Your gift will be used to give small farmers in rural Ethiopia new market opportunities to sell their honey and pepper products domestically and globally. Specifically, IDE will use your gift to provide farmer groups with business skills, technical support, and solid market information. These tools will allow small farmers to lift themselves and their communities out of poverty through effective participation in local, national...

Your gift will result in two benefits. Disadvantaged children in the community who have few toys will receive the dolls. The other result is for the education and skills development of students in Bamako, Mali who will be able to interact online with their peers in the United States. They want to be able to share their culture, as well as the history of West...

Your gift will give a students one year of access to an online system as they apply to college. With secure accounts, students can upload their applications, personal statements, resumes, and other necessary documents for their college applications. On top of that, their teachers can track the student’s progress and upload their letters of recommendation. This tool also provides links to resources on financial aid,...

Today 10 million people in the U.S. are cancer survivors. In response to the increasing number of patients who are living beyond cancer, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center has established the Cancer Survivorship Initiative to institute a comprehensive program of services for cancer survivors and their families and to develop a survivorship research effort that will address issues vital to survivors nationwide.

Your gift will help us grant vital funds to groups like the Nepal Disabled and Neglected Women Society that educates and trains women with disabilities. And supports their search for job placements and their will to live independently and contribute to their communities.

This gift will provide the funds to purchase ten new children's books for the Northside Center's wonderful library, a resource for the entire community. The library contains multi-leveled books of many genres: classics, folktales, poetry, chapter and, I Can Read books, as well as adult titles. There is special emphasis on therapeutic titles that explore such topics as sexual abuse, AIDS, adoption self-esteem, death, and...

A donation of $2500 would go towards a month's salary of a full-time staff member of the Roosevelt Institution.

Your gift of $1,000 helps a Teach For America corps member to attend the summer training institute.

Your gift will assist with language translation for MIUSA's Women's Institute on Leadership and Disability (WILD). The WILD program brings together disabled women leaders from around the world to build skills and exchange strategies to improve the lives of women and girls with disabilities. Support for language interpretation gives women with less formal education the opportunity to participate in this life-changing program. WILD workshops are...

This gift will provide 2 staff hours of work in support of women veterans' programs. Development of programs designed to help women is more critical now than at any other time in U.S. history. Historically, the VA has not had to provide services for women in the numbers that are presenting themselves because of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. Approximately 4% of the homeless veterans...

The Coalition has hosted two conferences for close to 200 severely wounded Veterans and their families. These all-expenses paid events have provided education, career counseling, and a forum for sharing, relaxation, entertainment, and other assistance. Contributions can help to offset the cost of providing network seminars and allow for the continued all-expenses paid conferences, i.e., Disney Road to Recovery; the total outlay of which amounted...

Your gift will be used to support mine victim associations so that they may raise their voices and demands that their rights be respected within their country. While emergency care is indeed vital to a mine victim, it is only a first step. Survivors not only confront a long recovery process characterized by physical suffering and mental grief, but they often suffer the pain of...

Your gift will promote learning and dialogue through one training manual. Women Hold Up The Sky is a dramatic series of training videos about the Women's Convention and its relevance to women's lives. Along with the included training manual, these materials bring the Human Rights Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) alive for women and men around the world. CEDAW is the...

Springboard’s approach focuses on expanding individuals’ view of what’s possible—changing their mindsets about, and increasing, the choices they have in their lives and careers. At Springboard, we believe that a strong sense of hope and choice is essential to permanently escape from poverty. Today, Springboard is launching a large-scale initiative to statistically establish the link between our career development programs and business profitability. This national...

Support writers in need by contributing to PEN’s Writers’ Fund. Recent grant recipients include: a prize-winning poet who escaped domestic violence and was struggling to support herself, her 19-month-old son, and her mother; an elderly writer of six books, hundreds of articles, and short fiction who, through a Medicare bureaucratic error, was unable to pay for the treatment she needed; and a mid-career novelist and...