Happy Backpack Foundation

The Rockefeller Foundation is a knowledge-based global foundation committed to enriching and sustaining the lives and livelihoods of poor and excluded people throughout the world. The foundation provides grants to help eradicate poverty and hunger, minimize the burden of disease, improve employment opportunities, increase the availability and quality of housing and schools and stimulate creativity and cultural expression. The foundation organizes its grant-making efforts into areas of work and specific programs. There are two areas of work: thematic and shared. Thematic work includes food security, health equity, creativity and culture and working communities. Shared areas of work include global inclusion and the foundation s regional work in Southeast Asia, North America and Eastern and Southern Africa. The foundation has headquarters in New York and regional offices in California, Thailand and Kenya, as well as a conference and study center in Italy.

Mission Chess-in-the-Schools is a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to improving academic performance and building self-esteem among inner-city public school children.