Projects Closest to Reaching Their Goals

Leadership Initiatives (LI) approaches the problems of underdevelopment by empowering communities to address their own needs. LI partners with local government and business leaders to provide promising individuals with entrepreneurial, leadership and project management training. These young leaders then identify obstacles to development within their own communities, design workable solutions, and create sustainable business models to overcome those obstacles.

Providing foster parent care for an orphaned elephant calf and preparing it for release back to the wild.

Expanding YUM's library collection to enhance the reading habits of over 1000 poor children in Cipanas, West Java, enabling them to enrich their lives through reading, ultimately promoting their intellectual development.

Over 470 000 people were affected by Tropical Storm Washi, sadly nearly 1,000 people died and others still reported missing. To help with immediate needs, Merlin is working with a local NGO to distribute hygiene kits and offer basic medical assistance, in the longer term we plan to rehabilitate health facilities and train health staff to prepare for future emergencies.

This project will help our university scholarship recipient Isaac, help his community build classrooms, start a library and train teachers to educate all, but especially girls and orphans.

In Montgomery County, Md., low-income and immigrant girls are growing up without the resources and support they need to stay in school. Our project will provide 150 girls ages 9-18 from various developing countries with the support they need to achieve their personal and academic aspirations. We will accomplish this through weekly out-of-school programs that provide them a safe space to find their voice and gain the confidence and skills they need to thrive.

Thank you for considering helping Elevate Oregon reach our goal of serving 950 at-risk youth in our first pipeline in one of the most under-served areas of Portland. Through our daily accredited in-school classes with our highly trained staff, we leverage a 30 year proven model to promote self-sustenance and break cycles of generational poverty. This unique approach enables us to reinforce core values taught in class through a comprehensive range of after school and summer enrichment activities

Clean water is the single most important factor in regards to a healthy life. This is a simple appeal which not only saves lives through the elimination of water born illnesses, but also transforms the lives of women.

Recruit and train 200 Israeli and Palestinian youth, ages 18-34, in leadership skills, non-violent activism and democratic principles to mobilize their communities behind the two-state solution.

Educacion 2020 plans to help 2800 kids of 25 Chilean schools to learn how to read, by giving tools to their mothers so they can support and encourage them to read.