Delivering medical aid where it's needed most — independent, neutral, impartial.

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization created by doctors and journalists in France in 1971.

In over 70 countries around the world, MSF saves lives by providing medical aid where it is needed most—in armed conflicts, epidemics, natural disasters, and other crises.  The people who work for MSF are doctors, nurses, midwives, epidemiologists, water-and-sanitation experts and many others who combine their professional expertise with a commitment to the world’s most vulnerable people.  Each year, these medical teams run close to 470 projects where they care for millions of people.  

As an organization, MSF is neutral and operates independently of any political, military, or religious agendas. It does not take sides in armed conflicts, provides care based on needs alone, and advocates for increased independent access to victims of conflict and disaster as required under international humanitarian law. Medical teams conduct evaluations on the ground to determine a population's medical needs before opening programs, aiming to fill gaps that exist (rather than replicating services that are already offered) or reach communities that are not being assisted.  Over the years, the organization has been the recipient of several awards that recognize its work, including the 1998 Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize, the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize, the 2012 J. William Fulbright Prize for International Understanding, the 2015 Lasker-Bloomberg Public Service Award, and the 2017 Pardes Humanitarian Prize for Mental Health.

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) 

We provide menstrual products to those experiencing homelessness and low-income disparity. 

No one should have to worry about accessing menstrual products when they are needed.  Helping Women Period provides menstrual products (mostly disposable pads & tampons, but sustainable products when available) to those who need them; we also offer menstrual health workshops, advocacy (let's eliminate period stigma!), and peace of mind.   Since we work with a local janitorial supplier, we can provide one person's menstrual needs for an entire year for only $35.  

Helping Women Period

Your donation will help find and heal a woman like Hawwa, giving her the chance to start her life anew.

There are around 31,000 women in Ethiopia living with devastating childbirth injuries called obstetric fistula, because they don't know help is available. An estimated 1,000 women suffer a new fistula injury every year. Catherine’s trailblazing **Hamlin Model of Care** - today replicated around the world - finds, treats and holistically heals these women, restoring their lives.

Women living with childbirth injuries suffer great trauma. Following obstructed labour, they are left incontinent and usually lose their baby. They are shunned from their community and live hidden not knowing help available.

In a single year, Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia treats more than 6,000 patients and perform more than 2,000 surgeries.

We also provide counseling and a range of vocational training to support nearly 1,000 women in their recovery. A woman's healing journey starts the moment she arrives at a Hamlin fistula hospital. She is given a Comfort Package containing a Hamlin blanket that has been lovingly made by a volunteer, hygiene items, a new nightgown and slippers, and a homecoming dress.

These are utter luxuries for the many women who arrive at a Hamlin hospital without shoes, wearing the only stained clothes they own. When they wrap themselves in their Hamlin blanket, they feel the warm embrace of people like you.

$40 provides a Comfort Package for one woman
$80 provides two women with a Comfort Package
$900 covers the cost of surgery for a woman with simple obstetric fistula
$2,500 covers the cost of surgery for a woman with complex obstetric fistula

Your gift has a life-changing impact by restoring a woman's dignity. Thank you for supporting women as they reassert their humanity, secure their health and well-being, and regain their roles in their families and communities.

Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia's work is centered in Ethiopia, a country with one of the highest fertility and maternal mortality rates in the world. Our vision is simple: To eradicate obstetric fistula. Forever.

For more than six decades, Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia has implemented our world-recognized approach to the holistic treatment of women and girls with obstetric fistulas — severe injuries resulting from prolonged, unrelieved and obstructed labor, typically in the absence of skilled birth attendants.

In 93% of cases, the mother suffers not only dramatic tissue damage, but she also loses her new baby. Nerve damage and weakened pelvic muscles make many daily tasks unmanageable. And, women are also often ostracized from their communities – cut off from avenues to leading a full, healthy and happy life.

The Hamlin Model of Care – The World's Leading Approach to Treating Obstetric Fistula

Dr Catherine Hamlin pioneered an approach to treating obstetric fistula, including developing a new surgical technique, that dramatically changes the lives of women and girls — in some cases in no more than an hour.

The Hamlin Model of Care is unique because it is not just about repairing injury, but restoring dignity. Hamlin's Rehabilitation and Reintegration Program at Desta Mender offers counseling, literacy and numeracy classes. Additional programs for vocational and life skills training help women find sustainable employment or establish their own small businesses. Today, Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia is staffed by more than 550 Ethiopian medical professionals and five regional hospitals have been established to respond to the significant demand for fistula surgery.

To accelerate change for women in Ethiopia, our Project Zero teams will go from door-to-door, in every Woreda (district) to identify women living with historic fistula cases and organize care and treatment. At the same time, we will strengthen maternal healthcare services, to reduce the incidence of birth injuries, and increase awareness, so women have the tools and knowledge they need to give birth safely. Hamlin College of Midwives   Lasting change for women and girls requires building a workforce of skilled birth attendants. Through our Hamlin College of Midwives, we recruit women from rural communities in Ethiopia to learn the Hamlin Model of Care during a four-year Bachelor of Science in Midwifery program.  The curriculum is fully certified and includes the precondition that students conduct at least 40 deliveries before they graduate. Upon graduation, Hamlin midwives return to their villages – today staffing over 90 rural midwifery clinics in remote areas.

https://catherinehamlin.org

ALTERNATIVE WAYS TO GIVE:
Catherine Hamlin Fistula Foundation is fiscally sponsored in the USA by KBFUS (EIN582277856)

For gifts by check: Write your check to KBFUS, write "Catherine Hamlin Fistula Foundation Friends Fund" in the memo section of the check, and send it to KBFUS, 551 Fifth Avenue, Suite 2400, New York, NY 10176.

Gifts by wire transfer or to contribute other types of property: Email KBFUS at: info@kbfus.org or phone (212) 713 7660.

Donor Advised Funds (DAFs): You can designate Catherine Hamlin Fistula Foundation as a beneficiary for your donor-advised fund (DAF). A DAF allows you to give cash, stock, and other assets and you will receive a tax deduction when the contribution is made.
How it works:
Request a grant distribution through your DAF sponsor.
Share that the Catherine Hamlin Fistula Foundation is a Friends Fund held by the King Baudouin Foundation United States (KBFUS; EIN 58-2277856). As a fiscally-sponsored Friends Fund, the grant will be made to KBFUS with a designation allocating it to the Catherine Hamlin Fistula Foundation Fund.
You will receive a receipt from KBFUS and a letter of thanks from Catherine Hamlin Fistula Foundation.

Catherine Hamlin Fistula Foundation

UN & civil society partnership supporting women working to build peace & respond to crises on the frontlines.

The Women’s Peace & Humanitarian Fund is an innovative partnership empowering local women to be a force for crisis response and lasting peace.

We galvanize support from across the globe to support the efforts of women working on the frontlines of the world’s most intractable conflicts. 

Humanitarian crises and threats to peace are more common than ever before. Studies show that when women are empowered to meaningfully participate in conflict resolution, it undeniably results in more lasting peace. 

Women’s inclusion in peace processes makes humanitarian assistance more effective, strengthens the efforts of peacekeepers, prevents radicalization and the spread of extremism, and accelerates the economic recovery of conflict-affected communities.

Donate today to support the women's vital work to prevent conflict, respond to crises, and accelerate peace in their communities. 



Women's Peace & Humanitarian Fund

KWO is an indigenous women’s organisation serving women and girls in our community in Burma and in refugee camps in Thailand.  

The Karen Women’s Organisation (KWO) currently has a membership of more than 70,000 women living in Karen State, Burma and in refugee camps along the Thai-Burma border. KWO is a leading indigenous women’s organisation working in protection and our programs directly serve women, girls, children, and the most vulnerable people in our community. We promote women’s leadership, gender equality and community ownership in all aspects of our work. KWO is active in four main sectors: Organising and Information Sharing Program, Education Program, Health Program and Social Welfare Program.  KWO is led and staffed entirely by women in our community. KWO participates in the struggle to stop all kinds of oppression of women and of children. We believe in a federal Burma, where all communities have gender equality, the protection and promotion of indigenous people’s rights, human rights, and justice. 


WHAT WE DO

Within our 4 program areas we provide: service delivery, advocacy, awareness raising, and capacity building threaded throughout our daily work and our funded projects. Our work varies from the delivery of hygiene kits for mothers with new-borns, conducting community health and nutrition education, to ensuring safe accommodation for women suffering violence, developing Women’s Protection Laws, to training young women from our Communities to become leaders. 

