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2020 GLOBAL PHILANTHROPY GUIDE Washington State Organizations Working Globally to Improve Lives2 Global Washington supports the global development community in Washington state that is working to create a healthier and more equitable world. We promote our members, bring them together to spark new ideas and partnerships, and build a network of leaders improving lives around the world. We aim to change the world for the better by strengthening Washington states vibrant global development community and increasing the impact of our members to improve lives in developing countries. With over 160 members, including some of the worlds most respected companies, non-profit organizations, academic institutions, and foundations, Global Washington provides a platform to share knowledge, partner, and overcome challenges. We are building a dynamic network of stakeholders from which to draw expertise, exchange ideas, and form innovative collaborations. globalwa Seattle Foundation ignites powerful, rewarding philan- thropy to make Greater Seattle a stronger, more vibrant community for all. Focused on creating equity and opportunity, our goal as a community foundation is to simplify giving and strengthen the impact of philanthropy for the more than 1,200 individuals, families, businesses, and non-profits we serve. We provide deep community insights, powerful civic leadership, effective philanthropic advising and judicious stewardship of assets in support of our mission. As the communitys foundation, we appreciate and value the broad range of definitions our philanthropists hold for the word “community.” From those who choose to work very locally, to others who see themselves as citizens of the world, Seattle Foundation supports strategic invest- ment in the places our philanthropists prioritize. Seattle Foundation works with partners to provide effective advising, education and experiential learning for our philanthropists interested in making a difference around the world. The Foundation is proud to be one of the largest grantmakers in the U.S. to global causes and organizations. seattlefoundation Who we are Cover: Students stand together at the UDAAN school in the Mewat district, outside Delhi, India, on September 11, 2014. Photo: Erin Lubin/CARE. Women in Nepal at a signing event for the Peoples Call to Nations. Photo: Every Woman Treaty 2020 GLOBAL PHILANTHROPY GUIDE 3 Perhaps you already have a vision for how you want to make the world a better place. Maybe the picture in your mind is a little blurry or maybe its as clear as Mt. Rainier on a sunny day. Whether you are just beginning to explore global issues or if you are expanding your global giving, our Global Philanthropy Guide is a resource to support you on your journey. It can help you sharpen your ideas about international giving and provide opportunities to engage with local non-profits doing incredible work around the world. For the last five years, Global Washington and Seattle Foundation have worked together to develop and produce this annual guide. Global Washington is a member association for organizations with ties to Washington state that are working to improve lives in developing countries. Seattle Foundation is the largest community foundation in the Pacific Northwest. It collaborates with philanthropists who invest in both their local and their global communities and their collective passion for global causes makes the foundation one of the largest U.S. grantmakers to organizations working abroad. The feature articles in this years guide highlight Global Washington members and their efforts to advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, which together form a blueprint for achieving a better, more sustainable future for all. The articles also reflect priority areas that the Global Washington community is tackling jointly, including good health and well-being, quality education, gender equity, human rights, food security, and emergency relief. Toward the back, youll also find a full directory of Global Washingtons more than 160 members, a handy reference that can lead you to learn more about familiar organizations and discover new ones. On behalf of Global Washington and Seattle Foundation, we thank you for your partnership and commitment to making the world a more equitable, healthy and prosperous place for all. Kristen Dailey Executive Director Global Washington Fidelma McGinn Chief Philanthropy Officer Seattle Foundation Welcome to the 2020 Global Philanthropy Guide4 Sustainable Development Goals . 5 Featured Organizations buildOn . 6 CARE . 8 Every Woman Treaty .10 Fair Trade USA . 12 PRONTO International . 14 WaterAid . 16 Woodland Park Zoo . 18 World Concern .20 World Vision . 22 GlobalWA Member Directory. 24 CONTENTS A young boy and girl learn in a buildOn primary school in Mpeka, Malawi. The school is a partnership between buildOn and the community. To construct this school buildOn contributed the engineering, materials and skilled labor, while the community of Mpeka provided the land, local materials, and the weeks of volunteer labor to build the school. Photo: buildOn2020 GLOBAL PHILANTHROPY GUIDE 5 The Global Washington community supports the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a blueprint for building a better and more sustainable future for us all. The following articles, previously published by Global Washington, represent the work that Washington state organizations are doing to achieve the SDGs, including responding to the immediate needs of vulnerable communities in developing countries, and working towards lasting change. 6 GOALMAKER buildOn Randi Hedin believes education lays the foundation for opportunity By Arielle Dreher Randi Hedin, a director on buildOns National Board of Directors, remembers staying in a remote village in Senegal in 2013. The village was in the midst of a desert-like environment with little vegetation around. The schoolhouse was a small hut made of millet. It was very dark inside the classroom with no windows, so teachers often took their students outside to the few available trees to learn with light and shade. One morning, Hedin came upon some cows munching on the school. She was surprised and snapped a few pictures. She asked her host family about it later. “They said, Yeah, between the animals and the rains that come during the rainy season, this is the problem they have with their school,” Hedin recalls. This is where Hedins work with buildOn comes in. Hedin was in Senegal because the non-profit was building a new school in the village, one that would not have to be rebuilt after every rainy season or every time a cow got hungry. buildOn works in seven countries around the world, as well as in the U.S., to build schools in collaboration and coordi- nation with the local ministries of education and community leaders. So far, the organization has built 1,323 schools internationally. For Hedin, the work buildOn does aligns with her belief that education is the foundation for opportunity. “In a house or in a school, its the