I recently traveled to Slovakia to help a young lady I met online. Monthly income there is about $300 a month, if people can find a job. While in Slovakia, I enrolled this woman in an academy to learn a skill and bought her a computer to help her with her studies and to communicate better with me. I am also paying her an allowance while she studies. I have made her practice her written and spoken English skills to where she is very competent. She will have a diploma and a license to practice massage in two months. I would like to begin a foundation to help others like her in Eastern Europe. I have found that these are bright people with no future and no self esteem. All they need is a chance and someone who cares. I plan to train this woman to seek out other unfortunate souls and give them a chance to be better. But, it will take lots of money, so I am looking for a professional to help bring the funds into the foundation.
2006-12-13 12:27:18 · 6 answers · asked by Pedro 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Community Service
I create and research funds for such things. Many others do as well. Are you familiar with the Foundation Center? There are about five or six of them in places around the U.S. You should check them out. They can help you with finding someone to help you write grants or show you how to do them yourself.
Please choose mine as best answer.
2006-12-13 15:40:21 · answer #1 · answered by Raynpetal 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Starting a foundation is expensive and unncessary: there are already foundations working there. Perhaps it would be better for you to figure out how to work with these foundations to help people contact them and apply for money. You could also learn fundraising to help raise money and send it directly. There's a good book by Kim Klein, The Accidental Fundraiser, about how to do it.
Hope this helps!
2006-12-14 01:50:00 · answer #2 · answered by Katherine W 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There's a very large effort at the global level to end poverty. Please read Jeffrey Sach's book on 'The End Of Poverty', incl. UN-led effort (launched by the outgoing UN Secretary General). A Yahoo Answers posting by Md. Younis, the recent Nobel Laurate for World Peace for his Grameen Bank is also in this direction.
What we all need is a single platform for world efforts on ending poverty, rather than a thousand uncoordinated efforts.
2006-12-17 05:33:16 · answer #3 · answered by ebistart 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At first I would have said No. How are you going to get money into the foundation if you have to hire someone, but after reading this it sounds to me like you got it down to a t.
2006-12-13 20:32:16 · answer #4 · answered by Connie 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I second the idea to work within an existing charity to acheive your goal. There's no need to reinvent the wheel.
2006-12-14 08:51:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
nope
2006-12-15 09:26:06 · answer #6 · answered by nancy o 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