Non-Profit

In addition to the hundreds of donations the I Do Foundation makes quarterly through the Celebration Gift program, the foundation also makes a small number of annual discretionary grants. Previous grant recipients are listed below:

2007 Grant Recipients

Children, Youth, and Families

A Home Within, $1900
A Home Within seeks to heal the trauma of chronic loss experienced by foster children and to improve the foster care system by building positive lasting relationships and continuous connections through direct services, professional training, public awareness, and advocacy.

Free the Children, $1900
The primary goals of the organization are to free children from poverty and exploitation and free young people from the notion that they are powerless to affect positive change in the world. Through domestic empowerment programs and leadership training, Free The Children inspires young people to develop as socially conscious global citizens and become agents of change for their peers around the world.

Citizen Schools, $1900
Citizen Schools operates and coordinates a national network of schools, community organizations and businesses that connects middle school students in after-school hours and summer months with trained, experienced teachers and adult professional volunteers. The organization works to integrate in-school and out-of-school learning, bridging the teaching of basic academic skills with 21st Century education.

Global Fund for Children, $2000
We work to advance the dignity of vulnerable children and youth worldwide by supporting and strengthening grassroots groups and harnessing the power of books, films and photography.

Community Development

First Nations Development Institute, $1500
Through a three-pronged strategy of Educating Grassroots Practitioners, Advocating Systemic Change, and Capitalizing Indian Communities, First Nations Development Institute is working to restore Native control and culturally-compatible stewardship of the assets they own - be they land, human potential, cultural heritage, or natural resources - and to establish new assets for ensuring the long-term vitality of Native communities.

One Acre Fund, $3000
Our mission is to empower chronically hungry farm families in East Africa to permanently lift themselves out of hunger and poverty.

Empowerment Group, $1030
The Empowerment Group is a non-profit organization located in Kensington, North Philadelphia. Our mission is to accelerate economic growth in distressed urban communities by cultivating local entrepreneurship. Our bottom line is to create positive, lasting change for our clients, their families and their communities.

Peace Games, $1300
Peace Games empowers students to create their own safe classrooms and communities by forming partnerships with elementary schools, families, and young adult volunteers.

EarthRights International, $2200
EarthRights International (ERI) combines the power of law and the power of people in defense of human rights and the environment. We focus our work at the intersection of human rights and the environment, which we define as earth rights. We specialize in fact-finding, legal actions against perpetrators of earth rights abuses, training for grassroots and community leaders and advocacy campaigns. Through these strategies, ERI seeks to end earth rights abuses, and to promote and protect earth rights.

Union of Concerned Scientists, $2000
The Union of Concerned Scientists is a nonprofit partnership of scientists and citizens combining rigorous scientific analysis, innovative policy development, and effective citizen advocacy to achieve practical environmental solutions.

CAMFED USA Foundation, $1000
CAMFED’s vision is of a world in which every child is educated, protected, respected and valued, and grows up to turn the tide of poverty. In Africa, where girls have least access to education and are most vulnerable to HIV/AIDS, CAMFED’s mission is to multiply girls’ access to education and accelerate the benefits to individuals, their families and communities.

Witness, Inc., $1500
WITNESS uses video and online technologies to open the eyes of the world to human rights violations. We empower people to transform personal stories of abuse into powerful tools for justice, promoting public engagement and policy change.

Sentencing Project, $2000
The Sentencing Project is a national organization working for a fair and effective criminal justice system by promoting reforms in sentencing law and practice, and alternatives to incarceration.

The Sentencing Project was founded in 1986 to provide defense lawyers with sentencing advocacy training and to reduce the reliance on incarceration. Since that time, The Sentencing Project has become a leader in the effort to bring national attention to disturbing trends and inequities in the criminal justice system with a successful formula that includes the publication of groundbreaking research, aggressive media campaigns and strategic advocacy for policy reform.

As a result of The Sentencing Project's research, publications and advocacy, many people know that this country is the world's leader in incarceration, that one in three young black men is under control of the criminal justice system, that five million Americans can't vote because of felony convictions, and that thousands of women and children have lost welfare, education and housing benefits as the result of convictions for minor drug offenses. The Sentencing Project is dedicated to changing the way Americans think about crime and punishment.

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