GlobalGiving helps trusted, community-led organizations from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe (and hundreds of places in between) access the tools, training, and support they need to make our world a better place.

With their work in disaster relief and recovery, GlobalGiving supports unmet, long-term recovery needs for communities in Maui, Turkey, Sudan, and beyond. They focus on sharing power, eliminating barriers to equitable disaster recovery, fostering strong relationships, and providing long-lasting support so communities are better prepared for future disasters.

In 2023, GlobalGiving responded to 134 new disasters and crisis events around the world, raising over $32M and partnering with 354 vetted organizations to provide life-saving and long-term assistance to survivors of war, wildfires, hurricanes, and other hardships.

Harbourton is pleased to support relief and recovery efforts for families impacted by the Israel-Palestine Crisis, the Sudan humanitarian emergency, and the Hawaii wildfires. We are thankful for all GlobalGiving does to make this direct and impactful aid possible.

Mindful Life Project (MLP) is an innovator and pioneer providing comprehensive, in-person, mindfulness-based, social emotional learning supports for young people in schools. Their work is focused in geographies and schools that have been historically marginalized or have experienced high-density trauma. Harbourton’s support for MLP through Zephyr Impact provided a multi-year, unrestricted grant to help increase capacity, grow programmatic reach across California, and prepare for the national expansion of this extraordinary program. In 2023, MLP served over 80,000 students, their educators, and their families in 25 cities across California. The work of Mindful Life Project not only ensures all people in school have opportunities to build strong mental and emotional health; it also demonstrates for all our youth-serving institutions what is possible when we prioritize the mental and emotional health for every child.

ReFED is the national nonprofit organization working exclusively on the challenge of food loss and waste, with the mission of catalyzing the food system toward evidence-based action to stop wasting food – for the climate, environment, people, and the economy. In 2023, the ReFED team completed their first annual update of food loss and waste data, increasing food system accountability for reaching the U.S. goal of reducing waste by 50% by 2030. With academic and NGO partners, ReFED launched the Zero Food Waste Coalition to inform policy efforts at the federal and state levels, and the U.S. Food Waste Pact to support businesses in food waste reduction. The team continues to grow the food loss and waste movement through collaborations and convenings, including hosting the largest Food Waste Solutions Summit in our history in St. Louis, and fully launching a suite of educational and consulting services to support businesses across the supply chain.

ReFED’s amazing track record of outsized impact attracted the attention of leaders at the Ballmer Group, who provided a $15 million grant over three years that will assure this work and impact will continue to scale.

The Eagle Valley Community Foundation (EVCF) works passionately to provide responsive solutions that meet the most critical and emerging needs of those working or living in the Eagle River Valley.

The Community Market’s (TCM) is a signature project of EVCF with a goal to provide low-income communities with access to free, healthy food as well as to prevent food from going to waste. Their work strives to “provide good food at the heart of our community.” The three pillars that guide their work: Healthy People, Strong Communities, and Environmental Sustainability.

The Community Market helps reduce the overall community carbon footprint by reducing food waste and recovering excess fresh food from local grocers, farmers, schools, events, and restaurants. The TCM team also addresses food insecurity and ensures that donated and rescued produce have an entire lifecycle when used through the Foundation. TCM’s three-step process focuses on first feeding people, then feeding animals (as farmers pick up food scraps at The Community Markets) and finally, composting and converting food waste to build nutrient rich soil for community use.

The Keala Foundation has had the privilege of providing 1,150 youth prevention fitness classes, 48 Youth Engagement events, and 3 early intervention programs with an alumni program (19 total youth) all around the island of Kauai. We serve over 400 families through the various events, classes, and programs we offer year round, all FREE for kids.

The objective of the Keala to Success Early Intervention Program (KSEIP) is to intervene early on with any type of addictive or negative behaviors to prevent continued substance use and potential substance use disorder as adults. This is a 30 day intervention program right on the Southside of Kauai, currently serving teen males ages 12-18, and is free for all participants.

Through the support of the Harbourton Foundation we are proud to serve the families on Kauai as well as grow our infrastructure. We finished our location in Anahola, providing the most at risk town on Kauai a home for a healthy environment to breed.

We gathered over 1500 people for the 10th annual Ultimate Hawaiian Trail Run fundraising event to create awareness of drug, alcohol, suicide problems on Kauai to encourage the community that they are the solution by providing for our youth programs.

Path Home empowers homeless families with children to get back into housing - and stay there. Every year, Path Home serves more than 500 families in the Portland area per year across all programs including Family Village Emergency Shelter, Rapid Re-housing, Homeless Prevention, and Basic Income.

The innovative, trauma-informed design of Path Home’s Family Village shelter provides families with children opportunities for playing, healing, and rebuilding while also providing a wide range of services and support to move families back into housing. Families say that the care, compassion, and dignity they experience working with Path Home are what propel them to get up every day and do the hard work to make changes their lives for the better. Path Home’s model is working: 96% of families who stay in shelter at Family Village move into housing compared to 50% or less at the average Portland shelter.

Coming to the U.S. as a newly arrived immigrant or refugee can be a daunting experience. The Immigrant & Refugee Community Organization (IRCO) has 45+ years of experience empowering these newcomers. This year we have responded to increasing community need for equitable access to housing, early learning, community education and access to vaccination options in response to the pandemic, and digital learning for young people in the new virtual world. We have also initiated our resettlement program for Afghan arrivals, started our Welcome Center in rural Ontario/Oregon, and broadened the reach of our legal services to address the additional challenges of new arrivals. Our expanded programming has increased our capacity to build new beginnings for all immigrants and refugees calling Oregon their home.

Walking Mountains Science Center staff and board have been focused on our equity efforts within the community. This past year our board of directors made the decision to eliminate fees for our Field Science Programs in public schools. This has been an important step in our efforts to make natural science and sustainability education accessible to all members of our community. Additionally, Walking Mountains continues to lead a collaborative effort working to break down barriers for underrepresented groups in accessing the outdoors. Currently, we are partnering with 20 organizations to provide shared outdoor experiences for people of all ages, abilities and cultures free of charge.

Outside the Bowl is dedicated to alleviating hunger and malnourishment in children. They pack and ship over 150,000 VitaKidz nutritious meals every day to areas in need. This year, after the earthquake in Haiti, Outside the Bowl provided over 87,000 hot meals to those in need. In South Africa, they distributed 38,000 meals by private airplane while roads were blocked by riots.

They opened a long-awaited Super Kitchen in Juarez Mexico and also completed the first production run of Wow Bar!, a new tool in fighting hunger that is ready-to-eat and easy to distribute. Outside the Bowl continues to establish Instant Meal Distribution Centers, which will lead to more ministry partnerships to help provide meals in remote areas of Guatamala, the Domican Republic, and Haiti.

In June, Central City Concern opened Cedar Commons, their first housing development offering clinical services and supports for people facing unique and complex mental health needs. The voices of clients experiencing homelessness informed the service delivery model at Cedar Commons, which features supportive on-site staff, opportunities for community-building and even communal gardening boxes.