Categorized as: Africa, Current Partners, Education, Grantees
Description: AGE Africa works to help disadvantaged but academically gifted young girls to attend and finish secondary school in order to pursue opportunities beyond high school that they typically would not have. They use a three-pronged approach in order to provide...Read moreCategorized as: Africa, Education, Grantees, Poverty Alleviation
Description: The Akilah Institute works to educate young women in low-income, underdeveloped areas of East Africa, with campuses in Rwanda and Burundi. They focus on building private-sector partnerships and developing curricula hand-in-hand with business...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Education, Grantees, Health, Job Creation, Latin America, Legacy Partners, Poverty Alleviation, U.S.
Description: Alfalit International Inc. works to eliminate human suffering caused by illiteracy. They offer several programs in order to improve educational development in the poorest areas of Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Africa, Portugal, and the...Read more
Categorized as: Caribbean, Current Partners, Education, Grantees
Description: Anseye Pou Ayiti (Teach for Haiti) works to improve the education system in Haiti not through the students, but through the teachers. They work to train and improve teachers in disadvantaged areas in order to provide a better education for the children....Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Education, Grantees
Description: Asante Africa Foundation works to provide access to education to underprivileged children living in extreme rural poverty within Kenya and Tanzania. Their programs provide sustainable solutions that help disadvantaged children gain a solid education. They...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Education, Grantees
Description: Batonga Foundation is using a multi-pronged approach to transform the educational experience of girls in Mali, Sierra Leone, Cameroon, Ethiopia, and Benin. They tackle their mission by looking at several different issues. Batonga offers scholarships for...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Education, Grantees & Tagged as: Uganda
Description: BESO Foundation provides access to quality education, health services, and economic empowerment for women and children through agriculture in rural Uganda. In eight years, the organization has gone from serving 100 students to 660 students; from a quarter...Read more
Categorized as: Education, Grantees, Job Creation, Legacy Partners, U.S.
Description: The Catholic Committee of Appalachia works to establish community and solidarity, Catholic social teaching, educational programs, spirituality, and participation in order to promote social, economic, and ecological justice in Appalachia. They have...Read more
Categorized as: Education, Grantees, Legacy Partners, Pacific Islands, Poverty Alleviation
Description: The Center for Community Transformation (CCT) is a Christian organization fighting poverty and injustice throughout the Philippines. In order to promote economic and social development in the poorest rural areas of the country, they offer a combination of...Read more
Categorized as: Education, Grantees, Latin America, Legacy Partners
Description The Cooperative for Education works to break the cycle of poverty in Guatemala through education. They provide educational resources and opportunities to indigenous Mayan schoolchildren in Guatemala’s Central and Western Highlands. They have created...Read more
Categorized as: Education, Grantees, Health, Legacy Partners, U.S.
Description The Dayton Christian Center works to provide families and individuals with essential and supportive services to better their lives. Their mission is to nurture youth, empower families, and promote their community. The Dayton Christian Center uses several...Read more
Categorized as: Education, Grantees, Legacy Partners, U.S.
Description The Dayton International Peace Museum is a non-profit organization based in Dayton, Ohio and works to inspire a culture of peace on the local, national, and international levels. They use educational activities and events in order to raise awareness about...Read more
Categorized as: Asia, Current Partners, Education, Grantees, Job Creation, Legacy Partners
Description: The Destiny Foundation works to rescue young women from sex trafficking and/or sexual exploitation and provide them with training and employment opportunities. Their goal isn’t just to pull them from a dangerous life, but to make sure they...Read more
Categorized as: Education, Grantees, U.S.
Description Digital NEST is working with young people, ages 12-24, to help them learn about technology so they can use it in their future careers. The youth they work with are from disadvantaged areas in California. These students have free access to computers, Wi-Fi,...Read more
Categorized as: Asia, Current Partners, Education, Grantees & Tagged as: Sri Lanka
Description: Educate Lanka empowers economically disadvantaged Sri Lankan children and youth by enhancing their access to education, mentoring, and employment opportunities. Their online global community crowdfunding model raises scholarship funds that provide...Read more
Categorized as: Education, Grantees, U.S.
