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- Feed A Child Partners in Health
Problem Many children around the world are malnourished. The Gift Your gift will provide food for the family of a malnourished child for two months.
$84.00 - Improve Habits Sesame Workshop
Problem In Mexico, Plaza Sésamo, is working to open children to the rich cultural diversity of the region and encourage children and their families to lead a safe and balanced lifestyle through exercise and healthy eating habits. The Gift Your donation will help support Plaza Sésamo, the Mexican version of Sesame Street, and its “Healthy Habits for Life" initiative. The acclaimed Spanish-language television series for preschool children depicts a colorful neighborhood, the Plaza, which is home to a mix of families, children, and Muppets. The series, now in its 10th milestone season, continues to educate and delight children and currently focuses on promoting healthy habits. Sesame Workshop, the organization behind Sesame Street, collaborates with local producers, child development experts, educators, and child psychologists to develop the educational curriculum in response to local needs.
$50.00 - Teach Young Girls Sesame Workshop
Problem In Egypt, there is a critical need to bolster young children’s literacy and educational opportunities for girls. Alam Simsim, the Egyptian coproduction of Sesame Street, is a lively and friendly place where all children are always welcome and have the opportunity to learn basic skills. Alam Simsim includes a special emphasis on girls' education, featuring Khokha, a lovable pink monster who encourages young girls to have a limitless sense of possibility. The Gift Your donation will help support Alam Simsim, the Egyptian version of Sesame Street., helping children learn about health and hygiene, the environment, letters, and numbers in fun and engaging ways. Alam Simsim encourages children--especially young girls--to be proud of who they are, appreciate different ways of life, and respect each other.$20.00 - Inspire Dreams First Book
Problem Studies reveal that the critical factor determining whether a child becomes a reader is access to reading materials, and specifically the presence of books at home. Yet in low-income neighborhoods, there is only one book for every 300 children, and 80% of preschool and after-school programs serving this population have no books at all for the children they serve. The Gift Your gift will place 15 brand new volumes into the hands of children who need them most.$45.00 - Give Home Libraries First Book
Problem Studies reveal that the critical factor determining whether a child becomes a reader is access to reading materials, and specifically the presence of books at home. Yet in low-income neighborhoods, there is only one book for every 300 children, and 80% of preschool and after-school programs serving this population have no books at all for the children they serve. The Gift Your gift will directly stock the homes of an entire classroom of children in need with libraries of their very own brand new books.
$720.00 - Equip A Classroom First Book
Problem Studies reveal that the critical factor determining whether a child becomes a reader is access to reading materials, and specifically the presence of books at home. Yet in low-income neighborhoods, there is only one book for every 300 children, and 80% of preschool and after-school programs serving this population have no books at all for the children they serve. The Gift Your gift will allow a classroom of children to learn from brand new books.$90.00 - End Early Marriage Freedom From Hunger
Problem In India, over half of adolescent and teenage girls marry before the age of 18. These early marriages perpetuate a family’s cycle of chronic hunger and poverty. But girls like Sumitra--who live in rural villages where discrimination and violence against women are common--want education to resist early marriage. Freedom from Hunger invites girls like Sumitra to join self-help groups that give them access to loans, life skills training to choose their own life path. The Gift $1,589 helps 83 adolescent and teenage girls resist early marriage by giving them real alternatives and a chance to choose their own path.
$1,589.00 - Protect a Child US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants
Problem Thousands of children enter the U.S. every year, without an adult or legal status. Coming from 30 different countries worldwide, they have experienced such horrors as trafficking, persecution, or domestic violence. These children quickly find themselves in the court system often without any representation, assistance or resources The Gift A sustaining gift of $90 a month will provide a full intake screening, thorough needs assessment, brief legal advice, health and social service referrals, and a trained pro bono attorney for one child.
$90.00 - Educate a Child BRAC USA Inc
Problem In 1997, the Uganda introduced its “Universal Primary Education” plan which resulted in 93% of school-age children enrolling in primary school. Unfortunately, the government was not able to sustain this momentum in Northern Uganda, where many children live in Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps. Consequently, the enrollment rate of school-age children in Northern Uganda is less than 50%, with less than 2% completing primary school, and more than 50% dropping out before grade three. The Gift A donation of $97 will fund an entire year of school for a Ugandan child in an IDP camp. Education has a positive impact on not only the future earning potential of a child but also helps reduce vulnerability to health problems such as HIV/AIDS, increases awareness of human rights and issues such as family planning and improves confidence and overall well being. BRAC is already providing Northern Uganda's IDP camp children with the opportunity for education in specially designed schools that are suitable for older children. These schools follow BRAC's unique, interactive approach to education which makes learning a fun experience for students and prepares them to be mainstreamed into the government’s schools. The first class of BRAC learners (aged 10-12 years old) recently graduated from Grade 1, and 844 passed their exams and have been mainstreamed into the government schools.
