Our partner organizations for the 2009-2010 school year include:Architecture for HumanityArchitecture for Humanity is a charitable organization that seeks architectural solutions to humanitarian crises and brings professional design services to communities in need. They believe that where resources and expertise are scarce, innovative, sustainable, and collaborative design can make a difference.
$100 will support a designer for a dayIn a day a designer can create a schematic drawing, establish a site, resolve a design detail, or troubleshoot a code
$500 will support a designer for a weekIn a week a designer can hold a community workshop, start planning for construction, design a site- specific structural solution, or do a post-occupancy analysis
$1500 will support a designer for a monthIn a month a designer can hold community workshops, plan, develop,. and construct a small community building or house.
$15000 will support a designer for a yearIn a year a designer can build multiple projects, taking them from rough sketches, to architectural plans, to full realization
Youth Action InternationalAgriculture Project for Former Child Soldiers-LiberiaIn the 1990's Liberia had its second civil war in which 250,000 people died, thousands fled, and many children were forced to fight as child soldiers. Agriculture Project for Former Child Soldiers educates former child soldiers in sustainable agriculture so that they can maintain their own crops, begin to recover psychologically, and create a new life. Funds raised will help support this project.
HOPE InternationalHOPE empowers those living in need around the world to escape poverty by providing microloans, savings services, training, and mentoring to help people become self-sufficient. Working in 12 of the poorest, least-served countries in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, and the Caribbean, HOPE is a Christian faith-based 501(C)(3) non-profit organization focused on alleviating the many dimensions of poverty-physical, social, and spiritual- through microenterprise development.$50- provides hope for a family in the Congo
$500-supports a
Tomorrow Club in Ukraine for one year
$2,000- helps 10 individuals in Afghanistan start the road to a better future
$5,000- starts a Bank of Hope in the Dominican Republic
KivaKiva Microfunds is an organization that allows people to lend money via the internet to microfinance institutions in developing countries which in turn lend the money to small businesses. It is a 501(C) non-profit organization headquartered in San Francisco, supported by donations from its users and through partnerships with businesses and other institutions.