Associazione Italiana Studio e Tutela Maternita ad Alto Rischio (Italy): The organization’s primary aim is to assist at-risk pregnant women and provide after-birth follow up for the infants. The organization gives support to women at risk of premature birth and women affected by pathologies.
Business to Arts (Ireland): Business to Arts brokers, enables and supports creative partnerships between business, individuals and the arts.
Centros Culturales de Mexico, A.C. (Mexico): This organization’s goal is to create, manage, and operate educational institutions and teaching facilities for elementary, junior, or high-level education, in accordance with the plans of the corresponding teaching faculties.
Europa Nostra (Netherlands): Europa Nostra represents a rapidly growing citizens’ movement for the safeguarding of Europe’s cultural and natural heritage. The network’s activities include: forming an important lobby for cultural heritage in Europe; celebrating excellence through the European Heritage Awards organized by Europa Nostra in partnership with the European Union; and campaigning to save Europe’s endangered historic monuments, sites and cultural landscapes.
Indian Association for the Blind (India): Indian Association for the Blind (IAB) is a non-profit organization in India established in the year 1985 by a group of like-minded Blind people with the vision "to provide the best education, rehabilitation and employment opportunities to the needy Blind, thus making them self-reliant."
Peace for Africa and Economic Development Institute (PAD) (Kenya): PAD is a youth-focused Peace Initiative that works with young people on addressing the root causes of conflicts in championing for peace and peaceful co-existence in Africa. To realize this dream PAD is working to promote entrepreneurship, economic development and to foster mutual understanding, acceptance, co-operation and unity between people of different ethnicity. Its aim in engaging the young population and communities around Africa and beyond is to create a more powerful, informed, economically empowered and motivated youth generation that will establish a more peaceful, prosperous and united Africa.
Sem Pringpuangkeo Foundation (Thailand): Sem Pringpuangkeo Foundation is a non-profit organization that facilitates the provision of scholarships as well as supportive activities for the underprivileged orphans affected by HIV/AIDS in the northern provinces of Thailand.
Solidarités Nouvelles face au Chômage (SNC) (France): A citizen non-profit organization created in 1983 to reduce unemployment. The organization coaches unemployed people and also creates and finances jobs in the voluntary sector, thanks to a chain of private solidarity.
Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement (SVYM) (India): A development organization, engaged in building a new civil society in India through its grassroots to policy-level action in Health, Education and Community Development sectors. Acting as a key promoter-facilitator in the community's efforts towards self-reliance and empowerment, SVYM is developing local, innovative and cost-effective solutions to sustain community-driven progress.
Tyndale St-Georges Community Centre (Canada): Human growth through education and empowerment is the guiding theme of the Center's work. The organization provides services to members of the Little Burgundy community, a disadvantaged inner city community, without regard to race or religious affiliation.
The Woodgreen Foundation (Canada): Woodgreen enhances self-sufficiency, promotes well-being and reduces poverty through innovative solutions to critical social needs in Toronto.
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CAFAmerica Connections Newsletter
Volume 1, Issue 3
December 12, 2012-- Highlights
Launch of NGOAmerica
On November 29, CAFAmerica officially launched NGOAmerica.org, a streamlined approach for corporations, foundations, families, and individuals to support important philanthropic efforts both at home and abroad with confidence. These new services are a comprehensive response to new proposed Treasury Department regulations, announced via advance notice of proposed rulemaking on September 24, 2012, which may be relied upon now and until final regulations are issued. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton highlighted these regulatory changes in September when she spoke at the Clinton Global Initiative and called for a simpler system for investing in legitimate foreign charities.
These new services are a comprehensive response to new proposed Treasury Department regulations, announced via advance notice of proposed rulemaking on September 24, 2012, which may be relied upon now and until final regulations are issued. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton highlighted these regulatory changes in September when she spoke at the Clinton Global Initiative and called for a simpler system for investing in legitimate foreign charities.
