On February 23, 2022, Russia announced an invasion of Ukraine’s sovereign territory, putting at risk millions of innocent lives and violating the independence of a peaceful, democratic Ukraine. 
 
We’ve put together this Community Fund to support organizations that promote Ukraine’s independence and provide direct support to those affected on the ground. 
 
Proceeds from donations to this Fund will be granted out equally to the following organizations:
 
- <a target="blank" href="https://app.endaoment.org/orgs/475315018">Revived Soldiers Ukraine</a> 
- <a target="blank" href="https://app.endaoment.org/orgs/465335435">NOVA Ukraine</a> 
- <a target="blank" href="https://app.endaoment.org/orgs/521778729">US-Ukraine Foundation</a> 
- <a target="blank" href="http://app.endaoment.org/orgs/986001029">International Committee of the Red Cross</a> 
- <a target="blank" href="http://app.endaoment.org/orgs/811401967">Hope for Ukraine</a> 
- <a target="blank" href="http://app.endaoment.org/orgs/472377309">LELEKA Foundation</a> 
- <a target="blank" href="http://app.endaoment.org/orgs/201902805">Ukraine Children‘s Aid Fund</a>

Support Ukrainian Sovereignty

Supporting organizations that promote Ukraine’s independence and provide direct support to those affected on the ground. 

Designated giving from the <a href="https://artblocks.io">Art Blocks</a> community and employees.

Art Blocks Fund

Designated giving from the Art Blocks community and employees. 

10% of mint sales are going to Best Friends Animal Society. 

Angry Pitbull Club

10% of mint sales are going to Best Friends Animal Society.


Chimera Contributions holds 25% of the funds generated by the Chimera release on Artblocks Curated. The funds will be dedicated to cancer research efforts. 

Chimera Contributions

As we take our first tenuous steps into this vast world of NFTs and Crypto, we here at Turf HQ realize that we’re also placing a heavy foot print upon (meat-space) mother nature. Any Geographer worth their weight in soil will tell you to leave no trace behind. To this end we have decided to begin our epic adventure with an environmental initiative - one that is more than simply symbolic. 
 
There are 40 special plots added to the Turf genesis city which are power plants. Working with our partner Endaoment these plants will be sold via Dutch auction on OpenSea. 100% of the profit generated by these auctions will be donated to an environmental cause of our community’s choice.

Turf Power Plants Fund

Any Geographer worth their weight in soil will tell you to leave no trace behind. To this end we have decided to begin our epic adventure with an environmental initiative - one that is more than simply symbolic.

Sharing the Grift of Grifting. Contributions from the Grifter community and frens.

Grifter Fund

"Lost Pets of New York" is Series Three of "Post Clarity," a five part NFT docu-series cataloging creative duo Highley Varlet's 7,000 mile walking journey around the five boroughs of New York.
 
The collection documents every lost pet poster the pair encountered as they walked five marathons a week for one calendar year throughout the city. There are two distinct aspects to the documentation process: the website and the NFT collection.
 
The website (LostPets.NYC) is a curated display of the posters themselves. When one loses a pet, often the first action considered is posting notices in the neighborhood toalert the community and ask for assistance. In aggregate, “Lost Pets of New York” reveals that while there's largely a collective understanding of what information should be conveyed on these notices, human execution can vary wildly when urgency and impromptu design combine.
 
The NFT component of “Lost Pets of New York” takes documentation one step further. The poster image is cropped down to just the image of the pet, and from there converted into pixel art. At this level of image fidelity, the file size is small enough that the art can be stored on the Ethereum blockchain itself - aka, “on-chain.” This means that so long as the decentralized network exists, the images will persist in perpetuity. The effect created is in essence a digital cave painting that will serve as a permanent memorial to the animals lost.
 
100% of the mint proceeds from “Lost Pets of New York” and any secondary sale royalties, alongside any donations into this Community Fund, will go to <a href="https://app.endaoment.org/orgs/83-2085770">Rikers Island Cat Rescue</a>, a 501c3 charitable organization dedicated to caring for and rehoming cats found on the Rikers Island jail complex. The emergent NFT medium holds tremendouspossibilities for charities looking to partner with artists, create long tail revenue streams based on royalties and escape the traditional ‘tote bag and coffee mug' model of rewarding donations.
 
Highley Varlet is the creative moniker of artists Mike Varley and Jessi Highet. You can learn all about their walking project “2020: Total Clarity” at <a href="http://HighleyVarlet.com">HighleyVarlet.com</a>.

Lost Pets of New York

**"Lost Pets of New York"** is Series Three of "Post Clarity," a five part NFT docu-series cataloging creative duo Highley Varlet's 7,000 mile walking journey around the five boroughs of New York.

