We're working every day to reinvent charity while bringing clean drinking water to the 663 million people living without. Join us.

charity: water is a non-profit bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations. 

In just ten years, we've funded more than 38,000 water projects in 27 developing countries. When complete, these projects will provide clean, safe drinking water for more than 9.6 million people.

Nearly 663 million people in our world don’t have access to clean drinking water. Unsafe water and lack of basic sanitation cause 80% of diseases and kill more people every year than all forms of violence, including war.

The good news: there are simple solutions, from deep drilled wells to water filtration systems. And with the help of 1,000,000+ donors and individual fundraisers, we're forming a strong force against the water crisis.

HELP KEEP FAMILIES HEALTHY AND SAFE

As COVID-19 spreads, clean and safe water for hand washing is essential. 100% of your donation helps equip families with the lifesaving resources they need.

charity: water

We are a volunteer-run non-profit celebrating the ideals of Islam thru education and charitable works in the developing world

Ibn Asheer supports international medical relief projects by collecting durable/reusable medical equipment and other donated supplies from health care entities in the US and shipping them to developing countries.  We also direct water development projects, primarily in the Middle East and Africa, to provide running water for small villages.  We do not spend any funds raised on administrative cost, so all of your donation goes towards the specified cause of the relief projects we run.

Ibn Asheer Institute Of Islam

Water + Education + Business/Income + Safe Shelter = Building Self Reliant Communities, One Family, One Village at a time . . .

Our latest business initiative in Kenya is Beehives. We have started two apiaries with 25 hives each in two separate villages. The beehives are a long term investment that we expect to pay big dividends in self reliance for these communities. A purchase of 25 Beehives is about a $4000 investment. We received a generous donation from a donor who wishes to remain anonymous. Would you like to be part of the next 25 hives to start another village on the road to self reliance? Make a donation and designate Beehives in your comments. 

The home for Meleon and her children has been completed and on March 27, 2021 her home was blessed by the local minister. Meleon is very grateful for this blessing of a new home made possible for her and her children through your generous donations. Thank You!


Gabriel, Caroline and Emmanuel, 3 of our students live with their widowed mother, Meleon, in this mud hut that has reached the point of collapse. Funding of $500 has been provided. We need to raise an additional $500-$1000 to build a new home with solar lighting and a water tank to store rain water off the roof. This will provide a clean, dry and safe environment with adequate lighting to do studies. It gets dark at 6:00 pm in Kenya year round.  The water tank will eliminate long treks to fetch water for cooking and drinking.

Thank you for your support! We have reached our goal of 100 DFG's Kits to be distributed in 2021. 
We are currently having a campaign to purchase "100" Days For Girls Kits with Reusable Washable Sanitary Pads to keep girls in school all month, every month. Period. Each kit costs $10. We purchase these kits from a Days For Girls Sewing Enterprise in Kenya. So besides keeping the girls in school purchasing these kits also provides income to women in Kenya who sew and put the kits together. Thank you!

Mission Statement 
No End To Love promotes self reliance with education, clean water, business initiatives and improvement of living conditions.

*Education sponsorships support students in finishing their primary and secondary educations. Our focus after high school is finished is to concentrate on job skills and income producing activities. 

*Communities thrive when there is a clean, reliable and accessible water source. We assist communities in rehabilitating springs and establishing community based rain harvesting systems. We work along side Chip Morgan of Africa Water Bank (https://www.facebook.com/www.africawaterbank.org/) in Kenya to accomplish these initiatives.

*We support projects and initiatives that result in income opportunities for both individuals and communities. Projects range from raising chickens for eggs, meat and market, goats and cows for milk, meat or market. We establish gardens in communities for the production of food for consumption and market.

*Clean, safe, dry and adequate living accommodations are essential for families to thrive. We provide solar power for homes where electricity is not available. Students achieve better results in school when basic home lighting is available in the evening hours so they can study and read. 

Money raised through fund raisers and direct individual donations go directly to No End to Love’s humanitarian and charitable purposes. Administration costs are self funded and supplemented with 5% from proceeds from our Savers Clothing Drives. We have no staff or rent to pay but there are always some expenses involved when running an organization. 
No End To Love Inc. is recognized by the US Internal Revenue Service as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Contributions to No End To Love Inc. Are tax deductible under IRS 501(c)3 regulations. 
Tax Exempt DLN: 26053553003810, EIN # 84-4844337
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No End To Love Inc.

COTAP mitigates your CO2 footprint with life-changing and certified forestry projects in least-developed countries.

When donating, please specify one of the following three options: 1) Offset To All Projects, 2) Offset: (Choose Nicaragua, Uganda, India, Fiji, Indonesia, or Mexico), or 3) 100% to COTAP’s Operations & Expansion. For more information, please see https://COTAP.org/Crypto.

Founded in 2011, COTAP empowers individuals and organizations in developed countries to simultaneously fight both global poverty and climate change. COTAP connects your carbon footprint with forestry projects in least-developed countries which create life-changing income for the world's poorest people. 

All COTAP projects are certified by the Plan Vivo Foundation Carbon Standard, the world's oldest forest carbon standard and the only standard which requires that projects share 60%+ of carbon revenues with participating communities. Combined with COTAP's transparent, modest, and consistent margin of 10%, ensures that you are creating $8.10+ per tonne in income for some of the world's poorest communities.

