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- Rescue An Animal American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
ProblemMany dogs and cats who come to our shelter are diamonds in the rough. They may have had tough times of abuse and neglect in their prior lives, so it can take some “cleaning up" for them to really shine. That entails medical care, good nutrition, and clean, safe housing. Our behaviorists evaluate each animal, determine what kind of home they’d do best in, and teach them how to be well-behaved members of the family. The Gift Here at the ASPCA, we are committed to finding a permanent, loving home for every adoptable dog or cat who comes through our doors. As such, we do everything we can to make sure that potential adopters can see how wonderful and worthy each animal is. Your gift will sponsor the rescue of a dog or cat, and provide routine medical care, nutritional care, behavior evaluation and shelter housing for that animal—until the day he or she is adopted. Thanks for allowing our diamonds in the rough to really sparkle—they so deserve it!
$1,000.00 - Stop Overpopulation American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
ProblemMillions of cats and dogs of all ages and breeds are euthanized annually or suffer as strays. It is impossible to determine how many stray dogs and cats live in the United States; estimates for cats alone range up to 70 million. These high numbers are the result of unwanted, unplanned litters that could have been easily prevented—by routine surgical operations known as spaying and neutering. The Gift Here at the ASPCA, we are doing all we can to combat pet overpopulation—from providing low-cost or free spay/neuter to qualifying pet owners in New York City’s five boroughs to ensuring that each and every animal adopted from our shelter is spayed or neutered. And spaying and neutering is not only for the greater good—it’s good for the health of the individual animal, too. Spaying a female cat or dog helps prevent pyometra and breast cancer, and neutering a male dog or cat prevents testicular cancer. And there are wonderful behavioral benefits to boot! Your gift will allow our veterinary surgeons to spay or neuter 50 dogs and cats who are awaiting homes in our shelter. Thank you for joining in the fight against pet overpopulation.$2,500.00 - Rescue A Foal American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
ProblemPremarin, a drug derived from pregnant mares’ urine (PMU), is prescribed to alleviate symptoms of menopause and to prevent osteoporosis in post-menopausal women. But the horses used to produce this drug undergo unnecessary stress and pain. Mares are strapped to urine collection bags 6 months a year; when no longer able to reproduce, they are sold for slaughter. The majority of the foals who are born as “by-products" of the industry end up in slaughterhouses. The Gift The ASPCA is committed to helping some of the thousands of Premarin foals born every year, and the thousands of PMU mares made redundant by recent drastic production cuts in the industry. As such, we provide grants to support the work of several dedicated individuals and organizations who are trying to save as many of these Premarin foals as possible. Your gift will rescue a Premarin foal from inhumane conditions and eventual slaughter, and will cover costs for one year of care at an equine sanctuary. A horse's life saved -- thanks to you.$4,990.00 - Sponsor A Student American Society on Aging
ProblemWhile there are more than 36.3 million Americans aged 65 and over, the number of educational and training programs preparing professionals who work with older adults can decreased in the past 10 years. The Gift Student members’ interest range from gerontology, healthcare, financial planning, technology, public policy—and more. ASA programs provide students with opportunities to network with professionals, present at the national conference and qualify for annual undergraduate and graduate student awards.
