This gift will provide 5 underserved students with 1 hour of much-needed arts and leadership instruction. Sing for Hope's arts education approach centers on the concept of arts activism, or art as a means to better our world. Students use basic instruction in music, dance, drama, and the visual arts to address a cause of concern in their community. Each Sing for Hope residency culminates...

Your gift will help support our Visual Arts Workshop that teaches children art history, drawing and painting techniques, photography skills, digital imaging, filmmaking and much needed hands-on computer experience. In these workshops children learn to identify core artistic building blocks such as line, shape, perspective, color theory, and space. They learn principles of repetition and pattern and the expressive qualities of mood, emotion, and pictoral...

With your help, SAI can help send a worker or manager in China to another factory to talk about how their factory has improved, and some of the benefits to workers and to productivity, by adopting international workplace standards like SA8000.

Your gift will bring one day of much needed training on Workplace and Human Rights to a factory worker or manager. This is achieved by bringing a worker from an SA8000 Certified factory to share their experience and knowledge to other factories and farms. Benefits include higher quality of life for workers, families and surrounding communities.

Your donation helps SAI subsidize costs related to assuring that factories meet international human rights standards for working conditions, improving the quality of life for working people around the world.

Your gift will help provide policy and organizational advocacy training to parent leaders. Participants are provided an opportunity to meet face-to-face with those leaders who are shaping policies which impact them, their loved ones and their communities. After a series of presentations, participants are given an opportunity to ask questions and to provide comments. This event provides an opportunity to engage their elected officials and...

A toolkit filled toys and a workbook that guides parents on how to maximize the potential of their children through different activities.

Your gift will provide one special needs child a complete set of back to school supplies, a sturdy backpack and a pair of running shoes to make him/her ready for a new school year!

Springboard’s approach focuses on expanding individuals’ view of what’s possible—changing their mindsets about, and increasing, the choices they have in their lives and careers. At Springboard, we believe that a strong sense of hope and choice is essential to permanently escape from poverty. Today, Springboard is launching a large-scale initiative to statistically establish the link between our career development programs and business profitability. This national...

Springboard uses professional-level career development methodologies, that include providing entry-level wage earners their own personal executive coaches, to help people pursue a lifetime of engaged and sustainable employment. By sponsoring one Springboard client today, you can offer a person the clarity, confidence and connections they need to become engaged in their work and with the ability to make choices about where they want to be...

Your gift will provide a career development for up to 20 clients to help them "map" their future. Springboard's career mapping program uses a variety of creative learning modalities to guide our clients through exercises that help them discover and articulate their skills, experience, interests, values and strengths. They then create an individual plan that maps toward these newly identified personal and career goals. The...

This gift will provide funding to projects in translational cancer research, which focuses on bringing promising new treatments to the patients who need them as quickly as possible. This is where the end of cancer begins.

Your gift will enable a low-income, elderly resident to have greater control over the energy usage in her apartment, contributing to reduced energy costs for her and freeing up income for other basic needs.

Your gift will enable a SAHF member to assess the energy efficiency of an affordable apartment building as part of a SAHF pilot project. Without a professional assessment, a nonprofit owner cannot raise the funds for energy and cost savings measures. SAHF's pilot projects will set patterns for affordable housing, identify the regulatory barriers to energy-efficiency investments, and provide the basis for SAHF's policy recommendations...

Nonprofit housing providers can borrow private funds to implement energy efficiency measures only if they can document the savings to be anticipated as a result of the improvements. A contribution of $5 will enable SAHF's members to purchase data gathering for one meter (one property), laying the groundwork for energy-efficient rehabilitation that will benefit residents and reduce the carbon footprint of the building in question.

It’s simple: When we leverage your donation and buy in bulk, $10 is enough to pay for and install four compact fluorescent light bulbs, which makes a significant impact. Taken together, small donations will install this technology throughout thousands of apartment buildings, including common areas and workspaces, drastically reducing energy usage by making everyday lighting cleaner and greener. And by purchasing these light bulbs you...

Your gift provides the difference between a low-efficiency washing machine and a higher-efficiency washing machine that may save about 40% on both electricity and water use over its lifetime. This gift not only helps the family who uses the appliance reduce their utility bills, it also helps the environment and spurs the development of green technology. Note that your $300 will be pooled with other...

Many of SAHF’s members offer these books and toys, as well as safe and fun community play spaces, at the properties they manage for children of families who live there. More resources are always needed. Your gift will add books and toys to a package that SAHF will then donate to a member project and the children they serve. Reading is truly a gift; let’s...

Private underwriting of a small percentage of the cost can flip the financial calculus. Here’s how it works: Your donation pays for one solar cell, which makes up part of an array. With the purchase of enough cells, SAHF will leverage your donations, and the prepayment of a modest percentage of the cost will allow a SAHF member property to support the rest of the...

Your gift will provide one Healthy Children Healthy Futures Tool Kit to teach children in one classroom to become advocates through their schools, families and communities for healthy eating and increased physical activity. The tool kit contains materials necessary for the implementation of the program at a school or community site, including a Facilitator Guide. Facilitators learn how to teach children to produce posters, radio...