Our Partners
Make Trade Fair
Fair trade is a growing international movement which ensures that producers in poor countries get a fair deal. This means a fair price for their goods (one that covers the cost of production and guarantees a living income), long-term contracts which provide real security, and support to grow their businesses. In the five years since its launch, over 10 million people have added their voice to the Big Noise petition to make trade fair.
www.maketradefair.com
St.Jude Children's Research Hospital
A children’s cancer research hospital where doctors across the world send their toughest cases and most vulnerable patients. No one pays for treatment beyond what is covered by insurance and those without insurance are never asked to pay.
www.stjude.org
Girls Kick It
Girls Kick It is an organization which empowers girls in refugee camps in Uganda by providing soccer camps and leagues.
www.girlskickit.org
Wishing Well
Wishing Well creates access to clean water by building wells for people in the poorest areas of Africa where water borne diseases are the number one killers among the population.
Global Youth Partnership for Africa
Global Youth Partnership for Africa (GYPA) is a non-profit organization striving to create partnerships between young African leaders and young Americans eager to learn and engage in Africa's challenges. GYPA is dedicated to challenging the way Americans interact with and understand Africa. GYPA creates partnerships between young leaders in Africa and their American counterparts to bring a fresh, pragmatic perspective to Africa's challenges.
www.gypafrica.org
Invisible Children
Since 2000, at least 66,000 youth between the ages of 13 and 30 have been abducted in Uganda. When abducted children are sexually abused, forced to become child soldiers and commit heinous acts of violence and murder. Every day children commute up to 17 miles on foot to large towns to escape abduction. Invisible Children, Inc. is dedicated to providing financial resources to the invisible children by documenting their true, untold stories in a creative and relevant way, resulting in positive change.
www.invisiblechildren.com
Ten-Thousand Homes
Around the world, more than 15 million children have been orphaned by AIDS. More than 12 million of these children live in Sub-Saharan Africa. Faced with this reality, Ten-Thousand Homes is responding with significant and long-term assistance. Their gol is to build HOPE and HOMES for 10,000 orphans by 2010.
www.tenthousandhomes.org
International Justice Mission
International Justice Mission is an international human rights agency that rescues victims of violence, sexual exploitation, slavery and oppression. IJM conducts professional investigations of the abuses and mobilizes intervention on behalf of the victims. IJM currently operates in thirteen countries around the world, focusing casework primarily on issues of bonded labor, forced prostitution, land seizure, police brutality, and illegal imprisonment.
www.ijm.org
Contributors
Justin Bauer - www.justinbauer.com
Kenny Hurtado - www.kennyhurtado.com
Theo Hetherington - www.theostyle.com
Corinne Mayer
Hillary Amborn- www.no-luxury.com
Randy Noborikawa
Brett Bayley
Shannon Menzel - www.wetsand.com/shannon
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Our Mission
We live in a world ravaged by conflict, crippled by poverty, and burdened with disease. We believe today's society is largely characterized by ignorance regarding the direst of humanitarian crises. We know that many are willing to help but lack the resources to do so. ACTVST attempts to bridge the gap between desire to aid and decision to act... but we cannot do it without you.
Who We Are
ACTVST :
is the expression of our generation's refusal to accept the norms of this planet are set in stone.
seeks to equip 'direct assistance' humanitarian organizations with the funds and human resources necessary to be effective.
seeks to mobilize a generation to the service of the greater causes of humanity worldwide.
aims to manifest compassion into creative acts of service that are consequential globally and redefine where, when, and how change can be accomplished.
ACTVST is the belief that action is greater than apathy.
ACTVST Direct Aid
E.P.I.C - Everyday People Initiating Change :
Raising money is not where the ACTVST vision ends. E.P.I.C. is the hands and feet branch of ACTVST which provides the link from raising awareness to creating tangible change. On a project-by-project basis, E.P.I.C. raises money and cultivates energy around the humanitarian relief it executes world wide. The heart of E.P.I.C. is the belief that everyone can make a difference, and as a result, E.P.I.C. promotes easy access to the ways in which everyone can contribute positively to our world in a hands-on way.
E.P.I.C. recognizes the importance of every dollar raised, and therefore intends to continue to ensure that 100% of all donations received go directly to benefiting those who are most in need.
All donations received by E.P.I.C. in 2006 and 2007, will go towards bettering the lives of children born into a world of deprivation and suffering in Tanzania, one of Africa's most impoverished nations. E.P.I.C. intends to alleviate suffering by providing children with easier access to education, and the most basic need of all, clean water. By installing clean water systems, they will help stop the cycle of disease and death from water- borne illnesses and poor sanitation. In addition to addressing the problems of now, they are investing further by equipping future workforces with education. Beginning in Africa, E.P.I.C. hopes to help put an end to the immense imbalance that exists between the developing and the industrialized world.
In the future, E.P.I.C. will look onward and upward to ensure that each new project contributes to making ACTVST goals a reality. Working side by side with those at the center of struggle, E.P.I.C. believes the best gift they can impart is not provision...it is hope. Hope in the pulse of just one village can revitalize entire regions, diminish fear, extinguish poverty, and restore broken hearts. Every day E.P.I.C. works to bring hope to the hopeless and remind people that who they are is not far from who they need to be to initiate change.
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