What inspires you to give?
For me, it started with my dad. When I was a kid he taught me to tithe at least 10% of my twenty five cent allowance each week.
That early lesson stayed with me, and it continues to shape NICABM’s finances.
So in 2020, we gave away $550,713 to organizations doing great work locally, in the US, and around the world.
We funded gender-equal schools in Pakistan, international refugee assistance, direct cash transfers to low-income families in the US, and food assistance here in eastern Connecticut.
We were also happy to start supporting some organizations that run randomized controlled trials to uncover high-impact poverty interventions (things that make a big difference but don’t usually get much attention, like deworming for children in rural Africa).
You can see the full list right here.
The World – $282,813
Save the Children – $98,000
$78,000 was designated for famine relief in Yemen
International Rescue Committee – $35,000
The Citizens Foundation (Building gender-equal schools in Pakistan) – $35,000
Partners In Health – $25,000
Doctors Without Borders – $20,000
Evidence Action – $20,000
Amnesty International – $10,000
Direct Relief – $10,000
Innovations for Poverty Action – $8,000
American Near East Refugee Aid – $6,000
NSW Rural Fire Service (Australian Wildfire Relief)- $5,000
Human Rights Watch – $5,000
WIRES Wildlife Rescue (Australian Wildfire Relief) – $3,453
World Wildlife Foundation – $2,000
Charity Water – $360
The United States – $103,400
Partners In Health – $20,000
Designated for COVID-19 relief in the Navajo Nation
Family Independence Initiative – $10,000
The Bowery Mission – $10,000
GiveDirectly Covid Fund – $10,000
Cash transfers to low-income Americans
OXFAM America – $8,000
National Coalition for the Homeless – $6,000
Brooklyn Community Bail Fund – $5,000
Chicago Community Bond Fund – $5,000
Philadelphia Community Bail Fund – $5,000
GLAAD (Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders) – $5,000
Human Rights Campaign – $5,000
Insight Meditation Community of Washington, DC – $2,000
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies – $2,000
Sierra Club -$2,000
Provincetown Art Association and Museum – $1,000
Massachusetts General Hospital Fund – $1,000
NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Health) – $1,000
Taylor University – $1,000
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention – $1,000
Michigan State University – $1,000
Alzheimers Association – $1,000
ASPCA – $1,000
Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia) – $200
Oasis Legal Services – $200
Local – $164,500
Windham Area Interfaith Ministry – $30,000
Connecticut Food Bank – $22,000
Access Community Action Agency – $13,000
Covenant Soup Kitchen – $20,000
Holy Family Home & Shelter – $10,000
Windham No Freeze Shelter – $10,000
Foodshare, Inc. – $10,000
Louis Goffinet – $8,000
A local middle school teacher who used his time during the pandemic to grocery shop for families struggling financially.
UCONN Foundation – $6,000
Community Foundation – Windham Women and Girls Fund – $5,000
Center for Medicare Advocacy – $5,000
Connecticut Public Broadcasting Network – $5,000
Joshua’s Trust – $5,000
New England Public Radio – $5,000
Salvation Army – $5,000
Benton Art Museum – $2,000
Mansfield Downtown Partnership – $2,000
Mansfield Holiday Fund – $1,000
Our Companions (Animal Shelter) – $500
Total (World, USA, Local): $550,713
This is the most we’ve ever given away in a single year, and next year we hope to donate even more.
Now whether you give your time, money, skills (or all of these), please let us know how you like to give back with a comment below.
I give my time. I used to volunteer for CanTeen, the national organisation for teenagers experiencing cancer (either themselves or siblings, parents etc) here in Australia. As a nurse I would go on the weekend camps and monitor medication, do first aid, and lots of impromptu counselling. The food was usually awful but the kids were great. I have since run a free adult colouring group at the local library. I also facilitate snorkelling groups though I don’t think of that as volunteering even though I don’t get paid for it. Now that I am in my 60s I am cutting down my paid clinical hours but considering the options for other activities in my local area for people with severe mental illness. Not sure what yet, but looking at the funding grants available from my local council to come up with ideas (and of course thinking of what is most useful to the people I currently work with in my clinical job).
Ruth, I’m so excited to hear that you tithe!
I tithe 10% and give 5% more to my local church budget. Additionally I’m in a monthly plan for USO, ADRA International, and our local Christian Aid Society.
I’m excited about all the organizations NICABM was able to give to.
Blessings to you!
Cheri
Thank you because you not only give funds, but you also give generous discounts on some courses which allows those of us who don’t have many means to continue our education.
I don’t have money to give. I am retired, so I have opened a practice in which people only pay 1 percent of their income so as to make counseling affordable to all.
I am thrilled at the continued tithe (10%) that this organization is giving to others. I knew I had tapped into a good thing!
Sarah Mills, Anchorage, Alaska