A memorial scholarship has been established in Halyna Hutchins’ name at the AFI Conservatory.

500 Women Scientists is a global grassroots non-profit organization committed to speak up for science and for marginalized communities in science. 500 Women Scientists work to build communities and foster real change that comes from small groups, not large crowds. Our Pods or local chapters help create those deep roots through strong, personal relationships. Pods are such a vital part of our organization and what allows us to truly be grassroots and to prioritize the needs of our local communities around the world.

Save Lives and Bring Hope to Those Affected by Suicide Established in 1987, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) is a voluntary health organization that gives those affected by suicide a nationwide community empowered by research, education and advocacy to take action against this leading cause of death.

AFSP is dedicated to saving lives and bringing hope to those affected by suicide. AFSP has local chapters in all 50 states with programs and events nationwide. AFSP celebrates 30 years of service to the suicide prevention movement.

Days For Girls International is an award-winning NGO that works to shatter stigma and
limitations associated with menstruation for improved health, education, and livelihoods. Since 2008, we have reached over 2 million women and girls in 144 countries with menstrual health solutions and education, trained 200 enterprise leaders, and mobilized over 1,000
volunteer chapters, teams, and clubs.

We are driven by the belief that when a woman has access to opportunities that can change her life for the better, she becomes powerful beyond measure. Our annual Women’s History Month/ International Women’s Day campaign, Your Hour, Her Power, calls on individuals to give the equivalent of just one hour of their pay to help a Dress for Success woman gain access to programs, services, and tools that will help her achieve economic advancement.
 

At Equality Now, they believe in creating a just world for women and girls. Since 1992, their international network of lawyers, activists and supporters have tackled the most difficult issues, challenged ingrained cultural assumptions and called out inequality wherever we see it. 

Friendship Bridge is a nonprofit social enterprise creating opportunities that empower women in Guatemala to build a better life. We use an innovative and high-impact approach to poverty alleviation by combining the tools of microfinance, education, and preventive health services. 

Girls Who Code is on a mission to close the gender gap in technology and to change the image of what a programmer looks like and does.

We’re not just preparing our girls to enter the workforce – we’re preparing them to lead it, to improve it, to completely and totally transform it.

Moved to movement by the site of a homeless woman free-bleeding, wearing blood stained rags as she crossed the street, Chelsea VonChaz and Cherryl Lucy-Warner took to action in 2015. During their journey, the mother/daughter duo learned of the limited supply and donation of period products as they are not included in the operational budget of shelters. #happyperiod was founded to close that gap.

Our mission is to produce programs with love centered on menstrual care. We are committed to reshaping the discussion surrounding menstruation while bridging access to education and safe products for underserved periods.

The National Organization for Women (NOW) is the nation’s leading advocacy group dedicated to defending women’s rights, advancing equality and combating injustice in all aspects of life. Through educating, mobilizing, and convening a vast network of grassroots members, NOW advocates for policies that promote an anti-racist and intersectional feminist agenda.

Pawsitivity is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) that was originally founded in 2012 with a specialty of working with children with autism, who often have multiple disabilities such as epilepsy, medical PTSD, or even blindness. Many of the parents we worked with in those early years were veterans who were themselves disabled. We soon became the “go to” charity that other organizations would refer clients to when their organizations could not meet the needs of veterans’ complicated lives. 

As our motto says: We work with the veterans who need it the most.

Women’s Global is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that creates economic, social, and political opportunities for women and families in the post-conflict region of northern Uganda, including literacy training, a unique microcredit lending model accompanied by business and leadership training, sexual violence education, social justice and political advocacy programming, and health initiatives that range from menstrual health education to COVID-19 support. As a vehicle for creating sustainable human development from the ground up, WGEF helps these communities transformby becoming their own advocates and creating their own solutions to move themselves toward a more stable economic and social future.