ATC is a non profit organiszation helping the elderly at the elderly homes by providing medicine food clothes and equipments.

ACT ( ACTIVE ADVOCACY of COMMUNITIES for TOMORROW) is a registered NGO (762/15) whose objective is to promote, support and help sustain initiatives having a positive impact on communities.

We shed light where there is darkness through the art of change.

AIESEC is a global youth-run organization. We strive to achieve peace and fulfillment of humankinds' potential. We place our confidence in the youth and we believe that leadership is the fundamental solution. Leadership qualities can be acquired through experiencing cross cultural experiences and challenging environments. Our partnership with the United Nations is to work together for the Sustainable Development Goals. We provide volunteering opportunities abroad for 6 weeks to work on one of the SDGs and leave a social imapct

The Albert Nassar Foundation’ was founded in Bkennaya - Jal El Dib, in November 2007. Its mission is to make a difference and improve the quality of life. The Foundation’s goals are social, cultural, medical and educational. It was founded by Mr. Albert Nassar and is run by his daughter Mrs. Sana Nassar. It is funded by Mr. Nassar’s immediate family. The Foundation is open to all and access is free. Up until March 2011, approximately 19 000 persons had participated in one or more of the services provided by the Foundation. The Foundation has enabled many to find new jobs or reorient their careers; it has changed lives for the better.Four educational sessions are arranged per year targeting people of all ages (6 to 90 years old); there are no conditions for admission. Seventeen sessions have been completed so far. Each session contains: Standard Courses (Computer courses – English language – Accounting…), Workshops (Hairdressing – Make up and cosmetics – Flower arrangement – Cooking…) and Activities (Theater – Music and Guitar – Hip hop and Break Dance…). The Foundation also welcomes a wide variety of charity groups who require space for social functions and meetings, or network and knowhow in organizing awareness campaigns and courses. More than 70 events were organized between 2008 and 2011 with public and private schools, NGOs, parishes and welfare associations among others. The physically disabled are also welcome since the Foundation is designed to fully accommodate their needs. The following associations have been welcomed at our facilities: AFEL (children), “Mission de vie” (seniors), “Sainte Famille – Zalka” (students), “Foi et Lumiere” (physically disabled adults and children), “Notre Dame de la Tendresse” (mentally disabled adults and children), INJAZ (NGO)… We have also established a recreational area to welcome children and young adults in a safe, clean, and supervised environment. The area is fully operational since 2009 and includes a youth club (with baby foot - billiard – darts – computer games…), a gym and an internet café. The Foundation is at present working on providing free or subsidized medical assistance to those unable to afford medical advice and treatment. We organize informative conferences, nutrition events, and medical campaigns. The Foundation gives free medical consultations. It enables patients to undergo tests like osteoporosis, ECG, blood tests and others with minimal or no payment. A library is now fully functional offering a wide variety of books, magazines and other references (like digital media).The “Albert Nassar Foundation is growing at tremendous speed to be able to cope with new and changing needs while maintaining high standards of delivery. We thank you for taking an interest in our Foundation. Tel: 00961 4 712242 / 3Fax: 00961 4 712273e-mail: fondation@anassar.org

Founded in 1992 by Yvonne Chami, to offer a life of dignity for adults with heavy disabilities and a life of joy despite all difficulties.

Antami is a social initiative to involve the community into solving the pressing social needs of families and children. Since its launch in 2012, the organization has designed many activities and events tackling the intellectual, humanitarian and developmental aspects of the Lebanese society. Efforts have been particularly directed at providing financial assistance to students in need.

The Anti-Racism Movement is a grassroots organization working to decrease racial discrimination and abuse by advocating for changes in the systems that perpetuate exploitative practices primarily through sensitization, awareness raising, advocacy, and community building for more just social and institutional frameworks in Lebanon. The Migrant Community Center provides the space, tools, resources, and capacities for migrant domestic workers to self-organize and lead awareness and rights-based campaigns to decrease discrimination and exploitation, and guarantee protection, human rights, and access to justice for all.

We are a Lebanese based non-profit NGO, which supports Lebanon most underprivileged and marginalized communities, regardless of religion, political affiliation or nationality. Since its inception in 1985, arcenciel mission in Lebanon has been to promote diversity, integration and development through 5 core programs: Agriculture & Environment, Mobility & Health, Responsible Tourism, Youth Empowerment, and Social Support.

Architects for Change is a youth-led organization, founded in 2014 and based in Beirut. We aim to contribute to a more inclusive & sustainable world by unleashing the potential of young creatives to address challenges in their communities. Our mission is to inspire and empower young creatives to become catalysts of change through design and socio-cultural practices by providing a platform for extra-curricular education, community engagement, and collaboration.

