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Our Members
We have two types of members: Community Members who join to connect, learn, and collaborate across the global development sector, and our Leadership Circle, made up of senior leaders, philanthropists, and organizations who invest at a higher level.
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$10,000+
| Gates Foundation | The Gates Foundation is dedicated to discovering and disseminating innovative approaches to addressing extreme poverty and poor health in developing countries and improving the U.S. education system. | gatesfoundation.org |
| Microsoft | At Microsoft, the mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. | microsoft.com |
| The Hawk Foundation | Promote education, holistic health, and trauma healing within the African American community, across the African continent, and beyond—through the power of art, music, and cultural expression—creating a ripple effect of empowerment, resilience, and equity. | thehawkfoundation.org |
| The Meseck Schick Family Foundation | The Meseck Schick Family Foundation is a private independent foundation based in Washington (WA). |
$5,000+
| Amazon | Amazon’s disaster relief and response efforts utilize its global logistics capabilities to provide the fastest, most effective aid. | amazon.com |
| APCO Worldwide | APCO Impact sits within APCO Worldwide and supports clients across sectors be catalysts for progress and address the key issues of our time, including climate and sustainability, racial and gender equity, and social justice. | apcoworldwide.com |
| Chandler Foundation | The Chandler Foundation helps governments to build strong institutions anchored in integrity, transparency, and accountability. | chandlerfoundation.org |
| Opportunity International | Opportunity International provides financial solutions and training to empower people living in poverty to transform their lives, their children’s futures and their communities. | opportunity.org |
| Seattle Foundation | Seattle Foundation ignites powerful, rewarding philanthropy to make Greater Seattle a stronger, more vibrant community for all. | seattlefoundation.org |
| Starbucks | With every cup, with every conversation, with every community – Starbucks nurtures the limitless possibilities of human connection. | starbucks.com |
$2,500+
| buildOn | Break the cycle of poverty, illiteracy, and low expectations through service and education. | buildon.org |
| Dalberg Advisors | Dalberg is a global group working to build a more inclusive and sustainable world where all people, everywhere, can reach their fullest potential. | dalberg.com |
| Diversity Travel | Diversity Travel is the leading travel management company supporting the unique and complex travel needs of global non-profits with expert advice, high touch service, and specialist airfares alongside market-leading risk management and duty of care technology. | diversitytravel.com |
| Elevate Destinations | Elevate Destinations has pioneered the field of donor travel and learning journeys and is able to provide responsible travel to any region of the globe. | elevatedestinations.com |
| Fred Hutch Cancer Center | Fred Hutch Cancer Center unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. | fredhutch.org |
| Gargaar Relief Development Organization (GREDO) | GREDO’s mission is to improve the living standards of the served communities by delivering effective Emergency Response, Resilience interventions, promoting local capacities and resources, and sustainable development interventions in partnership with stakeholders. | gredosom.org |
| Give2Asia | Give2Asia is an international nonprofit with the goal to strengthen the work of local organizations and mobilize support through philanthropic giving from Individuals, Family Foundations, and Corporations. | give2asia.org |
| Global Child Nutrition Foundation | GCNF provides governments and their partners with knowledge, tools, and connections to build high-quality school meal programs that support all children and contribute to national educational, agricultural, economic, social protection, health, and nutrition goals. | gcnf.org |
| Global Impact | Global Impact works on charitable ventures to inspire greater giving. It serves as a trusted advisor, and an intermediary and implementing partner across the private, nonprofit, and public sectors. | charity.org |
| Global Impact Collective | The Global Impact Collective is an impact-focused design, advisory, and strategy firm that launched with singular purpose: To design a world that improves the lives and livelihoods of all. | globalimpactcollective.net |
| Heifer International | Heifer International is on a mission to end hunger and poverty, while caring for the Earth. | heifer.org |
| International Rescue Committee | The IRC helps people in 40+ countries whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and gain control of their future. | rescue.org/seattle |
| Landesa | Landesa advances inclusive, equitable, and gender-sensitive land rights reforms through law and policy tools. | landesa.org |