NGOAmerica.org is the nation’s first response to the urgent need highlighted by Secretary Clinton, emerging at a time when austerity budgets on many continents have raised the needs of vulnerable populations, placing at risk public health, education, economic development, and disaster recovery efforts. The increased need for assistance, coupled with a tough economic climate for even the most charitable institutions and individuals, makes it even more pressing that America’s deep commitment to helping others is matched with equal dedication to ensuring donated dollars are used meaningfully by credible and impactful organizations. With the launch of NGOAmerica.org, those wishing to aid charitable efforts around the world now have a clear path to determine the credibility of foreign charitable organizations while allowing more of that aid to go directly to on-the-ground needs.
Embraced by CAFAmerica, these changes will lower substantially the cost of contributing to foreign charitable organizations and have the potential to inspire many more donors into helping global philanthropic efforts. "As the leader in global philanthropy, we took seriously our responsibility to meet this challenge," said Ted Hart, CEO, CAFAmerica. "Through NGOAmerica.org, we are providing charitable Americans with the guidance, best practices, and industry leading due diligence vetting that will stretch their dollars further as they aid charitable organizations that have a proven track record of effectively fulfilling critical missions."
Because giving must also protect a donor’s reputation, NGOAmerica.org is backed by CAFAmerica’s 20 years of experience and its 3000 database of already vetted charities worldwide, each of which has been put through a rigorous one-hundred point due diligence process to determine its charitable status. NGOAmerica.org also includes an enhanced domestic due diligence service, a unique process that goes far beyond the standard practice of only verifying an organization’s IRS charitable status.
In addition to being a thoughtful approach to both the proposed regulatory changes and the need to ensure the credibility of charitable partners, NGOAmerica.org provides corporations, foundations and individuals a tailored approach to their global giving goals, whether that is guidance on how to establish long-term funds; the promotion of employee giving; or strategic advice that capitalizes on best practices and new developments in philanthropy.
Corporate Spotlight
In September 2012, Laura Mercier cosmetics, the global luxury line of cosmetics, skincare, and fragrance, announced the launch of The Laura Mercier Ovarian Cancer Fund. The mission of the Laura Mercier Ovarian Cancer Fund is to raise awareness and fund research and educational efforts that will help diagnose, treat and support women with ovarian cancer – which is the leading cause of death among gynecological cancers in the United States.*
As the leader in global giving, CAFAmerica is pleased to serve as Laura Mercier’s grantmaking partner to ensure that 100% of donations to the Fund benefit organizations specifically dedicated to ovarian cancer initiatives. On working with CAFAmerica, Claudia Poccia, President & CEO of Gurwitch Products, Inc.--the parent company of Laura Mercier-- has commented in various media interviews that CAFAmerica is “a terrific partner” for The Laura Mercier Ovarian Cancer Fund because CAFAmerica’s “world-class reputation for global giving solutions [provides] the flexibility to award grants to domestic and international nonprofit organizations that are perfectly aligned with our mission.”
The development of the Fund is rooted in personal connections to the cause. “Both Laura Mercier and I have been personally touched by ovarian cancer – I through my sister, who lost her battle with the disease, and Laura through a dear friend who has been fighting for years,” stated Ms. Poccia. “Ovarian cancer needs continued support and funding, therefore it is our shared mission to raise awareness and advance funding to aid in eradicating this disease.”
“Through prevention, education and supporting those who are battling this disease, we will bring new hope to women,” stated Laura Mercier, Founder of Laura Mercier cosmetics. “The mission of the Laura Mercier Ovarian Cancer Fund is at the core of our brand, and we are committed to making a difference in the lives of women.”
Laura Mercier is championing the cause in various ways. First, 100 percent of the profits from the sale of two products--Bonne Mine Healthy Glow for Face & Cheeks Crème Colour Palette and Rose Hope Lip Glacé – go directly to the Laura Mercier Ovarian Cancer Fund. Additionally, Laura Mercier has been running public service announcements in leading women’s magazines to raise awareness about the disease. To also complement the initiative, the company is launching a dedicated web initiative with mobile application, in-store merchandising, and social media support to help educate women about the disease and drive donations to the Fund.
