Their mission: The March of Dimes is a research foundation and educational resource regarding pregnancy, prematurity, and birth defects (I obviously have personal reasons for promoting them). They raise awareness and funding for prematurity, prematurity prevention, and treatment for birth defects and newborn/infant illnesses. From their website: "We help moms have full-term pregnancies and research the problems that threaten the health of babies. [...] In local communities across the country, we're helping moms take charge of their health, and supporting families when something goes wrong. The March of Dimes also acts globally: sharing best practices in perinatal health and helping improve birth outcomes where the needs are the most urgent."
What you can do: Donate or volunteer for the March of Dimes. You can also support the effort through advocacy and community networking and events.
I love the vision of Global Hope Network. It is an organization that goes into the villages of developing nations and teaches sustainable agricultural and community-building techniques, which I think is pretty darn cool.
Their mission: From their website - "The vast, hidden majority of the world’s poorest people live in rural villages, where the vast majority of assistance never reaches. GHNI believes that it’s possible to bring not only sustainable transformation there, but also the accompanying hope of a better future, free from the perpetual cycle of poverty. Our core focus is helping villages transform themselves sustainably and holistically through our coaching-based method of Transformational Community Development (TCD). We often begin in an area by providing carefully targeted Disaster Relief in war zones or following natural disasters." Their approach for TCD is "to help villages achieve TCD Sustainability in five key areas:
What you can do: You can make a donation or "adopt a village." If you are part of a church, civic center, or other group or community, you can advocate for your group to adopt a village by making an annual donation for the effort in a specific village. By adopting the village, your community gets direct updates about the efforts and improvements in that village, giving you the chance to build a relationship with them.
Water - enough clean water for drinking, cooking and hand washing
Food - sufficient nutritious food to mitigate chronic hunger and malnutrition
Wellness - demonstration and training in critical sanitation, hygiene and disease-prevention measures
Income - startup resources for dignified and sustainable family income generation
Education – access to primary level education for every girl and boy"
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