| Logenix International | Logenix International aims to be the preeminent freight logistics provider for Global Health Programs, Disaster Relief, Infrastructure/Development Projects, and Security and Contingency Operations. | logenix.com |
| myAgro | myAgro is a dedicated to empowering smallholder farmers in West Africa. | myagro.com |
| Operation Snow Leopard | Operation Snow Leopard prioritizes the evacuation and support of at-risk Afghan women and vulnerable groups, including human rights defenders, judges, athletes, doctors, professors, interpreters, and government leaders. | opsnowleopard.org |
| PATH | PATH develops and scales up innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing health challenges. | path.org |
| Seattle University | Seattle University is guided by a deep commitment to empowering students to improve the human condition and shape a better world for all. | seattleu.edu |
| Spreeha Foundation | Spreeha strives to break the cycle of poverty for underprivileged people by providing healthcare, education, and skills training. | spreeha.org |
| The Hunger Project | The Hunger Project is an organization committed to the sustainable end of world hunger. | thp.org |
| UNESCO Washington | UNESCO is the United Nations organization that promotes cooperation in education, science, culture and communication to foster peace worldwide. | unesco.org |
| University of Washington | The UW Office of Global Affairs collaborates across the University and the world in advancing the UW’s mission of discovery and public service. | washington.edu/globalaffairs |
| USA for UNHCR | The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is a United Nations agency mandated to aid and protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and stateless people, and to assist in their voluntary repatriation, local integration or resettlement to a third country. | unrefugees.org |
| VOCFINU (Voices of Children’s Faith In Northern Uganda) | VOCFINU focuses on supporting vulnerable populations, including children, youth, women, and families, with a strong emphasis on education, healthcare, and poverty alleviation. | vocfinu.org |
| Washington State University – Paul G. Allen School for Global Health | Paul G. Allen School for Global Health’s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people and animals both locally and globally by providing innovative solutions to infectious disease challenges through research, education, global outreach, and disease control. | wsu.edu |
| World Vision | World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the root causes of poverty and injustice. | worldvision.org |
View Community Members (Organizations)
| A Child’s Notebook | A Child’s Notebook partners with local communities and invests in the lives of children in Southeast Asia. | achildsnotebook.org |
| ACT for Congo | ACT for Congo helps organizations in Democratic Republic of Congo extend their capacity and credibility through mutual respect, experience, and knowledge. | actforcongo.org |
| African Chamber of Commerce | Africa Chamber of Commerce promotes bilateral trade and investment relationships between Africa and the Pacific Northwest of the United States. | accpnw.com |
| Agros International | Working with farming families in rural Latin America, Agros International breaks the cycle of poverty through economic and social development. | agros.org |
| Americares | Americares helps people and communities around the world access health in times of disaster and every day. | americares.org |
| AndHumanity | AndHumanity is an integrated inclusive marketing and communications agency with the core purpose of serving people-first brands. | andhumanity.co |
| Ashesi University Foundation | Ashesi is a world-class university in Ghana focused on cultivating ethical, entrepreneurial leaders who will be catalysts for systemic social and economic change in Africa. | ashesi.org |
| Burn Design Lab | Burn Design Lab works to improve lives and protect the environment through the research, design, and development of outstanding cookstoves. | burndesignlab.org |
| Carbon Direct | We are a purpose-driven carbon management firm dedicated to making carbon science actionable with our end-to-end platform. | carbondirect.com |
| Cicero Group | Cicero Group is a premier management consulting firm specializing in implementing data-driven strategies for a diverse range of private, public, and social sector organizations worldwide. | cicerogroup.com |
| CleanTech Alliance | The Alliance facilitates the generation and growth of cleantech companies and jobs through a variety of educational programs, research, products, and services. | cleantechalliance.org |
| COFIA Uganda | COFIA Uganda fosters greater health, food security and widespread economic empowerment in eastern Uganda through sustainable farming. | cofiauganda.com |
| Committee for Children | Committee for Children champions the well-being of children through international and domestic initiatives. | fchildren.org |