foundation, and I firmly believe that, and once armed with that I think there are a lot of opportunities that open up,” she says. Education has to begin with a conducive learning environ- ment, however, and in places like Senegal and Haiti, where Hedin has also visited, something as common as a bad storm can cancel classes. “Kids miss school if something happens with the school that they cant get their lessons,” Hedin says. “So for example, the Haitian community I was in was so excited about having this brand new building dedicated to the kids, that its a school, not a community center or a church or a meeting place, its first and foremost a school.” Hedin joined the national board of buildOn in 2009. She first heard about the organization a decade earlier when she was living and working in the New York City-area as a securities and corporate law attorney. Her firm had a table at the buildOn annual gala, where she heard Jim Ziolkowski, buildOns president and CEO, speak for the first time. She said he was, and still is, a mesmerizing storytellerand she knew she wanted to get involved eventually. “Much later on, I started to really learn about the depths of poverty in many of these countries around the world,” she says. She thought at the time, “If I ever in my life have time to get involved with this organization, I would love to be a part of the solution because education transforms lives, and it sounds a little hokey, but you see it here in the U.S. and you see it everywhere around the world,” she says. In 2008, Hedin and her family moved to the Seattle area, opting for a change of pace from the East Coast. Hedin left her corporate job and now is co-president of RPX Research, as well as a lecturer in the University of Washington Law Schools Sustainable International Development program. Joining the buildOn board pushed Hedin to use her law background to better understand the challenges the organization faces in different countries. In fact, before she started lecturing, she went back to school to get her mas- ters degree in the Sustainable International Development program. “My knowledge of the world and my knowledge of outside our Western world has exponentially increased, and I think that buildOn has much to do with that,” she says. As a board member, she has traveled to all seven countries (Senegal, Malawi, Mali, Burkina Faso, Nepal, Haiti and Nicaragua) that buildOn has schools in globally. Hedin really believes that the buildOn model of community engagement sets it apart from other organizations. The non-profit does a good job avoiding “mission creep,” Hedin says, by solely focusing on building physical schools (usually with latrines) for communities. buildOn works in seven countries around the world, as well as in the U.S., to build schools in collaboration and coordination with the local ministries of education and community leaders. So far, the organization has built 1,323 schools internationally. 2020 GLOBAL PHILANTHROPY GUIDE 7 When buildOn enters a communityusually in a rural part of the country its staff establishes a partnership between the countrys ministry of education, the community itself and buildOn. The ministry of education supplies the books, curriculum, teachers and desks for the classroom, and local community members are responsible for providing some of the locally-sourced materials needed to build the school, such as water and gravel, supplying non-skilled volunteers to help build the school, and electing a leadership team of equal numbers of men and women to oversee the school construction. buildOn is really there to create structure in the community and provide the monetary resources and certain supplies to build the physical school. One requirement of each leadership team and school that the non-profit builds is that it must include equal numbers of men and women, boys and girls. “In many of these places where we build, women dont have, necessarily, decision-making power, and here on these committees they do. Its a game-changer,” Hedin says. In some of its countries, buildOn also pays for an instructor to teach adult literacy classes at night in their schools. Hedin remembers one woman, the wife of the local princi- pal in a community in Malawi, who was excited about the opportunities for her children and for herself to be able to learn marketing and negotiation skills. “She really wanted to make sure that her girls, as well as her boys, had a good school, too, so that they could have a better life than she has,” Hedin recalls. buildOn also hires local men and women in each country to work for the organization. Hedin, who lives in Woodinville with her husband, envisions taking her law background, as well as her masters degree, and getting more deeply involved with buildOns work, along with other projects. She currently does fundraising for the organization in Seattle, as well as some governance work. In the last decade fundraising in Seattle enabled buildOn to build nearly 20 schools, Hedin says. buildOn is a 27-year-old organization, and Hedin said she believes that they do not plan to expand to other countries right nowopting instead to go deeper in the countries they are in, continuing to build more schools. “We really are getting to as many communities as we possibly can, and I like that because I think thats when youre going to see literacy rates rise,” Hedin says. “You are going to see growth in economic develop- ment and see all those things that come as a result of education that will improve for those countries.” The countries buildOn works in rank low on the Human Development Index, and ultimately, the goal would be for buildOn to have raised literacy rates in those countries and not need to build any more schools. “That could be a great goalto move on to other countries where the needs remain and are the greatest,” Hedin says. Randi Hedin making bricks in Senegal. Photo: Randi Hedin8 GOALMAKER CARE CARE food security interventions center on women By Arielle Dreher World hunger is on the rise again, despite quantifiable efforts in the last decade to stem the increase of under- nourished people worldwide. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations estimates that nearly 821 million people face chronic food deprivation today. In Africa and South America specifically, hunger and food insecurity is getting worse, UN statistics show, due to con- flicts, changing weather and economies slowing down. When people cannot access food, the chances of malnutrition heighten, too, compounding the problem. If this trajectory is not reversed, the world will not meet the UN Sustainable Development Goal of eradicating hunger by 2030. CARE, a global non-profit organization, is working to stop hunger worldwide and reverse the rising tide of food insecu- rity. CARE works in 94 countries around the world in not only food security but also health, education and disaster relief. Like most global humanitarian agencies, CARE employs predominantly local people to implement programs and initiatives where it works, predominantly in the
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