purpose is to empower parents, educators and school systems with specific knowledge, skills and strategies to close the gap between the haves and have-nots and enhance educational systems to allow every child an opportunity for a bright future.
Farther Foundation
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2008. Location: Oak Park, IL 60302
Farther Foundation enables students from economically disadvantaged circumstances participate in educational travel programs that allow them to explore interests, expand horizons, gain inspiration and elevate aspirations for leadership and success.
Federation of Galaxy Explorers
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2004. Location: Silver Spring, MD 20902-1632
The Federation of Galaxy Explorers educates and inspires youth in space related science and engineering. The vision of the Galaxy Explorers organization is to expand the frontiers of science and technology to explore and develop space. The mission is to educate, guide, and prepare the next generation to accept the challenge of expanding humankind s presence in space.
FEED MY LAMBS (FML)
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2008. Location: Marietta, GA 30060
Feed My Lambs, Inc. is a non-profit grass-roots organization founded in 1990 whose mission it is to provide tuition-free schools for children living in impoverished, high-risk communities both domestically and internationally. Feed My Lambs schools educate the children and their families about a better way of life. We operate schools of excellence and are funded solely by donations from individuals, businesses, and churches.
First Book
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2004. Location: Washington, DC 20004
First Book provides new books to children in need, addressing one of the most important factors affecting literacy -- access to books. An innovative leader in social enterprise, First Book has distributed more than 90 million free and low-cost books in thousands of communities.
Friends of the Columbia County Library
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2007. Location: Evans, GA 30809
The purpose of this association is to provide support for the Columbia County Library System. This support is given through encouraging volunteer services, stimulating gifts of books, magazines, endowments, desirable collections, and bequests to the Columbia County libraries.
FRIENDS OF THE HAYWARD LIBRARY
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2005. Location: hayward, CA 94541
THE PURPOSE OF THIS ORGANIZATION IS TO STIMULATE CONTINUING COMMUNITY INTEREST IN THE HAYWARD PUBLIC LIBRARY AND TO BE SUPPORTIVE OF THE LIBRARY STAFF AND ACTIVITIES. THIS IS ACCOMPLISHED THROUGH MEMBERSHIP,ENCOURAGEMENT OF GIFTS TO THE LIBRARY, AND FUNDRAISING.
Friends of the Lexington Public Library
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2005. Location: Lexington, KY 40507
The mission statement specifies the fundamental reasons for the Friends of the Lexington Public Library s existence, establishes the scope of activities, and provides overall direction. In appreciation of the role the Library plays in the quality of life in this area, The Friends of the Lexington Public Library provide nonessential financial and volunteer services to the library, and functions consistently with the goals and objectives of the Lexington Public Library and its Board of Trustees.
Full Circle Learning Academy
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2008. Location: Los Angeles, CA 90016
The Full-Circle Learning Academy, (near Jefferson and La Brea in L.A.) helps students integrate and expand their character strengths, academic excellence, conflict resolution skills and artistic capacities in service to humanity.
Futures and Options Inc.
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2007. Location: New York, NY 10271
Futures and Options empowers New York City's underserved youth to explore careers and guides them to further their education and become productive citizens of the community.
Gifted Learning Project - bring better resources to schools, libraries, parents, and public.
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2005. Location: Kansas City, MO 64148-1551
The Gifted Learning Project's (GLP) Mission. Education of the general public about dyslexia and learning disabilities. The Gifted Learning Project is a grass-roots non-profit (501(c)3) organization started and operated by people who have learning disabilities and/or who have immediate family members with learning disabilities.
Girls Incorporated
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2005. Location: New York, NY 10005
Girls Incorporated is a nonprofit organization that inspires all girls to be strong, smart, and bold^SM . With local roots dating to 1864 and national status since 1945, Girls Inc. has responded to the changing needs of girls through research-based programs and public education efforts that empower girls to understand, value, and assert their rights. In 2007, Girls Inc. reached over 900,000 girls through direct service, the website, and Girls Inc. products and publications.
H.E.R.O.E.S., Inc.
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2007. Location: Jacksonville Beach, FL 32240
H.E.R.O.E.S. has effectively served thousands of at-risk and underprivileged students over the past 10 years. Because of your financial support, H.E.R.O.E.S. can fulfill its purpose of funding the necessary scholarships to keep at-risk K-12 youth in approved and accredited private schools where effective and captivating learning environments are provided, increasing their odds of high school graduation.
