Your gift of $50 can provide 36 people in a transitional country with access to independent news for one year*. MDLF financing helped the journalists who founded elPeriodico, Guatemala’s leading source of investigative journalism, buy back majority ownership of the paper from a large media group, narrowly averting a loss of control. With MDLF’s help, they transformed the daily into a viable, stand-alone company while...

Your gift will provide a leading journalist with one hour of one-on-one consultancy with a specialist analyst to produce a business plan for their company. Working on a business plan not only helped Mail & Guardian in South Africa plan for the future, it also helped it identify newspaper distribution as a problem that had to be addressed. As Financial Director Hoosain Karjieker said: “The...

Your gift will pay for a media leader to spend one day with a colleague who has found a solution to a common problem. For example, independent publisher Altapress from the Siberia region of Russia helped Krestyanin newspaper in Rostov-on-Don develop a publishing structure that provided it with a solid economic foundation from which to grow. In return, Altapress drew inspiration from Krestyanin’s editorial innovations...

Your gift will go into our loan pool to help independent publishers buy printing presses and printing equipment. In 1996, SME was Slovakia’s only independent daily newspaper when it received MDLF’s very first loan. SME was barred from every printing house in the capital Bratislava but with MDLF financing it bought its own printing press and broke the government's control over what news the public...

Your gift will go into our loan pool to help independent journalists buy printing presses and broadcasting equipment. In eastern Russia, the state monopoly printing house tried to force the independent daily Yakutsk Vecherny out of business by charging inflated prices and banning issues that criticized the authorities. When it finally refused to print the newspaper at all, and with the next printing house more...

This gift makes it possible to provide 4-hour philanthropy workshops to educate up to 50 people about the benefits of strategic philanthropy. The outcomes of the workshop are threefold: inspire participants to learn more about philanthropy, encourage participants to donate money to charitable causes, and encourage participants to donate their time to charitable causes. The time is ripe for the Persian community to come together...

Your gift will help pay for the development of constructive dialogues on critical issues, bringing together Democratic and Republican leaders, along with top experts from relevant fields. For instance, people representing all perspectives on health care for the uninsured come together to bridge their differences and find common ground on how to extend health care to the tens of millions of Americans who do not...

The Darroch Award, sponsored by the Guttmacher Institute, recognizes an emerging leader in the field of sexual and reproductive health, where scientific evidence is essential to guiding the policies and programs of the future. The award honors Jacqueline E. Darroch, PhD, whose three decades of directing research exemplifies rigorous and innovative work in this field and commitment to the practical application of research to policy...

A donation of $50 will help the Roosevelt Institution publish 25 Roosevelt Reviews. The more funding we have for publishing will lead to more Reviews we have to distribute and spread our fellow's policy proposals.

A $30 donation towards Roosevelt Institution stationery will help the Roosevelt Institution enhance its professionalism when inviting speakers to lecture at our policy expositions.

Your gift will provide technical hardware for Roosevelt Institution. A donation towards Roosevelt Institution's technology expansion project will be greatly appreciated by all members.

By donating to our event funding category, you will be helping the Roosevelt Institution do what it does best: present policy proposals to the leading policy-makers in the field.

A donation towards a chapter start-up grant will help fund the logistics of starting a new chapter at a college.

A donation of $100 towards travel stipends will greatly assist the Roosevelt Institution and our student presenters in being able to present their policy proposals to the leading policy-makers.

A donation of $600 will pay for one month's rent of office space and keep the Roosevelt Institution going strong.

A donation of $2500 would go towards a month's salary of a full-time staff member of the Roosevelt Institution.

Your gift will support efforts in Maharashtra, India's second most populous state, to create solutions that can be scaled up for use in many parts of the country. A local organization, the Bhavishya Trust, has been created to undertake this important task. A powerful group of Indian organizations has joined the initiative, including civil society groups, businesses key government agencies. Together, they removing deeply rooted...

Your gift will help us strengthen philanthropy in Southern Africa, Southeast Asia and Latin America (including along the US-Mexico border), providing sustainable financing for local action to overcome poverty. Strong local philanthropic organizations bridge divides between sectors of the economy, between socio-economic classes and between cultural, political, ethnic, and religious groups in ways that unite rather than divide communities. Synergos increases the capacity of these...

Your gift will help TI-USA bring experts from the Transparency International network, government, civil society, business and the media to promote transparency in elections, in public administration, in procurement and in business. TI-USA speaks to diverse audiences including the private sector, the development community, government, academic organizations and international organizations.

Your gift will aid TI-USA as we promote the development, ratification, implementation and monitoring of laws against corruption and promoting transparency. Many governments have made commitments under international anti-corruption conventions, which are binding written agreements between countries that establish common rules and standards for fighting corruption. Anti-corruption conventions are especially important in providing an internationally agreed upon framework for addressing cross-border issues and in facilitating...