projects that received donor-advised grants

Increasingly donors are recognizing BrazilFoundation's capacity to facilitate donations to specific organizations that they know and would like to support.

BrazilFoundation can serve as a fiscal agent, directing funds to these projects and offering donors the opportunity to deduct the gift from US taxes, but only after performing due-diligence, verifying that the organization and its projects are not-for-profit, without political affiliations, fit within BrazilFoundation's program guidelines and meet strict standards of accountability.

Within this category, BrazilFoundation has made a total of 17 grants to the following organizations:

1.	ACTC - Associação de Assistencia à Criança e à Transplantada do Coração - Working with children with heart ailments, São Paulo/SP. www.actc.org.br
2.	Ação de Solidariedade Contra o Câncer Infantil (ASCCI) - Parents of children with cancer established the association 18 years ago to provide treatment options for sick children from all over Brazil and support services for their families, São Paulo/SP. www.sca.org.br/caridade/cascci.html
3.	BRASCRI - The Second Chance Project, which provides educational opportunities and a mentorship program for teenagers at social risk in São Paulo/SP. www.brascri.com
4.	Centro de Promoção de Saúde (CEDAPS) - Community health and environmental project, Vila Paciência/RJ. www.cedaps.org.br
5.	Centro Infantil Mãe Chica - Daycare center for underprivileged children in Claudio/MG.
6.	Centro de Pesquisa e Preservação da Ecologia Amazonense (CEPECAM) - Environmental research and educational project, Manaus/AM. www.internext.com.br/terraverde/br/cepecam.htm
7.	Programa de Educação na Amazônia - Educational projects undertaken by Raytheon Company in conjunction with foundations at the Universities of Belem/PR, Manaus/AM and Porto Velho/RO.
8.	Creche Francisco de Assis - A daycare center for poor children, in Belo Horizonte/MG.
9.	Família Santa Clara - Non-profit organization in Rio de Janeiro that cares for 70 children with high social risk profiles. Rio de Janeiro/RJ. www.santaclara.blogger.com.br
10.	Fundação de Estudos Agrários Luiz de Queiroz (FEALQ) - Projects on sustainable agriculture with the University of São Paulo, SP. www.fealq.org.br
11.	Fundação AGRISUS - Research and projects in sustainable agriculture in the sate of São Paulo. www.fealq.org.br/agrisus.htm
12.	ICA (Incentivo à Criança e ao Adolescente) - "Projeto Criar," in partnership with daycares and preschools, trains teachers and staff to work with children in art education. This project will benefit 2,000 children from 3-6 years old, a critical age for a child's intellectual and emotional development of a child. Mogi Mirim/SP www.projetoica.org.br
13.	Instituto ACAIA - Engages underprivileged children in art activities, São Paulo/SP.
14.	Instituto da Criança - Supports four institutions in developing social projects that aid children and adolescents at high social risk, Rio de Janeiro/RJ. www.institutodacrianca.org.br
15.	Liga das Senhoras Católicas de São Paulo - This organization has developed the project "Autonomy and Solidarity" to work with orphaned and abandoned children between the ages of 17 and 21, in an effort to bring them into society as self-sufficient individuals with professional skills and opportunities for employment. São Paulo/SP. www.ligasolidaria.org.br
16.	Pro Matre - A traditional hospital and maternity ward that offers health care for women, including pre- and post-natal care, Rio de Janeiro/RJ. www.promatre.org.br
17.	Viva Rio - Video recording of disarmament campaigns and other activities in Rio de Janeiro/RJ. www.vivario.org.br
18.	Lar Carolina - Organization that cares of 50 orphans in Cotia, São Paulo. www.lar-carolina.com

thematic grants

In addition to unrestricted and donor-advised grants, BrazilFoundation facilitates gifts in any of five thematic areas: education, health, human rights, citizenship and culture.

human rights - Instituto Sou da Paz

A donor requested that BrazilFoundation choose a project in the field of Human Rights. We had no difficulty identifying Instituto Sou da Paz and awarding their project, "Brazil Without Weapons," the $10,000 gift. The work of Sou da Paz is a perfect example of the kind of social investments BrazilFoundation promotes: the project touches people directly, in this case encouraging them to diminish violence by ridding their communities of small guns; can be replicated in other Brazilian cities, and has had a substantial influence on social policy.

Social research shows that every 13 minutes a Brazilian is murdered; 85% of those who die of gunshot wounds do not die at the hand of bandits or gangs, but are shot in their own homes, at social gatherings, in nightclubs, or at sporting events. Sou da Paz has been acclaimed for its work in disarming the population and combating violence in São Paulo.

BrazilFoundation's grant enables Sou da Paz to share its know-how with NGOs in other big cities in Brazil that want to learn how to organize a disarmament campaign. Since collecting 345 weapons in its first campaign, Sou da Paz has been working in close cooperation with the media and local police, multiplying its success each year. In its last campaign, on July 9, 2002, Sou da Paz collected some 3,500 weapons and the police collected over 44,000!

www.soudapaz.org