$60.00 - Train A Professional American Society on Aging
ProblemWhile there are more than 36.3 million Americans aged 65 and over, the number of educational and training programs preparing professionals who work with older adults can decreased in the past 10 years. The Gift The annual conference is the most comprehensive educational and networking event in the field of aging, providing professionals and volunteers with skills and training to better serve older adults. Attendees choose from more than 1000 sessions in 50 subject tracks featuring the nation’s leading thinkers and key influencers in long-term care, health promotion, mental health, technology and business. Your gift will fund one professional to attend the ASA annual conference.$540.00 - Train A Practitioner American Society on Aging
ProblemWhile there are more than 36.3 million Americans aged 65 and over, the number of educational and training programs preparing professionals who work with older adults can decreased in the past 10 years. The Gift Attendees choose from more than 50 full-day or half-day sessions in a dozen subject tracks ranging from healthcare, diversity, leadership, caregiving and more. These highly practical and focused training provide skills that front line professional can use in any work setting serving elders. Your gift will provide intensive training to one healthcare practitioner.$140.00 - Train Professionals American Society on Aging
ProblemWhile there are more than 36.3 million Americans aged 65 and over, the number of educational and training programs preparing professionals who work with older adults can decreased in the past 10 years. The Gift Ideal for those who cannot travel to conferences or events, the web-based distance program offer both live interactive or on-demand options. Timely hot topics range from emergency preparedness to Medicare coverage and offer professionals access to continuing education requirements 24 hours a day. Your gift will provide our online distance program to one professional.$35.00 - Send Newspapers American Society on Aging
ProblemWhile there are more than 36.3 million Americans aged 65 and over, the number of educational and training programs preparing professionals who work with older adults can decreased in the past 10 years. The Gift Your gift will provide one annual subscription to a national newspaper. No other bi-monthly publication provides comprehensive in-depth coverage of aging issues. A special In Focus section provides advances in practice, policy and research for professionals serving older adults and their communities.$15.00 - Fund A Journal American Society on Aging
ProblemWhile there are more than 36.3 million Americans aged 65 and over, the number of educational and training programs preparing professionals who work with older adults can decreased in the past 10 years. The Gift Your gift will provide one annual subscription to a quarterly journal. Each issue is devoted to a particular topic in aging and features nationally recognized authors and guest editors so professionals can stay on top of the latest research and promising practices.$40.00 - Arts Education Americans For The Arts Inc
ProblemWhile we know the positive impact that study of the arts has children’s achievement, arts education is often the first thing to be cut because of budget concerns. Today, the erosion of arts education in America’s public schools has reached a crisis level, even as global competition makes our need to prepare an innovative, creative future workforce more acute. Now more than ever, our kids deserve arts education in their schools. The Gift Your gift will support Americans for the Arts’ ongoing work to provide parents and teachers nationwide with the appropriate tools to make the case for arts education in our public schools. Check out online resources like our Ten Tips for Parents to learn more about what you can do to advocate for arts education and familiarize yourself with the movement that we are helping to support in school districts throughout the United States to put the arts back into our schools.
$25.00 - Support Public Art Americans For The Arts Inc
ProblemYou are a public artist and want to network with peers across the country. Where can you go to access resources about best practices, participate in juried reviews, and learn more about new projects around the country? Americans for the Arts' Public Art Network (PAN) is the only program of its kind in the United States. Each year, PAN serves the unique needs of more than 1,000 public artists and art organizations, providing them with specialized resources and connecting peers to peers. The Gift Your gift will help PAN serve the needs of public artists and public art programs throughout the United States. Help us ensure that the field continues to grow and that everyone has access to art that is free, engaging, and has lasting impact.$50.00 - Arts Leaders Americans For The Arts Inc
ProblemYou are a young artist or arts administrator and a lack of funds limits you from you doing many things, including supporting your own growth as a professional. How to learn what you need to know to take the next steps in your career? Apply for a scholarship from Americans for the Arts. Each Americans for the Arts offers scholarships to help emerging artists and arts leaders attend professional development trainings, conferences, and workshops. The Gift Your gift will support scholarship aid for young artists and arts professionals to attend professional development programs, including the Americans for the Arts Annual Convention and National Arts Marketing Project Conference. Both gatherings offer emerging arts leaders a productive meeting ground for professional development, networking and personal renewal. Join fellow art lovers to help develop the next generation of arts leaders.$150.00 - Alert the Network Amnesty International USA
ProblemOver the past 30 years, Urgent Action network members have helped to save thousands of lives by stopping torture, preventing executions and protecting human rights defenders. The Gift Pay for a month’s worth of messages to be sent as part of an Urgent Action campaign to save someone in imminent danger of torture or facing death. Amnesty International's global Urgent Action network provides an effective and rapid means of preventing some of the most life-threatening human rights violations against individuals. As soon as Amnesty learns that a person is in danger of human rights abuse, we alert members of the Network in over 70 countries. Network members then compose and send letters, e-mails, faxes and telegrams to the officials - whether presidents or prison governors - who have the power to stop the abuse. Over the following hours, days and weeks, these officials receive thousands of individual messages. These are a powerful signal that their actions are being witnessed by an international audience concerned about the fate of those involved.
