Basic Organization Information
Heifer Project International, Inc.
- Also Known As:
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Heifer International
- Physical Address:
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Little Rock, AR
72202
- EIN:
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35-1019477
- Web URL:
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www.heifer.org
- NTEE Category:
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Q International, Foreign Affairs, and National Security
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Q31 International Agricultural Development
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K Agriculture, Food, Nutrition
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K20 Agricultural Programs
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D Animal related
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D99 Animal Related Activities N.E.C.
- Year Founded:
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1944
- Ruling Year:
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1999
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Mission Statement
<p>Heifer International's mission is to end hunger and poverty and to care for the Earth using gifts of livestock, seeds, trees and training in sustainable agriculture community development projects to help millions of people become self-reliant. Since 1944, Heifer has helped transform the lives of more than 18.4 million families (94.5 million people) by giving them gifts of cows, goats and other livestock. Along with the animals, families receive training in animal care and conservation for environmentally sound agricultural development. There is also training in community development, gender equity, sharing and caring, strategic planning and other subjects as needed, including literacy. The process takes several years and is not declared successful until the community shows sustained improvement in nutrition, income and self-reliance. Each family that receives an animal agrees to Pass on the Gift by sharing the first-born female offspring of their animal with another family in need, so each gift of livestock starts a chain of self-reliance that spreads throughout entire communities.</p>
Impact Summary from the Nonprofit
<p>Heifer’s holistic model is proven to be successful and life-changing. Following a five-year study of Heifer projects, programs and participants, evaluators from Western Michigan University noted in virtually every evaluation improvements in nutrition, agriculture, income, hope and opportunity, access to health care and medicine, livestock management. Also mentioned in nearly every report was Heifer’s signature Passing on the Gift (POG) cornerstone</p>
Revenue and Expenses
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Leadership
Pierre Ferrari
Term:
Since
Oct
2010
Leadership Statement:
<p>After nearly 70 years, Heifer’s formula remains a simple one. By giving families in need a hand up, not just a handout, we can empower them to turn a life of hunger and poverty into one of self-reliance and independence.</p> <p>With the gifts of livestock and training, we help families improve their nutrition and general income in a sustainable way through honest work.</p> <p>There are heifers that give milk, chickens that produce eggs, sheep that provide wool and much much more.</p> <p>We refer to these animals as “living loans” because in exchange for receiving their animal and training in its care, each family promises to give one of its animal’s offspring to another family in need.</p> <p>It’s called Passing on the Gift and it means that each gift you make through Heifer will multiply many times over with every new generation.</p> <p>And our work sparks not only a wildfire of self-reliance, it enables donors to share in the experience of ending hunger and poverty at a time of economic crisis when the cause has never seemed more urgent. Donors know the job of our passionate urgency to end hunger and poverty while caring for the Earth. </p> <div>Pierre Ferrari<br />CEO</div> <div>Heifer International</div> <p><strong> </strong></p>
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Program:
Rural Entrepreneurs for Agricultural Cooperation in Haiti
- Budget:
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$14,998,072
- Category:
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International, Foreign Affairs & National Security
- Population Served:
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Poor/Economically Disadvantaged, Indigent, General
Program Description:
Specifically, REACH — Rural Entrepreneurs for Agricultural
Cooperation in Haiti — will develop 150 breeding centers and provide training
for 120 community health workers who, in turn, will train an average of 200
farmers each. Heifer International hopes the enterprise will serve as a model
for the state to consider for replication, key to igniting the kind of
transformation Haiti needs to become self-sustaining. Three hundred full-time
jobs will be created and more than 83,000 will benefit indirectly.
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Empowering Women Farmers Through the Value Chain in Nepal
- Budget:
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$23,883,937
- Category:
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International, Foreign Affairs & National Security
- Population Served:
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Females, all ages or age unspecified
Program Description:
The average Nepalese farmer owns less than 1.2 acres of
land. Even on such small plots, livestock has the poten-
tial to improve diets and increase incomes. However, the
current quality of the animals and the farmers’ skills to
improve their livestock’s productivity are both poor.
For farmers, especially marginalized women, to thrive on
very small farms, they must work together, have higher-
quality animals, be trained in better farming methods and
be connected to formal agricultural markets.
Through this project, women will be transformed into
powerful small farmers and businesswomen selling meat
and milk in organized markets. To help Heifer bring our
work to exponentially more families than ever before in a
Heifer Nepal project, this project was designed with
several significant programmatic innovations.
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Seeds of Change
- Budget:
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$17,191,051
- Category:
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International, Foreign Affairs & National Security
- Population Served:
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Poor/Economically Disadvantaged, Indigent, General
Program Description:
Seeds of Change is about developing
vibrant, sustainable farmers and local food systems through these wealth
creation value chains resulting in measurable impact in: social capital,
livelihoods, nutrition, and improved environment. The aim is to identify market demand and then to invest resources
and enlist partners to
get development going across a whole value chain—inputs, production, processing,
distribution, consumers, policy changes and other enabling context, in
particular sectors, such as accessible, affordable and healthy food. With this,
farmers can connect markets
so that people and communities are sustainable beyond Heifer’s engagement.
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