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Rebecca |
USA
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Partners in Preservation is a philanthropic program by American Express in partnership with the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Launched in 2006, the program has pledged $5 million over a five year period towards the preservation of historic sites in the U.S. Since 2006, grants have been allocated for sites in the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as Chicagoland historic sites.
New Orleans has been identified for this year’s community-based historic preservation initiative, with nine eligible sites identified and $400,000 in preservation grants pledged by American Express. Each site identified was chosen in part for its role in bringing the New Orleans community together in spite of the damages caused by Hurricane Katrina.
As part of the initiative American Express, the National Trust for Historic Preservation and a special Advisory Committee comprised of local New Orleans dignitaries will review the public’s stories about the nine historic sites, along with each site’s story, background, and monetary needs, and determine how the $400,000 in preservation grants will be awarded. The sites being awarded American Express Partners in Preservation grants will be announced to the public on May 13th 2008.
>> for more: www.partnersinpreservation.com |
Laura |
Canada
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The Kenyan tourism industry is suffering because of the recent conflict. My friend Dustin is volunteering there for five months and noticed a unique need that has been created by this lack of tourism. Many women help support their families by making and selling Maasai jewelry to tourists but because there are very few tourists, they have a very small market. We thought we'd try to help out by providing an international market through internet sales. We've started an online site that showcases the beautiful Maasai beadwork and sells it to interested customers worldwide. We buy the pieces for a fair price, determined with the artisan and then ship them to Canada. They are then photographed and put online to (hopefully) be purchased. We've only just begun and are starting out with a smaller number of pieces to see how they sell but we hope to eventually carry more selection if it’s successful. Providing an international market makes the artisans less dependent on their country's political stability to be able to make a living. The ultimate goal is to have the Kenyan artisans run the website independently and ship out of their own country.
>> for more: www.maasaimarket.vstore.ca |
Barry |
Massachusetts
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The Harvard Black Men’s Forum (BMF) has recently launched an initiative to establish a sustainable clean water source to a rural village in Ghana: Project Access to Clean Water for Agyemanti (ACWA). The BMF saw a need to increase the involvement of students in the global community in order to bring much needed attention to those lacking life’s most basic necessities. Members see their project as different because they are employing their version of “creative capitalism,” a term Bill Gates used to describe sustainable ways to fight poverty. Having acquired funding support from Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research and Department of African and African American Studies, Project ACWA is in search of more funds. Members plan on traveling to Ghana in August and September of this year to work with local engineers to install a secure water pump to be tapped into a safe underground spring. It already has collaborations with WaterAID Ghana, The Ghanaian Ministry of Water Resources, and the endorsement of the chief of the region where Agyemanti lies. The BMF estimate some 2,000 people will directly benefit from the new water pump and household latrines which they plan to install as well. To ensure its sustainability, Project ACWA will incorporate health education and equipment maintenance seminars so people understand why and how it should be sustained. You can contact me at bbreaux.jr@gmail.com.
>> for more: www.harvardbmf.com |
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