You can support youth in the slums of Bogota, Colombia as they develop their own community internet cafe business, called MegaRed. The internet cafes provide opportunities for young entrepreneurs to create a better future for themselves; they provide a safe and positive environment for young people at risk of being recruited or attacked by armed groups; and they bring crucial access to information to community members isolated by their poverty. The same youth who manage the cafe dedicate 6 to 8 hours per week training other community members in technological and business management skills to multiply MegaRed's reach in their impoverished community.

You can help empower and educate local artisans to learn how to make and sell Nicaraguan pottery. Your sponsorship will provide all technical training and finishing skills to a poor artisan in Nicaragua.

Fonkoze attacks illiteracy in Haiti through its pioneering educational program that combines basic literacy training with practical education in subjects such as business development, sexual and reproductive health, and effective use of financial services. For just $25, you can help one woman go through a four month module to improve her literacy and practical education.

Your support of Silence's Queendom The Ettiquete Academy (TEA) Program is a year-long program that will help provide mentoring and direction to at-risk teen girls from female community leaders. The program culminates in community outreach projects and a crowning ceremony for the girs to raise their self-esteem and confidence so that they can go forward to be all they can.

You can support women farmers in eastern Sudan by helping provide the seeds, tools, and training they need to feed their families and generate income for their communities. Supporting the newly-formed Women Farmers' Union ensures that women can continue to work collectively to sustain their families for the long haul.

Prior to lending out microloans to low-income families, Washington CASH provides supportive community business training and capital to help individuals with limited financial resources to gain self-sufficiency through small business ownership. Your support of Washington CASH can help improve the economic conditions of Seattle's lower income population.

By funding a student you will help provide talented yet vulnerable young men and women with the first family-like setting that many of them have known in their lives. 7-8 students share each house; they have overcome unimaginable obstacles in their lives, and the support they provide each other with in their homes is invaluable. The students have ambitious goals for their careers, and study a variety of fields, including medicine, law, and computer science. Whenever they get together at their houses, it feels more like a family gathering than a meeting of classmates. This important social support system helps new students during a profound adjustment period as they acquire life skills and begin their college careers—and it provides them with stability and a strong community for the duration of their studies.

You can help promote literacy and careers in journalism and photojournalism, while providing a creative outlet and public voice for the youth of Issaquah and the surrounding region by supporting "The Beat" project of Ashoka Youth Venture Seattle. "The Beat" has partnered with The Issaquah Press to publish a monthly teen page in the newspaper that is written, photographed, and illustrated by youth, for youth.