Heads Up
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2004. Location: Washington, DC 20001
To provide children from low-income neighborhoods with the academic skills and learning opportunities for success, and to provide college students with the opportunity to understand and help meet those needs to promote their development as social change leaders.
Heckhaven Wildlife Rehabilitation Center
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2004. Location: Lake Charles, LA 70605
To return to the wild, their natural environment, any and all wild born creatures that find themselves in the hands of man
Higher Heights Youth Empowerment Program, Inc
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2008. Location: New Haven, CT 06502
Higher Heights YEP, Inc., is a 501(c)(3) community based organization that seeks to change the lives of under-represented college bound students and empower, equip, and encourage them to obtain a post-secondary education.
Hillcrest Christian Academy
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2010. Location: Bethel Park, PA 15243
The mission of Hillcrest Christian Academy is to provide a quality, Christ-centered academic education to children of the South Hills of Pittsburgh. Our educational process strives to instill in every child a desire to follow Jesus Christ as we equip them for future educational and vocational pursuits.
Hope Dolls Planes & Trains
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2005. Location: Portland, OR 97206
Hope Dolls encourages youth development with a community of volunteers interacting with incarcerated juveniles and at-risk youths, utilizing the refurbishing of dolls and toys as a medium.
ImpactKidz International
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2006. Location: Colorado Springs, CO 80921
ImpactKidz International provides world orphans with the housing, education, medical care, and clothing they need to ensure that they fulfill their God-given potential. Ultimately, our goal is to see them become thriving, positive national leaders in their nations.
Isabela Oceanographic Institute, Inc.
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2007. Location: key largo, FL 33037
CONSERVATION THROUGH EDUCATION: We provide an academic platform to help sustainable development and conservation for the Galapagos community through research and participatory, educational approaches.
Junior Achievement of Kentuckiana, Inc.
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2008. Location: Louisville, KY 40203
Junior Achievement's mission is to inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy. We are preparing the workforce of the future; JA of Kentuckiana is the region's leading provider of life-changing economics programs for students. JA has made the commitment to serve every student in the region four times in their school career to prepare them to succeed in a global economy. Locally, JA serves over 39,000 students in Kentucky and Southern Indiana.
Kane Schools Foundation for Students
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2007. Location: Kanab, UT 84741
The mission of the Kane Schools Foundation for Students is to seek private and public funds needed to enhance the educational opportunities available to the students of the Kane County School District.
Kettering Education Foundation
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2006. Location: Kettering, OH 45429
The Kettering Education Foundation was established to create opportunites for interested citizens, organizations and businesses to enhance the educational opportunities in the Kettering school system. Contributions are sought from supporters of education and used to fund a grants program supporting curriculum-based programs and innovative teaching.
Laguna Hills High School Music Boosters
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2010. Location: Laguna Hills, CA 92653
The Laguna Hills High School Music Boosters shall foster, promote and advance the cause of the color guard and the instumental music programs provided at Laguna Hills High School and to guard the interests of all the participants.
Learning Centers for Rural Women in Herat - a GlobalGiving Project
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2006. Location: Washington, DC 20005
Empowering rural Afghan women and girls in Sar Asia and Jaghartun, Herat through education and training opportunities as well as health and reproductive health services. GlobalGiving and GivingWorks have teamed up to allow profits from your sale to reach this high-impact, high-quality project through GlobalGiving - your global connection to social, economic, and environmental projects. Learn more at www.globalgiving.com/354.
Lee Memorial Health System Foundation
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2005. Location: Fort Myers, FL 33908
To expand and enhance the role of philanthropy and the Foundation in accomplishing the mission of Lee Memorial Health System. For more information visit us on the web at www.LeeMemorial.org/Foundation or call 239-985-3550.
Mason County Literacy
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2007. Location: Shelton, WA 98584
To provide the skills and services necessary for learners to achieve meaningful participation in a literate society and to encourage the self-confidence and imagination to use those tools for the benefit of self, family and the communities served by Mason County Literacy.
Men United for HIV/AIDS Awareness
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2009. Location: Raleigh, NC 27610
MUFHAâs mission is to provide needed services to men, their families and friends infected or affected by HIV/AIDS; to provide scholarships to men in pursuit of Public Health and Health Education training, and support to groups affected by this pandemic.
