Help Empower Young Africans Through the Gift of Higher Education

A gift of $100 gives a student access to real-world, in-depth projects that challenge him or her to create innovative, practical solutions to Africa's needs. Double your gift! One anonymous donor offered a $500,000 challenge through December 31, 2012. If Ashesi raises that amount, it will be matched!

Ashesi University is a private, not-for-profit institution in Ghana that has the goal of educating African leaders of exceptional integrity and professional ability. 2009 Integral Fellow Patrick Awuah, cofounder and president of Ashesi University, started his profession as a Microsoft program manager. He left Microsoft to return home to Ghana and start Ashesi University to educate a new generation of ethical leaders and innovative thinkers with the skills and courage they need to transform their continent.

Help create great African leaders now.

Give for a Brighter Future

For almost 15 years, Climate Solutions (CS) has built coalitions across cities and rural communities, business and labor, environmentalists, and social justice advocates for practical and profitable solutions to climate change.

CS accomplishments include helping to launch the US Mayors Climate Agreement, which now includes more than 1,000 cities; to organizing successful campaigns to pass a series of clean-energy bills; to transitioning Oregon and Washington off of reliance on coal power; and to creating billions of investments in local clean economy jobs and energy efficiency savings. CS also partners with aviation leaders Boeing and Alaska Airlines to fuel their airplanes with sustainable, regionally produced biofuels.

In addition, CS is recognized as one of 18 high-impact nonprofits working in the field of climate change, and the only regional organization on the list, by Guidestar's Philanthropedia division. Jabe Blumenthal, Climate Solutions' Board co-chair, received the 2012 Microsoft Alumni Foundation Integral Fellows Award.

Be part of the climate solution now!

Give the Gift of Improving Competitive, Quality News in the Pacific Northwest

Support Crosscut News, one of only a handful of national non-profit news organizations based here in the Pacific Northwest.

Crosscut News is led by former Microsoft General Manager Greg Shaw, who helped to lead corporate communications at Microsoft during the 1990s. Like NPR and PBS, Crosscut Public Media Group relies on member support to fulfill its mission of revealing and strengthening the civic and cultural life of Seattle and the Pacific Northwest.

Insightful, balanced, and compelling news.

Coverage of the region's most important stories is updated on Crosscut's website throughout the day. Since 2007, Crosscut has been a national pioneer in a new form of community-owned, independent, and nonpartisan journalism. Every membership helps us to pave new ground as non-profit online distributors of high-quality news.

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This holiday season, surprise a loved one with a DonorsChoose.org gift card!

They'll get to use the gift card to donate to a classroom project that inspires them. Then, they'll hear back from the teacher and students they supported.

Order by Wednesday, December 19 for guaranteed delivery by Christmas. You can also get gift cards by email or print-at-home.

Support the work of 2011 Integral Fellow Oliver Hurst-Hiller and make a difference in a classroom today.

Holiday Wishing Well for the World

Give Meaningful Gifts That Make Wishes Come True!

Your gifts from the Holiday Wishing Well fulfill two holiday wishes:

1. For your loved ones who receive a meaningful gift that makes an impact.
2. For a child, woman, or family in a developing community whom you help empower to lift themselves out of poverty.

Give a Holiday Card

After you make your purchase, select a printable card or ecard that you can share with your loved one.

Free The Children educates, engages and empowers youth in North America, the United Kingdom, and around the world with the tools, knowledge, confidence, and support network to become ambassadors for change and lead meaningful action.

Give a meaningful gift now.

Helping Traumatized Teens Through Poetry

The Pongo Teen Writing program mentors poetry as a therapy for teens who have suffered childhood trauma, such as abuse and neglect. The teens invest themselves in poetry and are helped greatly by the writing process.

It doesn't take much to help.

For $60, you can support 20 free poetry books for youth inside juvenile detention. For $120 you can support four individual writing sessions.

We would be happy to send you a beautiful Pongo book as a thank-you gift.

Help support the work of 2010 Integral Fellow Richard Gold and help a deserving teenager today!

Help a traumatized teen write now.

See the Difference Your Gift Makes

SeeYourImpact is a revolutionary way to help those in need around the world and next door. Give a gift. We'll tell you exactly who you helped and how.

Ways you can give.

SeeYourImpact provides simple, small gifts that transform peoples' lives. Gifts like $10 mosquito nets, $60 water filters, and $85 wheelchairs. We'll email the picture of the person whose life you significantly changed. We'll also send you a story detailing exactly how your gift made a difference.

Consider starting with organizations where alumni have made an impact, but feel free to browse until you find the gift right for you.

Help support the work done by Integral Fellows nominee Digvijay Chauhan and transform someone's life today.

Give a gift that makes a difference now!

Create Social Change by supporting STEM Education

Technology Access Foundation's (TAF's) mission is to equip students of color with the tools for success in college and life through the power of a STEM (Science, Technology, and Mathematics) education. Your investment, large or small, directly impacts our students.

Here are just a few of the ways to aim your change at TAF!

• $1,000 provides 35 hours of one-to-one support with TAF Academy's College and Family Engagement Project Manager for college readiness, including parent and student training and SAT prep, application, and interview preparation.
• $500 supplies one robotics kit and annual replacement parts for a classroom so that students can learn the basics of computer science and engineering.
• $250 buys science supplies for a year to serve 100 students.
• $100 buys materials and supplies for extracurricular and supplemental learning programs for one month.

Support the work of 2009 Integral Fellow Trish Millines Dziko and help transform students' lives!

Equip students with the tools to succeed now!

Give the Gift of Education!

Lend today and give a student in the developing world the education they need to graduate beyond poverty.

Give a Vittana gift card for the amount of your choice. And give someone the opportunity to send a student to school. Vittana gift cards are the perfect way to tell someone you care.

Help a student out of poverty now!

Consider helping a non-profit agency get the Microsoft software it needs. The following are two ways to do this:

Through your Microsoft Alumni Network account, use any of your remaining balance to the company store to purchase software on behalf of your organization.

Direct the organization to Tech Soup, where they may be eligible for deeply discounted software.

Alumni Foundation Executive Chef and Director Marylou Brannan will bake a homemade apple tart with gingerbread crust just for you when you add your name to our Founders' Circle. A one-time gift of $5,000 will feed your holiday sugar rush and support the ongoing work of the Alumni Foundation as we work to catalyze the passion of veteran Microsoft employees to give back to the world.