The Sole of Africa Campaign

Giving Globally is honored to be a strategic partner of the Sole of Africa landmine erraidaction campaign.  Please join our campaign patrons Nelson Mandela and his wife Graca Machel, Queen Noor of Jordan, Sir Richard Branson, John Paul deJoria, Mark Victor Hansen and Brad Pitt by visiting www.theSoleofAfrica.org and signing our Changing History Declaration to Put Your Foot Down and Change the Way History is Written!  Once you do, we hope you'll also take the next step and tell your friends about this important campaign and website.

The technology behind the campaign scans the Earth at 100 square meters per second to quickly and cost effectively identify landmine locations so that removal costs drop from $1,000.00 to only $3.00 per landmine elminated.

Please CLICK HERE to view this important campaign.

African Circle of Hope

Aids does not discriminate by age. While most of the 8,000 people who die each day of AIDS around the world are ages 15-49, millions of children have been left orphaned and vulnerable from the disease.

Every 14 seconds another child is orphaned by HIV/AIDS. Each day 6,000 children join the 15 million children worldwide who have already lost one or both parents.

The primary objective in coordinating this effort is to raise funds and focus global attention on this devastating crisis. We will inspire citizens around the world to donate their time, talents and treasures to improve the lives of those impacted by the epidemic including the fifteen million orphaned children.

To maximize our effectiveness, we will partner with in-country NGO’s who are currently serving the afflicted. These partners will coordinate our efforts with existing organizations serving the people’s needs. We will also partner with corporate sponsors and foundations offering matching grants to exponentially multiply our impact.

Unstoppable Women Mentorship Campaign

Giving Globally is supporting the Unstoppable Women Challenge in collaboration with Cynthia Kersey, author of the book Unstoppable as well as the forthcoming book Unstoppable Women.

This program will reach women who have been homeless, abused and/or addicted and will provide them with another woman to act as their personal mentor. By providing ongoing support and tools to these women struggling to rebuild their lives, our hope is that not only will the women in need be transformed, but their personal mentors as well.

Over the course of 90 days, Cynthia Kersey will mentor, coach and inspire both the mentors and mentees. The mentors will also go through an extensive training program to learn how to best support these women in need and provide them in a nurturing yet stern manner. Through a culture of love, acceptance, support and proactive action we will help these women gain the confidence of knowing that they truly are Unstoppable.

This campaign has been designed to reach 500 female mentors with 500 women in need. We will videograph the process and promote the story through major broadcast media partners in order to ultimately inspire one million women around the world to visit our website and participate in the Unstoppable Women Challenge. These women will commit to taking one positive step to make a change in their life each day for 30 days and to make a difference in the life of another woman.

Business Leader Mentorship Program

Givnig Globally provides mentorship to small and medium sized non-profits here in the U.S.  as well as around the world. Our program enables experienced business people to share their wisdom and connections to a non-profit organization that serves their area of passion.  The real world business experience, clarity of vision and organizational guidance can make a tremendous impact in both strategic planning as well as fund development. 

By empowering these organizations we are able to impact even more lives around the world.  If you are interested in volunteering as a mentor to a non-profit in your area, please email mentor@givingglobally.org.

An estimated one in five Oregonian children and adults from all walks of life has a mental disorder. One third of these are seriously ill. Yet Oregon is one of the few states that still allow insurers to discriminate against mental illness. Our current system is both cruel and unfair but there is a better, more compassionate way. Oregonians with mental illness should be cared for with the same urgency and compassion as those with physical ailments. Governor Kulongoski’s Mental Health Task Force concluded in the September 2004 report: “When we neglect mental illness, the financial and social costs to each individual, his or her family, and society are extraordinary and incalculable. If we address mental illness with wisdom and compassion, and if we value the recovery of individuals, we can change lives and reduce costs—both the direct costs of care and the indirect costs which flow inevitably from failure.” Mental illness ranks first among illnesses that cause disability in our country.

The Giving Globally Many Faces of Mental Illness program aims to help create solutions for Oregon’s mental health crisis through both advocacy and funding that will ultimately help the “many”. Our immediate focus honors our foundation vision of Changing the World One Life at a Time. A very special young man from Portland, Jason, is currently receiving quality mental health treatment at Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and for the first time in a decade, there is genuine hope for a positive treatment outcome. This level of intensive treatment is not available in Oregon. Jason is an unusually gentle, sweet and bright young man (and he’s a gifted, self-taught pianist too). He is one of the many faces of mental illness that we hope to help. Tragically, due to lack of mental health insurance parity in Oregon, there is no coverage for Jason’s treatment and his mother cannot possibly manage the full cost without assistance. Jason’s treatment is literally saving his life, and any donation amount to this cause will be deeply appreciated.