Hope for Children-US owes a tremendous debt of gratitude to our many partners, supporters and friends. Learn about some of them below.
Contributions and grants from organizations and companies
Batonga Foundation, the Whalley-Otto Foundation, the Body Shop Foundation, Lockheed Martin, the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, the Ananda Foundation, Herb Block Foundation, the SuPau Trust, Georgetown Day School, Maret School, Google, T. Rowe Price, Solomon Smith-Barney, Malinda Foundation, Novick Foundation
Donations of goods and services
- Abol Ethiopian Cuisine, Silver Spring, MD – special thanks to Birtukan and Belete for the wonderful Ethiopian food they have donated for our annual fundraisers
- Etete Restaurant, Washington, DC – great sambusas!
- Hogan & Hartson and Lockheed Martin – for their generous donations of used laptops for the Hope for Children Youth Center
- Cameron Jones Computer Services – for getting our laptops ready to go
- Marida Hines of DogDays Communications LLC – for designing our brochure
- Ethiopia Reads – for helping us initially stock the Youth Center library
- FirstBook – for many more books!
- Mark L. Gross, DDS, Chevy Chase, MD and Marsha L. Douma, DDS, Rockville, MD – for donating toothbrushes for the kids at Hope for Children
- Framer McGee’s, Bethesda, MD – for help with items for our silent auction
