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Kickstart
Travelers' Reports: "I am humbled by their hope, touched by their smiles, inspired by their spirit, welcomed by their hospitality, centered by their connection to the earth, inspired by their dignity, awakened by their determination."
-- Terry Gamble-Boyer
m2m currently operates 680 sites in 9 Sub-Saharan countries, employing over 1,600 HIV-positive mothers and reaching 20% of the population of pregnant women and new mothers living with HIV with messages of hope, education, and empowerment. In the fall of 2011, mothers2mothers will travel to South Africa with their donors to share their unique model of education, psychosocial mentoring and support for HIV-positive mothers.
The PanAfrican Acupuncture Project (PAAP)
At the core of the Project is the training of local community healthcare providers so that they can provide the treatments. This is a very important aspect of this Project in that it empowers the people themselves. Their program in Uganda has trained over 200 local health providers, and they are hoping to expand into Tanzania, Malawi, and Zambia. They also work with key individuals in Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Zimbabwe. Watch a video about PAAP's work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65E7uE9TITw
Water For People (WFP) helps people in developing countries improve quality of life by supporting the development of locally sustainable drinking water resources, sanitation facilities, and hygiene education programs. In each country program, the organization works in collaboration with local partners—the local government, local private sector, local civil society, and the communities—to develop a strategy and priority plan. They work to build a world where all people have access to safe drinking water and sanitation, and where no one suffers or dies from a water- or sanitation-related disease.
Watch a video about WFP's work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPVYz-CPUnI
In November 2010, World Connect travelers visited projects benefitting maternal and child well being and health in Costa Rica. Travelers' Reports: “We have organized donor trips ourselves in the past and after having worked with Elevate Destinations I can’t ever imagine going back. They are efficient, highly organized, professional, and most importantly they are flexible and responsive. I would recommend them to anyone looking to showcase their work, they made that possible for us, and I can’t wait to plan the next trip.” - Sarah Henry, Executive Director, World Connect
Travelers' Reports: "I was very impressed with Elevate's willingness in the start of the planning to work with us over and over again, answer questions, talk to the Board and help us feel comfortable about making such an investment with hopes of a big return at the end. I thought their suggestions/ideas were helpful and got us looking at all possibilities. Kristie was so looped in on every rider, their needs and their concerns. She took this part of her job seriously and was able to inform TFFT and Summits of any concerns on their behalf. I was pleased with the response from our riders and truly thankful for all the hard work and energy Kristie brought. We would not have been able to organize and excite the riders prior to the trip without all the effort Kristie put into our event. I feel like half of their confidence and understanding of the trip came directly from Kristie." - Meghann Gunderman
Through SFS' network of field stations, they teach students how to address critical environmental problems using an interdisciplinary, experiential approach to education.
Elevate Destinations organized a trip to Kenya for SFS Board members and their families in August 2009 and is planning more trips afield to SFS project sites worldwide.
Travelers' Reports:
-- Terry Andreas, Chair of The School for Field Studies
The Global Fund for Women is part of a global women's movement that is rooted in a commitment to justice and an appreciation of the value of women's experience. The challenges women face vary widely across communities, cultures, religions, traditions and countries. They believe that women should have a full range of choices, and that women themselves know best how to determine their needs and propose solutions for lasting change. The Fund has selected Elevate Destinations as its travel provider for donor trips worldwide. The Global Fund for Women traveled to India in November 2009, and to Colombia in January 2011, to visit grantees working on women’s empowerment and community development. Travelers' Reports: "The Global Fund for Women is thrilled to have selected Elevate Destinations as its donor travel partner. We believe donor travel is one of the most powerful ways to deepen the partnership between donors and grantees, strengthen the understanding of women's rights issues at the local level, and inspire greater philanthropic support. Elevate Destinations' socially responsible approach to travel and their sensitivity and respect for local communities make them a perfect choice for the Global Fund for Women. " Jennifer Weber, Vice President of Philanthropy, The Global Fund for Women
A trip to Honduras’ Pico Bonito National Park in March 2008 permitted donors to see Ecologic’s important carbon offsetting and watershed projects, which are helping to combat the destruction of the park’s precious resources, loss of biodiversity and degraded watersheds. Through this trip, Ecologic raised $500,000 to help fund these projects. Travelers' Reports: "Excellent attention to detail and a friendly and professional staff made our trip to Honduras easy, enjoyable, and rewarding. Thank you Elevate Destinations for taking the worry out of donor travel!" Barbara Vallarino, Director of Development, EcoLogic
In 2005, Direct Relief provided over $200 million in direct aid through medical material assistance and targeted cash grants serving 23.8 million people in 56 countries worldwide. Direct Relief partnered with Elevate Destinations to visit project sites in East Africa. Afterwards, DR donors enjoyed a week of customized safari. Travelers' Reports:
-- Sally Barr "Dominique and Elevate Destinations helped DRI create a successful donor trip to Kenya and Uganda. I would highly recommend them to anyone who may be traveling to Africa. She was so organized and extremely accommodating of all of our needs. Thank you for a great trip!" -- Lori Willis, Director of Major Gifts, Direct Relief International .
In February 2010, GlobalGiving traveled to Guatemala to visit three of their grantee partners on the ground.
“We partnered with Elevate Destinations for our first-ever “donor” tour to projects GlobalGiving supports in Guatemala. Elevate did a superb job, and everything was top-notch. We appreciate their good advice honed through extensive experience, flexibility, and willingness to accommodate our interests and needs. We hope to work with the Elevate team again in the future, and highly recommend their trips!” - Joan Ochi, Director of Marketing Communications, GlobalGiving
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KickStart is a leading non-profit organization that develops and markets new technologies in Africa. These low-cost technologies are bought by local entrepreneurs and used to establish highly profitable new small businesses. They create new jobs and wealth, enabling the poor to climb out of their poverty forever. 