KWO believes that empowering women will help reduce human rights abuses and encourage an end to discrimination against women. We believe that women have a right to be properly represented in politics and society at large. And we believe that the whole community is better off when women play an equal role with men in decision-making. The 17 individually funded Projects which KWO currently implements in refugee camps and Karen State, run under our 4 programs, and have over 100,500 beneficiaries.

WHERE WE WORK
KWO lives and works in the 7 districts of Karen State, Burma which is in Southeastern Burma and in 7 refugee camps along the Thai-Burma border.

ORGANISING AND INFORMATION SHARING PROGRAM  - KWO’s Organising and Information Sharing Program provides services, advocacy and capacity building to support women’s empowerment, mobilize the community, and sustain the organisation. KWO believes that broad community and organisational education contributes to building a fair and tolerant civil society. We conduct training, events and activities around: women’s rights, indigenous rights, democracy, political awareness, a Federal system for Burma, child protection, human rights, project management, leadership skills, public speaking, financial policy and procedures, KWO policy, landmine awareness, etc.

The Organising and Information Sharing Program Co-ordinators are all Karen women who live in their communities. Work under this Program includes: to conduct community consultations to identify needs, share information in the community about the current situation, including through KWO publications, update KWO’s membership list, co-ordinate with the KWO Social Welfare Program to organize the distribution of humanitarian aid (food and materials) in emergency situations, oversee and monitor all funded KWO projects implemented in the area, arrange and attend meetings for KWO and our network, coordinate with other agencies on issues that affect the community, assist researchers and field trips for visiting individuals, advocate on behalf of vulnerable groups in the community, conduct individual and joint advocacy efforts on the local, national, regional, and international stage.  We currently implement 4 funded projects under this program.

EDUCATION PROGRAM 
KWO’s Education Program provides services, advocacy and capacity building to promote education in our community. We provide schooling where there are gaps in existing education mainstream services in the refugee camps, and in areas in Karen State. We particularly target girls in the community to ensure they have equal access to education, protection, development and care. We also place a significant emphasis on education that promotes and preserves Karen indigenous culture.

Our Education Program Co-ordinators are all Karen women and are part of the community. Every day they work to promote education, to identify children struggling at schools or at home and provide support to the family, and assist with school fees when possible. They monitor and support KWO’s funded education projects in their areas, visit all community schools and give encouragement to students and teachers. They conduct home visits and encourage parents to send children to school, and assist the poorest of the poor children to get into schools. They attend events organized by schools to share positive messages about the benefits of education for all. They meet with education leaders at all levels and advocate for inclusive education, improved child protection mechanisms, and the importance of girls education. We currently implement 7 funded education projects under this program.

SOCIAL WELFARE PROGRAM 
KWO Social Welfare Program provides services, advocacy and capacity building in all sectors of Karen society. We provide direct care and assistance to community members and we work to solve social problems in our community, particularly those that affect women. Due to the failure of Burma’s successive governments to provide care and security for the people, many ethnic groups, like the Karen, have established well-organised and high-functioning social systems. The KWO Social Welfare Program does a lot of the work that a free and democratic national government would normally be offering to the people.

Our Social Welfare Program Co-ordinators are all Karen women and live in their community. Their duties include: identifying and providing care to the most vulnerable members of the community including the elderly, people with disability or chronic illness, and families in trouble; providing assistance in emergencies; help to organize community events and ceremonies; home visits; build capacity and opportunity for women to earn income especially through traditional crafts; be advocates for the best interests of women in justice cases; fight for improvements in laws relating to women and child protection, justice system reform and better enforcement mechanisms both in the refugee camps and within Southeast Burma.

Overall our Program’s main area of focus is to prevent, and respond to Violence Against Women. Under the Social Welfare Program, and its funded project, we provide an enormous amount of training for women, for KWO leaders and staff, for local community leaders, and for the broader community. We currently implement 4 funded projects under this program.

HEALTH PROGRAM 
KWO’s Health Program provides services, advocacy and capacity building to promote better health in our community. Our Health Program activities address common community health issues, like nutrition and hygiene, and we focus on the health needs of women and of children. KWO collaborates with existing community health organisations to support local health workers, to care for patients and the community. We do not offer medical or clinic-based services ourselves.

Our Health Program Co-ordinators are Karen women who live in their communities. Their work includes: to advocate for better access to health services, accompany patients to hospitals or clinics, organise village and stream clean ups, identify health needs of the most vulnerable people and provide support in the home, conduct health education campaigns in the community, share information with families about good health practices, encourage communities to set up kitchen gardens, organise access to clean drinking water, improve village sanitation and the use of built toilets, promote KWO’s key health messages for women’s reproductive health, improve access to safe sanitary materials for all women and girls, monitor any funded KWO Health projects being implemented in their area, educate parents about good nutrition and childcare, advocate for recognition of skilled Traditional Birth Attendants, and for birth registration and birth certificates for all children. We currently implement 2 funded projects under this program.

Karen Women's Organization

Providing low-income uninsured neighbors with free medical, dental, and mental health care as an expression of Jesus Christ's love

34,000 low-income uninsured neighbors in Idaho's Treasure Valley can't afford healthcare. 

Genesis Community Health is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit clinic providing them with free medical dental and mental health care as an expression of the love of Jesus Christ.

We are a grassroots organization supported by over 200 active volunteers as well as donors, businesses, churches, and foundations throughout the Treasure Valley.

Genesis Community Health

LifeStraw operates the Safe Water Fund, a 501(c)3 project to support the provision of safe water where it is needed most.  

In addition to our retail-funded Give back program, LifeStraw's Safe Water Fund supports provision of safe water during humanitarian emergencies and natural disasters. We also utilize funds to support the implementation of long-term, sustainable safe water programs around the world. We work with incredible grassroots organizations and local partners to help identify and reach communities and families most in need. LifeStraw also implements special initiatives in the cities where our employees live, including our headquarters in Baltimore City – as well as on Giving Tuesday each year.

Your contribution helps us reach more families with safe drinking water!

**100% of donated funds go toward the cost of products and distribution of supplies. Vestergaard Frandsen, Inc. (d/b/a “LifeStraw”) does not profit from your donation.** 

LifeStraw’s Safe Water Fund operates through a fiscal sponsorship with Players Philanthropy Fund, a Maryland charitable trust recognized by the IRS as a tax-exempt public charity under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code (Federal Tax ID: 27-6601178). Contributions to LifeStraw’s Safe Water Fund are tax-deductible.


LifeStraw Safe Water Fund

Love + Ethos is a nonprofit organization serving women in greater Los Angeles. 

Love + Ethos is dedicated to creating supportive spaces and opportunities for women journeying through motherhood while facing systemic, economic, and social challenges. We envision a world where every woman — and her family — defines their individual and collective futures on their own terms.

Upcoming events:

May 10, 2024, 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm: Guided Pottery and Silent Auction in Culver City, CA - all proceeds are in support of L+E's inaugural Postpartum Retreat.

August 2024: Inaugural Postpartum Retreat in Los Angeles County - assisting women post-birth with healing, self-identification, connection, and wellness education during a 4-day, 3-night retreat.

Visit our website to learn more and to stay up-to-date.

Get in touch with Love + Ethos by emailing info@loveandethos.com

Love + Ethos

VillageReach transforms health care delivery to reach everyone. 

VillageReach transforms health care delivery to reach everyone, so each person has the health care they need to thrive. 

Last year, we increases the availability of quality health care for more than 58 million people across sub-Saharan Africa by increasing access to medicines and vaccines, improving the capacity of the health workforce and enabling better decision-making for patients, health workers and policy-makers.

VillageReach

Hood Medicine is a nonprofit public health collective dedicated to protecting black and brown lives during the pandemic & beyond.

We focus on health equity, public health communications, and combating health-related dis/misinformation in BIPOC communities to serve our primary mission of using science and technology to improve health outcomes for historically marginalized communities, empower families to make healthy choices & help them find trusted healthcare & vital resources. 

We have research collaborators across industry and academia working with us to understand how health misinformation affects intersectional patient populations and evaluate interventional strategies for public health advocacy at the grassroots level.

We provide vaccine education and promotion to various civic & health organizations using our culturally tailored public health communications framework to develop equity-focused messaging targeting intersectional BIPOC communities.