$30.00 - Demand Dignity Amnesty International USA
ProblemEvery human has a right to be free from fear and free from want, and those rights are indivisible. Human rights abuses cause and perpetuate poverty and economic insecurity, and poverty leads straight back to such abuse. Over the next six years, the Demand Dignity Campaign will address a range of abuses. Here in the U.S. we will begin with violations of the right to health, especially maternal health, at home and abroad. The Gift Support Amnesty International as we initiate the biggest piece of research, campaigning and empowerment work in our history as part of the Demand Dignity campaign. Building on 50 years of rigorous and impartial investigation into human rights abuses and successful lobbying of governments and the UN to improve international and domestic laws and demand accountability when they are broken, Amnesty will work to shift the power balance towards the poor themselves and to provide the space for them to tell their own stories and engage in the processes that determine their own future. With the Demand Dignity campaign, Amnesty begins to embody the holistic founding vision of human rights, as an organization that works toward both freedom from fear and freedom from want. Join us in this effort by making a contribution to Amnesty's life-saving human rights work today.$10.00 - Show Them the Ropes Amnesty International USA
ProblemWhether it's coordinating constituent meetings with elected officials, rallying on street corners, organizing house parties or writing letters on behalf of Prisoners of Conscience, our volunteers need the tools and training to help grow Amnesty International's human rights movement. The Gift Making a difference for human rights requires training and resources. That's why Amnesty has developed a special, in-depth toolkit to show new volunteers how to become effective activists and organizers. $5 will cover the cost of printing and shipping an activist toolkit to 1 volunteer and provide her with the tools she needs to begin promoting human rights on campuses and in communities nationwide.$5.00 - Media Outreach Amnesty International USA
ProblemSupport media outreach on priority campaigns such as calling for accountability on torture and ending global human rights crises. Half the battle of protecting and promoting human rights involves raising public awareness about rights abuses. And there's no faster or more effective way to amplify Amnesty's message on human rights concerns than through the media. The Gift Amnesty press officers worldwide work with journalists to bring to the public's attention breaking developments on serious human rights concerns. By supporting our media outreach, you'll help us bring critical rights issues into focus for the public and policy makers, raise the profile of urgent human rights cases and sound the alarm for global action to stop abuses.$40.00 - Celebrate Teens! Andre Sobel River Of Life Foundation
ProblemChildren who face a catastrophic illness are often isolated from their peers. They have wisdom and insight beyond their years, and much to teach friends and family of others who are diagnosed with life threatening. Especially about the meaning of friendship. In recognition of these courageous young people, the Andre Sobel River of Life Foundation annually sponsors the Andre Sobel Award for teens ages 12-21, a writing contest on the topic "Friendship in the Face of Illness". The Gift Your gift will give a $20 gift certificate to all teens who enter the Andre Sobel Essay Award Contest. This annual Award is a contest just for young people who have survived catastrophic illness, like cancer. Each year hundreds of entrants compete to win the top prize ($5000). Teens submit a thoughtful essay about their experience with illness that speaks directly to other kids. The topic in 2008 was Friendship in the Face of Illness. If an entrant does not win a top prize, they are rewarded with a beautiful certificate and a $25 gift card in appreciation of their courage in discussing such a difficult time in their lives. Your gift of $25 recognizes the courage and wisdom of these brave kids.
$20.00 - Help A Single Dad Andre Sobel River Of Life Foundation
ProblemSometimes the simplest thing -- like having enough money for bus fare -- can keep a father and child from getting to the hospital for the child's regular chemotherapy. The Gift A simple gift of $10 can pay bus fare for dad and his child to get to and from the hospital, ensuring that the child receives critical medical treatment. When your child is seriously ill, it is stressful enough. Help relieve a family's financial burden so that dad can focus on helping his child heal.$10.00 - Cellphone Minutes Andre Sobel River Of Life Foundation
ProblemSometimes the simplest things -- like lack of money -- can keep a single dad from staying in touch with his children at home while he cares for his critically ill child in the hospital. When a child has a life threatening illness, it is stressful enough. For single parents, the choices can be impossible. While a dad cares for his child with a brain tumor in the hospital, he worries about his other children at home. Help to relieve his financial burdens and soften his stress. The Gift Your gift will pay for a month of cellphone minutes so that a single dad caring for his child at the hospital can keep in touch with other children and family back home.$35.00 - Pay The Rent Andre Sobel River Of Life Foundation
ProblemWhen a child is critically ill, things happen fast. After the shock of the initial diagnosis, a family's finances can quickly unravel, especially for a single parent. Medical bills add up, and soon a single parent might quit his job to be with his child. When the rent comes due, and there isn't enough money to pay it, the parent can even risk losing his home. The Gift Your generous gift will help a single parent family stay stable and in their home while their child is in treatment for a catastrophic illness. By paying a month's rent, you relieve a family's immediate financial burden and give mom or dad breathing room. Now they can focus on helping their child heal.$500.00 - Bring a Grandparent Andre Sobel River Of Life Foundation
