World Centric's Staff Giving program is exactly what it sounds like: employees decide where money goes. Each year, an internal volunteer committee identifies priority impact areas and nominates a list of nonprofits. Every staff member then votes for how much to fund the organizations they care most about.
This year, those votes added up to over $200,000 directed to 16 nonprofits, with the team centering their giving on three themes: immigrant rights, environmental restoration, and women's empowerment.
Here's who we funded, and the important work they’re doing to build a better world.
Theme:
IMMIGRANT RIGHTS & SUPPORT
Immigration enforcement has undergone a historic transformation, and it's an unjust one. As of February 2026, over 68,000 individuals are held in ICE detention, the highest level in U.S. history. In-custody deaths are rising with zero accountability. When the rule of law is tested, advocacy becomes the last line of defense. These five organizations are holding that line.
- Freedom for Immigrants | United States: An immigrant-led organization running a national hotline and visitation program to document abuse, fund release bonds, and fight to abolish detention entirely.
- LGBT Asylum Project | West Coast, United States: Providing legal support and advocacy for LGBTQ+ individuals seeking asylum in the United States.
- Migrant Justice | Vermont: An organization building power with migrant farmworkers to defend their human rights and dignity.
- Oakland Bloom | California: Advancing the economic justice of working-class, immigrant, refugee, and BIPOC chefs in Oakland.
- WeCount! | South Florida: An immigrant-led movement organizing farmworkers, day laborers, and domestic workers to win labor protections and fair wages.
- Baan Dek Foundation | Thailand: Thailand’s workforce, much like the U.S., is supported by migrant workers. Baak Dek Foundation improves the lives of vulnerable children and migrant families living in urban slums by providing essential services and advocacy.
Workers organizing for better human rights and dignity in Florida
WeCount! is an immigrant-led resistance movement in South Florida, organizing the essential workers -- farmworkers, day laborers, and domestic workers -- who are the backbone of the economy but the first targets of state overreach. They build collective power to win high-stakes battles for labor protections, fair wages, and climate justice.
From launching the "Planting Justice" campaign to transform the exploitative houseplant industry, to defying "anti-sanctuary" laws, WeCount turns marginalized voices into an organized front that demands dignity and refuses to be pushed into the shadows.
Theme:
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION & RESTORATION
We are already at 1.5°C, the limit set by the Paris Agreement, years ahead of schedule. Coral reefs are dying. Greenland is currently losing 30 million tons of ice every hour. We are reaching catastrophic, irreversible tipping points. These five organizations don't have a minute to spare.
- ACADIR | Angola: A community-based conservation organization in the Kavango-Zambezi landscape, turning poachers into protectors and nearly doubling elephant populations while securing critical water sources.
- Action for Environmental Sustainability | Malawi: Combating poverty and environmental degradation through community-driven initiatives in livelihoods, sustainable agriculture, and natural resource management.
- Contour Lines | Guatemala: Reversing deforestation and supporting indigenous livelihoods and land stewardship in a country that has lost 25% of its forests since 2000.
- DESPRI DR | Dominican Republic: Working on community-based environmental protection and restoration in the Caribbean.
- Green Forests Work | Appalachia, United States: Rewilding land destroyed by mountaintop removal mining, having planted over 6 million native hardwoods to restore ecosystems that industry left behind.
Turning old coal mines into thriving forests in Appalachia
Mountaintop removal mining has literally flattened over 500 mountains across Appalachia, leaving more than a million acres of biological desert in its wake. Green Forests Work is a rewilding force dedicated to undoing that damage, by hand.
By breaking up the compacted, rocky soil left behind by heavy machinery and replanting native trees, they are engineering the return of functional ecosystems. To date, they've put over 6 million native hardwoods back into the ground, transforming toxic "moonscapes" into carbon-sequestering forests.
Their mission is clear: if the corporations won't fix what they broke, communities will
Theme:
WOMEN'S RIGHTS & EMPOWERMENT
At the current pace, it will take another 135 years to close the global economic participation gap. That's not a forecast. That's a choice, one made by systems designed to keep women out. These five organizations aren't waiting.
- MAIA | Guatemala: Running Central America's first female, Indigenous-led secondary school to close the opportunity gap for Indigenous girls, with a 96% retention rate against a national tide of dropouts.
- Our Sisters’ Opportunity | Rwanda: Empowering vulnerable young women to break cycles of poverty and domestic violence through vocational training in ethical fashion, soapmaking, and agribusiness.
- Wandikweza | Malawi: A last-mile maternal health organization bringing proactive, doorstep care to the hardest-to-reach villages, achieving a 95% skilled birth attendance rate.
- WomenGro Initiative | Uganda: Helping women, youth, and persons with disabilities overcome food insecurity and grow livelihoods through sustainable agriculture, vertical gardening, and agribusiness training.
- WoteSawa | Tanzania: Fighting human trafficking and forced servitude of domestic workers while supporting survivors through advocacy and direct services.
Ending preventable deaths for women and infants in Malawi
In Sub-Saharan Africa, one in 37 women faces the risk of dying from pregnancy-related causes, compared to one in 3,800 in high-income nations. In Malawi, where Wandikweza works, distance to a hospital can be the difference between life and death.
Through their Proactive Doorstep Care model, Wandikweza travels to the hardest-to-reach villages to identify health risks before they become emergencies. The result: a 95% skilled birth attendance rate in the communities they serve. Their message, and ours, is simple. No woman should die while giving life.
Join us in fighting for justice
Staff Giving wraps up each year, but the work these organizations do does not. Here are three ways to stay involved:
- Become a Sustainer: Many of these organizations rely on monthly recurring support to fund long-term legal and policy battles. Small, consistent contributions often provide more stability than large, one-time gifts.
- Amplify Expert Voice: Follow and share the data-driven reports and calls to action from these organizations. When you share their work, you're helping close the transparency gap in immigration, environmental, and women's rights policy.
- Act Locally: Legislation affecting immigrant safety, LGBTQ+ rights, and environmental restoration often begins at the city council and state house level. Your voice as a constituent is a powerful tool for the nonprofits doing this work every day.
