Many artists-in-residence volunteer to present current work to community members in a relaxed and informal setting. MacDowell's outreach programs mirror the “open studios" held at the Colony. Through MacDowell in the Schools, your support provides students with opportunities to meet talented artists and explore their evolving ideas about the process and creation of new art that happens daily at MacDowell. “We’ve been delighted to have...

Your gift will enable an individual living in poverty to start a microenterprise. Whether it is used to buy an oven for a bakery, a computer for a daycare center, a kiln for an artisan, or other materials needed to launch a business of the entrepreneur’s choosing, your gift will help someone take the first steps out of poverty. Trickle Up gives grants to entrepreneurs...

The Children Against Mines Program (CHAMPS) is an educational and outreach program that presents students and local communities with the opportunity to learn how landmines affect people and animals in war-torn nations and take action. CHAMPS highlights the work of mine detection dogs and how human-dog teams work together to “sniff out" landmines and save lives. CHAMPS provides students with: (1) the experience of helping...

Your gift will provide the seed capital necessary for a poor farmer in Nicaragua to take the first steps out of poverty by starting a microenterprise.

Your donation will help train shelter workers in Greater Boston to teach young homeless children and their parents about good nutrition, physical activity, and how to deal with the stress of being homeless. The program emphasizes the importance of staying physically and emotionally healthy in order to meet the challenges of homelessness. The trainings help shelter workers teach children about traumatic stress and what to...

A landmine detection dog, paired with a dedicated handler, can greatly increase the speed and safety of efforts to find and remove landmines. A mine detection dog team can work ten times as fast as a person alone. To help countries recover from conflict, MLI provides fully trained mine detection dogs and training for local handlers as a permanent gift. Your gift will cover one...

Your donation will provide 40 copies of research articles that contain the latest findings around the issue of family homelessness. These articles will be given to policymakers, shelter workers, and community-level providers to ensure they understand how best to help homeless families. Thanks to your gift, these decision-makers and service providers will learn about the causes and consequences of family homelessness. This will give them...

Your gift of $1500 will provide a school or community-based organization with The Leadership Series for one year.

Your gift will allow on student to enroll for one year in the Youth Leadership Academy (YLA), an innovative, Internet-based, multi-media curriculum that teaches life skills to teens in a language and manner that thoroughly engages them. YLA provides employment and life skills, opening the door to new options and opportunities. YLA gives adolescents the training and tools they need to address the social and...

Your gift will enable our local partner agency to train a poor farmer in organic, sustainable approaches to agriculture so that they can grow healthy food, increase their yield, use biogas generators, increase income for their family, and protect the environment. Through our local partner, Sustainable Harvest International, Trickle Up provides communities with 1 to 3 years of training and monitoring in cost-effective organic farming...

Delight someone special with this gift of nature that can help create safety and security for these little hummingbirds, and the thousands of other species, all along its migratory path.

Since 1990 The Nature Conservancy has been building partnerships and alliances with ranchers, landowners and conservationists to protect the over 10 million-acre range of the northern jaguar. Help save this animal from extinction and by protecting the habitat of the northern jaguar today.

As part of this landmark conservation initiative, we’re working to restore Brazil’s Atlantic Forest – one of the world’s biggest and most endangered tropical forests – by planting 1 billion native trees over the next seven years. When you plant a tree for your friends and family they will feel good knowing we can all breathe a little easier.

Your loved one will be proud to know that their gift is ensuring some of the most extraordinarily diverse, yet highly threatened places, will be protected for years and years to come.

Mighty lions … graceful sea turtles … magnificent jaguars … poison-dart frogs … red-cockaded woodpeckers … gopher tortoises … a dizzying array of plants and wildlife … when you Adopt an Acre, you are helping to protect the lands and waters these wondrous creatures need to survive – including us!

Tropical forests are the lungs of the Earth, storing enormous amounts of carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen in a never-ending cycle of life. The Atlantic Forest -- one of the biggest tropical forests in the world -- helps regulate the atmosphere and stabilize global climate. Plant a tree in this critical landscape for only one dollar.

The OASIS Intergenerational Tutoring Program promotes literacy by tapping a rich resource, older adults, to tutor children who are at risk in k-4 grades. This program utilizes an innovative approach designed to build children’s self-esteem and positive attitude toward learning while strengthening reading skills. Working with elementary schools, OASIS pairs older adults with young children with underdeveloped reading and language skills. The adults work one-on-one...

Your gift will help provide older adults with opportunities to learn and lead in their communities through OASIS by taking part in challenging arts, health, technology classes and volunteer service programs. By participating in OASIS lifelong learning and service opportunities, older adults can increase their intellectual stimulation, improve their overall health, increase their level of social engagement, and build their skills in a variety of...

Your gift will help support research and advocacy to increase investment in transportation, power, and communications infrastructure in rural Africa, by allowing an African expert to prepare for participation in a 2007 workshop to identify the critical issues – including policy frameworks, institutional capacity and accountability, and limited public-private interactions – that affect the ability of African institutions to attract, plan, and effectively manage higher...

Your gift of $200 will help pay the travel costs to bring African farm, agribusiness, and financial sector leaders to the U.S. to discuss their priorities for assistance directly with U.S. policymakers and travel within the U.S. to meet potential partners in the private sector.