ProblemWhen a child is diagnosed with a life threatening illness, life changes in an instant. Dad might quit his job to be at the hospital with his child, but who will help out at home if dad is single or mom takes on more hours to support the family? Siblings need a loving parent now more than ever. The Gift Your gift will pay for transportation for a grandparent to visit and care for the siblings at home. Your gift will help with gas, a long distance bus ticket, or plane fare. Not only will your gift give siblings their loving grandparent to care for them during this fragile time, but it will give Dad peace of mind knowing that he can focus on his sick child's healing.$150.00 - Teach Empowerment Anewamerica Community Corporation
ProblemLow income new American immigrants and refugees have few resources to help guide them toward financial security for their families. Many immigrant entrepreneurs do not have the tools to access "the system" in America. They fear government because they experienced human rights abuses in their home countries. They face barriers of language. They lack formal credit histories to qualify for loans. They do not have the "networks" to access markets or mentors to help them grow their businesses. The Gift The gift will provide one new American with one Business Planning class. AnewAmerica offers entrepreneurs a holistic 25 week college certificate program in Business Planning. Classes are offered in Spanish, English, and Vietnamese, through partnerships with local Bay Area universities. Entrepreneurs develop a sense of empowerment in a classroom full of fellow immigrant entrepreneurs. Each entrepreneur learns the skills they need to launch a business, including how to manage cash flow and inventory, how to operate a marketing plan, and how to write their business plan and obtain a business license. Classes also include education on financial literacy, home ownership, asset development, green business development, and community engagement. AnewAmerica's holistic model of microenterprise development produces viable, socially-responsible and economically resilient businesses that are a service to the communities in which they operate.
$15.00 - Teach Success Anewamerica Community Corporation
ProblemLow income new American immigrants and refugees have few resources to help guide them toward financial security for their families. Many immigrant entrepreneurs do not have the tools to access the services they need to establish themselves financially in America. They face barriers of language and lack formal credit histories to qualify for loans. This impedes their ability to launch their business, save for their children's education, purchasing a home, and retirement. The Gift This gift will provide one financial literacy class to a low-income new American. AnewAmerica's 25-week college certificate course in Business Planning educates immigrants and refugees about how to be fiscally responsible, successful business owners. AnewAmerica offers a continuum of strategic services to help clients repair and build credit, build assets and prepare them to access business loans and become bankable in the near future. AnewAmerica's focus on financial literacy education enables entrepreneurs to become educated savers, and to leverage the earnings they save toward an Individual Development Account (IDA) with AnewAmerica, which enables them to receive matching funds to invest in their business, purchase a house, and save for retirement.$30.00 - Teach Homeownership Anewamerica Community Corporation
ProblemIn this time of economic recession, low-income new American families are increasingly vulnerable to predatory lending practices and poor home ownership choices. The Gift This gift will provide one home ownership literacy class to a low-income new American. AnewAmerica's 25-week college certificate course in Business Planning educates immigrants and refugees about how to be fiscally responsible, successful business and homeowners. Classes are offered in English, Spanish, or Vietnamese. Through these classes, entrepreneurs gain access to the education and resources they need to become voices for change in their communities. Home ownership education guides clients through the process of deciding whether it is appropriate to invest in a home, and if so, how to best act in their financial interest.$20.00 - Grow Businesses Anewamerica Community Corporation
ProblemNew American entrepreneurs enrolled in AnewAmerica’s Virtual Business Incubator have a myriad of decisions to negotiate when writing their business plans. AnewAmerica’s Green Business initiatives empower entrepreneurs to green their business plans and launch environmentally-responsible businesses. Through AnewAmerica’s green business curriculum, entrepreneurs learn how to green their operating procedures, develop and market ecologically-sound goods and services. The Gift AnewAmerica is providing green business support through implementing green curriculum in our Virtual Business Incubator classes and hosting green business experts as guest speakers. Our clients are learning about the importance of creating a green business from the beginning phase of the business planning program. Through the business development and growth phase of our program, AnewAmerica’s entrepreneurs have the opportunity to receive green business coaching from current green business owners and professional consultants. To recognize our clients’ efforts to adopt green business practices, AnewAmerica launched a Green Business Certificate program. The mission of the program is to enable and encourage AnewAmerica’s entrepreneurs to adopt green, sustainable business practices that facilitate ecological conservation, healthy environments, strong community development, and a vibrant local economy. Our goal is to have all of our AnewAmerica Certified Green business certified by the Bay Area Green Business Association.$50.00 - Boost A Business Anewamerica Community Corporation
