Help bring science education to schools throughout Washington state by sponsoring Pacific Science Center's Science On Wheels program. The program's goal is to enhance science education and inspire life-long learning by bringing in classroom lessons, exciting live demonstrations and hands-on exhibit areas to schools, many of which lack the funding and/or access to inspire their students through field trips to science centers and museums.

Through this "Disaster Recovery Leadership Program," you can sponsor talented young Japanese to become entrepreneurial disaster recovery leaders and energize their work reconstructing the Tohoku region in Japan. These young leaders in their 20s and 30s from all over Japan will be sent to 50 projects for disaster relief and community and industrial revitalization. Examples of such projects include: a community bus operation project and a project to create an association of food industries in the Eastern region of Japan. The Fellows in this Disaster Recovery Leadership Program must make full-time commitment for period of 3 months to 1 year. This can be made possible only with your financial support. Our goal is to sponsor Fellows who will become the leaders of next generation, and to generate 15,000 beneficiaries in community revitalization and 600 new jobs through industrial revitalization. Furthermore, this program cultivates social awareness and an entrepreneurial spirit in youth and the people around them, while taking advantage of their energy and ambition for long-lasting and effective development. This program has the potential to move past mere relief and progress and have a ripple effect towards social end economic development throughout Japan.

You can reduce your carbon foot print by planting trees in Cameroon. Trees for the Future integrates tree-planting into agriculture and land restoration projects providing countless, sustainable benefits to our Earth and to the life upon it. Not only do trees bring life back to degraded lands, they also create better conditions to grow food, they provide people with a means to generate income, and they mitigate climate change through sequestering carbon dioxide.

Preparing indigenous children in rural Guatemala to succeed in school is vital to helping them break the cycle of extreme poverty. Your gift to this project will pay for an entire year of tutoring for a k'iche'-speaking elementary student in the village of Pasac in Nahualá Sololá.

The goal of this project is to provide needed school supplies and personal items for blind children in Nepal by distributing useful backpacks. In cooperation with the Nepal Association for the Welfare of the Blind or 'NAWB', 'Backpacks for the Blind & Visually-Impaired' will be distributed to needy children who will be identified by NAWB. You can help empower these needy children by providing them with these specialized backpacks. The backpacks will contain a folding white cane, an abacus and math kit for the blind, a Braille slate with stylus, either a talking watch or Braille watch, and a Braille ruler.

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.

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.

You can help women and girls who are survivors of gender-based violence or are threatened with "honor killing" by providing a means and social support to escape dangererous circumstances and begin to build a new life. Your gift to this project offers transportation, shelter, necessities, and medical care to women and children escaping violent situations in communities throughout Iraq.