With your donation of US $5, Fundación Escolares buys a pack of school supplies for three students, giving them the materials they need to succeed. The packs each include a notebook with 86 pages, 1 pencil, 1 pencil sharpener, 1 eraser, 1 box of colored pencils, 1 box of markers, 1 pen, and 1 glue.

Trained lab technicians make the entire vision care process come together in the optical laboratory, and play a key role in providing the gift of good sight for a poor person. Your gift of $34 pays for one hour of training for an optical lab techician to help ensure proper lenses for poor patients' eye wear.

Your donation will provide a kit of miscellaneous accessories for an optical laboratory in a developing country. Prices are approximate as models and prices may change.

Your gift will provide a professional eye exam plus a matched pair of durable prescription glasses for a needy person overseas--young or old ($30.00), OR make a more substantial difference with a sight-saving combination of exams and glasses for a dozen people ($360.00). Prices do not include shipping which varies by destination. In any event, YOU can make a difference!

This gift will help restore the over 70% of the tree canopy that was destroyed due to Hurricane Katrina. It will help provide hope to the residents of New Orleans because planting trees gives body and life to ones dreams of a better future. You can honor someone important by having a tree planted in New Orleans in their memory.

Box-Out raises money for the Community Empowerment Fund (CEF), which offers savings opportunities, micro-loans, financial education, and assertive support to individuals who are underemployed and unemployed. Each Box-Out Sponsorship goes DIRECTLY to CEF, meeting clients' needs on an individual basis. Box-Out is a UNC-CH event during which students get sponsored to sleep in the Pit in cardboard boxes for a night, raising awareness of issues...

This gift will provide one Community Empowerment Fund (CEF) member with matching savings on his/her personal savings goal. CEF is a student-run non-profit organization based at UNC that works locally to provide micro-loans, savings opportunities and financial services to individuals in need of employment, small business or housing assistance. We primarily serve individuals who are experiencing or at risk of experiencing homelessness. CEF members are...

Sponsor a 10 ride card for only $16. You can even sponsor multiple ones...you could also make a donation for $32 if you want to sponsor one half of a 30 day regional pass.

Your gift will provide one specialized door handle for an injured veteran. These lever-type door handles eliminate the need to grasp the handle tightly to open a door.

Your gift will provide one self-cleaning toilet to an injured veteran, which will wash and dry eliminating the need for wiping. For a person with no arms or with prosthetics it is a necessity.

Your gift will provide one roll-in shower to an injured veteran, to help maintain their dignity by enabling them to get themselves in and out of the shower in privacy without needing additional help from others.

This gift will pay for two days of translating interviews with witnesses and victims of human rights abuses from the field. These translations help us to investigate and expose human rights violations and hold abusers accountable. With your gift, you are helping us to challenge governments and those who hold power to end abusive practices and respect international human rights law.

Your donation will help put us one step closer to finding a cure for hydrocephalus. Since the government gives almost no funding toward meaningful Hydrocephalus research, hope for a cure has been hard to come by. Most research being done is focused on creating a new type of shunt; since treating a condition is much more profitable than curing one. In the entire United States,...

Your gift will provide for 1 week of satellite telephone service for a Human Rights Watch researcher in the field. This will help to give a voice to victims of human rights abuses. Human Rights Watch is dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world. We stand with victims and activists to prevent discrimination, to uphold political freedom, to protect people from...

This gift will allow a small family farm in Nepal, Zambia or Nicaragua to experience the benefits of micro irrigation. Introducing low cost drip irrigation systems and better agriculture training will provide small land holding farmers with real solutions and the means to increase their income year after year in a responsible, low-impact way. Your gift also supports practical and tangible training for the family....

This gift will buy a 36" wide ADA compliant door which we will install and enable a veteran to enter his home without difficulty.

Your gift of $250 will allow a one year training commitment to be given to a rural farming family in Zambia. This training will consist of improved irrigation and planting techniques and will also teach the farmers how to access and use affordable water technology, effective and safe fertilizer, and high quality seeds to increase productivity. Your gift will grow exponentially as it makes a...

Your gift will allow IDE to provide additional households with access to clean drinking water and safe latrines by strengthening local markets and redesigning the systems to make the products more affordable. IDE works to make these technologies affordable and available to local farming communities through numerous development initiatives. Your gift will be used to expand the impact and effectiveness of the water sanitation initiatives...

Pig farming has a long tradition in rural farming communities of Vietnam, such as Thua Hue and especially among landless, ethnic minorities where pig farming is a practical and efficient way for farmers to produce additional revenue for family survival. Pig production has been identified as an exceptionally promising entry point for income generation in the region due to the high market demand for pork,...

Your gift will allow rural Bangladeshi farmers within the northwestern districts to move out of the poverty cycle of subsistence farming. IDE will teach farmers the required skills to harvest and process high demand spices such as cinnamon, chili and turmeric. With your help, IDE will fund additional training seminars focused on harvesting, processing, drying, storing, cleaning sorting, and packaging techniques. Spices are a great...