ProblemNew Americans who seek to pursue entrepreneurial endeavors are offered few empowering resources. They lack formal credit histories to apply for loans. Discrimination by some lenders based on race, immigration status, and neighborhood of residence makes it difficult for them to access capital. They do not have the technical assistance to make their microbusinesses flourish. AnewAmerica recognizes entrepreneurs need 1-on-1 business coaching to help them access markets and grow their businesses. The Gift Your gift provides a new American entrepreneur with one-on-one technical assistance with an industry professional. This session is designed to help them boost their business, activate their marketing plans, access markets, and propel their businesses into the next level. Through our Access to Markets program, AnewAmerica offers its entrepreneurs a variety of services to help them expand and establish the business plans they developed during the 25 week college certificate course. One vehicle for mentorship is AnewAmerica's Bridge 2 Success Program (B2S). B2S is a mentorship program partnering a diverse group of volunteer business professionals and students with new American entrepreneurs, granting them coaching and mentorship in the areas necessary to further develop their microenterprises, such as banking, corporate and small business management, technology, marketing, and operations. This assistance helps our entrepreneurs develop successful businesses that support the health of their families and our communities.$100.00 - Launch a Storefront Anewamerica Community Corporation
ProblemNew Americans seeking to open storefronts face a wide array of challenges. They lack formal credit histories to apply for loans. Discrimination by some lenders based on race, immigration status, and neighborhood of residence makes it difficult for them to access capital. They do not have the technical assistance to make their microbusinesses flourish. The digital divide is also a barrier to developing efficient businesses in a technology-oriented marketplace. \ The Gift AnewAmerica helps its entrepreneurs secure the credit they need to launch their businesses. Clients receive asset-building services through Savings Clubs-individual development accounts (IDAs), financial literacy, home ownership education and credit access. This program component seeks to strengthen the long-term financial sustainability of working families that face special barriers because of their educational, linguistic, cultural and ethnic differences that hinder their capacity to access financial resources in the mainstream system. Outcomes from this program are the production of a long-range family assets plan. AnewAmerica's IDA program matches entrepreneurs' savings up to $3,000 per individual. Entrepreneurs leverage their financial assets to launch their businesses. Your donation would help match one entrepreneurs' savings, and it will be doubled by AnewAmerica's matching grant. This enables entrepreneurs to leverage up to $6,000 to launch or expand their business, and in many cases, help them to secure a storefront.$1,000.00 - College Certificate Anewamerica Community Corporation
ProblemEscaping poverty involves empowering working-poor immigrant families to get out of the low-wage job trap. While two primary means of doing this are self-employment and asset building, and many immigrants have entrepreneurial drive, the desire to save, and well-developed community support networks, they run a gauntlet on the path to success. Many new Americans lack English language skills, access to credit, knowledge of the resources available to help them integrate. The Gift Your donation provides one new America entrepreneur with a twenty-five week college certificate in Business Planning. AnewAmerica has partnerships with Holy Names University in Oakland, California, and National Hispanic University in San Jose, California, which gives our entrepreneurs a meaningful and respected certificate for their efforts. During the 25-week sessions, entrepreneurs learn how to define their business goals, write business plans, gain proficiency with technological skills and computing equipment, establish an effective accounting system, build financial literacy, asset development and home ownership strategies, integrate social responsibility into their businesses and lifestyles, launch effective marketing campaigns, and how to open their dream businesses. AnewAmerica's Business Planning course also provides entrepreneurs with extensive information on how to establish green micro-enterprises that are ecologically-responsible in their operations and that offer a healthy product to consumers.$500.00 - Save a Gorilla Ape Action Africa
ProblemModern-day poachers penetrate deep into virgin forests on logging trucks, use high-powered rifles to kill entire families, and smuggle out their illegal spoils. Those infants not killed outright: often wounded themselves, traumatized by the slaughter they have witnessed; are not likely to survive. Unless... Working with law enforcement, Ape Action Africa rescues orphaned gorillas and chimps - some only days old and hours from death - and gives them a second chance at life. The Gift For more than a dozen years, dedicated veterinary and care staff have worked around the clock to save the lives of rescued orphans who are often wounded, ill, starved and traumatized. Emergency surgery, critical wound care, rehydration and nourishment are just part of the physical and psychological rehabilitation Ape Action Africa provides to each orphan. Your gift will help make sure that the next orphan receives that same life-saving intervention and care.
