Top Ten Reasons Why TILE Charities Rock

January 5th, 2010

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…

  1. 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.
  2. 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.”
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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!
  8. Rainforest Action Network got Gucci and other fashion industry leaders to stop bagging Indonesia’s rainforests.
  9. 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.
  10. 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

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