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Our mission is to bring people and resources together to meet the needs of the underserved in our community, specifically the homeless, houseless and those in the risk of becoming so in Silicon Valley. Our vision is for every person in the Silicon Valley to have access to the tools and resources they need to become self-sufficient and live healthy, fulfilling lives. Our story A few years ago, Tim and Serena Muindi decided to ask a few family and friends to help them pack sack lunches and bring them to a homeless encampment near their home in San Jose. They, like most in the Silicon Valley, were keenly aware of the growing homeless epidemic in the area, seeing panhandlers at most intersections and encampments scattered about town. The issue seemed overwhelming, but they were compelled to do something. So, they started with a basic need: nutritional food. This first act of service was impactful, to both those receiving and those serving. Tim & Serena committed to continue to deliver meals regularly and invited more friends to help. With more people helping and donating, they were able to pack and deliver hygiene kits in addition to meals. One of their friends suggested that they network online and invite other people in the community to participate, so they joined a Meet Up group. The response was overwhelming and soon each volunteer event was fully booked. It became clear to Tim and Serena that they had found a calling. There were so many in need in their community, and so many wanting to help. The Muindi Foundation grew out of this realization in order to be a conduit for service. The foundation seeks to expand and multiply the impact of coordinated acts of kindness in order to address challenging issues in society.

People with disabilities represent the largest minority group in the nation and the only group any one of us could join at any time.  This group crosses lines of ethnicity, gender, age and socioeconomic status.  Yet, Americans with disabilities have the highest rate of unemployment, the highest rate of poverty and the lowest level of education of any minority grouless than 3 percent of institutionalized giving is directed to programs serving people with disabilities. They are the forgotten minority. The ChairScholars Foundation, Inc. is a Florida-based charity with 501c (3) status.  Our sole mission is to provide scholarships to low-income children with severe physical disabilities for college.  We have three programs for this purpose; the Florida Program, the National Program and the New York Metropolitan Area Program.

The Taraloka Foundation creates opportunities for Himalayan girls by providing education, healthcare, and a safe refuge. We strive to do the best we can for a small group of girls in the Himalayan region of Sikkim. We rescue girls from difficult circumstances and support all of their needs until they graduate from college. As soon as one of our girls enters college, we have room to bring another girl into the Sikkim Happiness Home, their safe refuge. Many have lost their parents and have no safety net. Some of our girls have a parent or a relative, but for a variety of reasons they need the safe refuge of the Sikkim Happiness Home. Regardless of the circumstance, our girls enjoy a life together as sisters. We help them cross over from a life of suffering to a life full of joy and potential.

The Amala Foundation inspires the diverse youth of the world to live in unity, serve compassionately and lead peacefully. All of our youth programs are a place for empowerment and healing. Many of the youth we serve, including refugee and immigrant children, have experienced extreme poverty, child labor, gang violence, abuse and neglect; many have witnessed the atrocities of war and have literally run for their lives; many have been uprooted from their native cultures and struggle to integrate into an entirely foreign world. We provide a safe space for these youth to heal, express themselves, share their stories and connect with a loving and supportive community. The Amala Foundation is involved in a number of local, national, and international humanitarian service projects. Camp Indigo was started in 2002 and is now in its 13th year of offering a week-long day camp experience to Austin area children ages 4-12. Camp Mana, now in its eighth year, offers a similar experience over two days in Hawaii. Our One Village Project, including the Global Youth Peace Summit, is in its 7th year and serves more than 150 local, immigrant, international and refugee youth each year. Our Young Artists in Service program provides free art instruction to at-risk children in addition to creating inspiring murals at places like the Austin Children’s Shelter. The Gui Village Living Water Program was a humanitarian service project we successfully completed in 2005, installing two water wells in a Nigerian village, saving 3,500 people (including 2,000 children) from disease. Our partnership with the Bhatti Mines School in Delhi, India helps ensure 200 Indian children a day are receiving an education instead of being forced into child labor.

"Talobeeg Foundation is dedicated to fostering the wellbeing of the Somali community by delivering impactful technical services, mobilizing resources, and promoting inclusive governance. Through our commitment to quality education, TVET, youth empowerment, civic engagement, sports, and recreational games, we strive to enhance the overall quality of life. We actively engage in conflict mitigation through dialogue, offering alternative employment opportunities for youth, and addressing desperate livelihood options. Our focus extends to inclusive governance, stabilization, peacebuilding, and democratization, contributing to a society where individuals thrive and communities flourish. We are unwavering in our dedication to health, HIV/AIDS advocacy, sustainable food security, climate resilience, local economic development, and social safety nets. Additionally, our involvement in research and technical services aims to drive innovation and positive change. Embracing cross-cutting themes such as gender, FGM, protection, human rights, and WASH, we work towards creating lasting positive impacts on the community and fostering sustainable development."