$2,500.00 - Give A Day of Life Ape Action Africa
ProblemEnsuring the survival of the 250 endangered gorillas, chimps and other primates who call Ape Action Africa home means providing care every day of the year. They depend on us for food and medicine and surrogate parenting, socialization and vaccines and physical security. And that requires salaries, food and supplies, equipment and medicine. The Gift Your gift of a day will provide more than 250 rescued orphans with two nutritious meals of fresh produce; a full day of exploration and play in large, lush and secure forest enclosures; ongoing rehabilitation and socialization; fresh browse and nesting material in cleaned sleeping quarters; health checks, vaccinations, and disease diagnosis and treatment; and all the keepers, cooks, drivers, vet techs and educators that it takes to make this possible.$683.00 - Sponsor a chimp Ape Action Africa
ProblemThe fortunate orphan chimpanzees are those who, after surviving the abuse of the illegal bushmeat and pet trades, find their way to Ape Action Africa and its protected rainforest sanctuary. Once in our care, these innocent survivors depend on us for food and medicine and surrogate parenting, socialization and vaccines and physical security. The Gift Your gift will provide a full month of nutritious meals of fresh produce; ongoing rehabilitation and socialization; fresh browse and nesting material in cleaned sleeping quarters; health checks, vaccinations, and disease diagnosis and treatment.$50.00 - Elevate Art Archie Bray Foundation
ProblemThe Archie Bray exhibition gallery is free and open to the public daily and provides an important venue for resident artists to show new work. Maintaining the quality of the exhibition space is essential to providing both the residents and the public with a professional art viewing experience. The Gift This gift will provide one display pedestal for the gallery.
$25.00 - Feel the Heat Archie Bray Foundation
ProblemFiring ceramic art requires precise monitoring of temperature. Cones are made to melt at specific temperatures and, when placed inside the kiln, allow the artist to keep track of the interior temperature. The Gift This gift will provide one box of cones for use in the resident artist studios.$10.00 - Shed Some Light Archie Bray Foundation
ProblemProper lighting is essential to professional display of art. The Gift This gift will purchase one case of flood and spot lights for the gallery.$50.00 - Shelve It Archie Bray Foundation
ProblemKiln shelves allow proper stacking of work in the kiln. Over time they can warp or crack from the heat or chemicals used in atmospheric firings. The Gift This gift will provide one kiln shelf for use in one of the Bray’s 25 kilns.$75.00 - Month of "Fun" Days Archie Bray Foundation
ProblemIn the 21st century, creativity marks the difference between success and failure in the global community. Arts education helps children learn to think critically, navigate ambiguity, and gain the self-esteem necessary to solve problems. As the arts are eliminated from public school curricula, it is increasingly important to provide new avenues for children to experience the joys and challenges of creating art. The Gift Clay Camps at the Archie Bray Foundation immerse students from kindergarten through high school in the creative process. The international resident artists at the Bray teach week-long sessions that explore hand-building, throwing, glazing, and firing. As a result, children gain a new appreciation for their own ideas and abilities. Your gift will help ensure that children have every opportunity to develop to their fullest potential.$100.00 - Food for Thought Archie Bray Foundation
ProblemArtists at the Bray are responsible for their own housing and living expenses and the Bray provides each resident with $200 a month to help offset costs. To economize, most of the resident artists prepare their meals in the resident center communal kitchen, eating together informally, and sharing ideas about their work. The Gift This gift will provide one resident artist with a stipend to offset living costs for one month.$200.00 - Creative Excellence Archie Bray Foundation
ProblemThe Archie Bray Foundation was the first artist residency program in the United States devoted solely to ceramic art. Although there now are many other programs that offer ceramic residencies, the Bray is the only one that extends for up to two years. This period of time, dedicated to exploring new ideas and techniques, has been pivotal in the careers of leading ceramic artists for nearly sixty years and continues to offer a sanctuary of promise for emerging artists. The Gift The Bray is committed to maintaining the quality of the resident experience and in 2005 opened a new 12,000 square-foot state of the art studio complex with ten individual studios, kiln facilities, and special spaces for mold making and glazing. Making an individual studio available for each resident artist free of charge provides an “empty canvas” that allows ceramic artists the space to think, explore and create. Your gift will ensure that one resident has that essential studio space for one month.$600.00 - Sponsor A Classroom Art in All of Us
