Celebrate International Women’s Day by attending Elevate Her: Empower, Inspire, Achieve with the International Rescue Committee and Operation Smile on March 7!

Six charities leading the way to a climate resilient future

Sharmila and her mother-in-law in their garden.

Since 1970, we’ve celebrated Earth Day as a celebration of our planet and to bring attention to environmental issues. In recent years, the climate crisis has made that mission all the more critical. Already, climate-fueled disasters are destroying crops and displacing millions of people a year, and each of us are affected by those ripple […]

Bringing light to the darkness in Syria

A little over a year ago, tens of thousands of lives were profoundly impacted by a series of devastating earthquakes in southern Turkey. With magnitudes of 7.8 and 7.5, these quakes left a trail of destruction, reducing more than two-thirds of the Turkish city of Elbistan to rubble and triggering over a thousand aftershocks in […]

Syria: Deepening economic crisis compounds conflict misery, as Syria crisis enters its fourteenth year and humanitarian needs reach unprecedented levels, warns the IRC

International Rescue Committee

The following press release was originally written by International Rescue Committee, Inc. and published on their website. It is reposted with permission from the organization. To view the press release directly, click here.  As the conflict in Syria enters its 14th year, humanitarian needs have escalated to unprecedented levels while available funding declines. The International Rescue […]

Empowering women & girls: five top charities making a difference

A girl holding a CARE box, with other women posing behind her

We’re back with another round of charity recommendations! There was such strong interest in our top anti-human trafficking charities blog that we decided to put together a list for women and girls, in honor of Women’s History Month. The global economy is losing out on at least $7 trillion of economic gains each year due […]

Islamic Relief USA makes giving back easy during Ramadan

A girl holding a fruit and smiling

For Muslims around the world, the start of Ramadan signals a holy time of fasting, prayer, and reflection. It is also when many will be giving Zakat to those in need during this time. Zakat, or almsgiving, is one of the five pillars of Islam, and every sane, adult Muslim who owns wealth over a […]

A path to economic empowerment in Mbeya, Tanzania

Celebration of the grand opening of a new shopping center. With funding from The Salvation Army World Service Office, 10 shops with storage and bathrooms were constructed to provide local sellers with legitimate space for their businesses.

Almost 700 million people around the world survive on less than $2.15 a day. Having a reliable and sufficient income is the foundation to improving individual lives, local communities, and ultimately the whole world. In other words, economic development is the gift that keeps on giving.  In a remarkable journey, Charity Alliance member The Salvation […]

Celebrating five charities and decades of global impact

At Global Impact, we’ve spent the last six and a half decades working alongside leading charities that are experts at addressing global causes. From helping refugees after World War II to providing care at the height of the AIDS epidemic, our charity partners have spent decades responding to and shaping history; honing their expertise to […]

Breaking Intergenerational Poverty Through the Transformative Force of Education

Global Philanthropy; Update on Jalisco HOPE scholarships

On International Day of Education, our partner Children International shares how education and workplace training can break the cycle of poverty for generations to come. Read more about their innovative programming below. January 24th is the sixth International Day of Education, celebrating the role of education for peace and development. In 1948, the United Nations […]

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