2022-2023 Grantee Projects
Agape Heart International Organization (AHIO) - Supporting Refugees from War-torn Countries of South Sudan and Uganda
AHIO supplies humanitarian relief, health and hygiene training, education, and vocational training programs in the US and Africa. New Grantee in 2022-2023
Andean Alliance for Sustainable Development
AASD supports agricultural projects that help farming communities high in the Andes Mountains through a program that consists of three key development phases: agroecology, business skill training, and networking and marketing. Multi-year grantee
Asociacion Kantaya - Improving Education for Children in Peru
Kantaya offers children an additional learning program. Podera trains teacher assistant candidates with coaching and mentoring, leading to certification by the World Organization for Early Childhood Education. New Grantee in 2022-2023
Breaking The Chain Through Education - Rescuing Trafficked Children in Ghana
BTCTE provides for education, vocational training, and related services including room and board, supplies, clothing and uniforms, transportation and medical for children rescued from servitude. New Grantee in 2022-2023
Building Our Lives Together (BOLT) - Empowering Proximate Leaders to Create Change
BOLT meets leaders’ needs through a community organizing curriculum, a strategic management curriculum, and a curriculum in navigating the local ecosystem in Philadelphia. New Grantee in 2022-2023
COMER Campus -Healthcare Career Skills
Located on Chicago’s South Side, this youth advancement organization invests in the life outcomes of thousands of young people annually through programs that integrate academics, enrichment and college/career preparation. Multi-year grantee
Cristo Rey - Preparing Students for Success
Cristo Rey Network coordinates, advises and supports schools for students with limited economic resources across the U.S. The schools integrate four years of rigorous college-prep academics with professional work experience through a Corporate Work Study Program. Multi-year grantee
De La Salle East Bay High School - A diverse learning community
A rigorous and personalized college preparatory curriculum integrated with a corporate work study experience prepares students of limited economic means to succeed in college and in life. New Grantee in 2022-23
Delta Education Collective – Creating a Viable Pathway to Education for Children in Nwoya, Uganda
Delta engages parents, students, educators, and community leaders to set school goals, implement action plans, mobilize participation, and achieve academic improvement. New Grantee in 2022-2023
Educate2Envision International - Expanding Access to Education in Honduras
Through a Youth Leadership Training program, the typical secondary school curriculum is enhanced by equipping students with 21st-century skills and practical, hands-on applications.
Multi-year grantee
Hero Women Rising - Job Training and Creation
HWR brings women in the Democratic Republic of Congo together to both master new skills and gain an appreciation for working collectively to make positive change in their communities and achieve sustainable income.
Multi-year grantee
Juma Ventures - Job Skill Training and Employment
Each student receives basic job training and broader skills development including personal financial management and longer-term job search skills so each of these underserved youth are better prepared for long term employement Multi-year grantee
Konexio - Job training and digital skills for refugees
A team of educators, IT professionals, and community volunteers have collaborated to create a streamlined path to employment. The program addresses 3 key problem areas: lack of skills, poor local economic conditions, and lack of access to the job market. Multi-year grantee
Nyanam International - Providing Social Support and Programs to Help Kenyan Widows
Adding to programs in leadership, health, livelihoods, and land justice, a fifth Nyanam program is designed to help widows to overcome legal obstacles, maintain land access and ownership, and preserve their land rights. New grantee in 2022-23
OneVillage Partners - Support to Tackle Poverty and Create Social Cohesion and Gender Equity
Using the Nurturing Opportunities for Women (NOW) Program, a picture-based education program and curriculum, illiterate or uneducated women learn basic financial principles in Sierra Leone. New grantee in 2022-23
Project Hope and Fairness - Helping Cocoa Farmers
PHF works with cocoa farmers across West Africa to help them build their capabilities and assume a more productive role in the vertically integrated cocoa bean processing and chocolate-making industry.
Multi-year Grantee
READ 718 - Improving Literacy
The Read 718 program utilizes a series of 10-week instructional cycles and has seen students gain, on average, 1.5 reading levels per cycle. Read 718 Remote was launched during the pandemic to extend the reach of the in-person programs. Multi-year grantee
Strategies for International Development - Helping Farmers
SID designs and promotes better methods to help small farmers transition from subsistence to commercial farming in Guatemala, Peru and Bolivia, and to help women there and in Uganda create businesses for secondary income. Multi-year grantee
Social Innovation Academy (SINA) – Teaching Students from the DRC and Uganda to Run their Own Enterprises
SINA is establishing proof of concept for an innovative product development and marketing model called “Business in a Box” by using it to create a waste plastic recycling business. New grantee in 2022-23
SOMO - job training and mentoring
SOMO provides training, business advising, funding, and assistance with market access to entrepreneurs in low-income communities in Kenya. Now, they plan a production facility and an SMS-based financial records system for their entrepreneurs. Multi-year grantee
S.O.U.L. - Training At-risk Rural Youth
S.O.U.L. serves over 14,000 Ugandans in 30 villages, utilizing a development-driven model that makes community members stakeholders in their own success. Currently, S.O.U.L.’s focus is on facilitating vocational training for youth. Multi-year grantee
The Hope Project - Education and Community Support
The Hope International School provides tuition-free education for students in Liberia, job training and competitive wage employment for community members, and clean water and medical care for students and their families.
Multi-year grantee
THRIVEGulu - Helping Refugees Heal
THRIVEGulu empowers girls with training in safety skills, sexual and reproductive health, peer-to-peer support networking, and is adding economic empowerment programming.
New grantee in 2022-23
Tomorrow's Leaders NYC - Education and Jobs for Over-age Students
TLNYC helps over-age left behind middle school and high students increase GPAs so they can advance their education and have prospects for productive employment opportunities in the future.
Multi-year grantee
Women Initiating Success Envisioned Inc (WISE) – Reducing Recidivism among women
Through GED classes, basic financial education, coaching in managing life with a job and paycheck, and access to job opportunities, WISE helps give formerly incarcerated women a chance at a stable, fulfilling life after release. New grantee in 2022-23
World Connect - Overcoming Unemployment Inequality
WorldConnect’s founding principle underscores the belief that local leaders are in the best position to understand community needs and identify projects that can positively impact the lives of the residents.
Multi-year grantee
WorldShare - Partnering with Local Organizations
WorldShare works with partner organizations in four countries to help impoverished populations through job training, food security, holistic care for the underserved, and educational scholarship and environmental awareness programs. Multi-year grantee
Youth Design Center - STEAM Programs
YDC works primarily with minority 14-24-year-olds in the Brownsville and Ocean Hill neighborhoods of Brooklyn, NY to give disconnected youth practical, hands-on training in STEAM. Multi-year grantee