Project People Foundation (PPF) is a US-based nonprofit organization that empowers children and families to attain a quality education, create a sustainable livelihood, and achieve financial independence. PPF has 30 years of experience focusing on black and brown communities in the U.S. and South Africa, working primarily with faith-based institutions, community-based organizations (CBOs), and direct service agencies to implement our programs.
Our foundation began in 1995 to provide black dolls to black and brown South African children who had never seen dolls made in their likeness growing up under the oppressive system of apartheid. Through the mobilization of volunteers in churches, synagogues, schools, colleges, and community organizations, the PPF community distributed over 16,000 new dolls to the children of South Africa. Since then, PPF has channeled over $1.5 million dollars in humanitarian grants to community groups and schools, distributed over 3,000 school uniforms to low-income students in South Africa and other countries in Southern Africa, and supported work-readiness and entrepreneurship training for over 1,000 women in South Africa and the U.S.
In recent years, we have supported local initiatives, contributing to work readiness efforts, and providing back-to-school supplies and food distribution drives to hundreds of youths and families from under-resourced U.S. communities. Our current focus is on improving the lives of youth in New York City through our Swim Plus Scholarship Program.
Throughout its history, PPF has been proud to count on grants from an array of funders including The Africa Fund, Avon Foundation, B.P. Foundation,The Bob and Sheila Friedland Foundation, Cedar Foundation, Central Synagogue, Coca Cola, Concerned Black Clergy, DDB Worldwide, Ebenezer Baptist Church, The Gruenberg Foundation, Helen LaKelly Hunt and The Sister Fund, James & Bettye Forbes, Jr., Jewish Communal Fund, Dr Johnnetta B. Cole,Kellogg Foundation, The Kirsch Foundation, Lambert Family Foundation, The Links, Marble Collegiate Church, Mark and Anla Cheng Kingdon Foundation, Morehouse College, Pamela & Richard Rubinstein Foundation, The Riverside Church, Union Theological Seminary, The World Bank, our Board Giving Circle, and thousands of generous individual donors.
Our foundation began in 1995 to provide black dolls to black and brown South African children who had never seen dolls made in their likeness growing up under the oppressive system of apartheid. Through the mobilization of volunteers in churches, synagogues, schools, colleges, and community organizations, the PPF community distributed over 16,000 new dolls to the children of South Africa. Since then, PPF has channeled over $1.5 million dollars in humanitarian grants to community groups and schools, distributed over 3,000 school uniforms to low-income students in South Africa and other countries in Southern Africa, and supported work-readiness and entrepreneurship training for over 1,000 women in South Africa and the U.S.
In recent years, we have supported local initiatives, contributing to work readiness efforts, and providing back-to-school supplies and food distribution drives to hundreds of youths and families from under-resourced U.S. communities. Our current focus is on improving the lives of youth in New York City through our Swim Plus Scholarship Program.
Throughout its history, PPF has been proud to count on grants from an array of funders including The Africa Fund, Avon Foundation, B.P. Foundation,The Bob and Sheila Friedland Foundation, Cedar Foundation, Central Synagogue, Coca Cola, Concerned Black Clergy, DDB Worldwide, Ebenezer Baptist Church, The Gruenberg Foundation, Helen LaKelly Hunt and The Sister Fund, James & Bettye Forbes, Jr., Jewish Communal Fund, Dr Johnnetta B. Cole,Kellogg Foundation, The Kirsch Foundation, Lambert Family Foundation, The Links, Marble Collegiate Church, Mark and Anla Cheng Kingdon Foundation, Morehouse College, Pamela & Richard Rubinstein Foundation, The Riverside Church, Union Theological Seminary, The World Bank, our Board Giving Circle, and thousands of generous individual donors.