Hood Medicine Initiative Inc

D×P works in Japan to solve the isolation of teenagers who have difficulties.

In Japan, suicide is the number one cause of death among young people and has become a social problem. Japan is the only country among the G7 industrialized nations where suicide is the leading cause of death. The percentage of Japanese young people who are satisfied with themselves or feel that they have advantages is lower than that of young people in other countries. Young people with various difficulties in life, such as poverty, disabilities, and no place at home, have difficulty finding people who understand their situation.
Furthermore, when they reach a crossroads in their lives, such as "career path" or "dropping out of school," the difficulties that are usually hidden from them tend to come to the fore, but it is easy for them to keep them to themselves. It is also easy to conclude that they cannot survive because they do not know about the various jobs and public supports that exist in the world. There are counseling services for bullying and suicide as places to turn to when they are having difficulties, but there are few counseling services for career and employment.The number of registrations and consultations continues to grow, and we currently have 5,900 registered users.
The teenagers D×P supports have difficulties due to a combination of various backgrounds, such as poverty, having disabilities, growing up in a single-parent household, and being bullied.
In Covid 19, there's been an increase in the number of consultations about living in poverty, such as reduced shifts at part-time jobs, parents losing their jobs and not being able to pay school fees, and not having enough to eat. Many of the teenagers work in restaurants or in non-regular employment, so the impact of Covid 19 has been very significant. Therefore, D×P have started to provide emergency support in the form of food aid and cash transfers.
Without a secure foundation, they cannot take the next step such as trying something or thinking about work. After receiving a consultation, the first step is to provide immediate reassurance and ongoing support while building a relationship of trust. D×P is funded by donations from donors. D×P is funded by your donations, and we hope that you will become a part of building a safety net for isolated teenagers.

D×P

We are current/formerly incarcerated girls/women seeking to end the incarceration and systematic devaluing of women in Texas. 

The female lion known as a lioness, is the perfect symbol of female power and sisterhood. We embrace the inner lioness in each of us as we gather together to advocate for the rights of currently and formerly incarcerated girls and women in Texas.

We envision a society where we and our sisters are spiritually, emotionally, mentally and physically free from all forms of violence and harm in the criminal legal system.  

Our vision can be achieved through radical advocacy, education, community engagement, grassroot organizing and legislative empowerment. 

Lioness: Justice Impacted Women's Alliance (JIWA)

A joint project between VIVO Alliance and Integro Foundation to advocate for victims' rights. 

Background:
The Victims' Rights Advocacy & Accountability Project was inspired by Karla Hernandez-Rosario's exhausting legal battle for justice after she was brutally attacked and sexually assaulted in December, 2020. Her plea for basic human rights was overtly denied by continuous roadblocks in the Puerto Rican justice system, which unequivocally favors the perpetrators of such heinous crimes. It's been nearly two years since her horrific ordeal, and yet no progress has been made to incriminate her assailant. After consulting with several legal professionals, multiple assault victims faced with similar challenges, as well as many non-profit organizations battling the scourge of gender/sexual violence, Karla and her husband came to the conclusion that the problem is indeed systemic. In Puerto Rico, victims of crime such as gender violence and sexual assault have no constitutional rights in the criminal proceedings against their offenders. It is common knowledge that the Puerto Rico Criminal Justice System, for decades, has shown callous disregard toward victims of these types of crimes in their fruitless pleas for justice, leaving them to suffer relentless personal, emotional, and financial wounds.

Vision of Project:
To rectify the severe imbalance between the rights of criminal defendants against the absent rights of victims, VIVO Alliance must raise the necessary funding to collaborate with a team of legal and research professionals, whom Karla and her husband, Gerald, have connected with on their own personal battle for legal justice. These professionals, along with the help of the University of PR, shall implement a work-study program for students from the UPR Legal and Journalism departments. Together, they shall harvest critical information to create an in-depth, on-demand database that clearly defines the severe imbalance of Puerto Rico's legal justice

VIVO Alliance & Integro Foundation

Abortion Freedom Fund supports accessible, affordable, evidence-based abortion pills by mail for all. 

Abortion Freedom Fund is a national fund focusing on funding abortion pills by mail.

Abortion Freedom Fund supports accessible, affordable, evidence-based abortion pills by mail for all. Our mission is to help pregnant people take control of their healthcare and futures by dismantling medicalized control of abortion and encouraging a world where abortion pills are over the counter.

We simplify access to care for patients by funding virtual abortion providers and clinics, individuals accessing telehealth abortions, and reimbursing local funds for telehealth abortion care, allowing them to focus their resources on people seeking procedural abortions in their communities.

In addition to direct funding, we partner with organizations doing research and other activism to increase access to abortions.

Our core aims are:
-Assisting people who are pregnant to take control of their health care and futures
-Dismantling medicalized control of abortion and encouraging a world where abortion pills are over the counter
-Advocating for the full continuum of abortion care from self managed to clinician supported
-Breaking down the stereotype that abortion pills are dangerous

Abortion Freedom Fund (a project of Abortion Freedom Partnership)

Our mission is dedicated to delivering life-saving services in Syria, neighboring countries and beyond. 

The Syrian American Medical Society Foundation (SAMS) is a non-political, non-religious global medical relief organization. SAMS is one of the most active and trusted international NGOs on the ground in Syria. 

Since 2011, SAMS has supported the healthcare needs of conflict-affected populations, delivering more than 28 million medical services free of charge to people in Syria and beyond. One year after the catastrophic 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Syria/Türkiye, SAMS continues to address the special health needs of earthquake survivors, including ongoing medical care, long-term physical therapy, rehabilitation, prosthetics, dialysis, and mental health services.  

Inside Syria, SAMS provides a full range of healthcare services, including emergency and trauma care, ICU services, reproductive healthcare, cancer treatment, mental health services, dialysis, physical rehabilitation, and much more. SAMS medical teams are delivering an average of 250,000 medical services per month, while also launching specialized medical missions, dispatching mobile medical clinics to displacement camps, training medical personnel, and delivering vital humanitarian aid to displaced families.

In addition to our work in Syria, SAMS is delivering essential medical care, free of charge to refugees and vulnerable populations in Türkiye, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, Greece, Ukraine, and the USA, while also coordinating with partners to deliver humanitarian assistance and medical support to civilians in Gaza.  

Syrian American Medical Society Foundation

LBSI is a strength-based transformational program improving lives of vulnerable and exploited girls, children, and women.
 
  

Life Bloom Services International (LBSI) is a strength-based transformational program utilizing peer mentoring and healing relationships to invite women, girls and children into movement from victim to whole life health. LBSI has supported more than 13,800 women, girls, and children (and men too) who have experienced abuse, trafficking and exploitation to regain their dignity. Vision : LBSI sees a world where women, girls and children who have experienced abuse and exploitation transform to become dignified leaders. Mission : LBSI is a strength- based transformational program utilizing peer mentoring and healing relationships to invite women and girls into movement from victim to whole life health. Motto : "Giving women and girls a second chance" Goal:  Transformation of women and girls lives in the diminishing safe spaces. Currently LBSI is supporting 30 girls who are survivors of sexual exploitation funded by Equality Now and implementing a project that is funded by the United Nations supporting 39 children by offering direct assistance to survivors of child trafficking and child labour. The organization also provides sanitary towels monthly to 120 vulnerable girls and women and creating awareness on Menstrual Hygiene management (MHM), women group mentorship, equipping women and girls with vocational skills and humanitarian support response during Covid-19 pandemic through food support and psychosocial support.

Life Bloom Services International 

Increasing access to contraception by providing health centers patient-centered, evidence-based training and technical assistance.

Nearly half of the 6 million pregnancies in the United States each year are unplanned. 

The mission of Upstream USA is to expand opportunity by reducing unplanned pregnancy across the U.S. We work in partnership with health centers to strengthen reproductive care and autonomy by increasing equitable access to the full range of contraceptive options. 

Patient-centered contraceptive care is at the core of Upstream’s work. We deliver high-quality training and technical assistance to healthcare providers of all types, including Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), hospital systems, state and local health departments, and Primary Care Providers. All at no cost to our healthcare partners. 

Upstream USA

Protecting the most vulnerable on the front line of humanitarian emergencies

INTERSOS is a humanitarian organization on the front line of emergencies to help people affected by war, violence, natural disasters, and extreme exclusion.  
 
