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Ensuring that no child and no adult goes hungry when there are enough resources to go around.
Eliminating homelessness.
Providing essential health care for all at an affordable cost.
Providing equal opportunity for education regardless of financial means, ethnic origins, or gender.
Creating systems of justice that are truly blind to wealth and privilege, race and ethnicity.
Justice for Immigrants
People fleeing persecution in other countries coming to our borders have faced unprecedented obstacles to entry, including family separations and deportations that have added to their suffering.
We have addressed these issues with grants to the ACLU Foundation, the Women's Refugee Commission, the Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights, and the International Rescue Committee. We are also participating in a Lever for Change in Refugee Resettlement with a grant to Village Enterprise that will help refugees from Somalia and South Sudan become productive in their host communities.
People fleeing persecution in other countries coming to our borders have faced unprecedented obstacles to entry, including family separations and deportations that have added to their suffering.
We have addressed these issues with grants to the ACLU Foundation, the Women's Refugee Commission, the Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights, and the International Rescue Committee. We are also participating in a Lever for Change in Refugee Resettlement with a grant to Village Enterprise that will help refugees from Somalia and South Sudan become productive in their host communities.
Women's Rights and Advancement
We have advocated for Women's Health around the globe through Girl Effect and in the US with grants to Upstream USA and the Family Planning Association of Maine. Our grant to the Women's Brain Initiative at Brigham and Women's Hospital was designed to identify gender differences in the risk of neurodegenerative diseases and in the response to treatment.
We have advocated for Women's Education around the globe through Educate Girls and through our support of scholarships for women at Partners in Health's University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda.
Selah Freedom and The Foundation United fight human trafficking. These organizations rescue and rehabilitate women from the sex trade, raise community awareness, provide preventive education to children and families, and train law enforcement to treat women in the sex trade as victims, not criminals. They have created a model for the nation and the world to address this problem.
We have advocated for Women's Health around the globe through Girl Effect and in the US with grants to Upstream USA and the Family Planning Association of Maine. Our grant to the Women's Brain Initiative at Brigham and Women's Hospital was designed to identify gender differences in the risk of neurodegenerative diseases and in the response to treatment.
We have advocated for Women's Education around the globe through Educate Girls and through our support of scholarships for women at Partners in Health's University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda.
Selah Freedom and The Foundation United fight human trafficking. These organizations rescue and rehabilitate women from the sex trade, raise community awareness, provide preventive education to children and families, and train law enforcement to treat women in the sex trade as victims, not criminals. They have created a model for the nation and the world to address this problem.
Voter Empowerment
The Florida Rights Restoration Council has helped to restore voting rights to ex-felons that were taken away by the Florida legislature after the voters of Florida overwhelmingly passed a Constitutional amendment supporting reenfranchisement.
Through Human Rights First, we supported Vets Power the Polls, a program that recruited veterans as poll workers in the 2020 election to replace older poll workers at elevated risk for COVID-19.
The Center for Technology and Civic Life aims to strengthen the performance of election departments across the country by providing training, technology, and funding in order to ensure free and fair elections that are secure, trustworthy, and inclusive. It aims to provide a more resilient election system and better informed and engaged voters.
The Florida Rights Restoration Council has helped to restore voting rights to ex-felons that were taken away by the Florida legislature after the voters of Florida overwhelmingly passed a Constitutional amendment supporting reenfranchisement.
Through Human Rights First, we supported Vets Power the Polls, a program that recruited veterans as poll workers in the 2020 election to replace older poll workers at elevated risk for COVID-19.
The Center for Technology and Civic Life aims to strengthen the performance of election departments across the country by providing training, technology, and funding in order to ensure free and fair elections that are secure, trustworthy, and inclusive. It aims to provide a more resilient election system and better informed and engaged voters.
Hunger Relief
Feeding America Tampa Bay is dedicated to distributing food to disadvantaged people in both urban and rural communities, while providing other services designed to help lift people out of poverty and reduce their future need for food assistance. This agency has been nimble in responding to emergencies, including hurricanes and the Covid-19 pandemic, which has dramatically increased the number of unemployed and food insecure people.
All Faiths Food Bank addresses the needs of food insecure people in Sarasota and surrounding counties, including rural Desota County, home to a large migrant worker population. Like Feeding America Tampa Bay, they go beyond food distribution to addressing the economic and medical needs of their clientele, with a special emphasis on the needs of children.
Feeding America Tampa Bay is dedicated to distributing food to disadvantaged people in both urban and rural communities, while providing other services designed to help lift people out of poverty and reduce their future need for food assistance. This agency has been nimble in responding to emergencies, including hurricanes and the Covid-19 pandemic, which has dramatically increased the number of unemployed and food insecure people.
All Faiths Food Bank addresses the needs of food insecure people in Sarasota and surrounding counties, including rural Desota County, home to a large migrant worker population. Like Feeding America Tampa Bay, they go beyond food distribution to addressing the economic and medical needs of their clientele, with a special emphasis on the needs of children.
