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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

  • Smiles Forever

    In Q1 2022, Smiles Forever received a one-time grant for $10,000 in unrestricted funding for continued work in developing a dental system for Bolivia, one of the world’s poorest countries. The organization’s strategy for this is based on the idea of prevention over restoration, leading to better oral and general health. Specifically, the program trains Bolivian dental technicians to treat...
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  • Hesperian Health Guides 

    In Q1 2022, Hesperian Health Guides received a one-time grant for $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. Renewed...
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  • blueEnergy  

    In Q1 2022, blueEnergy received a one-time grant for $10,000 to support its overall vision and mission. In Nicaragua, blueEnergy is launching a multi-year initiative to deliver improved access to safe drinking water and increased nutritional and food security for women heads-of-households, as well as the disabled and the elderly. They are also expanding their “Climate Smart Schools” initiative, partnering...
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  • Upaya

    In Q1 2022, Upaya Social Ventures received a one-time grant for $10k to focus on Covid recovery as we ramp up services to our partner companies and resume jobholder in-person surveys. As we discussed on the phone, throughout the pandemic we have been committed to supporting all our partners and their jobholders in weathering this crisis. The West Foundation’s support...
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  • Shared Interest

    In Q1 2022, Shared Interest received a one-time grant for $10,000 in unrestricted funding. The proposed grant would support the updating of our five-year strategic plan to reflect two major events: first, the impact of Covid-19, and second, our recent leadership transition. These changes have resulted in new organizational needs and created exciting opportunities to scale their impact.

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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