We strengthen the ability of communities to withstand disasters and recover equitably when they occur.

When disaster strikes, people rally to support those affected, but full recovery takes years – long after media attention wanes and most donations cease. Your gift will help the Center for Disaster Philanthropy transform people’s lives during the long road to recovery and provide hope for the days and months ahead. To support specific recovery efforts, see our website.

Thank you for helping communities recover!

Center for Disaster Philanthropy

Support our neighbors who help each other

Buddhist International Relief NGO 'ThePromise' (Founder: Ven. Myojang) is often referred to as the 'Buddhist 119.' Its operational scope spans the entire globe. Since its establishment in 2008, ThePromise, a non-profit organization recognized by the United Nations Economic and Social Council (UN ECOSOC) with special consultative status, has been dedicated to providing critical aid and support to communities worldwide affected by various disasters. The organization has aimed to be a representative relief entity for the Buddhist community, akin to the ‘Red Cross’ in the West and the ‘Red Crescent Society’ in the Islamic countries. To broaden its reach and appeal, it chose an English name with less religious connotation. 

Since its founding, International NGO ThePromise has responded to global disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, 2011 East Japan earthquake, 2015 Nepal earthquake, 2022 Ukraine conflict, and the 2023 Turkey earthquake. Domestically, it has aided in the 2017 Pohang earthquake, 2022 Donghae wildfires, and the 2023 Gangneung wildfire and Yecheon flood.

**Major Initiatives**

Our work encompasses a wide range of humanitarian and environmental initiatives:

- **Climate Crisis**: We introduced climate budgeting, support disaster response and climate adaptation for immigrant families, and develop educational tools for environmental sustainability. For example, we provided emergency relief through a local youth-led team during the Timor Leste floods and deployed the nation's first Disaster Welfare Assistance Team (DWAT) for five weeks to support shelters during the East Coast wildfires.
- **Mental Health** : We support global neighbors in crisis by providing psychological aid to disaster-affected individuals, helping them regain strength. Our International Disaster Psychological Support Team AEGIS, known for its global experience, operates extensively at disaster sites. Recognized by UNHCR, our "Family-based Disaster Response Board Game," developed with support from global gaming company, Electronic Arts (EA), enhances disaster response capabilities for migrant families in Korea.
- **Humanitarian Aid**: Conducting emergency relief operations for natural disasters and providing urgent food aid to communities affected by the Myanmar coup and the Ukraine conflict.

**Award History**

We are honored to have received several awards recognizing our contributions, including:

- **Samsung CSR Partner Award (2016)**
- **The 27th Manhae Prize for Practical Contribution (2023)**: The aim of the prize is to help honor and disseminate the works of those individuals and groups who most exemplify the principles and noble aims of the Reverend Manhae.

**Countries of operation**

South Korea, Haiti, Japan, Nepal, Ukraine, Türkiye, Syria, Timor-Leste, Thailand, Israel, Palestine, Morocco, Myanmar, Bhutan, Vietnam, India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Marshall Islands,Malawi, Tibet,etc.

**Join Us in Promising a Safe Society**

As we continue our mission, we invite you to join us in making a difference. Together, we can build a resilient and safe society for all, ensuring that in times of crisis, no one is left behind. For more information or to support our initiatives, please contact us at 02-735-3119 or visit our office at 708 Saemunan-ro-42, 7th floor, Jongno-gu, Seoul.

Together, let's promise a safer tomorrow with International NGO ThePromise.

International NGO ThePromise

A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION FOCUSED ON GLOBAL REFORESTATION


We want to make it simple for anyone to **help the environment by planting trees**. Together, we can restore forests, create habitat for biodiversity, and make a positive social impact worldwide. We are action-oriented and seek to have an impact through quality and community-driven tree-planting projects throughout **North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Pacific**.

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One Tree Planted engages and impacts populations all over the world. In just nine years, we have gotten over **100 million trees** in the ground through new and established relationships with over 463 planting partners. In 2022 alone, we planted over 52 million trees within 327 planting projects in 74 countries across six regions and have potentially sequestered more than 10 million tons of carbon over the next 20 years. Through these projects, we helped to:

- create 2,438 jobs, 
- support 50,582 farming families, 
- engage over 32,000 volunteers, and 
- restore 97,769 hectares of land. 