Association Filhos De Bimba-Lebanon, is a local NGO on a mission to catalyze social change through Capoeira for residents within marginalized communities.

The Association for the Protection of Jabal Moussa (APJM), a lebanese non-governmental, not-for-profit Organization, was founded in 2007 by prominent professionals from the region and a few well known public figures who were all driven by the same cause: protecting the rich biodiversity of Jabal Moussa and its cultural heritage from increasing external threats.

Basmeh & Zeitooneh (B&Z) is a grassroots organization started in 2012 when a group of volunteers in Lebanon, driven by the plight of Syrian refugees, began a small relief operation. Within a year the volunteers had set up their organization as a Lebanese NGO and received their first grant to start three different programs in their community center in Shatila a preexisting Palestinian refugee camp that was hosting Syrian refugees. From these beginnings, B&Z grew at a compound annual growth rate in excess of 50% and became one of the premier local Syrian relief and development organizations. In 2015 a branch was setup in Turkey and in 2017 and 2018 the organization registered fund-raising subsidiaries in the US and UK. In 2019 work was launched in Erbil, Iraq.

BETA is a Lebanese registered non-governmental organization (Charity #205/AD) established to improve the lives of animals in Lebanon. We provide rehabilitation and a safe haven while striving to find the loving, permanent homes these animals deserve. Through education and direct action, we work to prevent animal overpopulation and cruelty, and encourage a society that treats animals with compassion. Our mission is to strive towards ensuring that one day all animals in Lebanon will get the chance to live safely and securely. It�s our goal to educate individuals and take direct action to help animals in Lebanon live the life they deserve, for we all belong to this planet and it is home to all of us. BETA is one of the most active animal shelters in Lebanon and also the first to initiate and start rescuing dogs, cats and other species of wildlife in its founding country. Rescues often take place in life threatening situations for the animals and are most often at times dangerous or difficult to accomplish, yet BETA strives to make every mechanism of their rescues a success. We exist solely on the kindness of your donations, adoptions and assistance.

Blue Mission is an independent Lebanese organization based in Saida that promotes and protects the rights of vulnerable populations. The purpose of Blue Mission is to create a culture of peace and empower every level of society so that Lebanon can confront and resolve humanitarian challenges and crises. We are currently looking for volunteers to help us build our Early Education program for children who are currently out of school in Lebanon from the ages of 3-6. Blue Mission Organization uses a holistic approach, combining programs that target not only refugees, internally-displaced people (IDP) and vulnerable segments of the Lebanese community, but also the community as a whole, including the volunteers, activators, and mobilizers working with vulnerable populations. We support the empowerment of individuals to become actors of change that work for the sustainable culture of peace.

Based in Ouzai, we work with marginalized communities to eradicate the exploitation of children, youths and women, and equip them with the means for a brighter future. Our chief project is to inspire kids by providing essential informal education to children who do not have access to schools. Our work focuses on the development, strengthening and coordination of child protection and social welfare systems that meet the needs of children in adversity.

CARE is a Lebanese NGO which started in 2010 as a group of volunteers working with children and young adults with special needs. Our vision is: The right for each child and adult with special needs to access education and employment with a mission tohelp teenagers and young adults achieve their utmost potential to become responsible, contributing and independent citizens regardless of their individual abilities through social and professional integration.

CodeBrave was founded in January 2018 starting with a pilot project teaching computer coding and robotics to eight teenagers at a shelter for homeless youth in the Beirut suburbs. We now have 20 students taking up to four classes a week. When young people leave state-run shelters at adulthood, the risk of them ending up back on the street or in exploitative work is high. CodeBrave aims to match this wasted human potential with the global tech skills gap. We train vulnerable youth for jobs of the future, based on the most in-demand skills. Coding and digital skills also open up an online job market to get around the work restrictions on refugees in Lebanon.

Creative Space Beirut is a free school in fashion design providing quality creative design education to talented individuals who lack the resources to pursue a degree at increasingly costly institutions of higher learning.

Diaries of the Ocean was founded by marine scientist Jina Talj with the aim of spreading awareness about ocean life.​ Although the organization focuses on awareness and conservation campaigns, it is also a proactive agent of change. Diaries of the Ocean looks to achieve change in three main ways: Through the provision of independent and respected research, Through providing a non-political and informal platform for dialogue, information-sharing and cooperation on pressing marine environment concerns, By promoting knowledge, understanding and awareness-raising at regional, national and grass-roots levels to empower individuals and groups to better engage with the international system to drive change. MISSION: TRAINING PEOPLE TO BECOME GUARDIANS OF THE OCEAN AND CONSERVE OUR BLUE PLANET. VISION: A WORLD WHERE THE OCEAN IS NOT A MYSTERY.

