Our Programs

 

"There's a growing recognition among everyone from the World Bank to the U.S. Military's Joint Chiefs of Staff to aid organizations like CARE that focusing on women and girls is the most effective way to fight  global poverty and extremism. That's why foreign aid is increasingly directed to women." 

Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times

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Program Schedule
January Nepal Youth Foundation, Nepal 2012
February Starfish One by One, Guatemala 2012
March Women's Earth Alliance, Liberia & Sierra Leone 2012
April Afghan Friends Network, Afghanistan 2012
May Children of Vietnam, Vietnam 2012
June Huru International, Kenya 2012
June Maasai Girls Education Fund, Kenya 2012

If you're holding a DFW meeting, make sure to download the Program Fact Sheet and Food For Thought, and visit the program's website so you can enrich the educational component of your meeting.

Our Impact

Your dining dollars go directly to our featured programs! Through our efforts we:

  • Supplied financial and business training to female artisans in three Moroccan villages, providing them with the tools needed to move from poverty to self‐sufficiency, directly impacting  the lives of 50 artisan women. NEST, Morocco
  • Delivered $17,977 in payments to weavers at the Darfur Women's Center for 2,803 hand-woven baskets. Darfur Peace & Development Organization, Sudan
  • Provided free or reduced tuition and vocational training to 65 women who could not afford educational opportunities as a result of their poverty. Longitude, Ghana
  • Paid for one year of long-term shelter, and physical and emotional support for 10 girls, victims of sex trafficking, at Round Home safe-house. Love 146, The Philippines
  • Funded 60 Kenyan micro-finance businesses, empowering 300 women to earn income for their families, and impacting  the lives of 1,500 dependent children. The Boma Fund, Kenya
  • Financed one year of adult literacy education, teachers' salaries, and books and supplies for 75 women.  Matrichaya, India
  • Provided funds to train more than 500 rural and indigenous women to harvest and propagate the Maya Nut, equipping them with the means to earn income, feed their children, and to protect the rainforests. The Equilibrium Fund  (The Maya Nut Institute), Guatemala
  • Donated funds to 377 Ugandan women allowing them to launch their businesses, and providing them a full month’s fair trade wages. BeadforLife, Uganda
  • Subsidized business skill training to six Rwanda Knits cooperatives and more than 156 women. Rwanda Knits, Rwanda
  • Provided hygienic work space and refrigerated and storage equipment for a team of mothers and daughters who produce quality cheese products in central El Salvador. Salvadoran Enterprises for Women, El Salvador

Program Selection

Program selection is based on specific criteria. Our collective donations make the greatest impact when the nonprofit organization we choose reaches women at the grass-roots level while promoting self-sufficiency. We support programs that train women in a vocation, increase their level of education, improve their health and encourage economic independence.

To learn about how the program selection process,  please click "Apply for a Grant".

 

 

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Program Selection (video from Marsha)