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Electric utilities have been using Enterprise for Education materials since 1979 to teach students about energy, electrical and natural gas safety and related topics.

The core of our organization's purpose is to positively promote flood risk education throughout the state of Iowa, focusing on the following five main objectives: Increase awareness of the role fl

Arts for YoungSTARS (AFYS) - creating positive change | Arts for YoungSTARS is a youth organization founded at the University of Alberta in 2013 that uses art to empower youth to take on social issues in our local and global communities. All youngsters have the potential to make a positive difference in their communities, as YoungSTARS. Too often art and youth are deemed to be powerless in creating practical impact in our communities. We challenge ourselves to prove otherwise.

Art League Houston (ALH) was founded in 1948 and incorporated as a non-profit organization in 1953. The mission of ALH is to cultivate awareness, appreciation, and accessibility of contemporary visual art within the community for its cultural enrichment. Art League Houston fulfills its mission through exhibitions, the Art League School, its annual Texas Artist of the Year program, and extensive outreach programming.

SOCIAL COMMITMENT Twifo Oil Palm Plantations Limited has a major responsibility to impact on societal development to create an innovative friendly business environment within its location. For us, it is therefore important to contribute to society's future viability and create value in diverse ways. Within the scope of our operation, our social commitment is therefore geared towards 6 thematic areas which include; • Environmental protection • Health promotion • Safety • Education • Community development • Support for the national socio-economic development Environmental Protection In our quest to protect the environment, the Company aimed at maintaining high standard of environmental care to minimize the impact of our operations on the environment and the communities by demonstrating our compliance to all applicable legislations. We aim at prevention of pollution through continues improvement in our environmental performance in all our operations by; • Ensuring the safety of our products and operations to the environment. • Exercising concern for the environment where we operate. • Reducing environmental impact of our products and operations. • Developing and implementing processes and agricultural practices that are environmentally friendly. • Minimizing our consumption of natural resources and manage our waste through responsible disposal and recycling systems. • Working with industrial bodies, EPA and other stakeholders to promote environmental care among our partners. • Providing training for our employees and contractors to be aware of our environmental policy and objectives as well as measures that will be adopted to minimize impact on the environment. • Maintaining environmental monitoring programs to ensure compliance with all applicable legislations and to address our significant environmental aspects. • Paying attention and prevent pollutions caused by waste water, fertilizer/agro chemicals and air emission. Health Promotion One of the Social Commitments of our Company is to promote healthy standard for employees and the communities at large. In ensuring this, the Company has established a clinic which is patronized by all employees and the general public from the surrounding communities. The Company's medical team periodically engages in the promotion of;  Outreach programs in the communities to sensitize the people on the outbreak of epidemics.  Educational programs on healthy leaving lifestyles in the communities.  Sensitization programs to create awareness of the current trend of HIV AIDS in our surrounding communities and encourage free voluntary testing of individuals.  Periodic medical examination for employees and the people of the communities to know their health status.  Health talks on the local FM stations to create awareness of health issues. Safety Safety being one of the values and products of TOPP, our approach to issues of safety is extremely of high standard and our concern is directed towards our employees and the communities in which we operate. It is our desire to have safe environment both at work place and home to prevent personal injury and occupational illness so as to promote good health among our employees and the general public. As such, safety talks, hazard spotting, unsafe acts, near misses and behavioral safety observations are always part of each employee's annual target. Safety talks in relation to issues both at work and home are held every week by all sections in the company. The Company in extending this knowledge to the public has sponsored safety education program on the local FM station which is run every morning from Monday to Friday on topics such as road safety, environmental management, fire management, electricity management, health etc. These programmes are run in collaboration with the Ghana Highway Authority, the Ghana Fire Service, the Ghana Police Service, the Ghana Health Service and the Electricity Company of Ghana. Education TOPP is committed to ensuring that the children of its employees and to a limited extent the communities in its immediate surroundings get the best of education to equip them for the future. To this end TOPP maintains school facilities from Nursery to Junior High School on its estate. The school facilities are open to both employees' children and children from near-by communities. In addition to the provision of school facilities, scholarships are also awarded to employees' children and some brilliant but needy children from the community who gain admission to Government Assisted Second Cycle Educational Institutions. Community Development TOPP believes in the physical development of its environment especially the immediate communities that surround the Company. In our effort to promote development, the Company supports infrastructure and developmental projects initiated by the communities such as provision of roads, boreholes, KVIPs, electricity poles and transformers, renovation of school buildings and supporting other social programs in the communities. The company also provides technical and financial support to the MMDAs and the various traditional authorities in our area of operation. Support for the National Socio-economic Development In the area of national socio-economic development, TOPP endeavors to support the local economy through the infrastructure, services and employment generated by its operation by • Complying with the prevailing statutory employment and social obligations and laws and other applicable requirements to which the industry subscribes. • Implementing and maintaining a social system conforming to RSPO principles & criteria standards, the United Nations Global Compact Principles and the industry's policies and SOPs. • Embrace a policy of open engagement and on-going consultation with local communities, and other stakeholders or credible organizations that represent them with the intention of resolving all land disputes within its concession area in an honest, peaceful and fair manner; • Identify deficiencies and gaps within the community infrastructure and skills base, and provide the necessary empowerment support through a scheme of carefully designed support and build-up programs that include the areas of education and health welfare; • Preserve indigenous cultural values through protecting of religious places of worships and restoring or leaving intact historical sites;