Disco Soup Lebanon is a community of volunteers who value every aspect of food and don't want to lose any single bite of it! As 1/3 of the food is wasted every year in Lebanon while 1/3 of the Lebanese population faces food insecurity ...WE thrive to reduce Food Waste and hungerness in Lebanon by organising FUN and FREE EVENTS easily accessible to all. Before each event we collect leftover food from supermarkets and Khodarji. During the event we clean chop, and cook them in order to serve them for free to people. During the preparations, and for a long while after, music will be pumping and everyone will be dancing! It is a fun, gastronomic and musical event that brings together young people, students, children, seniors, cooks and all the supporters of this battle against food waste. It is also a transformation tool that brings together diverse knowledge for education and awareness. VOLUNTEER in our events against Food Waste and Sa7tein !! Disco Soup Lebanon is a joint initiative against food waste, powered by makesense, FoodBlessed, Recycle Lebanon and Too Good to Waste

Mission: to build communities that promote blood donation in Lebanon. Vision: to reach a blood transfusion system in Lebanon that gets all its blood supplies from voluntary non-remunerated blood donations Donner Sang Compter (DSC) is a Lebanese NGO that helps people in need for blood. It does so by receiving urgent blood demands through a Call Center, and sending donors registered on its database to donate directly where the needs are. Also, it organizes blood donation campaigns (blood drives) in partnership with local blood banks to raise their supplies in blood products, and to consequently reduce pressure put on patients' families to provide the needed blood units/donors for their loved ones.

Embrace is a non-profit organization (NGO) which works to raise awareness around mental health in Lebanon. Embrace launched as an affiliation with the Department of Psychiatry at the American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC) back in 2013. As of August 2017, Embrace became an official registered NGO in Lebanon. It is a one of a kind charitable and fundraising initiative for mental illnesses. Embrace seeks to inform and support people who need help by dispelling the myths and misinformation that surround mental illness. Embrace provides information about the resources available to people who live in Lebanon. Embrace also raises money to help provide needed treatment and care for people who cannot afford it. In September 2017, Embrace launched the first national suicide prevention helpline in Lebanon.

Humanitarian organization with a mission of helping underprivileged families. Supports more than 1200 person with food supplies on monthly basis.

Building a gender-balanced Lebanon Mission Instate gender equality at all levels of political and public life Level of activities Empowering & supporting women Creating public awareness Partnering with the media Lobbying to reform gender laws

Ex fighters in the Lebanese Civil War established this organization to say that everyone loses in war and violence is not a solution. The objective is to engage the youth, civil society activists and ex-fighters, in order to build a lasting civil peace and a true reconciliation in Lebanon. As ex-combatants who have become Fighters for Peace, we offer our stories and our experience, in order to create a space where former fighters can find a way out of violence, into inner peace and peace within their communities.

Serving the hungry. Salvaging food. Saving lives. FoodBlessed is a local hunger-relief and food-rescue initiative (Reg. Charity #770) aimed at fighting hunger and food waste in Lebanon. We work with the civil society and ​strategic partners to collect food via organizing soup kitchens, food drives, and fundraiser events; and to recover surplus edible food from events and excess/close-to-expiry products across FMCG and retail companies that would otherwise go to waste. The food collected is then distributed in the form of free meals and food assistance packages to underprivileged communities and local charities.​ FoodBlessed seeks to raise awareness about sustainable ways of living which make sense economically, morally and environmentally via promoting the concepts of food rescue/recovery, encouraging the adoption of more sustainable farming practice and more equal food distribution schemes both on a national level and international one! For more info, kindly visit www.foodblessed.org

A grass-root initiative to interact with youth in Shatila refugee camp, Beirut. In collaboration with Palestine Youth Club and by support of Japanese football academy Maravilha, we play football on one Sunday every month. We hope this initiative will bring people from different countries and background together, give some chance for refugee youth to play football and spread positive energy of friendship.

GAME is a non-profit street sports organization that since 2002 has been working to create lasting social change through street sports for children and adolescents. GAME establish innovative facilities and educate young leaders and role models in street sports. GAME is originally founded in Denmark in 2002 and has been an international organization since the establishment of the Lebanese branch in 2007. GAME Lebanon organizes training and competitions in street basketball, street soccer, street dance and street fit for children across disadvantaged neighborhoods in Lebanon. The young volunteers – called Playmakers – run the practices in the local GAME Zones.