We guarantee access to medical care, clean water, and proper sanitation; we respond to basic needs, such as food and shelter; we identify and treat cases of malnutrition; we protect and assist victims of violence; we support children and, in particular, unaccompanied and separated children, building educational spaces and places for socialization in war zones. 

Your support of INTERSOS goes directly to the front line, where it's needed most. Thank you! 
 
"Our operators are committed to providing humanitarian aid to the victims of war and natural disasters daily. They are always ready to protect the most vulnerable and guarantee humanitarian access to the most remote zones of crisis areas, reaching an increasing number of people in need. This is the strength of INTERSOS, an organization of women and men who choose to be on the side of humanity. On the front line, always".

Kostas Moschochoritis, INTERSOS Director General 


INTERSOS Humanitarian Organization

HOPE USA is a Volunteer-Based 501(c)(3) Organization Working to End Poverty in Pakistan by Empowering Women and Children.  

About HOPE USA:

HOPE Charities USA is a volunteer-based nonprofit 501(c)(3) charitable organization working to better the socioeconomic forefront of impoverished citizens in Pakistan.  Estimates of poverty in Pakistan range anywhere from 25 percent to almost 40 percent.  Health indicators suggest that it is the lack of accessible healthcare — not terrorism, drones or the energy crisis — that is the greatest adversity facing Pakistan.  Additionally, in a country where 60 percent of youth are illiterate and only 1 in 3 women can read and write, education becomes a scarce commodity which inhibits freedom from poverty.  HOPE USA’s mission is to end poverty in Pakistan through a calculated, multi-pronged interventional approach which focuses on Healthcare, Education, Vocational Training, Clean Water, and Disaster Relief.

Currently, HOPE has a countrywide presence throughout Pakistan which includes 4 Hospitals, 3 Formal Schools, 200 Informal Schools, 7 Vocational Centers, 1 Basic Health Clinic, 2 Mobile Health units, and 6 Maternal and Child Health Clinics.  Altogether we have grown to a network of hospitals and schools that treats over 750,000 patients per year, educates 11,000 students annually, and provides income-generating skills to over 2,000 young adults yearly; 70 percent of our beneficiaries are women and children.

All of HOPE USA’s health, education, and vocational training facilities provide free/nominal cost services to the impoverished. Additionally, HOPE has been on the frontlines of every emergency relief effort that has impacted Pakistan, from the 2005 Kashmir earthquake to the current 2022 catastrophic flooding crisis.  Our emergency relief efforts have generated aid to over 100,000 victims of natural disasters over the years and we have established 130 hand pumps in remote and rural areas to provide clean water to 130,000 people total.

As a nonprofit organization, HOPE USA has an outstanding record of performance. With almost 15 years of experience, we are currently at the stage where we are a small organization with tremendous impact potential.  Major corporations/governments have vetted us and trust our work.  Some recent grantors include Procter & Gamble, Paypal, Target Corporation, US Aid, Unicef, and the Centers for Disease Control. Additionally, HOPE USA has received corporate matches from Cisco, Microsoft, Salesforce, Oracle, Facebook, Linked In, Adobe, Paypal, Mastercard, and Dreyers. 

We are a volunteer-run 501(c)(3) boasting some of the lowest overhead rates one will see in the nonprofit realm (less than 3 percent). In 2021 we were awarded a medal by Pakistan President Arif Alvi for our poverty alleviation model in Pakistan – we were 1 of just 2 organizations to receive this honor. We are also the only authorized distributor of Procter & Gamble PuR water sachets in Pakistan which become critical during times of natural disasters such as the 2022 Pakistan Flood Crisis.

“No matter how dire the current situation in Pakistan, or the obstacles we face in the future – there is always hope.” ~ Dr. Mubina Agboatwalla, Founder of HOPE USA

HOPE USA's Story:

Health Oriented Preventive Education (HOPE) was the inspiration of Dr. Mubina Agboatwalla, a pediatrician by profession who helped eradicate polio from Pakistan in the early stages of her career.  In 1997, while working in Karachi’s government-sponsored hospital for the needy, Civil Hospital (where she currently still practices), Dr. Mubina thought of a vision for the betterment of the citizens of her country.  She and a small band of volunteers joined forces to establish HOPE as a nonprofit governmental organization in Pakistan.  

Due to Dr. Mubina's medical background, HOPE's initial objective was to provide the poor with better access to medical centers and hospitals.  In a country grappling with basic issues such as lack of access to clean drinking water, poor maternal and infant health, malnutrition in children, prevention and treatment of diseases such as malaria, cholera, and tuberculosis, it already seemed as though HOPE had enough of a challenge on its hands.  

But soon Dr. Mubina realized that the cornerstone of a productive and forward-thinking community relies on both a healthy body and healthy mind.  She honed her vision to an integrative approach that was twofold: health and education.  Today, HOPE has evolved to an organization that prioritizes the health and education opportunities of underserved women and children in Pakistan.  HOPE aims to empower females with education and health so that they become self-sufficient and productive members of society. 

As a single woman in a male-dominated country, Dr. Mubina faced many challenges and setbacks; it was through perseverance and hard work that HOPE grew from a dream to a reality.  Today, HOPE has a countrywide presence throughout Pakistan which includes hospitals, formal schools, informal schools, vocational centers, basic health clinics, mobile health clinics, and maternal health clinics, all which provide free or minimal-cost healthcare and education.  Additionally, HOPE has been active in disaster relief efforts throughout Pakistan. 

In the course of 25 years, HOPE has emerged as a viable solution in bettering the socioeconomic forefront of the people of Pakistan, particularly women and children. 

HOPE USA

BMF provides lifesaving maternal healthcare, free of charge for underprivileged women in Tanzania, Ethiopia and South Sudan. 

BMF provides lifesaving maternal healthcare, free of charge for underprivileged women in Tanzania, Ethiopia and South Sudan. This relieves the high incidence of death and extreme injury in pregnancy and childbirth and offers safety, dignity and hope. 

Barbara May Foundation

We work to make pregnancy and childbirth safe for every mom, everywhere.

Every Mother Counts was founded by Christy Turlington Burns in 2010, following the release of her documentary film, No Woman, No Cry. Every Mother Counts is a nonprofit organization dedicated to making pregnancy and childbirth safe for every mother. After experiencing her own childbirth complication, Christy learned that hundreds of thousands of women were dying every year because they do not have access to the maternity care that they need. She then dedicated her work to understanding the challenges of and opportunities for improving access to maternity care around the world.

Every Mother Counts

Empowering individuals with limited resources to establish and maintain good health.

We are dedicated to providing health services for the uninsured, underinsured or those lacking access to affordable, high-quality preventive health care. We annually serve thousands of people in Mecklenburg County and we are a leader in collaborative efforts to improve community health.

Care Ring

Dedicated to the sustainable elimination of iodine deficiency worldwide.

According to the World Health Organization, iodine deficiency is the world’s most prevalent, yet easily preventable, cause of brain damage in children. Nearly 50 million people have stunted cognitive and motor development as a result. Severe stunting can be as bad as a loss of 15 IQ points, meaning children who don't get enough iodine struggle at school and in later life. The solution is simple, and has already been implemented in many countries: national level fortification of salt with iodine. IGN works with governments to implement such programmes. Despite not being directly related to schools, removing this barrier to healthy development is one of the cheapest and easiest ways to include children's educational outcomes.

Iodine Global Network

A social initiative of Udhavum Ullangal Public Charitable Trust, poised to transform the landscape of cancer care in Tamil Nadu.

We are 24yr old charitable trust, in Chennai, working in the areas of cancer care, women empowerment and education. We channel the goodwill of communities and bring hope to people in need.

Since 2011 our Nellai Cancer Care Centre in Tirunelveli has been offering comprehensive cancer care services to underprivileged people. **We have so far raised awareness for over 200k+ people, screened more than 60k+ individuals, conducted over 2800 cancer camps, treated over 1500 patients, and currently provide home-based mobile palliative care services to over 300 patients**. All our initiatives align with the **WHO framework** for cancer care and **SDG Goal 3** for health and wellbeing.

We are now working towards establishing our very own cancer speciality hospital to bridge the growing access-affordability gap in cancer care in Tirunelveli.