Description The Emily Griffith Foundation has been working to provide education for “all who wish to learn” by funding the Emily Griffith Technical College. It is the most affordable post-secondary education institution in the region and their goal is to...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Education, Grantees & Tagged as: Democratic Republic of Congo
Description: FEDA provides access to education and income generation to women and girls who were mostly denied such opportunities due to local conflict. They use literacy education and vocational training programs to overcome illiteracy, violence, and extreme poverty....Read more
Categorized as: Education, Grantees, Latin America, Legacy Partners, Poverty Alleviation
Description Food for the Poor provides direct relief assistance, helping the poor in 17 Caribbean and Latin American countries. Their various programs provide housing, healthcare, education, fresh water, emergency relief, and microenterprise assistance, in addition to...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Education, Grantees, Health, Latin America, Pacific Islands, Poverty Alleviation, Storytelling
Description Freedom from Hunger works through microfinance to bring education and healthcare services to the ultra poor, helping to empower women and families in 24 developing countries. Their goal is to promote economic and social development through sustainable...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Education, Grantees, Health, Legacy Partners, Storytelling
Description Gardens for Health International works to provide sustainable agricultural solutions for chronic childhood malnutrition throughout Rwanda. They target the caregivers of children under 5 who are malnourished and they teach them which foods to grow and how...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Asia, Current Partners, Education, Grantees, Job Creation, Latin America, Storytelling
Description Global Press Institute uses journalism as a development tool to educate, employ and empower women in the developing world to produce professional news coverage that elevates global awareness and ignites social change. This allows the world to see unique,...Read more
Categorized as: Education, Grantees, Middle East
Description Hand-in-Hand is an organization that works throughout Israel to educate Jews and Arabs and build peace through understanding. They want to create a shared society where Jews and Arabs learn together and live together. So far, they have five schools in...Read more
Categorized as: Education, Grantees, Latin America, Poverty Alleviation
Description Hope for Honduran Children works in several different communities throughout Honduras, providing children living in extreme poverty with the basic necessities such as food, clothing, shelter, and medical care, as well as making sure they have the resources...Read more
Categorized as: Current Partners, Education, Grantees, Middle East
Description JAAGO Foundation aims to provide quality education to many of the millions of children who live below the poverty line. They help these children turn from a future of exploitation, drug abuse, and poverty to a future of health, education, and...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Current Partners, Education, Grantees
Description The Kiretono Resource Centre (KRC) is a young women’s residence center with educational and life skills support for secondary students from Maasai tribes in remote areas of Tanzania. KRC also helps these women find local jobs through cottage industry...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Education, Grantees, Legacy Partners, U.S.
Description Xavier University is a Jesuit Catholic university with the goal of providing a well-rounded, liberal arts education to its students. They provide the opportunity to travel abroad on Service Learning semesters. This provides students the opportunity to...Read more
Categorized as: Education, Grantees, U.S.
Description The Live Oak Education Foundation works to provide a quality education in a disadvantaged area in California. They work to raise money for creative programs in academia, arts, and wellness to children in elementary and middle school. The students will...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Asia, Education, Family Discretionary, Grantees, Job Creation, Latin America, Middle East, Poverty Alleviation, Storytelling, U.S.
Description The Local 2 Global Grants allow our family members to use volunteer hours to give back again! This program encourages our family to clock their volunteer hours in order to collect grant dollars. It then gives them the opportunity to distribute those small...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Education, Grantees, Job Creation, Legacy Partners, Poverty Alleviation
Description Lumana works in rural Ghana to find innovative solutions for overcoming the inherent difficulties of sustainably running a microfinance program. They have used a multi-pronged approach to create a solid foundation for community economic development. Lumana...Read more
Categorized as: Asia, Current Partners, Education, Grantees, Job Creation
Description Medha is a social enterprise that is working to train youth for the working world and life after schooling. They are trying to change the employability training paradigm in India by integrating their approach into the public sector education system. They...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Asia, Education, Grantees, Latin America, Legacy Partners, U.S.
Description One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) aims to provide each child with a low-cost, highly durable laptop through which they can expand their education. They specially design hardware, content, and software to encourage collaborative, joyful, self-empowering learning....Read more
Categorized as: Current Partners, Education, Grantees, U.S.
Description: The Education Department of the Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum is working to empower young girls and teach children about the importance of participation in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) programs. Their education programs engage and...Read more
Categorized as: Current Partners, Education, Grantees, U.S.