The Stand With Asians Community Fund aims to identify and fund grassroots groups and small nonprofits that can make an immediate impact on the AAPI community with $25,000 grants. Grantees will be required to provide a 3 month report on the impact of the grant on the community they serve. The SWA community fund is a collaboration between <a href="https://foundation.app/pplpleasr" target="new">Pplpleasr</a>, <a href="https://uniswap.org" target="new"> Uniswap</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/endaomentdotorg" target="new">Endaoment</a>, and the team at <a href="https://standwithasians.com" target="new">Stand With Asians</a>.

Stand With Asians Community Fund

The Stand With Asians Community Fund aims to identify and fund grassroots groups and small nonprofits that can make an immediate impact on the AAPI community with $25,000 grants.

We would like to support non-profits that are using the power of sports to create social impact. 

JDS Sports Community Fund

The SushiSwap Community Fund was seeded through an initial gift by several contributors to the $SUSHI codebase. From that initial gift, 17 organizations across six different issue areas were selected to receive grants. These 17 organizations' work centers around: <ul><li>Global Children's Hunger Programs</li><li>Autism Research</li><li>Cancer Research</li><li>Carbon Offsets</li><li>Gorilla Sanctuary Development</li><li>Diversity in Blockchain</li></ul>Donations are encouraged and open to the public. Distributions from this fund going forward will be decided by holders of $SUSHI tokens through proposals on the <a href="https://forum.sushiswapclassic.org" target="new">SushiSwap Forum</a>.

SushiSwap Community Fund

The SushiSwap Community Fund was seeded through an initial gift by several contributors to the $SUSHI codebase. From that initial gift, 17 organizations across six different issue areas were selected to receive grants.

For youth in low-income communities, Pathways to Education provides the resources and network of support to graduate from high school and build the foundation for a successful future.

Pathways to Education Canada

The mission of LGBT VOICE Tanzania is to promote, support, defend and protect the interests and the general well-being of Gay, Lesbians, bisexual and Transgender people in Tanzania.

LGBT Voice of Tanzania

The GFCF is a grassroots grantmaker working to promote and support institutions of community philanthropy around the world

Global Fund for Community Foundations

Voluntary Health Associations & Medical Disciplines

Child Rescue Kenya assists children in need while developing communities to better care for their own children through integrated development initiatives. The organisation operates in Trans-Nzoia County in Kenya. CRK facilitates the rehabilitation of street-connected children, and other abused or neglected children, by encouraging close links between the community, the project and the child. Multifaceted activities combine child rehabilitation centres with community development initiatives such as: a. Community Health clinics - both preventive and curative services. b. Training in home-based income-generating activities. c. Sports facilities to identify and nurture talents of young people. d. Advocacy campaigns on Family health and HIV/AIDS, children rights, domestic violence and substance abuse among young people. e. Bio- intensive farming activities targeting vulnerable families. f. Vocational training and formation of youth associations. CRK's Vision is a society where children are enjoying their basic rights and leading a dignified life. CRK's Mission is to assist children in need, while achieving positive change through initiatives that empower families and respect for children rights. Our Objectives are: 1.Child Rescue and Support. A strategic holistic approach emphasises improved child welfare within projects and well coordinated interventions. Within this pillar strategic objectives and strategies include: 1.1) Continued Rescue and Support of vulnerable and unaccompanied children. 1.2) These strategies ensure that rescued children access basic necessities such as the provision of shelter, meals, clothing and toiletries, psycho-social support and Counselling, preventive and curative medication, sports and recreation, and catch-up education education. 1.3) Increased Early Street Interventions aim to curb the influx of children on the streets through the daily identification of new street arrivals, referral to Child Protection Unit at the police and local administrators, and increased advocacy on child rights. We hope to see a reduction in child abuse cases and advocate respect for children's rights through: advocacy campaigns, attendance at network meetings, facilitating sensitisation workshops and ensuring children's participation in awareness creation. 1.4) Increased access to primary and secondary education and enhance early childhood education through enrolment in public schools through the provision of resources and fees required for school attendance, the refurbishment of libraries for non-formal catch-up education at all project centres. 2. Youth Empowerment CRK seeks to empower young people; those living and working on the streets and those in the slums, through formation of self -help groups or associations, facilitation to vocational training and formal education to improve their livelihoods through: 1) Increased access to formal and non formal education and training and support to enrol in public schools and vocational training. Facilitation of peer-to-peer counselling on issues such as drug use and the supported development of self help groups / associations. CRK nurtures talent through sport, provides health and sex education (inc. testing for STIs), and builds capacity for enterprise development. 2 Youth engagement in micro- businesses. CRK supports trained young people with business start up kits and routinely monitors the progress of the started ventures. We encourage and assist young people to get national identity cards for opening bank accounts etc. and link them to government development funds e.g youth fund. 3 Family Support CRK works with families to build therapeutic relationships, addressing issues affecting children at home, helping families to initiate income-generating activities and practice bio-intensive agriculture for those with small farms to improve their food security. In addition, CRK: 3.1) Strengthen family relationships through routine family visits, family counselling, advocacy campaigns on issues such as domestic violence, education on HIV/AIDS and reproductive health. We also provide subsidised medical services and referral linkages for support. 3.2) Improved household incomes involve the identification of vulnerable families to support (with a child or children), training on micro-business initiatives and marketing, support for trained beneficiaries with business start up kits and routine business progress monitoring 3.3) Improved food production through organic farming involves the identification and training of families on organic farming, the provision of start up farm inputs, the development and maintenance of demonstration plots as resource centres, sensitisation and training on environmental conservation, organising exposure tours as learning tools and promoting proper soil management practices through modern farming methods. 4. Organisation Development We endeavour to make CRK a strong and effective organisation, able to deliver its mandate within its core areas of operation. This is achieved through: 4.1) Enhanced staff motivation and performance in which Human Resources Policies and Procedures are reviewed regularly and the management team enforce and implement these policies. Contingency and disaster plans are developed and professional staff are recruited for core functions such as Human Resource and Resource Mobilisation. CRK will also strengthen and sustain policy on HIV/AIDS, build staff capacity in relevant project areas, continue to ensure board development and policy formulation, and redefine roles and responsibilities of staff to enhance performance. 4.2) Improved record keeping will involve the development of a back-up system for all organisational documents and the routine dissemination of information to staff and partners. 4.3) Increased Resource Mobilisation will involve the diversification of proposals seeking funding, the development of a donor profiling system and the engagement of consultancy services. CRK will also develop partnerships and set up a resource mobilisation team of staff members. 4.4) Improved service delivery in project areas will involve the generation of adequate funds for administration and project coordination, the routine monitoring and evaluation of projects, encouragement of transparency and accountability for the management of resources, continuous documentation and reporting of progress, routine review of targets and objectives, staff appraisals to ascertain performance, and the maintenance of a project vehicle for use in rural terrain.

