Exploring your giving potential

NorthStar's clients continue a giving tradition with over 50% of clients making charitable gifts each year and supporting hundreds of organizations. What follows is a small sample of the wide range of innovative organizations clients support; we will update this list periodically.

The Algebra Project is a national, nonprofit organization that uses mathematics as an organizing tool to ensure quality public school education for every child in America.

The Appalachian Women's Alliance is a network of women and girls in Appalachian communities who are raising consciousness and self-esteem, sharing leadership and power, developing a collective analysis, creating a common vision, and taking collective action.

Ballet Rox supports the health and well-being of inner city youth through dance instruction and performance opportunities, including The Urban Nutcracker.

Corporate Accountability International (formerly Infact) is a membership organization that protects people by waging and winning campaigns challenging irresponsible and dangerous corporate actions around the world.

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization working in nearly 60 countries to assist people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe.

Fenway Community Health Center has been working to improve the physical and mental health of underserved communities like lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, women, those living with HIV/AIDS, and people from communities of color. The Fenway Institute works to increase the health of the larger community through research, education, outreach and health policy advocacy.

The Lower Ninth Ward Neighborhood Empowerment Network Association (NENA) was established in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to play a lead role in rebuilding New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward. Organized and controlled by residents of the Lower Ninth Ward, NENA addresses not only the immediate recovery needs created by the storm's destruction, but also the institutional neglect and disinvestment that plagued the neighborhood long before Katrina. NENA works with current Lower Ninth Ward residents, displaced residents living in other parts of New Orleans, and the broader diaspora who want to return to the neighborhood.

The Martín-Baró Fund supports progressive, grassroots groups throughout the world who are challenging institutional repression and confronting the mental health consequences of violence and injustice in their communities.

The National Priorities Project (NPP) is a nonprofit research organization that analyzes and clarifies federal data so that people can understand and influence how their tax dollars are spent, and focuses on the impact of federal spending and other policies at the national, state, congressional district and local levels.

The Oasis Women's Counseling Center, a nonprofit organization and a United Way partner, provides mental health services and educational programs for women and children in the Birmingham, Alabama, metropolitan area. Oasis fills a critical gap in care for women with limited incomes who could not otherwise afford vital mental health services.

On the Rise supports the initiative and strength of women living in crisis or homelessness. Annually, they reach and assist nearly 300 of the most highly marginalized and socially isolated women. They use a relational model designed to offer respect, dignity, connection, information, guidance and hope to women who have fallen through the cracks of our social service system.

Resource Generation is a national organization that works with young people with financial wealth who are supporting and challenging each other to effect progressive social change through the creative, responsible and strategic use of financial and other resources.

The Save Darfur Coalition is an alliance of over 100 faith-based, humanitarian and human rights organizations working together to end the genocide in the Darfur region of the Sudan.

Stop It Now educates adults about the ways to stop sexual abuse and increases public awareness of the trauma of child sexual abuse.

The Women Donors Network (WDN) is a learning community of activist philanthropist women who are dedicated to a progressive global agenda. WDN members leverage both individual giving and group philanthropy for greater impact; their members collectively give away well in excess of $100 million each year.

The Women's Lunch Place provides a safe, comfortable daytime shelter, nutritious food, and services for women in the Boston area who are homeless or poor.