This organization focuses on providing medicines to church-based short term missions groups traveling abroad to serve the desperately poor. Continue reading
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Bread for the World
This advocacy organization is dedicated to giving Christians a collective voice in urging our nation’s policymakers to take action in ending hunger around the world. Continue reading
Bright Hope International
This organization is small compared to most in the comprehensive community development sector, but achieves an outsized impact nonetheless. Continue reading
Christ’s Hope International
This small but impactful organization offers supporters the chance to make a direct, personal difference in the lives of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC’s) produced by the AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa. Continue reading
Compassion International
This well known and respected organization takes a fundamentally different approach to fighting extreme poverty.Continue reading
Discipling for Development
This organization takes a unique approach to community development work by sharply focusing their efforts in the area of leadership development through intentional discipling – with the express goal of empowering poor communities to transform themselves instead of relying upon outside help to do it. Continue reading
ECHO
This high-impact organization’s mission is to help those working internationally with the poor to be more effective in designing and implementing improved agricultural techniques and solutions. Continue reading
Free Wheelchair Mission
This organization’s mission is one of very personal compassion: providing the gift of life-changing mobility to the disabled poor. Continue reading
Haiti Partners
This organization takes a focused, intentional approach to building capacity in one of the toughest places on earth… Haiti Partners helps Haitians change Haiti through education. Continue reading
Hope International
This organization takes an intentional, spiritually integrated approach to micro-enterprise development and microfinance, sharing the hope of Christ as they provide training, savings services, and enterprise loans to restore dignity and break the cycle of poverty. Continue reading
India Partners
This organization works to bring hope for a brighter tomorrow to those trapped by injustice and poverty by partnering with indigenous organizations to bring opportunities for life changing education and training. Continue reading
Lifewater International
This sharply focused organization specializes in providing individualized technology, training, and support on a village by village basis to bring water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) programs to poor communities in rural areas. Continue reading
Living Water International
This rapidly growing organization seeks to empower local people with local resources to create holistic, sustainable community solutions in access to clean water, sanitation, and hygiene while winning a hearing for the Gospel. Continue reading
MAP International
This organization’s core competency is in distributing donated medicines through thousands of partners and missions teams to address basic health issues faced by those living in extreme poverty. Continue reading
Medical Teams International
This global health organization has long been known for providing high quality, high impact volunteer medical services, crisis response, and critical interventions. Continue reading
Opportunity International
Founded in 1971, this is one of the most experienced, and largest, microfinance networks in the world; they currently serve nearly 10 million clients in 22 countries. Continue reading
Plant with Purpose
Individuals and communities graced by PWP’s work benefit from true capacity-building via improved agricultural techniques that bring substantial economic benefits to families while restoring degraded environments to improve the entire community’s long-term viability. Continue reading
Water Missions International
This organization specializes in treatment systems designed to provide safe, clean water to communities whose water sources are dangerously contaminated. Continue reading
World Concern
This respected organization focuses on bringing a comprehensive skill set to serving the least developed and neglected poor – those suffering outside the mainstream of humanitarian aid. Continue reading
World Relief
This organization focuses on empowering indigenous churches to bring transformational development to some of the world’s most vulnerable people. Continue reading