Posts Tagged ‘Rainforest Foundation US’
Deserving organizations benefit from strong Q3 2014 giving results
The grants we provide to our featured beneficiaries each quarter are funded by our monthly giving members. Each quarter we see a steady increase in total member giving, and therefore an increase in the support we can give to our beneficiaries. This quarter, our Natural World beneficiary was Rainforest Foundation US. Their techniques are to…
Read MoreClosing the Book on Our 3rd Quarter Beneficiaries
As the 3rd quarter of 2014 comes to a close, we'd like to take a look back at the many ways that our beneficiaries this quarter put your contributions to good use in putting humanism into action. Poverty and Health: Sustaining Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL). SOIL is doing important work in Haiti building ecological sanitation…
Read MoreRainforest Foundation US offers long-term solutions for indigenous communities
Helping others through charitable giving is certainly worthy of admiration; however, the act of giving to others does not necessarily equate to being helpful. Many charities give aid to those in need with the best of intentions, then proceed to withdraw that aid after the immediate problem has been patched up, leaving the communities more…
Read MoreProtecting the land by empowering the people
Rainforest Foundation US, this quarter’s Natural World beneficiary, is responding to the global issue of deforestation in a truly unique and inspiring way. By making it their mission to protect the rights of the indigenous people who live on the land that is so rapidly being devastated, Rainforest Foundation US is helping to protect the…
Read MoreMeet our third-quarter beneficiaries
It’s time for a new quarter and a new slate of featured beneficiaries! Get to know our new charities for the third quarter of 2014: Human Rights: Footsteps Footsteps is a New York-based organization that helps people from the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community leave this insular way of life. Most leave with a limited knowledge…
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