Merry Christmas to my uncles, Mike & Jason, who asked me to get them nothing this year. <3 

Hope to make a tiny change in someone’s life.

In support of families impacted by the floods—wishing safety, strength, and recovery in Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Karnataka. Thanks for everything you do.

Locally led. The last pot to boil. The last door to shut. A U.S. nonprofit (2024) focused on food, farming & survival in Gaza.

🍲 Gaza Soup Kitchen: Feeding 10,000 People Daily

As famine tightens its grip and markets collapse, Gaza Soup Kitchen is still boiling pots—feeding 1,000 people every day with dignity and determination.

We were the first soup kitchen in North Gaza to lean on local farmers and forage from nature to keep people alive. When others paused, we adapted. When supplies ran out, we improvised.

Today, we operate across 11 kitchens, run a community clinic, and deliver clean water and hot meals to hospitals—even in the hardest-hit zones.

This is survival work, done by people living through the very crisis they’re responding to.

Support the last pots still cooking. 

Gaza Soup Kitchen

Adeso is a pioneering African social enterprise with a global influence. 

Adeso is a pioneering African social enterprise with global influence. Rooted in Africa for over 30 years, we are working toward a decolonised world where people thrive through their own resourcefulness and tenacity. Adeso is part of global movement to shift power to local leaders who are closest to the problem and, by consequence, closest to the solution. We are working with allies all over the world to reimagine and build a better system that is based on the principles of solidarity, humility, self-determination, and equality.  We are committed to this work. Committed to proving it is possible. Ready to partner, ready to overcome barriers, and ready to evolve to create a blueprint for change.

We develop practical solutions for donors and doers alike that help break down the barriers toward locally-led development in order to unlock opportunities that create lasting change.

To do this, we work in two primary arenas:

- **At the global stage,** where we use our powerful advocacy platforms to call out and improve the systems that perpetuate the power and wealth gaps between the Global North and Global South. 

- **In Somalia,** where we use our deep community connections and long track record of success to implement game changing projects that pass our high standards of authentic community involvement.   

Adeso

Using urban surplus as a solution to ignored issues of rural India

Goonj, founded in 1999 by Magsaysay award winner Mr. Anshu Gupta, works on poverty alleviation, rural development, and disaster relief & rehab, by using the cities’ discards as fuel for wide-spread development work across villages in India, creating a barter between two new currencies - the urban underutilized material, and, the efforts of rural communities who work on the neglected issues around water, sanitation, agriculture, education, local infrastructure, access, etc. Working with a strong network of 600+ grassroots partners, in the last 8 years (2014-2022), they have reached out to more than 12 million people, facilitated 55,000+ development activities, and channelized more than 45 million kgs of material across 31 states & UTs of India.

Goonj

Working to end poverty, inequality, and climate change and helping countries achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

UNDP works in about 170 countries and territories, helping to eradicate poverty, reduce inequalities and exclusion, and build resilience so countries can sustain progress. As the UN’s development agency, UNDP plays a critical role in helping countries achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

Donations made here to United Nations Development Programme (UNDP/PNUD) are made on an unrestricted basis.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP/PNUD)

At the heart of our Garden Council are 40+ community gardens, each nurturing an ecosystem of health, connection, and resilience. 

With more than 2,000 members spanning diverse backgrounds and neighborhoods, the Los Angeles Community Garden Council is a dynamic force for positive change in Los Angeles. From Watts to Pasadena, Santa Monica to East Los Angeles, our 47 community gardens serve as vital hubs of activity and collaboration, offering access to fresh food, opportunities for education and engagement, organizing smart environmental and community-oriented policy and advocacy, and a shared space for neighbors to connect and thrive.

Join us as we cultivate a healthier, greener, and more resilient city for all. Together, we can sow the seeds of change and cultivate a brighter future, one garden at a time.

Los Angeles Community Garden Council

Provides access to fresh produce from local farms and nutrition education to food-insecure people living in and around Ithaca, NY.

**Food & Health Equity** 

Since 2006, Healthy Food For All (HFFA) has been making fresh, quality produce accessible to low-income households and promoting the viability of local farms through Community Supported Agriculture (CSA).

HFFA provides sustenance and stability for over **1,500 youth and adults** struggling with hunger while fairly compensating local farmers producing the diversity of fruits and vegetables that provide a cornerstone to good health. 

**Farm Viability** 

By investing over **$200,000** annually in local organic farms, HFFA is helping to keep small diversified farms in business, in-turn increasing our community's capacity to sustainably grow healthy food for everyone. The whole community benefits from local abundance, farm resiliency and food security. And, as our farms grow more, they share more—in 2021, HFFA farms provided over 150,000 pounds of fresh fruits and veggies at half price for low-income community members, and donated an additional 30,000 pounds valued at over $55,000 for neighbors in need.