Odibu Foundation mission seeks to provide mobile healthcare to address the problem of poor health access in Nigeria at no cost to patients. We seek to provide care for transmissible diseases such as HIV, as well as conditions like diabetes and hypertension. We are also concerned with providing specialized care for family planning. This would include access to free birth control, as well as pre-natal and post-natal care and care for infants. The social problem to be addressed: The communities in Northern Cross River State, due to lack of knowledge, information and orientation in health and hygiene the grass root level villagers cannot understand the need of immunization, importance of growth monitoring, technique of low cost nutritious food preparation, different methods of birth control, spacing between two children, importance using sanitary or pit type latrine, preparation of safe drinking water, maintenance of personal hygiene and disposal of waste products from the home and practices to maintain good health. In fact sound health deteriorates here with the increase of superstition and wrong method of treatment. So the incidence of maternal mortality, child mortality, morbidity, dehydration and malnutrition rate and other infectious diseases are quite high as per our community diagnosis. The existing Dai are not qualified so they cannot diagnosis in the case of high-risk pregnancies properly. The quacks are not trained. They depend on limited indigenous knowledge. The diversity and multiplicity of the problem can be decreased with some comprehensive program in this matter. At the time of feeling pain, they have to take to distant primary health center but on the way the pregnant women face great problem. Sometime the pregnant women are compelled to give birth their children under the open sky. So most of the patients have to go to town but some of them die in the street. Health care in Nigeria is not accessible, affordable, or high+quality as the residents of Nigeria deserve. Nigeria has one of the highest infant and maternal mortality rates in the world.16% of children die before their fifth birthday from complete preventable diseases like malaria and diarrhea. When treatment is many miles away, it is expensive to get to it, and many Nigerians simply cannot afford to get to a hospital or do not have transportation. Our foundation is dedicated to relieving the suffering and uncertainty of Nigeria children and underprivileged people. These individuals become victim to the shackle of poverty where the simplest necessities of life such as food, healthcare, shelter, clean water, sanitation and hygiene are often not within their reach.

Mission Statement: The Binaytara Foundation seeks to improve healthcare in resource poor communities and improve cancer care worldwide by collaborating with national and international organizations to: 1.) develop healthcare manpower in underserved areas 2.) improve access to cancer care by establishing direct care facilities and services 3.) promote the practice of evidence based medicine by providing research grants to young physicians and healthcare providers in training 4.) improve knowledge and competence of healthcare professionals by offering them continuing educational materials though live and virtual meetings, webinars, and other educational forums. Our Values: As individuals who grew up in Nepal, and were edified by higher education and professional training in their home countries and in the United States, BTF co-founders maintain a strong sense of responsibility towards helping improve healthcare in resource poor communities. BTF board members, volunteers, associates, and donors are individuals highly motivated to help the less privileged people around the world. Our philosophy is "Countries have man-made boundaries, humanity does not." We invite you to join hands with us in helping improve healthcare near and far.

Period Foundation was established as NGO's for security reasons for collectives like Abortion Dream team and Kobiety w Sieci (Women on the Net) to be legal frond end, and we all are members of Period. Together we create most visible and effective unit working on abortion and reproductive justice in Poland. Under the name of Abrotion Dream Team we are very visible in media, a feminist collective of 3 high profile leaders in the movement of reproductive justice. We all (ADT and KWS) are members of the network which counts 9 organization called Abortion Without Boarders. We focus on access to abortion access and destigmatization of the practice. We claim abortion back from the violent, oppressive systems of power, we show complexities of the needs and realities, by supporting bodily autonomy, by taking our own abortion experiences as starting point in the conversations, and lastly by placing abortion in a larger sociocultural perspective of intersectional fight for reproductive justice where voices of to those traditionally silenced and discriminated are centered. We addresses gross human rights violations which is the lack of access to safe abortion through a formal, institutionalized system in Poland.

