GlobalGiving Community Aid Fund

First, we want to thank you for your incredible generosity. As cuts to foreign aid continue to impact communities worldwide, your gift is already helping bridge the fund gaps facing local nonprofits who are determined to keep showing up for their communities. 

We are excited to share that we have recently awarded an additional 17 grants from the Community Aid Fund to vetted local nonprofit partners in eight countries. 

These trusted GlobalGiving partners have demonstrated exceptional impact in their communities despite facing significant funding cuts. These organizations are deeply rooted in countries and regions where recent aid cuts have been the most prominent and devastating.

As one partner put it, "This grant could not come at a better time as we feel the impact of the cuts and are working hard to fill the gap.”

Your donation is already in action—here are a few examples of how: 

• In Afghanistan, your support is strengthening organizations like Action for Development as they respond to a worsening healthcare crisis. Due to funding cuts, 15 health centers in Kabul have already been forced to  close. Despite these challenges—and severe restrictions on training women as nurses and midwives—the organization continues to train midwives, expand access to maternal care, and support healthcare facilities providing primary care. 
  
  
• In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the Collective of Youth Organizations for Solidarity continues to be one of the few remaining resources for refugees and internally displaced people in North Kivu to access shelter, small business capital, legal support, and many other services. While  many other humanitarian organizations have withdrawn due to safety concerns, the Collective remains committed because the Congo is their home, and the people they serve are their community members. Your support ensures they can continue providing emergency relief in a region where institutional systems have collapsed.
  
  
• In Gaza, the Women Affairs Center is working under unimaginable conditions of violence and loss to deliver life-saving hygiene kits, food, water, psychological first aid training, and medicine to women and children. Your support provides more flexibility and stability for the organization and those it serves as they face such a dire situation.
  
  
• In Uganda, health services have been devastated by the recent funding cuts. Kawempe Home Care was forced to suspend the majority of staff and projects related to testing and medical support for TB, HIV, cancer, and pregnant HIV-positive mothers. While its smaller team has maintained medication distribution and kept their children's cancer hostel open, your support helps them recover critical operations and programs—especially their HIV-related work.

As funding cuts and disruptions continue, your gift ensures that affected organizations can adapt and respond to meet the shifting needs of their communities. As one nonprofit partner shared, "Your financial support is a source of encouragement for our mission to bring smiles back to people in precarious situations. We deeply thank you for the trust and support you place in us."

GlobalGiving remains deeply committed to listening directly to our nonprofit partner community and evolving the strategy of the Community Aid Fund to respond to the changing aid landscape. We will also soon be mobilizing more flexible funding to local organizations at the forefront of HIV prevention, care, and treatment—a sector that has been gutted by the funding cuts. Please expect another email update from our team very soon on this topic.  

Thank you again for your generosity and for standing in solidarity with local communities during these difficult times. 

With deep gratitude,

Allyson + the GlobalGiving team

Full List of Nonprofit Partners Receiving Support

• Action for Development (Afghanistan)
• AISHA Association for Women and Children Protection (Palestine)
• Centre for Disaster Preparedness Foundation, Inc. (Philippines) 
• Charmaghz Cultural Services Organization (Afghanistan)
• Collective of Youth Organizations for Solidarity in DRCongo - COJESKI/DRC, Coordination of North Kivu (DRC)
• Economic Stimulus Projects for Work and Action (ESPWA) (Haiti)
• Enabled Children Initiative (Afghanistan)
• Fonds pour les Femmes Congolaises (DRC)
• Foundation for the Rights of Disadvantaged Populations (dba APRRN) - (Asia Pacific)
• Karama Organisation for Women and Children's Development (Palestine)
• Kawempe Home Care (Uganda)
• Kigezi Healthcare Foundation (Uganda)
• MBARARA RISE FOUNDATION (Uganda)
• Mountains of hope children'schildrens ministries (Uganda)
• Solidarity with Vulnerable People for Community Development (SOPEVUDECO) (DRC)
• Support Yemeni Society Organization for Development SYS (Yemen)
• Women Affairs Center (Palestine)

Thank you—we cannot express enough gratitude for your generous and rapid support of the GlobalGiving Community Aid Fund. Your contribution is already making a meaningful difference for many communities during a time of enormous risk and collapsed services. 

Thanks to your generosity, GlobalGiving distributed 14 emergency grants last week to local, vetted nonprofit partners in eight countries. These organizations are working tirelessly to serve their communities despite the challenges created by the U.S. government's freeze on aid and foreign assistance.

Here's just a glimpse into the impact your donation is already making: 

• In Uganda, Kawempe Home Care has been forced to suspend the majority of its staff and shut down critical projects serving women and children with HIV, tuberculosis, and cancer. Your support gives the organization's team the necessary breathing room to sustain their community work while they plan their next steps. 

• In Honduras, Red COMAL has lost a core source of funding for its critical work feeding and supporting Indigenous farming communities across the country. Your support gives the organization more flexibility in adjusting its programs to this new reality of significantly reduced funding. 

• In Yemen, Support Yemeni Society Organization for Development has been forced to suspend or scale down many of its life-saving programs serving communities who have faced years of deadly conflict and trauma, including emergency food programs for young girls in rural communities. Your support provides a lifeline to the organization as it remains committed to reaching Yemeni people in need. 

Our partners at alignAfrica (Tiruzer Ethiopia for Africa) also wanted to share this message with the GlobalGiving community:

"Your support through the Community Aid Fund goes beyond financial assistance—it is a powerful gesture of solidarity that reassures us we are not alone in our mission.”

As our trusted nonprofit partners continue to navigate the enormous challenges ahead, we’ll keep you updated via email in the weeks and months ahead. They will remain hard at work during this extremely difficult time—and so will we. Thank you again for your generosity. 

With immense gratitude,

Chase + the GlobalGiving team

Full List of Vetted GlobalGiving Partners Receiving Support

• Al-Nahda Youth Organization for the Care of the Marginalized in Yemen (Yemen)
• alignAfrica (the former Tiruzer Ethiopia for Africa (TEA) (Ethiopia)
• Care For Healthy Life Initiative (Nigeria)
• Center for Disaster Preparedness Foundation (Philippines)
• Ethiopian Center for Disability and Development (Ethiopia)
• Kawempe Home Care (Uganda)
• Kigezi Healthcare Foundation (Uganda)
• LGBT Voice Tanzania (Tanzania)
• Mbarara Rise Foundation(Uganda)
• Meseret Humanitarian Organization (MHO) (Ethiopia)
• Red COMAL (Honduras)
• South Sudan Grassroots Initiative for Development (SSGID) (South Sudan)
• Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA)(Uganda)
• Support Yemeni Society Organization for Development SYS (Yemen)

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