 The Office of the Commissioner of Major League Baseball is an unincorporated association made up of the 30 member MLB teams and does business as Major League Baseball. Within MLB, there is a Department of Community Affairs and each one of the 30 MLB teams has a department in charge of liaison with community activities. The MLB Dominican Republic office was established in 2000 under the supervision of the International Baseball Operations Department located in MLB’s office in New York. The MLB Dominican Republic office has responsibilities not only for the Dominican Republic but also for Latin America with three major goals: (a) Enhance and protect the investment of MLB teams; (b) Monitor the compliance by teams of MLB regulations and incountry laws; and (c) Enhance the image of MLB in the local communities through outreach programs.
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USAID is an independent United States federal government agency that receives overall foreign policy guidance from the Secretary of State. USAID supports international development and advances U.S. foreign policy objectives by supporting economic growth, agriculture and trade, global health, democracy and conflict prevention; and humanitarian assistance in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and the Near East, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Europe and Eurasia.
USAID’s close partnership with the Dominican Republic goes back more than four decades. The current program is helping to address development challenges such as weak governance, inadequate rule of law, frail institutions, and poor service delivery; poor quality of public health care and basic education; a growing gap between rich and poor; and the need to adjust to a rapidly changing global economy.
USAID will serve as both a catalyst as well as donor for this alliance. Through the Program Office USAID will provide logistical, programmatic, planning and evaluation support to the MLB-DDA. In addition, USAID will provide resources that will serve as a match grant fund in order to provide incentives to MLB teams, players, agents and fans as they begin to explore options for investing in development initiatives with the Alliance partners.
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The Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) was founded in the state of New York in 1997 as a tax-exempt, non-profit, non-political, humanitarian aid organization to address the socio-economic and health needs of children and their families severely affected by poverty, disease and hunger in the Caribbean. Toward that end, BRA created in 2001 its regional arm, BRA Dominicana, a Dominican Republic-based non-governmental organization to respond to the dire conditions adversely affecting more than 200,000 Dominicans living inside 220 impoverished sugarcane plantations rural communities known as bateyes, urban barrios, and border localities. Former United States President, William Jefferson Clinton, offered his kind support to the work of the BRA, “The Batey Relief Alliance is doing important and difficult work. They need our continued support.” – September 10, 2005.
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Esperanza International is a Christian based institution. It was founded by Dave and Vicky Valle in 1995. Esperanza’s programs are set up through an Integral Development Model (IDM), which consists of four strategic programs for human development and transformation: 1) Microfinance Services, 2) Education & Vocational Training, 3) Health Care and 4) Social Mobilization. Esperanza focuses on long-lasting solutions that enable families to help themselves.
Esperanza centers on a micro credit lending program to equip the poor with the financial tools to cross the poverty line. This program assists impoverished entrepreneurs who do not have the collateral to qualify for traditional bank loans. Esperanza coordinates programs with community leaders and other organizations to improve the physical, emotional and spiritual lives of those we serve. Esperanza operates in dozens of rural and semi-rural communities throughout the eastern regions of the Dominican Republic. Branch offices are located in Puerto Plata, Samana, Hato Mayor, El Seibo, Ingenio Consuelo, San Pedro de Macoris, and Santo Domingo.
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An NGO created in 1984 with the purpose of overcoming poverty in the rural and urban area. It is composed of men and women that work with local communities and organizations interested in taking on the responsibility of improving theirs and their neighbor’s life. It provides training and micro-credit for housing and employment in the slums of Santo Domingo.
IDDI works in the following areas: strengthening of community organizations, proposals to the government, education in environmental sanitation and water, community organizations in charge of gathering urban solid waste, microenterprises created together with the community organizations, and generation of income thru craftsmanship.
IDDI seeks to: - contribute to family and community improvement to achieve a better life;
- create the conditions so that people have the opportunity to live a productive and creative life according to their needs, interests and potential;
- to promote dialogue between various sectors of national life and;
- to focus no only on the problem, but also it’s causes.
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 Plan International is a humanitarian, child-centered community development (CCCD) organization without religion, political or governmental affiliation that works in over 45 countries. The Global vision which unites Plan around the world is “a world in which all children realize their full potential in societies that respect people’s rights and dignity”. Plan was founded in Spain in 1937 and began working with poor communities in the Dominican Republic in 1987. We currently work in five program areas located in the southwest part of the country (Azua, San Juan, Barahona, Elías Piña and Pedernales) with a Country Office in Santo Domingo. Our programs focuses on: Infant-Juvenile Participation, Education, Child Development, Health, Protection and Children’s Rights, Micro-finances, Environment and Multicultural Relations; they are carried out, implemented and evaluated in participation with children, young people and adults to benefit the quality of their life through facilitating their empowerment to take their own development forward. By working directly with over 30,000 sponsored children throughout 148 communities, we serve a population of more than 120,000 inhabitants. Plan has consultative status with UNICEF and UNESCO.
“Children are at the heart of everything we do”
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Save the Children - FUDECO |
Save the Children is the oldest and biggest independent Non Governmental Organization that works for the defense and the promotion of the rights of children implementing development projects in more than 120 countries. Save the Children República Dominicana is one of the 29 national members of the International Save the Children Alliance. Since 1976 Save’s work has been centered on community development with a focus on children. For more than 30 years the organization has worked in the Dominican Republic to improve the lives of children and their families in approximately 70 remote communities located on the border and in the eastern region of the country. Our work is focused in the areas that most directly impact children: educa-tion, children’s rights, health, nutrition, and community development.
www.savethechildrendominicana.org
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World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. World Vision was founded in September 1950 by Dr. Bob Pierce, a Christian leader, in response to the needs of Korean War orphans.
World Vision Dominican Republic was founded in 1989, contributing with integrated changes through transforming development. This is the process where the communities fight for a better life. World Vision works in the following areas: health and sanitation; education, economic development; and emergency relief and reconstruction.
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