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Improving Health Outcomes in Young Cancer Patients

Children

Young cancer patients who play HopeLab's Re-Mission video game take their meds more regularly and feel more control over their illness. This project supports free distribution of Re-Mission to them.

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How You Can Help:

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	$20 - Provides 1 Re-Mission game to young people living with cancer
	$100 - Provides 5 Re-Mission games to young people living with cancer
	$1,000 - Provides 50 Re-Mission games to young people living with cancer
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	$ Other amount
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Invest in International Development Leaders

United States,

Education

Atlas Corps promotes international cooperation through an innovative and sustainable fellowship for citizen sector leaders from the global south (such as India, Colombia and Ecuador) to US.

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How You Can Help:

Make a donation
	$55 - Sponsor One Day of the Fellowship
	$100 - Receive a Fellow Thank You Call
	$500 - Participate in Quarterly Atlas Corps Calls
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	$ Other amount
	or give as a gift in honor/in memory of someone

Job training for 17 at-risk girls in San Francisco

United States,

Women and Girls

Provide job training and support for 17 at-risk young women in San Francisco who have been exposed to the foster care and juvenile justice system.

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How You Can Help:

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	$50 - Pays for one young women's supplies for training: stationary, books, training curriculum and pens.
	$200 - Pays for a young woman to receive trauma counseling and care management monthly.
	$500 - Pays for a young parent to participate in Certified Parenting Classes that include nutrition classes, safe baby training, how to evaulate daycare options and daycare placement.
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Promote Sustainable Agriculture in Chiapas, Mexico

Mexico,

Climate Change (GG Green)

Help train subsistence farmers on eco-friendly farming methods. This improves the income and health of families, protects the rainforest and conserves resources for future generations.

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How You Can Help:

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	$25 - 1 coffee farmer can convert to organic methods, creating bird habitats
	$50 - 2 farmers can learn how to raise cattle without cutting down the rainforest
	$140 - 5 trees can be saved each year as 1 family can install wood-saving stoves
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Comfort & Support for NICU Families

United States,

Health

NICU Family Support provides educational materials and support to 5000+ families whose babies are struggling in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU)

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How You Can Help:

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	$10 - Will provide materials and support to a NICU family
	$50 - Will provide materials and support to 5 NICU families
	$100 - Will provide materials and support to 10 NICU families
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Give Ergonomic Benches to 100 Mexican Weavers

Mexico,

Economic Development

This project provides 100 Mexican weavers an ergonomic bench and education to increase their income potential, while also preventing serious damage to their bodies and preserving weaving culture.

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How You Can Help:

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	$25 - Helps educate one backstrap weaver to use the bench safely & to maximum benefit
	$70 - Helps bring the ergonomic bench to one backstrap weaver
	$2,500 - Helps provide a start-up kit & tech support for local carpenters to produce benches
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Cognitive Tech Labs for Students with Disabilities

United States,

Education

This Project seeks contributions that will be used to provide stationary and portable computer work stations to schools and organizations serving students and adults with intellectual disabilities.

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How You Can Help:

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	$100 - Provides a cognitively accessible Email program and Web Browser to school or agencies computer lab
	$500 - Provides a portable computer for use by a school or agency to support community employment.
	$3,000 - Establishes a Cognitive Technology Lab for a class of 25 students
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Grow Clean Food & Harvest Water in Rural Oaxaca

Mexico,

Environment

We provide practical solutions for improving quality of life for 30 rural families in Oaxaca by teaching them how to grow their own food, catch rainwater for irrigation, and cook with solar energy.

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How You Can Help:

Make a donation
	$10 - Buys 5 organic seed packets for a family's household organic garden
	$25 - Buys 5 organic seed packets and 1 drip irrigation systen for a family's household organic garden
	$50 - Provides the opportunity for one farmer to attend a hands-on organic agriculture workshop session
	$100 - Buys one solar energy cooker for a family and provides training in high nutrition cooking
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Cultivating Young Women Leaders in Northern CA

United States,

Education

Give young women the reproductive health knowledge and life skills they need to build self-confidence and hone their leadership abilities through this peer-based leadership program.

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How You Can Help:

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	$35 - Buys one young woman’s meals for the program
	$50 - Buys supplies for one young woman
	$125 - Transportation stipend for Participant or Volunteer driver
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Global Educational Empowerment for 100,000 Girls

United States,

Education

The Sisterhood Empowerment Project has two parts: 1) A Journey Toward Womanhood Replication and 2) Sisterhood Agenda Positive Media. The Sisterhood Empowerment Project serves 100,000 girls globally.

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How You Can Help:

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	$25 - Will empower one girl through her A Journey Toward Womanhood experience
	$50 - Will provide educational materials for 100 girls
	$100 - Will provide educational materials for 200 girls
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Peace, Health etc.

United States,

Microfinance

Peace, Health etc. is a professionally managed fund working to solve the worlds interrelated problems. Your single donation is divided equally among six carefully chosen organizations.

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How You Can Help:

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	$25 - Covers the cost of training materials for a grassroots business leader to attend a financial literacy workshop, providing them with skills to run their business
	$900 - Gives a Bosnian woman a loan to start a business
	$7,500 - Provides two weeks of professional hands-on medical training for third-world doctors
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Solar electricity for 10 low-income families, USA

United States,

Climate Change (GG Green)

Our technical staff trains and leads teams of volunteers and job trainees to install solar electric systems for low income families, helping them save money and energy while educating the community.

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How You Can Help:

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	$10 - Provides solar training for one volunteer
	$25 - Purchases 12 energy efficient light bulbs
	$50 - Purchases hand tools for volunteers to use during a solar electric system installation
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New - Help America’s Forsaken Foster Care Children!

United States,

Children

Many states across America pay less to care for a foster child than a kennel charges to board and feed a dog! Please help save a childhood ~ Support America's Forgotten Foster Care Children.