With an e-commerce marketplace, where the profits go back to the individuals who create the products and the marketing power of the Internet, the support of the global philanthropic community and the good-will of people like you, we can reach the world and break down the Digital Divide. Then people just like you have the opportunity to hope, dream and build positive futures for themselves and their communities.

When we welcome the world to a global marketplace in which the people who make the products receive the profits from their labors, you'll have the satisfaction of knowing, without a doubt, that your generosity led to better lives for people all over the planet. As individuals prosper, communities prosper. As communities prosper, nations prosper. Under conditions like this young people get to hope and dream instead of simmer in anger or despair. Towns and cities get health care and clean water. Merchants can earn a living. Land increases in value. National debt is able to be paid. Freedom is expanded and marketplace economics replaces despotism and black market monopoly.

None of this happens from the top down. The world has tried top-down approaches for a long time. What's needed is a bottom-up solution. We're not the only bottom-up solution and we support all groups seeking to work with individuals and communities to increase education, health care, basic rights and bring food, water and shelter. But we fulfill a tremendously important niche: economic self-determination.

Please consider supporting our efforts. The next time you browse a catalog of imported crafts, a for-profit international marketplace website or a local shop with goods from the developing world, consider: who is really profiting from the sale of these goods? Where is the money really going? Do the people who make these beautiful things live beautiful lives?

If these things matter to you support us and build a more just, free, inclusive and hopeful human community!