Child Rescue Kenya

Free a Girl fights the sexual exploitation of children.

Free a Girl

Community Improvement & Capacity Building

Our aim is to become the biggest educational site for 1st to 12th grade in Bulgaria. Our success to be measured by improved grades and learning motivation of tens of thousands Bulgarian children. The official body supporting Khan Academy in Bulgaria is the "Obrazovanie bez ranitsi" ("Education without backpacks") association

Education Without Backpacks

CHW SUPPORTS CHILDREN AND TEENAGERS IN LESS DEVELOPED PARTS OF THE WORLD, THROUGH GIVING GRANTS TO LOCAL ORGANISATIONS, WHICH WORK WITH CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE EVERYDAY.  GRANTS ARE GIVEN TO PROJECTS WHICH RELIEVE POVERTY, ADVANCE EDUCATION, RELIEVE SICKNESS AND PROMOTE GOOD HEALTH AND OFFER RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES WHICH DEVELOP THE CHILDREN'S AND TEENAGERS' SKILLS AND CAPABILITIES.

Children's Helpers Worldwide

Philanthropy, Voluntarism & Grantmaking Foundations

The objectives of the Childhood Cancer Fund Rugut is to extend aid and charity to children who are or have been ill with cancer, to help their families, as well as to support the development of the science and practice of oncology in Lithuania. The Fund organizes different projects in order to ensure a versatile help for the families hit with child's oncological disease. The Fund cooperates with other Lithuanian, as well as foreign, organizations and funds.

Childhood Cancer Fund Rugut

After a lifetime with interest in growing plants I moved from California to Colorado. When I moved inland, one of the first goals was to start a home garden. It all started with a desire to be self sufficient. After a few years all my friends wanted to know what kinda secret nutrients I was using or magic bottled spray I was hiding. When I kept telling them that I had built a worm bin and was using aged compost along with earth worm castings they thought I was crazy.

Build Soil

Environmental Quality, Protection, and Beautification N.E.C.

The Compound protocol is a decentralized lending platform that allows users to earn interest or borrow cryptocurrency without intermediaries, with the ability for token holders to vote on protocol changes and upgrades.

Compound

AAVE is a decentralized finance protocol built on the Ethereum blockchain that allows users to lend, borrow, and earn interest on cryptocurrency without intermediaries.

Aave

The ETH token is the native cryptocurrency of the Ethereum blockchain, used for paying transaction fees, executing smart contracts, and incentivizing network participants.