CELEBRATING 2019

11/18/2019

Celebrating 2019

Our mission is to inspire sustainable solutions to global problems by making grants, cultivating creative partnerships and offering technical assistance.

GRANTS

This year the Pennywise Foundation made 9 grants to non profit organizations in 6 countries that are making a difference around the world.

Agua para la Vida (Nicaragua)
Steps to end Domestic Violence (Vermont)
SOIL (Haiti)
Vermont Legal Aid (Vermont)
Dpict (Mass.)
Roberto’s Kids (Global)
Power Shift Network (Washington, D.C)
Power of Love (Zambia and India)
Reproductive Health Access Project (New York)
Kantora Action for Green (The Gambia)

Our grantee partners are implementing effective solutions to some of the global community's most pressing problems including:

Access to clean water and hygienic sanitation
Criminal justice reform
Climate change
Violence against women
Rainforest degradation
Reproductive choice
Indigenous rights

For nearly twelve years the SOIL team has relentlessly pursued their shared dream of sustainable sanitation for all.

Cultivating Creative Partnerships: Amazon Hope

In October of this year, the Pennywise Foundation and Affirmation Art s presented Amazon Hope.
The event involved:

More than 18 hours of working meetings among indigenous leaders, preeminent Amazonian scientists and renowned scholars aimed at developing shared priorities for protecting the southern Amazon and empowering its people.
A world class art exhibit celebrating indigenous art and culture of the southern Amazon.
A unique fundraising and public awareness event that utilized face to face interactions, experiential artistic installations, and graphic depictions to raise awareness of the crisis in the Brazilian rainforest and offer opportunities to help abate it.

Amazon Hope generated tens of thousands of dollars that will go directly back to the people of and preservation efforts in the southern Amazon.

It's not too late to be part of the Hope!
Thanks to the generous support of the William Talbott Hillman Foundation, your donation will be matched dollar for dollar until the end of the year. Now's the time to give!

Donate to Amazon Hope

Technical Assistance Highlights:

Pennywise continued to work with partners to address monetary barriers to expungement in Vermont. Expunging old criminal records reduces recidivism, enhances public safety, and increases personal income. In addition to generating resources that helped vulnerable Vermonters pay fees and reap these benefits, we developed a system of data collection that is documenting the impact of those resources and making the case for policy reform.
Pennywise directors and project partners from the U.S. and Brazil convened in the Amazon's Upper Xingu Region to continue to help build a sustainable future for the Kuikuro people. Pennywise helped lead the effort through project planning, funds administration, reporting and project evaluation. To date, the project has developed a GIS monitoring system for data collection and resource mapping and trained local community members on how to use it. Next steps include completing a cultural center and helping the Kuikuro further develop their organizational infrastructure.

THANK YOU!
We are so grateful to our expanding number of friends and supporters. None of this work would be possible without you!

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Together we will continue to generate change for a better world!

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