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African Training Fund
The IDP Foundation has funded a new African program at Field Museum of Chicago to enhance its African training and research programs in the following scientific capacity building efforts: the Field Museum/IDP Foundation African Scholars and fieldwork ... Read More
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Agriculture
Seeds and agricultural tools distribution to internally displaced people, refugees and other war affected people returning to their areas of origin. Read More
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Art and International Development
CASID is breaking new ground. Art is a powerful form of communication and CASID is using theater, dance and visual arts to share stories of exemplary individuals in international development to the public and to stimulate conversations among American ... Read More
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Artisan Support
You are invited to be a part of this, to join these wonderful women as they continue to succeed and grow. MarketPlace would like to open opportunities to more women to achieve societal and economic dignity. Currently MarketPlace cooperatives facilita ... Read More
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Arzu Community
While Arzu directly helps weavers and their families we also believe it is important to extend benefits where possible to the larger community. Arzu shared the construction costs of a new school in the Faryab province, where many of our weavers live. ... Read More
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Arzu Education
Arzu's social contract requires that all children under the age of 15, and at least one woman from each household attend education classes that cover literacy, basic numeracy and units on health, hygiene, nutrition and human rights. In 2006 we began ... Read More
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Bringing Global Best Practices to Chicago
This ongoing program promotes sustainable, democratic and competitive development: the High Road. Work is profoundly influenced by international best practices on industrial policy and public-private development partnerships. We promote active intern ... Read More
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Business Development Centers and Business Incubator
One of COPRODELI's primary objectives is to strengthen the economic activity in Peru by promoting and supporting micro-entrepreneurs and enterprises. The COPRODELI Business Development Centers and Business Incubator provide financial support, subject ... Read More
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Business Training Seminars
GBA business training seminars typically cost $15,000 and can provide training for up to forty budding entrepreneurs. In addition, GBA often provides loan capital to help these talented men and women get their new businesses started. Please help GB ... Read More
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Cambodia: SMART: Sustainable Medical Arts, Research, & Technology
We are developing a project that will bring training and potentially telehealth services to rural areas that is delivered by indigenous village women. Public heath, primary care, first aid, and emergency services are all but absent in rural areas of ... Read More
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Capacity Building for International Development Leaders
CASID helps international development practitioners connect their work and the results they produce to their behavior, beliefs, capacity for self-awareness, and the growth and development of their character. CASID has created a unique model for leade ... Read More
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Chiapas Media Project
The Chiapas Media Project (CMP)/Promedios is an award winning, bi-national partnership that provides video equipment, computers and training enabling marginalized indigenous communities in Southern Mexico to create their own media. Read More
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Chicago Council on Global Affairs General Programming
With more than 150 programs and events every year, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs delivers a diverse and balanced spectrum of programming related to international relations, global issues, and U.S. foreign policy. Programs range from renown ... Read More
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Chicago Youth for the Millennium Development Goals (CYMDG)
End poverty by 2015-this is the hope of the Millennium Development Goals. Chicago Youth for the Millennium Development Goals (CYMDG) is CASID's global education initiative. CYMDG educates students about critical problems facing populations in the wor ... Read More
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Children and Education
Coprodeli offers first level outreach prevention to children and teenagers who live in abusive or otherwise detrimental environments. The cornerstone of this effort is the NAR/Children at High Risk preventive health program. NAR consists of 2 residen ... Read More
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Clean Water Initiatives
In Afghanistan, where 75% of people lack access to clean water, ARZU is piloting innovative ways to provide relief for this major health problem. In March 2008, we completed the construction of a water catchment tank in one arid village in northern A ... Read More
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Community Connections, Open World, FORECAST
Through its programs, Heartland International seeks to strengthen emerging democratic institutions; provide training and technical assistance to encourage microenterprise development; support the role of women in economic, political and social affair ... Read More
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Comprehensive HIV health care and women's empowerment
We care about HIV-positive women, and we act. WE-ACTx is an international community-based initiative launched by frontline AIDS physicians, activists and researchers with extensive experience in caring and advocating for HIV-positive women. With you ... Read More
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Containers for Angola
RISE partners with schools churches, businesses, organizations and individuals to make a difference in Angola providing a tangible connection. The resulting projects have a direct impact on the Angolan people while providing hands-on involvement and ... Read More
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Development / Sadaqa Jariyah
