CHILD is a voluntary non-profit organization which optimizes opportunities for the less fortunate and disadvantaged children to realize their full potential.

The purpose of this organization is to provide educational assistance for needy children, irrespective of race, religion or creed.

Chumbaka is a social enterprise with a purpose to develop children’s life skills through technology. With hands-on computing education, they envision that one day, all children will be thinkers, problem-solvers, and inventors.

Their after-school coding classes, school holiday camps, and workshops focus on building:
- Literacy – such as mathematics, science, and language
- Competency – such as critical thinking, creativity, and communication
- Character Quality – such as curiosity, tenacity, and leadership

Ultimately, their goal is to reignite children’s passion for learning, preparing the next generation to thrive in a future that is ever-changing.

Cruyff Foundation reaches out to children who do not have easy access to sports facilities to stimulate them to discover their talents. Cruyff Foundation is very proud of its Cruyff Courts and Heroes of the Cruyff Courts program, where it helps the youth of Malaysia move up by being active.

FriedChillies Media is based in multi-cultural Malaysia, home to many Asian cuisines. They provide cross-media platform publishing for online and print, Internet and broadcast TV, and mobile content, as well as content licensing and syndication. Because they are content-focused with a technology-based business model, their content delivery is faster than traditional media and they are able to do it across multiple channels.

The Global Environment Centre was established in 1998 to work on environmental issues of global importance. The Centre is a non-profit organisation but works regionally and internationally both directly and through many partners. It supports information exchange and capacity building as well as undertakes strategic projects particularly in developing countries.

Its aim is to support the protection of the environment and sustainable use of the natural resources to meet local, regional and global needs, through strategic partnerships with communities and like-minded organisations.

Good Shepherd Services (GSS) is a not-for-profit organization registered with the Companies Commission of Malaysia. The organization has its origins as a charity founded and operated by the Good Shepherd Sisters in 1956. The Good Shepherd Sisters is a worldwide Congregation of women religious present in 73 counties in six continents.

The focus of GSS is to make visible the mercy and forgiving love of God, specifically to those who are marginalised and broken, especially women, girls, and their families, restoring in them their worth and dignity.

GSS reaches out and welcomes each person with respect and dignity, accompanying each one with care and compassion.

The Khazanah Research Institute is a non-profit organisation sponsored by Khazanah Nasional Berhad. It carries out research on the pressing issues of the nation through rigorous impartial analysis founded on data, convening discussions amongst those who are relevant, and being advocates of the knowledge we acquire.

Revolutionising Student Assessment
Khidmat Nurani Khalifah(KNK) Total Assessment was established in 2008 and has been consistently consulted by the Ministry of Education (MOE) and universities for examination and assessment matters.

Playing an Active Role
In 2016, MOE implemented the Alternate Assessment for Primary School Students with Learning Difficulties, or Pentaksiran Alternat Sekolah Rendah (PASR). Hasanah is supporting KNK to develop an Alternate Assessment for Students with Learning Difficulties at the secondary level, Pentaksiran Alternat Sekolah Menengah (PASM). This initiative is aligned to Hasanah’s vision to increase access to quality education so that no one gets left behind, including students with Special Education Needs (SEN).

Kristal Azmir is a production company based in Shah Alam. Having worked on projects both locally and internationally, it stands to play an important role in the region's film and creative industry.

LEAP (Land Empowerment Animals People) is an organization that engages all communities and empowers them to move from reactive conservation towards proactive stewardship.

It aims to collaboratively transform a failing system to one that is healthy, transparent, and respectful of the interconnectedness of life.

LEAP has worked successfully to increase transparency, build local conservation capacity, and develop effective and inclusive conservation partnerships and projects to protect and restore Sabah’s remaining forests and wildlife populations. LEAP has facilitated partnerships between more than 50 local, regional, and international partners and leveraged these relationships into more than 20 new and innovative projects and initiatives. This work has included support for community-based conservation initiatives, restoration of heavily degraded lowland forests, establishment of a biobank to finance long-term restoration of 34,000 hectares of Orangutan habitat, acquisition of critical parcels of habitat, and successfully opposing through a civil society coalition the construction of Sabah’s first coal-fired power plant. In the process, LEAP has helped foster a new culture of openness, transparency, and collaboration amongst government, industry, and civil society.