Medical Debt Relief
Medical debt burdens the poor out of proportion to its effect on others. But it has also plunged many in the middle class into poverty, often because of a single severe illness. Americans carry tens of billions of medical debt, which is largely responsible for 66% of all bankruptcies, creating an additional crushing burden on families already dealing with life threatening illness.
RIP Medical Debt buys and forgives the medical debt of people at the bottom of the economic ladder. Using algorithms that identify those most severely impacted by their medical debt, it relieves their debt, purges their credit reports, and notifies them with letters indicating that their debt has been paid. RIP has already relieved billions in debt for millions of people, while advocating for universal health care that would eventually abolish this uniquely American scourge.
Medical debt burdens the poor out of proportion to its effect on others. But it has also plunged many in the middle class into poverty, often because of a single severe illness. Americans carry tens of billions of medical debt, which is largely responsible for 66% of all bankruptcies, creating an additional crushing burden on families already dealing with life threatening illness.
RIP Medical Debt buys and forgives the medical debt of people at the bottom of the economic ladder. Using algorithms that identify those most severely impacted by their medical debt, it relieves their debt, purges their credit reports, and notifies them with letters indicating that their debt has been paid. RIP has already relieved billions in debt for millions of people, while advocating for universal health care that would eventually abolish this uniquely American scourge.
Poverty Relief
Code for America aims to shore up the social safety net by ensuring that every American has access to the services for which they are eligible. While government programs are designed to prevent children for going hungry and to provide access to essential medical care, government bureaucracy creates barriers for people to access these services. Code for America, using digital resources, works on simplifying the application process to make it easy to sign up for government programs. It aims also to integrate the various programs for which people are eligible so that nobody falls through the cracks in the system.
Code for America aims to shore up the social safety net by ensuring that every American has access to the services for which they are eligible. While government programs are designed to prevent children for going hungry and to provide access to essential medical care, government bureaucracy creates barriers for people to access these services. Code for America, using digital resources, works on simplifying the application process to make it easy to sign up for government programs. It aims also to integrate the various programs for which people are eligible so that nobody falls through the cracks in the system.
Freedom From Oppression
Putin's invasion of Ukraine has created an enormous humanitarian crisis. Direct Relief provides medical supplies, including essential medications, to stricken populations of both natural and man-made disasters. They have stepped up nimbly to bring assistance to the beleaguered Ukrainian people.
HIAS, founded in 1881 by American Jews to assist Jewish people fleeing oppression in Russia and Eastern Europe, now brings help to refugees, both Jewish and non-Jewish, from oppressed communities worldwide. They are now providing emergency funding to its partner Right to Protect (R2P), which has worked in Ukraine since 2013 aiding refugees. HIAS is also exploring partnering with aid organizations in neighboring countries that are taking in Ukrainian refugees.
Putin's invasion of Ukraine has created an enormous humanitarian crisis. Direct Relief provides medical supplies, including essential medications, to stricken populations of both natural and man-made disasters. They have stepped up nimbly to bring assistance to the beleaguered Ukrainian people.
HIAS, founded in 1881 by American Jews to assist Jewish people fleeing oppression in Russia and Eastern Europe, now brings help to refugees, both Jewish and non-Jewish, from oppressed communities worldwide. They are now providing emergency funding to its partner Right to Protect (R2P), which has worked in Ukraine since 2013 aiding refugees. HIAS is also exploring partnering with aid organizations in neighboring countries that are taking in Ukrainian refugees.
Nurturing Homes for Foster Children
Think of Us was founded by former foster children who used their lived experience as reference to transform the child welfare system. 1 in 17 US children will at some point enter the foster care system. These are predominantly children from families experiencing the most severe poverty and are disproportionately from communities of color. Think of Us seeks to intervene before children are sent to foster care by supporting families and communities at risk with housing, medical care, and food assistance. Foster children experience high rates of PTSD, homelessness, drug abuse, and unwanted pregnancy that can be prevented by keeping children in their families when possible or placing them with extended family members or other trusted adults. Providing support for older youth transitioning to adulthood is another way to help.
Think of Us was founded by former foster children who used their lived experience as reference to transform the child welfare system. 1 in 17 US children will at some point enter the foster care system. These are predominantly children from families experiencing the most severe poverty and are disproportionately from communities of color. Think of Us seeks to intervene before children are sent to foster care by supporting families and communities at risk with housing, medical care, and food assistance. Foster children experience high rates of PTSD, homelessness, drug abuse, and unwanted pregnancy that can be prevented by keeping children in their families when possible or placing them with extended family members or other trusted adults. Providing support for older youth transitioning to adulthood is another way to help.
Ending Homelessness
Second Heart Homes provides housing to homeless adults in the Sarasota and Bradenton, Florida areas, while supporting mental health and recovery from addictions. It helps to restore dignity, autonomy, self-esteem, and purpose, a second chance at a meaningful life for people fallen by the wayside of society.
Second Heart Homes provides housing to homeless adults in the Sarasota and Bradenton, Florida areas, while supporting mental health and recovery from addictions. It helps to restore dignity, autonomy, self-esteem, and purpose, a second chance at a meaningful life for people fallen by the wayside of society.