Beyond immediate emergency relief, we must enable men and women to change their social conditions once and for all. In order to achieve this, now is the time to turn our efforts towards long-term development projects that ensure individual and commun ... Read More
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Economic Self-Sufficiency
Micro-loans are at the heart of the Ember Project. Grandparents decide for themselves what is feasible in beginning a small business for themselves. Ember helps them to choose what they might do to earn money for themselves so they can afford to rais ... Read More
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Education
We believe that education is a human right. Children are born into this world as eager learners and it is our duty to provide them with every opportunity for education. UNICEF estimates that over 120 million children worldwide are not receiving an ed ... Read More
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Emergency Relief
Disaster strikes at any time and without warning an entire family, town or nation can be devastated by natural or man-made disasters. It is a great mission that we undertake to help those who have been displaced either physically, financially or both ... Read More
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Emergency Response
Quick response to emergency needs due to poverty, famine, conflicts, civil strife and natural disasters. Read More
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Empowering Communities and Recruiting Teachers
he first step in any HELPSudan program is to locate a community that requires HELPSudan’s assistance in achieving their goals. This is principally done through relationships with people in Sudan and accepting proposals from community leaders. HELPS ... Read More
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Empowering Farmers
One Acre provides a permanent, proven investment package for farmers and their families, which doubles farm income by providing seeds and fertilizer, weekly farm education, and market access. This investment package is the core of our program.
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Energy/Share the Sun/Solar Bakery
SHARE distributes sun ovens to widows of war, land mine victims (amputees) and other needy women. Returnees are taught how to bake bread using a village solar oven. Share the Sun allows donors to "adopt a family" in Angola with a sun oven. Read More
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Engineers for a Sustainable World
The Northwestern chapter of Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW-NU) is an interdisciplinary group of undergraduate and graduate students focused on meeting the global challenges of poverty and long-term sustainable development. ESW is a national n ... Read More
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Enlaces America
Enlaces America has been an adviser, facilitator, and support center for transnational Latino and Caribbean immigrant organizations committed to building healthy communities both in the United States and in their countries of origin. In fulfilling th ... Read More
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Enterprise Mission/Solidarity Clothing
The Enterprise Mission is our Fair Trade project. As our mission evolved, we recognized the need to not only heal the sick, but to go to the root of the problem of poverty. To answer this call we began the Enterprise Mission and its current project, ... Read More
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Entrepreneurship Development
Heartland International, in partnership with two Kenyan NGOs, is now conducting a training program for young entrepreneurs (ages 25-35) in Kenya. This two-part training program addresses issues of high unemployment and lack of opportunities for youn ... Read More
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Foundation for Children in Need
The Foundation helps provide shelter, education, clean water, medical care, and clothing for thousands of individuals, from children and students to elderly. A reforestation project is planting trees as well. Read More
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Global Agricultural Development Initiative
The Global Agricultural Development Initiative aims to build on the momentum generated by the Chicago Council's report, "Renewing American Leadership in the Fight Against Global Hunger and Poverty: The Chicago Initiative on Global Agricultural Develo ... Read More
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Global Initiatives in Management, Kellogg School of Management
The GIM program is an intensive global business leadership course designed by students. Teams of classmates plan and facilitate a challenging 10-week curriculum with a faculty advisor, and coordinate a two-week international field experience. By part ... Read More
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Global Leverage Fund
With the help of the Global Leverage Fund, Opportunity International's vision to mobilize $1 billion to reach 100 million people with microfinance loan, savings and insurance products will be realized. To reach this aggressive goal, the organization ... Read More
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Global Partnerships
Woodstock Institute provides technical assistance internationally to organizations seeking to bring mainstream financial resources to underserved communities effectively and affordably. Likewise, Woodstock Institute’s international research seeks to ... Read More
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Healthy Water Campaign
Our current water project in Sierra Leone -- building a water well for the Rokupa Hospital -- is Dr. Turray´s dream. Dr. Turray, who is a parent of a LemonAid Village child, works at this hospital and serves some of the poorest community members, in ... Read More
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Heshima Safe House
Heshima Kenya’s Safe House provides temporary shelter to unaccompanied refugee children and youth, and on an exceptional basis, vulnerable refugee women who are experiencing homelessness or significant protection issues related to sexual gender bas ... Read More
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Holistic Resources to Mongu in the Western Province of Zambia
Agriculture
-Training, technical assistance and resource development in production and post harvest management for over 1000 rural farm families
-Development of agricultural business services to create markets for farmer crops
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Housing, Community, and Earthquake Reconstruction
Many residents in the shantytown of Pachacutec live in flimsy homes, often without roofs, built of woven reeds that offer little protection from the elements. Electricity and running water are scarce.