One Tree Planted has impacted populations at all levels. On a macro level, One Tree Planted has helped to reduce the adverse effects of carbon emissions, air pollution, and global warming. It has inspired and engaged individuals, schools, foundations, and businesses to take action to combat climate change. It has restored landscapes for economic, social, and environmental well-being. On a micro level, it has supported community development by building and beautifying urban green spaces and improving air and water quality. It has helped underdeveloped communities become resilient and self-sufficient, develop sustainable economies, and provide income, food, and heating to support families. Its action and positive storytelling have inspired many and boosted the sense of community all around the world.

One Tree Planted

The California Community Foundation leads positive systemic change to strengthen Los Angeles communities.

The California Community Foundation's mission is to lead positive systemic change that strengthens Los Angeles. Since 1915, we have been empowering donors to pursue their passions and collaborate with us in addressing the root causes of challenges in L.A.

California Community Foundation

An all women disaster response and recovery group that deploys to communities affected by natural disasters. 

- **From Willie in Mississippi whose home was damaged a year ago in a tornado**: "We kept seeing workers go by but they didn't stop at our house. We just felt we were left behind. I'm just tickled to death and we care so much for all of you ladies coming out to help. I will never forget you!"
- **From Homeowner in Oklahoma when asked to evaluate the work on their house**: "The ladies all worked really well together. They were precise about their work and asked us if we were pleased. I personally feel like they did an excellent job. I felt really blessed!"
- **From Gail in Florida:** "Many volunteer groups had worked with me and 'Did what they could' and I am grateful for them......When Sister-Corps first visited me, I was in a very dark space in my life, giving up hope for recovery...... Sister-Corps lifted my life up physically and emotionally and kept on lifting and building a stable, practical, safe area for me to live.........
- Sister-Corps is an all-women organization that offers **recovery phase relief efforts deploying volunteers to communities affected by natural disasters**. In addition, Sister-Corps volunteers respond to local communities that need short-term non-life-threatening relief efforts. Each person pays their own way so that funds can be used for materials needed to repair damaged homes.

Sister Corps Inc

33 years committed to agroecology and to regenerate minds, hearts, forests, basins and agricultural land, through education.

Fundación Origen is a nonprofit organization founded in 1991 in CHILE dedicated to holistic social transformation through education and agroecology.

Its main projects include the Pirque Agroecological School, the Natural Sanctuary Los Maitenes, the Origen Farmers Market, The Bodhisattva training and the Virginia Subercaseaux School. In times of need or disaster, Origen activates its relief programs for food and housing. All of these initiatives are interrelated and share the objective of providing concrete tools for generating individual, social and environmental transformation. 

Origen credits its growth as an organization to its open and compassionate response to a changing world, its commitment and deep care for all living beings and its willingness to engage in horizontal dialogue with several stakeholders across multiple projects. Each year, Origen directly impacts 600 children and thousands of families through all its programs and, thereby contributing to a more peaceful and equitable world.

Your support helps Origen to:

1. Keep developing the Origen Farmers Market , which supports hundreds of small businesses and artisans from all over the country and enriches the vocational training of our students with "Production, processing and commercialization of healthy food" courses.
2. Increase the capacity of the Agroecological school by buying more land and building classrooms for 200 additional younger students.
3. Restore agricultural land and forest, protect flora and fauna in the Natural Sanctuary of Río Claro, Origen´s second campus where local communities are inspired to preserve their land, practice agriculture and beekeeping in sustainable ways.
4. Preserve and promote agro ecological seeds through the creation of the Origen Seeds Bank.

Fundación Origen

Marshall ROC -  Restoring Our Community is a coalition helping our neighbors recover from the devastating Colorado Marshall Fire  

Marshall ROC -  Restoring Our Community  is a coalition of community organizations, funders, and government agencies bound together by the common interest: Helping our neighbors, particularly those who are most in need, recover from the Devastating Marshall Fire & Windstorms which destroyed over 1000K homes.  

