USA for UNHCR protects refugees and empowers them with hope and opportunity.

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), also known as the UN Refugee Agency, is the world’s leading organization aiding and protecting people forced to flee their homes due to violence, conflict and persecution. UNHCR provides shelter, food, water, medical care and other lifesaving assistance to refugees around the world.

The dream of most refugees is to return home. When possible, UNHCR helps refugees return to their homeland. When refugees can’t go back home, UNHCR helps them rebuild their lives in another country. Since its formation by the United Nations General Assembly in 1950, UNHCR has helped an estimated 50 million refugees restart their lives and has twice received the Nobel Peace Prize.

USA for UNHCR

Providing relief, jobs, & community on the frontlines of conflict. To heal all that's tearing us apart. To end war.

We’re a coalition of peacemakers working together to unmake violence. We are first in with emergency aid on the frontlines of conflict and disaster, deeper than others are willing to go. We are last to leave, staying until we turn the corner from relief to development, investing in locals who create long-term impact.
We love anyway, even when we are scared. We show up, because presence can lead to love that can build "The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible." Finally, we get out of the way, empowering others to solve their own problems.

Preemptive Love Coalition

CAI is an international NGO promoting education & literacy, especially for girls, in remote areas of Pakistan, Afghanistan & Tajikistan.

Vision: To unlock the full potential of girls and women through education. When girls and women thrive, their families, communities, and nations prosper.  Educate a girl. Change the world.  Mission: To promote education and livelihood skills, especially for girls and women, in the remote regions of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Tajikistan.

Central Asia Institute

To save and support America's Afghan and Iraqi wartime allies.

No One Left Behind is a community organization dedicated to ensuring that the United States keeps its promise to care for those who jeopardize their safety for our country.

No One Left Behind

To foster a new leadership generation in Afghanistan by enabling educational opportunity, and promoting in-country, senior management positions for that leadership, especially for Afghan women.

The School of Leadership, Afghanistan (SOLA) is an Afghan-led private boarding school for girls, the first of its kind in the nation, currently enrolling students in grades 6-9 who hail from 25 of Afghanistan's 34 provinces.

School of Leadership, Afghanistan

Provides legal advocacy for refugees and displaced people in need of a safe place to call home.

IRAP’s innovative model of mobilizing legal resources to advocate for refugees and displaced people saves lives, assures safe passage to destination countries, and shapes thought and practice in the United States and around the globe to ensure fair and humane treatment of these vulnerable individuals.

IRAP’s approach is grounded in three distinct but interrelated strategies: 

1. IRAP has created a “virtual public interest law firm”—a firm that is not impeded by geographic boundaries and uses technological solutions to deliver free high-quality representation to people living in, and fleeing from, war, persecution, and political upheaval around the world. We have trained an army of volunteers—1,200 students from 30 law schools in the United States and Canada and pro bono attorneys from over 120 international law firms and multinational corporations—to assist thousands of refugees and displaced people on urgent registration, protection, and resettlement cases.

2. Through impact litigation and systemic advocacy, IRAP is bringing legal challenges to refugee rights violations in the courts, creating solutions to overcoming the legal and bureaucratic impediments in the resettlement process, and developing an enforceable system of legal and procedural rights for refugees and displaced persons worldwide. Working directly with our clients as they navigate the labyrinthine processes, IRAP is often able to identify obstacles of which other institutional players are unaware. Our unique model utilizes lessons learned in individual casework to advocate for systemic changes that benefit broader refugee populations.

3. Finally, a crucial prong of IRAP’s approach is to train the next generation of international human rights advocates. These advocates are essential to ensuring fairness, decency, and adherence to the rule of law throughout the refugee resettlement process.

International Refugee Assistance Project: IRAP

Dedicated to making human rights a reality for refugees in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Asylum Access

Support aid and humanitarian efforts on the ground in Afghanistan and across the globe for Afghan refugees.

Afghanistan Humanitarian Aid

A comprehensive resettlement program for our wartime allies.

Our mission is to provide comprehensive resettlement assistance to endangered wartime allies who served U.S. interests in conflict and war zones. 

Keeping Our Promise.

Empowering women and girls in Afghanistan through education, access to healthcare, and vocational opportunities

Over the years, AWF has built and opened new schools for girls, developed literacy and computer skills classes for women, created income-generating projects for widows to help them become self-sufficient, distributed warm clothing and school supplies to refugees and guided numerous other humanitarian and educational projects like digging wells for clean drinking water and irrigation, building and supplying hospitals and clinics, and donating resources to widows.

Afghan Womens Fund

Humanitarian organisation who has worked with millions of families in some of the poorest communities in Afghanistan since 1983.

