The Foundation's mission is to inspire a love of learning STEM by providing unique
opportunities to explore and create.

Northern Virginia Science Center Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that operates the Children's Science Center Lab at Fair Oaks Mall and STEM programs traveling to schools and other community venues. These experiences develop children's critical thinking skills and inspire curiosity for science and the world around them. 

As the region's primary resource for informal STEM learning, the Foundation is proud to have delivered mission-based programs to 480,000 children, families, and visitors since 2010. This includes unique and engaging educational experiences at both public and private schools across seven jurisdictions: Arlington, Alexandria, Fairfax, Prince William, Loudoun, Falls Church, and Manassas. To ensure equity of access to STEM, the Foundation offers subsidized programs to Title I elementary schools and a diverse group of social service partners. 

The Foundation is also developing the Northern Virginia Science Center in Dulles, VA, a world-class, interactive regional science center for families, students and learners of all ages made possible through a pivotal public-private partnership. With substantial support from partners across the region, the Science Center is expected to serve over 300,000 curious minds each year. 

Northern Virginia Science Center Foundation dba Children's Science Center

Children's Cancer Cause is the Voice of Children with Cancer

Our mission: A long, healthy life for every child with cancer.

Children’s Cancer Cause is dedicated to monitoring, advocating and disseminating information about vital national issues facing children with cancer and their families. We are supported by corporate and foundation grants as well as caring friends and families. Our efforts focus on the day when childhood cancer will no longer be the leading disease killer of our children.

Childhood cancer remains the leading cause of death by disease for our nation’s children, and the health and well-being of childhood cancer survivors remains too fragile. Children’s Cancer Cause will continue to press for progress for national policies that can give our children access to the most effective therapies and can normalize their lives as they grow.

Founded in 1999, Children’s Cancer Cause was established to take a leadership role in advocacy and training on national issues affecting childhood cancer. We act as a catalyst to stimulate pediatric drug discovery and development and to help ensure care for our nation’s 500,000 survivors of childhood and adolescent cancer. 

We work closely with leaders in the National Cancer Institute, the Food and Drug Administration, Congress and the pharmaceutical industry to make a difference in the pace and efficiency of getting new treatments to children. We fill a strategic national gap, by advancing policy and system improvements with a sense of urgency from families and survivors that childhood cancer must be eradicated.

Programs and services provided by Children’s Cancer Cause include:

•	Webinars: www.childrenscancercause.org/webinars 
•	Advocacy Toolkit to help new advocates get started: www.childrenscancercause.org/toolkit 
•	Kids Action Network (KAN) of empowered grassroots advocates: www.childrenscancercause.org/kan 
•	Surveys and focus groups to help inform our policy work and amplify the voice of kids with cancer on issues such as drug development and the pandemic’s impact:  www.childrenscancercause.org/blog/aya-financial-strain  
•	Legislative Action Center to contact Members of Congress on issues affecting kids with cancer: www.childrenscancercause.org/actioncenter
•	College Scholars Program offering scholarships to childhood cancer survivors: www.childrenscancercause.org/scholars

Children's Cancer Cause

World’s top think tank for science and tech policy. Expert analysis on innovation, IT, telecom, trade, energy, etc.

As technological innovation transforms economies and societies, policymakers often lack the specialized knowledge to objectively analyze and respond to fast-moving issues and circumstances—particularly when the innovation disrupts incumbents or sparks fears and there is organized pressure limit progress or change. What should policymakers do to capitalize on new opportunities, overcome challenges, and avoid potential pitfalls? The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) exists to provide answers and point the way forward.

Founded in 2006, ITIF is an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit, nonpartisan research and educational institute—a think tank. Its mission is to formulate, evaluate, and promote policy solutions that accelerate innovation and boost productivity to spur growth, opportunity, and progress. ITIF’s goal is to provide policymakers around the world with high-quality information, analysis, and actionable recommendations they can trust. To that end, ITIF adheres to a high standard of research integrity with an internal code of ethics grounded in analytical rigor, original thinking, policy pragmatism, and independence from external direction.

Information Technology and Innovation Foundation

Our purpose is to create and publicly share knowledge about human activity at sea to enable fair and sustainable use of our ocean.

Global Fishing Watch seeks to advance ocean governance through increased transparency of human activity at sea.By creating and publicly sharing map visualizations, data and analysis tools, we enable scientific research and drive a transformation in how we manage our ocean.

