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north america projects

North America Projects

North America Regional Coordinator

Maya BALAKRISHNAN 

“The projects supported by the Fund in North America have made a positive impact in the lives of children, promoting healthy development with improved academic and interpersonal skills. Children report feeling included, cared for, and more prepared to become confident and successful individuals. These projects will help reduce intergenerational poverty, increase literacy rates, provide support and adequate resources to parents and caregivers, and build safe and sound communities.”

Maya BALAKRISHNAN
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Youthlinc

Youthlinc is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to develop programs designed to promote solidarity actions by and for young people. 

Lolie Eccles Early Education Center

Since 1966, YWCA Utah has been offering preschool education to families in the Salt Lake area. 

Transplanting Traditions Community Farm Picture

Transplanting Traditions Community Farm

The mission of Transplanting Traditions Community Farm is to provide refugee and immigrant adults, youth, and children in North Carolina with access to land, healthy food, education, and agricultural entrepreneurial opportunities.

Rise Up School of Dance

Rise Up School of Dance

Rise Up School of Dance (RUSD) is expanding its Creative Movement program for children ages 3–5, offering affordable, research-based dance classes that foster fine and gross motor skills, social and emotional development, and creative expression.

The Walking Classroom

The Walking Classroom

The Walking Classroom (TWC) is an innovative educational program that enhances students’ mental, physical, and academic health.
Designed for students in grades 3–8, the program is simple yet highly effective: students take a brisk walk while listening to standards-aligned educational podcasts. 

ReadyKids

ReadyKids

ReadyKids offers counseling services, family support, and early learning opportunities to promote children's development and well-being.

Rise Up School of Dance

Guadalupe Center 

Based in Salt Lake City, Guadalupe Center serve children from birth through sixth grade. Through personalized education with a focus on literacy, we set the stage for them to have academic success throughout their lives

Catholic Community Services

Catholic Community Services 

Catholic Community Services provides equal access to services to individuals without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, families with children, political ideology, age, creed, religion, ancestry, national origin, veteran or military status, or the presence of a physical, sensory, or medical disability.

Utah Stem

Utah STEM Foundation

The Utah STEM Action Center’s (STEM AC) vision is to bring STEM to every Utah home, school and community to build a brighter future. The project supported by the Fund is called : The Young Markers and Future Innovators. It uses a maker-based approach to engage children ages 3-8 and their families from communities intergenerational poverty in rich STEM learning experiences.

St. Louis Crisis Nursery

St. Louis Crisis Nursery 

For 36 years, the St. Louis Crisis Nursery (SLCN) has been dedicated to protecting vulnerable children and supporting families before abuse occurs.
The Healing Hearts program provides socio-emotional support through Art and Play Therapy for children facing early adversity such as homelessness, domestic violence, extreme poverty, parental substance abuse, and mental health challenges.

Book Harvest

Book Harvest

Book Babies is a research-backed program designed to prepare children from low-income families (ages 0–5) for kindergarten success by fostering early literacy skills. Through home visits, families receive literacy coaching and 20 new books each year, helping them build a 100-book home library by the time their child starts school.

ReadyKids

Science is Elementary 

The NPO provides inspiring, innovative, high-quality science experiences to the preschool and elementary school children who need them most. The project called “Science is for me” aims to make science accessible to children aged 5-7 in San Jose, focusing on historically marginalized communities.