Blog Action Day: Non-Profits Helping to Fight Poverty

For this year’s Blog Action Day, I want to highlight two organizations that are actively working to help alleviate poverty in the developing world. Read more about what they’re doing, and think about donating to their cause.

GoSustainable: GoSustainable was established in 2007 to facilitate trade relationships between small businesses, entrepreneurs, and farmers worldwide.  We work directly with rural, low-income, low-volume farmers, to educate them about sustainable farming practices, and to connect them with hard-to-access world markets, simultaneously expanding their capacities to support themselves and furthering the development of their communities.  (Disclosure: I sit on the Board of GoSustainable)

Sustainable Harvest International: The mission of Sustainable Harvest International (SHI) is to provide farming families in Central America with the training and tools to overcome poverty while restoring our planet’s tropical forests. The 40 members of SHI’s Central American staff have worked with more than 1,350 families in 101 communities to implement sustainable land-use practices that alleviate poverty while restoring the environment.