Marshall ROC is led by its members, who are a dedicated community of volunteers and organizations, in collaboration with government representatives. Many organizations in the surrounding communities offered their help after the Marshall Fire. Coordinating these efforts is challenging, but important. Marshall ROC is structured as a Long Term Recovery Group (LTRG), which is a nationally recognized, tried-and-true method for coordinating limited money, muscle, and materials among multiple organizations, on behalf of individuals and communities impacted by disaster. The Marshall ROC Mission is to support and empower individuals and households affected by the Marshall Fire and windstorm to lead their own recoveries by identifying needs and coordinating assistance on their behalf

The Marshall ROC Mission – Restoring Our Community
The mission of Marshall ROC is to support and empower individuals and households affected by the Marshall Fire and windstorm to lead their own recoveries by identifying needs and coordinating assistance on their behalf. Marshall ROC is a collaborative coalition of existing agencies and all Marshall ROC related services will be provided without regard to race, creed, color, gender, disability, religious or political affiliation, documentation status, or sexual orientation. 

Disasters are, by their nature, overwhelming. If it wasn’t overwhelming, we’d call it an “inconvenience,” not a “disaster.” The Marshall Fire and Windstorm is overwhelming. Our neighbors lost hundreds of millions of dollars worth of property and belongings. So many individuals and organizations have rallied to help and it is inspiring to see how engaged and supportive the communities responding to this disaster have been. However, it is now clear the need is greater than the available resources. Marshall ROC and its members will work to help as many people as possible, while managing community expectations.
One of the most important efforts of Marshall ROC is the launch and opening of the Marshall Fire Recovery Center, which is a centralized Louisville, CO location dedicated to expediting the access and delivery of disaster related support, services and resources to fire survivors in Superior, Louisville and Unincorporated Boulder County as they navigate the complexity of their recovery. The Marshall Fire Recovery Center will house the Marshall ROC office and provide spaces for mental health, rebuilding and technical programs, and the network of professionals who are all helping to support the impacted community as well as to facilitate coordination and collaboration among local, national and governmental organizations. The Navigating Disaster for Boulder County program, operated by Lutheran Family Services – Rocky Mountains, will also be located at the Center. 
The Marshall ROC Marshall Fire Recovery Center is a testament to the power of community and our coalition of organizations. We / Marshall ROC felt it was important the financing of this Marshall Fire Recovery Center effort should be separate from donations previously collected so as to not detract from funds raised for the direct support of fire families, and we’re exceedingly grateful to the many organizations who have contributed so far to  help us launch the Recovery Center and effort:
The Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) Colorado Wildfire Fire Recovery Fund
Stephen Tebo and Tebo O'Conner 
Colorado 211-United Way
The Episcopal Diocese of Colorado
Ascent Community Church
Presbyterian Disaster Assistance
United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR)

We also appreciate the in-kind contributions which have furnished the offices, conference rooms, website graphic design and technology:
A Precious Child
The University of Colorado Boulder Property Services Division
ITDRC (Information Technology Disaster Resource Center
Crisis Cleanup
Voltage


Marshall ROC - Restoring Our Community 

Providing emotional and financial assistance to families of fallen firefighters, firefighters and the communities they protect.

The California Fire Foundation, a non-profit 501 (c)(3) organization, provides emotional and financial assistance to families of fallen firefighters, firefighters and the communities they protect. Formed in 1987 by California Professional Firefighters, the California Fire Foundation’s mandate includes an array of survivor and victim assistance projects and community initiatives

California Fire Foundation

The Hellenic Wildlife Care Association, H.W.C.A. (ANIMA) is a non-profit association with its main activity being the nursing and rehabilitation of wild animals in their natural environment. It was established in 2005, today being the largest and most prominent organization in Greece for wildlife care and rehabilitation. Each year ANIMA treats about 8,000 wild animals, many of which are rare or endangered, responds to thousands of citizens for issues concerning wildlife, collaborates with authorities, NGOs and stakeholders to address threats to wildlife, and mobilizes hundreds of volunteers. The number of incidents arriving at the organization's First Aid Station is increasing rapidly every year. In 2021, the admissions reached 8,300, and are increased by more than 30% compared to 2020.

