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Reporting In – Giving Back in 2020

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What inspires you to give?

For me, it started with my dad. When I was a kid he taught me to tithe at least 10% of my twenty five cent allowance each week.

That early lesson stayed with me, and it continues to shape NICABM’s finances.

So in 2020, we gave away $550,713 to organizations doing great work locally, in the US, and around the world.

NICABM Yearly Charitable Donations

We funded gender-equal schools in Pakistan, international refugee assistance, direct cash transfers to low-income families in the US, and food assistance here in eastern Connecticut.

We were also happy to start supporting some organizations that run randomized controlled trials to uncover high-impact poverty interventions (things that make a big difference but don’t usually get much attention, like deworming for children in rural Africa).

You can see the full list right here.

 

The World – $282,813

Save the Children – $98,000
$78,000 was designated for famine relief in Yemen

International Rescue Committee – $35,000

The Citizens Foundation (Building gender-equal schools in Pakistan) – $35,000

Partners In Health – $25,000

Doctors Without Borders – $20,000

Evidence Action – $20,000

Amnesty International – $10,000

Direct Relief – $10,000

Innovations for Poverty Action – $8,000

American Near East Refugee Aid – $6,000

NSW Rural Fire Service (Australian Wildfire Relief)- $5,000

Human Rights Watch – $5,000

WIRES Wildlife Rescue (Australian Wildfire Relief) – $3,453

World Wildlife Foundation – $2,000

Charity Water – $360

 

The United States – $103,400

Partners In Health – $20,000
Designated for COVID-19 relief in the Navajo Nation

Family Independence Initiative – $10,000

The Bowery Mission – $10,000

GiveDirectly Covid Fund – $10,000
Cash transfers to low-income Americans

OXFAM America – $8,000

National Coalition for the Homeless – $6,000

Brooklyn Community Bail Fund – $5,000

Chicago Community Bond Fund – $5,000

Philadelphia Community Bail Fund – $5,000

GLAAD (Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders) – $5,000

Human Rights Campaign – $5,000

Insight Meditation Community of Washington, DC – $2,000

Barre Center for Buddhist Studies – $2,000

Sierra Club -$2,000

Provincetown Art Association and Museum – $1,000

Massachusetts General Hospital Fund – $1,000

NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Health) – $1,000

Taylor University – $1,000

American Foundation for Suicide Prevention – $1,000

Michigan State University – $1,000

Alzheimers Association – $1,000

ASPCA – $1,000

Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia) – $200

Oasis Legal Services – $200

 

Local – $164,500

Windham Area Interfaith Ministry – $30,000

Connecticut Food Bank – $22,000

Access Community Action Agency – $13,000

Covenant Soup Kitchen – $20,000

Holy Family Home & Shelter – $10,000

Windham No Freeze Shelter – $10,000

Foodshare, Inc. – $10,000

Louis Goffinet – $8,000
A local middle school teacher who used his time during the pandemic to grocery shop for families struggling financially.

UCONN Foundation – $6,000

Community Foundation – Windham Women and Girls Fund – $5,000

Center for Medicare Advocacy – $5,000

Connecticut Public Broadcasting Network – $5,000

Joshua’s Trust – $5,000

New England Public Radio – $5,000

Salvation Army – $5,000

Benton Art Museum – $2,000

Mansfield Downtown Partnership – $2,000

Mansfield Holiday Fund – $1,000

Our Companions (Animal Shelter) – $500

 

Total (World, USA, Local): $550,713

 

This is the most we’ve ever given away in a single year, and next year we hope to donate even more.

Now whether you give your time, money, skills (or all of these), please let us know how you like to give back with a comment below.

 

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  1. Melanie White, Nursing, AU says

    I give my time. I used to volunteer for CanTeen, the national organisation for teenagers experiencing cancer (either themselves or siblings, parents etc) here in Australia. As a nurse I would go on the weekend camps and monitor medication, do first aid, and lots of impromptu counselling. The food was usually awful but the kids were great. I have since run a free adult colouring group at the local library. I also facilitate snorkelling groups though I don’t think of that as volunteering even though I don’t get paid for it. Now that I am in my 60s I am cutting down my paid clinical hours but considering the options for other activities in my local area for people with severe mental illness. Not sure what yet, but looking at the funding grants available from my local council to come up with ideas (and of course thinking of what is most useful to the people I currently work with in my clinical job).

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  2. Cheri Armstrong, Other, Athena, OR, USA says

    Ruth, I’m so excited to hear that you tithe!

    I tithe 10% and give 5% more to my local church budget. Additionally I’m in a monthly plan for USO, ADRA International, and our local Christian Aid Society.

    I’m excited about all the organizations NICABM was able to give to.

    Blessings to you!

    Cheri

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  3. Nicole Giroux, Counseling, CH says

    Thank you because you not only give funds, but you also give generous discounts on some courses which allows those of us who don’t have many means to continue our education.
    I don’t have money to give. I am retired, so I have opened a practice in which people only pay 1 percent of their income so as to make counseling affordable to all.

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  4. Sarah Mills, Counseling, Anchorage, AK, USA says

    I am thrilled at the continued tithe (10%) that this organization is giving to others. I knew I had tapped into a good thing!
    Sarah Mills, Anchorage, Alaska

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