**Environmental Sustainability**

HFFA’s farms use organic, biodynamic and regenerative practices. These techniques support soil health, protect and improve water quality, help draw down greenhouse gases and restore ecosystems while nurturing fertility and fortifying the harvest—even as pests and extreme weather conditions intensify. HFFA farms are working on our behalf to **combat climate change,** **feed our community and heal our planet.** 

**Join Healthy Food For All in ensuring all of our neighbors have reliable and dignified access to good, clean nutritious food!**

**Give by check**

Please make checks payable to "Center for Transformative Action/Healthy Food For All" and mail to: Center for Transformative Action, P.O. Box 760, Ithaca NY 14851.

**Stay connected!** 

Visit HealthyFoodForAll.org to learn more or contact Info@HealthyFoodForAll.org — We love making new friends!  

*Healthy Food For All is a fiscally sponsored project of the* [Center for Transformative Action](https://www.centerfortransformativeaction.org/)*, a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization. Your contribution is tax deductible to the extent allowed by governing laws*.

Healthy Food For All

Communicating the best research and data to understand big global problems and make progress against them

Poverty, disease, hunger, climate change, war, existential risks, and inequality: The world faces many great and terrifying problems. Our World in Data focuses on communicating the best research and data that helps us understand and find solutions to the world’s largest problems.


Our World in Data publishes an open-access publication where users can understand the state of the world today, where we are making progress and where we are falling behind. Through interactive data visualizations we can see how the world has changed; by summarizing the scientific literature we can understand why. We cover everything from global poverty to natural disasters, education and health, democracy; we have over 13,000 charts across hundreds of topics.


Our World in Data is free, open-source and provided as a public good. It has millions of users every month, and is cited in research and media across the world every day. This allows millions of people to understand the large problems the world is facing, and how we can solve them.

Our World in Data

Caritas Manila is the social service and development ministry of the Archdiocese of Manila.

Caritas Manila is one of the largest church-based nonprofit organizations in the Philippines. It is a Spirit-led community committed to serving the poor—the “least, last, and lost” in society.

Its programs are geared towards total human development, poverty alleviation, and the creation of a Christian community with a strong social conscience.

*Programs:*

**Youth Servant Leadership and Education Program (YSLEP)**

Caritas Manila believes that *education* is the *best social equalizer.*

YSLEP is Caritas Manila's flagship program. It forms future leaders from the poor by *providing scholarships and formation sessions* to around 5,000 youths nationwide.

**Caritas Damayan**

Damayan is the umbrella program of Caritas Manila that covers: (1) preventive health, (2) plant-based food security, (3) feeding and nutrition, (4) crisis intervention, and (5) disaster relief and rehabilitation.

Its sub-programs are:

1. **All is Well** - Through the help of its partners in the medical field, Caritas Manila *offers health services in 28 clinics* in Mega Manila.
2. **Gen129** -*\* This program advocates lifestyle change through plant-based living. In this program, we teach the poor \*how to grow their own food* for a more sustainable future.
3. **Munting Pag-asa** -*\* This program aims to \*counter malnutrition* by providing healthy supplemental meals to poor malnourished children for 120 days.
4. **Unang Yakap** -This program provides healthy meals and vitamins to *poor pregnant/lactating mothers* for 120 days to ensure the optimum health of the mother and their child. Beneficiaries also receive seminars on financial literacy to improve their living condition.
5. **Caritas in Action** - In cooperation with Radio Veritas 846, the CIA program provides medical, legal, hospital bill, laboratory, psychosocial, and burial assistance.
6. **Cadamay** - It *provides emergency relief response* within 24 to 72 hours by distributing food packs, hygiene kits, bedding materials, and shelter repair kits. It also provides livelihood assistance to victims of calamities and church reconstruction assistance to affected parishes.

**Restorative Justice**

It is a program designed to *help Persons Deprived of Liberty (PDLs)* heal their relationships with their families and the community. It also aims to help them be reintegrated into society as self-sufficient individuals.

**Sanlakbay**

Sanlakbay para sa Pagbabago ng Buhay is a parish/community-based rehabilitation program that aims to transform lives, restore human dignity, and *reintegrate* d*rug dependents* into their communities.

**Segunda Mana**

It is the donated goods program of Caritas Manila that *converts in-kind donations into cash* in our 47 charity outlets in Mega Manila to:

- Fund over 5000 tech-voc and college YSLEP scholars
- Support the livelihood of over 300 micro-entrepreneurs and their families from informal sectors like BASECO and Payatas
- Strongly promote the 3Rs (Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle)

**Institute for Servant Leadership and Stewardship (ISLaS)**

ISLaS is the *volunteer arm of Caritas Manila* which mobilizes around 5,000 volunteers within the Archdiocese of Manila.