Hellenic Wildlife Care Association, H.W.C.A.

Trucks With Room To Spare Inc is a nonprofit organization focused on public safety, disaster recovery and relief.

During Hurricane Michael in 2018 there was a desperate need, many relief groups and organizations were desperately asking for transportation help.

Transportation and supplies have always been a vital need in times of disaster, many organizations are small and distributing donated supplies, so the cost of transportation is out of reach.  Especially with donations coming in from many areas of the Country and World.

These organizations are nonprofits, church groups and community organizations, that work to fill the voids that FEMA and other organizations miss, and these groups stay in the areas long after the media leaves to help in the rebuild and clean-up process for the disaster victims.

We are a group of truck drivers that have come together because we believe that “old-school” values still exist in the trucking industry, and the need to help these families is important!  So, we formed Trucks With Room to Spare.

Trucks With Room to Spare is a nonprofit who works with fellow drivers to provide transportation, warehousing, and distribution of donated supplies for these hard-hit families and communities.  Through education and community outreach we also inspire to change the industry image as well as promote safety and giving back to the people we serve daily.

Because one pallet of supplies to a community that has none can help hundreds and a truckload can impact thousands!

Trucks With Room To Spare Inc

ElephantRescue.Net, is 501(c)3 public charity based in Tulsa, OK. It received its nonprofit status in 2015.

Our mission is:

Creating awareness of elephant’s existential threat.

Seeking a safe, natural environment for all elephants.

To accomplish that mission, we seek to influence policy decisions in the Republic of Botswana about protecting and preserving African elephant herds and ranges. We also have friends on the ground in Kenya and The Democratic Republic of Congo who help save and rehabilitate orphaned baby elephants.

We also work with boots on the ground to maintain up-to-date knowledge of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats to the elephant population in Botswana.

ElephantRescue.Net

We are a nonprofit dedicated to protecting and advocating for California's 280 state parks. CSPF is your voice for parks.

With over 130,000 members, CSPF is the only statewide independent nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting, enhancing and advocating for California’s magn…ificent state parks. Since 1969, CSPF has raised more than $223 million to benefit state parks. CSPF is committed to improving the quality of life for all Californians by expanding access to the natural beauty, rich culture and history, and recreational and educational opportunities offered by California’s 280 state parks—one of the largest state park system in the United States.

California State Parks Foundation

Airbnb.org’s mission is to unlock the power of sharing space, resources, and support in times of need. 

Airbnb.org opens homes in a times of crisis.  We facilitate emergency housing for people displaced by disaster or conflict, especially those from marginalized communities hardest hit by crisis.  Airbnb.org works with communities and nonprofit partners to offer emergency temporary housing.  We have housed over 250,000 guests during times of need.  

We do this by providing short-term, quality and free emergency housing to people displaced by natural disasters and conflict, inspiring and empowering people to act as hosts and support their community, and staying responsive to crises by innovating and leveraging our strengths.

We amplify recovery efforts for individuals by providing safety, financial relief, psychological wellbeing, and connections to the community.   Ultimately, by making connections between hosts and guests, we strengthen and build social cohesion in communities.

Airbnb.org is an independent and publicly-supported 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that leverages Airbnb, Inc.’s technology, services, and other resources at no charge to carry out Airbnb.org’s charitable purpose.






Airbnb.org

We foster and support community, environmental and economic resiliency in the McKenzie River area. 


Our community suffered a devastating blow with a huge wildfire that destroyed the entire town of Blue River, OR, many surrounding homes and businesses and threatens the McKenzie River watershed.  

Our non-profit served as the lead organization for disaster response and provides leadership in both economic and cultural restoration and renewal. 

Our communities are unincorporated, so long term progress relies on our community members and organizations like ours. 

Join us as we work to rebuild a vibrant and sustainable rural community that cares for and protects the Mckenzie River watershed.   

