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One Family Inc.

 
The Jenzabar Foundation’s partnership with One Family has been several years in the making. The Massachusetts-based One Family provides The Jenzabar Foundation sponsored One Family’s Beacon Hill Luncheon, Mothers of Inspiration Dinner and Back-to-School Breakfast events which helped raise awareness and additional funding for One Family programs.


Opportunity Internation/One Hen

The innovative OneHen.org (http://www.onehen.org), an educational nonprofit that works in partnership with microfinance agency Opportunity International, seeks to educate elementary and middle school students about micro-financing in a way that stimulates their imagination while actually raising money to provide micr-loans in third-world locations. Adapting the true story of a boy in Ghana who gets a small laon, buys a hen, takes flight as an entrepreneur and eventually becomes the largest poultry farmer in Ghana, OneHen uses games, video and other interactive content to create what is truly a "next generation" learning tool. The Jenzabar Foundation helped establish a fund whereby beads won while playing online games can be converted by the students into actual currency to provide micro-loans.
 


Thanks USA

Thanks USA provides scholarships to spouses, sons and daughters of active duty military personnel. The Jenzabar Foundation contributed to ThanksUSA’s scholarship fund by jointly creating the Jenzabar – ThanksUSA scholarships, which recognized those students served by ThanksUSA that also extended themselves through exemplary service to their communities.

Somaly Mam Foundation

Through its relationship with Glamour Magazine, The Jenzabar Foundation has begun working with the Somaly Mam Foundation. Founded by 2007 Glamour Woman of the Year Somaly Mam, this foundation raises money and awareness to rescue, rehabilitate and reintegrate victims of the sex slave trade in Southeast Asia. The Jenzabar Foundation has committed funds to help create a sustainable enterprise to help educate and train these victims while providing an on-going funding source for the Somaly Mam Foundation. While the initial commitment was made in 2008, this is an on-going effort for 2009. http://www.somaly.org/



China Care

The Jenzabar Foundation continued the philanthropic work of Jenzabar’s leadership in supporting China Care, a foundation with 35 student chapters at colleges and universities through the United States. The Jenzabar Foundation’s primary connection to China Care comes through the Harvard China Care group, which, with The Jenzabar Foundation’s assistance, has raised funds to open a healthcare facility within an existing orphanage in Baoji China. In 2008 The Jenzabar Foundation also contributed to an initiative to assist children from AID-affected families in China through its relationship with Harvard China Care. 
http://www.chinacare.org/   http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~care/


Glamour Magazine and Vital Voices

The Jenzabar Foundation, through Vital Voices, donated to the Women of the Year Fund initiative during the 2008 Woman of the Year event.  Glamour magazine honored Nujood Ali and her lawyer, Shada Nasser. At age 10, Nujood Muhammed Ali has already overcome tremendous adversity to achieve independence and pave the way for girls’ rights in her home country of Yemen. Married off by her poverty-stricken parents at the age of 9, Nujood was raped and beaten by her 30-year-old husband. Seeking a brighter future, she found Shada Nasser, a human rights lawyer who courageously worked to free Nujood from this violent situation- effectively achieving Yemen’s first legal divorce for a child bride. Money raised went to Girl’s World Communication Center to help child brides and girls at risk for early marriage complete their education and have a brighter future.