Our Mission

The mission of Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty (COTAP) is to empower individuals and organizations in developed countries to address both climate change and global poverty. COTAP counteracts your carbon emissions through certified forestry projects in least-developed regions which create transparent, accountable, and life-changing earnings for rural farming communities where income levels are less than $2 per day.

The Problem

In developing regions around the world, hundreds of millions of people live in rural areas on less than $2 per day. This level of poverty forces communities to make hard choices between food, health care, and education. It is the poverty level where an estimated 11 million children die every year. Many of these communities are not fits for traditional microfinance, which tends to be primarily urban, and significant portions of their land are not suitable for agriculture.

While there are many promising technical innovations and development programs which can increase crop yields, there remains a geographic limitation on markets where such increased yields can be sold.

The result is that there are farming communities all over the world who could be made much less economically vulnerable if there were a way to generate significant supplemental income from non-crop land usage which did not rely on physical distribution.

The proven potential of small-scale forestry carbon projects

Small-scale afforestation, reforestation, and agro-forestry programs have a proven track record of reaching such communities and for creating direct, significant, verifiable and lasting economic benefits for them. One of the most compelling ways to finance such activities is through the sale of carbon credits.

Such projects have faced a combination of serious challenges in selling their carbon credits. Many would-be customers and/or project investors dispassionately view carbon credits as a single-dimension environmental commodity, of which they are only able to technically value and pay for the environmental component. Relative to other project types, carbon credits from community-focused tree planting projects credits are issued in smaller quantities, they are issued more slowly, and they entail a variety of unique risks, albeit highly manageable ones.

Further, carbon projects entail significant startup, certification, and ongoing management costs. In order to cover their costs and maximize returns, project investors rationally prefer larger projects and shy away from geographically-fragmented, small-scale ones where return/profit potential opportunities do not pool in large amounts in any one place. This, in turn, means that more carbon market volume is transacted under carbon standards which favor large projects, and that in turn puts more momentum behind the market acceptance of such standards, tilting the playing field away from quality, community-focused standards like Plan Vivo.

The small-scale forestry carbon financing gap

The above set of factors has created a financing gap for community-focused forestry carbon projects, whereby project organizers are able often able to obtain a fair per-tonne price, at an early stage, and at volume – but rarely, if ever, are they able to attain all of these factors at the same time.  If this problem were solved, then the proven and multifaceted solution of small-scale forestry could rapidly expand, thereby lifting the poorest out of poverty, mitigating climate change, enhancing food security, and restoring landscapes at a much larger scale.

COTAP is founded on the belief that this financing gap, though understandable, is an unacceptable market failure – and a humanitarian injustice – given forestry carbon projects’ proven ability to reach and empower the world’s most vulnerable populations.  Who does COTAP believe can fill this gap? Individuals and organizations in developed countries.  Virtually all individuals in developed countries have unavoidable carbon footprints, and most are highly concerned about global warming, global poverty, or both.

The need for a crowdfunding intermediary

Every year, small-scale forestry projects plant trees which will result in the projected sequestration and long-term storage of tens of thousands of tonnes of CO2; however, the average annual individual CO2 footprint is relatively very small in comparison, CO2 footprints vary among individuals, and individuals have different preferences and budgets pertaining to how much of their footprint they wish to address.

COTAP is the critical intermediary which fills the gap between individuals and these poverty-alleviating projects by pooling together offset donations from many individuals and organizations and then working with projects to ensure that commensurate quantities of the offset they’ve generated will be retired, which means they cannot be re-sold.

The net effect is that, through COTAP, you’re indirectly employing the poorest people in the world to plant and maintain trees which counteract the emissions which you have not yet been able to eliminate.  This empowers you to fight both climate change and poverty with one tax-deductible donation, and it empowers our participating farmers by connecting them with funding that’s at an early stage in the planting cycle, at a fair price, and at significant volume.

COTAP’s Solution

COTAP makes individuals in developed countries, primarily the U.S., aware of the poverty-alleviating power of forestry carbon projects, and COTAP makes forestry carbon credits accessible to individuals in small amounts and as a tax-deductible donation.

COTAP sources carbon offset funds from those who care about both climate change and poverty alleviation, pools those funds, and transparently matches those funds with our partners’ forestry projects in order to fill the forestry carbon finance gap, restore landscapes, and create direct, significant, verifiable, and lasting benefits for the most economically vulnerable people in the world.

All of COTAP’s current portfolio projects are registered under the Edinburgh, Scotland-based Plan Vivo carbon accounting standard. With roots stretching back to a research project in Chiapas, Mexico in 1994, Plan Vivo is the longest-standing and most established forestry carbon accounting standard in the world. Plan Vivo is also the only carbon accounting standard which always requires projects to have detailed plans for direct payments to smallholders and community groups. Plan Vivo-accredited projects are projected to sequester over 1.3 million tonnes of carbon dioxide.

Addressing more financing gaps by being “vintage agnostic”

COTAP not only seeks to support upcoming planting seasons at an early stage, but also supports projects’ unsold credits from prior planting seasons or “vintages.” In our view, unsold Plan Vivo credits are a societal injustice just the same as the fact that these projects’ credits aren’t pre-sold in larger quantities and at earlier stages. COTAP is thus “vintage agnostic,” so as to pursue all of our projects’ funding opportunities and thereby fulfill our mission to the fullest possible extent. As COTAP scales, the issue of older vintages will become a moot point as we will have been instrumental as the buyer which ensured those credits were sold. For more on vintages and COTAP’s transparency, please see COTAP.org/transparency.

