Captain
Planet Foundation
The mission of the Captain Planet Foundation (CPF) is to
support hands-on environmental projects for youth in grades
K-12. Our objective is to encourage innovative activities
that empower children around the world to work individually
and collectively as environmental stewards. Through ongoing
education, we believe that children can play a vital role
in preserving our precious natural resources for future
generations.
The Captain Planet Foundation is an offshoot of the popular
Captain Planet cartoon series created by TBS, Inc in 1990
and intended to entertain children while teaching them the
importance of environmental responsibility. Captain Planet
broke new ground by successfully merging children's educational
programming and entertainment programming. While in original
production, the series received three Daytime Emmy Nominations,
three Environmental Media Awards, a Parents Choice Award,
two Genesis Awards for animal issues programming, and a
commendation from Peggy Charren's Action for Children's
Television, as well as numerous other educational and media
accolades. In 1991, Ted Turner decided to take the proceeds
from this commercially successful, educational, yet entertaining
series and put those profits into something that would inspire
the very people that consumed it, youth. CPF awarded its
first environmental grant in 1992.
The Captain Planet Foundation parted from TBS, Inc. in 2001
and is now operating as a 501c3 nonprofit public charity.
Funding for our youth projects comes from a combination
of grant awards, partnerships with local and national organizations,
and an annual holiday fundraiser. Captain Planet Foundation
has funded projects in all 50 United States and internationally
in Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, Columbia, Costa Rica,
Ireland, Israel, Philippines & Pohnpei, impacting over 625,000
youth since its establishment in 1992. Our youth participants
range in age from 4 to 18 and come from a wide variety of
socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds. Click
here to visit the Captain Planet
Foundation online
Atlanta
Children's Shelter, Inc. (ACS)
Since 1986, the Atlanta Children's Shelter has provided
loving childcare to more than 7,500 homeless children and
guided nearly 4,900 homeless families to permanent self-sufficiency.
In 2000, the ACS Early Childcare Program for Homeless Children
was accredited by the National Association for the Education
of Young Children, an accreditation level reached by less
5% of all childcare facilities in the United States. While
the children one month to five years old are in this program,
homeless parents go through comprehensive social services
including case management, financial management, household
administration, positive parenting, career counseling and
placement and permanent housing resettlement. Click
here to visit the Atlanta Children's Shelter online.
Our
House
Our House is a state-licensed, nationally accredited childcare
center serving families who reside in emergency and transitional
shelters in metropolitan Atlanta. Our House serves 42 homeless
preschoolers each day, helping them to deal with the emotional
trauma of their situations and to keep pace with their peers
developmentally. Our House is one of the only centers for
homeless children in the nation that is accredited by the
National Association for the Education of Young Children. Click
here to visit Our House online.
Upper
Chattahoochee Riverkeeper (UCR)
The mission of UCR is advocate and secure the protection
and stewardship of the Chattahoochee River, its tributaries
and watershed, in order to restore and preserve their ecological
health for the people, fish and wildlife that depend on
the River system. UCR works collaboratively with other nonprofits,
nature centers, and government agencies to provide high
quality river educational programs for schools in the watershed.
Funding from X-MAS Party will be used to support UCR�s
Floating Classroom on Lake Lanier. In its first five years
of operation, this highly successful education program has
provided hands-on water education activities for more than
10,000 students! Aboard the Chota Princess, students conduct
hands-on water tests to grasp a better understanding of
lake ecology. Through testing the water for dissolved oxygen,
pH, turbidity and temperature, students begin to comprehend
how water quality can be affected by various pollution sources
and what can be done to prevent pollution. The goal is to
help these future leaders understand their role in protecting
the long-term health and survival of the Chattahoochee River
system. Click
here to visit UCR online.