WISDOM FOR CHANGE We believe in the possibility of being in the world more wisely, for the benefit of all sentient beings and the entire ecosystem. Wisdom, which allows us to recognize the interconnectedness of all phenomena, is the tool by which we can build a more equitable and compassionate society. Our name tells our mission. Wise in English means "wise," dana in Indian pali language means "to give." Wisedana therefore means "to give wisely". While remaining a secular organization, our values and activities are within the Buddhist philosophical perimeter. We encourage the practice of mindful generosity, which according to various Buddhist schools is the first of the virtues to be cultivated in order to overcome ignorance, understood as the main culprit of suffering in the world. Generosity is thus a tool that has an extraordinary transformative power, capable of building effective responses to the most important social problems. Wisedana is an international philanthropic foundation that draws on the values of the Buddhist tradition while expressing itself in a secular form. It caters to philanthropists who wish to be active in building a more equitable, wise and compassionate world by promoting systemic changes in humanitarian, ecological, social, educational, cultural, and fragility care. As Wisedana Foundation, we intend to be the catalysts for systemic change inspired by the values of the Buddhist tradition, leading to the elimination of suffering and major critical issues in the world today. Our role is to identify the actors, synergies, resources and strategies to achieve this and to connect them with the right philanthropists, men and women of our time who wish to nurture the seeds of wise change. We therefore intend to act both as a "quality advisor" capable of recognizing and supporting systemic change in all its activities, and as a "philanthropic actor" in synergy internationally with key stakeholders interested in supporting systemic change toward a wiser world. By "systemic change" we mean a strategy for responding to problems that starts by conceiving of each critical issue as a complex system, which must therefore be addressed through a multilateral and multidisciplinary analysis. The result of this composite analysis is a strategy of approaching the problem from multiple perspectives, taking into consideration all the actors involved and questioning the sustainability of the proposed solution. The value framework of Buddhism allows for a full understanding of the complexity of reality: every being is naturally connected to all others in a relationship of infinite reciprocity, and every arrangement of the world is only temporary and constantly changing. In accepting this condition-now increasingly evident in globalized society-we understand that the only way to effectively intervene in the world is precisely through systemic change. The tool we use is generosity (or philanthropy, which is its organized form) as an experience of relationship toward the other, as a powerful gesture of transformation capable of activating the vocation of individuals to participate in the common good and social change.

Zetu Foundation's Mission is to provide basic classroom equipment for children in remote and refugee primary schools across Africa to sit comfortably and write properly during classes by using SeatPacks: $15 school bags that turn into bamboo classroom chairs with writing surfaces (and menstrual toolkits for adolescent girls inside). This mission is inspired by 3 core reasons: 1. Over 95 million African school-children today attend school lessons without a place to sit comfortably and write properly directly discouraging their interest in school. This is due to the high cost of tree-timber furniture (average $100 per unit to sit 3 students). 2. Replacing tree-timber furniture with sustainable bamboo furniture using SeatPacks can greatly combat Climate Change at scale over the next 20 years. 3. Giving adolescent girls a menstrual toolkit in each bag increases school attendance all year by 20%, creating equal gender opportunities for girls in rural communities to define their futures. The SeatPack has been locally designed and proven to directly address the above 3 issues. SeatPacks are used daily by 2,200 children in 32 schools across Uganda alone (East Africa) and are designed, produced, and delivered by a local team with local leadership all living in Uganda. Our goal is to gift 1 million African school children by 2030 the daily experience of sitting comfortably and writing properly during classes so they can make their future dreams come true. Meeting this goal means: 1. Together, we improve learning and future opportunities for 1 million children in remote and refugee communities. 2. We combat climate change by conserving up to 1 million trees through replacement of bamboo as the key furniture material for classrooms. 3. We create equal opportunity for adolescent girls by reclaiming up to 20% of their school year attendance previously lost due to menstrual hygiene challenges that encouraged school dropping out. The SeatPack was designed by the Zetu Africa team primarily for the Zetu Foundation to bring it to 1 million school children by 2030. The SeatPack is 100% locally produced in Uganda with local artisans and bamboo farmers. Research and design development started late 2019 under the for profit named Zetu Africa and 17 iterations have been tested with child and teacher feedback. The Zetu Foundation has been established to fund SeatPack production and distribution for children from the poorest communities at no extra cost to the children or their families. The SeatPack is: 1. Personal and Mobile; making the classroom a natural extension of every child, with sitting and writing functions possible wherever they choose to learn (Indoor and outdoor). 2. Light weight; at 600 grams each unit is less than 10% the weight of a 6 year old girl with one main pocket to limit heavy load intentionally. 3. Non-chemically treated bamboo and canvas, replacing tree-timber as the sustainable alternative material for classroom furniture. 4. Gender equality conscious with a menstrual toolkit for female adolescent students to stay in school all year round. 5. Durable with a 5 year working guarantee. Canvas and bamboo lends all-weather material strength, with no zippers or buttons for easy repair by sewing if torn. 6. Low cost at $15 per unit versus the $100 tree-timber furniture unit traditionally used by well to do schools. Amongst many testimonials, some rural and refugee school comments to-date have included; Teacher feedback: "Outdoor classes have been easier to carry out due to the mobile nature of each SeatPack." "Students increased attention during classes because of upright sitting." "Consistent attendance of girls even in their period because of menstrual purse in the SeatPack." Student feedback: "Class is nice to go to". "Easier writing because of my own writing surface". "We study outside more in afternoons now". Parent feedback: "They are excited to go to school after receiving SeatPacks". "When can we have more units". Together, we are keen to gift 1 million African school children in 20,000 classrooms by 2030 the daily experience of sitting comfortably and writing properly during classes with 1 million SeatPacks so they can make their future dreams come true.

