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What is the Virtual Foundation?


The Virtual Foundation is a unique philanthropy program which supports grassroots initiatives around the world. Carefully screened community improvement projects are posted on our web site. They can be read and funded by donors.

All Virtual Foundation projects:

  • meet needs with a combination of volunteer labor, local contributions, and outside assistance
  • solve local problems of environment, human health, poverty alleviation or economic development
  • are supervised by our network of Consortium Members (capable organizations on the ground in the developing countries)
  • meet locally identified needs directly and on an appropriate, sustainable scale

More about how the Virtual Foundation works...

For more on the ideas and experiences of ECOLOGIA, and reflections on the power of community-based grants, see "From the Baltic Mini-Grant Program to the Virtual Foundation: Small Grants and Global Change".

May 2008 Featured Project

"Traditional Mongolian Medicine Training for Rural Doctors"

Goal: To enable doctors from rural regions of Mongolia to learn traditional Mongolian medicine practices
Region: Mongolia, Central Asia
Budget: $21,689
Collected: $500 Needs: $21,189
CommentTraditional medical techniques are sustainable and practical for use in public health work. Your donation will enable doctors already trained in Western medicine to add traditional knowledge to their practices.... continued

Match Challenge Grant
from Barakat Foundation
Encourages
Taiga Alive! 2008

Supporters of the Totem Project's "Taiga Alive! 2008" now have the chance to raise an additional $4,000 from the Barakat Foundation, thanks to a Match Challenge Grant. When "Taiga Alive! 2008" reaches a total of $7,500 in new donations, Barakat will provide the additional $4,000, on top of their initial grant of $3,500.

Donations already received (as of 5-2-08) which count toward the Match Challenge: $3,905.

The goal of this project is to support people of the mountain, taiga forest and steppe grassland cultures in eastern Asia; to maintain and enhance their traditional nomadic lifestyles of reindeer, yak and camel breeding, hunting and gathering in their native homelands. Read more about it...

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