This document contains 95 mission statements from various non-profit organizations covering a wide range of causes including environmental conservation, human rights, healthcare, education, poverty alleviation, and animal welfare. The missions focus on goals such as ending hunger, curing diseases, protecting wildlife, providing assistance dogs, and advocating for civil liberties. They demonstrate the diverse ways that non-profits work to create positive change in local communities and globally.

1. 100 MISSION STATEMENTS
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2. 1. Heifer's mission is to work with
communities to end hunger and poverty and
care for the earth.

3. 2. charity: water is a non-profit
organization bringing clean and safe drinking
water to people in developing nations.

4. 3. Surfrider Foundation: Dedicated to
the protection and enjoyment of the worlds
oceans, waves and beaches.

5. 4. Maasai Wilderness Conservation
Trust: Helping preserve the Maasai way of
life and the wilderness they live in.

6. 5. Rock n Roll Camp for Girls: To
encourage, engage, and showcase the
musical, artistic and individual talents of girls
and young women ages 8 - 18.

7. 6. The Open Society Foundations
work to build vibrant and tolerant
democracies whose governments are
accountable to their citizens.

8. 7. Common Ground: Our mission is to
end homelessness.

9. 8. Goods for Good: Through the
innovative use of surplus, G4G promotes
the development of orphans and
vulnerable children.

10. 9. Stoked’s mission is to empower youth
from under-served communities to achieve
a more successful future by providing
programs based in action sports culture
that result in personal development,
academic achievement, positive
relationships, and a healthy lifestyle.

11. 10. Zen Peacemakers provide
training, resources and practice in Socially
Engaged Buddhism.

12. 11. Kiva: To connect people through
lending to alleviate poverty.

13. 12. American Heart Association:
Building healthier lives, free of
cardiovascular diseases and stroke.

14. 13. Humane Society: To create a
humane and sustainable world for all
animals, including people, through
education, advocacy, and the promotion of
respect and compassion.

15. 14. Goodwill Industries
International enhances the dignity and
quality of life of individuals, families and
communities by eliminating barriers to
opportunity and helping people in need
reach their fullest potential through the
power of work.

16. 15. Unicef: Doing whatever it takes to
save a child.

17. 16. St. Jude's Children's Research
Hospital: The mission of St. Jude
Children’s Research Hospital is to advance
cures, and means of prevention, for
pediatric catastrophic diseases through
research and treatment.

18. 17. World Savvy prepares the next
generation of leaders to learn, work and
live as responsible global citizens in the
21st century.

19. 18. WWF's mission is the conservation
of nature.

20. 19. American Lung Association: To
save lives by improving lung health and
preventing lung disease.

21. 20. Youth Service America improves
communities by increasing the number and
the diversity of young people, ages 5-25,
serving in substantive roles.

22. 21. Hirschberg Foundation: To find a
cure for pancreatic cancer.

23. 22. Coffee House Press: The mission
of Coffee House Press is to publish
exciting, vital, and enduring authors of our
time; to delight and inspire readers; to
contribute to the cultural life of our
community; and to enrich our literary
heritage.

24. 23. Canine Companions for
Independence provides highly-trained
assistance dogs for children and adults
with disabilities, free of charge.

25. 24. Alvin Ailey Dance Theater: To
bring African-American cultural expression
and the American modern dance tradition
to the world.

26. 25. Asia Society is the leading global
and pan-Asian organization working to
strengthen relationships and promote
understanding among the people, leaders,
and institutions of the United States and
Asia.

27. 26. Arts For Art, Inc. is a not-for-
profit, multi-cultural organization whose
purpose is to build awareness and
understanding of avantjazz and related
expressive movements while encouraging
a sense of community amongst artists and
their audiences.

28. 27. The Drawing Center is the only
fine arts institution in the U.S. to focus
solely on the exhibition of drawings, both
historical and contemporary.

