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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 sand 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 sand 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 Selah Way Foundation 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 Selah Way Foundation 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 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.
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.