With the goal of contributing to a so ... Read More
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IDP Rising Schools
IDP Rising Schools' mission is to transform the lives of impoverished children by providing them with a quality education in both urban and rural areas of Ghana through the combination of microfinance loans and capacity building services that are spe ... Read More
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Insurance
As the world leader in providing micro insurance, Opportunity International is poised to bring significant change to the world of microfinance and sustainable development. Opportunity began providing micro insurance to clients in Africa beginning in ... Read More
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LEAD Campaign (Leadership, Empowerment, Access and Development)
As the microfinance sector commercializes and rapidly expands, experienced banking and finance leaders are in short supply. The microfinance community is waking up to the pressing need for leaders with these skills. Tomorrow’s leaders must be identif ... Read More
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Lending Hope to Africa
Opportunity’s Lending Hope to Africa Campaign raised $25 million dollars to develop 10,000 new Trust Banks in Africa, providing microfinance interventions for families coping with HIV/AIDS. The next phase of the initiative will support a Trans-Africa ... Read More
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Matanya's Hope
Matanya's Hope is dedicated to breaking the cycle of poverty in Kenyan communities by offering educational opportunities to children who would otherwise have none and by assisting with projects critical to their survival. Read More
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Micro-Power
Maybe help comes from a micro-enterprise grant for a agricultural or poultry farm in Sudan. It could be needed assistance in starting a cattle ranch in Uganda, or a small hamburger stand on the streets of a small town in Kosovo. Empowerment might c ... Read More
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Microeconmic and Craft Projects
Project Harambee facilitates microeconomics projects giving women & children a "hand up" to care for themselves without relying on a handout. These include livestock and agricultural projects, and sewing machines. Project Harambee also provides mar ... Read More
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Microfinance - Women's Lending Club
Your generous gift of $750 will help support an entire lending club, consisting of five women, accountable to each other for the repayment of their loans. All loan repayments go back into the local micro-lending fund, where it can be re-invested in o ... Read More
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Nicaragua-Direct
We need almost anything that can be shipped or taken along to Nicaragua. More specifically: Basic, over the counter, Medicine - Bandages - Tooth Brushes and Paste - Wheel Chairs - Walkers and Canes. School Supplies: Pencils - Erasers - Rulers - ... Read More
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North American Network on the Solidarity Economy
NANSE brings together grassroots and locally established organizations from Canada, the USA, and the Caribbean to explore building a sustainable alternative to the current neo-liberal development model. This program seeks to serve as a catalyst for e ... Read More
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Orphan and Youth Initiatives
Our programs address the needs of OVC of all ages, including shelter, education, food security, access to health care, psycho-social support, and legal services. However, a significant number of our programs focus on providing services for orphaned ... Read More
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Partnering with Families
Education - Tuition support for deaf children and their siblings; school transportation costs.
