You can support members of a textile cooperative in the slums of Bogota, Colombia by providing them with the tools necessary to connect them to international markets that pay fair wages for quality craftsmanship. This initiative helps create a sustainable system of income generation and community solidarity in Colombia's poorest neighborhoods. Your donations would be used to purchase sewing supplies for the Concazucoop Sewing Cooperative to help them increase their production capacity and offer more products to the market. These supplies include cloth, thread, scissors, and other sewing tools.

Help Awamaki provide workshops to women weavers. These women come from Quechua-speaking indigenous communities in the remote Andean highlands. Most cannot speak Spanish, read or write. Your support helps Awamaki offer skills-building workshops that helps improve the quality of their weavings so they fetch a higher price. Your support also helps Awamaki offer training in financial management and leadership so that the women can manage their own cooperative membership, orders and communal savings fund. 

Through its LiftUP Project , Upaya Social Ventures is working with a Bhagalpur, Bihar-based startup that trains marginalized Tasar silk weavers on new skills, techniques, equipment, and designs. Most of the weavers the company employs qualify as ultra poor - generally living under $1.25 a day at the time of their hire - with the majority belonging to lower castes or minority communities. On average, employees will be able to double their average daily income almost immediately, an advancement that Upaya has seen have a dramatic impact on a family’s ability to meet its most basic needs. By contributing to this project, you are supporting Upaya’s ability to provide both the startup capital to launch the business and the management support to ensure that it is creating new jobs where they are needed most.

$250 is all it costs to create a job, and that job can create as much as $10,000 in additional income in the coming years. Better yet, the first $10,000 contributed to any Upaya project listed on jolkona.org before Dec. 31, 2012 will be matched dollar-for-dollar thanks to a generous contribution from the Skees Family Foundation.

Downtown Streets Team empowers the homeless population of Palo Alto through a work-first model that provides job opportunities and one-on-one assistance to the homeless. You can support a new transitional housing facility for team members who are looking to get off the streets permanently.

You can give the poorest and most vulnerable underprivileged children of Bangladesh the opportunity to become independent and productive citizens by reducing school dropout rates, providing quality education and healthcare, and protecting and promoting child rights. Your gift to this program will ensure that these children complete their education by providing them with regular health screening, school supplies, and clothes. In addition, your support will enable these children's families to become economically independent through income generating activities to prevent them from removing these children from school to put them to work.

Your support of this project will help train students in the Water Guards Program which includes 4 entertaining and informative training modules: 1) importance of water, 2) making drinking water, 3) preventing leaks, and 4) repairing leaks. Also, the program teaches its students to disseminate what they learn in the training to the rest of their peers in order to engage and equip the whole school community to reduce unnecessary and wasteful water consumption.

You can support the Feed Villages program that aims to educate local farmers in ways of bio-intensive farming which is an effective, healthy, and sustainable agricultural technique. The program promotes community seed saving to support biodiversity and restoration of tree covers in villages. Additionally, the program often produces extra food that is donated to local schools and orphanages.

You can support land mine accident victims in Myanmar by giving them the gift of mobility and the opportunity needed to be an independent, self-supporting member of their families and communities.