With Equal Exchange Fundraising, your organization can support sustainability, enjoy award winning products and make a difference in the lives of small farmers and artisans across the globe. Equal Exchange Fundraising offers organic and fairly traded foods, beautiful fairly traded gifts and recycled cotton gift wrap (tree-free!).

For more than 65 years, Heifer International, through its donors, has provided gifts of livestock, seeds, trees and training to help people become self-reliant. Project families use the animals and training to improve their nutrition and income, and to fertilize their land to produce more crops. In Asia, for example, water buffalo from Heifer provide milk, fertilizer and draft power. As one Filipino farmer said,"If I die, my family will grieve. If my water buffalo dies, they will starve."

Hope Sings harnesses the power of song and story to improve the lives of the poor especially women around the world, starting with Latin America. Profits are donated to participating microfinance institutions: Kiva, FINCA, ACCION and MicroPlace.

Kids Can Press is the largest Canadian-owned children's publisher, with an award-winning list of over 500 picture books, non-fiction and fiction titles for toddlers to young adults, including Franklin the Turtle, the most successful publishing franchise in the history of Canadian publishing, which has sold over 60 million books in over 30 languages around the world, and CitizenKid, a collection of books that inform children about the world and inspire them to be better global citizens. Kids Can Press is owned by Corus Entertainment Inc., a Canadian-based media and entertainment company."

MicroEnsure makes crop insurance available to large numbers of poor farmers. Chikayiko Jacobo, forexample, has a small farm in Malawi, Africa. A few years ago, there was a drought and so little food that Chikayiko's father died. Chikayiko heard about MicroEnsure's crop insurance program. When heinsured his crops, the bank knew Chikayiko could repay a loan, even if his crops failed. So Chikayiko wasable to get a small loan to buy drought-resistant seeds and fertilizer. Today, he grows corn and ground nuts."Now I can support my family and send the children to school,"he says."We will have enough food. Wecan get through."

World Neighbors is an international development organization striving to eliminate hunger, poverty and disease in the most deprived rural villages in Asia, Africa and Latin America. World Neighbors invests in people and their communities by training and inspiring them to create their own life-changing solutions through programs that combine agriculture, literacy, water, health and environmental protection. Since 1951, more than 25 million people in 45 countries have transformed their lives with the support of World Neighbors.

World Vision is an international global Christian Humanitarian organization that works in more than ninetydeveloping countries. World Vision helps farmers improve their crops with better irrigation systems, tools, training and seeds. It also encouragesfarmers to grow cash crops and sell them to markets directly. Verena Mukankinda is a Rwandan grandmother who has eight children who are dependent on her. Through World Vision, she learned new farming techniques that helped her move the family from hunger to food security. She has even employed others on her farm. Today, Verena says,"It has been more than five years that we have always had food at home. I'm now training others, especially women, on farming techniques."