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WHO WE ARE

A 62 year-old family foundation working in international community development through effective partnerships with U.S. 501(c)(3) organizations.

WHAT WE FUND

  • Education (Focus: Girls & Women)
  • Livelihoods Development
  • Grassroots Healthcare
  • Environmental Management (Focus: Potable Water Supply)

FEATURED ORGANIZATIONS

Care 2 Communities (C2C) works to deliver high-quality primary health care that is affordable and sustainable to vulnerable communities. 

TrickeUp is passionate about helping people break free from poverty and build better lives for themselves.

 

RECENT GRANTS

  • Boys Hope Girls Hope- Esperanza Juvenil

    In Q3 2022, Esperanza Juvenil was granted $10,000 to help academically motivated Guatemalan children and youth rise above disadvantaged backgrounds and become successful in school. Staff will focus on leveling students academically to fill important learning gaps from the past two years. Crucial skills in subjects like mathematics, language (reading and writing) and English are priorities, as well as personalized...
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  • Building Tomorrow

    In Q3 2022, Building Tomorrow was granted $10,000 to improve access to child-friendly, community-supported schools in East Africa by providing an inclusive, quality education for underserved children. Their corps of 5,500+ locally engaged lay leaders (CEVs), delivered Roots to Rise (R2R) educational literacy and numeracy programming to more than 13,500 learners. They plan to recruit 2,000 more CEVs to ensure...
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  • Companion Community Development Alternatives (CoCoDA)

    In Q3 2022, Companion Community Development Alternatives (CoCoDA) was granted $10,000 to support projects for democratic, community-based social and economic development in Central America. This includes a chicken farm pilot project for female head-of-household families, a water conservation program in Santa Marta, El Salvador and repairs to the preschool building in Pajaro Azul, Nicaragua and the Midwives House in Aguacayo, El...
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  • Digital Divide Data

    In Q3 2022, Digital Divide Data was granted $10,000 to create better futures for underserved populations in Cambodia, Laos, and Kenya through a social enterprise that delivers a range of IT-enabled services. Support will benefit the Youth Work-Study Program: talented underserved youth learn skills via Business English, Soft Skills and Technology training curriculum. Also new trainings such as remote telemedicine...
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  • KickStart International

    In Q3 2022, KickStart International was granted $10,000 in support of their mission to lift millions of people out of poverty quickly, cost-effectively, and sustainably through access to water. Funds will help purchase a CNC mini-mill and solar panel simulator power supply for their workshop and finalize the design for a low-cost solar pump, ultimately introduced in Rwanda, Malawi, Zambia...
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BLOG: PARTNER NEWS...AND OUR OWN TWO CENTS

  • The West Foundation’s Impact on TechnoServe

    TechnoServe helps people lift themselves out of poverty by harnessing the power of the private sector. We are grateful for the longstanding support from The West Foundation that has spanned decades and helped to further TechnoServe’s mission. Together, we are fighting poverty by helping people build regenerative farms, businesses and markets that increase incomes. (From contributing writer: Andrea Stepanski, Manager,...
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  • The West Foundation’s Impact on Esperanza Juvenil/Boys Hope Girls Hope

    Esperanza Juvenil is committed to achieving transformative change by providing access to education and opportunities to a disadvantaged population, reducing educational disparities and giving youth the skills needed to thrive in a competitive and changing economy. Through deep and long-term support, the organization works to guarantee children’s physical, emotional, nutritional, and spiritual health; academic achievement; and the development of fundamental...
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  • The West Foundation’s Impact on The School of Choice/l’Ecole de Choix

    Through its partnership with The West Foundation, The School of Choice/l’Ecole de Choix has been able to ensure that their program provides a learning environment that addresses the unique needs of students within Haiti’s current environment, and also fosters their psycho-social development alongside their academic growth. Located in Haiti’s Central Plateau, Choix is a unique school that combines high quality...
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  • The West Foundation’s Impact on Village Enterprise

    Village Enterprise’s mission is to end extreme poverty in rural Africa through entrepreneurship and innovation. The organization currently works in rural East Africa to serve the extreme poor who have very limited numeracy and literacy, and who also lack access to capital, formal banking, and markets. With few income-generating options, the extreme poor struggle to meet basic needs for themselves...
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  • The West Foundation’s Impact on CoCoDA

    For the past eight years, The West Foundation has invested in the lives of Central Americans through their support of Companion Community Development Alternatives (CoCoDA). CoCoDA works in El Salvador and Nicaragua on grassroots, democratically determined social and economic development with rural communities. From contributing writer, Jim Mulholland, Executive Director, Companion Community Development Alternatives (CoCoDA) Thanks to the support of...
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  • The West Foundation’s Impact on Nurturing Minds

    Nurturing Minds is a US-based non-profit whose mission is to support quality education, life skills, and entrepreneurship to help vulnerable girls in Tanzania become leaders in their communities. Nurturing Minds achieves this through partnership and support of SEGA (Secondary Education for Girls’ Advancement), a non-profit organization based in Tanzania whose purpose is to improve the quality of life for vulnerable...
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  • Trickle Up: Meeting the demands of the future

    Trickle Up helps people in extreme poverty and vulnerability advance their economic and social well-being. The organization drives large-scale change by partnering with governments, global institutions, and local organizations. (From contributing writer Elena Szajewski, Senior Development Officer, Trickle Up) Since our founding in 1979, we’ve helped more than one million people living in extreme poverty and vulnerability – women, people...
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  • The West Foundation’s Impact on Lifewater

    Since receiving funds from The West Foundation in 2021, approximately one hundred and fifteen people have been directly impacted by the support. Through hygiene education, sanitation solutions, such as latrine blocks, and drilling new wells that provide access to safe clean water, these lives and villages will be transformed. (From contributing writer Jim Evans, Regional Director of Donor Relations, Lifewater...
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  • Supporting Innovation, Growth, and Impact at mothers2mothers

    mothers2mothers (m2m) is an Africa-based NGO that unlocks the power of women to eliminate pediatric AIDS and create healthy families. m2m trains and employs women living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa as frontline health workers called “Mentor Mothers.” These women become role models who help other women and families at health facilities and in their communities access essential services and...
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  • NEW: Health Education to Empower Girls in Rural Haiti

    Care 2 Communities (C2C) operates a network of primary care clinics in northern Haiti. We are different from traditional aid models because we have a public-private partnership (PPP) with Haiti’s government—rather than building new clinics, we work with the Ministry of Health to rehabilitate existing public clinics, improving the quality of primary care services offered and increasing access to care...
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