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The Seattle International Foundation has significantly supported the following programs both past* and present. We have strived to be an agent of change, and we have sought to support leverage points where we believe significant progress can be made. Some of these are on a global scale and others are more local, but our giving has generally been directed toward projects that include both scalability and lessons that can be learned and shared elsewhere.
Also listed are many organizations to which we have given more modest support, often because they fit within a larger mosaic such as our interest in the northwest development community, occasionally because we are trying to get to know them. These organizations are listed for your information; they have not been researched to the same degree as the other organizations.
On our Recommended Organizations page you can find more information about organizations and other projects recommended by other philanthropists willing to share their enthusiasm and serve as a reference should you desire to learn more. If you are with a Foundation, you too may add your own recommendations on the Recommend an Organization page.
***Please note that SIF is not currently accepting unsolicited grant applications due to staff size. Most grants are the result of the founding members’ 15 years of networking and work in the field.***
*SIF began as private philanthropy and made its grants under individual and fund names.
Organizations with Significant SIF Support
ASAPROSAR: ASAPROSAR provides health and other services to the poor in three Departments in western El Salvador. SIF supported the purchase of land for a new clinic and general support for the Barefoot Angel program that serves children ages 7 to 17 who must work.
www.asaprosar.com
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Ashoka: Ashoka seeks out and supports social entrepreneurs around the world who can have a profound impact through their work and ideas. SIF supported the launch of the North American program for the purpose of completing the global reach of Ashoka and bringing the network together.
www.ashoka.org
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Center for Global Development: CGD is a leading research and policy organization dedicated to the reduction of global poverty. SIF contributed general operating support.
http://www.cgdev.org/
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Central American Leadership Initiative (CALI) / Aspen Institute: CALI is a program started by Aspen Institute, a group of Central American businessmen and women and INCAE University to provide value based leadership training to future business, government and social sector leaders in the region. SIF provided start up financing. Click here to visit website.
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Global Partnerships: A leading microfinance organization focused on Latin America. Global Partnerships is dedicated to expanding opportunity for poor people and providing leadership in the fight against global poverty. SIF supported its founding and growth.
www.globalpartnerships.org
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The Global State of Washington Initiative: Global Washington is an effort to take full advantage of, and grow, the non-profit, educational and business organizations involved in global development in Washington State. SIF provided staffing as well as research and organizational funding.
http://www.globalwa.org
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Grameen Foundation: The Grameen Foundation uses its prestigious name to expand awareness and growth of microfinance around the world. SIF contributed general operating support.
http://www.grameenfoundation.org/
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Grameen Technology Center: GTC focuses on the technology needs of microfinance as well as expanding communication to poor regions of the world. SIF supported LIFOS development, an open source accounting and reporting platform for the microfinance community.
http://www.grameenfoundation.org/what_we_do/technology_programs/
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Initiative for Global Development: A business and civic leader organization bringing the business voice to the Administration and Congress of the U.S. in support of making global poverty alleviation a priority of U.S. foreign policy. SIF supported its founding and growth through Global Partnerships, which was a founding and managing organization through the first 4 years.
www.igdleaders.org
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LINGOS: LINGOS focuses on extending educational and skills training to development organizations and their employees around the world. SIF contributed general operating support.
www.lingos.org
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Mark Lindenburg Center at the Evans School, University of Washington: The Mark Lindenburg Center is the hub of the initiative to “globalize” the University in the areas of greater equity, relief and development. SIF provided start up financing in memory of Mark Lindenburg.
http://depts.washington.edu/mlcenter/
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OXFAM, USA. Oxfam is a global development and advocacy organization. SIF supported research work on cotton subsidies since cotton trade issues may be one of the leading issues in the upcoming discussions of farm and export subsidies that affect millions of farmers around the world.
http://www.oxfamamerica.org/
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PENNAT: PENNAT is an organization serving children who work in the markets in Guatemala City providing them with an educational opportunity. PENNAT is the first organization in a strategy to look at how to best serve the hundreds of thousands working youth in Central America, many who do not have an opportunity for an education. PENNAT also works to convince the government to live up to its obligations to these youth. PENNAT has created a unique set of school books that may have a broad application in dealing with students who speak a number of different languages. SIF provided funding for printing the books and extra copies to be tested in rural schools.
www.pennat.org
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Rural Development Institute: RDI is a world leader in the issues of land rights for peasant farmers. RDI recently began a program in India that has tremendous potential to reach hundreds of thousands of families and is rapidly gaining the support of State governments in India. SIF provided both growth capital for the India project and a challenge grant.
http://www.rdiland.org/HOME/HomeOne.html
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RESULTS: Educational Fund is a grassroots program dedicated to creating the public and political will to end hunger and the worst aspects of poverty. SIF provided general operating support for educational programs.
http://www.results.org
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Organizations with Modest SIF Support
Global Visionaries http://www.global-visionaries.org
One World Now! http://www.oneworldnow.org/
PATH http://www.path.org
Peace Trees Viet Nam http://www.peacetreesvietnam.org/
Seattle Biomedical Research Institute (SBRI) http://www.sbri.org
Seattle University international study program: http://www.seattleu.edu/artsci/internat/
UW Guatemala project http://students.washington.edu/uwgp/
World Affairs Council (Seattle) http://www.world-affairs.org/
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