MyDocs is a non-profit association first established in 2013 by a group of passionate documentary filmmakers from Malaysia.

Their mission is to help create a bigger, more knowledgeable, and more professional network of skilled documentary filmmakers as well as create greater opportunities to gain practical experience, network, pitch, and find funding for films locally and internationally. This is all with the hope to collectively improve the state of the documentary filmmaking industry in Malaysia.

MELAPI is a voluntary organisation seeking to challenge current perception about the interface between culture and nature to create awareness and engage the people of Borneo in collective action to safeguard Borneo’s bio-cultural heritage.

The Borneo Eco Film Festival (BEFF) is an annual non-profit programme under the umbrella of the voluntary society MELAPI. BEFF celebrates Borneo’s biocultural diversity through showcasing environmental films and nurturing local community filmmaking.

MySkills Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation that provides market-relevant skills training for at risk-youth.

Their aim is to make sure that the youth under its programme are fully fit for employment and ready to be integrated into mainstream society.

Netcarbon is a Content Development Specialist in the creation of Animation and E-learning Content. Animagenie is their award-winning animation service that works hard to ensure that the amazing concept, vision, and stories clients want to tell are transformed into the amazing animation envisioned. Netcarbon's battle-hardened artists and proven pipeline will ensure that projects are completed just as intended, on time and on budget. They also back their promise with a portfolio of successfully completed TV series and feature films. Many studios promise delivery, but language barriers, communication gaps, and cultural differences make production unbearable. As such, they have a single-point-of-contact policy to ensure that all needs, concerns, and requests are promptly actioned.

Established in 1991, Nuvista Media (formerly known as Novista) is Malaysia’s leading documentary producer. Run by a husband-and-wife team, Harun Rahman and Lara Ariffin respectively, the company offers full video production services and post-production facilities. It is responsible for many award-winning productions both domestically and internationally. The company is unwavering in its commitment to quality, creativity, and excellence.

OrphanCARE is a not-for-profit foundation that endeavours to give institutionalised children and unplanned, at-risk, newborn babies the joy of growing up in a family. No child should be denied family life because of circumstances. They work closely with the Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development, and the Department of Social Welfare. They are also partners with Lumos, an international non-profit organisation that advises nations about deinstitutionalisation (DI) to implement the transition from institutional care to family-based care.

PACOS Trust is a community-based organization dedicated to supporting indigenous communities in Sabah. Although registered under the Trustees Ordinance (Sabah) only in 1997, they have been actively involved with communities since 1987 as a different legal entity. PACOS is an acronym for ‘Partners of Community Organizations in Sabah’. PACOS Trust supports community organizations in 14 districts (an increase of 4 from 2000/1), involving 23 geographical areas (including 7 new areas from last year), with each organization determining and implementing its own area plan and work programme. They have approximately 60 personnels from various expertise and background – almost all are working in their own communities but also contribute to the organization by being part of different ad-hoc committees as resource persons depending on their skills and knowledge. A Committee of the Board of Trustees oversees the direction of PACOS Trust.

The organization sees itself as one that strives to empower indigenous communities through systematic building and strengthening of community organizations, which can act collectively on their own. PACOS Trust also realized the need to support networking among community organizations struggling to assert rights over community resources and revitalizing indigenous systems, which is what the organization is currently striving to do.

PINTAR Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation with a vision to inspire the young generation to become responsible citizens by Promoting Intelligence, Nurturing Talent, and Advocating Responsibility (PINTAR). Its mission is to be an organisation working in partnership with corporations, partner NGOs, and the government to enhance the motivation and success of underserved Malaysian students through education, in line with the national aspiration to develop human capital prepared to meet the challenges of the 21st century.

P.S. The Children began in April 1999 as a project in response to the need for a voice for sexually abused children. It was soon clear that there was a void to be filled, and so by the end of 2001, P.S. The Children was established as a registered full-fledged non-profit association.

