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Global Village Project is an innovative special purpose school for refugee girls and young women with interrupted schooling. Our mission is to develop a strong educational foundation for each student within a caring community using a strengths-based approach and intensive instruction in English language and literacy, academic subjects, and the arts.

Calvert School is an independent lower and middle school for girls and boys located in Baltimore, Maryland. Children are prepared for secondary school and for a lifetime of learning by mastering the academic basics. Through its financial aid and recruitment efforts, Calvert strives to offer an educational opportunity to students of all socio-economic backgrounds.

Founded in 1913 by Miss Ela Hockaday, the Hockaday School is an independent college preparatory day and boarding school for girls. The School prepares girls of strong potential, pre-kindergarten through 12th grade to assume positions of responsibility and leadership in a rapidly changing world by giving them a foundation for living grounded on the traditional four cornerstones: character, courtesy, scholarship, and athletics. Hockaday offers a challenging college preparatory curriculum with Advanced Placement courses, honors courses, interdisciplinary program, and co-curricular classes with St. Mark's School of Texas, a boys' school in Dallas. The faculty consists of 118 full-time teachers and 13 part-time teachers, of whom 68 have a Master's degree, and nine hold Doctoral degrees.

Young Women’s Leadership Network (YWLN) supports two life-changing programs that empower youth to break the cycle of poverty through education: The Young Women’s Leadership Schools (TYWLS), a high performing network of all-girls public secondary schools, and CollegeBound Initiative (CBI), a comprehensive college guidance program for young women and men.

Foxcroft's mission is to help every girl explore her unique voice and to develop the skills, confidence, and courage to share it with the world. We live out our mission by providing our students with unique learning experiences in and out of the classroom; an uncommonly beautiful setting in which to learn, grow, and thrive; a residential community of understanding hearts; and a lifetime of friendships and global connections.

The Baldwin School, an independent college preparatory school, develops talented girls into confident young women with vision, global understanding and the competency to make significant and enduring contributions to the world. The School nurtures our students’ passion for intellectual rigor in academics, creativity in the arts and competition in athletics, forming women capable of leading their generation while living balanced lives.

Our Sisters’ School is an independent, tuition‑free, non‑sectarian middle school that educates and supports economically disadvantaged girls from the New Bedford area. The school aims to build academic skills, social‑emotional literacy, and leadership through a safe, rigorous, community‑connected program so students are prepared for success in high school, college, and beyond.

VirginiaFIRST is the Virginia-based affiliate of US FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), a non-profit international educational mentoring organization. VirginiaFIRST promotes FIRST's mission to: * inspire young people to be science and technology leaders by engaging them in exciting team-based, mentor-based programs that build skills in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM); * promote the spirit of creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship; * foster well-rounded life capabilities; * help today's youth acquire the knowledge and skills needed to compete in the technologically-driven global economy; * encourage students (ages 6-18) to pursue studies in the sciences, engineering and technology at the college, graduate and post-graduate levels leading to careers in related technical fields. It is a goal of VirginiaFIRST to make FIRST's programs available to all Virginia youth.

RAZIA'S RAY OF HOPE FOUNDATION IS A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION DEDICATED TO IMPROVING THE LIVES OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN AFGHANISTAN THROUGH COMMUNITY-BASED EDUCATION FOCUSED ON THE AFGHAN VILLAGE OF DEH'SUBZ, THE ORGANIZATION WAS FOUNDED ON THE BELIEF THAT EDUCATION IS KEY TO POSITIVE, PEACEFUL CHANGE FOR CURRENT AND FUTURE GENERATIONS THE FOUNDATION STRIVES TO PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES TO LEARN AND GROWIN A SAFE, NURTURING ENVIRONMENT, EMPOWERING GIRLS AND WOMEN THROUGH EDUCATION AND RESOURCES.

FFLV USA is a US charity dedicated to raising awareness, funds and coordinating support for Food For Life Vrindavan (FFLV). FFLV is dedicated to serving the poorest of the poor residents of Vrindavan and the Raj region of Uttar Pradesh, India. - particularly girls and women - by providing comprehensive, essential human services which empower them to pursue fulfilling lives and become exemplary members of society and by protecting the natural environment in which they live.

The Abraham Joshua Heschel School is an independent Jewish day school named in memory of one of the great Jewish leaders, teachers, and activists of the 20th century and dedicated to the values that characterized Rabbi Heschel’s life:  intellectual exploration, integrity, love of the Jewish people and tradition, and a commitment to social justice. The Heschel School is a pluralistic, egalitarian community that includes families from a wide range of Jewish backgrounds, practices and beliefs.  Boys and girls, men and women participate equally in all aspects of the school’s religious, intellectual, and communal life.

Saint Martin de Porres Academy is a faith-based, NativityMiguel middle school that provides a tuition-free, extended-day education for underserved girls and boys from low-income families in the New Haven area. We are an independent Catholic school committed to a belief in the dignity and worth of every person. We strive to provide each child with a promising start in life and to equip them to fulfill their academic potential while achieving spiritual and social maturity. We welcome children of all faiths, races, and cultures.