$97.00 - Prevent Isolation Per Scholas
Problem Even after seniors receive adequate training on computer usage, many will have continuing questions. It is difficult to reach polite and friendly technicians that are courteous and clear in offering guidance. The Gift Your donation will give a senior life-long technical support from a friendly and knowledgeable Per Scholas Employee.
$75.00 - Comfort a Child National Hospice Foundation
Problem Grief is a highly emotional experience. At any age, people find that grief includes fear, anger, relief, despair, peace, guilt, numbness, agitation and sorrow. And when children lose loved ones, they experience a frightening sense of abandonment and a loss of security. While grief is a normal and healthy response to loss, the special needs of grieving children are frequently neglected – and this can have dire consequences later in life. The Gift Your donation will provide comfort for a grieving child by arming school personnel with the tools to effectively address the student’s needs. Research has confirmed teacher discomfort in discussing grief in the classroom. Most teachers need assistance in successfully dealing with a death in the life of a student, particularly a major loss. “Grief at School: A Manual for School Personnel" is an 83-page guide designed for administrators, teachers, psychologists, counselors, nurses, and social workers who encounter students of all ages affected by any type of loss, especially death in the family. Your gift of comfort can ease the sadness in a child’s heart.
$36.00 - Help Vets Connect Veterans for America
Problem Reconnecting to society is tough for many war veterans. Less than one percent of Americans went to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, so returning veterans can feel isolated. It can be difficult to readjust to civilian life, obtain a job, and find accurate and veteran-friendly information on health problems such as traumatic brain injury or post-traumatic stress disorder. Continuing war coverage by non-veteran pundits often leaves veterans feeling like their voice is ignored. The Gift Building on lessons from service in four wars, Veterans for America galvanizes new war veterans nationwide, creating an empowered community and space to share common experiences. We raise awareness about challenges facing returning veterans and promote common-sense solutions. Our website and community blogs provide an active atmosphere to share experiences among those who understand their challenges. Veterans For America’s website serves as a unique portal and resource to Government and private resources. Our daily news updates provide critical information specific to veterans’ needs, such as developments in healthcare and Veterans For America legislative initiatives. Your gift of $43 will keep our veteran’s community blogs and news service up and running for one day. Please help provide the community tools that enable our returning war veterans to find a safe space to share their stories and make their voices heard.
$43.00 - Treat Refugees Peter C. Alderman Foundation
Problem Camp internees lead non-sanitary, unsafe, crowded, and hopeless existences. Traumatic depression and suicide are very frequent. The Gift Weekly visits by a psychiatric team to a displaced persons camp can help approximately 30 patients per visit. Your gift will help alleviate the mental anguish of some of these desperate people.
$1,000.00 - Adopt a Polar Bear Defenders of Wildlife
Problem While Polar Bears are one of the largest carnivores on earth, they are no match for the forces that are looking to destroy their homeland in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Big Oil relentlessly lobbies Congress to open the Arctic Refuge to destructive oil exploration and drilling. With Arctic ice already melting rapidly due to global warming, we can’t afford to compound the problem by also devastating vital denning habitat in the Refuge. The Gift We must have everyone’s support to stop Congress from handing the home of polar bears and other wildlife over to Big Oil, which will only result in a savings of a penny at the gas pump…and that’s in 20 years! Your gift to Adopt A Polar Bear will help Defenders save polar bears and other imperiled Arctic wildlife.
$125.00 - Fund Clean Beaches The School for Field Studies
Problem For humans, marine debris fouls pristine beaches and poses health hazards. For aquatic wildlife, the effects can be more deadly. Sea birds and marine animals get caught in a variety of debris with often fatal results including suffocation and drowning. Strangulation and starvation result when animals mistake debris for food. Discarded fishing line is responsible for nearly half of all entanglements, with rope, fishing nets, and those ubiquitous plastic grocery bags following closely behind. The Gift With your help, students and staff at each of two School for Field Studies environmental research centers will join with community members four times a year to clean up local beaches. As part of their outreach activities, students at the Center for Marine Resources Studies in the Turks and Caicos Islands will organize beach clean ups at East Bay, Hawklands, and Shark Bay Beaches on South Caicos Island. At the Center for Coastal Studies in Baja California Sur, Mexico, students will join with a local organization, Magdalena Bay Keepers, to clean up trash along the shore of the bay in the fishing village of Puerto San Carlos. During a recent beach clean up in Mexico, 168 bags of trash were collected by 161 volunteers who cleaned two miles of coastline. Items collected included: 1,262 plastic and paper bags; 1,716 plastic bottles; 402 food containers; 197 disposable diapers; 57 fishing nets.