In a move towards a world that upholds the rights and dignity of every child, P.S. The Children's vision is to build safer communities where children are protected from sexual abuse and exploitation. P.S. The Children aims to achieve this by advocating and establishing effective prevention education for both adults and children, strengthening treatment and support services, while forging synergistic partnerships within communities.

It is the only social organisation in Malaysia that focuses solely on the prevention, intervention and treatment of Child Sexual Abuse.

PKKTB is a centre where children and youth come together to explore and develop their creativity through Alam Kreatif; a programme developed to enhance cognitive skills, as well as develop their potentials and inherent talents. The centre is a playground of self-discovery, where learning is fun and children may develop moral and ethical values – a caring nature will be a way of life.  

Reef Check Malaysia (RCM) is a non-profit organisation that was registered in 2007 to engage with the local community to raise awareness for the importance of, and threats to, coral reefs.

Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots is a youth-led action programme aimed at young people of all ages. The programme was founded in 1991 by Dr Jane Goodall under the Jane Goodall Institute, and it promotes the values of compassion and respect for all living things, as well as intercultural understanding and solidarity among all peoples.

Roots & Shoots empowers young people to create positive change for people, animals, and the environment, by providing the tools needed for them to initiate, and lead, projects and campaigns that make a difference.

Beginning with 12 students in Tanzania who wanted to help solve the problems in their local community, the Roots & Shoots programme is now a global movement, with over 150,000 active groups in over 130 countries.

Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) or Friends of the Earth Malaysia is an independent non-profit national organisation established in 1977. SAM is a registered body under the Societies Act 1966 and has been a member of Friends of the Earth International since 1983.

SAM is involved in a variety of activities and campaigns to ensure that environmental justice is linked to social justice and that development choices and the management of natural resources must be sustainable and ecologically sound. It supports the indigenous communities by defending their indigenous customary rights and the natural resources of the tropical rainforests.

Established by the Royal Society in 1985, the South East Asia Rainforest Research Partnership (SEARRP) facilitates world-class scientific research that addresses the major environmental issues facing the tropics: plantation development, habitat restoration, and climate change.

From their base in Borneo’s Danum Valley, they work in close collaboration with leading international universities and local partners to facilitate research by individual scientists and manage a suite of large-scale field experiments.

Over the last 30 years, SEARRP scientists have made a seminal contribution to our understanding of rainforests, their conservation, restoration, and sustainable management. Their mission is to train and mentor the next generation of scientists and conservation leaders, and inform policy and best practice at local, regional, and global levels.

SmartParents is a group of mums (and dads) who want to be better parents. They may not be there yet, but parenting is all about learning on the job.

That’s why SmartParents is about sharing collective parenting wisdom. Their experiences come from all over ― some insights are from doctors, some from experts in their respective fields, but mostly, they are from parents.

In short, they want to be a part of the journey you're making towards being a better parent.

SOLS Health is a behavioural health centre that connects clients to accessible individual, family, and community mental health and nutritional services with an emphasis on combating the stigma of mental health in Malaysia. Its services include early childhood intervention, dietary and nutritional guidance, individual psychotherapy and counseling, and psychological assessments, among others.

Teach For Malaysia is an independent, not-for-profit organisation on a mission to empower the nation through education.

They recruit the country’s rising generation of leaders to be part of the solution to the challenges faced by communities today.

Think City is a community-focused urban regeneration organisation that aims to create more liveable, resilient, and people-centric cities.

Think City is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Khazanah Nasional Berhad and funded by Yayasan Hasanah. Established in 2009, its first task was to rejuvenate the historic city of George Town, Penang. The success of this led to expansion into 3 other cities - Butterworth, Kuala Lumpur, and most recently, Johor Bahru.

Today, Think City works closely with local governments, international agencies, and various local communities, building effective partnerships and enhancing capacity along the way. Through this, they hope to be able to deliver long-term holistic and sustainable solutions for generations of today and tomorrow.

Tropical Rainforest Conservation & Research Centre (TRCRC), a non-governmental organization (NGO), is a sister company of Landskap Malaysia.

