May, June and July grants awarded

The Foundation is pleased to announce the followong grants awarded :

• Washington STEM,  out of Seattle that works to provide unserved children with STEM related pathways for their K12 STEM career pathways program.
• Africa Exchange Project,  funds will be used for  new classrooms.
• Interfaith Emergency Services,  out of Florida who among several over functions serves as a homeless shelter for women and children.
• Start Small Think Big out of New York  working with women entrepreneurs helping them overcome barriers they face when starting their own businesses including  legal and finance help.
• NokidBehind works in Cameroon providing their computer lab  and technology programs, bringing  computers and internet to students in need in Cameroon.
• Mercy Housing California, out of San Francisco  working to help make a change in neighborhoods with their neighborhood revitalization project.
• Solar Village Project, in India, helping make solar energy more accessible. This requests is to help women enter the business of solar and renewable energy where women are not given opportunity to a profession.
• Ugandan Water Project,  for new water filtration systems, which will not only keep these children and families healthy but also not keep these kids in the classroom so they do not have to leave and fetch water daily.
• Precious Project, work in Tanzania,  for funding for their schools, children’s home and farm. The farm is specifically for women to help them obtain farming and business skills.
• Strategies for International Development, in Uganda that works directly with women helping them overcome barriers they face with business discrimination.
• Heartline Haiti,  working with children’s education and scholarship program for kids in Haiti.
• ForKids, Inc. Chesapeake, VA who works with children and families facing homelessness. They run various after school programs helping these children fill the gaps they face trying to navigate school and their education.
• Guatemalan Relief Assistance for Children Educational Services, supports a school in Guatemala helping children who have food insecurities. Their meal programs provides breakfast and lunch to kids in their program.
• American Indian College Fund, providing opprotunities for education to native americans.
• Global Fund for Women, works with widows in Tanzania helping them become self sufficient and become entrepreneurs. These women are marginalized, taken advantage of and not treated the same as men in these regions. so
• Bricks to Bread, helping women in Costa Rica and Honduras become entrepreneurs through baking by  providing ovens and business trainings.
• Mill Mountain Theatre in Roanoke, VA funding for their young audience series.
• Refuge Bowling Green, out of Kentucky and works with women refuges, working with them in particular on their English literacy and adjusting to the US.
• Boys Hope Girls Hope,  runs homes and schools in Guatemala. This grant ask is for girls in their home and school to help with the costs of school supplies and technology needs of the school.
• Northwest Education Access, out of Seattle and helps homeless and displaced youth find a path to an education and degree. They specially focus of “Opportunity Youth”  who are displaced from school and work.
• Impact Justice,  working with the incarcerated to provide healthier food options for inmates. They help them develop gardens in these prisons and provide them with trainings and skills that will help them when released. Our grant will be used particularly for female inmates.