We generate new knowledge by using cutting-edge technology to turn big data into actionable information. We share that information publicly, and for free, to accelerate science and drive fairer, smarter policies and practices that reward good behavior and protect biodiversity, fisheries and livelihoods. By 2030, we aim to monitor and visualize the impact of ocean-going vessels, both industrial and small-scale, that are responsible for the vast majority of the global seafood catch.

Global Fishing Watch

Helping future generations have equitable access through cross-cultural and technological education.

Helping future generations have equitable access through cross-cultural and technological education through Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (S.T.E.A.M.) activities.

CROSS-CULTURAL EXPERIENCES HAVE THE POWER TO CREATE A DYNAMIC, ENTERPRISING MINDSET.

The world’s most limited resource is not oil, iron, or coal, but the potential of the human mind – Expanding Boundaries International aims to be a solution in helping shape the minds of future leaders.

Expanding Boundaries International

AER is a professional membership nonprofit dedicated to those who provide services to persons with vision loss. 

With a rich history, the Association was formed in 1984 as the result of a consolidation between the American Association of Workers for the Blind and the Association for Education of the Visually Handicapped. 

We promote and support the professions by advocating for evidence-based practices, high-quality standards, value-added resources, and giving voice to issues of critical importance.

AER is committed to serving our members, affiliated chapters, and divisions through effective strategic planning conducted at all levels within the organization. AER’s Strategic Plan guides the association into the future and is periodically updated to ensure we are meeting the members’ and association’s needs.

The Mission of AER:
The mission of AER is to be the unifying voice of specialized education and rehabilitation professionals, yielding the highest quality services to people who are blind or have low vision. 

The AER Vision Statement: 
Professionals serving people who are blind or who have low vision are one community and speak together, powerfully, with one voice around issues of critical importance to the profession and its ability to provide consistently high-quality services across the lifespan. 

Our work is guided by five Core Values:

Welcoming: The richness of our diversity of viewpoint, personal backgrounds, lived experience and cultivated expertise governs our inclusiveness and guides our principled decision-making. We celebrate differences but reject divisiveness.

Accessible:  We hold ourselves and others accountable for the effective removal of all barriers.  We avow equal participation in the mission and work of our Association. We are intolerant of exclusion, elitism, and lack of transparency.

Engaged: We listen to each other and actively respond to the issues that matter to us and those we serve. We strive to protect and advance specialized services to people who are living with blindness or low vision.

Effective: In everything we do, internally and externally, we seek the best available evidence, we adhere to recognized standards and promising practices, and we evaluate the results achieved.

Collegial: Bound by common cause, we are each other’s most valiant champions and most conscientious critics. We provide each other the sturdy shoulders on which we lean for support and on which we stand to reach for new heights of professional excellence and personal growth. 

We are AER!

Association For Education & Rehabilitation of the Blind & Visually Impaired (AER)

Black Sisters in STEM (Black SiS) helps Black Gen Z women breaking into STEM careers share, learn, and get hired.

Vision: Reinventing the path for Black women in early career stages pursuing STEM-based careers.

Black women constitute only 2 percent of STEM jobs. A statistic that has been stagnant since 2018. Black Women represent the largest unserved market and largest disruptive force in business. Black women struggle at every stage of the STEM pipeline. It’s not due to lack of desire, or capacity, it’s to lack of support.

Black Sisters in STEM (Black SiS) is on a mission to unleash the global brilliance of Gen Z Black Women by reinventing their journey towards STEM based careers. We are building and upskilling the largest talent marketplace of Black Gen Z women to systematically address the racial wealth gap and create generational socio-economic growth. In short, we help Black Gen Z women breaking into STEM careers share, learn, and get hired.

We have built an empire of ~8k Black women from 33 countries and 200+ schools. Growing membership at 75% YoY. Most importantly, earning our fellows $4M+ in compensation packages. From Lagos, Nigeria to Atlanta, GA we are building a career community the world has never seen.


Black Sisters in STEM (Black SiS)

Strengthening democracy for all voters by promoting the responsible use of technology in elections.

Verified Voting’s mission is to strengthen democracy for all voters by promoting the responsible use of technology in elections. We are a non-partisan organization focused exclusively on the critical role technology plays in election administration. Our staff, Board, and Board of Advisors consist of nationally-recognized subject matter experts on the issue of election integrity and the responsible use of technology. Since our founding in 2004 by computer scientists, we have acted on the belief that the integrity and strength of our democracy rely on citizens’ trust that each vote is counted as cast. In the ever-shifting world of election security, where new threats or challenges can emerge at any time, we are working to guide elections toward greater accuracy, security, and verifiability.

Verified Voting

Cyber Bytes Foundation sustains a unique cyber ecosystem to produce education, innovation and outreach programs.