| CORE Group | CORE Group convenes global community health professionals to share knowledge, evidence, and best practices, and then translates these into the real world with a direct impact. | coregroup.org |
| Creating Opportunity Through Rural Education (CORE) Tanzania | CORE Tanzania is a Seattle-based nonprofit working to transform poor, rural Tanzanian communities through improved education. | coretanzania.org |
| DE Design + Environment Inc. | Design and Environment is a specialized eco-consultancy and design atelier that works with Governments, NGOs, and leading corporations world-wide. | design-environment.com |
| Ecologists Without Borders (EcoWB) | EcoWB partners with communities hit hardest by environmental and climate crises—connecting them with the skills, knowledge, and support to protect and restore the ecosystems their lives depend on. | ecowb.org |
| Friends of WPC Nepal | Friends of WPC Nepal seeks to prevent human trafficking, and protect and empower at-risk women and children in Nepal. | friendsofwpcnepal.org |
| FSC Investments and Partnerships | FSC I&P works with the global Forest Stewardship Council to promote the environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world’s forests. | fsc.org |
| Global Communities | Global Communities brings together local ingenuity and global insights to save lives, advance equity and secure strong futures. | globalcommunities.org |
| Global Leadership Forum | The Global Leadership Forum strengthens globally oriented social-purpose leaders through a peer cohort program that addresses leadership, management, and organizational development topics. | glfglobal.org |
| Global Mentorship Initiative | Global Mentorship Initiative helps underrepresented and refugee students in 92 countries to get their first job after graduation. | globalmentorship.org |
| Global Partnerships | GP is an impact-first investment fund manager dedicated to expanding opportunity for people living in poverty. | globalpartnerships.org |
| Global Rights Advocacy | GRA provides victims with access to international human rights mechanisms through high quality legal defense and advocacy strategies. | globalrightsadvocacy.org |
| GoodCitizen | GoodCitizen is a B Corps that provides executive search and leadership advisory services to mission-driven organizations. | goodcitizen.com |
| Grow Further | Grow Further creates ways for farmers, scientists, and people around the world to work together in pursuit of global food security in the face of climate change. | growfurther.org |
| GSBA, Washington State’s LGBTQ & Allied Chamber of Commerce | GSBA’s mission is to combine business development, leadership, and social action to expand economic opportunities for the LGBTQ+ community and those who support equality for all. | thegsba.org |
| Humanitarian Tracker | Humanitarian Tracker is a global 501c3 that connects and empowers citizens using innovation in technology-crowdsourcing & artificial intelligence-for social good. | humanitariantracker.org |
| Humanity for Children | Improving the quality of life for children in remote areas of East Africa through community-based, sustainable initiatives that empower individuals and positively affect health, education, safety, and economic conditions. | humanityforchildren.org |
| Intentional Futures | Intentional Futures is a Seattle-based strategy and design consultancy that partners with visionary leaders to tackle complex challenges across sectors such as education, technology, philanthropy, global health, and climate. | intentionalfutures.com |
| LEAD Cameroon | LEAD Cameroon works in Cameroon and Central Africa to develop future leaders who will advance sustainable development. | leadcameroon.org |
| Life Science Washington | Life Science advocates for positive public policy and private investment, brings together research institutions, investors, and entrepreneurs to grow its economic sector, and create healthier communities. | lifesciencewa.org |
| Linksbridge | Linksbridge partners with nonprofits whose missions they think of as their own, offering superior service—more imaginative, better informed, better executed—while charging sustainable rates. | linksbridge.com |
| Malaria Partners International | MPI was founded and is led by Rotary members committed to inspiring a broad international Rotarian campaign for global elimination of malaria. | malariapartnersinternational.org |
| Mercy Corps | Mercy Corps is committed to creating global change through local impact, bringing a comprehensive approach to every challenge and addressing problems from multiple angles. | mercycorps.org |
| Mifos Initiative | The Mifos Initiative provides education, training, and tools to enable charitable organizations and social enterprises to make financial inclusion more affordable, available, and accessible. | mifos.org |
| Mission Africa | Mission Africa aims to empower children and families in the South King County communities and in the remote villages of Africa by providing support in education, healthcare and poverty alleviation. | missionafrica.us |
