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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

  • CoCoDA

    Community Development Alternatives (CoCoDA) received $10,000 in unrestricted funds as the organization continues its work to sustain the Rural Community Clinic in La Mora, El Salvador, which has played a pivotal role during the pandemic. CoCoDA has been involved in grassroots, community development collaborations with communities in El Salvador since 1992.  In response to our current funding priorities, CoCoDA is...
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  • Boys Hope Girls Hope

    Boys Hope Girls Hope International received $10,000 in unrestricted funds for COVID-related expenses and to renew its support of Esperanza Juvenil in 2021. An investment of $10,000 would make a substantial impact upon their COVID-related expenses in the second semester of 2021. More specifically, funding would continue to provide technology and educational support for the children and youth they serve....
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  • Village Enterprise

    Village Enterprise received $10,500 in unrestricted funds. Village Enterprise serves the rural poor in East Africa who live on less than $1.90/ day. The organization recently completed the first year of its FY21-23 strategic plan and has seen significant progress towards its goal of reaching 20 million people by 2030. To do this, VE will focus on 5 main areas: 1)...
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  • Mali Health

    In 2021, Mali Health received $10,000 in unrestricted funds to develop grassroots, community-led structures that can maintain and finance the results and impact of their community health program. Since the government of Mali is not able to provide these services, Mali Health is stepping up. Their goal is a sustainable program model that ensures geographic and financial accessibility of quality healthcare...
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  • VisionSpring

    In 2021, VisionSpring was awarded $15,000 in general operating expenses. The millions of workers they serve – including garment workers, tea pickers, truck drivers, crafts-persons, and students – are now responding to COVID-19 in their communities. Because their eye screening work intersects with community health workers, hospitals, government health ministries, supply chain providers and the manufacturing sector, the organization has...
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  • Opportunity International

    In 2021, Opportunity International received a one-time grant of $5,000 for assistance regarding fund raising efforts for its COVID Response fund, which was established in 2020 with the intent of accumulating $12.5 million to serve 4.5 million people. In particular, the fund will be used for assistance to Ghana, Uganda, Nicaragua, and Colombia, in regard to smallholder farmer resilience, as...
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  • Hesperian Health Guides

    In 2021, Hesperian Health Guides was awarded $15,000 in unrestricted funding to support and expand their work to create new multilingual health resources for people worldwide. Hesperian’s content, delivered as print materials, digital resources, and mobile apps, helps people take greater control over their own health and organize for equal access to health and healthcare.

  • Care2Communities

    In 2021, Care2Communities was awarded $10,000 in unrestricted funding to support its ongoing work in northern Haiti. Although COVID-19 vaccinations are already a reality in the US and other developed countries, the organization is uncertain as to when they will be readily available in Haiti.

  • Smiles Forever

    In 2021, Smiles Forever was awarded $10,000 as the third and final installment of a three-year grant for phase II of its research pilot focused on demonstrating the effectiveness of Silver Diamine Fluoride. Since 2000, more than 37,000 impoverished children have received quality dental care that is complete, free, preventative and restorative. Additionally, 37 disadvantaged indigenous women (mostly single mothers)...
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  • Lifewater

    In 2021, Lifewater was awarded $7,500 for assistance with its current program, “Vision of a Healthy Village” (VHV), which is designed to work in remote communities experiencing extreme poverty. VHV includes three years of water, sanitation, and hygiene education including COVID prevention.  Funding from The West Foundation would assist active programming primarily taking place in two districts within Uganda, Kakumiro...
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BLOG: PARTNER NEWS...AND OUR OWN TWO CENTS

  • 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, they work to guarantee children’s physical, emotional, nutritional,  and spiritual health; academic achievement; and the development of fundamental values...
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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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  • The West Foundation receives a surprise donation!

    Thank you to Salesforce Tower Indy’s Cushman & Wakefield leasing team who presented The West Foundation with a donation of $2,500 provided by the owner of Salesforce Tower, Square Deal Investments.  

  • 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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