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International Day of Peace may have been yesterday, but the work of building peace happens every day. 🕊️

This year’s theme, Invest in Peace: For Everyone, Everywhere, Every Day, celebrates the people working in their own communities to build greater safety, dignity, cooperation, and opportunity.

Across the GlobalGiving community, local leaders are doing just that.

In Rwanda, community facilitators are supporting dialogue and reconciliation. In Uganda, young people and educators are building a new generation of peace leaders. In South Sudan, communities are creating spaces for dialogue, healing, and reconciliation. In Syria, teachers are learning how to make classrooms safer spaces for children affected by conflict. And in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, women are strengthening their role in peace processes and community decision-making.

Explore five projects investing in peace from the ground up. ➡️

Featured orgs include CFOR Force for Change www.cfor.info, Uganda Unites, Smile Charity South Sudan, إحياء السلام - Peace Revival, and ODDPH.

There’s no single picture of community-led change.

Sometimes it looks like children learning, creating, and playing together. Sometimes it’s farmers tending crops, families gathering, or neighbors showing up for one another.

What connects these moments is local leadership: people investing their knowledge, care, and creativity in the communities they call home.

Here are a few snapshots from across the GlobalGiving community. 💛

📸 Featuring:
Fundación Niños de los Andes
SOMOSGAY
World Central Kitchen
When the Saints
Fundación Dos Aguas
Love Story - Go And Do The Same
Yo quiero Yo puedo ONG

National Preparedness Month is an opportunity to think about what communities need before, during, and after disaster.

Wildfire recovery can take years—and rebuilding is about much more than replacing what was lost. It can mean supporting local businesses, restoring ecosystems, making space for grief, strengthening infrastructure, protecting people from displacement, and continuing to listen to local leaders as needs change.

We’ve highlighted a few ideas in this carousel, inspired by community organizations that have led wildfire recovery around the world.

Read the full guide and explore all 10 ideas for community-led wildfire recovery: https://www.globalgiving.org/learn/community-wildfire-recovery-guide/

Twenty-five years after September 11, the Safer World Fund continues a legacy built from loss—and rooted in hope.

Three people who lost loved ones in the attacks created the fund as a living memorial, choosing to honor their loved ones by supporting women and girls in Afghanistan and Pakistan through education, health care, economic opportunity, and more.

Today, that commitment continues through the annual Safer World Campaign.

Participating organizations are carrying this work forward despite international aid cuts, government restrictions, and other challenges that have made securing resources increasingly difficult. Starting today at 10:00 AM EDT, donations to participating projects will be matched dollar for dollar while matching funds last.

On this anniversary, we remember those who were lost and support people working toward a safer, more equitable future.

Explore the campaign and give: https://www.globalgiving.org/saferworld/

Some of the most important work of rebuilding begins before anything looks rebuilt. 💚

This month, GlobalGiving’s Project of the Month Club is supporting Teaching for Peace, a project helping Syrian teachers create safer, more supportive classrooms for children affected by years of conflict.

After 15 years of war, Syria’s education system continues to face immense challenges. Millions of children have been displaced, schools have been destroyed, and many teachers are managing aggression, bullying, tension, and emotional distress with few tools or resources to help.

Teaching for Peace provides educators with hands-on training in peace education, conflict resolution, empathy, and psychosocial support. Teachers then bring those skills back to their schools through projects that use art, dialogue, and other activities to bring students, parents, and communities together.

The idea is simple but powerful: when teachers have the support to create peaceful classrooms, those lessons can spread far beyond school walls.

Thank you to our Project of the Month Club members for helping more teachers across Syria build spaces where children can learn, connect, and grow—and where communities can continue rebuilding trust.

Learn more about this month’s project: https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/project-of-the-month-club/reports/?subid=329304

إحياء السلام - Peace Revival

There are countless ways to make a difference. But how we give matters, too.

On International Day of Charity, we’re celebrating an approach to generosity rooted in trust, local leadership, and long-term support.

When you support people who understand their communities firsthand—and give them the flexibility and resources to act—you help make meaningful, lasting change possible.

At GlobalGiving, that’s what we mean when we say: Give locally, everywhere. 🌍💚

Find a cause you care about: globalgiving.org

Preparing for wildfires isn’t only about what you can do on your own. It’s also about how neighbors can communicate, share resources, and help one another stay safe.

Our wildfire preparedness guide draws on lessons from local organizations that have experienced fires and worked alongside their communities through recovery.

Swipe through for four ways to start preparing together, then read the full guide for more practical ideas.

🔗 Find the link in the comments.

Black Philanthropy Month is almost over—but there’s still time to take part. 🖤

All August, people around the world have been celebrating Black generosity, leadership, and the power of communities investing in their own futures.

One meaningful way to join the movement? Support a Black-led nonprofit doing work you care about.

Make a donation. Share an organization’s story. Introduce its work to someone in your community.

And while Black Philanthropy Month comes to a close at the end of August, the opportunity to invest in Black-led change continues all year long.

Join the movement at the link below.

Black Philanthropy Month 2026 — Back Black Campaign Black Philanthropy Month A global movement each August to recognize, amplify, and invest in Black-led change. GET INVOLVED LEARN MORE Photo credits: Creative Nomads Drumming with Dad program ABOUT BPM The largest global movement for Black philanthropy. Black Philanthropy Month isn't one event or one...

Catastrophic flash floods have swept through Nepal’s Bhote Koshi river system, taking lives, destroying homes and infrastructure, and leaving hundreds of people unaccounted for.

Search-and-rescue operations are continuing across Nepal’s Rasuwa district and other affected areas, but damaged roads and communications, severe weather, and difficult mountainous terrain are making it harder to reach remote communities.

GlobalGiving has launched the Nepal Flood Relief Fund to support communities affected by this devastating disaster.

Donations will provide trusted local organizations with flexible funding for urgent needs like search and rescue, emergency medical care, shelter, food, clean water, and essential supplies. As the response shifts toward recovery, the fund will also help communities rebuild and prepare for the future.

Donate today and support locally led relief and recovery: https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/nepal-flood-relief-fund/