Vocational Training - Capital investment in shoe repair business; tuition for one year of beauty school. Read More
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Philippines
The Filipino partners have a goal of reaching one million clients annually by 2010. One of Opportunity International's most successful countries, the Philippines is an ideal environment for the microenterprise development industry. OI intends to maxi ... Read More
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Project Intandane
Project Intandane provided a baseline study of the living conditions and circumstances of a sample of child-headed housholds in the high density suburbs of Bulawayo. It defined a child-headed family as one whose breadwinner is the eldest of the sibl ... Read More
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Project Safe Water
Linking Mine Action to Development Planning: Providing Mine Affected Communities Access to Clean Safe Water
Objectives:
-Provide families in mine-affected communities access to clean water
-Improve the overall health of the comm ... Read More
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Project Zambia
World Bicycle Relief has partnered with a USAID-funded, World Vision-led coalition of relief organizations to address the HIV/AIDS crisis in Zambia. We will provide 23,000 bicycles to community home-based care volunteers, disease prevention educators ... Read More
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Prosthetic and Orthotic Lab
A simple prosthetic device can mean so much to someone disabled and living in poverty. Range of Motion Project has built and runs a fully functioning prosthetic and orthotic lab in Zacapa, Guatemala. The lab has already helped countless disabled fro ... Read More
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Prosthetic and Orthotic Volunteers
A prosthetic or orthotic device is a critical component in a disabled person's rehabilitation, enabling independence, mobility and involvement in the community. Rehabilitation has the power to increase visibility of the disabled; awareness can teach ... Read More
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Providing Fresh Water
It is estimated that 80% of all illness in Africa can be prevented through the provision of clean water and mosquito nets. While these are not typical “school suppliesâ€, they are essential components to providing a quality education in Sudan. ... Read More
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Scattered Seeds
In Southern Sudan, the area near Nyinbuli which is currently home for some 30,000 people was encased near the frontline of war. While a 2005 peace treaty dulled the extremity of violence, walking to the nearest clinic in this war-torn land was still ... Read More
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School Scholarships
To date, LemonAid fund has given 53 school scholarships, including three to children from one of the foster care homes LemonAid Fund Supports. Read More
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Share Your Soles
Shoe collection, cleaning, processing, shipping and distriubtion - donate shoes, funds, or help organize the shipment. Read More
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ShoreCap Exchange
ShoreCap Exchange recognizes that banks worldwide need more than simply capital to thrive. The Exchange strives to build stronger banks that focus on serving the poor in developing countries in Africa and Asia. Expert practitioners and consultants br ... Read More
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Small Business Development
Small business development is at the core of Global Alliance’s model for economic strengthening. By listening to our local partners, and working with them to design and implement an integrated and contextual model that helps communities and househ ... Read More
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Social Services to the Roma People of Kosovo
As little as $100 can help GBA bring educational training to Kosovo’s Roma/Gypsy community — one of Kosovo's most marginalized people groups. Your generous gift can help provide basic training in reading and writing, math, personal hygiene, and o ... Read More
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Support and Travel to Cambodia
We Support Worthwhile Organizations - We provide on-going financial support to those organizations that we have visited, scrutinized, and found worthy of our continued assistance.
We Help Others Contribute - Build Cambodia does not solicit ... Read More
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Sustainable Development in Southern Sudan
- Provide clean drinking water by digging water wells for the community.
- To establish effective health programs geared towards combating common diseases through health education, and training of health personnel.
- To provide educationa ... Read More
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The Chagas Project
Chagas is a disease of poverty and most often afflicts populations like the one served by Centro Medico. Chagas is a chronic disease that commonly causes heart and gastrointestinal problems which are often further complicated by other health conditio ... Read More
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The Girl's Empowerment Project
The Girl's Empowerment Project is a multi-phase program offering a safe community for girls and young women to learn about their human rights and how to access them while addressing avenues for self-sufficiency and leadership building. Participants e ... Read More
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The Peacemobile
LemonAid Fund will purchase and equip a mobile resource center bringing educational and health information, materials, and services to communities where the LemonAid Fund is currently working. LemonAid Fund has begun conversations with the Mini ... Read More
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The Pediatric Anti-Parasite Program
Gretchen Myers, our US volunteer nurse, with some help from a local hospital and health education center, is in the process of implementing a prevention program aiming to curb the number of kids with parasites. Gretchen is going to local schools to e ... Read More
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Trust Banks
Trust Banks serve women in the lowest levels of poverty who have no assets and no access to a guarantor. A Trust Group is an innovative lending methodology that provides microloans, thereby creating jobs and economic empowerment in poor communities. ... Read More
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Vocational Training Program
IRIM's computer training program provides students with the tools they need to find employment in the competitive American job market. n addition to excellent instruction in computer programs, job readiness training is also incorporated on a weekl ... Read More
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Women Entrepreneurs
As little as $150 will help a woman in Ghana start her own business and feed her family. Read More
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Working Bikes Cooperative
A bicycle worth $20 in Chicago can be worth the equivalent of $1,000 in Africa. Your donation can possibly mean the difference between work and unemployment to someone in need. The bicycle is the primary means of transportation for the majority of t ... Read More