$75.00 - Start a Fruit Stand Grameen Foundation USA
The Gift Your gift will provide a loan for one woman to start a fruit stand at her local market, giving her a way to break through poverty, gain self-confidence and expand job opportunities in her community. Microfinance is one of the most powerful solutions to poverty in existence today. It attacks poverty at its roots and allows a poor person to gain a foothold against day-to-day impoverishment. Microfinance – small loans complemented by savings, insurance and other services -- allows a person to buy an animal, tool, or other asset to start or grow her own business. As the enterprise grows, so does her social standing; empowerment; family’s education and nutrition levels; and job opportunities in her community. Grameen Foundation provides training, financing and technology to microfinance institutions worldwide so they can serve more.
$95.00 - Fight Corruption Transparency International USA
Problem Bribery and corruption divert scare resources that would otherwise help lift millions out of poverty. Corruption raises the cost of essential public services, such as education, nutrition, clean water and health care, and impedes investment that would translate into economic growth and a higher standard of living. TI-USA advocates for donor institutions to minimize these negative effects by doing more to ensure that development assistance funds reach their intended beneficiaries. The Gift Your gift will help TI-USA ensure that resources reach those who need them the most. We work with donor organizations, including multilateral banks and US foreign aid institutions, to ensure that the full potential of development aid is achieved. TI-USA advises donors on their efforts to stamp out corruption, encourages them to make anti-corruption control programs a top priority, and assists them in mobilizing forces to combat corruption. It works across institutions to achieve consistent approaches.
$100.00 - Charitable Gift CardCollections: Changing The PresentAbout Charitable Gift Cards to Make a Difference Empower your friend or loved one to change the world in exactly the way they want. Give a charitable gift card from Changing The Present. The recipient can use it to: fund any of thousands of specific, heart-warming charitable gifts, such as preserve an acre of the rain forest, fund an hour of cancer research, provide books for children, etc. from hundreds of leading nonprofits (if your favorite is missing, just let us know, and we will prioritize an invitation to them) support any favorite 501(c)(3) nonprofit fund needs for any K-12 school (and any teacher, cub, team, or band at any of the schools) in the country How Our Digital Charitable Gift Cards Work To give a single gift card or a few, just scroll down, choose a dollar amount, customize the card, preview it, add to your cart, repeat the process if you want to give more than one gift card, and check out. We are not allowed to collect the email of the gift recipient, so the gift card app will send you an email with a link to the digital gift card. You can then forward the link to the recipient. We Also Offer Bulk, Branded, and Corporate Charitable Gift Cards To give gift cards in bulk, including branded gift cards for corporate giving, please click here. About Printed Greeting Cards to Announce Gift Cards Normally, we send the gift card as a personalized e-card. Want us to mail a personalized printed greeting card to announce the gift card? After you add the gift card to your cart, just click the greeting card banner at the top of the cart page. For security, we cannot print the gift card number in the greeting card. You will need to give the recipient the number, which you will receive by email. The greeting card message describing the gift will say: A Charitable Greeting Card to Make a Difference Here is a gift card to make the world a better place in exactly the way you want. You can protect the environment, feed the hungry, care for the elderly, or anything you care about. Just visit www.ChangingThePresent.org, and enter the card number at checkout. (The gift-giver will give you the #).
$25.00 - Promote Sanitation Water.org
The Problem Unsafe drinking water is the #1 killer of children under age 5, and it delays economic development in children of all ages. In Gulomekeda and Ganta-afeshum, 13% of the population has access to clean water, and 9% has access to adequate sanitation services. Women and children spend hours daily collecting contaminated water. The lack of access to safe drinking water is compounded by poor hygiene habits, causing an increase in water-related diseases and child mortality. The Gift This gift will pay for 130 children to receive health and sanitation education classes. We are constructing five community spring water catchment systems and pit latrines for individual households and the local elementary school, and providing health education, community development and technical training. Upon completion, 1,720 people will have access to safe water and latrines. Clean, accessible water will allow women and children time for school and other tasks. This project will act as a catalyst for other community-driven improvements. A crucial factor in the success of our projects is education about safe hygiene practices and their importance to an individual’s health. People who understand the link between hygienic practices and disease are more likely to maintain the water supply system and latrines. Community health workers with hygiene educators, will provide community hygiene education through village meetings and trainings.
