GYPA Partners & Sponsors

GYPA is fortunate to have so many valuable sponsors, partners and friends who support our vision and our programs.

Sponsors of GYPA

Albin Family Foundation
Based in Princeton, New Jersey, the Albin Family Foundation supported GYPA's Inaugural Global Kimeeza in January 2006.

CARE International
CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. CARE's community-based efforts serve to improve basic education, prevent the spread of HIV, increase access to clean water and sanitation, expand economic opportunity and protect natural resources. CARE also delivers emergency aid to survivors of war and natural disasters, and helps people rebuild their lives.
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Core Initiative
The Communities Responding to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic, or CORE Initiative, is a five-year, $50-million global program supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development. The CORE Initiative's overall mission is to support an inspired, effective, and inclusive response to the causes and consequences of HIV/AIDS by strengthening the capacity of community and faith-based groups in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
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DONOR SPOTLIGHT: Kevin Carroll & Katalyst Consultancy
Kevin Carroll is not just a donor, but a mentor, supporter, and friend of GYPA. Kevin's passion for youth, creativity, Africa, leadership and sport, has been a blessing to our programs. In October 2004, Kevin made a generous donation that led to the construction of a basketball court located at a primary school located in Namuwongo, Uganda. Children who once had no source of recreational outlet now have a "basketball haven" in Namuwongo. In summer 2006, he sponsored Gomo Tong FC's participation in the Homeless World Cup in Cape Town, South Africa.
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DONOR SPOTLIGHT: Merrin Family Foundation
The Merrin Family Foundation is a donor-advised fund of the Jewish Communal Fund. It was established as a vehicle through which members of the Merrin Family (parents, four children and their spouses) could collaboratively donate to causes which are meaningful to the family as a whole. The Foundation has been instrumental to the success of GYPA's Helping Hands Medical Fellowship.

Partners & Friends of GYPA

Brit Olam
Brit Olam is an international Israeli-Jewish volunteer program which seeks to promote social welfare, community leadership, civic participation, and humanitarian aid among and between people and nations. The organization's core mission is to reduce poverty, hardship, and vulnerability in fragile communities and to advance equality of opportunity, freedom, and self-expression.
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Cameroon Youth and Students Forum for Peace (CAMYOSFOP)
CAMYOSFOP is a non-profit, non-governmental organization aimed at educating youth, students, and the public in general on how their moral and traditional values serve as tools for resolving differences and promote a culture of peace. The organization is also involved in human rights and citizenship education, advocating for a national arms control campaign, promoting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Cameroon, and assisting international volunteers who are interested working in the field.

Clarence Foundation
The Clarence Foundation is an international grant-making organization based in Oakland, California, USA. Its mission is to promote and support donor engaged international philanthropy. The Foundation seeks to engage donors at a heart level, so they may personally experience how their resources, and more importantly their involvement, can make a significant impact to help end world poverty.
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Creative Visions
The Creative Visions Foundation is a publicly supported non-profit organization that supports "creative activists" and social entrepreneurs who work to inspire positive change using media, technology, and the arts to create awareness of environmental, social, or humanitarian issues. Learn more »

Grassroot Soccer
Using the power of soccer in the fight against AIDS, Grassroot Soccer provides African youth with the skills and support to live HIV free. Grassroot Soccer does this by continuously improving innovative HIV/AIDS life-skills curriculum, sharing the program and concept effectively, and utilizing the popularity of soccer to increase their impact.
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Homeless World Cup
The Homeless World Cup is a unique international football tournament. The HWC exists to be a catalyst for lasting change through the development of street soccer worldwide in a way that that creates a maximum social impact for the players involved – socially excluded, homeless, and people living in poverty. This is accomplished firstly by creating a top quality, well-recognized annual HWC flagship event and secondly, by a continuous HWC grassroots development programs around the world to ensure that many more people benefit.
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PARTNER SPOTLIGHT: Keep A Child Alive
Keep A Child Alive is an urgent response to the AIDS pandemic ravaging Africa. The organization is dedicated to providing life-saving anti-retroviral treatment to children and their families with HIV/AIDS in Africa and the developing world by directly engaging the global public in the fight against AIDS.
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Nagenda International Academy of Art & Design
Slated for an official opening in 2008, the Nagenda International Academy of Art and Design (NIAAD) will be a self-sustaining institution where local and international artists will hone their creative and entrepreneurial skills. Artists will be inspired to promote local arts & crafts techniques, learn cutting-edge design technology, and encourage one another through a network of alumni and international artists.
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OneKid OneWorld
The mission of OneKid OneWorld is simple: to make a difference in the lives of children in need around the globe — one kid, one school, one refugee camp at a time. OneKid OneWorld is an education- and sports-based grassroots organization partnering US high school students with rural schools and kids in refugee camps in war-torn and poverty-stricken areas of the world.
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PeacePlayers International
Formerly known as Playing for Peace, PeacePlayers International uses the game of basketball to unite and educate children and their communities. The organization seeks to bridge social divides, develop future leaders, educate children to lead healthy and constructive lives, and build community involvement to ensure long-term sustainability. Learn more »

Society for Democratic Initiatives — Sierra Leone
SDI is a youth-run non-governmental organization based in Freetown, Sierra Leone that seeks to promote and achieve the fundamental principles of a democratic society. Its mission is to develop an environment in Sierra Leone that fosters civic participation and empowerment, social equality, the protection of human rights, and transparent and accountable governance. SDI's programs delve into issues as diverse as poverty-reduction, judicial reform, gender equality combating corruption, freedom of information advocacy, and HIV/AIDS.
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The Kids League (Uganda)
The Kids League believes that sport provides an important mechanism for connecting with youth. Sport has the power of mobilizing communities in order to help deliver health and education messages to children, as well as their friends and family. TKL firmly believes that sport can unite communities, even populations divided by conflict. Through sport, tribal, religious, and socio-economic differences disappear and peace-building is able occur.
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