| Mona Foundation | Mona Foundation envisions a world where every child has access to education. | monafoundation.org |
| National Museum and Center for Service | The NMCFS elevates, honors and inspires the spirit of service, celebrating all the ways Americans serve the nation and the world. | nmcfs.org |
| Nonprofit Association of Washington | NAWA convenes a powerful network of nonprofit organizations across Washington State to learn, advocate, and collaborate, so that nonprofits can achieve their missions. | nonprofitwa.org |
| OneWorld Health | OneWorld Health operates medical facilities in East Africa and Central America using a social enterprise model to create quality and affordable healthcare solutions to communities in need. | oneworldhealth.com |
| Our Hope South Africa | Our Hope is a South African non-profit organization with the mission to holistically educate, encourage and empower families and the community in response to HIV, community health and gender-based violence issues. | ourhope.org.za |
| Our Wave | Our Wave is a survivor-centered nonprofit building trauma-informed digital spaces for healing. | ourwave.org |
| Outright International | Outright International works with partners around the globe to strengthen the capacity of the LGBTIQ human-rights movement, document and amplify human rights violations against LGBTIQ people, and advocate for inclusion and equality. | outrightinternational.org |
| Oxfam America | Oxfam is a global organization that fights inequality to end poverty and injustice. | oxfamamerica.org |
| Panorama Strategy | Panorama Strategy is a consulting firm that partners with organizations and leaders to turn their vision for social impact into a reality. | panoramastrategy.com |
| Partners Asia | Partners Asia forges trust-based partnerships with local leaders who are tireless in serving “invisible” populations—refugees, migrants, ethnic minorities, LGBTQI—in Asia. | partnersasia.org |
| Path From Poverty | Path From Poverty reaches across cultures to transform lives and communities by partnering with women’s groups. | pathfrompoverty.org |
| PeaceTrees Vietnam | PeaceTrees Vietnam is dedicated to addressing the legacy of the US-Vietnam War through mine action, community assistance, and citizen diplomacy. | peacetreesvietnam.org |
| Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawai’i, Alaska, Indiana, Kentucky (PPGNHAIK) | Together we advocate, educate, and provide exceptional health care supporting sexual health, wellness, and reproductive freedom — without judgment, without fear, without fail. | plannedparenthood.org |
| Philanthropy Northwest | Philanthropy NW grows philanthropy’s capacity to do transformative work toward redistributing resources and power to underinvested communities in the Northwest and beyond. | philanthropynw.org |
| Pygmy Survival Alliance | Pygmy Survival Alliance is a nonprofit organization that connects pygmy villages in Rwanda with information, leadership, survival and health resources to enable them to transform their health and welfare. | pygmysurvival.org |
| Rotary District 5030 | Rotary District 5030, encompassing Seattle and surrounding communities, is committed to fellowship and creating lasting change. | rotarydistrict5030.org |
| Rwanda Girls Initiative | RGI’s mission is to educate and empower girls in Rwanda. | rwandagirlsinitiative.org |
| Sahar Education | Sahar’s mission is to create educational opportunities in Afghanistan that empower and inspire children and their families build peaceful, thriving communities. | sahareducation.org |
| Save Kids Trust | SKT India provides healthcare to numerous slum communities in Jaipur India. | savekidstrust.org |
| Save the Children | Save the Children believes every child deserves a future and ensures children can fulfill their rights to a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. | savethechildren.org |
| Schools for Salone | Schools for Salone’s mission is to advance quality education in Sierra Leone through local partnerships. | schoolsforsalone.org |
| SE Asia Foundation | The SE Asia Foundation’s mission is to eliminate poverty by providing for the education and wellbeing of girls and women. | seafund.org |
| Seattle Area Peace Corps Association | SEAPAX is a nonprofit organization that supports, connects, and engages Returned Peace Corps Volunteers in the greater Seattle area. | peacecorpsfund.net |
| Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce | The Chamber is a policy voice representing businesses at the city, regional, state, and federal levels; a convener around a variety of issues; and a one-stop shop for resources and tools businesses need to grow. | seattlechamber.com |
| SG Foundation | The SG Foundation’s mission is to relieve suffering and improve the quality of life in communities in Mexico, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, and Haiti. | sgfoundation.org |
| Sign Fracture Care International | SIGN is a humanitarian organization that builds sustainable orthopedic capacity in developing countries. | signfractureinternational.org |