More Accountable, Market-Based Philanthropy

COTAP’s dual mission, crowdfunding model, and tax-deductible status, together with Plan Vivo’s reach, accountability, and transparency, forms a new category of microfinance and a new category of high-performance philanthropy.

In pursuing its mission, COTAP doubles the number of reasons for individuals to take action on climate change and it greatly expands the climate change issue beyond that of a disempowering and single-dimension environmental problem.

COTAP’s Vision

On an annual basis, COTAP aims to eventually catalyze millions of tonnes of validated carbon sequestration, millions of planted trees, and tens of millions of dollars in wages to hundreds of smallholder farmers who live on less than $2 per day. Unlike “crowdsourced” philanthropic models which involve loans, grants, matched savings, or guarantees, COTAP involves wages.

COTAP creates a new system whereby the world’s most vulnerable perform the tangible service of counteracting the unavoidable carbon footprint of individuals in developed countries.

This will not be simple, easy, or quick, but this is one of the many things that is worth doing despite all of the challenges.  It requires a movement, and we invite you to join us in our movement to make tomorrow brighter.


Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty (COTAP)

We work to end hunger & poverty in partnership with the communities we serve. Our programs create lasting change around the world.

Heifer's programs and success begin with a seed investment of livestock or agriculture, followed by mentorship to help project participants build a business, and ultimately to gain access to supply chains and markets.

These families are able to earn a living income and continuously lift up their communities as they train the next generation of leaders.

By supporting and training the world's farmers, ranchers, and female business owners, we're investing in a new breed of success. Our community development model focuses on building social capital by increasing income and assets within farming families, improving their food security and nutrition, and protecting the environment - with women's empowerment and connected communities at the very center.

Heifer Project International

Salva Dut, former "Lost Boy" of Sudan, founded WFSS in 2003 (Rochester, NY)—"A Long Walk to Water" features his story. 

Water for South Sudan delivers sustainable quality-of-life services to and with the people of South Sudan by efficiently providing access to clean, safe water, and improving hygiene and sanitation practices in areas of great need.

Water for South Sudan

To ensure everyone has access to safe water and sanitation by removing barriers and advocating for system change.

Water.org is a global nonprofit organization working to bring water and sanitation to the world. We want to make it safe, accessible, and cost-effective. We help people get access to safe water and sanitation through affordable financing, such as small loans. We give our everything every day to empower people in need with these life-changing resources – giving women hope, children health and families a bright future.

Water.org

TREES combats hunger, poverty and land degradation by training farmers in sustainable land use.

Around the world, modern and industrialized farming practices are destroying the environment—and, at the same time, failing to provide reliable income and nourishment for the farmers we all depend on to survive. At Trees for the Future (TREES), we recognize that unsustainable land use is the root cause of our most pressing challenges. We confront these challenges by serving the people at the heart of our global food systems: farmers and their families. As a global leader in agroforestry training for over 30 years, TREES provides hands-on, immersive education, skill building, and support, encouraging farmers to work with nature, not against it. 

Our signature methodology, the Forest Garden Approach, helps farmers transform their land with thousands of fast-growing, ecologically appropriate trees and dozens of other crops, creating new possibilities for themselves and their communities. By embracing sustainable land practices, farmers are reclaiming their agency, breaking the cycles of climate change and generational poverty, and rebuilding our food systems from the ground up.

Trees for the Future

A movement of people revolutionizing charitable giving to end extreme poverty.

We motivate people to donate 1% or more of their income to the world’s most cost-effective charities, every month, for life. We update this portfolio every year, so your donations are always as impactful as possible.

One For The World Inc

One Rake At A Time Inc is a nonprofit organization focused on preserving, protecting, and improving environment. It is based in Dunnellon, FL. It received its nonprofit status in 2015.

Hydrilla has invaded the beautiful Rainbow river.

Hydrilla is destroying the habitat where the otters live.

Hydrilla is here because of us, it is a plant from south east Asia that was brought in to be used in small aquarium tanks years ago. Hydrilla escaped and is now invading our lakes, springs, and rivers.

Hydrilla grows so fast that it crowds out and suffocates all the other native plants.

Hydrilla is very invasive and wants to dominate the entire ecosystems in our lakes rivers and springs we cant let it win.

The Beautiful Rainbow river was invaded by hydrilla years ago. Hydrilla can grow up to 2 inches a day in the summer months. Otters, people and other aquatic animals can not swim thru the big massive dense mats of Hydrilla.

Every year there is more Hydrilla and less native eelgrass. We want native eelgrass, it is good, growing on the bottom it create a great home for not only otters, but everything else.

The Hydrilla becomes so dense that it slows down the water. Less current means better environment for toxic Lyngbya algae to grow. We are seeing Lyngbya in parts to the river already.

Every year Hydrilla becomes so bad that the State has no choice but to spray the Hydrilla with herbicide, or it will choke the river to death with in a years time. The state has been spraying Hydrilla for at least the last 30 years on a regular basis.