Mission: Strive to bring about gender equality in all matters from sexual and reproductive related issues to equal rights in decision making about marriage and other family matters.including men and women from all walks of life for sexual awareness and motivation for safer and equally enjoyable marriage. Vision: "Create gender friend environment to empower women and young people having sovereign power over their bodily decisions" Area of Work: Children rights Consultation and service for safe medical abortion. Advocacy for sexual and reproductive health. Mother and child health care program Economic rights of young people. 1. Aims & Objectives: Empowered community to reduce early marriages and functional vigilence committees at district level Improved information regarding safe medical abortion and family planning methods in young people of Sindh. Informed young people to influence policy makers and govt. Department through Formation of Advocacy Groups of Female in different districts. Reduced unsafe abortions in rural areas through Open Consulting, SRHR education and service delivery clinics for rural communities in Singh Reduced physical, sexual and psychological violence against women and its causes and remedy of its consequences as feudal system and ambiguity in law. Improved living conditions of the women, through promoting income generation activates especially for destitute, indigent windows and orphans, so that such women may view themselves as equal part in society. Major Program / Projects of Peace Foundation: 1. Protection child rights in district Mirpurkhas: 2.Advocacy for Sexual and Reproductive Rights of Women: Advocacy for women's Sexual and reproductive health rights through information dissemination in local languages and working for women favorable health policies and laws. Education on family planning and reproductive rights through groups of women and girls we impart information for the promotion of reproductive rights and lay emphasis on safe and enjoyable sexuality 2. Suhaili Hot line project: Supported by Women on Waves, The Netherlands, Women on Web, The Netherlands and Asia Safe Abortion Partnership India. Receiving phone calls and propose to use safe medical abortion practices. Counseling women to use misoprostol for safe medical abortion and post partum hemorrhage. Networking with other civil society organizations, abortion service providers and govt. hospitals. Conduct community meetings in rural areas of Sindh to share them contact number and information regarding safe medical abortion. We also disburse information regarding sexual and reproductive rights in women groups. 4.Reducing unsafe abortion through harm reduction approach: Supported by International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) The Netherlands. The main purpose is to reduce unsafe abortion through following activities, 1.Mobile camps 2.Pharmacy Stores run and owned by local women. 3.Advocacy Activities for reduction stigma associated abortion 5.Mother and Child Health Care: The project is run with the support of stichting overall The Netherlands. We work with rural women in district Mirpruklhas and District Umerkot. 6. Peace Foundation is working with Louis Berger Group and Indus Consultant on Old Water Flows called "DHORA and Pura" in Six districts of Sindh 1 District Matiari 2. District Sanghar 3. District Tando Allahyar 4. District Mirprukhas 5. District Umerkot and District Tharparkar. We are conducting Re-settlement, economic and social mobilization survey in these districts. 7.E-clinic: We are going to start e-clinic with the support of ASK development. ASK development has project of USAID and National Rural Support Program Pakistan.

Pratthanadee is an award-winning charity providing life-changing training for underprivileged women and girls in Bangkok and the rural Isaan region of Thailand. The Foundation empowers under-educated women and girls to become confident, independent and ambitious individuals. Through training in crucial skills, such as negotiation, self-presentation, and goal-setting, women are equipped to access better job opportunities and higher salaries. They leave training with the lifelong tools they need to build a more positive life for themselves and their families. The women that Pratthanadee works with have often migrated from a poor rural area to the city, in order to find work and send money home to their families. Over half moved to Bangkok when they were under 18, often on their own. 34% reached only primary school and the remainder have high schooling only and no additional training. They have few marketable skills and little work experience. On arrival in Bangkok, they find their employment opportunities restricted to unskilled manufacturing and service-sector occupations, and the commercial sex sector is one of the few places where they can earn a good wage. As a result, they easily get stuck in a cycle of unstable, unregulated or low-paid work. These women face a high risk of violence and exploitation as they are: - Often isolated in Bangkok and cut off from their usual support network back home. - Financially dependent on a particular employer or a relationship, and therefore unwilling to question any behaviour that might result in losing money to send for their families. - Often working in high-risk jobs where they feel easily replaceable, such as domestic homes, massage and entertainment parlours, and factories. We aim to help two groups: 1) Uneducated women who are already in Bangkok, either looking for work or stuck in a cycle of low quality employment. 2) Teenage girls who are at risk of falling into the same trap. The underlying philosophy of our organization is best found in the words of Ruby Manikan, "If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman you educate a family."