The Happy Childhood Foundation aims to make children of the world happier, one smile at a time. We want to help make a difference. We don’t naively believe we will eradicate human misery all by ourselves… but we do believe that one more person fighting for children will change another’s life, and one organization could help thousands more. And so we set on to develop projects and programs that will make that difference: by focusing on children’s needs, and without any kind of discrimination. We also seek to bring awareness to children’s situation, in Lebanon and around the world, especially with other children. We help children with any kind of disability receive the therapy care they deserve and need regardless of their situations and backgrounds. In addition to that, we make sure to cover all their needs in term of basic needs, protection, health, education and recreation.

An NGO that provides scholarly assistance to students who have lost either or both parents. “Hayda Baytak” was created in honor of a friend who passed away in 2014. Inspired by his will to overcome the tragic loss of both his parents and his exceptional love for education, a group of classmates and friends founded this NGO later that year.

The Hemodialysis Volunteer Program was created to support patients with kidney disease needing to spend time at the center undergoing dialysis treatment.

CHILD ABUSE IS A CRITICAL ISSUE THAT HAS LONG BEEN NEGLECTED IN LEBANON. A STUDY CONDUCTED IN 2008, SHOWED THAT 1 OUT OF 6 CHILDREN IN LEBANON IS A VICTIM OF A FORM OF SEXUAL violence. THIS REFERS TO ONLY 1 OUT OF 4 TYPES OF ABUSE A CHILD CAN BE EXPOSED TO: PHYSICAL ABUSE, PSYCHOLOGICAL ABUSE, SEXUAL ABUSE AND NEGLECT. In light of these alarming results, himaya was founded in 2008 with the notification number 748/2009. The organization has continued to grow, responding to child protection needs on a national level. The dedicated & multidisciplinary team of professionals, covers all Lebanese territory with offices in Mount Lebanon, South Lebanon, North Lebanon and the Bekaa; ensuring accessible services to children across Lebanon. Today, himaya is a specialized NGO in the child protection sector, working to prevent violence against children and offer the support needed for abused children on a psychosocial and legal level; eventually allowing them to be reintegrated as productive and active members of society. In 2018, himaya has become mandated by the Ministry of Justice to handle all legal protection cases in the North Governorate.

IDRAAC Institute for Development, Research, Advocacy and Applied Care is the first non‐profit organization (NGO) dedicated to mental health in Lebanon and the Arab World and is located in Beirut, Lebanon. Our work started in 1982 when IDRAAC’s members started conducting research and have been involved in many national and international studies, targeting different segments of the population and assessing different types of mental health conditions. IDRAAC delivers free community services, awareness programs and world class mental health research. IDRAAC’s work is divided into 3 major pillars: Awareness Research Community Services IDRAAC’s activities are tailored to cover all aspects of mental health and psychosocial support needed by the society.

Inaash is a dynamic Lebanese social enterprise producing the finest quality hand made artisanal products. Our trademark is iconic, intricate traditional embroidery. Our selection includes abayas, coats, jackets, shawls and dresses, along with cushions, tableware and other household accessories. Over the last 50 years Inaash has trained and empowered over 2000 women in refugee camps across Lebanon. It currently provides work for some 412 expert embroiderers. At the heart of each Inaash piece, in its stitches, colors and motifs, is the history of Palestine as expressed in its distinctive visual heritage – embroidery. Today the Inaash in-house designers collaborate with local and international artists and designers to update its designs. Those who have contributed to developing the Inaash range include Nada Debs, Rabih Keyrouz, Dina Kamal, Nafissa, May Daouk, Mira Hayek, Creative Space Beirut, Ecru Online, Omar Nasser and Jason Steel. Drawing on Inaash’s remarkable archive of samples, culled from traditional dresses and costumes, the designers adapt centuries old stitches and patterns to the 21st century aesthetic, to catch the eye of discerning collectors across continents. Inaash products have been featured in the Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian Museum, in the British Museum, the Pompidou Center in Paris, Tate Modern, London, Al Sadu Museum Kuwait and in exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Houston, Paris, London, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Dubai, Doha, and Saudi Arabia.

At INJAZ Lebanon, we invest in our youth, Lebanon’s brightest future and strongest hope for nationwide development and economic growth. INJAZ Lebanon, a non-profit organization, aims to educate and prepare Lebanon’s youth to become qualified and successful employees and entrepreneurs in a growing regional and global economy. We actively engage the business community through our volunteer based model that allows independent professionals and corporate volunteers, to share their experiences through the implementation of our varied educational programs that focus on entrepreneurship, work readiness and financial literacy.

Jouzour Loubnan Association was founded in 2008. Our main mission is to reforest the arid mountains of Lebanon, and we work on 3 objectives: 1- PLANT mainly in arid regions and Increase the woodland area in Lebanon by planting native species. 2- EMPOWER the local community to manage and benefit from the projects. 3- PROMOTE environmental awareness on our natural resources.