After the Hydrilla is treated with the herbicide Endothol it starts to die back slowly over the next 30 to 60 days. It sheds its leaves slowly creating silt that sinks to the bottom. As the hydrilla dies it covers the bottom helping suffocate any eel grass struggling to survive.

The next generation of Hydrilla will emerge after about 6 months and feed on all this left over silt, muck, and debris growing again. It is a viscous cycle, and after 30 years, the rivers needs a good cleaning.

As a good farmer will first prepare their field before planting, so must we prepare the bottom of the river before planting. We need to remove the Hydrilla, vacuum up the silt and muck so we can see the natural bottom again, and then we can replant eel grass.

If given a fair chance, the eel grass will once again become the dominate SAV on the bottom of the river. When eel grass gets it roots down deep into the natural bottom it will grow and prosper, crowding out the Hydrilla by shading it from sunlight with its thick blades of grass.

This has been proven to work by the results of the Kings Bay Restoration project in Crystal River. This will bring back the stories of yesteryear, crystal clear water with fields of eel grasses blowing in the currents and a river full of happy people and otters.

This is the beginning of a 5 year project to clean up and restore the Rainbow river and with a vow to maintain it once it is restored again so herbicide use is no longer needed.

Please help us, we have a proven plan and just need money to hire an experienced contractor to vacuum up all the silt and muck and plant eel grass.

Please donate if you can.

The otters will be grateful.

Art Jones, founder and president of One Rake at a Time, Inc.

A non-profit 501c3
Dedicated to restoring our Springs.

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One Rake At A Time Inc

Splash is a social justice organization committed to the poor, an international development agency disciplined around urban economies, a social enterprise dedicated to putting ourselves out of business, and a safe water company focused on children. 

Put this odd combination together and exciting things are happening.

Splash

Serving immediate needs, supporting long-term solutions for strong, self-sufficient Native American communities.  

Partnership With Native Americans is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to championing hope for a brighter future for Native Americans living on remote, isolated and impoverished reservations. Collaborating for nearly 30 years with our reservation partners, we provide consistent aid and services for Native Americans with the highest need in the U.S.

Much of our work centers around material aid, educational support and community-based services. PWNA also connects outside resources directly to reservations through its distribution network and reservation partnerships. We care about quality of life for Native Americans and respect their self-determined goals for their tribes.

The only Native-serving charity to work in hundreds of reservation communities year-round, our service area is concentrated in 9 priority states and encompasses Pine Ridge, Rosebud, Navajo and other high-need reservations. Scholarships are offered nationwide to eligible Native students.

Partnership With Native Americans

Build a socially-conscious generation of young people who END the global water crisis.

Thirst Project is a nonprofit organization that works with the support of young people to END the global water crisis by building freshwater wells in developing communities that need safe, clean drinking water. 

Thirst Project

Reaching Everyone Forever: At Water For People, we spend years, not days, in communities.

We work until every single person — even the hardest-to-reach, the most vulnerable, the marginalized — has access to safe, reliable water, sanitation, and hygiene services.

Water For People

To transform the lives of the poorest and most marginalized people by improving access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene.

WaterAid transforms lives by improving access to clean water, hygiene and sanitation in the world's poorest communities. We work with local partners and influence decision-makers to maximise our impact.

WaterAid America

To support the projects and development of the International Township of Auroville, which is an attempt to create a universal town where men and women of all countries can live together in peace and progressive harmony.

Auroville International USA

Kids In Crisis International is a nonprofit organization focused on international issues. It is based in Hazelwood, NC. It received its nonprofit status in 2001.

Kids In Crisis International, Inc. is a faith-based 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable organization established in the year 2000. We are dedicated to changing the lives of impoverished children around the world with the love of Jesus Christ. We consider it a joy and a privilege to demonstrate the love of God by helping children and their families to break out of illiteracy, poverty, hunger, and hopelessness.

The name Kids In Crisis originated as a result of what the founders witnessed in the late 1990s in Gypsy communities in northwest Romania. They witnessed children truly in crisis. Children are so impoverished it was not unusual to see them walking barefoot in the snow. All were illiterate and hopelessness was everywhere you looked.

This endeavor is close to the Father’s heart. Luke 18:16 reads, “But Jesus called the children to Him and said, ‘Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.’ Bring the little children unto me.’” This is our call and commission to bring the Love of Jesus to children in need.

Kids In Crisis International, Inc

KLF extends the late Krista Roth’s impact by advancing the causes about which she was most passionate.

KLF extends the late Krista Roth’s impact by advancing the causes about which she was most passionate. There are summarized by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals - in particular, Quality Education, Clean Water & Sanitation, Affordable & Clean Energy, & Life on Land (rainforest restoration). Krista’s Legacy Foundation also promotes sustainable ministry, particularly in developing nations.

Krista's Legacy Foundation

Believes clean water is a basic human right that must be met in order to help people break the cycle of poverty.

Our mission is to build wells and sanitation systems at schools throughout sub-Saharan Africa, enabling youth to fully harness the life-changing power of an education.  Our goal is to provide schools and communities with tools they need to improve child health, increase school enrollment rates, and promote gender equality.

Drop in the Bucket

Can Do Kids helps kids around the world experience God's love by empowering their communities to meet their most basic needs. 

Can Do Kids International

Surge is a nonprofit organization with a global mission. Headquartered in Chicago, IL, Surge was founded in 2008.