Fiscally sponsored by Give2Asia. Every day in Afghanistan, men, women and children are driven from their homes and lives are destroyed because of conflict and poverty. It doesn’t have to be this way. Afghanaid is an international charity that works alongside Afghans in the most remote and marginalized regions of the country to build a peaceful and a thriving Afghanistan.
 
Over forty years of conflict has seen lives and opportunities lost, infrastructure and livelihoods destroyed, and caused deep economic and ecological degradation. No country has suffered more or for so long.
 
Afghanaid knows that having financial stability is one of the most effective ways to rebuild lives and support local people to work together harmoniously to reconstruct their communities. They work with men and women across the country, providing training in vital skills so that they can get jobs or build small businesses. They also hire local people to take part in restoring or building infrastructure which is essential to long-term development and peace.
 
The organization is committed to supporting Afghan communities to rebuild their own lives, and increase the chances for long-term peace through economic and social development for both men and women, helping communities to help themselves.
 
In all of their work, they promote good governance and gender rights, and bring people from all segments of society together, especially vulnerable and marginalised groups, to form a more cohesive society that participates in the belief and practice of economic, social, and political rights, and integrated development through cooperation. Communities are viewed as partners with essential resources and values to contribute, not merely recipients of temporary relief.

Afghanaid

Founded in 2001, Women for Afghan Women (WAW) is the largest Afghan women’s rights organization, globally, with over 850 full-time staff operating centers, programs, and services aimed at empowering Afghan women in the United States and Afghanistan.

WAW was founded in April 2001 to advocate for women then living under Taliban rule in Afghanistan. Since its inception, WAW has become the largest organization for Afghan women and girls globally, and the largest women’s organization in Afghanistan. To date, WAW has served over 30,000 clients and trained more than 330,000 individuals on women’s rights. WAW provides life-saving and life-changing services, education, and advocacy for women and children across Afghanistan and NY who have endured human rights violations. WAW’s capacity has grown from being volunteer-run when it was founded to now employing over 750 staff members, the vast majority of whom are Afghan and female.

Women for Afghan Women

CORE's mission is to teach low-income adults the technological and professional skills needed to pursue their career aspirations.

Since 1999, Computer CORE helps adults gain the computer and life skills they need to increase their career options. Online classes are offered in basic computer skills such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Google Docs. Students in need also receive a free refurbished computer. Students are 95% people of color, 70% women, and 95% immigrant, including many Afghan immigrants.

Computer CORE

Travis Manion Foundation empowers veterans and families of fallen heroes to develop character in future generations.

Travis Manion Foundation (TMF) empowers veterans and families of fallen heroes to develop character in future generations. In 2007, 1st Lt Travis Manion (USMC) was killed in Iraq while saving his wounded teammates. Today, Travis' legacy lives on in the words he spoke before leaving for his final deployment, "If Not Me, Then Who..." Guided by this ethos, veterans continue their service, develop strong relationships with their communities, and thrive in their post-military lives. As a result, communities prosper and the character of our nation's heroes live on in the next generation.

Travis Manion Foundation

Action International Ministries cares for the poor, the homeless, widows, orphans, and refugees all over the world.

ACTION started in Manila in the Philippines almost 50 years ago by caring for street kids under the bridges.  We incorporated in the US to be able to send funds and people to Manila and then elsewhere.  Since then we have expanded into 38 country, 300 people, three main international offices.  Half of us are now non-North American.  
We send everyone to everywhere by raising up folks all over the world to go all over the world.
What do we do?  We go to the "least of these" with the love and compassion of Jesus Christ, practicing and proclaiming the good news in hard places including areas ureached for the Gospel.

Action International Ministries

IIE’s mission is to advance international education and access to education worldwide.

Institute of International Education (IIE)

Established in 1978, Alight is a nonprofit organization focused on international issues in 20 different countries around the world

Established in 1978 by founder Neal Ball, Alight, formerly known as American Refugee Committee, provides health care, clean water, shelter, protection and economic opportunities to more than 3.5 million people in over 20 countries each year. Alight believes in the incredible creativity, potential and ingenuity of the displaced and works to shine a light on their humanity, the tremendous amount of good that's already happening and the possibilities to do more. In 2020, Alight received the prestigious 4-Star Rating from Charity Navigator for the tenth consecutive year, celebrating a decade of impactful work.

Alight

Zaman provides basic needs, education & workforce development to women to empower them to break the cycle of poverty.  

Zaman International is a non-profit organization committed to advancing the lives of marginalized women and children by empowering them to break the cycle of poverty. Founded as a grassroots group of volunteers in 1996, Zaman has grown to a world-class non-profit organization that has helped approximately 2.5 million people around the world. Operating from its 40,500 square-foot facility in Inkster, Zaman offers assistance ranging from basic necessities to life skills, education and vocational training and workforce development programs. Internationally, Zaman collaborates with partners to assist those in need of clean water and relief from natural disasters. 

