Your kind gift will go far towards helping children and their families survive the cruelties of AIDS and hunger through home-based care, agricultural education programs, and community-building activities, such as the one pictured here: an ActionAid-supported vegetable garden for children orphaned by AIDS in Kadoma District, Zimbabwe.

At a cost of $50, a treadle pump allows a farmer to move 6,000 liters of water per hour from depths of up to 33 feet and to distances of over 300 feet (one football field). Using them a farming family can double its annual income generated from vegetable production ($300 to $1,700 per farming family, depending on the country context). A simple, affordable gift...

Though volatility in global coffee prices continues to pose a challenge to the livelihoods of small farmers, it has also created opportunity for positive transformation in the horticulture industry. Diversification out of low-grade coffee into high-value horticultural crops will increase small farmer income and reduce poverty. A $100 gift will generate enough income to pay the annual health care costs for one family.

Your gift will allow IDE to respond to the urgent needs of our communities, allowing us to have the greatest impact on the greatest number of people. IDE will use your gift to fund needed training and empowerment programs for women in the rural areas of countries IDE works. IDE will put your money to work where it will have the greatest influence on rural...

Your gift provides materials and technical assistance to a support group for grandparents raising grandchildren.

This gift will provide backpacks, books, folders and pencils, calculators, and other supplies that all kids need to complete homework, keep up with their peers, and feel 'normal' and supported in the classroom and at home. Assistance provided to kids with this gift include the supplies and materials described here, as well as additional learning support that may be needed to address the kids' learning...

Battered immigrant women face a unique set of challenges as they struggle for safety in the United States. By supporting this program you will help educate 25 women about their legal rights and help them develop new leadership skills so they can become involved in changing the policies and social norms that directly affect them and their children. As emerging leaders, immigrant women play a...

Ivy provides ground cover, which is crucial to preventing weeds and keeping soil moist.

While working parents need daily after-school programs more than ever, the economic crisis puts pressure on public funding. It costs $1,000 for one busload of New York City kids and parents to visit Albany and meet with legislators, as they learn about the Democratic process. Help TASC support, educate and inspire kids through after-school experiences.

Your kind gift will help ActionAid to provide direct assistances to communities so that they may prepare for and recover from tragic events, such as the Asian Tsunami, the South Asian Earthquake, war, and genocide. Special attention will be placed on the needs of the region's poorest and most overlooked people.

Your gift will provide a local PBS station with multiple DVD copies of an ITVS program, discussion guides, educational materials, and other support for use in their local civic meetings.

Ms. is in a position to fill this gap of solid investigative reporting. With limited resources, Ms. has been successful in breaking investigative news. For example, in Spring 2006, Ms. sent an investigative team to the U.S. territory of the Northern Mariana Islands to expose the sweatshop conditions for women workers and put a woman’s face on Jack Abramoff’s scandalous lobbying. Ms. sparked renewed action...

Your gift will provide a KickStart Super MoneyMaker Pump for one family, lifting them out of poverty. What does "out of poverty" look like? It means a family has enough food to eat, decent clothes and shelter, enough money to send their children to school and still have money left over to invest in the future. That's what KickStart creates.

Your donation will enable a representative from a small, Arkansas nonprofit to obtain organization and management skills, learn strategies for building fiscal responsibility, identify new sources of funding, and develop the capability to attract financial support for programs and projects. The intensive training initiative gives participants the tools they need to improve their organizations and their communities.

Your gift will provide counseling on HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases to couples in the Diocese of Kaya. This Couple-to-Couple Counseling Project trains volunteer couples to visit married and engaged couples to talk about HIV and AIDS. The volunteer couples use bicycles to reach vulnerable couples in remote areas. The project trains participants to develop safe-living plans. Information and awareness-raising sessions are also used...

The Emergency Fund for Endangered Writers assists writers in prison and those who are persecuted by providing funds for legal and medical assistance to their families. In the past year, the Emergency Fund has delivered $8,400 in direct financial assistance to writers facing persecution in Afghanistan, Eritrea, The Gambia, Russia, Senegal, and Uzbekistan.

Help our partners ensure they are reaching the poorest of the poor and understand how fast families are moving out of poverty. Your gift supports training on Grameen Foundation’s breakthrough benchmarking tool, the Poverty out of Progress Index (PPI). With the PPI, a microfinance institution uses indicators of poverty to measure their clients’ likely poverty levels so they can be sure they’re helping the poorest...

Your gift will help the sanctuary to provide this much needed service, and will help save the life of one of these magnificent creatures.

The Feminist Majority Foundation runs the only Mifepristone Compassionate Use Program in the country. Our program serves as the only hope for many critically ill patients, mostly women, who have exhausted all standard therapies, including chemotherapy, surgery and radiation. Mifepristone is a life line for these women, and some men, some of whom have depended on this drug for over a decade. Since the program’s...

Your gift will be used to help establish a new communal bank, run by community residents to serve their local financial needs. The communal bank is an integrated financial service, giving bank members simultaneous access to savings, investment, and credit. To establish each bank, a Fundefir employee works with a small group of five community members. The local bank leaders achieve community buy-in, convincing family...