Surge for Water's mission is to invest in communities with safe water, sanitation, hygiene and menstrual health solutions to help end the cycle of poverty. 

To date, Surge has provided safe water and sanitation access to over 1,000,000 people in 12 countries — while keeping true to our core values of sustainability, local empowerment, and equality for all. 

Surge For Water

CRWA’s mission is to protect, restore and enhance the Charles River and its watershed through science, advocacy and the law.

In 1965, a group of concerned citizens formed Charles River Watershed Association (CRWA) in response to public concern about the declining condition of the Charles River. CRWA is one of the country’s oldest watershed organizations and has figured prominently in major cleanup and protection efforts. Since our earliest days of advocacy, we have worked with government officials and citizen groups from 35 Massachusetts watershed towns from Hopkinton to Boston.

Today, the Charles is once again a living river—and a living river in the heart of a city is a glorious thing, connecting people to nature and enriching lives. Over fifty years of progress by CRWA has transformed the “Dirty Water” of the past to a “Clean Charles.” We celebrate that hard-won victory. The Charles we all cherish depends on relentless loving vigilance—and that is our full time job. We are proud to have delivered “the cleanest urban river in America.” But, for a river intertwined with 80 miles of bustling cities and towns, “clean” is not an endpoint, it’s a verb—and it’s still our unwavering mission. 

​We humbly recognize the Massachuset, Wampanoag, and Nipmuc Nations, as our work is carried out across their traditional territory, and we acknowledge them as the past, present and future caretakers of this land.

Charles River Watershed Association

ARDF strengthens communities by coming alongside the Local Church.

The Anglican Relief and Development Fund’s (ARDF) mission is to work alongside strategic partners to alleviate suffering through disaster relief and foster the flourishing of communities through development projects, expanding the Kingdom of Christ through tangible works of compassion.

Anglican Relief and Development Fund

We partner with Congolese communities to build lasting change. Along the way, we're transformining humanitarian aid, for good.

Eastern Congo Initiative (ECI) believes that local, community-based initiatives create transformative impact and lasting development in eastern Congo. That's because no one knows the both the challenges and paths forward better than those who live with them every day. By directly funding this work, we have secured justice for over 2,000 victims of rape, set legal precedent for woman gaining the right to inherit land, and supported clean water and healthcare infrustructure that serves 120,000 people every day. 

We cultivate public and private partnerships alongside strategic advocacy to drive change and increase attention. Our multifaceted approach works to create new, lasting opportunities for the people of eastern Congo. 

And we know that by investing in local solutions and working shoulder to shoulder with Congolese innovators, we can revolutionize how the world thinks of humanitarian aid.

Eastern Congo Initiative

 We promote women health and  give Care to Orphans, Abandoned Children and other who are Social-Economically Disadvantaged.


Mission Statement
We teach healthy issues and also care for low -income women and children to live a healthier life; caring includes providing basic needs, children sponsorship, access to clean water and decent housing. Also, we foster young entrepreneurs and philanthropists to become economically independent.

                    Vision
We envision healthier communities where women and children are cared for, with basic needs, clean water, decent housing and prosperous entrepreneurs and philanthropists .     

        

Showing Love to Children in Africa

Ensuring access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene since 2007. 

We envision a better world, where all have access to living conditions that allow empowerment and development. Together, we aim to ensure sustainable access to safe water and sanitation for the most vulnerable communities through innovative partnerships, creativity and the power of art.

One Drop Foundation

Our mission is to provide families around the world access to clean drinking water, one at a time. 

Water connects every aspect of life. Access to safe water and sanitation can quickly turn problems into potential – unlocking education, work opportunities, and improved health for women, children and families across the world.

Today, 1 in 9 people lack access to safe water. Every 90 seconds a child dies from a water related illness. We can change this. Let's work together to make the power of water available to all.

One ATTA Time

Be one of the revolutionaries, invest into a cause that saves millions of lives by reducing alcohol use through alcohol taxation

Alcohol taxation is the single most effective solutions to prevent and reduce alcohol related harm. Nearly 3 million people die every year due to alcohol. Moreover, alcohol use is connected with diseases like cancer, violence, injuries, loss of productivity, poor school performance. 

The Center for Alcohol Policy Solutions (CAPS) is an evidence-based non-profit organisation that aims to save lives and promote well-being through alcohol taxation. We do this by partnering with decision makers to develop and implement evidence-based,
public health oriented alcohol taxation - the single most cost-effective policy solution to reducing alcohol consumption and related harm.

Our vision is a world where people can live healthy lives and actively shape their environments free from harm caused by alcohol.

Center for Alcohol Policy Solutions (CAPS)

Our core values include leave no trace, waste reduction, and responsible waste management. Education is key for a better tomorrow!

Litter Clean-ups: Our community clean-ups provide participants the resources needed to safely remove litter from urban, suburban, and rural areas around Chattanooga on a monthly basis. Since beginning our program in 2017, we've removed 1.6 pounds of litter from the region!  

Education: Presentations and interactive activities can be scheduled for all age groups that focus on waste reduction, responsible waste diversion, and sustainable living tips. 

Litter Stations: Over 50 litter stations are located around Chattanooga, stocked with biodegradable dog waste and litter bags, enabling community members to remove litter while recreating.