Learn more at zamaninternational.org.

Zaman International - Hope for Humanity

Interpreting Freedom Foundation, is a nationally registered 501(c)3, committed to supporting our Afghan Interpreters and Allies.

www.InterpretingFreedom.org Founded in 2018, The Interpreting Freedom Foundation, a National Nonprofit, a registered 501(c)3 organization, committed to supporting our Afghan Interpreters, allies, and families as they transition to their new life as community members of our United States of America.
 
We provide comprehensive support services for all US combat interpreters who were engaged in Operation Enduring Freedom. These military and special ops interpreters played a critical role in the battlefield alongside US Armed Forces.
 
Please visit our webpage at www.InterpretingFreedom.org. On there, you will see that we are in many ways very different from other nonprofits. We go out of our way to be highly transparent about the stewarding and spending of your generous donor dollars. On our page, you will see a counter which tracks many of the services we have provided to date.
 
Please share our successes with your family, friends, colleagues, and connect with us via social media.
 
From the bottom of our hearts, Thank You for supporting our amazing organization.

The Interpreting Freedom Foundation is a registered 501(c)3 organization and your donation is tax deductible.

Mailed Checks may be made out and sent to "Interpreting Freedom Foundation", 8349 Arrowridge Blvd. Suite R, Charlotte, NC. 28273

Interpreting Freedom Foundation

Refugee Education Center supports refugees in their journey to become fully participating members of the West Michigan community.

OUR HISTORY

The Refugee Education Center is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit based in Grand Rapids, MI that exists to support agency support refugees in their journey to become fully participating members of the West Michigan community.. The education-centered organization was founded in 2006 by a passionate group of Somali Bantu refugees who, as an ethnic group in their native country, were persecuted and prohibited to receive formal education. Upon arrival to the United States, community leaders recognized the incredible new opportunity to receive education and participate in the community as equals. They organized and created what is now the Refugee Education Center with the vision of supporting refugee children in West Michigan as they began their new education in a foreign land. Since 2006, our programs and services have expanded to address additional needs of families - serving over 4,500 refugees along the way. Through this, our vision has stayed the same. It has been, and is, central to the organization to share the knowledge learned from a first-person perspective of navigating the education system and refugee services and ultimately supporting the tens of thousands of refugees who call West Michigan home

OUR APPROACH

We are educators at the core, but we know that life is complex, and every story unique. That’s why we address the needs of not only the students we serve, but the whole family, focused around three core pillars of post-resettlement support:

EDUCATION - We were founded on a belief that education is a gift and an opportunity.  We acknowledge unique needs of refugee students and design our programs and services to coincide with traditional education in order that students may excel academically at an equitable rate as their American-born peers - and prepare for success in their new homeland. 

FAMILY STABILITY - Many complex barriers can interrupt the lives of refugee families. Whether it's a health and safety crisis, job loss, housing challenge or other life-challenge, our team is equipped to walk alongside refugees in these challenges, providing direct support or vital referrals to local social service agencies and programs.

CULTURE AND BELONGING - For many, the United States poses culturally challenging situations that differ from their birth-countries. We seek to prepare refugees to successfully engage with their new culture while also retaining their own cultural identity, values, and traditions.

OUR PROGRAM SERVICES

PROJECT FAULU - Our cornerstone K-12 support program for refugee students, Project Faulu, focuses on literacy and language acquisition, STEM/STEAM curriculum, and socio-emotional wellbeing. The afterschool program is designed specifically for children whose cultural adjustments and past trauma can make learning difficult. Through one-on-one tutoring and peer support groups, our goal is that each student is supported for academic success and social wellbeing.

B.R.I.D.G.E.S. - Building Refugee Independence and Delivering Guidance for Educational Success is designed for newly resettled refugee children who have yet to enter a US classroom. We provide a safe and welcoming environment for kids to prepare for their K-12 education and relieve anxiety prior to entering a classroom. The program exposes kids to new topics, themes, and culture they will encounter in their new school. Our goal is that each participating student is prepared to start school on the right foot! 

GRADUATE & GROW - Graduate & Grow offers broad, individualized support for high school aged students of refugee backgrounds. Through the program, students receive age-out support, graduation plans, mentorship and guidance in order to prepare them to graduate with a traditional High School Diploma, as well as for a successful transition into a career, trade school, and/or post-secondary education. 

REFUGEE NAVIGATORS - Who better to provide guidance and support than someone who has “been there, done that.” For newly arriving refugees, whether one has recently resettled in the United States or has moved from another part of the country, Navigators are a welcoming, familiar face in an unfamiliar place. Navigators, who come from a refugee background themselves, share their lived experiences and are trusted partners, providing guidance through the maze of government and private support systems in the foundational areas that best prepare a person (or family) for long-term integration and full participation. 