Our **[Nellai Cancer Hospital](http://www.nellaicancerhospital.org/)** - a 70-bed facility - will be situated on [a 5.35-acre lush landscape in Sengulam](https://youtu.be/Ij3ErArnajw?si=Gkau13HtITZ3k9Bl) to serve 2 million across the region, spanning several districts.  Equipped with state-of-the-art diagnostics and inpatient care, it is poised to deliver high-quality and holistic cancer care services to patients.

The entire project is being **guided by the Cancer Institute (WIA)** in Adyar, Chennai and several eminent advisors across industries.

So far we have

1. Acquired 5.35 acres of land for the hospital, generously donated to us.
2. Developed a comprehensive architectural plan for a 70-bed hospital, with the initial phase 1 covering approximately 29,000 sq. ft. 
3. Secured the necessary approvals to construct up to 40,000 sq. ft. at the site. 
4. Conducted the ***[Bhoomi Puja](https://www.youtube.com/live/qNl9qWsvjqg?si=6E1LBlWtNRqTWTG4)*** for the project, in the presence of the District Collector of Tirunelveli
5. Began construction in May 2024
6. Assembled an expert programme management team

Generous philanthropists have supported this initiative due to our high credibility and financial transparency. We are

- **Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) Complainant**
- 80G Tax exemptions under the IT Act
- CSR Registration, Ministry of Corporate Affairs.
- **1st NGO in Chennai to be** was **registered on the Social Stock Exchange.**
- Due Diligence was carried out by Charity Aid Foundation (CAF), Give2Asia and several MNCs including Accenture, Cognizant Foundation, United Way of Chennai, BankAM, NatWest Group, and WIPRO.

Nellai Cancer Hospital 

We provide a home-away-from-home in our House & Family Rooms for families with children receiving medical care in our communities.

Ronald McDonald Charities of the Piedmont Triad. Inc. serves families caring for a child receiving medical care in our community through our four core programs: (1) Our 36-bedroom House; (2) Our three Ronald McDonald Family Rooms that serve, Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Brenner Children's Hospital, Cone Health Women & Children's Center at Moses J. Cone Hospital and Novant Health Maya Angelou Women's Health & Wellness Center at Forsyth Medical Center, respectively; (3) Our five Hospitality Carts serving Brenner Children's Hospital, Cone Health Women & Children's Center, Maya Angelou Women's Health & Wellness Center, Atrium Health High Point Medical Center and Randolph Health, respectively and (4) Our Family Support and Services.

Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Piedmont Triad, Inc.

We do the research to make sure your donation has the highest impact.

We are a community of people who believe in taking action. Our role is to help you make the most effective donations possible in the fight against extreme poverty. Since our founding in 2013, we have compiled a list of research-backed charities working on interventions against the multidimensional factors of poverty, resulting in over $100 million donated to high-impact charities.

The Life You Can Save

The PowHERful Foundation gets young women to, and through, college. We provide financial assistance, mentorship, and wraparound services to help our scholars achieve their highest potentials.

The PowHERful Foundation believes education is the ultimate equalizer, especially for the young women we serve. We work to give our girls the tools, advice, and support to not just get through school, but to get ahead in school, have a happy personal life, and get on the path to a great career. The PowHERful Foundation exists to provide hardworking young women with the resources necessary to succeed.
College education is a critical pathway to career success and increasing access among young women and girls strengthens their earnings potential, health and well-being, and community impact. Women with a 4-year undergraduate degree earn $1.1 million more in their lifetime and are more likely to volunteer than women with a high school diploma.

However, young women and girls of color and from underserved communities face multiple barriers to enrolling in and graduating from college. An undergraduate degree can be cost-prohibitive for those who do not receive adequate financial aid and lack the support to navigate the complex educational system. Moreover, young women and girls from underserved communities who do enroll in college are more likely to drop out than their peers from higher socioeconomic status communities due to the compounding challenges to their academic success.

Our Programs empower young women and girls from underserved communities with the resources, support, and tools necessary to successfully achieve their college and career aspirations. Learn more about our College and Career programs here: https://www.powherful.org/our-mission

Expanding the participation of young women and girls in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) can close the pay gap, advance gender equity, and transform communities in the United States.  Women in STEM more than their peers in non-STEM roles and recent estimates suggest the earning differential is nearly 90%.

Yet women represent a mere 34% of the STEM workforce and women of color fare far worse in the sector. Black, Indigenous, and Latina women make up less than 10% of the workforce and receive less than 15% of STEM bachelor’s degrees. Gender norms, a lack of representation, and limited mentorship hinder the growth of young women and girls in STEM.

Our Programs engage young women and girls in STEM from middle school throughout college and their career transition with career exposure, mentorship, and skills development to accelerate their achievements in the sector. Learn more about our STEM work here:  https://www.powherful.org/our-mission

Investing in young women and girls of color and from lower socioeconomic backgrounds is intrinsic to our work because they have the potential to transform communities and lives. However, inequitable access to educational, financial, and social resources more often than not impedes their ability to create the healthy, safe, and successful futures they are envisioning. 

Disparities in the United States from the gender wage gap to reproductive health outcomes and socioeconomic mobility disproportionately affect Black, Indigenous, and women of color.  And COVID-19 has exacerbated these inequities – Black and LatinX women in particular experienced higher rates of unemployment, faced greater exposure to the virus due to their overrepresentation in essential roles, and have yet to reap the same benefits of the economic recovery as their peers.

Tackling these disparities begins with placing young women and girls at the center of our work, responding to their pressing needs, and giving them the tools to shape a more equitable future for all. Learn more about our work to advance equity here:  https://www.powherful.org/our-mission

Most of the girls we work with are the first in their families to pursue higher education. We aim to be the people in their lives who can get them to and through college, there for every challenge and accomplishment, facilitating useful connections and experiences to help them along a trajectory of achievement.

Building on their philanthropic goals, Soledad O’Brien and Brad Raymond established the Starfish Foundation in 2011 to expand access to higher education among young women and girls from underserved communities. Beginning with just 6 college bound students in our scholarship program, we have since expanded to support over 4,000 young women and girls in their academic, personal, and professional journeys through our flagship programs.

OUR IMPACT:
The PowHERful Foundation helps young women and girls realize their full potential. Beginning with scholarships in 2011, our programs have grown to support thousands of young women and girls throughout the United States. 

Here is how we have worked to ensure they can succeed: https://www.powherful.org/our-impact

OUR SUCCESS:
Thanks to your support, our impact goes beyond the numbers to the continued success of program participants and scholars during and after college. Learn more about the experiences, educational accomplishments, and professional goals you have made possible with the PowHERful Foundation. https://www.powherful.org/our-impact


The Founders:
And with that growth came our own change – in 2017, Starfish became the PowHERful Foundation to carry forward our commitments to young women and girls across the United States.


PowHERful Foundation

Works to reduce the transmission of HIV/AIDS in the most affected regions in the world.

TRIAD Trust is a non-profit organization that works to reduce the transmission of HIV/AIDS in the most affected regions of the world.   Our approach is to train local leaders to create and sustain HIV education and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights programs for vulnerable youth.  These programs use sports, arts, and technology to provide kids with the tools they need to lead a healthy life.

Our technology-based platforms support community health workers as they ensure access to the highest quality treatment and care and document our interventions' impact.

As the scope of the HIV epidemic and needs of those most vulnerable populations evolve, so do our trainings. We hope you'll grow with us.


TRIAD Trust

Helps International strengthens communities in Central America and breaks the cycle of poverty through an integrated approach.

We provide healthcare, education, pure water, clean burning cooking stoves, emergency relief and micro-loans and training to farmers. Since 1984, we have built a strong foundation supporting self-sufficiency and community improvement that has impacted the lives of over a million people.  With your help as a volunteer or donor we can not only reach more people, but also reducing deforestation and CO2 emissions through the use of water filters and energy efficient wood burning stoves.  

HELPS International

Black Butterfly Women Services provides support for justice involved young women seeking the opportunity to transform their life.

Our Vision is for each woman to live in a world where a mistake could lead to an unbelievable success story. Our Mission is to serve as a beacon of hope by providing transitional services and helping women achieve self-sufficiency. Black Butterfly offers an opportunity for women to turn their lives around, accomplish goals, and succeed in whatever they want to do.  

We know these young women are full of talent, power, and gifts. We focus on changing the created systems, interrupt debilitating cycles of suffering, and provide a way out. These young women transform into valuable contributors for their family and our community through love, meaningful relationships, and healing support.

The values of this community are informed by love and respect for one another; trusting relationships, mutual accountability; and healing core hurts. 