*Source: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
For more information on the Laura Mercier Ovarian Cancer Fund, please visit:
http://www.lmocf.comTo donate directly to the Fund, click
here and select the Laura Mercier Ovarian Cancer Fund when prompted.
Newly Eligible Charities
Canadian Women's Foundation (Canada): Canada’s only national foundation that helps women and girls reach their full economic and social potential through work that empowers women and girls to live without limits: to become economically independent, to be free from violence, and to be full contributors to society. The Foundation raises money to research, fund, and share the best approaches to ending violence against women, moving low-income women out of poverty and building strong, resilient girls.
Force Femmes (France): Founded in 2005 by women entrepreneurs, Force Femmes was born out of a collective solidarity of women who desired to engage personally on the subject of employment. Force Femmes has a team of six employees and 300 volunteers from human resources and entrepreneurship and is supported by government agencies and companies involved in the fight against discrimination in the employment of women over the age of 45 years. The association is present in more than a dozen French cities.
Fundacja Dzieciom (Poland): Fundacja Dzieciom, Zdazyc z Pomoca/Foundation for Children Help on Time, established in 1998, is carrying out a nationwide program "Help on Time" under the patronage of Zbigniew Religa, the famous Polish cardiologist. The foundation provides care for over 18,000 ill and disabled children throughout the whole of Poland. The Foundation's activities are mostly concerned with raising funds for complicated operations, expensive treatments and long-term rehabilitation.
Habitat for Humanity China Limited (Hong Kong): Habitat for Humanity international is a worldwide, non-governmental organization dedicated to eliminating poverty housing and homelessness. This particular branch of the organization focuses on: reducing the housing problems in rural areas, improving villagers’ substandard living conditions, building villagers’ self-confidence and capacity, and community development.
Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores (Mexico): The Universidad Anahuac is a leading higher education institution in Mexico and in Latin America, whose main characteristic is the social commitment that it promotes among its University community.
MTU Impatiens Kilimanjari (Estonia): The association is a voluntary union of persons which aims to carry out charitable work in schools in Tanzania by providing study materials including books, films and other necessary school supplies. In addition, the association collects charitable donations for children in Africa all over the world and uses the donated amounts to finance and support school and educational projects.
New Hope Community Services (Singapore): The organization’s primary purpose is to provide transitional housing for homeless Singaporeans. It also aims to go beyond providing shelter by infusing individuals with real hope to see their lives changed.
New Zealand Red Cross (New Zealand): New Zealand Red Cross' mission is to provide support to vulnerable populations in New Zealand and internationally, especially in response to disaster or conflict. In New Zealand, the staff and volunteers help over 24,000 people in New Zealand communities each week. The organization also mobilizes effective and appropriate humanitarian aid to the most vulnerable across the globe.
The Education for Development Foundation (Thailand): The goal of this organization is to improve education opportunities and the quality of life for less fortunate children and youths in remote areas of Thailand. Its ultimate goal is to encourage these children so that they can free themselves from the cycle of poverty. Education also helps them become quality human resources for a betterment of their own families, rural hometowns and the country as a whole.
Yorkhill Children's Foundation (UK): Yorkhill Children's Foundation raises funds for innovative medical equipment, patient and family support, pediatric research, hospital improvements, entertainment and fun activities for sick children and babies being treated in Yorkhill Hospital and related facilities across Greater Glasgow and Clyde.