Mentoring Today
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2006. Location: Washington, DC 20020
Mentoring Today serves youth who are returning from detention and reintegrating into the DC community. We provide them with dedicated mentoring and advocacy services as they strive to establish safe and fulfilling lives. The aim of Mentoring Today is to empower DC's at-risk youth to recognize their dreams and live their aspirations.
Military Child Education Coalition
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2010. Location: Harker Heights, TX 76548
The Military Child Education Coalition is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit , worldwide organization that identifies the challenges facing the highly mobile military child; increases awareness of these challenges in military and educational communities; and initiates and implements programs to overcome them. MCEC's goal is to level the educational playing field for military children wherever they are located around the world, and to model programs that are beneficial to all highly mobile children.
Momentemps Ltd Inc
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2005. Location: Lithonia, GA 30038
Our mission is to provide a community based Corporation, we contribute to adults in high learning. We offer computer training and job search to lower income families.
MusiCares Foundation
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2005. Location: Santa Monica, CA 90404
MusiCares provides a safety net of critical assistance for music people in times of need. MusiCares' services and resources cover a wide range of financial, medical and personal emergencies, and each case is treated with integrity and confidentiality. MusiCares also focuses the resources and attention of the music industry on human service issues that directly impact the health and welfare of the music community.
National Institute for the Advancement of Children
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2007. Location: Battle Creek, MI 49015
To provide children with a hands-on learning environment, so that they may experience first-hand what they read.
Nepal What More Can We Do
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2008. Location: Phila, PA 19136
Our Mission is Education & Basic Human needs for Destitute, Blind & Orphaned Children of Nepal. We provide aid to St Devi's school Orphanages in Nepal which connect to India,Ghana, Malawi & Belarus for School Books,Uniforms,Shoes,Food, Basic Needs, Sports items. Your Monthly Sponsorships give these Children the Basic tools to Survive the Harshness of Poverty & the Stigma of Abandonment. Our Low Vision Program gives Eye Exams,a eyeGlasses & Braille items to children in Remote Villages of Eastern Nepal.
New Community for Children
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2009. Location: Washington, DC 20001
New Community for Children (NCFC) provides children and youth with learning experiences that build up their academic, social, and creative skills. We believe that excellent educational opportunities are the key to helping families break out of the poverty cycle. We offer creative hands-on learning in our after school program, and advocate for healthy families and challenging schools to support that goal.
New Era Educational and Charitable Support Foundation, a Project of United Charitable Programs (UCP)
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2009. Location: Falls Church, VA 22044, VA 22044
New Era Educational and Charitable Support Initiative envisions a prosperous world at peace and harmony, and educated and skillful enough and committed to resolving human differences and social conflicts through non-violent ethical means.
Nova Southeastern University's Mailman Segal Institute for Early Childhood Education
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2007. Location: Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33314
The mission of Nova Southeastern University s Mailman Segal Institute for Early Childhood Studies is to foster the healthy development of all children and families and become the premiere institution of higher education in autism, early childhood, and family support.
One Laptop Per Child (OLPC Foundation)
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2007. Location: Miami, FL 33131
The OLPC Foundation's mission is to stimulate local initiatives designed to enhance and sustain over time the effectiveness of the OLPC laptops as learning tools for children living in lesser-developed countries. The Foundation will accomplish this by supporting the subsidization of laptops and infrastructure and the development of local content, software, and hardware.
Orange County High School of the Arts
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2005. Location: Santa Ana, CA 92701-3602
The mission of the Orange County High School of the Arts is to provide a creative, challenging, and nurturing environment that offers bright and talented students unparalleled preparation for higher education and a profession in the arts.
Parents Of Autistic Children of Northern Virginia (POAC-NOVA), Inc.
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2009. Location: Fairfax, VA 22030-2422
Parents Of Autistic Children of Northern Virginia, or POAC-NoVA, is a non-profit organization working to better the lives of those with Autism & their families as well as improving education for children with Autism. We promote research-based methodologies for instructing students on the Autism spectrum through lectures, seminars & hands-on training sessions. These events use acknowledged experts to instruct parents, teachers, therapists and professional staff in the principles of ABA/VB.
Phi Beta Kappa Society
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2007. Location: Washington, DC 20009-2512
The Phi Beta Kappa Society?where love of learning is the guide of life?is the nation's oldest academic honor society and leading advocate of excellence in the liberal arts and sciences est. in 1776. The Society has embraced the principles of freedom of inquiry and liberty of thought and expression. These ideals still lay the foundations of personal freedom, scientific inquiry, liberty of conscience and creative endeavor in the human experience.
