America’s Second Harvest distributes donated food and grocery products to grassroots nonprofits; advocates for anti-hunger policy. America’s Second Harvest annually distributes over 2 billion pounds of emergency food to more than 25 million Americans.

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities researches and analyzes state and federal budgets and fiscal policies; advocates on behalf of the poor. CBPP has aided massive policy gains for low-income families in areas ranging from the EITC to food stamps.

City Year builds democracy through citizen service, leadership, and social entrepreneurship; advocates for national service policy. Last year, City Year youth completed more than 1.4 million hours of service in mentoring, tutoring, and educating children in school.

Environmental Defense addresses environmental problems with research, advocacy, market tools, and corporate partnerships. Environmental Defense has helped eliminate acid rain and created new models for addressing climate change.

The Exploratorium operates a museum of science, art, and human perception that serves as a model for interactive museums around the world; it has catalyzed a worldwide hands-on science education movement

Habitat for Humanity seeks to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness by building homes, raising awareness, and advocating for change. Habitat homes have housed over a million poor people.

The Heritage Foundation formulates and promotes conservative policy through research and via affiliate organizations. The Heritage Foundation is
considered to be America's most influential think tank; it helped produce a conservative majority in Congress.

National Council of La Raza works to improve opportunities for all Latinos through national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization. NCLR has restored safety net benefits to millions of immigrants and has shaped legislation to protect them.

Self-Help fosters economic development in low-income communities through lending, asset building, research, and advocacy. Self-Help has saved families more than $4 billion annually by fighting anti-predatory lending, and has provided over $4.5 billion in financing to help borrowers build wealth through ownership of a home or business

Share Our Strength inspires and leads individuals and businesses to end childhood hunger. Share Our Strength has raised over $200 million to fight hunger.

Teach for America is a national corps of college graduates who commit two years to teach in urban and rural public schools and bring long-term leadership to the broader education reform movement. Teach for America brings 5,000 corps members into public schools annually, impacting the lives of 400,000 students across the country.

YouthBuild helps low-income youth learn job and leadership skills by building affordable community housing-it has produced over 15,000 units of low-income housing.