Our grassroots organizational partners are living a new story, each in their own way. We think their stories are definitely worth telling. If their passion overlaps with yours, these organizations are also definitely worth your support! Click a logo to learn more.
An orphanage in rural Uganda started by three American college girls with little to no initial experience. Musana now includes a school which serves the surrounding community, extensive agricultural projects, and, of course, the orphanage itself. Our website highlights our friend, Leah Pauline, one of Musana’s three co-founders.
Started by our friend, Dave Reierson, a hands-on ace and airline pilot, H2O Intl. specializes in helping to build and maintain water wells in clean-water-hungry places around the world. Dave uses his unique, specialized career as a platform to take him to places where he can help provide clean water and sanitation solutions for people who are routinely forced to drink “dirty” water and who thereby suffer from water-borne diseases and high infant mortality rates.
Our friend Jennifer Isaac, a fellow adoptive parent, began FHTH half a year before we started STS. She is an organizational and behind-the-scenes whirlwind who in a very short time has raised grants, put together educational materials, and generally become an advocate for a very under-recognized and typically unwanted group — orphans who are HIV-positive.
Brad Riley has years of experience leading non-profits and local churches, but his life’s calling is now focused on helping to end human trafficking, aka modern-day slavery. iEmpathize launched officially in 2009 and is one of the sharpest and full-of-heart organizations with which we’ve come in contact. They’ve put together a moving experiential encounter focused on child sex trafficking, they do an excellent job of using the arts and media to get their message out, and they are very well connected in the ending-trafficking world, so if have a heart for that issue and you’re looking for a place to start, get in touch with iEmpathize!
Our friend Barb Murphy started Cans For Hope (CFH) to help survivors of sexual trafficking, slavery and abuse reclaim their lives. CFH recycles used metal to generate funds, then directs those funds to charities that assist victims of trafficking and abuse with their daily needs, medical and legal care, education, vocational training, and counseling.
Mission of Healing Eyes — Founded by Jim and Molly Conahan and run by their immediate family and friends, this mission helps restore the sight of needy people in Mexico and Cambodia through bi-annual trips of medical professionals and volunteers.
Hot off the presses! Our friend Jody Landers and her friend Becky Straw, just got this project under way. Jody and Becky met while traveling through Liberia, West Africa.) TAP focuses on increasing investments in positive social enterprises around the world.
North Denver Cares food pantry — Bryan Decker and his wife, Marilyn, are retired. But they work full-time running a local food pantry that gives away more than 1 million pounds of food per year.
