Gifts at Changing The Present

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$100 Add this gift item to your shopping cart

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With a $100 loan, a Haitian woman can rent a market stall and increase her income two-fold. And you're providing a self-employment loan, not a gift. Your donation will build discipline, responsibility, and self-confidence as women create their own business. more

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Finance Microloans Add this gift item to your wishlist or registry

Loan for a seamstress

Calvert Foundation

Your gift will leverage $1000 in microloans. This could be used by a seamstress in Bolivia, allowing her to buy a sewing machine and materials to start a business that creates two additional jobs and livelihood for three households. more

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Rebuild East Timor Add this gift item to your wishlist or registry

5 acres of coffee

Root Capital

In the face of these challenges, the development of small and medium-sized rural enterprises is critical to rebuilding East Timor. Cooperative Café Timor (CCT) is one such enterprise which provides both safety and sustainable livelihoods for its workers. more

$75 Add this gift item to your shopping cart

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CHF’s development finance institution in Afghanistan, established in March 2004, has made more than 3,200 loans to low-income men and women in the rural provinces, helping them establish or expand small businesses, such as tailoring, food services, and manufacturing. more

$40 Add this gift item to your shopping cart

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Help determine a “fair price" for produce from family farms in developing countries selling to global markets. Forward thinking companies that want to do the right thing need to know how their business practices impact on poverty. more

$35 Add this gift item to your shopping cart

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Your gift will provide three days of training for a small-holder farmer. IWMI uses the valuable information it gains through targeted research to develop appropriate materials which are presented through training courses offered at the local level for farmers. more

$500 Add this gift item to your shopping cart

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Fight Poverty Add this gift item to your wishlist or registry

Strengthen local action

The Synergos Institute

Your gift will help us strengthen philanthropy in Southern Africa, Southeast Asia and Latin America (including along the US-Mexico border), providing sustainable financing for local action to overcome poverty. more

$1,200 Add this gift item to your shopping cart

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Your gift will allow the Grameen Foundation Educational Scholarship Program to cover the public school fees for five years of a borrower's child. Microfinance is one of the most powerful solutions to poverty in existence today. more

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CHF’s programs in Yemen and Lebanon are combating dangerous child labor practices by working with families who cannot afford school fees and supplies for their children. We have already helped more than 3,000 children return to school. more

$250 Add this gift item to your shopping cart

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Start Saving Add this gift item to your wishlist or registry

Homeowner savings plan

Mercy Housing

Your gift helps a resident begin their own homeownership savings plan through Mercy Housing's down-payment assistance program. more

$130 Add this gift item to your shopping cart

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Your donation will transform the future of a girl in Africa by sending her to school. $130 will cover the costs of one year of high school, a cost beyond her family's means. more

$95 Add this gift item to your shopping cart

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Your gift will provide a loan for one woman to start a fruit stand at her local market, giving her a way to break through poverty, gain self-confidence and expand job opportunities in her community. Microfinance is one of the most powerful solutions to poverty in existence today. more