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Can you imagine coming to the United States seeking asylum as a single mother with your 15-year-old son, Said, and 6-year-old daughter, Camila,  with multiple disabilities? For Angie, she doesn’t have to imagine.  When Angie and her children came to the U.S., she began working in a laundromat and had been steadily providing for her…

Jordan is a Senior at Yale University, and also the Co-President of the Yale American Indian Science and Engineering Society (yAISES) chapter. Fellow members of the organization, like Madeline say they have committed to promoting the visibility of Indigenous students in STEM. “A lot of our work is really going off [the phrase], ‘you can’t…

Some things are too good to keep to yourself. That’s how we felt when we received this video from Clair. Our team watched it and couldn’t wait to share it with you because you are who Clair is really thanking!Clair’s wife reached out to us earlier this year, telling us all about her husband – a…

Have you ever donated clothes and wondered who would end up with your sweater or old pair of jeans?  Clare doesn’t wonder that, because she is part of the New Neighbors Partnership. Clare was matched with a refugee family with younger kids than her own, and she shares ongoing clothing hand-me-downs from season to season.…

We hear a lot of things when people reach out looking for support. But we had never heard a promise like the one we got from Genevieve.  “I promise if I’m awarded this grant, I will still continue to say to myself ‘girl you can do hard things’ before I try to lift myself off…

Veterans are used to doing hard things, but they shouldn’t have to do them alone. When our partner, Kline Veterans Fund (KVF), reached out to us requesting support to help meet the increasing needs of women veterans who contact them daily, we couldn’t say yes quickly enough.  KVF provides emergency housing assistance to veterans who…

Do you remember the last time you thought about the likelihood that you have a bed to sleep in? With all that’s going on, maybe it was rather recently.  We read the headlines from around the world – every day there is news of war, famine, and natural disasters.   Our global community is currently facing…

“Hi. I’m a 25 year old woman struggling financially after major life changes and stress triggered a bipolar episode that nearly cost me everything I have.” That’s how the message from Catherine* began. She had lost her job, which ultimately led to her car repossession and near eviction. The situation triggered a manic depressive episode.…

When tragedy strikes, it is often the most vulnerable who pay. When a 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck the province of Herat in Afghanistan on October 7th, over 2,400 Afghans were killed and thousands more injured. Entire villages were wiped out. And even more tragically, 90% of those killed and injured were women and children.  Our…

Thousands of human lives have been stolen – human beings with favorite colors and school crushes; human beings who had just learned to walk or just tasted their first watermelon;  human beings who were on their way to celebrate an anniversary or meet their new grandchild – just gone. What do you do when the…