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The Himalayan Children's Fund (HCF) is a way for people around the world, and the west in particular, to connect with the lives of people in the Himalayan Region of Nepal, India and Tibet. Established in 1987 by students of Venerable Thrangu Rinpoche, HCF provides support for Rinpoche's many compassionate activities such as schools, monasteries and clinics. By providing support for education, food, clothing, medicine and other needs we hope to equip the children and adults with the tools necessary for life enhancement while helping to preserve their culture which is primarily of Tibetan and Buddhist heritage.

GoodWeave USA (formerly RugMark) works to end child labor in the carpet industry and to offer educational opportunities in weaving communities around the world. The GoodWeave label is your best assurance that no child labor was used in the manufacture of a carpet or rug.

Pathfinder International's mission is to ensure that people everywhere have the right and opportunity to live a healthy reproductive life.

Through field work, applied research and advocacy, we strive to promote citizen participation, transparency, and accountability in political and civic life.

Sightsavers' vision is of a world where no one is blind from avoidable causes, and where vision impaired people participate equally in society. Sightsavers' mission is to eliminate avoidable blindness, and make sure those whose sight can't be restored receive the support they need to live independently by providing education, support and training. We work with local partners in more than 30 countries in Africa, Asia and Caribbean.

Bread and Water for Africa® partners with local grassroots organizations in sub-Saharan Africa to create long-lasting solutions to poverty. Through our partnerships we address critical issues in the region, with a focus on orphan care, education, clean water, health care, and sustainable agriculture.

Aeras is a non-profit product development organization dedicated to the development of effective tuberculosis (TB) vaccines and biologics to prevent TB across all age groups in an affordable and sustainable manner.

To enable the poor, especially women, to create a world without poverty.

The Unitarian Universalist Service Committee advances human rights and social justice around the world, partnering with those who confront unjust power structures, and mobilizing to challenge oppressive policies

Synergos and its partners mobilize resources and bridge social and economic divides to reduce poverty and increase equity around the world.

At the Center for Biological Diversity, we believe that the welfare of human beings is deeply linked to nature — to the existence in our world of a vast diversity of wild animals and plants. Because diversity has intrinsic value, and because its loss impoverishes society, we work to secure a future for all species, great and small, hovering on the brink of extinction. We do so through science, law and creative media, with a focus on protecting the lands, waters and climate that species need to survive. We want those who come after us to inherit a world where the wild is still alive.

At Millennium Promise, our vision is the eradication of extreme poverty, hunger, and preventable disease within our lifetime. We believe that extreme poverty can be cut in half by 2015, even in some of the poorest, most remote places in the world. Through the Millennium Villages Project we are showing how, using a holistic, science-based approach to benefit more than 500,000 people across sub-Saharan Africa. Our mission is to provide the operational platform and resource mobilization for the Millennium Villages Project.