Your gift will provide one afternoon of Backyard Adventures! programming for up to 12 youth at a local school in Lowell, MA. Backyard Adventures provides experiential learning opportunities for disadvantaged youth in Lowell to help them gain self-esteem, leadership skills, and exposure to environmental career opportunities. Backyard Adventures provides ‘hands-on’ lessons in the out-of-doors to learn about the natural environment by exploring local habitats, conducting...

Medical students and young doctors from all over the world refuse to accept the irrational nuclear status guo and this grave threat to global health and human survival. We, the young generation of doctors, decision makers and inhabitants of this planet have to take a close look at the nuclear inheritance we are about to receive. In medicine, when there is no cure or treatment...

As a Benefactor, your donation will help to fund the new facility for TEP Charter School and affirm your commitment to improving education with an emphasis on teacher equity.

Since 1990 The Nature Conservancy has been building partnerships and alliances with ranchers, landowners and conservationists to protect the over 10 million-acre range of the northern jaguar. Help save this animal from extinction and by protecting the habitat of the northern jaguar today.

$5,000 covers the cost of one satellite collar, allowing us to better monitor our bison herd and share real-time data about the herd's movements with project enthusiasts.

Your gift of $50 will help provide the needed surgery for these little ones to grow up healthy and strong. Just closing that hole will make a huge difference in their ability to get nourishment into their little bodies at a critical time in their lives. It will also make their lives later on much better since they will be better able to learn to...

Owning school supplies gives a Kenyan child a sense of pride and helps instill an eagerness to continue learning.

Reading is at the very core of education. By helping provide students with books, you are ensuring that they become lifelong readers, that they get to explore new worlds and gain knowledge, and that they have the opportunity to pursue their dreams.

Reading is at the very core of education. By helping provide students with books, you are ensuring that they become lifelong readers, that they get to explore new worlds and gain knowledge, and that they have the opportunity to pursue their dreams.

We like to bring books to our workshops as a reward to youth who show interest in writing or are scared to write because their literacy levels are low. Your gift will help The Beat Within distribute books on topics appropriate for young adults.

Our Tiny Books of Healing have proven to be very effective in comforting the suffering of those who so desperately need it. This gift will provide supportive publications that speak specifically to the patients and their families needs to address the issue of suffering and dealing with pain and loss. These publications also provide inspiration, comfort, and solace to those who face such a difficult...

Your gift provides a new American entrepreneur with one-on-one technical assistance with an industry professional. This session is designed to help them boost their business, activate their marketing plans, access markets, and propel their businesses into the next level. Through our Access to Markets program, AnewAmerica offers its entrepreneurs a variety of services to help them expand and establish the business plans they developed during...

Recognizing that women worldwide are the engines of advancement for their families, Mercy Corps invests in the small businesses of female entrepreneurs. We provide training and loans to help women turn their dreams into successful enterprises, which not only fulfill unmet community needs but also help fund their children's education and ensure their families' well-being. A small loan is often the difference between a life...

Box-Out raises money for the Community Empowerment Fund (CEF), which offers savings opportunities, micro-loans, financial education, and assertive support to individuals who are underemployed and unemployed. Each Box-Out Sponsorship goes DIRECTLY to CEF, meeting clients' needs on an individual basis. Box-Out is a UNC-CH event during which students get sponsored to sleep in the Pit in cardboard boxes for a night, raising awareness of issues...

You gift will help foster collaboration across institutional lines and hasten a cure for brain cancer. To accelerate the transition of therapies into clinical studies for patients, ABC² has initiated a strategic collaboration, the ABC² Clinical Network. It is composed of four leading neuro-oncology centers and clinical investigators who work together to: provide guidance and counsel to the sponsors of drug therapies (particularly in the...

Oportunidad Microfinanzas, an Opportunity microfinance bank, provides small working capital loans for people in chronic poverty. Loans range from $100 to $500, about what our target clients are borrowing from moneylenders. Spared high interest rates, our clients earn more to invest in the business. Their increased income helps them meet basic family needs. Children are going to school, not work. Group lending through Trust Banks...

Your gift will help pay for the development of constructive dialogues on critical issues, bringing together Democratic and Republican leaders, along with top experts from relevant fields. For instance, people representing all perspectives on health care for the uninsured come together to bridge their differences and find common ground on how to extend health care to the tens of millions of Americans who do not...

Your gift helps bridge the digital divide by providing internet access for our residents at one of our computer labs for one month.

Your gift provides access to program models and materials to begin or enhance an intergenerational technology program.

CGD experts communicate information that is relevant for policy decisions. Drawing on rigorous research that looks carefully at the ways in which trade, aid, debt and migration policies affect poor people and communities, CGD researchers and communications staff are able to convey to members of Congress and to their staffs ideas for policy changes and improvements which increase the chance that developing countries will succeed...