Description Precious Blood Ministry of Reconciliation (PBMR) is a network of reconciliation ministries promoting restorative justice and peace throughout their community. They provide a safe place for youth living in one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in South...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Current Partners, Education, Grantees, Storytelling
Description Resonate is a non-profit that works mainly in Rwanda to help empower women and girls through self-discovery and storytelling. They work with women, men, girls, and boys to work toward gender equality by providing training rooted in storytelling, but also...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Asia, Education, Grantees, Latin America, Legacy Partners, Poverty Alleviation
Description Save the Children works to help children in the United States and worldwide by providing them with basic needs and education. They have various programs, including Education, Emergency Response, Health and Nutrition, HIV and AIDS,Hunger and Livelihood,...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Current Partners, Education, Grantees
Description: StrongMinds is a social enterprise founded in early 2013 that provides life-changing mental health services to impoverished African women. They empower impoverished women by treating depression at scale and enable them and their families to lead healthy,...Read more
Categorized as: Education, Grantees, Legacy Partners, U.S.
Description Summer Search is a U.S.-based non-profit that works in national youth development. They work with low-income high school students and help them build the skills they need not only to survive, but to thrive. They make 5-year investments in these students,...Read more
Categorized as: Asia, Education, Grantees
Description Teach North Korean Refugees (TNKR) is a non-profit that works in South Korea, teaching North Korean refugees, with a primary focus on English. They teach basic English and business English, depending on the interest of the student. All of the tutors are...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Current Partners, Education, Grantees, Latin America, Legacy Partners
Description The School Fund is dedicated to providing opportunity for impoverished students all over the world through educational scholarships. They created a person-to-person funding site which allows students in need to create personalized profiles and gives...Read more
Categorized as: Education, Grantees, Legacy Partners, U.S.
Description The TERF Project was designed to help at-risk youth in Montgomery County, KY achieve their dreams by supporting programs in various areas including education, recreation, academia, and personal development. These programs provide resources ranging from...Read more
Categorized as: Current Partners, Education, Grantees, Middle East
Description Tomorrow’s Youth Organization works with underprivileged children and communities throughout the Middle East. They aim to offer high-quality early education to help children become creative and active members of society. They share knowledge and...Read more
Categorized as: Asia, Education, Grantees, Job Creation
Description Launched in summer 2011 in Seattle, Washington, Upaya Social Ventures‘ founders bring 18 combined years of research in ultrapoverty and work on 4 continents, and a deep desire to effect long-term change for the 1.4 billion people in the world living...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Asia, Education, Grantees, Legacy Partners, Middle East, U.S.
Description V-Day is a global activist movement working to end violence against women and girls, including rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation (FGM), and sex slavery. They create global awareness and raise funds through a variety of media outlets, while...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Asia, Education, Grantees, Job Creation, Latin America, Legacy Partners
Description Vittana builds loan programs for tertiary students in over a dozen countries. They fundraise for each student on their vibrant website. Since their launch in 2009, Vittana has partnered with 29 microfinance and financial organizations to tailor-make...Read more
Categorized as: Education, Grantees, Legacy Partners, Storytelling, U.S.
Description Voice of Witness–“Amplifying Unheard Voices”–works to bring awareness of human injustices occurring in the United States and all over the world by publishing high-quality books that relay the human experience of natural disasters,...Read more
Categorized as: Education, Grantees, Middle East
Description Wahat al-Salam–Neve Shalom, or Oasis of Peace, was founded in 1970 in order to create a community where coexistence and cohabitation was the priority. They wanted to create a safe place for both Jews and Arabs to live together. Since 1970, they have...Read more
Categorized as: Asia, Current Partners, Education, Grantees, Job Creation & Tagged as: Nepal
Description: Women LEAD is an organization that works with young women in Nepal. They provide these women with opportunities and skills they need to become leaders all over the world. They are youth-driven, youth-led, and gender inclusive and they are locally...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Caribbean, Education, Grantees, Health, Job Creation, Latin America, U.S. & Tagged as: Dominican Republic, Haiti, Nicaragua, US, Zambia
Description: World Central Kitchen uses culinary education to fight poverty, hunger, and health issues. The use cleaner cooking with clean cook stoves and food safety/sanitation training. They provide school kitchens to support feeding programs that encourage school...Read more