This gift package will help one poor woman establish her own small business and access credit, business training, and health care services for herself and her family. Business training helps clients learn additional money management skills and how to effectively market their products. On average, clients double their income after two years of joining the organization. Clients also receive training in leadership, communications and self-esteem....

For just $13 you can fill 100 cups with beans, rice, or porridge and assist the World Food Program (WFP) to end hunger and malnutrition in one of the most impoverished areas of the world. One cup of beans, rice or porridge a day will greatly improve the health and life of a child or pregnant woman. Not only will your gift help save a...

Through our Books for Kids project, The Global Fund for Children donates titles from its award-winning collection of children’s books to grassroots groups reaching the most vulnerable young people. We believe that literacy remains a pressing issue for children and families all over the world, and that reaching children at a young age is vital. Our multicultural books depict positive images of children, and incorporate...

Your gift will put 20 brand new books in the home of a child in need.

Your gift will put brand new books directly in the backpacks of 20 preschoolers in need for them to take home.

Your gift of $100 will help defray the high gas costs and ensure that we can continue providing our services to the women who need our assistance. Through the Peer Education Program, we use the vans to drive our Peer Educators (PEs) to areas that their peers hang out. Our PEs help their peers understand the risks of unsafe activities and help them make positive...

Your gift will leverage a $20,000 loan to rehabilitate a home. For example your loan may allow an affordable housing group in Washington, DC to restore a home, so a family has a safe and healthy place to raise their children.

Your gift will provide upfront financing to farmer cooperatives to grow organic, fair trade coffee and generate enough income to meet their basic needs and send their children to school.

Your gift will leverage $1000 in microloans. This could be used by a seamstress in Bolivia, allowing her to buy a sewing machine and materials to start a business that creates two additional jobs and livelihood for three households.

This gift will support vital PKD research funding aimed at finding a treatment and cure for PKD.

Your gift will enable COAC to recruit adoptive parents for children in foster care in New York City and provide them with the things every child needs -- a second chance at love, stability, discipline and guidance.

Your gift will fund 15 minutes of vital PKD Research. PKD scientists funded by the PKD Foundation have progressed from discovering the PKD genes to conducting clinical trials in humans - an unprecedented level of biomedical research success. You can be a part of this success! Join our quest to find a treatment for PKD!

Your gift will pay for an hour of an AIDS vaccine researcher’s time. IAVI is committed to finding an AIDS vaccine for use throughout the world. IAVI’s scientific team, drawn largely from the vaccine industry, researches and develops AIDS vaccine candidates and conducts HIV clinical trials and research. IAVI prioritizes the most promising products and moves them swiftly through the vaccine development pipeline. Despite the...

Your gift will support shelters, drop-in centers, and local pastoral teams with humanitarian efforts to assist people migrating through Mexico. Migrants often fall prey to assault and extortion as they pass through Mexico, and they risk their lives passing through treacherous deserts and rivers. CRS and the Catholic Church work to promote alternatives to migration in Mexico and advocate for comprehensive immigration reform in the...

This gift will provide 2 hours of research to identify the needs of homeless veterans and innovative approaches to addressing them. This is the foundation of NCHV's education and service network building initiatives. NCHV has helped fuel the development of innovative approaches to helping homeless veterans stand tall again. Learning about new programs that work, and sharing that information with service providers across the country...

$50 will cover one hour of time for an IT person working to improve the search capability of the biomimicry database. Already paint has been developed that mimics the surface of the lotus leaf. And universities and companies are hard at work trying to mimic the Van der Waals forces nature has perfected for the gecko so more natural adhesives can be available. RMI is...

Your extremely generous gift will help fix up 5 basketball courts on 4 islands of St. Vincent & the Grenadines (St. Vincent, Bequia, Canouan, & Union Island) and make them safer playing environments for children. We are estimating a total of $500 in repairs per court.

For less than $1 per person you can help bring clean water back to village that desperately needs it. Your gift will be used to overhaul a broken well by replacing seals, fixing gears, unclogging screens, and whatever else is needed so that clean, safe water can flow again. If it costs less than $500, and sometimes it does, your gift will "rollover" to the...

With a Flock of Hope, egg production will begin in almost no time! Where families, especially children, are malnourished, delicious eggs will mean daily protein. Where families are impoverished, eggs will be taken to market and sold, raising much-needed funds for clothing, medicine and more. And where the earth is dry and barren, droppings from the birds will provide the fertilizer to increase farm production....

This gift will provide one resident artist with a stipend to offset living costs for one month.