About Jusoor Jusoor was founded in June 2011, is a non-governmental organization1 whose mission is to bring together and engage the global Syrian expatriate community in efforts that will help Syria and its people realize their full potential. The organization currently has over 50,000 individuals in the network from over 40 countries all committed to bettering Syria’s future. Programs have focused on education, and include a refugee education program in Lebanon, a global university scholarship program, and an education and career mentorship program. Jusoor is a non-political organization with strictly no ties to any political entity. Jusoor’s programs do not differentiate according to political views, ethnicity, religion or gender.

Just Care is a non-profit organization founded for the purpose of helping families, from one family to another, after one of their members has been through a life threatening accident by offering psychological assistance, light mobility equipment and financial support for therapeutical treatment and for medical care to families unable afford them. 

Kayany Foundation is a Lebanese non-governmental organization founded in 2013 in response to the Syrian crisis. Kayany operates educational programs for Syrian refugee children and youth residing in the informal tented settlements (ITSs). In partnership with the Center for Civic Engagement and Community Service at AUB, the foundation established GHATA portable schools in the Beqaa valley. With this effective and sustainable school design, Kayany took a leading role in bringing Education to “OUT OF SCHOOL” refugees. Its projects and programs have been expanding ever since

We are a sustainable farm and forest in the valley of Bossail. We’re working on reforesting 300,000 m2 with native trees, medicinal herbs, and edible wild crops i.e. agroforestry. We want to nurture and improve a wild ecosystem to support native wild-life as well as the humans bound to it. The project is in its early stages. We also plan on building self-sustainable, off-the-grid structures to live and work in.

Kunhadi is an NGO that aims to spread awareness about road safety in lebanon

The Lebanese Association of Medical Services for Addiction (LAMSA) fosters evidence-based medical education and awareness of addiction, mental health, co-occurring physical health and wellbeing issues while advocating for the de-stigmatization of those diseases. In LAMSA, we prioritize our services toward the most frequent consumed substances by youth such as tobacco, alcohol and cannabis (Marijuana), with a particular highlight on the link between cannabis use and psychosis. LAMSA also advocates for the implementation of effective and affordable strategies that systematically screen children, teens and youth for psychological, mental, environmental and other risk factors for addiction and behavior, with the aim to promote a sustainable and healthy community for the future. Our added value is the know-how of listening and communicating with empathy and compassion.

The Lebanese Association for Development - Al Majmoua was established in 1997 with the mandate of promoting sustainable development in Lebanon by improving the economic and social conditions of Lebanese and non-Lebanese low-income individuals, especially micro-entrepreneurs and women, through the provision of financial and non-financial services.

The Lebanese Food Bank (LFB) is a non-profit organization founded in 2012 by a group of Lebanese entrepreneurs. The LFB primary mission is to fight food waste and hunger in Lebanon. We collect surplus food from a wide network of hotels, restaurants, and food corporations and redistribute it to 70 carefully selected NGOs. Our goal is to end hunger in Lebanon.

LRI aims to conserve and expand Lebanon's forests through a community-based approach and public-private partnerships. In addition, LRI also aims to empower communities to advocate to better manage their forest resources.

Our mission is to provide food assistance to the poor and share with them meals. Our club welcomes beneficiaries before meals and gives them access to vocational trainers or livelihood experts.

Li’s vision stretches beyond permaculture designs and sustainable living. We aim at reestablishing the connection between the culture and habitats we currently live in and the ones we previously cherished before we moved into an excessive and demanding lifestyle.The more we observe that fact, the more we realize that nature does not tolerate excess. Our nature as beings reached a point where it has traded abundance for excess. Infinite growth is destructive, sustainability is balance.We receive by giving, first the luxury of a retreat to raw nature, to learning different concepts (in local communities, schools, researchers. summer campers, practitioners, nature lovers, and curious observers) from organic planting, to harvesting, to eco building, to social responsibility ; A space for workshops/talks, hands-on experience where people can shape ideas, knowledge & skills.Workshops raise curiosity, results create initiative in others, and more results create a trend and then a momentum.We are neither a venture nor a venue, we are somehow collaborators of change, and we are learning that along the way, all channels tend to have an impact directly or indirectly.The project started with a series of workshops hosted by local and international people, starting with vermin-compost toilets to a cob oven, wood working and finally the building of an earth bag dome hobbit houseThe idea was to teach others the process of building one’s own house with minimum cost from limited resources they can acquire from their own land. Smart and simple systems can be installed (passive solar, gray water, rocket mass heater ...) that would allow them to benefit more from nature's abundance as an alternative to investing money and thus time to pay unnecessary bills. Our vision aims at making a difference while interacting with nature, by substituting nature’s exploitation with nature’s appreciation.You are always welcome to stay at ‘Li’ if you are volunteering for roughly five hours a day, depending on what we are working on. (Planting/picking season, eco-building, eco-farming, up cycling furniture …)