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CAFAmerica Connections Newsletter
Volume 1, Issue 2
November 26, 2012-- Highlights
Organization Spotlight: The Kliptown Youth Program
* Note: CAFAmerica is promoting voting for the Kliptown Youth Program's director and co-founder, Thulani Madondo, to achieve the status of "CNN Hero of the Year" as part of the CNN Heroes special. You can vote up to 10x a day at http://heroes.cnn.com. If Thulani wins, he will receive $250,000 to benefit the Kliptown Youth Program. Voting closes on Nov. 28. The winner will be announced on "CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute" on Sunday, December 2- LIVE at 9ET/6PT on CNN.
The Kliptown Youth Program (KYP) provides educational support and afterschool activities for the disadvantaged children of the township of Kliptown. Kliptown is a suburb of the township of Soweto in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Founded in 2007 by a small group of individuals from Kliptown, the organization aims to enrich the lives of Kliptown's children. These children face immense challenges as a result of the community's lack of basic infrastructure, including schools, health clinics, electricity, and proper sanitation. However, the founders of KYP strongly believe that, given the appropriate opportunities, the children can harness their innate potential and grow into dynamic and skilled individuals who can give back to society.
The services offered by KYP include:
- school fee support,
- a tutoring program,
- a tertiary education program,
- employment/networking/learnership/job support,
- access to technology and related instruction,
- library access,
- a food program,
- arts & culture classes and opportunities,
- sports,
- 'roots & shoots' (an environmental awareness program)
Furthermore, the dedicated staff members at KYP are compensated with salaries or stipends and are also granted professional development opportunities, such as leadership training and skill-building.
The organization's Statement of Need poignantly explains the founders' vision for providing such critical services:
"KYP believes that if we identify and nurture talent amongst us, and inculcate the culture of education, we can create positive opportunities for ourselves. In doing so, we are creating a solution to poverty; one by which we can stand up and show the world that we are a force to be reckoned with. On a continent often wrought with victimhood and a handout mentality, KYP teaches its children that they deserve that which they create. Together we can empower the youth, foster the cycle of giving back, and help lift Kliptown out of poverty."
The Kliptown Youth Program is one of the many foreign nonprofits CAFAmerica has vetted and made eligible to receive donations from donors in the United States and worldwide through the Kliptown Youth Program Fund.
Individuals who wish to make a tax-deductible donation to this South Africa-based charity can do so through our website by going to our 'Contribute to a Fund' page and selecting 'Kliptown Youth Program' in the Fund drop-down menu when completing the form. You may donate any amount.
New Donor Options: Available November 29
In September, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
made an announcement at the Clinton Global Initiative that detailed a simpler system for institutions to invest in foreign charities with confidence in their legitimacy. Clinton’s announcement will allow more grantmaking organizations to determine whether foreign charities are comparable to nonprofit organizations in the United States, through a specific type of vetting process known as
equivalency determination.
In response, CAFAmerica is launching new services that will be rolled out to market on Thursday, November 29 of this year. The services draw on the unique traits of the organization and add value to institutional investors in a way no other organization can.
These services will be announced on the premiere show at the launch of the CAFAmerica Radio Network on
Thursday, November 29 at 12:00 noon EST.
To tune in to the first production of the CAFAmerica Radio Network hosted by CAFAmerica CEO Ted Hart, please mark your calendars and bookmark:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/cafamerica
For more information on Secretary Clinton's announcement and CAFAmerica's response, you can read our press release by
clicking here (please note the date of the services roll out changed from Oct. 29 to Nov. 29).
Special Feature: CNN Heroes 2012
For the last six years, CNN has drawn attention to individuals who are changing the world through their extraordinary contributions to humanitarian aid through its "CNN Heroes" special. Over the course of a year, viewers nominate and vote for individuals who have made incredibly selfless efforts to improve the lives of others.
Earlier this year, CNN announced the "top 10" list of CNN Heroes-- these individuals were nominated by CNN's global audience and each received $50,000USD to go toward their causes.
CAFAmerica extends congratulations to Thulani Madondo, director and co-founder of the Kliptown Youth Program in South Africa, for being featured as one of CNN's Top 10 Heroes. The Kliptown Youth Program is one of the many foreign nonprofits CAFAmerica has vetted and made eligible to receive donations from donors in the United States through our Kliptown Youth Program Fund.