Green Steps Inc

BRC permanently protects natural resources with agricultural, cultural, recreational, ecological and scenic value in northwest NC.

Since its founding in 1997, Blue Ridge Conservancy (BRC) has permanently protected over 22,000 acres in Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Mitchell, Watauga, Wilkes and Yancey Counties in North Carolina. In addition to protecting working farmland, BRC's efforts have resulted in the creation of state natural areas like Beech Creek Bog, Bear Paw and Bullhead Mountain. BRC continues to help Elk Knob State Park, Grandfather Mountain State Park, and Three Top Mountain Game Land expand their borders and led the way in establishing a 2,900-acre State Game Land preserve on Pond Mountain in Ashe County. BRC is also working to construct the Middle Fork Greenway, which will connect the towns of Boone and Blowing Rock via a 6.5-mile paved path for walking, jogging and cycling. BRC's mission is to partner with landowners and local communities to permanently protect natural resources with agricultural, cultural, recreational, ecological and scenic value in northwest North Carolina.

Blue Ridge Conservancy

Kpsna Charitable Foundation Inc is a nonprofit organization focused on philanthrophy, voluntarism, or grantmaking. It is based in Waxhaw, NC. It received its nonprofit status in 2014.

KPSNA Charitable Foundation, Inc.

Advancing the dude ranching industry through scholarships, education programs, workforce development and ecological conservation.

Dude Ranch Foundation  works to preserve the history and to advance America's dude ranching industry through its Museum, research archives, educational programs & scholarships, support for workforce development, and responsible biodiversity conservation.

Dude Ranch Foundation

To foster a more peaceful society Terrawatu works in Tanzania creating self-sustainable projects rooted in indigenous communities 

Who We Are

Celebrating 20 years this year, Terrawatu is an NGO based in Tanzania that works with local communities to create sustainable development projects, and educates about the importance of environmental conservation, reforestation and the cultivation of plants for both medicinal and nutritional purposes. Our success lies in our ability to unite time-tested ancient wisdom with up-to-date science so that the needs of communities are met appropriately and efficiently.

The founders of Terrawatu – Dr. Tanya Pergola, an American sociologist and Lekoko Ole Sululu, a Tanzanian Maasai elder – share a love for Tanzania’s land, rich cultures, and its people. Saddened by the ‘brain drain’ and desire of so many young Tanzanians to leave their country in search of perceived ‘greener pastures’ the founders set about to do what they could to educate and improve the livelihoods of Tanzanians in and around the Arusha Region. There had to be a way to preserve and conserve the precious landscapes and wildlife, the indigenous cultures, medicinal plants, and foodstuffs while at the same time helping to develop economies and businesses in such a way that people would be proud to stay in-country while serving as an example for other communities around the world.

Terra = ‘earth’ in the Italian language         Watu = ‘people’ in the Swahili language

The vision of Terrawatu from day one has been to bridge indigenous and modern wisdom. When Terrawatu built traditional classrooms in schools, computers with Internet access were a priority. When health clinics were constructed, they served as integrative medical facilities, providing treatments combining both traditional healing with modern medicine. Project staff is primarily from the local community, and external funding is for initial project implementation. Terrawatu's measure of success for its projects is self-sustainability. 

Terrawatu is registered in both Tanzania and in the United States as a 501c3 (EIN 26-0212786). Projects are based and directed out of our office in Arusha, Tanzania, East Africa. Fundraising and volunteer coordination are based out of our Miami, Florida office. There is an all-Tanzanian Board of Directors, an American Board and an International Advisory Council.

What We Have Done

Terrawatu is dedicated to creating and implementing sustainable development projects that make a viable difference. All of our projects and activities emerge out of in-depth discussions with local communities regarding true priority intentions and needs.

Not everything we have tried has worked. And some projects turned out to be much more challenging, and expensive, than originally planned. At Terrawatu we take these 'lessons learned' to heart, work to establish new paths forward and add to our expertise in future endeavors.

In the two decades since our founding, Terrawatu is proud of many successes in the areas of education, health, environmental conservation and women's empowerment. Successes visible to the eye include: construction of multiple classrooms, school kitchens and computer labs; reforestation of village lands; and development of orphanages. Successes not so visible to the eye include: improved formal education, decreased incidents of malaria, empowered women and healthier communities.

What We Are Doing Now

Like many NGOs, 2020 encouraged us to pull back from our daily activities and take a big picture view of our work. We decided to focus less on getting people prepared to move into increasingly congested towns in search of rapidly disappearing jobs, to focusing more on helping people feed their families more directly. The 'Chakula na Dawa Usalama Project' was born in late 2020. Meaning “Food and Medicine/Health Security” in Swahili, the project embraces several activities including a permaculture farm, medicinal plant cultivation, upgrades to kitchens and diets, and health and well-being education. 

While we continue to oversee computer labs and mobile education activities at our partner schools, we intend to collaborate with the amazing content providers existing in Tanzania and simply help provide the infrastructure.

With our twenty years of experience, Terrawatu is sought out by local orphanages, schools and community organizations to consult on their developing projects.

