Happy 2010 from TILE’s Give blog!
Today we’re happy to share with you TEN reasons we’re proud to call these organizations our partners…
- 1Sky brought together the force of more than 168,000 citizen advocates and 3,200 small businesses this year to fight for bold climate and energy policy.
- Accion was ranked one of the top micro-finance institutions by experts in a study conducted by Philanthropedia this fall, and Accion CEO Michael Schlein was named one of the year’s “Most Influential in Business Ethics.”
- charity: water helped over 1 million people gain access to clean and safe drinking water. They started 1,145 new freshwater projects; 200 of them located at schools and 26 at health clinics.
- Global Fund for Children gave $1,193,500 to projects run by small community-based organizations working with some of the world’s most vulnerable children in 49 countries around the globe.
- Mapendo continued its life-changing work of helping refugees in their efforts to find stability and safety. Munewar and Lana, Darfur refugees who trekked a thousand miles from Darfur to Nairobi with their four surviving children, found refuge when Mapendo connected with them and facilitated their resettlement in St. Louis, MO.
- Millennium Promise partnered with GoodAdds.org and GE to launch a new online network that gives people the opportunity to directly support community projects in the Millennium Village of Ruhiira, Uganda.
- Project Health‘s co-founder & CEO, Rebecca Onie, was awarded the MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship for her “exceptional creativity, promise for important future advances based on a track record of significant accomplishment, and potential for the fellowship to facilitate subsequent creative work.” Congrats Rebecca!
- Rainforest Action Network got Gucci and other fashion industry leaders to stop bagging Indonesia’s rainforests.
- Stand for Children awarded Dakotah Keys a Beat the Odds Scholarship, an award honoring three high school seniors in Oregon every year who have succeeded despite daunting personal obstacles.
- Witness‘ global platform for human rights media and action, The Hub, had over 8 million visitors!
We can’t wait to see the important social change these organizations accomplish in the new year… stay tuned, and as always, stay informed!
- Gita