The LIFEHAUS is an entreprise committed to revolutionizing the construction industry by producing low-cost, energy neutral, passive, self-sufficient dwellings. It uses locally procured natural, recycled and unprocessed building materials, all the while reintroducing long forgotten ancestral building and survival techniques in combination with cutting edge eco-friendly architectural solutions. A combination of tradition, and modern scientific knowledge.

LOYAC is a non-profit organization working towards the overall development of the youth. LOYAC runs several programs for the youth to develop their professional skills, enhance their personal growth and to help them find their sense of purpose by extending themselves to others. All our programs are either offered for free or are heavily subsidized by us. LOYAC is supported by organizations and businesses that believe in its mission.

makesense is an open and global community where citizens can learn and take action to solve social and environmental issues. Through our community tools, we offer citizens a chance to get involved and to make a real difference to the world by working on issues that you really care about with other people who share the same passion. What can you bring to the table? Do something different and unlock the power of your creativity, your problem-solving ability and your own experience for a good cause. Discover, get inspired, and learn new skills in a sociable environment that takes an entrepreneurial approach to social and environmental questions. Get to know and collaborate with like-minded people from their own community and become part of a worldwide network of passionate individuals and organizations. The way to get involved: get trainings and test your knowledge by organising events for a cause!

Middle East Partnership Initiative Lebanon Alumni Association (MEPI-LAA) is a registered (88 A/D) nongovernmental, non-partisan and non-religious organization and a network of positive thinkers and advocates of change that was established in 2010. We aim to create public value for the Lebanese society within four pillars: Democracy, Education, Economics and Women empowerment. We implement activities that include drafting policy recommendations, contributing to human development, enhancing citizenship and promoting the rule of law. Our diverse backgrounds, openness to dialogue, outreach, and inherent synergy are the landmarks of our success. Our vision of success is an empowered MEPI Alumni, a network that has become a hub for Lebanese civil society.

We envision a society with active, empowered and alerted citizens capable of creating a social change. Our mission is to empower citizens – especially the youth and the marginalized – by fostering citizenship education, promoting a culture of social responsibility and nurturing an engagement to the nation.

In 2017, we launched a pilot project with the goal of igniting a cultural, environmental, and social movement of change in Lebanon, for the well-being of future generations. We brought artists, painters and graffiti artists who worked day and night to transform Ouzai, a neglected Beirut suburb into a colorful neighborhood, with trendy designs and modern shapes that decorate every wall of every forgotten building in the region. The area was renamed Ouzville and has become today a symbol of hope, happiness and unity; it has also created a sense of patriotism, and a willingness to protect and preserve the environment, all of which attracted worldwide and local media attention.

‘Paint Up!’ is the brainchild of co-founders Lana Chukri and Jubran Elias. After establishing a team of talented and bright designers with whom they graduated with called “Dihzahyners” – the duo brought the team together in 2012 to recreate and rejuvenate broken and gloomy spaces in Beirut through a series of urban and street art initiatives that were later known as “Paint Up!” volumes. In developing this, their social enterprise and non-profit organization was born and began evolving into a living, breathing entity that resonated with artists, enterprises, and people worldwide. The name ‘Dihzahyners’ comes from the dictionary enunciation of the word “designers”. The sole difference is while one is the name of the team; ‘Paint Up’ is the non-profit organization and series of projects that were created by the team themselves. We always like to represent ourselves as ‘Dihzahyners’, even in media and social coverage – as one of our main ideals is that nothing can be built and sustained without a team, as a whole.

ParentWise’s mission is to educate, empower and connect parents as they engage in their children’s development to help them reach their full potential. At ParentWise we believe that how we reach out to parents is just as important as what we do to support them: Education, Empowerment, Engagement, Collaboration, Connection, Respect.

System change & circular economy hub towards regenerative development. 4 programmes to #RegenerateLebanon, #DiveIntoAction, #RootsAcademia & #EcoSouk - the Middle East's 1st Zero Waste shop #BalaPlastic

Our mission is to help save lives of young people with undetected heart rhythm abnormalities by raising awareness, offering preventive EKG screening and making AEDs compulsory.