HANDS CONNECTED - Hands Connected is a one-of-a-kind program that provides children of refugee background, aged 0-5, with culturally responsive and multi-lingual pre-K — taught by refugee educators. Its primary purpose is to support children’s development in order that they may develop at the same rate as their American-born peers. Additionally, this program creates economic opportunities for refugee adults through direct employment and for those who are learning or working elsewhere and are in need of quality childcare. Hands Connected consists of the Center and the Home-based Educator Network. 

OUR IMPACT

We walk alongside refugees in the post-settlement phase of their journey —continuing services for however long it takes to provide the tools and remove the barriers to fully participate in the community.

+ 80% of enrolled K-12 students showed an increase in at least one letter-grade in one subject or more

+ 100% of enrolled K-12 students showed growth in cultural adjustment as determined by pre- and post- surveys

+ 97% of enrolled K-12 students showed an improved Reading Improvement Score

+ 82% of enrolled K-12 students showed improvement in WIDA Scores (English learners) 

+ 93% of 0-3 year old students passed Brigance Screening (child development & Kindergarten readiness) 

The Refugee Education Center

Our mission is to provide the orphans of Afghanistan with HOPE (Help the Orphans be Productive and Educated)

International Orphan Care (IOC) provides education, healthcare, nutrition and vocational training to children in Afghanistan.

International Orphan Care

Providing free, high-quality healthcare to victims of war, landmines and poverty since 1994.

To provide free-of-charge, high standard medical and surgical care to victims of war and poverty and to promote a culture of peace, solidarity, and respect for human rights.

Emergency USA

A grassroots 501(c)3 organization whose mission is to keep children in Afghanistan in school and enrich their learning environment

What We Are Doing:

EDUCATING CHILDREN
Provide stationary and supplies for our students

BUILDING FACILITIES
Provide proper sanitation and bathroom facilities

PROVIDING WATER
Supply water by digging wells

DELIVERING COMFORT
Procure desks and chairs for students to avoid sitting on hard floors

REPAIRING INFRASTRUCTURE
Refurbish broken doors and windows to provide insulation

PURCHASING EQUIPMENT
Purchase copy machines and storage cabinets

Afghan Literacy Foundation

Our mission is to empower women and families overcoming trauma and injustice, bridging the gap from pain to purpose.


Global Reach. Local Impact.
Based in Charlotte, NC, we empower over 500 women and families in the US, Africa, and South & Central America a year.

We bridge the gap from pain to purpose through:
-Impactful Connections- We gather artisans into our community-then we surround and support them with mentors, partners, and resources that equip and empower them.
-Inspired Creations- Our artisans handcraft works of art-a restorative process that teaches them skills, instills hope, and ignites their sense of purpose.
-Economic Confidence- Artisans emerge from programs and partnerships with us as confident contributors to society and with momentum towards economic mobility.

We help women realize a brighter future – we help them change their history.
The women we serve are overcoming challenging circumstances such as human trafficking, abuse, addiction, incarceration, poverty and persecution. 
 
We empower them by teaching them a new skill – they become artisans as we teach them to make jewelry and other crafts.  When they come to us, these women are often times broken – they don’t feel successful, they don’t feel capable, and that directly impacts their confidence and ability to move forward in life.  Mastering a new skill changes that – it grows their confidence and helps them realize that they ARE valuable and CAN be successful.
 
On top of that, we surround them with love and encouragement – we are their support system as they realize their dreams.

BraveWorks *formerly Fashion & Compassion

Global FC uses soccer as a vehicle for transformative impact, serving refugee youth via quality Soccer, Education, and Mentoring.

Global FC exists to bridge diverse cultures to come together, forming just communities where all are free to be fully known and fully loved in pursuit of their God-given purpose and potential.

Global FC's Mentoring Program provides underserved youth the opportunity to develop relationships with caring adults who inspire and support them to become thriving citizens.

Global FC's Education Program closes the opportunity gap for students by utilizing a holistic approach to learning, enriching the educational experience so students can achieve their highest potential.

Global FC

US-based NGO that makes it easy for donors to support trusted, local charities in 23 countries across the Asia-Pacific.

Give2Asia is a trusted partner for international philanthropy and the leader in donor-advised grantmaking to the Asia-Pacific. Our mission is to strengthen communities in Asia by making overseas giving easier and more effective. Since 2001, Give2Asia has facilitated more than $350 million of charitable grants across 23 countries. Give2Asia is a US-based 501(c)3 nonprofit organization based in Oakland, California with offices in Beijing and in-country experts across the Asia-Pacific region. 