$100.00 - Special Needs Equipment and Supplies for your Favorite TeacherCollections: School and Teacher ResourcesThe Gift Special Needs Education teachers and therapists require all sorts of resources to ensure that all students get the best possible education. Your contribution will help provide adaptive equipment, rehab equipment and therapy solutions to students need.
$25.00 - Theater Needs for your Favorite TeacherCollections: School and Teacher ResourcesThe Gift Some students feel most alive when they are on stage. Others feel important and fulfilled when they are backstage making sure the lights and scenery are just right. Even if your child does not fit either of those categories, the whole school will benefit from a well-equipped drama department.
$25.00 - Furniture for your Favorite TeacherCollections: School and Teacher ResourcesThe Gift Students need sturdy, comfortable furniture to be able to learn. It is such a basic thing, and yet the need is so severe. It is a great long-term investment in a school, since it will last for many years. Give students a soft place to rest and a firm table to think and learn on. Their classroom should be their home away from home, so let's make sure it's comfortable.
$25.00 - Playground Equipment for your Favorite TeacherCollections: School and Teacher ResourcesThe Gift Some students think that the playground is the best part of school. We think it's pretty great, too. It encourages students to socialize, gets them moving, and teaches them valuable life lessons. Your contribution will help provide students with the playground equipment they need.
$25.00 - Field Trips for your Favorite TeacherCollections: School and Teacher ResourcesThe Gift Remember how exciting it was to get to go on field trips when you were in school? These trips are fun, they are educational, and they give our students exposure to the real world. Field trips give students memories, experiences, and lessons they will never forget. Your donation will ensure that students can have those great experiences.
$1.00 - Sports Equipment for your Favorite TeacherCollections: School and Teacher ResourcesThe Gift Without sports equipment, the Sultan of Swing would still be George Herman Ruth, Jr. Students need sports equipment to exercise, to learn team work, to develop social skills, and to compete. Your contribution can make all the difference for deserving students.
$25.00 - Science Equipment for your Favorite TeacherCollections: School and Teacher ResourcesThe Gift Who is going to find the cures for cancer and other diseases? Who will invent the next miracle materials? It may be one of our students but only if they have the science equipment they need to learn. Help ensure that our country and students have a bright future by donating toward school science equipment.
$25.00 - Library Resources for your Favorite TeacherCollections: School and Teacher ResourcesThe Gift Today's library is not just a room full of books. School libraries needs funding for books, magazines, digital materials, technology, equipment, and furniture. Your contribution will enrich students' education.
$25.00 - Musical Instruments for your Favorite TeacherCollections: School and Teacher ResourcesThe Gift Music is valuable in and of itself, and it has been shown to improve students' academic performance all across the board. Please help students discover the joy of playing a musical instrument, express themselves, and learn a multitude of life lessons. By contributing toward musical instruments, you will enrich the lives of wonderful students.
$25.00 - Computers for your Favorite TeacherCollections: School and Teacher ResourcesThe Gift Notebooks, printer toner, staplers, glue, pens, markers; our students need so many office-type supplies for their classes. Your contribution will ensure that teachers and students have what they need.
$1.00 - Office Supplies for your Favorite TeacherCollections: School and Teacher ResourcesThe Gift Notebooks, printer toner, staplers, glue, pens, markers; our students need so many office-type supplies for their classes. Your contribution will ensure that teachers have what students need.
$25.00 - Special Needs Equipment and Supplies for your Favorite SchoolCollections: School and Teacher ResourcesThe Gift Special Needs Education teachers and therapists require all sorts of resources to ensure that all students get the best possible education. Your contribution will help provide adaptive equipment, rehab equipment and therapy solutions to students need.
$25.00 - Theater Needs for your Favorite SchoolCollections: School and Teacher ResourcesThe Gift Some students feel most alive when they are on stage. Others feel important and fulfilled when they are backstage making sure the lights and scenery are just right. Even if your child does not fit either of those categories, the whole school will benefit from a well-equipped drama department.
$25.00 - Playground Equipment for your Favorite SchoolCollections: School and Teacher ResourcesThe Gift Some students think that the playground is the best part of school. We think it's pretty great, too. It encourages students to socialize, gets them moving, and teaches them valuable life lessons. Your contribution will help provide students with the playground equipment they need.
