About Us

Active Minds

Active Minds is the leading nonprofit organization that empowers students to speak openly about mental health in order to educate others and encourage help-seeking.

By developing and supporting chapters of a student-run mental health awareness, education, and advocacy group on campuses nationwide, the nonprofit organization works to increase students’ awareness of mental health issues, provide information and resources regarding mental health and mental illness, encourage students to seek help as soon as it is needed, and serve as liaison between students and the mental health community.

American Association of Colleges and Universities

The American Association of Colleges and Universities is a global membership organization dedicated to advancing the vitality and democratic purposes of undergraduate liberal education.

American Council of Trustees and Alumni

The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting academic excellence, academic freedom, and accountability at America’s colleges and universities.

ACTA works with alumni, donors, trustees, and education leaders across the United States to support liberal arts education, uphold high academic standards, safeguard the free exchange of ideas on campus, and ensure that the next generation receives an intellectually rich, high-quality college education at an affordable price.

Born This Way Foundation

Born This Way Foundation, co-founded and led by Lady Gaga and her mother, Cynthia Germanotta, supports the mental health of young people and works with them to build a kinder and braver world. Through high-impact programming, youth-led conversations, and strategic, cross-sectoral partnerships, the Foundation aims to make kindness cool, validate the emotions of young people, and eliminate the stigma surrounding mental health. Learn how the Foundation encourages people to practice kindness toward themselves and their communities through its website bornthisway.foundation and its storytelling platform Channel Kindness at channelkindness.org.

College Diabetes Network

The College Diabetes Network (CDN) is a 501c3 non-profit organization whose mission is singularly focused on providing young adults with T1D the peer connections they value, and expert resources they need, to successfully manage the challenging transition to independence at college and beyond.

Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation

The Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is the nation’s largest nonprofit treatment provider. The Foundation offers prevention and recovery solutions nationwide and across the entire continuum of care for youth and adults.

Singularly focused on the problem of addiction, the Foundation includes the nation’s largest recovery publishing house, a fully-accredited graduate school of addiction studies, a dedicated addiction research center, intensive educational programs for medical students and professionals, community and school-based prevention programs and services, family and children’s programs and an institute for recovery advocacy and policy.

Healthy Minds Network

Established in 2007 and based at the University of Michigan and Boston University, the Healthy Minds Network for Research on Adolescent and Young Adult Mental Health (HMN) is is led by a interdisciplinary team of scholars from public health, education, medicine, psychology, and information sciences. Taking a public health approach, HMN generates and shares research on the mental health of young people.

The Jed Foundation

The Jed Foundation is a nonprofit that promotes emotional health and prevent suicide among college and university students. The organization collaborates with the public and leaders in higher education, mental health, and research to produce and advance initiatives that promote awareness and understanding about emotional wellbeing and mental illness, foster help-seeking, and facilitate adoption of a comprehensive, community-based approach to promote emotional health.

National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE)

Established in 1956, the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) is a professional association that connects over 15,400 college career services professionals, university relations and recruiting professionals, and the business solution providers that serve this community.

NACE is the leading source of information on the employment of the college educated, and forecasts hiring and trends in the job market; tracks starting salaries, recruiting and hiring practices, and student attitudes and outcomes; and identifies best practices and benchmarks. NACE provides its members with high-quality resources and research; networking and professional development opportunities; and standards, ethics, advocacy, and guidance on key issues.

The Reflect Organization

By hosting innovative, proactive programs that provide college students with a safe forum to engage in open and honest discussion, The Reflect Organization (Reflect), a national mental wellness nonprofit with college and university chapters, is dedicated to empowering students to foster a culture of authenticity, self-love, and allyship on campus.

The Steve Fund

The Steve Fund is the nation’s only organization focused on supporting the mental health and emotional well-being of young people of color. The Steve Fund works with colleges and universities, non-profits, researchers, mental health experts, families, and young people to promote programs and strategies that build understanding and assistance for the mental and emotional health of the nation’s young people of color.