Your $1,000 gift will underwrite a briefing for state-level prochoice Catholic legislators. Catholics for a Free will make its public policy staff available to legislators in selected states to help them articulate and defend prochoice positions. We will meet with state legislators and advocacy organizations to assess their needs for information and support, strategize how to meet those needs and acquaint them with the resources...

A U.S. visa costs more than a month's salary for a young Russian museum worker. This gift will cover the visa associated with a professional residency within one of many prestigious US cultural organizations.

Sound equipment and technical help are not expensive by U.S. standards, but such costs are still beyond the reach of music schools and community cultural centers in Central Asia. $75 helps to make possible a memorable concert of new music and a demonstration of non-traditional performance styles.

Books, magazines, CD's and DVD's are precious gifts for visual artists, arts schools and organizations in Central Asia. When we send American specialists to the region, we supply them with as many as they can carry. Your support for this gift will reach hundreds of students, teachers, curators, and aspiring artists.

Visual artists, curators and critics from Central Europe, Russia and Central Asia visit New York, but there's never enough time to see everything, whether they stay here for a week or 4 weeks. For many, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity, the realization of a dream, and a gift they will cherish forever. Your gift will provide museum admission for a visiting artist.

Experienced English or Russian interpreters are a regular part of master classes and seminars, and a member of the team in any joint arts project.

Your gift will provide 2 packages of Mini DV videotapes to an artist, giving them 6 hours of recording time. They cost far less in the U.S. than Central Asia and Russia.

Ready access to a laptop computer for writing, for working with photographs, video and music, for access to the Internet and email all multiply the breadth and impact of a Fellow's month-long stay in the U.S. At the conclusion of their residencies, the 15 Fellows gather at CEC to share the record of their work, and to talk about the experience of working in a...

Your gift will rent a video projector for a seminar. Video projectors and sound systems are available to rent locally. We must cover the cost, which is beyond the means of local hosts. We can do it with your help.

Your gift will provide one internet or phone card to a local artist. Discount rate cards can be purchased for Internet access and international telephone time.

Your gift will provide one night's hotel in Bishkek, capital of the Kyrgyz Republic.

Your gift will provide one hour of DVD or tape conversion and duplication.

This gift will provide the funding to run our website for one month.

CGD experts communicate information that is relevant for policy decisions. Drawing on rigorous research that looks carefully at the ways in which trade, aid, debt and migration policies affect poor people and communities, CGD researchers and communications staff are able to convey to members of Congress and to their staffs ideas for policy changes and improvements which increase the chance that developing countries will succeed...

CGD'' weekly e-letter on development policy is received by more than 5,000 opt-in subscribers, including reporters, opinion leaders and policymakers. Sign up for free on the CGD homepage. $100 pays for the final editorial review and the delivery of one week's issue to 10,000 opt-in recipients.

New Yorkers get around by subway and bus. The Metropolitan Transit Authority 7-day unlimited use card, which your gift provides, is a terrific bargain for visitors.

Your gift of $100 will pay for the printing and distribution of 300 briefs, clearly written Rich World-Poor World articles on key development topics for distribution to the public and to grassroots civic organizations.

Financial gifts go directly to cover expenses for the student as well as building into the organization a mentorship program for future professionals entering the field of bioethics.

CGD organizes several major events annually to highlight the work of a key figure in international development. During 2006, for example, we hosted Nobel Peace Prize winner Norman Borlaug for a talk about the prospects for a Green Revolution in Africa. We also hosted Jeff Sachs for a discussion about his Millenium Villages. This gift will help support a similar event in the coming year.

Organised education programmes at CCF are designed mainly for groups accommodated at CCF’s tented Camp Lightfoot. CCF hosts school and community groups, exposing them to different environmental education activities including a Nature Trail, team building activities, games and other environmental awareness activities. Groups usually spend two nights with CCF. All participants are exposed to CCF research and conservation efforts by presentations and to the Namibian...