This core supports fuel a sister’s transformation:
A safe, affordable home with community meals along with healing circles, career development, mentoring, and life coaching sessions

Connections to culturally appropriate behavioral health counseling and treatment programs

Volunteers who provide support in the home and the community, including assisting with job search and retention

Black Butterfly’s holistic approach leads to a change in thinking and healthy habits. With a new perspective on themselves and their life, sisters have hope, and they are inspired to pursue a new journey toward real success.

Core Values
We welcome each woman with open arms and believe that every person deserves a second, third, and even fourth chance. We strive to help all women reach their highest potential by bridging the gap between resources and marginalized communities. 
We will bring a unique value to the community by providing individualized services through specialized staff to help guide them to becoming contributing members of society. 
    


Black Butterfly Women Services

 In partnership with our families, HPP breaks the cycle of childhood poverty.

HPP helps families become healthy, stable and self-sufficient. We focus on the social determinants of health, supporting both parents and children in order to strengthen the whole family. With services ranging from emergency support to intensive case management, the agency partners with parents to address family needs during the critical years from pregnancy through kindergarten.

The first agency in San Francisco to hire former clients as staff, HPP’s evolution has been guided by the community it serves. More than half of HPP’s immensely talented staff of 125+ come from the community and/or are graduates of the agency’s Community Health Worker Apprenticeship Program, which trains individuals for careers in the nonprofit sector.  

Over the years, HPP has received considerable recognition for its service to the community. In 2022, we were named “Nonprofit of the Year” by the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, and our work has been highlighted by The New York Times, CNN, KQED, The Huffington Post, People and The San Francisco Chronicle.  Additionally, HPP receives consistently-high ratings by leading philanthropic evaluators such as Guidestar and Charity Navigator.

Homeless Prenatal Program

PERIOD is a youth-fueled nonprofit that strives to eradicate period poverty and stigma through service, education, and advocacy. 

PERIOD. works to end period poverty and stigma through service, advocacy, and education. PERIOD. does this by providing free menstrual products to menstruators in need by partnering with community organizations through our global network of hundreds of partner non-profit organizations, community groups and hundreds of global PERIOD. chapters each month. Our chapters and partners help us distribute period products to menstruators in need in their own communities, host product drives, conduct educational trainings and discuss healthy menstruation to destigmatize periods. PERIOD. has active chapters in over 40 states and over 30 countries.

In order to truly end period poverty, we must end the systemic roots of period poverty. PERIOD. works to help draft, pass and implement policies and legislation to mandate period product in workplaces and schools, as well as repeal the discriminatory tampon tax, which adds to the expensive cost of menstrual products. PERIOD. knows that this new generation of youth leaders will solve period poverty in their lifetime!

The PERIOD Chapter network is the core of our organization. Made up of youth activists, chapters are mostly based in middle schools, high schools, college campuses and young adult community groups. PERIOD believes in the importance of centering youth leadership and activism in the pursuit of menstrual equity, and therefore utilizes resources to empower chapters in their local service, education and advocacy planning. Chapters receive leadership development and advocacy training, helping to focus their efforts on providing access to menstrual products to menstruators experiencing homelessness. They also advocate for equitable policies, working with local institutions such as school districts and local government, to provide access to products for those experiencing need.

PERIOD. Inc.

Nonprofit dedicated to improving maternal health worldwide. Learn more at www.savingmothers.org.

More than 343,000 women die during childbirth EVERY YEAR. Worse yet most of these deaths are deemed to have been completely preventable. And this problem is not just limited to women in developing nations. In fact the US is the only industrialized nation where the maternal mortality rate is actually increasing, and the racial disparities with respect to these outcomes are shocking. At Saving Mothers our goal is to ensure that ALL MOTHERS - regardless of their ethnicity or socioeconomic status - have access to quality reproductive healthcare services. Founded and run by medical professionals, our approach to this issue centers on developing low cost, low tech solutions such as our safe birth and mPOWHER kits, training the frontline healthcare providers that serve marginalized women, and providing pro bono surgical care to women who would not otherwise have access. We sincerely hope that you will support our mission, because it is our fervent belief that NO WOMAN SHOULD DIE GIVING LIFE.

Saving Mothers

Re-imagining healthcare for vulnerable and underprivileged people in Athens, Greece.

IRIS Humanitarian Response is a health focused non-profit organisation based in Athens, Greece.

We are dedicated to advancing access to healthcare and delivering high quality medical care for individuals and communities in need. Our goal is to bridge the gap in health disparities and improve health outcomes for disadvantaged and underserved people. Through our work, we strive to make a lasting impact by promoting health equity and the human right to health.

Our mission is to serve vulnerable, marginalised, underprivileged individuals and communities by improving their health and wellbeing - with the ultimate goal to alleviate suffering and restore their dignity and hope.

We are committed to achieving this through:

• upholding the right to health
• providing medical services in the areas of promotion, prevention, treatment and rehabilitation
• ensuring access to medicines and health products
• implementing public health interventions
• removing obstacles and creating innovative ways to access and navigate essential healthcare services

IRIS Humanitarian Response

At Noora Health, we believe no human being should suffer because of a preventable medical condition.

Noora Health is focused on improving patient outcomes in public health systems in India, Bangladesh, and Indonesia by training the family caregivers of patients admitted to government hospitals - making them an integral part of healthcare delivery. They develop high quality training and education materials (videos, flipcharts etc) delivered through a train the trainer model for healthcare professionals to use in-hospital to upskill and train the family and patient. They also have a post-discharge follow-up on mobile (via WhatsApp, teletraining, and voice messages) that allows them to share content with families when they return home, be there in a moment of need, answer questions etc. 

They have seen remarkable outcomes – in a cohort of patients, the program reduced post-surgical cardiac complications by 71%, maternal complications by 12%, newborn complications by 16%, newborn readmissions by 56%, and newborn mortality by 18%. 

Noora Health is in the scale-up phase of their work, aiming to reach 70 million caregivers in the next five years (they recently surpassed 3 million), and they are eager to leverage their digital capabilities to achieve this with high fidelity to the quality they are known for. 

Noora Health

Options for Youth is a community-based nonprofit whose mission is to expand opportunities for vulnerable adolescents.

Options for Youth’s mission is to expand opportunities for under-resourced youth on Chicago's South and West Sides by developing programs that build upon the strengths and maximize the potential of each young person. Our programs have a rich history of more than 30 years service to vulnerable Chicago adolescents.

Options for Youth

www.cthreefoundation.org C Three Foundation provides help and hope to people in need through film, TV, books and live events.

The C Three Foundation was created to help save the lives of people struggling with alcohol use disorder worldwide. We aim to educate the medical and mental health communities, along with the general public, about the successful, scientifically backed treatment for alcohol use disorder: The Sinclair Method.

C Three Foundation

Our mission is to save and transform the lives of the poor and vulnerable in Africa.

Established in 2005, The GEANCO Foundation saves and transforms lives in Africa.  We conduct complex surgical missions and run an innovative program to fight anemia in Nigeria.  Through our system of modern, solar-powered rural maternal clinics, we help poor, vulnerable pregnant women safely deliver healthy babies.  

In addition to donating laptops, tablets, books, medicine and sports facilities to schools, our David Oyelowo Leadership Scholarship for Girls provides full tuition, healthcare, and social & psychological support to young female survivors of terrorism and gender inequality in Nigeria.  

We proudly count among our supporters Oprah Winfrey, Angelina Jolie, Benedict Cumberbatch, Charlize Theron, David Oyelowo, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Chris Rock, Zoe Saldana, Rachel Brosnahan, Jimmy Kimmel, Thandie Newton, Tyrese, Rosario Dawson, Andrew Garfield, Jeff Daniels, Daisy Ridley, Forest Whitaker, Yvonne Orji, Uzo Aduba, Cynthia Erivo, Bryan Cranston, Steven Soderbergh, Billy Ray, Janus Funds, Capital Group Companies, CAA, ICM, UTA, The Oscars, Fox Studios, Disney, Google, and Netflix.

Afam Onyema graduated cum laude from Harvard University and Stanford Law School and declined multiple lucrative corporate law offers to lead GEANCO full-time. In 2020, he was named one of the Top Ten Most Influential Africans in the Diaspora.

The Geanco Foundation

We give small mills everything they need to add vital nutrients into the food that millions of malnourished people eat the most.