--
Lee Jampolsky
“KickStart
welcomes many visitors to Kenya but we had never sponsored our own donor safari.
Could we do it? Would we lose money? Who will organize it? All of these questions
kept us from trying. But Dominique and Elevate Destinations made it seem effortless.
She listened to our desire for an experience that would help our donors truly
connect to the spirit of Africa and gave us an itinerary that combined urban
exploration, an up close look at our work with rural farmers, local culture
and of course the amazing wildlife. And we did this far from the over-worn
tourist path. Even the couple who had been to Africa 20 times got to see something
new. This was huge success and has already resulted in increased giving from
our donors. I can’t wait to start planning the next one!”
Rare is the leader in social marketing for biodiversity conservation — with a successful track record in more than 50 countries to date. They train and support leaders from the world’s top environmental organizations, local grassroots groups, and governments – all of which are increasingly aware that failure to create support at the community level reduces the chance of conservation success.
Rare has developed a method for changing attitudes and behaviors called a Pride campaign – so named because it inspires people to take pride in the natural assets that make their communities unique and offers them viable means to protect these assets. Pride campaigns are based in social marketing – the use of private sector marketing tactics to “sell” social change. 
Founded over 70 years ago, Plan is one of the oldest and largest international development organizations in the world, working in 48 developing countries across Africa, Asia and the Americas to lift children and their families out of poverty. All programs are made possible through the generous donations of supporters in 21 countries worldwide.
Through their work at the grassroots level, Plan reaches more than 1 million children and their families. Plan's child-centered community development programs work across the areas of:
More
than one billion people lack access to a safe supply
of drinking water. Water-related diseases are the leading
cause of death in the world. This killer takes the lives
of more than 14,000 people each day and is responsible
for 80% of all sickness in the world. Compounding the
problem is the fact that more than 50 percent of the
water supply projects in the developing world fail.
WaterPartners
was founded in 1990 because efforts to address the world's
top health problem were inadequate and inefficient.
Insisting on approaches that work, WaterPartners collaborates
with high-quality organizations that have proven their
ability to implement sustainable water projects. They
have helped thousand of people achieve their dream of
safe water. WPI is currently working in Bangladesh,
Ethiopia, Honduras, India and Kenya.
mothers2mothers (m2m) envisions a world in which babies are not infected with HIV and where mothers with HIV/AIDS live long and healthy lives, caring for their families and having hope for the future. Their mission is to create an effective, sustainable model of care that provides education and support for pregnant women and new mothers living with HIV/AIDS. 
Watch a video about m2m's work: 
The PanAfrican Acupuncture Project trains healthcare workers in Africa to use simple and effective acupuncture techniques that enable them to treat the devastating and debilitating symptoms associated with HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis.
Around the world, 884 million people do not have access to safe drinking water and 2.6 billion are without adequate sanitation facilities. Every day, nearly 6,000 people who share our planet die from water-related illnesses, and the vast majority are children.
In 2011, Water For People will travel to India and Rwanda to share their water, sanitation, education and hygiene programs with donors.
World Connect is an international organization that empowers local leaders in underserved areas to solve local challenges by improving the health and wellbeing of women, children and communities. Since 2005, World Connect has supported more than 300 projects in more than 275 communities in eleven countries. World Connect has two flagship programs: 
Visit World Connect at 
The Foundation for Tomorrow (TFFT) strives to empower the future of developing nations by educating their youth. They support orphans who would not be able to receive a primary, secondary or tertiary education. TFFT seeks to create environments in which peace, health, and human welfare prosper as a result of a well educated population. 
In July 2010, The Foundation for Tomorrow sponsored a charity bike ride in Tanzania to fundraise for the children who benefit from TFFT programs.
Founded in 1980, The School for Field Studies (SFS) is one of the country's oldest and largest undergraduate environmental study abroad programs. 
SFS currently operates programs in Australia, Costa Rica, Kenya, Mexico and the Turks and Caicos. Students leave their SFS program with a deeper understanding of the complexity of environmental issues, and a unique perspective on what it really takes to develop long-term conservation solutions.
"The trip was magnificent! It could not have been better planned or delivered. Thank you SO much! Each lodge seemed better than the one we had just left. Gerald was pro-active about making arrangements and anticipating our needs. Beth (the children's guide) was a delight to all of us. There was no whining, no "I'm bored", and no reluctance to turn in for the night. Animals appeared like magic! And starting with the baby animal centers was brilliant. There are even more good things to say and nothing that could have been improved."
The Global Fund for Children’s mission is to advance the dignity of children and youth around the world. GFC pursues its mission by making small grants to innovative community-based organizations working with some of the world’s most vulnerable children and youth.
The Global Fund for Women is an international network of women and men committed to a world of equality and social justice. They advocate for and defend women's human rights by making grants to support women's groups around the world.
EcoLogic advances conservation of critical natural resources in rural areas of Latin America by promoting sustainable livelihoods and by strengthening community participation in natural resource management.
Direct Relief International provides medical material aid including medicines, medical supplies and equipment to strengthen in-country health efforts around the world to improve the quality of life for the most impoverished people.
"It
was just a spectacular trip! Smooth, easy and fun."
GlobalGiving is an online marketplace for philanthropy that connects donors to causes they are passionate about, and allows them to maximize the impact of their giving by choosing how their money is used. Through its website, GlobalGiving connects donors to more than 1300 grassroots projects in more than 70 countries worldwide. Over the past 5 years, more than 650 organizations have raised nearly $20 million through GlobalGiving.
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