Landskap Malaysia, established in 2009 and chaired by YAbhg. Tun Jeanne, focuses on enhancing public awareness and cultivating a Malaysian society that values nature and its importance in our world, focusing on tropical rainforest plants.

The existence of TRCRC is of a broader scale vision, which is the conservation and preservation of tropical rainforest plant species, to further help enhance the efforts of other related NGOs and to cultivate and maintain a stable ecosystem.

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) is committed to be ahead of society and time in leading the development of a learned, dynamic and moral society. UKM also wants to be the learning centre of choice that promotes the sovereignty of Bahasa Melayu and internationalises knowledge rooted in the national culture.

USAINS, formed in 1998, is the corporate arm of Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). It is tasked with developing income-generating businesses associated with the skills readily available within USM. USAINS manages USM’s extensive assets – properties, projects, programs, and enterprises – either directly or indirectly through key subsidiaries. This enables them to make a positive contribution to USM and its wider community.

Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) was officially launched in 2002 as a not-for-profit private university providing affordable quality education.

Guided by its vision to be a global university of educational excellence with transformative societal impact, UTAR is highly reputed as one of the fastest-growing private higher education institutions in the country.

It currently offers over 110 academic programmes from Foundation Studies to Bachelor's, Master’s, and PhD degrees in fields ranging from Accounting to Creative Industries and Design.

Women of Will (WOW) transforms the lives of disadvantaged women in Malaysia and their communities through micro-credit financing combined with an Entrepreneurial Development Programme. These programmes cater to women who are single mothers, widows, abandoned or abused, and those living with incapacitated husbands and in poverty.

Yayasan AMIR is a not-for-profit organisation incorporated in 2010 to improve accessibility of quality education in Malaysian Government schools through a Public-Private Partnership with the Ministry of Education.

Trust Schools are government schools that are jointly managed by Yayasan AMIR and school principals under the umbrella of the Ministry of Education (MoE). Yayasan AMIR is entrusted to support the schools in embedding sustainable education practices that are monitored by MoE.

YKPM, also known as Foundation for Community Studies and Development (FOCUSED), was founded in 1993 with an aim to empower poor communities, both rural and urban, by working alongside them.

​Over the years, the Orang Asli-Jakun communities in the Pekan district have become their major focus, with development programmes inclusive of literacy classes, house building, provision of safe and drinking water, and start-up of income-generating projects. Their secondary thrust involves public policy advocacy and capacity building of grassroots and volunteers.

Yayasan Khazanah is a foundation established by Khazanah Nasional Berhad (Khazanah Nasional), the investment holding arm of the Government of Malaysia.

The foundation is entrusted to select, support, groom, and nurture exceptional individuals who will eventually take on high-level positions in the best organisations, including government-linked companies (GLCs) in Malaysia.

Yayasan Sejahtera aims to help the extreme poor based on the national Poverty Line Index (PLI), the official indicator that measures hardcore poverty. They strive to help families and individuals earn additional income, enhance educational experiences and improve living conditions by equipping them with basic living necessities.

The underlying message is that poverty is not a condition they have been destined to live in.

Yayasan Sultanah Bahiyah is a charitable organization that promotes social change through community work in education, community development, health, youth outreach, and training initiatives.

WIBA PRIMA Foundation, or “Yayasan Wiba Prima”, has its name stem from “Warisan Ibrahim Bin Abdullah”, which means Heritage of Ibrahim Bin Abdullah (WIBA), and “Pembangunan Remaja Islam”, which means Malaysian Islamic Youth Development (PRIMA).

Established under the Trustee Act (Incorporation) Act 1952 in 2003, WIBA PRIMA Foundation was founded by the late Dato’ Ibrahim Bin Abdullah and his wife Datin Fatimah Binti Allahyarhammah Abu Bakar.

The main objective of the foundation is to organize educational and welfare projects for society, irrespective of religion, race, and heredity. Beyond organizing seminars, conventions, and courses at the local, state, and national levels, WIBA PRIMA Foundation manages various community development projects suitable to local needs.