Mckenzie Community Development Corporation

We provide surplus food and essential goods for those in need. 
Check us out at https://www.notimetowaste.live

With so much excess and so much need in our community, we hope to lessen our global and poverty footprint by using goods, rather than wasting them.

We have provided 130K lbs of food; 93K meals; 61K sides; 25K essential goods; reduced our CO2 by 44 tons and saved 60M gallons H20.

No Time To Waste

We promote environmental conservation and sustainability, democracy, respect for socio-environmental rights and social justice.

The Casa Socio-Environmental Fund is an organization that promotes environmental conservation and sustainability, democracy, respect for socio-environmental rights and social justice through financial support to civil society initiatives and by strengthening their capacities in South America. We have pioneered the debate on socio-environmental philanthropy in Brazil since 2005. Our mission is to generate positive impact on very diverse territories, investing in the lives of those who care for them, and establishing connections between communities and organizations.

To this end, we developed a powerful support network for small civil society initiatives — a network that mobilizes funds, provides support and strengthens capacities, thus ensuring increasing autonomy for groups spread all over South America. We believe change begins by listening, and we listen to the real protagonists of every cause we embrace: those whose lives are directly affected by any change in their territories.

We are partners of philanthropic organizations that want to support grassroots communities but find it hard to reach those groups directly. We are experienced in making sure that philanthropic funds will reach the community groups. For this, we have developed a supporting and monitoring methodology that takes into account the dynamics of the territories.

What guides us

Listening: our ears are always attentive and our doors open to receive people. For us, this is always the first step in any transformation. Listening to the demands of groups in need of support, understanding what can be done, and then helping them. Listening to feedbacks, understanding what has worked out and what has not, adjusting to the circumstances, and always improving. Whenever possible, we also seek to collect this type of feedback within our own team, where there is no power hierarchy, only different opinions and a great common goal.

Respect: there is no listening to people without respect. We assume everyone has a valuable viewpoint and an in-depth understanding of his/her own reality. We respect differences among cultures, regions, and biomes in order to maximize the impact of our support. We valorize and stimulate the protagonist place of each individual in the socio-environmental transformational process, as we believe that true change comes from the rank and file.

Trust: we trust the working capacity of each individual and each small group we support. We understand Casa Fund as a transitional space, not as a centralizing unit. We are a safe haven, we comfort the pain and uncertainties, ensuring the means to solutions, maximizing actions and opening pathways, but we are not the ones to carry out the projects.

Union: The sentence “union is strength” may sound like a cliché, but it is a motto for us. We aggregate and mobilize. The more people share our dreams of transformation, the greater will be our collective power.

Connection and collaboration: we exist to establish connections and promote collaboration. This does not mean we have to be always present or directly involved in all actions. For us, promoting joint work between two or more transformational agents is already super powerful! This way we manage to multiply our actions and actually have a significant impact on the world.

Our Numbers

Since its inception and up to 2022, the Casa Fund has supported 3,160 socio-environmental initiatives by NGOs and community groups in Brazil and South America. The grants totaled US$19 million. 

Learn more about the Casa Fund: Discover more about our work and our impact by visiting our website: https://casa.org.br/en



Fundo Casa Socioambiental | Casa Socio-Environmental Fund

Desmos (www.desmos.org) is a Non-profit Foundation with the aim of connecting donors and foundations in need.  

Desmos Is a Non-profit Foundation with the aim to best manage and utilize surplus goods and pro bono services from companies and individuals, in order to help cover documented needs of social welfare providers in Greece. Simply put, Desmos matches regular and emergency needs with - existing or potential - surplus. Desmos strives to render the donation process simple, targeted and efficient, by undertaking the research, managing logistics and ensuring transparency of transactions, thus encouraging the involvement of the private sector in charitable activities. 

Desmos Non-Profit Foundation

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

The REFB is Sonoma County's largest hunger-relief organization, helping 82,000 people monthly. 