PHILLIPS Programs for Children & Families
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2003. Location: Annandale, VA 22003
Provides education, therapeutic foster care, family support services, and child management training for children and youth with disabilities and their families.
Playing At Learning
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2009. Location: Fremont, CA 94539
Keeping young people interested in math and science is a key to providing economic life choices. We focus on affordable and sustainable activities related to science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills.
Project Learning Tree
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2009. Location: Washington, DC 20036
Project Learning Tree, the American Forest Foundationâs national environmental education program, develops and implements programs to increase understanding of the role forests and the environment play in our lives, while building the skills and commitment needed to conserve and sustain them. We provide environmental education training and curriculum materials to 30,000 PreK-12 educators every year through 1,500 professional development workshops held around the country.
Project Tomorrow
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2004. Location: Irvine, CA 92618
Project Tomorrow is a national, education nonprofit organization. Our vision is to insure that today s students are well prepared to be tomorrow s innovators, leaders and engaged citizens of the world. We believe that by supporting the innovative uses of science, math and technology resources in our K-12 schools and communities, students will develop the critical thinking, problem solving and creativity skills needed to compete and thrive in the 21st century.
Radcliffe Creek School
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2006. Location: Chestertown, MD 21620
Radcliffe Creek School is an independent day school for children of average to above average intelligence with a diagnosed learning disability or other learning concern. The school provides a challenging academic program for children who benefit from alternative learning instruction in an environment where each child can learn to use his or her strengths to balance his or her weaknesses, and acquire the necessary skills to become a competent, resourceful and independent learner.
Rain for the Sahel and Sahara
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2010. Location: NEWMARKET, NH 03857
RAIN's mission is to work with nomadic peoples of West Africa to improve their lives through education, water security, agriculture, and income-producing activities. These locally rooted programs promote literacy and empowerment while sustaining nomadic traditions throughout the Sahel and Sahara.
Read A Story
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2010. Location: El Sobrante, CA 94803
Read A Story's mission is to promote literacy by visiting preschools, kindergarten and 1st grade classes. After reading a book to the children, the children get a copy of the book to share with their families. At community events, Read A Story gives books to families of young children and encourage them to read to their children. Beginning in 2010, a Read A Story volunteer reads a story to the children and caretakers at the Bay Area Rescue Mission.
Rising Star Music Fund
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2009. Location: Beverly Hills, CA 90212-6718
The Rising Star Music Fund is dedicated to supporting music education, encouraging the study and making of music, and providing opportunities for students to access well-balanced, comprehensive, and high-quality programs of music instruction.
Role Models of America
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2006. Location: La Porte, TX 77571
A mentoring program for families, youth, and children providing food, clothing, school supplies, training classes, support groups celebrated by President Bush Sr. as the 389th Point of Light!
Save the Children
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2004. Location: Westport, CT 06880
Save the Children is the leading independent organization for children in need, with programs in 120 countries, including the United States. We aim to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives by improving their health, education and economic opportunities.
Shiloh Christian School
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2006. Location: Mountain Home, ID 83647
Shiloh Christian School's goal is to expand the kingdom of God through a godly Christian education and discipleship program; therefore enabling students to serve God with integrity, wisdom, knowledge and faith, today and always. Our educational methods encourage young people to grow as Jesus did,
South Kids International
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2008. Location: Miami Beach, FL 33141
Our mission is to improve the quality of life for abandoned, abused and children in need in South America. Our focus is to support the work of existing organizations such as Orphanages and communities that helps the local needs and demands of their kids. The SKI will fulfill its mission by gathering clothes, donating school materials and fundraising to pay for basic utility bills and help them to pay for food.
SPMA Booster Club, Inc.
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2009. Location: Hilton Head Island, SC 29928
"Boosting the SPMA (Sea Pines Montessori Academy)Community" The SPMA Booster Club's mission is to coordinate parent volunteers, sponsor fundraising events in order to provide funds to improve the education of students, sponsor social events to promote a sense of community, as well as support an interactive relationship among parents, staff and the Board of Trustees.
St. Ambrose University Childrens Campus
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2005. Location: Davenport, IA 52804
St. Ambrose University Children?s Campus serves as a learning site for St. Ambrose University students stressing excellence in teaching and learning in an environment which fosters mutual trust. Pre-professional exposure allows students the opportunity to transition theoretical concepts into practical application. In addition, we provide a comprehensive early childhood program for ages birth thtough six, with or without disabilities, while also providing educational experiences and resources for families.