Our Vision / Our Dream 

Demonstration/model village – a thriving village where people from around the area can visit and learn permaculture techniques, moringa cultivation and processing, cooking techniques using fuel-efficient kitchens, new recipes marrying indigenous and modern ingredients and techniques, traditional medicine cultivation and use, small business development (e.g. beadwork, handbags, artisan kitchenware, farmer's market). The schools, health center and orphanage in the village are at the highest standards to nurture the next generation. The concept is villagers teaching villagers, in their language, Swahili, and meeting eye to eye to experience what works. 

Our Potential Impact

This model village will first impact the local residents who are part of this project. In Mkonoo village itself, over a thousand men, women and children will see immediate improvements in their livelihoods.

We are creating a template / greenprint for surrounding communities in Tanzania. Many have described the entire continent of Africa as ‘leap-frogging’ technology by going directly from communicating at the local market to mobile phones (bypassing landline phones). With many families in America and Europe now setting up small farms at their homes and switching to renewable energy, communities in Tanzania can ‘leap-frog’ over unsustainable farming practices, more deforestation and unhealthy foods and diets. They can go forward by harnessing the wisdom of their ancestors, manifesting the vision of Terrawatu.

Call To Action

Immediate funds are needed for fencing, permanent water, kitchen construction, storerooms, workshops, and overall development of our model villages. Budget to fully manifest Our Vision/Our Dream is one million USD.

ROI – Knowing you have made a difference in keeping proud Tanzanians in their country, building a better future, for this East African nation while providing a model that can be replicated in other communities around the world. 


Terrawatu

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

LWI exists to demonstrate the love of God by helping communities acquire clean water, and to experience “living water."

Living Water International exists to demonstrate the love of God by helping communities acquire desperately needed clean water, and to experience “living water”—the gospel of Jesus Christ—which alone satisfies the deepest thirst.

Living Water International

GMO/Toxin Free USA is a nonprofit focused on food, agriculture, and nutrition. It received its nonprofit status in 2014.

GMO/Toxin Free USA’s mission is to harness independent science and agroecological concepts to advocate for regenerative food and ecological systems. We educate consumers and other stakeholders about the potential hazards of genetically engineered organisms, synthetic pesticides, and other toxins, and advance the application of the Precautionary Principle.

GMO/Toxin Free USA

We support marginalised indigenous Karen communities living in Thailand, through projects in water, livelihoods, and education.

Indigenous Karen communities have been marginalised from Thailand’s development gains. Average daily income is just per 50 cents per person, and the enrolment of Karen children in primary education is 51%, compared to the national average at 89%. Rural communities rely on subsistence agriculture, with most families suffering from food shortages at least five times a month.

One of the few NGOs working in the area, since 1986 KHT have been working to improve the lives of Karen communities in a holistic and sustainable manner. We provide:
- water systems and latrines to give clean water;
- work with farmers to install irrigation systems to boost farming income and cut hunger rates; and 
- run access to education projects to ensure Karen children can realise their potential. 

The projects are run in a complimentary and coordinated way to ensure immediate (health), medium (incomes), and long term (education) assistance is provided. 

We're proud of our impact to date. With our donors' support we have:
- installed 212 clean water systems and 3,150 latrines for 55,643 Karen people;
- installed irrigation systems to support subsistence agriculture in 94 communities, boosting income for 18,901 households;
- provided safe access to education for 17,693 children and young adults, through school transport, school meals, and higher-education scholarships.

KHT are deeply embedded into the local community, with the majority of staff Thai Karen and based in the area. A small organisation, a meaningful donation can help hundreds or even thousands in an impactful way, in a part of the world where they’re too often forgotten.

The Karen Hilltribes Trust (KHT)

Founded in 1925, Steep Rock Association is a nationally-accredited land trust focused on saving land in Washington, CT. 

Steep Rock Association is a nationally-accredited land trust whose mission is to conserve ecologically and historically significant landscapes and riparian corridors in and around Washington, CT and to enhance the community’s connection to nature through outreach, education, and passive recreation.



Steep Rock Association

Using faith, innovation and empowerment to reimagine a world free from the water crisis.

Our local businesses are the backbone of the Water4 approach. We build enterprises that are professionally run and can stand on their own two feet. They put sustain in sustainable development by living and working in the communities they serve. We are obsessed with developing teams and individuals so they are empowered to solve their own local water crisis.

Water 4 Inc

ARAHA strives to alleviate human suffering and build self-reliant communities by providing aid in the Horn of Africa

ARAHA is a humanitarian non-governmental organization (NGO) that works in the Horn of Africa region delivering essentials and developing opportunities. 
We have 8 core programs; disaster relief and emergency response to famine and drought, education, including scholarships and vocational training programs, sustainable energy, food relief, including school lunch programs and container shipments of manna rice packs, self-reliance programs built for sustainability, boreholes to bring essential water to remote communities, health programs to combat disease and bring medical care to refugee and IDP camps, and our orphan program that supports children that have lost their caregivers. 
Our diverse range of programs bring to life our mission and our field team in each country adapts to the specific needs of each community in which it works. 
Our organization aims to bring immediate relief to those in need throughout the Horn, while at the same time seeking to create the conditions for sustainable opportunity and self-reliance. In all programs ARAHA pursues, it seeks to responsibly enact its mission and build a stable, sustainable, thriving Horn of Africa. 

