EVEN GROUND INC
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Mission Statement
Even Ground strives to help families and communities break the cycles of poverty and inequality by providing support to community-based programs that offer high-quality education and care to young people in Africa.
About This Cause
Even Ground strives to break the cycle of HIV/AIDS by ensuring that vulnerable children in communities deeply affected by the epidemic receive a high-quality education, nutrition, and health care. Even Ground, formerly Orphans Against AIDS (OAA), was founded in 2002 and is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt nonprofit organization. Currently, Even Ground provides more than 1500 young people who have been orphaned or made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS with academic scholarships and educational support for primary and secondary school, as well as to provide support and assistance for these young people's families. We focus our programming in communities particularly hard hit by HIV/AIDS. Even Ground partners with local community-based organizations to: 1) Provide funding for academic scholarships and other forms of educational support, including funding child care centers and after school programs for vulnerable children in affected communities. 2) Build our partners' capacity, prove their model's effectiveness, help with grant-writing and website development, and make introductions to other leading donor organizations that can help our partners' projects scale. Even Ground is overseen by our Board of Directors. Our model has received much positive press for the energy and creativity of its many young founders and volunteers. All of our project directors started their respective organizations when still students, and have continued to devote incredible personal energy to sustaining their programs, and expanding the number of young people we are able to serve. For one example of this positive press, please the profile of our founder written by Nick Kristof in the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/opinion/27kristof.html