Parish-based leaders and volunteers undergo continuous training and values formation that mold them to become committed servant leaders. These volunteers enable us to efficiently and effectively implement various social services and development programs for poor families in their communities.

*"For the love of Christ urges us on..." - Corinthians II*

Caritas Manila, Inc.

FORRAD works with vulnerable communities to build water, agriculture, and nutrition security in the face of climate change.

**About FORRAD**

The **Foundation for Rural Recovery and Development (FORRAD)** was established in Delhi in 1980 with the objective of promoting, supporting, and coordinating initiatives in sustainable agriculture and the protection of natural resources. Over the past four decades, FORRAD has extended technical and financial support to more than 450 grassroots projects across rural India, building strong partnerships with local communities and organizations.

FORRAD’s work focuses on the needs of smallholder farmers, sharecroppers, and the most vulnerable and marginalized communities. The groups that are the worst affected by the consequences of climate change, yet have the least access to resources and decision-making spaces. FORRAD places these communities at the center of its interventions, ensuring that they are the primary stakeholders who shape and often lead the initiatives.

Central to its work is strengthening **water security** and promoting **low-cost regenerative agriculture** as strategies to mitigate climate risks and restore ecological balance. FORRAD has revived and restored traditional water conservation and management practices, enabling communities to build resilience against droughts and erratic rainfall. More than aware of the nutrition crisis confronting the country and recognizing the close and inextricable link between water, agriculture, livelihoods, and health, FORRAD has, over the past five years, also integrated **nutrition security** as a core component of all its programmes.

Beyond water and agriculture, FORRAD engages with the intersecting issues of **girls’ education, and community healthcare**. All its projects are designed to be community-driven, with control over natural resources, information and related technologies vested in the local people themselves.

FORRAD’s guiding principles are rooted in equity and justice. The organisation ensures equal opportunities across gender, caste, and community. By creating spaces for the most disenfranchised voices to be heard and recognized, we work towards building resilient rural communities that can adapt to climate change, secure their livelihoods, and shape their own sustainable futures.

**Previous Experience Thematically**

 **Education**

**JB Singh Kanya Shiksha Setu – A Learning Centre for Girls in Bihar**

The learning centre, established in 2017, now enrols 141 girls. All girls are enrolled in government schools, and the centre remains essential to address gaps in learning. Most students of the centre are first generation literate and do not have an environment that facilitates learning at home. The centre prepares students and their parents for ensuring learning at school. 140 children have been provided nutritious snacks at the learning centre. This has improved their parameters

 **Nutrition**

In an action-research project initiated in late 2023, 300 children were assessed for malnutrition in Nalanda district, Bihar. These children belonged to the most marginalised community groups. Children were administered B-complex vitamins, supplementary nutrition in the form of a locally produced protein and energy mix, and put on a deworming regimen. Each child received nutritional supplementation for over 15 months. While results are encouraging, the acute and chronic malnutrition has created stunting and the children did not show the signs of height and weight gain as in other states like Tamil Nadu.  

**Agriculture**

**Transitioning to Low External Input Sustainable Agriculture in Bihar**

700 acres of land in Nalanda district, Bihar transitioned to LEISA in the form of mixed cropping in the winter of 2025.

**Tree Plantation**

Over 1,600 saplings including mango, guava, banana, drumstick, hog plum (Amra), arjun (Kahua), jackfruit, mahogany, and teak were planted on pyne embankments in Bihar with farmers and local committees ensuring their protection.

**System of Rice Intensification in Thiruvallur district, Tamil Nadu**

96 farmers were motivated to use the **SRI method of rice cultivation** over their fields covering a total of 173 acres. SRI uses half the water that the traditional method does.

 **Water**

**1.      Pyne Restoration in Bihar**

FORRAD has restored 34 km of pynes (flood diversion channels from seasonal rivers) in Bihar creating a standing storage of 200 million litres of water serving a command area of 4000 acres of farmland.

2.      **Rainwater harvesting around the Sambhar Salt Lake (In partnership with Manthan Sanstha and Prayatna Sansthan)**
Storage capacity of 1.5 billion litres created through restoration of 31 rainwater harvesting structures in 20 villages around the Sambhar salt lake. Each year, about a billion litres of rainwater is collected. The reservoirs are maintained by the panchayats with support from district and state authorities.

3.      **Water storage for individual households (In partnership with Manthan Sanstha supported by individual donors)**
Water storage tanks of 10,000 litres each were constructed for 206 vulnerable families in remote hamlets lacking regular water supply. These communities now have means to store water from weekly tanker deliveries.

4.      **Watershed development in UP Bundelkhand (In partnership with Gramonnati Sansthan)**
Watershed development over 1,000 acres in Bilkhi and Tola Swayam villages in Uttar Pradesh transformed wasteland into productive farmland through farm-bunding, check-dams, ponds, and tree plantations.