Click here to view Thulani's CNN Heroes Fan Page.
The Kliptown Youth Program's mission is to "eradicate the poverty of mind, body, and soul, and to fight against the disadvantages imposed on the children of Kliptown by providing educational support and after school activities." The program also "seeks to develop young and dynamic individuals who are willing to contribute effectively for the betterment of their community."
As a Top 10 finalist, Thulani also has the opportunity to become CNN's "Hero of the Year." Another global audience vote will determine the CNN Hero of the Year and the winner will receive an additional $250,000USD for his or her cause.
Due to our established positive relationship with the Kliptown Youth Program and the excellent work it is doing for children in Kliptown, we are promoting voting for Thulani Madondo to acheive the status of "CNN Hero of the Year." You can vote up to 10x a day at http://heroes.cnn.com.
Voting closes on November 28. The winner will be announced on "CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute" on Sunday, December 2- LIVE at 9ET/6PT on CNN.
Individuals who wish to make a tax-deductible donation to this South Africa-based charity can do so through our website by going to our 'Contribute to a Fund' page and selecting 'Kliptown Youth Program' in the Fund drop-down menu when completing the form. You may donate any amount.
Newly Eligible Charities
Cuan Mhuire, Ireland: To provide residential treatment for people of all creeds who suffer from alcohol, drug and other addictions, particularly those whom are disadvantaged in society. It currently provides treatment and services to approximately 3,000 people annually.
Deenabandhu Trust, India: Works towards the education and rehabilitation of orphaned, destitute and estranged children. It envisions a world without borders where every child is educated and empowered to realize his/her inner strength with the hopes of helping to develop a positive self-image for the ultimate goal of social productivity and the creation of responsible citizens through self-transformation. The program has been able to provide a Boys Home and a Girls Home for the children, which are Green housing developments; they also provide educational, cultural, athletic, and sanitation programs.
Daily Bread Food Bank Foundation of Toronto, Canada: Secures and delivers food to those in needs, and provides public education on the root causes and effects of poverty. Serves thousands of people every year across Toronto, through neighborhood food banks and meal programs, supporting nearly 170 member agencies.
Multiple Sclerosis Ltd. Australia, Australia: Provides care and support to those with Multiple Sclerosis and their families, through neuro-psychology and clinical psychology services, employment services, providing registered nurses to assist those with MS, physiotherapy and occupational therapy services, innovative health and wellness programs, home modifications, and equipment to help provide mobility.
Nunavut Stars Hockey School, Canada: Provides a 6-day program of on ice hockey instruction as well as off ice activities to provide the opportunity of the youth of Nunavut to attend a summer camp, and to try to help kids find a passion in athletics; physical fitness, sportsmanship, teamwork, strength training, cultural awareness, traditional ways and recreational activities.
Siksika Health Services, Canada: Vision is to provide an exceptional quality of health and wellness service for the nation members by improving and promoting Siksika quality of life through safe accountable and efficient health service delivery based on the needs of Siksika Nation members. The programs aim at improving the quality of health and wellness of individuals by working to decrease and prevent diseases through annual programs like a community health fair, a diabetes walk, support groups and day programs, a Youth Gangs Project, and a health run.
Dunmore School, Bahamas: Primary school for students ages 3-12, making it possible for children in the local community to attend school, as the community could not provide for one otherwise.
Foundation for Youth Development, New Zealand: To work with communities to develop, co-ordinate, manage and deliver programs that are proven to bring positive changes to the lives of young New Zealanders and their families. 4 running programs for youth: a life-skills program for 5-12 year olds, a program for a successful transition to secondary school, a 14 month program for year 10, giving opportunities to students with untapped potential, and an outreach program for youth offenders, teaching them positive life skills, team building and personal development initiatives.