In the last year, ARAHA has served over 100,000 beneficiaries. We built 71 water wells in communities so thousands of people have access to fresh water. Our individual donors sponsor 356 orphans and our organization covers 1300, for a total of 1,646 vulnerable children that are being cared for. We run a school lunch program for 8 schools with over 1,500 students total. We also maintain the Shagarab refugee camp high school, the only school in the camp, where we provide salaries for teachers and scholarships for students. We distributed meat to 14,600 people in need last year. We are currently combating drought and famine in the Horn by providing monthly food baskets to families. We have already supplied these baskets to over 800 families. We have run several successful vocational training programs, specifically for solar energy and veterinary technology. This training provides opportunities for many students who could not afford education. We also built sustainable homes for 11 families in Sudan. 

We could not have accomplished any of these programs without the generosity of our incredible supporters. Donors like you are what make our work possible and we are so grateful for your support and interest in our work. 

Please don't hesitate to reach out to us with any questions or ideas at info@araha.org 


ARAHA: American Relief Agency for the Horn of Africa

You can help end the water crisis and restore hope. Together we'll provide access to clean, safe and reliable water.

The Water Project, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization unlocking human potential by providing reliable water projects to communities in sub-Saharan Africa who suffer needlessly from a lack of access to clean water and proper sanitation.
For ten years, we have been helping communities gain access to clean, safe water by providing training, expertise and financial support for water project construction through our staff and implementing partners.

The Water Project

Western Resource Advocates provides on-the-ground solutions to climate change. 

WRA has three main program areas that encompass our work: Clean Energy, Healthy Rivers, Western Lands. Our work is throughout the intermountain West, including 7 states - Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Wyoming and Montana. 

We envision... 

Western rivers and lakes will have abundant clean water to support habitat for fish and wildlife, communities and agriculture, and world-class recreational opportunities. The Colorado River will flow to the sea. 

Our homes, buildings and transportation systems will be powered by clean energy. The West will prosper in a zero-carbon economy. 

Half of western landscapes and habitat will be protected and connected to support thriving wildlife populations and unparalleled opportunities to enjoy the West’s natural beauty. 

The West will have clean air and clean water to support healthy communities and vital habitat. 

Western Resource Advocates provides on-the-ground solutions to climate change. We work with policymakers and other advocates to advance clean energy, protect air, land, water, and wildlife — and sustain the lives and livelihoods of the West. 

Western Resource Advocates

Blood: Water is an equipping agency that partners with African grassroots organizations to address the water and HIV/AIDS crises.

Their mission is to address the water crisis in Eastern Africa by focusing on individuals who were affected by HIV/AIDS. By increasing their awareness and education Blood: Water hopes to improve the longevity of people suffering from the autoimmune disorder and reduce the stress of access to drinkable water.

Blood:Water

Every year, over one billion people are harmed by waterborne illnesses. But the cutting edge technology we have the potential to kick these diseases to the curb.
Thus, our mission was born:

SAFE DRINKING WATER TO 1 BILLION PEOPLE BY DECEMBER 31, 2021.

WATERisLIFE

They are a faith-based organization dedicated to effectively serving vulnerable children and families in Guatemala.

Using storytelling best practices, Hope of Life International uses video and images to supplement their beneficiary stories that outline how their efforts and the support of their community can prevent deaths due to diseases like typhoid and cholera. They drive home the importance of each donation with the message that it only takes one dollar to provide a child with clean water for a year.

Hope of Life International

Protecting everyone's right to breathe clean air!  www.CleanAir.org

Clean Air Council is a member-supported, non-profit environmental health organization dedicated to protecting everyone’s right to breathe clean air. The Council works aggressively to improve the Mid-Atlantic region’s air quality through public education, outreach programs, community advocacy, and government oversight.

Clean Air Council

Improve lives by empowering people with access to life’s most basic necessities…safe water and sanitation.

We do this by partnering with underserved communities, in Central America and the Caribbean, providing the tools and education to establish sustainable safe water, hygiene and sanitation programs.
We envision a world in which all people have safe water, proper sanitation and the knowledge to sustain it for future generations.

Pure Water for the World

H2O for Life’s service-learning opportunities are designed to engage, educate, and inspire youth to become global citizens.

H2O for Life provides a service-learning opportunity for schools in the United States that helps teachers and students raise awareness about the global water crisis while taking action to provide funds for water, sanitation, and hygiene education project for a partner school in the developing world.

H2O for Life

Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences is a world leader in microbial oceanography with research spanning from our home base in Maine to the Arctic to the deep ocean crust.

Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences

The Waterbearers is a nonprofit organization empowering women by providing them access to clean water. 

Water is Precious. And while many of us take it for granted, almost 2 billion people still lack access to safe drinking water, and half the world’s population lives in water-stressed areas. When water is used wisely, we can all benefit from the earth’s most precious resource.

Mission:  To inspire women who have access to clean water to get it to those who do not. 
As a women-led organization, The Waterbearers, at its heart, holds the simple intention to bring clean water, light and love to those in dire need. Each year, we raise women's consciousness globally through our awareness campaigns, thereby energizing women grateful for their privileged ease of access to water to help those who lack this human right. 

We strategically align ourselves with partners, in-country organizations, and community leaders to provide reliable, affordable, and sustainable clean water solutions. We work around the world in places where people lack access to clean water. Since 2016, we have helped fund clean water initiatives in 33 countries and impacted hundreds of thousands of lives.