Sanku combats hidden hunger and saves lives by giving small mills the tools needed to fortify maize flour, an East African staple. Our mission: Guarantee that every meal consumed by every mother & child contains vital nutrients, forever. 

Worldwide, 8,000 children die every day and 2 billion suffer from preventable illness because their diets lack basic vitamins and minerals. Fortification (adding life-saving micronutrients to processed foods) is the most cost-effective nutrition intervention, but it has failed to reach the 6.5 billion people in developing countries who rely on small, often rural, mills for most of their food.

Sanku developed a technology and business model to enable the small mills that feed the most malnourished people to conveniently and affordably fortify staple grains. Our technology adds precise levels of nutrients into flour during processing and our business model leverages economies of scale to offset any additional costs for millers and their customers, providing Sanku with revenue margins that increase as we scale. We are currently reaching 3 million East Africans with the basic human right of nutritious food and have a plan to reach 100 million this decade, which will prevent millions from death and disease, boost productivity, and save billions of dollars in GDP.  

A donation of ~$1 is enough to give one person access to nutritious food for an entire year, so even a small donation can go a long way in the fight against malnutrition.

Sanku

The Cupcake Girls is a nonprofit organization focused on the prevention and aftercare of sex trafficking. 

The Cupcake Girls provides confidential support to those involved in the sex industry, as well as trauma-informed outreach, advocacy, holistic resources, and referral services to provide prevention and aftercare to those affected by sex trafficking.

We provide nonjudgmental support to empower our clients in their pursuits through respect, resources, and relationships.

The Cupcake Girls

StrongMinds provides life-changing mental health services to women in Africa using innovative community-based group therapy.

According to the WHO, depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide, and is a major contributor to the global burden of disease. In Africa, an estimated 66M women have depression and 85% have no access to treatment. Since 2014, StrongMinds has treated over 200,000 individuals for depression symptoms, with 80% measuring as depression-free after therapy. When a woman recovers from depression, she is more engaged in the community and her economic activity increases. Her family eats more meals and her children go to school more often. When you invest in mental health, you invest in the future of an individual, their family, and their community.

StrongMinds Inc

Health & Help assists people in places where it is difficult or impossible to access basic medical care. 

What do we do?

• Provide access to basic medical services and prescriptions.
• Hold educational lectures about health and ways to prevent illness in the
future.
• Prepare volunteers for their time on site at the clinics, as well as help all
employees learn and grow.
• Provide medical students with the opportunity to get hands-on experience
under the guidance of skilled doctors.
• Develop and implement medical programs on a continuous basis.

For whom?
• For unprotected and discriminated groups within the population.
• For those who cannot pay for treatment or buy medications because it is
too expensive or simply not available.
• For socially responsible, generous patrons, both private and corporate.
• For everyone who wants to become better versions of themselves by
helping others.

Where?
• In regions with limited resources and developing infrastructure
• In locations where medical care does not exist or is extremely
underdeveloped (lacking sufficient personnel, equipment, medicine).

How?
• About 70 volunteers from all over the world work for the project online. The
clinics have up to 20 medical specialists and volunteers in other professions from different countries working 24/7.
• Many generous people and companies from different countries around the world support the project through financial donations, and by providing medications, equipment, and other supplies.

Health & Help

CHILA seeks to provide quality healthcare to our Q’eqchi communities while respecting their cultural practices and traditions.

What are you supporting when you support CHILA’s mission?

When you support CHILA’s mission, you are saving lives
When you support CHILA’s mission, you are alleviating suffering
When you support CHILA’s mission, you are making magic happen…

There is a magic in seeing someone smile because they finally found someone who is listening.  There is magic in the relief that is felt when you help someone feel better.  There is magic when you connect and engage and show someone that you understand. 

CHILA is a non-profit health clinic in Chisec Guatemala and all of our services are offered free of charge to anyone who walks into our clinic.  We rely on supporters like you to help us provide the highest quality of care for the residents of Chisec and her surrounding regions and connect our patients to living healthier lives.  

Your gift provides:
~Highest quality of primary medical care
~Medication and treatment for acute and chronic medical conditions such as diabetes and high blood pressure, etc. 
~Diagnostic Tests such as blood tests, ultrasound, radiological exams, biopsies etc.
~Specialty Consults such as orthopedic, pediatric, oncology, surgical etc.
~Transportation to hospital and clinic visits in Coban (2 hours), Guatemala City (6-8 hours) and other locations
~Translator services 
~Monthly Diabetes Clinic

And so much more….

Your support does more than just provide medical services for the community.  Through educational opportunities, healthcare professionals and ancillary personnel are trained by CHILA to continue to provide care to their community in conjunction with telemedicine support with Dr. Smith.  By growing opportunities for the the local community, your support helps to strengthen their healthcare structure from within and helps to encourage local independence.

Access to healthcare is so much more than an open clinic door.  It is access to clean water, access to education, women’s rights and gender equity, food security, addressing domestic violence, access to functioning roads, transportation systems.  The health of a person is reliant on so many factors that are happening in a culture and in a community.  Your support is helping CHILA address the many issues that continue to affect health outcomes and access to healthcare in the Chisec community.  

COVID-19 response:

In March of 2020, CHILA just completed what would be, unknowingly,  the last annual dental and medical mission with Kindness in Action due to the pandemic.  2 weeks later, the COVID-19 pandemic was declared and the border was closed and just like that, our in-person clinics ceased operations for over a year.   Like all the countries in the world, COVID-19 hit the communities of poor and disenfranchised the hardest.  But the CHILA team of Chisec rised to the occasion.  The team immediately gathered all the reliable scientific information that was being presented and they were one of the first to organize educational videos on virus information and prevention, proper hand washing techniques, and self-care and mental health awareness during quarantine all in the Q’eqchi Maya language.  They organized seamstresses to mass produce masks for the community with proper distancing and mask wearing observed.  They put together and delivered PPE packs to the staff of the local Centro de Salud and delivered food parcels to those communities that were having hardships with food security.  Here is what your support is provided:

~Oxygen concentrator machines
~Oxygen delivery supplies such as masks, nasal cannulas, nebulizers
~Medications packs with Tylenol, steroids, cough medicine etc.
~Vaccination education and outreach with the local healthcare system
~PPE and disinfectant supplies


CHILA’s Mission:

~Provide high-quality primary care for the populations of rural Guatemala
~Strengthen and work with the existing community healthcare system
~Preserve Q'eqchi Maya traditions and incorporate traditional Maya herbal medicine as part of our treatment modality 
~Strengthen the activities of the local Women's Groups as partners in healthcare access
~Provide all healthcare in the native Q’eqchi Maya language
~Deliver excellence in healthcare no matter the ability to pay


Our History and Our Present:

CHILA was started by Brian Smith, MD in the town of Chisec, Guatemala.  Brian served as a member of the Peace Corps in the region and witnessed firsthand the lack of access to healthcare for the population in the area.  Once he returned to the United States, he changed his vocation from engineering to medicine.  He entered medical school and became a physician while concurrently traveling back and forth to Chisec to build and open a medical clinic.  CHILA has grown with the belief that no person should die or be denied healthcare because of where you were born.  After years of providing care to many people in the region, CHILA was recognized as a nonprofit organization in 2019.  

Currently, CHILA funds a small group of local medical professionals in Chisec who we pay to provide ongoing  and prescribed care for chronic and complex medical conditions.  Dr. Smith and a contingency of volunteer medical providers from the United States travels to Chisec several times a year to hold clinics in our Chisec location as well as a variety of villages in the region.  During these clinic days, we see cases of varying levels of complexity.  We are able to treat common ailments during these clinic days as well as establish longer term care plans for more complex and chronic issues.  We provide all these services with translators who can speak in the native Q’eqchi language.




Chila Inc

YOU bring real, lasting social change in the Democratic Republic of Congo(DRC). Join us.

“Women are the first victims of war, but only they hold the unique key to peace.” – Julienne Lusenge 
 
 The Fund for Congolese Women (FFC)   supports women's grassroots organizations through financial and technical assistance.  FFC is unique - the only women-led grant-giving NGO in the entire DRC. We provide grants to local women-led organizations that are often in the most remote, difficult to reach areas.   Why? We are unshakable believers in local solutions to local issues.  We know that the brave women and girls working at the grassroots level have the solutions. We know that when women become agents of change, they benefit, their families benefit, their communities benefit. Since its inception in 2007, FFC has funded more than 386 projects throughout the Democratic Republic of Congo. We support projects focusing on eliminating sexual violence against women, delivering empowerment programs for women and girls, educating women about HIV/AIDS and reproductive health, and advocating for environmental justice and access to resources and land for women.  Generous individuals like you make our work possible.  Thank you! 
 