5.      **Farm bunding** in Dikwaha began on 35 acres of land to conserve water and soil. It was expanded to 110 acres on demand from the community and mandated by panchayat, with farmers contributing 10% via shramdaan and five wells cleared for drought relief. In Baniya Tala, bunding started on 28 acres and extended by 18 more acres after panchayat interest, benefiting additional farmers.

6.      **The restoration of 39 km of traditional irrigation channels** in Tiruvallur district allowing for the use of surface water for irrigation thereby reducing dependence on groundwater and greatly benefitting the small-holder farmers who do not have their own tube-wells.

7.      **The cleaning of 60 public overhead tanks, (30,000 – 60,000 litres) and 16 school tanks** significantly reducing bacterial contamination in water. The tanks are now maintained by the local panchayat with occasional reminders from the community.

**8.      The cleaning, chlorination, and covering of 22 open wells** that had fallen into disuse with the coming of piped water and were being used as garbage dumps.


Foundation for Rural Recovery and Development

ITBA  Engineering, Technology & Business argentine university. A non-profit achieving proven levels of excellence among graduates.

For more than 65 years, ITBA - Instituto Tecnólogico de Buenos Aires  has contributed to solving the challenges of humanity through a university education recognized for its excellence, the production of scientific knowledge and international collaboration, and outstanding levels of excellence among its graduates.

Thanks to the financial contribution of companies and individuals, scholarships are obtained so that young people  with talent, passion and determination, can study at ITBA.

ITBA invests in people, in the equipment and infrastructure necessary to be at the forefront of technological progress.

The photo that illustrates this space (courtesy of Matt Dahle)  captures ITBA Rocketry Team celebration after successfully launching their hybrid rocket engine entirely designed and built at our labs by a team of 40 students from different careers, teachers and university technicians in record time of 9 months.
Together they developed LANIN a hybrid rocket and became the first Latin American team to launch it successfully with engines using solid and liquid propellants. 
Spaceport America Cup June 2024

 ITBA - Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires

Our mission is to multiply the impact of farmed animal advocates by deepening global connection, collaboration, and coordination. 

**We are building a stronger farmed animal advocacy movement.**

Our theory of change is rooted in the idea that uniting and empowering advocates can unlock value in the movement. We are strong on our own, but we can be stronger, together.

At Hive (formerly Impactful Animal Advocacy), we work towards our mission by cultivating thriving spaces for advocates, enhancing knowledge sharing, and facilitating strategic connections for the movement.

With over 4,000 community members worldwide, we are now one of the largest and most engaged communities for productive discussions and initiatives aimed at helping farmed animals.

We aim to remain responsive to our community's needs, foster an environment of support and effectiveness, and continue strengthening the farmed animal advocacy movement.

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If you want to make a larger donation, find a donation swap and would like to speak to us 1:1, please contact Sofia at [sofia@joinhive.org](mailto:sofia@joinhive.org?).

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We kindly ask that you **avoid sending checks if possible**, as they take longer to process. If you prefer to give by check, just let us know and we’ll share the mailing details. Thank you!

Hive

Transforming land. Transforming LIVES.

Foothills of the longest mountain range of the Philippines, the Sierra Madre
Bulacan 

**Celebrating 15 years at GreenEarth: 2009-2024**[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szxsMI6etnI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szxsMI6etnI)

**A Life Transformed by GreenEarth’s mission-vision: Rom Blanco**[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KX2bh0qo2w&t=3s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KX2bh0qo2w&t=3s)

Despite all the progress over the last 15 years, the work has only taken place on 30% of GreenEarth's endowed land. and we have ways to go!  We can plant 40,000 more trees on our Phase 1 development of 32 hectares plus the need to build access roads, pathways and hiking trails, before we hop on over to our Phase 2 development of 75 hectares.   We can continue to scale up our livelihoods in organic agriculture by continuing to build the density of our raw materials  in hardwoods, fruit-bearing trees and ornamental plants, if we were to dream big and be a global purveyor of certified-organic products, which will bring in a tremendous amount of livelihood for the rural poor in our catchment community.  

Our **MISSION** is to preserve the environment, to adhere to sound and sustainable organic agricultural practices and to help in the alleviation of poverty through livelihood, education and community development.

It is our **VISION** to build a model eco-farming community on our land donation, skillfully master planned to allow for future-allocated areas for forests, schools, libraries, parks, marketplaces, sports and recreational facilities, community training centers, to name a few, all for the benefit of indigent farming families who have decided to hinge their life’s hopes for a brighter future on our mission and programs.

We are praying for committed monthly givers who can partner with us even for USD 10/ month. It is the power of numbers that will help us together transform land and transform lives. 

Hope you can join us!


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Gaza Soup Kitchen

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP/PNUD)

Adeso

Gaza Soup Kitchen

Goonj

Gaza Soup Kitchen

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