Who are Americans?

Meds & Food for Kids (MFK), based in St. Louis, Missouri, is an American charity working to cure child malnutrition in Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. In a country where many people on less than $1 per day and 13-21% of the children are malnourished, MLK’s goal is ensure that children remain [...]

Food For The Poor (FFTP), based in Coconut Creek, Florida, was founded in 1982 as an interdenominational ministry that serves the poorest of the poor in 16 countries in the Caribbean and Latin America. Since its inception, FFTP, a registered charity, has provided more than $4.8-billion of food, medicine, housing materials and other aid, and [...]

Fairloom (Westport, MA) is a nonprofit with a mission where young people in the USA and Brazil work together to build a sustainable education and economic foundation for the community of Terra Prometida, Brazil. Fairloom helps local Brazilian artisans grow their businesses and expand their markets, and use the growing profits to provide education for their community.
Graduates [...]

International Kids Fund (Miami, Florida) is a charity that has helped more than 125 foreign children with urgent healthcare needs in receiving expert medical care from specialists at Holtz Children’s Hospital. The children come primarily from Latin America and the Caribbean.
International Kids Fund (IKF) was founded in 2001 by Jackson Memorial Foundation, which is the principal [...]

Mercado Global (New Haven, CT) is an American nonprofit that assists Guatemalan artisans in improving their quality of life by marketing their products in the USA. Conceived and founded by Ruth DeGolia and Benita Singh while studying at Yale University, Mercado Global works to provide the tools, training and logistical support to connect rural women’s [...]

Coffee Kids, based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, was founded in 1988 by Bill Fishbein, a specialty coffee roaster and retailer, who was inspired to help alleviate the poverty of coffee growers in Guatemala and other areas of Latin America. Coffee Kids offers programs such as micro-enterprise, health care, education and community based projects.
Local coffee-farming [...]

Shoulder to Shoulder (STS) is a nonprofit formed in 1996 in Cincinnati, Ohio to address the health, education, economic and social needs of underserved communities in the poorest areas of Honduras. Over the past 14 years, over 1,500 U.S. citizens have worked together with Hondurans to improve the well-being of local Hondurans.
Volunteers include medical students, [...]

The Sustainable Living Foundation (Los Altos, California) is a nonprofit that works for positive social change in the youth of Zimbabwe, Africa and Paraguay, South American by promoting service and compassion, health living, self-sustainability and education.
The Zimbabwe efforts are centered on helping orphans, many who have been orphaned by the effects of HIV/AIDS.
In 2007, $30,000 was [...]