Friends of Algonquin Park, Canada: To enhance the education and interpretive programs in Algonquin Park through various educational programs, staffing and maintaining the Visitor Centre and Logging Museum, hosting workshops, special events and publishing park maps and books.
Foundation for Excellence India Trust, India: To bring about a transformation in the lives of academically brilliant and economically underprivileged students in India by awarding scholarships to complete higher education in Engineering, Technology and Medicine; ultimately hoping to break the cycle of poverty through education.
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CAFAmerica Connections Newsletter
Volume 1, Issue 1
November 7, 2012-- Highlights
Organization Spotlight: The Gurkha Welfare Trust
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The Gurkha Welfare Trust is a nonprofit relief organization in the UK designed to help Gurkha veterans and their dependents who are in need or distress. The Trust's objects are:
- To relieve, either generally or individually, ex-Gurkhas and their dependents who are in conditions of need, hardship or distress
- To advance the education of ex-Gurkhas and their dependents and to advance education generally in the areas of Nepal where Gurkhas live
- To train ex-Gurkhas in a trade or occupation so as to assist them to re-establish in civilian life
- To make provision for the medical diagnosis and treatment of ex-Gurkhas and their dependents who are in need of such diagnosis or treatment and for the prevention of any disease or adverse conditions which may affect any such persons
- Such other charitable purposes which are in the opinion of the trustees connected directly or indirectly with the foregoing purposes as the trustees from time to time think fit.
The Friends of the Gurkha Welfare Trust (USA) was set up in August of 2012. After a single donation was made, CAFAmerica distributed a grant of $406,973.21 to the Gurkha Welfare Trust in September 2012. The Gurkha Welfare Trust uses these funds to work within the community to improve water and sanitation with drilling projects and irrigation to help crop yields, to better nutrition and to prevent disease; to build new schools and improve existing ones; and to provide grants for students to further their education.
The Gurkha Welfare Trust also uses these funds to provide welfare pensions to ex-Gurkha soldiers in Nepal; to provide medical care and services; to provide emergency and disaster relief grants due to natural disasters; and to provide elderly residential living and assistance to pensioners.
To learn more about the Gurkha Welfare Trust, visit http://www.gwt.org.uk/.
To donate now to the Gurkha Welfare Trust, go to our 'Contribute to a Fund' page, and select 'Gurkha Welfare Trust Fund' from the dropdown menu when completing the form. You may donate any amount.
Advisor Spotlight: Patricia Parker, Friends of Kids for Kids
Imagine the following scenario: you're out running errands on a hot, humid day. When you return home, parched and exhausted, you grab a glass, turn on the faucet, and nothing comes out. You try a different faucet. Again-- nothing. What would you do? Would you call the water company? A friend? Drive to the store?
Would you walk seven hours to a water source without wearing shoes?
When Patricia Parker was visiting Sudan in 2001, she observed that children were doing exactly this--walking miles and miles to retrieve water for their families. Stunned, she inquired about this practice and learned that the government was not supplying a sufficient number of water hand pumps for communities in Darfur.
Hand pumps are fairly simple devices that enable individuals to access the aquifer under Darfur on location; they also limit the need to send children out on long journeys that risk their health and safety. As a result of this and other observations that "shocked her beyond anything she had ever seen in the world," Patricia Parker decided that she couldn't just stand by and watch. She needed to take action.
In response to the extraordinary need she saw in Darfur, in 2001 Patricia founded an organization called Kids for Kids. Kids for Kids helps seriously deprived children living in remote villages in Darfur through long-term, sustainable projects identified and run by the communities themselves. In 2007, Kids for Kids opened a 'Friends of' Charity Fund with CAFAmerica, granting the organization an easy, cost-effective way to do fundraising and awareness building in the United States.
Patricia has always been involved with charity work, but strongly advocates for sustainable methods that empower communities to operate on their own--instead of providing financial “handouts.” This philosophy is at the heart of Kids for Kids, and it is strongly exemplified in its programming.