29. 28. The Kitchen is a non-profit,
interdisciplinary organization that provides
innovative artists working in the media,
literary, and performing arts with
exhibition and performance opportunities
to create and present new work.

30. 29. Eyebeam is an art and technology
center that provides a fertile context and
state-of-the-art tools for digital research
and experimentation.

31. 30. ISSUE Project Room embraces
the integrity of creative exploration and
the spirit of unfettered artistic expression
by offering a vital meeting place for
disparate forms of creativity..

32. 31. The Seeing Eye: To enhance the
independence, dignity, and self-confidence
of blind people through the use of Seeing
Eye dogs.

33. 32. amfAR is dedicated to ending the
global AIDS epidemic through innovative
research.

34. 33. The NAACP Legal Defense
and Educational Fund, Inc. is
America's premier legal organization
fighting for racial justice.

35. 34. For more than 15 years, the Center
for Reproductive Rights has used
the law to advance reproductive freedom
as a fundamental human right that all
governments are legally obligated to
protect, respect, and fulfill.

36. 35. International Planned
Parenthood Foundation aims to
improve the quality of life of individuals by
campaigning for sexual and reproductive
health and rights through advocacy and
services, especially for poor and vulnerable
people.

37. 36. Animal Welfare Institute: Since
its founding in 1951, AWI has sought to
alleviate the suffering inflicted on animals
by people.

38. 37. Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund:
Founded by Dian Fossey in 1978, we are
dedicated to the conservation and
protection of gorillas and their habitats in
Africa.

39. 38. Farm Santuary works to protect
farm animals from cruelty, inspire change in
the way society views and treats farm
animals, and promote compassionate
vegan living.

40. 39. The Wildlife Conservation
Society, founded in 1895, has the clear
mission to save wildlife and wild places
across the globe.

41. 40. The Marine Mammal Center:
Our mission is to expand knowledge
about marine mammals—their health and
that of their ocean environment—and to
inspire their global conservation.

42. 41. The Breast Cancer Research
Foundation: Our mission is to achieve
prevention and a cure for breast cancer in
our lifetime by providing critical funding for
innovative clinical and translational
research at leading medical centers
worldwide, and increasing public
awareness about good breast health.

43. 42. The mission of The Leukemia &
Lymphoma Society (LLS) is: Cure
leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease
and myeloma, and improve the quality of
life of patients and their families.

44. 43. The ACLU is our nation's guardian of
liberty, working daily in courts, legislatures
and communities to defend and preserve
the individual rights and liberties that the
Constitution and laws of the United States
guarantee everyone in this country.

45. 44. The Center for
Constitutional Rights is dedicated to
advancing and protecting the rights
guaranteed by the United States
Constitution and the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights.

46. 45. The Reeve Foundation is
dedicated to curing spinal cord injury by
funding innovative research, and improving
the quality of life for people living with
paralysis through grants, information and
advocacy.

47. 46. The African Wildlife
Foundation, together with the people
of Africa, works to ensure the wildlife and
wild lands of Africa will endure forever.

48. 47. The Chesapeake Bay
Foundation's (CBF) mission is to Save
the Bay, and keep it saved, as defined by
reaching a 70 on CBF's Health Index.

49. 48. EARTHWORKS is a nonprofit
organization dedicated to protecting
communities and the environment from
the impacts of irresponsible mineral and
energy development while seeking
sustainable solutions.

50. 49. Friends of the Earth is fighting to
defend the environment and create a
more healthy and just world.

51. 50. The mission of The Nature
Conservancy is to preserve the plants,
animals and natural communities that
represent the diversity of life on Earth by
protecting the lands and waters they need
to survive.

52. 51. Rainforest Action Network
campaigns for the forests, their inhabitants
and the natural systems that sustain life by
transforming the global marketplace
through education, grassroots organizing,
and non-violent direct action.

53. 52. Rocky Mountain Elk
Foundation: The Elk Foundation’s
mission is to ensure the future of elk, other
wildlife and their habitat.

