Trickle Up

Trickle Up uses their tried and tested Graduation Approach to improve economic opportunities for women living in extreme poverty and to build their resilience to socioeconomic shocks. The Approach helps women to gain both skills to increase the productivity of their livelihood activities and access to markets. With UNFCU Foundation’s support, Trickle Up will work […]

Together We Bake (TWB)

Together We Bake’s mission is to provide a comprehensive workforce training and personal development program for underserved and underrepresented women. They help women gain self-confidence, transferable workforce skills, and invaluable hands-on experience, which will allow them to find sustainable employment and move toward self-sufficiency. The innovative program revolves around a social enterprise: a small baking […]

Sanctuary for Families

Founded in 1984, Sanctuary for Families is New York’s largest nonprofit provider of wrap-around services exclusively for survivors of domestic violence, sex trafficking, and related forms of gender-based violence. Sanctuary’s Economic Empowerment Program (EEP) is New York City’s only intensive, living-wage career training program specifically for abuse survivors. UNFCU Foundation’s grant will cover stipends to […]

RefuSHE

RefuSHE’s mission is to protect, educate, and empower orphaned, unaccompanied, and separated refugee girls and young women so they can build healthier and more resilient futures for themselves and their children. Since 2008, RefuSHE’s holistic model has addressed urban refugee girls’ urgent needs for safety and shelter, while also ensuring they can work towards building […]

MindLeaps

MindLeaps creates educational paths for vulnerable youth through a creative arts program that is built on data-driven metrics. It serves youth in extreme poverty, refugee children, and out-of-school youth by providing a variety of education initiatives. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the interruption of in-person learning, MindLeaps launched its successful Virtual Academy, an […]

Kilimanjaro Initiative

The Kilimanjaro Initiative (KI) was founded in 2006 to encourage young women and men in Kenya and Tanzania to have self-belief and to assist in providing opportunities that will enable them to take on constructive roles in their communities. Through its annual climb of Mount Kilimanjaro, ‘The Big Climb,’ more than 400 youth have gained […]

International Rescue Committee (IRC)

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic well-being, and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. These individuals have survived against incredible odds. The IRC works with government bodies, civil society actors, and local volunteers to help them translate their past experiences […]

inABLE

inABLE has a mission to empower blind and visually impaired people through assistive computer technology and income generation skills. By partnering with special schools for the blind in Kenya, inABLE helps students become computer proficient, and equips them with employable skills and knowledge necessary to become economically independent. UNFCU Foundation is supporting inABLE’s assistive computer […]

BOMA

The BOMA Project works to help ultra-poor rural women living in the arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs) of northern Kenya to support themselves and their families. Its mission is to empower ultra-poor women to establish sustainable livelihoods, build resilient families, graduate from extreme poverty, and catalyze change in their communities. With UNFCU Foundation’s support, BOMA […]

Ubongo International

Ubongo is a Pan-African social enterprise that leverages the power of entertainment, the reach of mass media, rigorous research, and the insights of kid-centered design to bring effective, localized learning to nearly 25 million African families. Its educational content is delivered at low cost and on technology accessible to millions of African children. Their successful […]