We serve families needing help to find child care. We help providers with training and coaching. We serve the community with data and promoting awareness.

We offer custom designed diversity training, seminars, workshops and trainings where participants learn cultural competency by increasing diversity awareness, cultural differences, developing cross-cultural communications skills, community development expertise, and an awareness of social issues and contexts. Our most famous diversity training film - the Color of Fear - has been helping to create understanding and the value of different cultural perspectives since 1993. Our materials can help to create an environment of trust, dispel confusion, and remove fear. This can minimize cultural conflicts, lawsuits and communication breakdowns.

The Learning Stone provides a living local resource to assist and provide a better cultural understanding and a great place to start for teachers in their delivery of indigenous content.

The Alameda County Community Food Bank distributes nutritious food to low income county residents. Other programs include nutrition education, hunger education, hunger advocacy, emergency food helpline.

Isla Internships is the internship, volunteer, faculty-led and service learning program of the Foundation for Community Development and Empowerment.

Founded in 1970, New York Center for Interpersonal Development (NYCID) is a not-for-profit organization on Staten Island that promotes the improvement of human

Autism Today is an autism news community, help people with autism. We know autism spectrum disorders, here to guide and cure people with our autism awareness program.

Balagokulam is a weekly program where children learn about Hindu culture and values in an enjoyable atmosphere. Activities include Yoga, games, Shlokas, Bhajans, Arts & Crafts, Stories from Ramayan, Mahabharat, Panchatantra, etc. Children celebrate festivals and take part in community service projects

Elements In Time evaluates, designs and builds community experiences that incide awareness, engagement and sustained action. We are an Experience Design and Visual Storytelling firm dedicated to creating sustainable change, locally and globally.

Our primary prevention and awareness program, Building Community, helps create safe and healthy campuses, meets federal requirements like Campus SaVe Act, Title IX.

Youth programs for US and international students, leadership classes, communication skills, conflict resolution, environment awareness. Camps for summer.

CHAP or Chinese Health, Aging, and Policy Program, Rush Institute for Healthy Aging, is dedicated to improving the quality of life of the Chinese aging population through education, research, and sustainable community-engagement in the greater Chicago area and beyond. We aim to foster and support the development of research programs across a broad spectrum of disciplines that will provide solutions to the problems associated with aging at the level of the individual, the community, and the population. Special emphasis will be placed on multidisciplinary efforts that harness the resources available in the Chinese community centers and Rush University Medical Center. The goal of this community-academic partnership is to reciprocally transfer expertise between community and academic institutions, in order to synergistically improve the health and well-being of Chinese aging population.

For over 40 years, the Sisters of Mercy have worked in partnership with residents of the Tioga-Nicetown community in North Philadelphia. This collaborative effort has resulted in quality programming: Childcare (Education & Youth Development) – a licensed child daycare program with a Head Start component for pre-school and an after school program through 8th grade children with a capacity of 140, Adult day care – a licensed program for the elderly and those with special needs with a capacity of 57, our Adult Education and Human Development program which includes adult education services, computer education, workforce development, and leadership development for women. In 1997 Mercy Neighborhood Ministries (Mercy Neighbors) was founded, incorporated in 2003, purchased an abandoned warehouse in 2005, renovated it and opened the Mercy Family Center in January 2009.  The Mercy Family Center is the first LEED green building in North Philadelphia; one of now 42 in Philadelphia certified silver level by the U.S. Green Building Council. As a green building it has a positive impact on the community environment, saving natural resources, utilizing natural lighting, and serving as a model that promotes environmental awareness in the Tioga-Nicetown neighborhood and throughout the ‘sustainable design’ community. To our children, adults and frail elderly it is a safe, nurturing home away from home providing critical social services.