ThanksUSA
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2007. Location: McLean, VA 22101
ThanksUSA is a non-partisan, charitable effort to mobilize Americans of all ages to "thank" the men and women of the United States armed forces by providing college, technical and vocational school scholarships for their children and spouses.
The Child School/Legacy High School
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2007. Location: Roosevelt Island, NY 10044
The Child School, established in 1973, is a unique academic/therapeutic community where children with learning disabilities can achieve their maximum intellectual and emotional potential. In a highly structured, family-like atmosphere we encourage 3 principles: Learning, Compassion, and Respect. We provide children and their families hope; a vision of a bright future.
The City University of New York School of Law Foundation Inc.
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2007. Location: Flushing, NY 11367
The CUNY School of Law Foundation is a 501(c) 3 tax-exempt organization which supports scholarships and programs to benefit CUNY School of Law, a premier public interest law school. Programs of the CUNY Law Foundation help foster the school's motto,
The Crefeld School
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2008. Location: Philadelphia, PA 19118
Crefeld, a school of new beginnings, is a progressive, co-educational, independent school for students in grades 7-12. A safe haven for bright, sensitive students who are often marginalized in other school settings, Crefeld provides a challenging, individualized educational program and environment in which these students can thrive.
The GRAMMY Foundation®
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2005. Location: Santa Monica, CA 90404
The GRAMMY Foundation® was founded in 1989 to cultivate the awareness, appreciation and advancement of the contribution of recorded music on American culture from the artistic and technical legends of the past to the still unimagined musical breakthroughs of the future generations of music professionals.
The Kazanjian Foundation / Jewels For Charity
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2006. Location: Beverly Hills, CA 90210
The Kazanjian Foundation continues in the spirit of its founders to help provide education and opportunity to underprivileged youth through the sale of donated jewelry. Jewels For Charity, a program under the Kazanjian Foundation, serves to facilitate other worthwhile charities by strengthening their fund raising capabilities, also through the donation and sales of jewelry. We hope to turn latent assets of jewelry into actively donated and traded assets; hidden treasures into treasures of life.
The LifeSavers Foundation - Upscale Resale Store
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2005. Location: Richardson, TX 75080
The LifeSavers Foundation is a faith based, non profit organization which exists to empower and assist those in crisis. The Foundation supports organizations that provide education, counseling, goods, and services for those in a crisis situation.
The Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2005. Location: Studio City, CA 91604
The Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation supports music education and its many benefits through the donation of new and refurbished musical instruments to underserved school and community music programs and individual students nationwide. We occasionally receive a donated instrument that cannot be adequately refurbished and given to a school. We offer these instruments here and use the funds to purchase new instruments.
The Victory Center for Children with Autism and Related Disabilities
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2008. Location: North Miami Beach, FL 33180
The mission of The Victory School, Inc. a Florida non-sectarian, not-for-profit Corporation, is to provide children with autism and similar disorders comprehensive individualized treatment with a 1:1 student/teacher ratio, in a classroom setting that is unique in Southeast Florida. The Victory School provides intensive therapy based upon the principles of Applied Behavior Analysis.
TODAYS CHILDREN FOR TOMORROW
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2005. Location: Newport Beach, CA 92662
TODAYS CHILDREN FOR TOMORROW IS A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION DEDICATED TO IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS EVERYWHERE.
University of Wisconsin-Superior Foundation, Inc.
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2006. Location: Superior, WI 54880
Our mission is to vigorously promote and contribute to the continuing success of UW-Superior. It is a task that the Foundation first undertook in 1949 by soliciting funds for and awarding scholarships to students. It is a mission that has been taken to the heart of the dedicated alumni and friends who have served on its board and donated to its purpose.
Working In Support of Education (W!SE)
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2005. Location: New York, NY 10022
w!se is a leading educational not for profit dedicated to promoting business ans social entrepreneurship and financial literacy in high schools. We help more than 50,000 young people each year. For information about us and our programs please go to www.wise-ny.org. For information about our award winning Financial Literacy Certification Program, please go to www.moneypower.org
Writers in the Schools
Certified for eBay Giving Works since 2003. Location: Houston, TX 77006
Writers in the Schools (WITS) engages children in the pleasure and power of reading and writing.
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