Past Awardees
2024
Grupo Puntacana (Oscar de la Renta Pediatric Center)
Grant Amount: $50,000
Location: Punta Cana Village
Mission: To create well-being opportunities for the inhabitants of the area and promote innovative solutions for the preservation of the region’s ecosystem.
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Grant Amount: $20,000
Location: Norwalk, Connecticut
Mission: To fight childhood hunger by providing children in need with meals on the weekends.
Association Petits Princes
Grant Amount: $10,000
Location: Norwalk, Connecticut
Mission: To position young people to win by creating a Youth Learning Institute, without limits or exceptions, where they will be so empowered they will believe they can fly.
JCS Developmental Centre
Grant Amount: $10,000
Location: Kingston, Jamaica
Mission: To provide Kingston with extensive private teaching services in several different fields, with an emphasis on Special Education. The organization takes pride in teaching students with disabilities such as Autism, Down syndrome, and Exceptional Students.
Barncancerfonden
Grant Amount: $15,000
Location: Leiden, Netherland
Mission: To fund research that enables more effective and gentle treatments that are meaner to cancer but kinder to children and offers support to affected families and childhood cancer survivors throughout the country.
Grunden Bois
Grant Amount: $12,500
Location: Göteborg, Sweden
Mission: Grunden Bois is a sports association, open to everyone but especially to players with intellectual disabilities. Grunden Bois protects everyone who wants to be part of the sports community, regardless of athletic ability & level of disability. Participating and experiencing the joy and community within sporting life gives a good life, even outside of sport.
Jawonio
Grant Amount: $15,000
Location: New City, NY
Mission: Located in the Mid-Hudson Region of New York, Jawonio supports children, adults, and families with intellectual and developmental disabilities, behavioral health challenges, and chronic medical needs.
Kaiserswerther Diakonie
Grant Amount: $15,000
Location: Düsseldorf, Germany
Mission: The Kaiserswerther Diakonie is one of the largest social, welfare, and healthcare organizations in Germany. It shapes the northern region of Düsseldorf, the capital of North Rhine-Westphalia, and is widely known in the Kaiserswerth district and beyond.
Positioning Youth to Prosper
Grant Amount: $10,000
Location: Birmingham West Midlands
Mission: To position young people to win by creating a Youth Learning Institute, without limits or exceptions, where they will be so empowered they will believe they can fly.
Maskrosbarn
Grant Amount: $25,000
Mission: To improve the living conditions of the 500,000 children in Sweden whose parents have an addiction, or mental illness, or who expose them to violence.
Team Gleason
Grant Amount: $25,000
Mission: To improve life for people living with ALS and those who care for them by delivering innovative technology and equipment, as well as providing and empowering an improved life experience.
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
Grant Amount: $25,000
Mission: To fund research for blood cancer cures and ensure access to lifesaving treatments. They also provide education, support, and hope for patients battling leukemia, lymphoma, and related cancers.
Missionaries of the Company of the Mary’s
Grant Amount: $25,000
Mission: To empower children in Nicaragua by providing access to quality education, compassionate care, and spiritual guidance. The school offers a safe and supportive environment where children in need can learn, grow, and embrace a hopeful future.
2023
Ahbap Derneği
Grant Amount: $50,000
Location: Gaziantep, Türkiye
Mission: To provide in-kind and cash assistance to those in need, strengthen solidarity across society, and build sustainable networks of mutual assistance. Ahbap aims to protect and develop local culture using modern technology.
South Valley Services
Grant Amount: $25,000
Location: West Jordan, UT, USA
Mission: Offering domestic violence and sexual assault services since 1998, South Valley Services provides shelter, counseling, case management, and prevention services to empower individuals and families to live free from violence.
Stichting Ushersyndroom
Grant Amount: $50,000
Location: Leiden, Netherlands
Mission: A network organization aimed at raising funds for scientific research to find an effective treatment for Usher Syndrome, relying on volunteers and donations to support their cause.
Razom Foundation
Grant Amount: $50,000
Location: New York, NY, USA
Mission: Focused on supporting Ukraine by maintaining a relentless focus on the needs on the ground and amplifying voices from Ukraine in the United States.
Cambodia Rural Development Team
Grant Amount: $50,000
Location: Kratie Province, Cambodia
Mission: Striving for a Cambodia free from poverty and environmental degradation, CRDT works on improving livelihoods and well-being of the poorest through agriculture and natural resource protection.
Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders)
Grant Amount: $25,000
Location: International
Mission: MSF delivers emergency medical humanitarian aid worldwide, offering life-saving care in over 70 countries to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, and exclusion from healthcare.
The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLC)
Grant Amount: $25,000
Mission: To cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.
Sparkle Foundation
Grant Amount: $10,000
Mission: To make single mothers and their children have a sparkle in their eyes. The organization helps women because women rarely ask for help, and children because they are many of times victims of circumstances.
The Big Cat Sanctuary
Grant Amount: $10,000
Mission: To contribute to global conservation by being home to around 40 cats spanning 11 different species, many of which are classed as more than vulnerable to the risk of extinction on the IUCN red list.
Dear Future
Grant Amount: $25,000
Mission: To remove the obstacles to education and health for children living in extremely remote and extremely poor places in the world. Dear Future brings school materials to children globally.
Kasem
Grant Amount: $25,000
Mission: To support children through and beyond a parent’s cancer with innovative, fun-filled programs that foster a lasting community. The children get to experience a warm and loving environment with other children who have similar life experiences.
Institución Fátima
Grant Amount: $25,000
Mission: To provide a therapeutic educational space for people with deafblindness, including those with visual/hearing limitations and multiple additional needs, based on a sensory pathology, in order to achieve their family and social integration, improving their quality of life.
Sunflower of Peace
Grant Amount: $50,000
Mission: To help people who were affected by Russia-fueled violence in Ukraine.
Wayfair Foundation
Grant Amount: $25,000
Mission: To support Ukrainian orphan refugees in Poland.
World Central Kitchen
Grant Amount: $25,000
Mission: To be first to the frontlines, providing meals in response to humanitarian and climate crises.
Maskrosbarn
Grant Amount: $50,000
Mission: To improve the living conditions of the 500,000 children in Sweden with parents struggling with substance abuse, mental illness, or who subject them to violence.
2022
Move To Heal
Grant Amount: $50,000
Mission: To help reduce the high rate of relapse and deaths of recovering drug addicts, alcoholics, and people suffering from mental health issues, and life traumas.
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Grant Amount: $50,000
Mission: To fight childhood hunger by providing children in need with meals on the weekends.
Gift of the Givers Foundation
Grant Amount: $19,000
Mission: To provide fast and active disaster response in n identified disaster or war zones.
Räddningsmissionen (the Rescue Mission)
Grant Amount: $50,000
Mission: To offer both immediate and long-term solutions to create change for people in different vulnerable life situations.