Our Three Focus Pillars

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Championing Education
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Developing Enterprise
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Ending Exploitation
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Championing Education

Opening doors of opportunity through traditional and vocational education, skills building, and leadership development. Our goal is to help close the gap in access to quality and affordable education.

We fund projects that target areas such as:

  • Primary education: funding to schools and organizations that lead to key educational outcomes (i.e. school feeding projects, water well at a school, after school recreational programs, etc.)
  • Secondary education
  • Alternative education
  • Leadership development training/camp/programs
  • Vocational education/training
  • Literacy programs
  • Catch-up education
  • Life skills education
  • Job readiness

Funding examples:

  • Educational programming targeting underserved youth
  • Infrastructure support to under resourced schools 
  • Educational kits to support student learning
  • Virtual assets for remote learning 
  • Computer trainings for youth affected by high unemployment

Developing Enterprise

Empowering women worldwide to break the generational cycle of poverty for their children by investing in small business and fair-trade enterprises. We invest in market-based approaches that grow and scale solutions to protect and empower communities and individuals.

We fund projects that target areas such as:

  • Equipment, space, and/or supplies that supports income generating activities
  • Infrastructure funding
  • Social enterprises
  • Accelerating or incubating small businesses
  • Self-reliance
  • Job readiness programs or craft training

Funding examples:

  • Providing capital for women's groups to learn and work with bee keeping
  • Providing capital for women's groups to start income generating ventures such as livestock farming, chicken coops, agriculture, fixing cell phones, etc.
  • Sponsoring a new trade or training for a marketable skill such as coding, tailoring, etc.

Ending Exploitation

Protecting the vulnerable from losing their freedoms to abuse and human trafficking. We look to restore freedoms lost from abuse, human trafficking, and exploitation.

We fund projects that target areas such as:

  • Human Trafficking
  • Forced labor
  • Child Labor
  • Kidnapping
  • Missing children
  • Child abuse
  • Domestic violence
  • Domestic Servitude
  • Sexual Assault
  • Indentured servitude
  • Child pornography
  • Online exploitation

Funding examples:

  • Women's shelters with large demographic of youth or adult with dependents
  • Efforts to protect children online
  • Advocacy centers supporting children victimized by abuse
  • Projects supporting street children and/or runaway youth
  • Shelters & organizations supporting survivors of trafficking