The Redwood Empire Food Bank is the largest hunger-relief organization serving north coastal California from Sonoma County to the Oregon border. Since 1987, the Redwood Empire Food Bank has been helping our community through 11 innovative programs under three strategic initiatives – Every Child, Every Day, Senior Security and the Neighborhood Hunger Network. We respond to the immediate needs of people seeking help through the provision of healthy food and nutrition education. We pursue long-term solutions to food insecurity through public policy and the development of partnerships with civic, faith-based, corporate and government organizations and, most importantly, individuals in our community.

Redwood Empire Food Bank

Providing practical support to rural firefighting volunteers assisting with major fire, flood and other natural disaster.

The RFSA's primary purpose is to provide tangible programs, initiatives, and advocacy that directly supports rural firefighters in their role safeguarding the people of New South Wales (NSW) during bushfire and other emergencies. Its unwavering commitment lies in serving its members and ensuring their vital contribution to the community is recognised and supported.

The RFSA offers an extensive range of operational and welfare support to rural firefighting volunteers, encompassing various initiatives such as sponsorship of training exercises and events, providing educational scholarships, organising RFSA Family Days, facilitating chaplaincy services, counselling, and family support, engaging in advocacy efforts, and funding a Brigade and District Grants Program.

These comprehensive offerings underscore the RFSA's commitment to enhancing the well-being and capabilities of firefighting volunteers.

With public support, the RFSA plays a crucial role in contributing to the resilience and effectiveness of Australia’s volunteer bush fire brigades.

NSW Rural Fire Service Association (RFSA)

We provide services and funding to those in dire need situations. Continuing independent sustainability remains our foundation. 

CALIFORNIA WILDFIRE RELIEF 


WE KNOW FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE THAT LOSING EVERYTHING IMPACTS MORE THAN JUST YOUR PHYSICAL WELL BEING. IF YOU OR SOMEBODY YOU KNOW IS MENTALLY SUFFERING AND NOT FINANCIALLY SUFFERING, KNOW WE ARE STILL HERE. 

Our very own Vice President, Chelsea Sanabria lost her home in the Tubbs Fire and has made it her life's mission to continue sustainability for those who are experiencing loss of this magnitude. 

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Food

We provide food to those evacuated and experiencing loss of their shelter. 
02
Toiletry/household items 

We supply toiletries, household items, among many other items one may need when experiencing this hardship. This includes baby items and items for children as well.
03
Clothing

We have clothing, shoes, books, and other items for those who may have lost everything. 
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Pet Supplies

Many people don't realize those evacuated with pets have absolutely nothing. We provide supplies for those fur babies in dire need as well. 


Lemon Aide Project

BMARG: A group of amateur radio operators (Hams) based out of NW Washington. Hosted by Bellingham Makerspace in Bellis Fair Mall.

Bellingham Makerspace Amateur Radio Group

National movement to protect the outdoors by teaching people how to enjoy it responsibly.

The Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics is an educational, nonprofit organization dedicated to the responsible enjoyment and active stewardship of the outdoors by all people, worldwide.

Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics

Through effective management, we aim for lasting social impact via quality and sustainable initiatives, by using replicable models

We offer sustainable solutions to public issues, empowering civil society and enabling individuals to stand up for themselves, in order to generate a Chile with greater opportunities. Our main motivation is the power of efficiency as the ultimate form of support. In this regard, we act as the bridge between those offering help and those in need.

**What do we do?**
We raise public or private resources to assist communities.

**How do we do it?**
We go out into the field and integrate with families to truly understand their needs

We work in different areas: 

- Emergencies and Environment 
- Education
- Entrepreneurship and Sustainability
- Social Development
- Health

Desafío Levantemos Chile

Providing support for people during natural disasters, cancer, education, and homeless. 

We provide immediate assistance and long support during natural disasters when people are forced to evacuate and/or their homes are destroyed leaving them in need of shelter, food, or water. 
We support cancer patients who are unable to pay for medical treatments, copayments, or after care assistance that may not be covered by their insurance. 
We support impoverished students who qualify for a higher education but cannot afford to pay tuition through grants and scholarships.  
We support the homeless by providing shelter, food, and water, as more people than ever are living on the streets without the basic necessities to survive. 
Our staff, volunteers, and those we serve work together to provide assistance to those in need due to circumstances beyond their control to empower the most vulnerable among us and improve their quality of life.