Our initiative is to clean Beirut and hopefully places outside Beirut through the funding of our recycled bracelets that we produce in Lebanon. We are hoping to grow and keep doing clean ups every week while selling our bracelets in order to have support from the whole country while growing other start ups such as thevolunteercircle, recycle lebanon, routeslb, all together.

The Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon – SPNL - is one of Lebanon’s oldest environmental NGOs. It was first established in 1983, and licensed by the Ministry of the Interior by decision no. 6/AD dated 8/1/1986. SPNL is the national partner for BirdLife International in Lebanon. It considers birds as entry points for the conservation of wider natural resources, as they act as key indicators of the status and health of ecosystems. Ever since its establishment in 1986, SPNL has advocated the establishment of protected areas and, in cooperation with the Ministry of Environment, worked to establish protected areas in Lebanon. After two decades of experience working with nature reserves through government agencies, SPNL is now reviving and advocating the Hima, a community based conservation approach that has been prevalent in the Arab region for more than 1500 years. SPNL has many years of experience in scientific research (mainly avifauna and biodiversity), education and awareness, advocacy and networking, and community development. As a national environmental NGO in Lebanon, SPNL has contributed a great deal to both raising awareness on environmental issues and concretely protecting natural areas in Lebanon. As a member of the World International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), SPNL helped develop the first biodiversity project in Lebanon, known as the Protected Areas Project. SPNL also established the Environment Information Center (EIC) that serves as a key resource for the provision of environmental information to students, teachers, and researchers in this field. As the BirdLife International partner for Lebanon, SPNL is engaged in bird conservation mainly through building capacities of protected areas managers from the whole country on bird identification; through the Important Bird Areas program that aims at identifying sites and habitats essential for bird conservation; and through conservation site action projects.

Step Together Association Riverside is a non-profit organization that works with special needs. It first started in 1974 with a kindergarten and a diagnostic center for special needs Founded by Dr. Wali Merhej. Then, in 1993, the non-profit organization, under the name of FiSTA was founded. Today, it is known as Step Together Association for special needs children and adults with diverse disabilities, chaired by Dr. Reem Mouawad assisted by a group of committee members.Step Together Association is located in Dayshounieh, Mansourieh, a mere 15 minutes drive from downtown Beirut and lies amidst an environmentally protected area surrounded by trees, mountains and rivers. It is in this calm and pleasant environment that we teach and care for our students. Currently, our community caters to around 200 students of all ages.Our mission aims to improve each of our student’s quality of life through individualized instruction and therapy. Our educational methods are designed to enhance the physical and mental capabilities of our students by helping them improve their social and communication skills, thus giving them the confidence to participate in their local communities. Our work also involves monitoring the health of our students and extending emotional and psychological support to their families. In this respect, we work directly with the parents through regular meetings providing them with help and guidance on how to communicate with their children. Step Together Association offers a comprehensive and holistic approach to education, care, and therapy for around 200 special need individuals ranging in age from 3 to 60, all with learning difficulties, mental disabilities and different levels of autism. Moreover, and to better achieve these goal we have partnered with Ruskin mill trust, this partnership will allow more research in the Arab world though exchange of teachers and students. We have also become recognized in the international curative education council at Goetheanum.In summary Step Together Association strives to create a beneficial environment, be it creative and/or practical, that can empower our students and enable them to join and contribute to society on an equal footing with everybody else.

Founded in 2005, Tamanna is a non-profit organization that grants the wishes of children with critical illnesses. Turning a wish into reality empowers a child to combat his illness, giving him hope and happiness in times of great stress and hardship. Any child between 3 and 18 years with a critical illness, residing or being treated in Lebanon, is eligible for a wish. Today, Tamanna serves 15 hospitals across the country. Wishes are served without regard to nationality, religion or socio-economic background. To date, Tamanna has granted over 1500 wishes at a rate of three per week. A wish granted is a powerful tool to help spirits rise, bringing a ray of sunshine into lives dominated by pain. A wish is that magic touch that will turn a suffering child's tears into laughter.

Thaki is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to empower refugee and vulnerable children with extremely limited educational opportunities to learn and thrive through self-paced, motivational e-learning tools. We distribute donated computers, loaded with educational content, to education centers working directly with refugee and vulnerable children.

Badaro Urban Farmers is a gathering of individuals, promoting environmentally-friendly and community-building actions that will result in a green neighborhood with a strong community spirit

The Chain Effect is a non-governmental organisation which promotes the bicycle as a sustainable mode of transportation in Beirut. We believe the bicycle can become a viable and desirable option for getting around conveniently in Beirut, transforming the city into a healthier, more efficient and more pleasant place to live in and flow through. Our mission is to promote the bicycle as a convenient form of urban mobility, and facilitate its use in Beirut through street art, public interventions, community projects and wholistic city planning.

