PROJECT
Free The Children is the world's largest network of children helping children through education, with more than one million youth involved in our innovative education and development programs in 45 countries. Founded in 1995 by international child rights activist Craig Kielburger, Free The Children has a proven track record of success. The organization has received the World's Children's Prize for the Rights of the Child (also known as the Children's Nobel Prize), the Human Rights Award from the World Association of Non-Governmental Organizations, and has formed successful partnerships with leadingschool boards and Oprah's Angel Network. The primary goals of the organization are to free children from poverty and exploitation and free young people from the notion that they are powerless to affect positive change in the world. Through domestic empowerment programs and leadership training, Free The Children inspires young people to develop as socially conscious global citizens and become agents of change for their peers around the world. Free The Children has built more than 500 schools around the world and has reached more than one million young people through outreach in North America.
www.freethechildren.com
The mission of Millennium Promise is to support the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in Africa by 2015. Millennium Promise works with impoverished communities, national and local governments, and partner organizations to implement high-impact programs aimed at transforming lives on the continent and engaging donor nations, corporations and the general public in the effort. Our work is premised on the belief that, for the first time in history, our generation has the opportunity to end extreme poverty, hunger and preventable disease.
Our flagship initiative, the Millennium Villages, now operating in 80 villages across 10 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, takes a comprehensive approach to addressing extreme poverty. By combining the best scientific and local knowledge, Millennium Villages address all the major problems simultaneously -- hunger, disease, inadequate education, lack of safe drinking water and absence of essential infrastructure -- to assist communities on their way to self-sustainable development. The project is already producing remarkable results.
Millennium Promise also plays a leading role in mobilizing the private sector to find solutions to key problems that contribute to extreme poverty in Africa, like malaria, which kills between one and three million Africans a year. Millennium Promise is a founding partner of Malaria No More, an initiative launched at the December 2006 White House Summit on Malaria that seeks to galvanize corporations, foundations, faith-based groups, grassroots networks and the public to support a comprehensive approach to controlling the deadly, yet preventable disease.
www.millenniumpromise.org
Project Concern International (PCI), headquartered in San Diego, California, is a global health and development organization founded in 1961. PCI works in disadvantaged communities to bring health and hope to those in greatest need by preventing disease and providing access to critical health care services, responding in emergency relief situations, and providing access to clean water, nutritious food, and economic opportunity. Motivated by a concern for the world's most vulnerable children, families, and communities, Project Concern International envisions a world where abundant resources are shared, communities are able to provide for the health and well being of their members, and children and families can achieve lives of hope, good health, and self-sufficiency.
Through programs that employ a holistic, community-wide approach, PCI is committed to creating strong partnerships among non-governmental organizations, government, and the private sector. PCI also leverages the inherent strengths of communities in order to address the root causes of poverty and ill health. This is all done with the goal of achieving lasting change. We reach millions of people each year with programs in Bolivia, Botswana, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Malawi, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Tanzania, South Africa, the United States, and Zambia.
www.projectconcern.org
SUPPORT
Stephen is an incredible artist who travels the world to paint portraits of indigenous peoples. Young, old, joyful, and withered faces populate these vibrant canvases, celebrating a variety of ethnic strains in a tapestry painted with strong brushwork. Stephen's objective is to share his experiences of the diversity of human life. Stephen is founder of Faces of the World, a non-profit corporation in the United States with a mission of increasing cultural pride and affirming the importance of indigenous cultures. Eventually, we envision 12 different labels for 12 different bottles. This way if the consumer ordered a 12 pack they would all be different and if they ordered a case they would repeat twice. We envision consumers wanting the water bottles as pieces of art.
www.theportraitpainter.com
Carbonfund.org is the country's leading nonprofit carbon offset and climate solutions organization, making it easy and affordable for individuals, businesses and organizations to reduce their climate impact. Carbonfund.org supports education, reduction and offset projects, and outreach activities to reduce carbon dioxide emissions globally, create green jobs and investment and reduce our reliance on foreign energy sources. Carbonfund.org has over 400,000 individual supporters and works with over 1,000 corporate and nonprofit partners including Volkswagen, Motorola, JetBlue, Hyundai, and Staples.
www.carbonfund.org
Vividminds, Inc. is a single-source professional production and creative services firm that was incorporated in 1999. They specialize in: rich media marketing, film & video, interactive media, e-business, branding and technology solutions. Integrating strategy, technology, marketing and design, Vividminds, Inc. combines the experience, technical capabilities, resources and presence of a large consulting firm with the personal service and creativity of a boutique agency.
Vividminds, Inc. is responsible for the Nika Water brand identity, website, label and packaging designs as well as all of the marketing and collaterall material from the truck wrap you see on the streets to the "POP" displays in the stores.
www.vividminds.com
31 Bits is a socially-minded business that sells hand crafted jewelry made by women in Gulu, Uganda out of recycled paper, posters and magazines. In the 31 Bits program, the women earn an income that allows them to provide for their families, receive financial and savings training, and maximize their creative skills and abilities. We strive to build a loving community that cares for individuals' spritual, mental, emotional and physcial needs.
www.31bits.com
Krochet Kids International exists to empower individuals and communities to rise above poverty. Through the implementation of development programs we not only provide life-changing employment and education opportunities for war-affected women, but it is through this process that we also create a fashionable line of accessories. Through the sale of our hats, laptop cases, and more we are able to sustain and grow our programs in Northern Uganda. It is through this revolutionary model that we seek to change the world.
www.krochetkids.com
