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Landmark Education
www.landmarkeducation.com
This company is committed to bringing about positive change in the quality of peoples lives through alternative education. It provides people with communication tools that bring about enabling personal and professional transformation. In independent research, the graduates of this education report major results in improving the quality of relationships, personal confidence and overall productivity. 

WebMD
www.webmd.com
This company provides easy to navigate consumer health trouble and advice. The site contains over 20,000 pages of valuable health content and includes descriptions of diseases and treatments for literally thousands of serious health conditions. It also provides access to a variety of health providers and specialists across the country.

Mediate.com
www.mediate.com
This company provides innovative ways of helping people through the litigation process by educating them in the benefits of alternative dispute resolution. The process of mediation is described in a variety of ways and the site provides helpful resources that allow people in legal trouble to resolve their conflicts and build healthier more trouble free lives.

Sylvan Learning Centers
www.sylvanlearning.com
This company helps children learn how to read and write by using the innovative teaching methods. The site provides a rich resource for tutoring by subject and grade and provides breakthrough educational methods that enable children with learning challenges to develop new skills while building self confidence to enroll and succeed in mainstream higher education.

Resource Institute
www.nextbillion.net
This company believes that profound development in education has a direct and proportionate effect in reducing poverty and improving the overall health and welfare of growing communities. This company, through focused education, has developed innovative ways to work with local government in serving both the profit goals of the private sector while contributing to the social good. The site is both informative and inspiring.

A Fighting Chance
www.aspirepublicschools.org
This company operates small public charter schools in poor neighborhoods with curriculums that reinforce the possibility of college for all students. In 2004, every Aspire school exceeded California testing targets – a 100% achievement rate compared with the state school averages.

Bell (Building Educated Leaders for Life)
www.bellnational.org

This company provides after-school tutoring for underperforming low-income elementary students. The sessions, led by public school teachers, professional mentors, and BELL’s own staff focuses on basic reading, writing and arithmetic. BELL has educated more than 7,500 children at 44 schools. Of these students, 81% improved literacy scores to “proficient.”

Civic Ventures
www.civicventures.org

Engages older adults in social action through work and service. It’s Experience Corps includes 2,000 people over the age if 55 who volunteer as tutors and mentors in public schools. It recognizes social entrepreneurs and innovators over 60. To date this organization has served over 20,000 students in 19 American cities.

Pioneer Human Services
www.pioneerhumanservices.org

Offer ex-offenders, addicts and the homeless employment and training services, counseling and safe housing. It’s 10 enterprises – including a factory that makes cargo liners for Boeing – employ people on the margins of society. Pioneer’s recidivism rate is only 6%, compared with the national average of 30%. Since 1963, it has assisted 120,000 individuals.

Raising a Reader
www.raisingareader.org

Encourages reading among children in poor families. Early-childhood-development specialists work with kids in classrooms and at home visits, providing bright-red bags filled with four books a week. Once children leave the program, they are given their own library cards and introduced to the public library system. These children tested twice as high as the national Head Start norm and parents report spending 471% more time reading with their kids.

Other Award Winning Sites
www.civicventures.org
www.pioneerhumanservices.org
www.yearup.org
www.seedfoundation.org