The Green Van is a sustainable organic farm located in Zefta, Nabatiye district, Lebanon. The farm consists of a abandoned full sized soccer field that was repurposed into a farm. Our farm combines the wisdom of nature's self sufficient systems with the brilliance of today's innovative technologies. We aim to provide affordable products to maximize health and minimize environmental impact. Our farm was born out of a family-and-friend initiative, and in the same spirit we invite customers and volunteers into our community through transparency and open doors.

We are architects with a purpose and strategists with a mission. Going beyond traditional architecture, we employ a holistic and biomimetic design approach with PEOPLE and NATURE at its core. Our architecture is socially and environmentally engaged, ambitiously moving the world from EGOcentric to ECOcentric. theOtherDada (tOD) constantly encourages positive behaviors and activates practices that move the world from ego to eco. The ultimate goal is to create regenerative conscious societies.

Launched in early 2017 as an initiative from the Patient Affairs Department at AUBMC, TIES is a volunteering program that aims to connect with the patients and their families, support them through their stay at the Medical Center, shift their attention from sickness, and strengthen their inner power. The main pillars of the initiative are: Trust, Inspiration, Encouragement, and Strength. TIES consists of a group of volunteers committed to making a difference in the stay of AUBMC patients and their families through daily rounds and weekly workshops. Daily rounds: TIES volunteers offer their time to perform daily rounds to help patients and their families overcome the stressful periods. During these rounds, they hand patients and families several types of entertainment resources such as coloring books for adults, magazines, novels, Sudoku, stress balls, playing cards, cross words etc. Patients tend to await those visits as the bond between them and the volunteers becomes so genuine. In addition to daily rounds, TIES started weekly workshops in early 2018. Below is a glimpse of the provided activities: Music workshops: Talented musicians play various instruments, mostly violin, oud, or guitar, while patients and families are gathered in the waiting areas. They also pass by the patients’ bedsides in case they are not able to leave their rooms. Patients often describe these workshops as what helps them most during their stay. Guided Meditation: Guided meditation promotes relaxation by focusing on memories and dreams to shift attention away from a stressful situation to a new image. The workshops are held in the waiting areas and accompanied by soft music. Every workshop begins with a small discussion led by the yoga instructor that encourages the patients and families to ventilate, then they meditate for 40 minutes. At the end of the session, patients often express how their moods improve. Storytelling: A professional storyteller tells cultural stories to patients and families in the waiting areas in a very engaging way. The storyteller captures the attention of the audience and tries to generate some stories from them to boost their memories. Based on the demands of patients who cannot leave their rooms, the storyteller started passing by the patients’ bedsides as well.

Tripoli Entrepreneurs Club is an apolitical, non-religious, and non-governmental organization founded in 2013 launched by a dynamic and vibrant team from Tripoli coming from different backgrounds. The club aims to create, foster, and nurture entrepreneurial culture in Lebanon, with a particular interest in Tripoli. It does so by educating students and young inventors through awareness campaigns, and training on idea generation, entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, business planning, fundraising and pitching with focused workshops, competitions and boot camps.

UTOPIA Organization is a non-governmental, non-profit organization dedicated to abolishing all types of social discrepancies through specialized projects and programs that rely on voluntary work, in hopes of acquiring social justice among people within the same society regardless of their political or religious beliefs. UTOPIA Organization relies on fundraising and different funding resources that vary between international donors and local private donations to cover operational and programs implementation expenses. We constantly try to reach out to potential partners that share the same strategic values as ours. To achieve our mission, we invest in Community Services, Youth Empowerment, Women Empowerment, Child Development, and Advocacy programs.

Volunteer for Lebanon was established "to promote, facilitate, and improve volunteering and community service throughout Lebanon." As a hub for volunteering, we seek to link the many initiatives in Lebanon that promote volunteering with each other and provide support to volunteers as well as the organizations, service institutions, schools, universities, companies, and government agencies that recruit, engage, encourage, and support volunteers. Volunteer For Lebanon is non-profit, non-sectarian, non-governmental, with a comprehensive approach to volunteering that serves all the stakeholders in the volunteer eco-system. It received its registration (علم وخبر) from the Ministry of Interior (#2025) on September 29, 2015, as a reconstitution of an earlier organization, the Association for Volunteer Services (AVS). We provide training in volunteer management to organizations, training to companies in corporate volunteering, and training to schools in how to develop effective and comprehensive service programs. We also develop resources on volunteering. One of our major initiatives is National Youth Service Week, a campaign to empower youth ages 5-25 to plan and implement sustainable service projects throughout Lebanon (www.nysw-lebanon.org).