| Snow Leopard Trust | The Snow Leopard Trust aims to better understand the endangered snow leopard, and to protect the cat in partnership with the communities that share its habitat. | snowleopard.org |
| Stronger Stories | Stronger Stories supports organizations and social entrepreneurs dedicated to solving systemic issues. | strongerstories.org |
| The Max Foundation | The Max Foundation’s mission is to accelerate health equity. | themaxfoundation.org |
| The Musa Project | The Musa Project provides hope, healing, and restored dignity to Ugandan women affected by obstetric fistula, while working to prevent future cases of this devastating and preventable condition. | musa-project.org |
| Upaya Social Ventures | Upaya Social Ventures fights extreme poverty through dignified jobs. | upayasv.org |
| VillageReach | VillageReach transforms health care delivery to reach everyone. | villagereach.org |
| Vista Hermosa Foundation | VHF invests in safe and healthy families, mindful leadership, and sustainable livelihoods in select countries in the global south and the US. | broetjefamilytrust.org/philanthropy |
| Washington Global Health Alliance | WGHA connects and informs Washington’s global health community, creating a culture of collaboration at home so that its members can have more impact in the world. | wghalliance.org |
| Water1st International | Water1st helps the world’s poorest people to implement and sustain community-managed projects that integrate clean water, toilets, and hygiene education. | water1st.org |
| Water.org | Water.org helps people get access to safe water and sanitation through affordable financing, such as small loans. | water.org |
| Welcome Ideas | Through education, support, networking, and pop-up facilities, Welcome Ideas helps members of the local Zanzibar community develop, finance, and operate their own tourism related businesses. | welcomeideas.org |
| Women in Global Health Seattle | WGH is a movement of professional women and their allies working in global health in the Pacific Northwest, to build professional and personal networks, accelerate career advancement, and champion inclusive leadership in global health. | womeningh.org |
| Women of Color Advancing Peace, Security, and Conflict Transformation | WCAPS is a platform devoted to women of color that cultivates a strong voice and network for its members while encouraging dialogue and strategies for engaging in policy discussions on global scale. | www.wcaps.org |
| Women’s Link Worldwide | Women’s Link Worldwide uses the power of the law to promote social change that advances the human rights of women and girls, especially those facing multiple inequalities. | womenslinkworldwide.org |
| World Affairs Council | The World Affairs Council creates programs and opportunities for local people to interact directly with leaders, educators, and professionals from around the world. | world-affairs.org |
| World Concern | World Concern partners to transform the lives of poor and marginalized people through disaster response and sustainable community development. | worldconcern.org |
| Worldreader | Worldreader is a global nonprofit whose mission is to help the world read through increased accessibility to digital books. | worldreader.org |
| Worldwide Fistula Fund | The Worldwide Fistula Fund’s mission is to protect and restore the health and dignity of the world’s most vulnerable women by preventing and treating devastating childbirth injuries. | worldwidefistulafund.org |
| Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation | The Foundation aims to increase awareness of the US public and policymakers vis-a-vis the humanitarian crises underway in Yemen, and support relief and reconstruction, while facilitating peace campaigns. | yemenfoundation.org |
View Community Members (Individuals)
| Shawn Aebi | Community Servant | |
| Erin Brown | Principal, Erndala | |
| Diane Camenisch | Managing Director, DSC Consulting | |
| Pamela Cardone | Former Finance Professional | |
| Cara S. Forster | Independent Consultant | |
| Ozen Guven | Senior Research and Evaluation Specialist | |
| Shannon Heiberg | Founder, Principle Consultant | |
| Dr. Sarah Horrigan | Dr. of Philosophy | |
| Dai Hozumi | President, Health Systems Insight | |
| Suresh V. Kandaswamy | Project Manager | |
| Deb Perry | Executive Director, Farallon Foundation | |
| Hannah Preisinger | Executive Director, Somniterum Productions | |
| Wendy Quesinberry | Creative Director, Quesinberry and Associates | |
| Julie Rajaratnam | Leadership Coach & MEAL Consultant, Amisteed | amisteed.com |
| Ryan Smedes | Sr. Consultant, Orange Sky Initiatives | |
| Robyn Sneeringer | Managing Director, EngenderHealth | |
| Robert Turner | Vice President – Community Reinvestment Offficer | |
| Mary Williams | Principal, Williams Learning Services | williamslearning.com |
GlobalWA’s members represent the breadth and strength of Washington State’s global development community. Our network reflects the diversity of people and organizations driving impact locally and around the world.