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" I turned my back for one second."

Our organization is focused on solutions that save countless lives every year. It’s important. We need the best and brightest on our team so we can do our jobs as effectively as possible. Enabling a flexible and transparent work culture retains and nurtures talent, ensuring a better, more impactful organization.

When Nate and Donita Sanderson were house hunting in Iowa for a small farm, Nate had one item on his wishlist - a whiffle ball field. So Donita made him a deal. Whatever he spent building the field, he needed to match it with donations to local and international charities.

Like most of you, I am heartbroken for the many in our world who are suffering. As someone who has worked in international development for most of my career (including in Haiti before and after the 2010 earthquake), I want to share some encouraging advice on why donating money can make such an incredible difference.

I wish you were here. I wish I could take you by the hand, and sit you next to me on Hannah’s couch. So you can feel the warmth of her energy in person.

But meeting Peninah was different. The concerns for her children brought no shame, no embarrassment. Her life is difficult, but she has hope. Purpose. A simple irrigation pump is what saved her. And it’s saving her now.

Joy tells the story about how she earned a job at Living Goods because she was nominated as a leader in her community, an older mother people trust.

Meeting a woman in Liberia on the side of the road changed how Co-Founder Becky Straw thought about aid and led to the beginning of The Adventure Project. Read on to learn how.

Nearly half of all children in Malawi are malnourished. In our conversation with Gertrude, Program Director in Malawi, she discusses how the farming program is changing communities.

After landing a major break with a popular International News Program, Co-Founders Becky Straw and Jody Landers thought this was their big break. Then they realized the program only wanted video of poor people, and The Adventure Project moves people out of poverty and into prosperity. So the news program left, not understanding the success of the organization IS newsworthy.