It is often difficult to know what to send to a co-worker during times of bereavement.  Sometimes, a donation in the name of a family’s loved one is the best way to honor their memory.  Northrop Grumman has partnered with GlobalGiving to provide opportunities to support those in need and honor those that we have lost.  By choosing a project below, you will be directing Northrop Grumman to make a contribution to the selected project in the loved one’s name.

Select a project from those below to be the recipient of your memorial contribution.

Animal Welfare: Managing Stray Cats and Dogs

by Action Change (Formerly GVI Trust)

Like in many cities, stray dogs and cats, cruelty, abandonment and negligence are a common issue in Playa del Carmen. In order to reduce the number of dogs and cats roaming the streets, this project provides proper education and awareness programs as well as permanent low cost/free spay and neuter programs. Support animal welfare through the permanent sterilisation and education programmes that our partners carry out in Playa del Carmen.

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Community Conservation of Monarch Forest in Mexico

by Monarch Butterfly Fund

Our project aims to restore and conserve the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve's (MBBR) forest ecosystem and improve the quality of life of its human population. We facilitate peer-led workshops where local farmers learn to use their natural resources sustainably and contribute to the conservation and restoration of the MBBR ecosystem.This unique forest provides critical winter habitat for millions of monarch butterflies that migrate to Mexico from Canada and the United States every fall.

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Make Motherhood Safe for Tanzanian Women

by Kupona Foundation

Help to build, equip, and operate a new maternity hospital in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, where maternal mortality rates are among the highest in the world. In existing facilities, women share beds and even settle on the floor to give birth. Kupona Foundation is raising money for training, infrastructure improvements and new equipment to improve maternal healthcare in 23 facilities, and to support the completion of a new 200-bed hospital for emergency and high-risk cases in the region.

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Music tuition for 70 disadvantaged London children

by World Heart Beat Music Academy

Without free access to learning music, there is little opportunity for disadvantaged children to engage and benefit from learning a musical instrument. To address this issue, this project provides free music tuition and instruments to 70 disadvantaged and socially isolated young people, aged 5 to 19 years.

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Help Us Fight Hunger Across America

by Move For Hunger

Move For Hunger is a national non-profit organization that has created a sustainable way to reduce food waste and fight hunger. Essentially, we mobilize transportation companies to connect surplus food to communities in need. Whether we're helping an individual donate their food when they move or recovering a truckload of fresh produce from a farm, Move For Hunger makes it easy to donate food. To date, we have helped provide more than 55M meals to families in need.

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Together we can end breast cancer.

by Lynn Sage Breast Cancer Foundation

The Lynn Sage Breast Cancer Foundation's mission is to eradicate breast cancer by investing in early career doctors and innovative research. We recently convened a consortium of hospitals to make groundbreaking clinical trials accessible for all breast cancer patients, especially under-resourced and under-represented communities.

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School of Fun for Children in Fukushima

by Academy Camp

The March 2011 nuclear accident in Fukushima, Japan, has exposed various issues in the society, including disparities. In particular, children's learning, who bear the future, is facing problems. We conduct a series of workshop camps to give the children what they miss and more: playing and learning opportunities in an extreme fashion, with university professors, corporate researchers, artists, athletes and other professionals, assisted by university students as elder friends of the children.

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Bilingual Books for Literacy & Learning Across US

by Raising A Reader

Raising a Reader is a national non-profit organization providing evidence-based programming that fosters school readiness for children 0-8. RAR partners with nearly 300 Affiliates at 3,000 sites across the nation to implement our programs that are effective and easy to implement! We offer three bilingual family engagement and early literacy programs that improve home literacy environments, increase access to age-appropriate books and increase the frequency and duration of shared reading.

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