ProblemMillions of primary school children around the world do not have access to art classes in their educational programs or curriculums overall. The main reason for this is the lack of funds for art supplies. All children really need is a constructive and creative way to express themselves and art is a proven therapeutic release, especially for children living in conflict zones. The Gift A donation of 17 USD will provide drawing material to a class of 40 children for one trimester. With the tools, schools can mobilize to make art classes happen. Through your donation, Art in All of Us ensures art materials are supplied to classrooms in the most disadvantaged countries. With your financial support to purchase drawing materials, AiA children will have fun and continue learning long after the school bell rings. A periodic donation of 17 USD towards drawing materials will ensure the continued enrichment of our future generations. More at www.artinallofus.org
$17.00 - Promote Tolerance Art in All of Us
ProblemWith the AiA Awareness Program, the Art in All of Us team introduces drawing, poetry and photography during their visits to schools around the world. Each child will have the opportunity to take photographs and discover a new way of expressing their feelings. The Gift The AiA Awareness Program team also introduces children to art created by students from other countries where our programs have taken place in the past. This experience awakens their awareness and curiosity of other cultures worldwide, creating an opportunity to see that children around the world aren’t that different. A donation of 40 USD will support the AiA team to conduct the Awareness Program in one school, and as such, stimulate more curiosity and creativity in the adults of tomorrow. The AiA team needs only minimal financial support to purchase the supplies necessary to facilitate our Awareness Program and ensure the creative cultural exchange will have lifelong rewards and memories with photographs. More at www.artinallofus.org$40.00 - Sponsor 2 Schools Art in All of Us
ProblemOur vision is to educate through art and to promote cross-boundary multicultural understanding and exchange. We believe that through our photographs, and the children’s rhymes and drawings, we will share and learn about everyone’s culture and enable a better understanding of our international similarities and differences. The Gift Today, we have set up a network of schools around the world, which are participating in the Art Pen Pal Program. This gives children an opportunity to communicate through their artwork and learn about the lives of children just like them from around the world. Your donation of 90 USD is the average postage fee that enables 2 schools around the world to exchange the artworks created by the participating children. More at www.artinallofus.org$90.00 - Print AiA Cards Art in All of Us
ProblemTo continuously raise funds and finance its programs, Art in All of Us regularly needs to print postcards, calendars and Christmas cards. Those postcards will be sold through AiA sales channels and will enable us to have new funds for new activities. Furthermore the multi channel distribution of these print materials help us to raise cross cultural awareness to a broader public. It raises our ‘brand’ awareness, which is increasingly important in today’s corporate and commercial world. The Gift Your donation of 250 USD will enable us to print and distribute these valuable fundraising merchandise materials and help promote the Art in All of Us programs. More at www.artinallofus.org$250.00 - Fun Geography Class Art in All of Us
ProblemThis new AiA program enables us to reach more children and schools around the world by replicating the AiA Awareness Program workshops in schools promoting tolerance and stimulating creativity. The Gift Our objectives are: -To teach tolerance and cultures through kids’ art -To open children’s eyes on other cultures and people -To use children’s art or other pedagogical material -To encourage a wider diffusion of cultures and children’s art to schools and children centers. -To be easily replicable and enable capacity building -To make the material used available online and in remote areas With a donation of 450 USD, we will be able to include the AiA Curriculum into schools or after school programs and train teachers. Children will learn about new cultures, countries in a creative and fun way that has been successful for years in all of AiA’s programs. When individuals are more aware of the world beyond their own borders, they are proven to be more tolerant and more accepting of differences. This is what we hope to facilitate through our Curriculum agenda. More at www.artinallofus.org$450.00 - Sponsor A Country Art in All of Us
ProblemAiA has a dedicated artist and Instructor team that travels around the globe to promote tolerance in schools through Art activities. They are constantly on the move, organizing photography, poetry and paintings workshop with new children in new locations. The Gift The goal is for each child to be able to take photographs and present their country creatively through drawings and poetries. The AiA instructors also conduct interactive artistic activities with the children, presenting to them the lives of children in other countries through photos and other creative material in order to awaken awareness to other cultures worldwide. Afterwards they conduct a training of local teachers with the objective to enable capacity building and stimulate creativity and curiosity of thousands of children. A donation of 750 USD will allow us to buy all the necessary art materials. Furthermore, it will cover most of our team’s travel and visa expenses. The artists usually stay with a local family in the community or inside the school/orphanages, so no expenses are expected on accommodation nor for extra per diems. More at www.artinallofus.org$750.00 - Sponsor An Event Art in All of Us
