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The Kakenya Center for Excellence seeks to empower and motivate young girls through education to become agents of change and to break the cycle of destructive cultural practices in Maasai Kenya such as female genital cutting and early forced marriage. We believe in impacting one girl at a time, one community at a time, until all girls in Africa have the opportunities they need to thrive as individuals. These future women leaders will improve their communities, their nation, and the world.

One of Mahindra Foundation, USA's objectives is to seek global support for the education of under-privileged girl children in India. It proposes to support the education of these girls through Project Nanhi Kali which is currently managed by the K. C. Mahindra Education Trust in Mumbai, India

"At Cowan, we celebrate several years of ongoing improvement to our academic programs, which has led to the growing success of our students. Recently, we have been awarded the District title of Excelling Magnet, earned LAUSD's prestigious STEM Certification, and remain the only Spanish World Language Immersion program in our District."

Founded in 1908, the Katherine Delmar Burke School (Burke's) is an independent, non-sectarian elementary school. Burke's prepares able, motivated girls for academic challenge, life in community and lifelong love of learning. Burke's celebrates childhood as the best preparation for adulthood, enabling girls to take risks and become confident in who they are. Burke's embraces individual and cultural differences, teaching that each girl can make a difference in her world. The mission of the Katherine Delmar Burke School is to educate, encourage and empower girls. Our emphasis on academic achievement has clear and measurable outcomes. Nearly 90% of recent Burke's graduates earned admission into their first choice high schools.

Aumazo's mission is to empower girls in Cameroon by making high school education and vocational training a viable option for girls in rural areas. Related goals include helping graduates obtain gainful employment or higher education,and addressing water and sanitation issues in their communities. In many Africa countries, school fees, early marriage, unwanted pregnancy, socio-cultural prejudice and mandatory chores are all barriers to the educational development of young women. At Aumazo, we recognize that it is often women and girls who drive transformational economies in the developing world. If provided with educational opportunities to attend high school girls will enjoy more successful lives as young adults.

Buffalo Seminary (SEM) educates college-bound young women from diverse backgrounds in a vigorous and participatory environment that emphasizes development of character, intellectual independence, service and leadership. SEM strives to awaken each student to the opportunities available to women. One of the oldest girls' schools in the U.S., SEM has designed a culture of achievement, scholarship, creativity and leadership tailored for girls since 1851. We do not require uniforms and are not bound by religion. Our independent day and boarding school allows girls to challenge themselves, express themselves, and to succeed in college and prepare for adulthood. As a day and boarding school, girls attend SEM from all over the world.

Baoabab Senegal Education Initiative Inc. supports the educational aspirations of girls and women from rural Senegal

The Kiran Anjali Project's mission is to advance educational opportunities for underprivileged children, especially girls, in India.

More Than Me (MTM) uses education as a catalyst for transformative social change for every girl in Liberia.

Founded in 2000, Marian Middle School is a Catholic school serving adolescent girls of all religious, racial, and ethnic backgrounds. We are committed to breaking the cycle of poverty by fostering girls' spiritual, academic, social, moral, emotional, and physical development in preparation for and for successful completion of college preparatory high schools.

Empower, through learning, the next generation of change agents to positively impact the future of Africa. Studies have shown that girls’ education is one of the most cost-effective strategies for promoting development & economic growth. Our mother-daughter intervention model helps keep girls in school & promote improved health outcomes.

Operation of a Jewish preschool, elementary and middle school for girls. 400 students enrolled during the most recent school year.