54. 53. Sierra Club Foundation: To help
educate, inspire and empower humanity to
preserve the natural and human
environment.

55. 54. The Wilderness Society's
mission is to protect wilderness and
inspire Americans to care for our wild
places.

56. 55. The Union of Concerned
Scientists is the leading science-based
nonprofit working for a healthy
environment and a safer world.

57. 56. Alzheimer’s Foundation of
America: To provide optimal care and
services to individuals confronting
dementia, and to their caregivers and
families—through member organizations
dedicated to improving quality of life.

58. 57. Crohn's & Colitis Foundation
of America: To cure Crohn's disease
and ulcerative colitis, and to improve the
quality of life of children and adults
affected by these diseases.

59. 58. Coalition for the Homeless is
the nation's oldest advocacy and direct
service organization helping homeless
men, women, and children.

60. 59. Center for Victims of Torture:
CVT’s mission is to heal the wounds of
torture on individuals, their families and
their communities and to stop torture
worldwide.

61. 60. Committee to Project
Journalists: To promote press freedom
worldwide by defending the rights of
journalists to report the news without fear
of reprisal.

62. 61. Human Rights Watch is
dedicated to protecting the human rights
of people around the world.

63. 62. Doctors Without Borders/
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
is an international medical humanitarian
organization created by doctors and
journalists in France in 1971.

64. 63. Mercy Corps exists to alleviate
suffering, poverty and oppression by
helping people build secure, productive
and just communities.

65. 64. The American Foundation for
Suicide Prevention is the leading
national not-for-profit organization
exclusively dedicated to understanding and
preventing suicide through research,
education and advocacy, and to reaching
out to people with mental disorders and
those impacted by suicide.

66. 65. William J. Clinton
Foundation: To alleviate poverty,
improve global health, strengthen
economies, and protect the environment,
by fostering partnerships among
governments, businesses, nongovernmental
organizations, and private citizens —
leveraging their expertise, resources, and
passions — to turn good intentions into
measurable results.

67. 66. Witness for Peace: To support
peace, justice and sustainable economies in
the Americas by changing U.S. policies and
corporate practices which contribute to
poverty and oppression in Latin America
and the Caribbean.

68. 67. Big Brothers Big Sisters: To
provide children facing adversity with
strong and enduring, professionally
supported one-to-one relationships that
change their lives for the better, forever.

69. 68. United Way: To improve lives by
mobilizing the caring power of
communities around the world to advance
the common good.

70. 69. Feed The Children is a Christian,
international, nonprofit relief organization
with headquarters in Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma, that delivers food, medicine,
clothing and other necessities to
individuals, children and families who lack
these essentials due to famine, war,
poverty, or natural disaster.

71. 70. At Good360, our mission is to fulfill
the needs of nonprofits with corporate
product donations.

72. 71. AmeriCares is a nonprofit disaster
relief and humanitarian aid organization
which provides immediate response to
emergency medical needs – and supports
long-term humanitarian assistance
programs – for all people around the
world, irrespective of race, creed or
political persuasion.

73. 72. The American Red Cross, a
humanitarian organization led by
volunteers and guided by its Congressional
Charter and the Fundamental Principles of
the International Red Cross and Red
Crescent Movement, will provide relief to
victims of disaster and help people
prevent, prepare for, and respond to
emergencies.

74. 73. The mission of Catholic Charities
is to provide service to people in need, to
advocate for justice in social structures,
and to call the entire church and other
people of good will to do the same.

75. 74. Feeding America: Our mission is
to feed America's hungry through a
nationwide network of member food
banks and engage our country in the fight
to end hunger.

76. 75. Mayo Clinic: To inspire hope and
contribute to health and well-being by
providing the best care to every patient
through integrated clinical practice,
education and research.

77. 76. The Arc promotes and protects the
human rights of people with intellectual
and developmental disabilities and actively
supports their full inclusion and
participation in the community throughout
their lifetimes.

