Some high school students already know they want to devote their lives to service to others. Here’s a list of where CEOs/presidents of well known non-profit groups completed their undergraduate studies. Interestingly, this group has the highest percentage of people from MC25 schools, with 43%.
Non-profit organization leaders
AARP
Alzheimer’s Association
American Cancer Society
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
American Heart Association
American Red Cross
American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA)
Americares
Audubon Society
Council on Foreign Relations
Environmental Defense Fund
Feeding America
Goodwill Industries
Habitat for Humanity
National Geographic Society
National Public Radio (NPR)
National Wildlife Federation
Nature Conservancy
Planned Parenthood
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
Saint Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital
Salvation Army
Scouting America
Sierra Club
United States Olympic Committee
United Way
Wikimedia
YMCA
Brown U
U Portland
George Washington U
Princeton
Central Michigan U
Johns Hopkins
Ohio U
U Delaware
Harvard
Duke
Yale
U Louisiana (Lafayette)
Northwestern
U North Carolina Chapel Hill
St. Mary’s College (IN)
New York U
Dartmouth
Emory
Princeton
U Baltimore
U Michigan (Dearborn)
Marquette
Georgia Tech
Oberlin College
Duke
U Virginia
Boston College
Duke
sources: organization websites and wikipedia
(Last updated 3/6/26)