 
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Fund for Congolese Women (FFC)

Supports highly-impactful, evidence-based solutions to the challenges of global poverty and inequality.

The Global Health & Development Fund addresses the vast inequalities in health, wealth, and opportunity.

While many people alive today can expect to have greater wealth than generations before us, millions of people live in poverty, and billions more struggle to get by. They may lack access to basic healthcare and vaccinations, making them far more vulnerable to deadly diseases, or to quality education, which strengthens their economic future. These are complex, but not unsolvable, problems. Researchers, advocates, and organizations around the world are working to scale up solutions to these problems. By taking a thoughtful, evidence-based approach to philanthropy that accelerates the best of these solutions, we can do immense good.

The Founders Pledge Global Health and Development Fund identifies and supports highly-impactful and neglected development initiatives. By pooling donations and collaborating with other funding and research organizations, this Fund allows individuals to make contributions when and where they will have the largest impact. We aim to:

- Significantly improve the lives of the world's most vulnerable people;
- Eliminate deaths from easily preventable disease;
- Support sustainable, systemic change.

### Our Approach to Grantmaking

When evaluating potential grants, we consider several key points:

- **Counterfactual impact**. Our grants are designed to create a meaningful outcome that would not otherwise have happened. This means that you can rely on the Funds to create meaningful, real change, rather than just maintaining the status quo.
- **Impact-driven philanthropy**. This fund prioritizes the highest-impact solutions to challenges. We assess where the gaps are, which opportunities may be neglected by other funders, and where the biggest wins are in terms of making the biggest difference.
-  **The organization’s funding gap**. Not all organizations are set up to scale up their programming and some may not be able to productively absorb large amounts of unsolicited funding at any given point. We evaluate all potential grantees’ capacity for growth and consider how much money they could put to good use.
-  **Organizational strength**. Particularly with unrestricted funding, it’s important to have trust in the leadership and capacity of the organizations we support. We look at their track record of success and their transparency about failures as well as successes, and we only support those organizations which are exceptionally well run.
- **Time-critical opportunities and funding certainty**. While Founders Pledge members give to our top climate charities regularly, sometimes there are time-critical opportunities which require fast decisions. We will use the Fund to make grants that enable such short-term opportunities and stability for high-impact funding opportunities thereby increasing the impact compared to individual giving to specific organizations.

### Frequently-Asked Questions

**Can charities apply for money from the Fund?**

The Funds do not generally accept applications from charities, and we request that charities do not send unsolicited applications for funding. If the Fund Managers choose to open up an application round, this will be publicized. 

**How frequently will you make grants from the Fund?**

In general, Fund Managers will review grantmaking decisions on a quarterly basis. Decisions will be made based on the value of Funds and the available options for high-impact grantmaking. We may disburse funds outside of quarterly review dates if we become aware of a particularly promising and time-sensitive funding.

**How will my contribution be used?**

All funds are granted out. The Fund is not an investment vehicle. The Fund does not use any percentage of contributions to cover staff time or other overhead costs. Every dollar contributed to the Fund will be used to make grants directly to end-user organizations creating a real difference.

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"Providing relief and recovery in the wake of major disasters, traumatic events and social injustice." -AWB

Acupuncturists Without Borders (AWB) provides immediate disaster relief and recovery to communities that are in crisis resulting from disaster or human conflict. AWB is committed to creating alliances with local community based organizations and treating all who have been affected - survivors, first responders, emergency personnel and other care providers.  AWB uses community-style acupuncture to provide caring, compassionate treatment in a group setting. This model of treatment allows everyone treated to experience relief from stress and trauma together. When the entire group feels calm and quiet, hope, determination and resilience rises powerfully within it.

Acupuncturists Without Borders

We provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare. 

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Arkansas & North Louisiana provides support and hope to families who have a hospitalized child at Arkansas Children’s, Baptist Health, or the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).  At Ronald McDonald House and the Ronald McDonald Family Room families find a free place to stay that include meals and snacks, indoor and outdoor play spaces, laundry, and other daily essentials.  Most importantly families receive 24/7 support from compassionate staff and volunteers who understand the nightmare that it is to have a baby or child in the hospital.

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Arkansas & North Louisiana

Since 2005, WebServes has promoted effective social impact with humane uses of digital technology.


At WebServes, our greatest reward is derived from empowering our clients’ efforts with the technological tools they need - bringing empathy to technology. We aim to service our clients with the best possible web technologies and digital marketing to benefit the lives of their communities, constituents, and clients. By assisting groups with their causes, and serving the needs of others, we serve those causes. We work diligently to further the causes of nonprofits and social-benefit organizations.

Since 2005, WebServes has been functioning as both an advocate and facilitator who is dedicated to advancing the goals of our client partners. As a distinctive nonprofit digital agency, we specialize in supporting the initiatives of other nonprofits and nurturing the next generation of tech professionals.

WebServes

Our Mission is to prevent, expose and stop child sexual abuse and help survivors heal worldwide. 

Stop the Silence® (formerly a free-standing non-profit) Stop the Silence®: Stop Child Sexual Abuse, Inc.) is a Department of the Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma committed to the prevention, treatment, and mitigation of child sexual abuse (CSA), other adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), and related interpersonal trauma. CSA occurs in overwhelming numbers in the U.S. and throughout the world and causes enormous havoc to the child and adolescent victims and the adult survivors. 

The Mission of the Stop the Silence® Department is to prevent, expose, and stop child sexual abuse as a part of other ACEs and help survivors heal worldwide. Our overarching goals are to: Prevent and expose CSA and ACEs; Promote healing of victims and survivors; Celebrate the lives of those healed; and, Underscore CSA/ACEs as a social justice and civil rights issues.

For 21 years, Stop the Silence® has provided comprehensive programming locally, nationally, and internationally toward the prevention and mitigation of CSA and ACEs through outreach (one-on-one, mass/social media), education, training, connecting the public to service providers through direct and electronic means, and policy development and reform to effect broad societal change. Click below to read about the innovative ways we are working to prevent, expose, and ultimately end child sexual abuse.

We provide help and resources through comprehensive programming with awareness, education/outreach, training, and policy development and reform. We work to address the relationships between childhood trauma and the broader issues of overall family and community violence, and violence within and between communities. Our focus underlines the importance of a shift in focus on positive development within our social complexes (e.g., the relationships between men, women, adults and children, cultural groups) to support peaceful - and to hinder violence-prone - relationships.

Founded by Pamela Pine, PhD, MPH, Stop the Silence® began in 2002 as a coalition of multi-ethnic and state groups that came together to comprehensively address child sexual abuse.  Faced with a lack of funding and awareness on the part of the public and policymakers alike, Dr. Pine organized the Race to Stop the Silence®, which continued as an annual event from 2004-2013.  

Pamela incorporated Stop the Silence® as a nonprofit organization in 2004 to collaboratively provide (e.g. with the Lamplighter Movement) comprehensive programming with research, media advocacy, training, community outreach and education, policy development, and support for direct services components. Pamela developed the Stop the Silence® comprehensive model used in the U.S and internationally. 

As of January 1, 2021, Stop the Silence® continues its vital work as a Department of the Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma. 

Stop The Silence: Stop Child Sexual Abuse Inc. (A Department of the Institute on Violence, Abuse, and Trauma)

A multicultural OBGYN-led organization, sharing the stories of the real-time harm happening in post-Roe America.

We are a multicultural OBGYN-led organization that works to share the stories of the real-time harm happening to patients and providers in post-Roe America. Our goal is to go to communities where our presence is needed to bring financial and logistical support as well as education, and by amplifying stories in traditional and social media keeping reproductive justice in the forefront. We are nimble, bold, and in positions of power as reproductive health experts in protected states – and we are ready to act.

Obstetricians for Reproductive Justice

Founders Pledge is a global nonprofit empowering entrepreneurs to do the most good possible with their charitable giving. 

We equip members with everything needed to maximize their impact, from evidence-led research and advice on the world’s most pressing problems, to comprehensive infrastructure for global grant-making, alongside opportunities to learn and connect. We’re grateful to be funded by our members and other generous donors. 

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