This gift will fund lodging and transportation for one nonprofit activist to attend PARSA’s annual summit of Iranian NGOs aimed at promoting networking, collaboration, and sharing of best practices. The summits will alternate between Southern California and Washington, DC.

Your gift will help fund an Ashoka fellow of Persian origin as part of the Ashoka PARSA Partnership for Social Entrepreneurship. The Ashoka PARSA Partnership for Social Entrepreneurship will financially support a fellow anywhere in the world Ashoka operates for three years based on his or her need, giving the fellow the resources to develop and implement his or her idea full-time. The fellow may...

Your gift will fund PARSA’s annual Norooz banner initiative, where banners will be placed along major thoroughfares around cities nationwide to commemorate this two-week long celebration of Persian New Year. Your gift will help fund banner production and installaton. After success with PARSA’s first annual banner initiative this past spring in Irvine, California, the way is being paved for many more cities to embrace and...

$10 will buy school supplies for one child affected by HIV.

$24 will support transportation costs for 4 patients to reach a clinic for care.

$50 will buy 15 mosquito bed nets to protect families against malaria.

$100 for an accompagnateur to visit an HIV patient daily in the home to administer life-saving antiretroviral therapy.

$70 will provide the child of an HIV-positive mother with two months of infant formula.

$200 will provide repairs such as a tin roof to a house for a family of four.

Your gift will provide food for the family of a malnourished child for two months.

Your gift provides one resource packet about human rights, allowing someone to learn about important issues in a simple and friendly way.

Your gift will provide one workshop in a village or the participation of one person in an urban seminar, enhancing their knowledge about human rights at the community level. At these community workshops, women and men learn about the practical and holistic vision of human rights as a way of life, develop plans to claim them and be empowered to participate in the decisions that...

Your gift will allow one youth to attend a local human rights training. This neighborhood workshop in a Human Rights city will educate youth and help them plan actions for change, to shape a decent way of life and a secure future for the world's youth. Imagine living in a society where all citizens have made a pledge to build a community based on equality...

Support a campaign developed to effect social and economic transformation, and promote a new political culture based on human rights. Through learning about human rights, women and men examine the patriarchal system, moving to embrace a human rights framework as the only way to achieve equality and overcome discrimination. Through dialogue they “discover," and analyze how universal oppressions of patriarchy work, particularly racism, nationalism and...

Your gift will promote learning and dialogue through one training manual. Women Hold Up The Sky is a dramatic series of training videos about the Women's Convention and its relevance to women's lives. Along with the included training manual, these materials bring the Human Rights Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) alive for women and men around the world. CEDAW is the...

Your gift will provide a 2-3 day human rights training session for one person. Every person must become a mentor and a monitor of human rights as a way to achieve economic and social justice, peace and human security. Human rights are a powerful tool to sustain actions for the community to have food, education, housing, health and work at livable wages. This can be...

Your gift will provide us with the resources to advertise and publicize this event, ensuring that our young artists will not go unnoticed.

The Whatcom Librarian and her board fought the subpoena which called for the names and identifying information of all those who had borrowed the book since November 15, 2001. The librarian responded by saying, “Libraries are a haven where people should be able to seek what information they want to pursue without any threat of government intervention.” The FBI finally backed down, and PEN conferred...

Support writers in need by contributing to PEN’s Writers’ Fund. Recent grant recipients include: a prize-winning poet who escaped domestic violence and was struggling to support herself, her 19-month-old son, and her mother; an elderly writer of six books, hundreds of articles, and short fiction who, through a Medicare bureaucratic error, was unable to pay for the treatment she needed; and a mid-career novelist and...

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.