This is an amazing organization that brings clean water and HIV/AIDS support to communities around the world. A few years ago, I did a read-a-thon and was able to donate more than $5000 to the organization. The staff that I worked with during my read-a-thon was superb, and reinforced to me that they are doing great work.

My company has donated to Women's Empowerment before, so I had some familiarity with them. Entirely unrelated to work, I was doing some work with the homeless here in Sacramento, and when I suggested to a couple homeless women that they should try Women's Empowerment, they both said they'd heard great things about the program. They didn't know that the program provided transportation (one of them had a recurring leg injury), which they were excited to learn. I'm hoping they were able to get connected and off the streets.