Since 2001 Kids for Kids has provided or restored over 120 hand pumps; it has provided 13,000 goats and over 2,000 donkeys to families to use for health-improving and income-generating purposes; it has also provided tree seeds, blankets, and mosquito nets. In the coming months, Kids for Kids has plans to provide first aid training, midwife training, and enhancements to its tree planting program.
As an example of sustainability, Kids for Kids lends the goats instead of giving them, because after two years the family passes the same number of offspring to another family in need, and then they pass on more to yet another family-- it is a microfinance scheme that really works.
The relationship between Kids for Kids and CAFAmerica is a strong one, and it continues to be "an essential one" for Patricia's organization to garner valuable support in the United States. Although Kids for Kids is a registered charity in the United Kingdom where it is based, Patricia did not have the financial means to create a separate 501(c)3 in the United States. She was able to turn to CAFAmerica's Friends of Charities service to set up a way for US donors to support the organization in an easy, tax-effective way.
Patricia does lament, however, that attention on Darfur has subsided since the initial "publicity machines and celebrity advocacy of the early 2000s" lost momentum, despite the critical ongoing needs in the region; this is tragic as conditions in remote villages are deteriorating badly in the wake of ongoing violence.
In spite of this, Patricia remains committed to her own vision of a Darfur in which children grow up with everything they need to thrive. When speaking with her, it's impossible not to hear the unwavering hope, passion, and determination in Patricia's voice.
"It's quite amazing what we're achieving, [especially] with no one else doing this [kind of work]," said Patricia. "We're really changing people's lives."
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To learn more about Kids for Kids, please visit http://www.kidsforkids.org.uk/.
To donate now to Kids for Kids, please go to our 'Contribute to a Fund' page, and select 'Kids for Kids' from the dropdown menu when completing the form. You may donate any amount.
New Donor Options: Available November 19
In September, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made an announcement at the Clinton Global Initiative that detailed a simpler system for institutions to invest in foreign charities with confidence in their legitimacy. Clinton’s announcement will allow more grantmaking organizations to determine whether foreign charities are comparable to nonprofit organizations in the United States, through a specific type of vetting process known as equivalency determination.
In response, CAFAmerica is launching new services that will be rolled out to market on Monday, November 19 of this year. The services draw on the unique traits of the organization and add value to institutional investors in a way no other organization can.
These services will be announced on the premiere show at the launch of the CAFAmerica Radio Network on Monday, November 19 at 12:00 noon EST.
To tune in to the first production of the CAFAmerica Radio Network hosted by CAFAmerica CEO Ted Hart, please mark your calendars and bookmark:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/cafamerica
For more information on Secretary Clinton's announcement and CAFAmerica's response, you can read our press release by clicking here (please note the date of the services roll out changed from Oct. 29 to Nov. 19).
Special Feature: CNN Heroes 2012
For the last six years, CNN has drawn attention to individuals who are changing the world through their extraordinary contributions to humanitarian aid through its "CNN Heroes" special. Over the course of a year, viewers nominate and vote for individuals who have made incredibly selfless efforts to improve the lives of others.
Earlier this year, CNN announced the "top 10" list of CNN Heroes-- these individuals were nominated by CNN's global audience and each received $50,000USD to go toward their causes.
CAFAmerica extends congratulations to Thulani Madondo, director and co-founder of the Kliptown Youth Program in South Africa, for being featured as one of CNN's Top 10 Heroes. The Kliptown Youth Program is one of the many foreign nonprofits CAFAmerica has vetted and made eligible to receive donations from donors in the United States through our Kliptown Youth Program Fund.
Click here to view Thulani's CNN Heroes Fan Page.
The Kliptown Youth Program's mission is to "eradicate the poverty of mind, body, and soul, and to fight against the disadvantages imposed on the children of Kliptown by providing educational support and after school activities." The program also "seeks to develop young and dynamic individuals who are willing to contribute effectively for the betterment of their community."
