The My Hero Project is a U.S.-based nonprofit organization established in 1995 by philanthropist Karen Pritzker, Jeanne Meyers and Rita Stern Milch that identifies positive role models from around the world for the online digital storytelling project. By 2013, it reached 194 countries. Its primary focus is education, and it also conducts an international film festival that calls attention to real-life heroes. Its partners include iEARN.org, The Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum, Tech-Ed, The National Educational Computing Conference, and the American Film Institute.