ProblemDuring the past years, Art in All of Us has organized several exhibitions in Brussels, Rome, Madrid, New York, Milan, Toronto, Antwerp, and many other international cities... These exhibitions showcased Art in All of Us’ photographs from around the world as well as artwork from children AiA has worked with over the years. The Gift The organization of exhibition has always been one of the best ways to raise awareness and funds in a city helps us promote our goal of encouraging cross cultural exchanges and understanding. Your donation of 1000 USD will cover the cost of a venue, framing and printing of all the artwork, as well as the marketing material required to promote the event and invite participants. More at www.artinallofus.org$1,000.00 - Buy A Loom Arzu Inc
ProblemWeaving is a centuries old tradition in Afghanistan and is currently still one of the only acceptable ways for women in the country to earn wages. Families often go into debt renting looms from rug dealers. Arzu provides all weavers registered in our program the loom, wool and tools necessary to create unique handmade rugs. The Gift Your donation buys a quality rug loom for a weaver whose earnings are the sole source of income for her family. By providing a loom for a weaver, you support sustainable income for women in Afghanistan - many of whom have become widows during the war and are responsible for single-handedly supporting the entire family.
$300.00 - Support Clean Water Arzu Inc
ProblemAs a third world country, Afghanistan lacks many technologies and advancements. One of the most basic needs for people is access to water, yet the country is unable to provide clean water for its people. Arzu has begun a water filtration project to provide access to clean water for many of the rural villages in which we are located. The Gift Purchasing a clay water pot for Arzu's water filtration system ensures the ongoing effort to provide clean water to rural communities in Afghanistan. This simple donation will allow women and their families clean water for drinking and cooking - promoting Arzu's commitment to improve the health of individuals in Afghanistan.$10.00 - Promote Literacy Arzu Inc
ProblemMany children, especially girls, in rural Afghanistan do not have access to education. More than just proximity to schools, the problem is that many parents cannot afford to send their sons to school, let alone their daughters. Aside from tuition, fees often include buying school supplies for the year. The Gift Your gift will provide school supplies for 10 children for one year. This generous donation will assist Arzu in encouraging education throughout Afghanistan and in making sure that all children of registered weavers attend school and have the proper supplies for their classes.$60.00 - Fund A Fellow Ashoka: Innovators for the Public
ProblemAt this moment in history, there are many leading ideas for social change that are not fully developed and sustained through traditional funding mechanisms. Ashoka has designed an approach to capture the most innovative, entrepreneurial solutions, and offer critical interventions on three levels—the individual, the group, and the sector. Launching a leading social entrepreneur is the fundamental step in this approach. The Gift Ashoka searches the world for leading social entrepreneurs and at the launch stage, provide these entrepreneurs—Ashoka Fellows—a living stipend for an average of three years, allowing them to focus full-time on building their institutions and spreading their ideas. Ashoka Fellows’ impact is far-reaching and highly leveraged. For example, five years post election, 94% of Fellows are still working towards their original vision and 93% of Fellows have had their work independently replicated. Ten years post election, 71% of Fellows have influenced national policy. Our Fellows work in the fields of human rights, health, environment, learning/youth development, civic participation, and economic development, tackling the most difficult circumstances and transforming lives. Your contribution will catalyze the next generation of pattern-changing innovation across sectors in Asia.
$7,000.00 - Aid A Fellow Ashoka: Innovators for the Public
Problem Legal support is a critical component to the ultimate success of any citizen sector organization. Currently, most citizen sector organizations work without access to quality legal assistance. This has left many Ashoka Fellows and other organizations faced with a major barrier when trying to expand and institutionalize their programs. To confront this challenge, Ashoka has created Advocates for Social Entrepreneurs (ASE) to develop the pro bono legal culture around the world to support social entrepreneurs. The Gift The ASE network mobilizes law firms and public interest lawyers to support the hundreds of Ashoka Fellows around the globe and eventually the broader networks of social entrepreneurs by providing them access to legal professionals who can help them navigate the legal environment to enhance institution building, policy change, and support human rights through domestic and international pro bono legal assistance. To date ASE has served over 100 social entrepreneurs who have received over $5 million dollars in pro bono legal support.$25.00