Opulent Philanthropy Inc.

We support community based solutions in Bolivia to contribute to the conservation of the ecosystems.

About our country

Bolivia is one of the 15th most biodiverse countries in the world. The variety of bio-geographical conditions of the country, have privileged it with various type of ecosystems and a very important ethnic and sociocultural diversity, with a wealth of 36 indigenous peoples that inhabit territories of global importance, such as the Amazon rainforest, the Andes, the Great American Chaco, among others.

But in addition to that, Bolivia is facing a very complicated environmental situation. The expansion of the agribusiness as one of the main models of economic development, mining, and large infrastructure projects, are contributing to the continuous deterioration of natural resources, putting at risk the ecosystems and the rights of the communities.

In the year 2022, the country ranked third among the 10 countries with the highest deforestation worldwide. This has put a lot of pressure over the 53 million hectares of Bolivian tropical forest. Also, the national economy has an alarming dependence on the exploitation of non-renewable natural resources, without considering the country’s greatest vulnerability to climate change.

Our mission

The Fundacion Socioambiental Semilla mission is to support community-based projects that contributes to the conservation of the Bolivian ecosystems.

Our main value is that we are a locally founded foundation that was created by Bolivian environmentalists, who believe the only way to protect our ecosystems is to make timely resources available to support local grassroots organizations that are facing the negative impact of environmental devastation, and at the same time, proposing just and sustainable alternatives to protect communities’ rights and territories in all the ecosystems of the country.

Fundación Semilla's mail goal is to make culturally sensitive funding available in local currency to community-based groups and small organizations who are the most vulnerable to environmental destruction, while also the main guardians of Bolivia's most important biodiversity regions. We have developed a financing structure to coordinate the reception of resources with a proven mechanism of local donations.

Our strategy consists of a solid comprehension of the local context and challenges that Bolivian communities face. This is possible thanks to the previous experience of our founding members, whom have been working over many years with communities and indigenous groups in different ecosystems across the country. 

As part of our strategy, our Foundation’s main programs are:

1. The Amazonia program, which supports projects and initiatives that promote the sustainability and conservation of the Bolivian Amazon.
2. The GAGGA (Global Alliance for Green and Gender Action) program, which supports projects related to Gender Just Climate Solutions, Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation, the protection of critical ecosystems and the strengthening of women's leadership.
3. The Blue Foresta program, which supports independent environmental journalism in Bolivia.
4. The Chaco and Pantanal program, which aims to support projects that solve problems caused by climate change, through Nature Based Solutions (NBS) initiatives in the Great American Chaco and the Pantanal of Bolivia.

Fundacion Socioambiental Semilla

Reforestation is a vital strategy for restoring biodiversity habitat. Plant trees where they are needed most around the world.

The interconnectedness of ecosystems and their living organisms means that millions of species depend on each other for survival. Reforestation is a vital strategy for restoring biodiversity habitat.

With your help, we will:

- Protect endangered species by increasing forest cover
- Restore holistic ecosystems for a range of flora and fauna
- Improve soil stability by restoring degraded areas
OVERVIEW
Everything on Earth is connected. As we lose habitat, we also lose biodiversity. This is where trees come in: reforestation helps to restore at-risk ecosystems and habitats, ultimately increasing food supply, health, and overall well-being. Your donation will help to restore forest cover around the world. Reforesting these areas will aid in the protection of endangered species, restoration of holistic ecosystems, and the improvement of soil stability.

IMPACT
By planting trees, we help create a safe haven for biodiversity, impacting all of life on Earth. The restoration of degraded ecosystems will also result in improved soil stability, ultimately improving forest cover as a whole!

TREE SPECIES
Every tree we plant will have an impact on the surrounding ecosystem, and must be selected with great care. We work with our planting partners to ensure the species we select will provide the intended benefits for wildlife and communities.

Plant Trees Where They are Needed Most

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