As a Top 10 finalist, Thulani also has the opportunity to become CNN's "Hero of the Year." Another global audience vote will determine the CNN Hero of the Year and the winner will receive an additional $250,000USD for his or her cause.
Due to our established positive relationship with the Kliptown Youth Program and the excellent work it is doing for children in Kliptown, we are promoting voting for Thulani Madondo to acheive the status of "CNN Hero of the Year." You can vote up to 10x a day at http://heroes.cnn.com.
Voting closes on November 28. The winner will be announced on "CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute" on Sunday, December 2- LIVE at 9ET/6PT on CNN.
Individuals who wish to make a tax-deductible donation to this South Africa-based charity can do so through our website by going to our 'Contribute to a Fund' page and selecting 'Kliptown Youth Program' in the Fund drop-down menu when completing the form. You may donate any amount.
Newly Eligible Charities
Belcourt School District #7 (United States): Excellence in education, community and cultural education- where every employee is a teacher, every parent a partner, every child a winner. Recent grants were allocated to a program offering daily activities amounting to two hours to combat hypokinetic disorders associated with diabetes, overweight and obesity. The program also offers an hour of education, an hour of cultural activity and an hour of career outlook and opportunity to help educate the whole child.
Brandon’s Food for Thought Breakfast and Snack Program for Kids Inc. (Canada): To provide a nutritional breakfast or snack to children from grade K-8, who are attending school hungry and have no access to food; also provides physical and nutritional information for students and families in the program. The program extends the length of the school year, September to June, and serving nutritious breakfasts and emergency snacks to children in over 15 schools.
Breakthrough Breast Cancer (United Kingdom): Saving lives and changing futures through research campaigning and education, removing the fear of breast cancer for good. The organization campaigns and conducts research to find causes, enable early detection, ensure precise diagnoses, and discovering new and better treatments for improving health services.
Children’s Sunshine Home & LauraLynn House (Ireland): Supports children with life limiting conditions and their families by providing high quality transitional care, home support, respite, crisis and end-of-life care. Services are available to children with high medical and nursing needs from birth to 18. “While we cannot add days to a child’s life, we can put life into a child’s day.”
Garden City Jeevitha Anathashrama (India): Serving orphaned children of all caste, cadre and gender, by providing food, shelter, education, and sports and cultural activities. The organization is able to provide food, shelter, and education to orphaned children, hoping to establish a secure living environment.
Holybells Children’s Ministry (India): The primary purposes of the organization are running children homes, educating poor and migrated labor children, eradicating child labor, rehabilitation of street children, and counseling parents. Short term vision is to provide primary education to all children of migrated laborers near Kakutpally, and to be able to provide to them minimum necessities like clothing, meals, and books.
Magic Bus India Foundation (India): Asia’s largest mentoring organization that is working to take a million children living in poverty on a journey from childhood to livelihood. Mentors are trained to deliver a 10-year program that focuses on education, health and gender equity through an award winning curriculum that uses sport as a metaphor alongside mentoring, creating behavior change.
Mercy, Hope, Love Ministry, Inc. (Philippines): Voluntary organization for community development, social and economic welfare, educational, civic, cultural, humanitarian and spiritual development; literary program, feeding program, livelihood program for parents and micro finance for small-scale enterprises. Mission is to prevent and eliminate destitute poverty, by working with partner organizations to help communities lift themselves out of poverty. They work with communities, establishing a reading program and a feeding program in the Blessed Kids Program, and helping parents to be able to support their children through the Blessed Parents Program.
The Rocky Boy Health Board (United States): The Rocky Boy Health Board has full authority, by tribal resolution, to address the issues and business of health care for the Chippewa Cree Tribe. It provides ambulatory and preventive health services through the Rocky Boy Health Clinic; it also provides emergency medical services, community health nursing, health education, community health representative services and transportation.
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