78. 77. Geraldine R. Dodge
Foundation: To support and encourage
those educational, cultural, social and
environmental values that contribute to
making our society more humane and our
world more livable.

79. 78. Architecture for Humanity is a
nonprofit design services firm founded in
1999. We are building a more sustainable
future through the power of professional
design.

80. 79. Merce Cunningham Dance
Foundation: Cunningham Dance
Foundation exists to support, sustain, and
further the wide ranging creative activities
of Merce Cunningham (choreographer,
teacher, and artist) and of the Merce
Cunningham Studio.

81. 80. Puppies Behind Bars trains
inmates to raise service dogs for the
disabled and explosive detection canines
for law enforcement.

82. 81. ZERO TO THREE is a national,
nonprofit organization that informs, trains,
and supports professionals, policymakers,
and parents in their efforts to improve the
lives of infants and toddlers.

83. 82. Ecotrust's mission is to inspire fresh
thinking that creates economic
opportunity, social equity and
environmental well-being.

84. 83. The Great Swamp Watershed
Association is dedicated to protecting
and improving water resources in the
region by monitoring local streams,
advocating for intelligent land use, and
educating our communities about water
quality and quantity and their effect on the
health and natural beauty of the local
environment.

85. 84. Homeless Emergency Project:
Our mission has been to provide
homeless and very low-in come individuals
and families with housing, food, clothing
and support services necessary to obtain
self-sufficiency and improved quality of life.

86. 85. Freedom from Hunger brings
innovative and sustainable self-help
solutions to the fight against chronic
hunger and poverty. Together with local
partners, we equip families with resources
they need to build futures of health, hope
and dignity.

87. 86. FIRST: Our mission is to inspire
young people to be science and
technology leaders, by engaging them in
exciting mentor-based programs that build
science, engineering and technology skills,
that inspire innovation, and that foster
well-rounded life capabilities including self-
confidence, communication, and
leadership.

88. 87. The Injured Marine Semper Fi
Fund is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit set up to
provide immediate financial support for
injured and critically ill members of the
U.S. Armed Forces and their families.

89. 88. MAP International is a global
Christian health organization that partners
with people living in conditions of poverty
to save lives and develop healthier families
and communities.

90. 89. Direct Relief International
provides medical assistance to improve the
quality of life for people affected by
poverty, disaster, and civil unrest at home
and throughout the world.

91. 90. Acterra: To bring people together to
create local solutions for a healthy planet.

92. 91. AIDS Vaccine Initiative: Our
mission is to ensure the development of
preventive AIDS vaccines that are not only
safe and effective, but also accessible to all
people.

93. 92. Institute for Justice: Through
strategic litigation, training, communication,
activism and research, the Institute for
Justice advances a rule of law under which
individuals can control their destinies as
free and responsible members of society.

94. 93. The mission of Dana-Farber
Cancer Institute is to provide expert,
compassionate care to children and adults
with cancer while advancing the
understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure,
and prevention of cancer and related
diseases.

95. 94. Center on Budget and Policy
Priorities: The Center conducts
research and analysis to help shape public
debates over proposed budget and tax
policies and to help ensure that
policymakers consider the needs of low-
income families and individuals in these
debates.

96. 95. Lange Foundation is a non-profit
organization dedicated to saving homeless
and abandoned pets, and preparing them
for a journey to a new, safe, loving world.

97. 96. Freedom From Religion
Foundation: To promote the
constitutional principle of separation of
state and church, and to educate the
public on matters relating to nontheism.

98. 97. The Himalayan Cataract
Project works to eradicate preventable
and curable blindness through high quality
ophthalmic care, education and the
establishment of a world-class eye care
infrastructure.

99. 98. Smithsonian Institute: The
increase and diffusion of knowledge

100. 99. Books for Africa: The mission of
Books For Africa is to end the book
famine in Africa.

101. 100. The New World Foundation:
Supporting community activists in the
struggle for social justice.