$1.00 - Field Trips for your Favorite SchoolCollections: School and Teacher ResourcesThe Gift Remember how exciting it was to get to go on field trips when you were in school? These trips are fun, they are educational, and they give our students exposure to the real world. Field trips give students memories, experiences, and lessons they will never forget. Your donation will ensure that students can have those great experiences.
$25.00 - Sports Equipment for your Favorite School School and Teacher Resources
The Gift Without sports equipment, the Sultan of Swing would still be George Herman Ruth, Jr. Students need sports equipment to exercise, to learn team work, to develop social skills, and to compete. Your contribution can make all the difference for deserving students.
$1.00 - Furniture for your Favorite SchoolCollections: School and Teacher ResourcesThe Gift Students need sturdy, comfortable furniture to be able to learn. It is such a basic thing, and yet the need is so severe. It is a great long-term investment in a school, since it will last for many years. Give students a soft place to rest and a firm table to think and learn on. Their classroom should be their home away from home, so let's make sure it's comfortable.
$1.00 - Library resources for your Favorite SchoolCollections: School and Teacher ResourcesThe Gift Today's library is not just a room full of books. School libraries needs funding for books, magazines, digital materials, technology, equipment, and furniture. Your contribution will enrich students' education.
$1.00 - Science Equipment for your Favorite SchoolCollections: School and Teacher ResourcesThe Gift Who is going to find the cures for cancer and other diseases? Who will invent the next miracle materials? It may be one of our students but only if they have the science equipment they need to learn. Help ensure that our country and students have a bright future by donating toward school science equipment.
$1.00 - Art Supplies for your Favorite SchoolCollections: School and Teacher ResourcesThe Gift Art supplies were one of the first things to be cut from school budgets across the country. Encourage students' creativity and expression by contributing toward art supplies. Let their true colors shine through!
$1.00 - Musical Instruments for your Favorite SchoolCollections: School and Teacher ResourcesThe Gift Music is valuable in and of itself, and it has been shown to improve students' academic performance all across the board. Please help students discover the joy of playing a musical instrument, express themselves, and learn a multitude of life lessons. By contributing toward musical instruments, you will enrich the lives of wonderful students.
$25.00 - Office Supplies for your Favorite SchoolCollections: School and Teacher ResourcesThe Gift Notebooks, printer toner, staplers, glue, pens, markers; our students need so many office-type supplies for their classes. Your contribution will ensure that teachers have what students need.
$25.00 - Computers for your Favorite SchoolCollections: School and Teacher ResourcesThe Gift Notebooks, printer toner, staplers, glue, pens, markers; our students need so many office-type supplies for their classes. Your contribution will ensure that teachers and students have what they need.
$1.00 - Support Your Favorite Catholic Church
Your Gift Your tax-deductible contribution will support the operations and programs of the Catholic church of your choice. If you wish to make this donation in a friend's name, you can have us send a beautiful, personalized printed greeting card to make it a meaningful and memorable gift.
$25.00 - Support Your Favorite Synagogue
Your Gift Your tax-deductible contribution will support the synagogue of your choice. You can make this donation in a friend's name, and have us send a beautiful, personalized printed greeting card to make it a truly memorable gift.$1.00 - Support Your Favorite Mosque
Your Gift Your tax-deductible contribution will support the operations and programs of the Mosque of your choice. You can make this donation in a friend's name, and have us send a beautiful, personalized printed greeting card to make it a truly memorable gift.$1.00 - Support Your Favorite Protestant Church
Your Gift Your tax-deductible contribution will support the operations and programs of the Protestant church of your choice. If you wish to make this donation in a friend's name, you can have us send a beautiful, personalized printed greeting card to make it a truly memorable gift.$1.00 - Support Your Favorite Buddhist Temple
Your Gift Your tax-deductible contribution will support the operations and programs of the Buddhist temple of your choice. You can make this donation in a friend's name, and have us send a beautiful, personalized printed greeting card to make it a truly memorable gift.$1.00 - Support Your Favorite Hindu Temple
Your Gift Your tax-deductible contribution will support the operations and programs of the Hindu temple of your choice. You can make this donation in a friend's name, and have us send a beautiful, personalized printed greeting card to make it a truly memorable gift.$1.00 - Support Your Favorite Place of Worship
Your Gift Your tax-deductible contribution will support the operations and programs of the house of worship of your choice. You can make this donation in a friend's name, and have us send a beautiful, personalized printed greeting card to make it a truly memorable gift.$1.00 - Art Supplies for your Favorite TeacherCollections: School and Teacher ResourcesThe Gift Art supplies were one of the first things to be cut from school budgets across the country. Encourage students' creativity and expression by contributing toward art supplies. Let their true colors shine through!
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