Meet our best friends.
501 Collective currently works with ten partners in thirty+ countries around the world. When you donate to 501 Collective, you help support each one of these nonprofits.
Our partners are superheroes.
They build hospitals in war zones, rescue abandoned disabled kids, fight to prevent sex trafficking, feed/house/teach/love orphans, rebuild entire communities and infinitely more.
Develop Sustainability
Developing communities in Uganda with sustainable solutions such as fish farms, vocational schools and hospitality management.
Jason & Brenda Sommers | Est. 2012 | Kampala, Uganda
Lack of consistent resources, skills and education make it incredibly difficult for families to succeed in Uganda.
That’s why a group from Oregon permanently relocated here. Skilled Partners teaching skills to locals … it’s a recipe for success.
After years of building farms in all corners of the world, they landed in the outskirts of Kampala, Uganda. They’re doing amazing work by making it known to individuals that they will and can be successful by using their skills and talent to sustain their new community. Working alongside each individual to guide them and cheer them on.
Uganda is the second youngest country in the world with the median age of 16 years old and has one of the highest rates of alcoholism, teen pregnancy, and suicides in the African Continent. 83% unemployment, for young adults, rages in a country with 75% of its population under 30 years old. Develop Sustainability comes alongside people in Uganda, finding ways to create practical and economical jobs.
Skills Training in Uganda — Skilled trades-persons with integrity, are a valuable staple for the positive growth and productivity of any community. Our programs encourage individual success, while also providing a skilled workforce and improved industry standards, to developing countries. Our programs and methods open the minds of young people and communities to their own potential. We increase the levels of skill and knowledge within their grasp— to promote new levels of personal success. We provide enhanced access to tangible skills, experience in applying those skills, the marketability of providing high-quality work, and build firm foundations of integrity, creating a very powerful and practical hope.
Elephante Commons
Coming alongside local innovators and change makers who are spearheading projects that will transform all of Northern Uganda.
Brit & Quinn Neely | Est. 2013 | Gulu, Uganda
Elephante Commons is a collaborative development project in the heart of beautiful Northern Uganda.
They come alongside local innovators and change makers who are spearheading projects that will transform the region … a place once decimated by Joseph Kony and the Lords Resistance Army.
Elephante Commons was started in 2013 by Brit & Quinn Neely to unlock the incredible potential of the people of Gulu by providing a raw versatile space to create dreams to help shape the future of northern Uganda. Elephante Commons is a place to gather for lunch and catch up with family or friends where the community can unlock incredible potential of the people of Gulu and help shape the future of northern Uganda.
Fight For Freedom
What started as a recovery program to rehabilitate former inmates quickly turned into refugee relief and relocation at the start of the Ukraine / Russia war.
Ghita & Adriana Ignat | Est. 2019 | Romania & Ukraine
Fight For Freedom’s (FFF) typical day looks like what most of us do in an entire year. They rescue Ukrainian orphans from the war zone, purchase, pack and bring 6,000+ meals per week into Ukraine, house refugees, man a refugee tent at the Ukraine/Romania border, feed the homeless in their local Romanian community, help rehabilitate former inmates back into society and so much more.
What started as a rehabilitation center for former inmates quickly transformed into a full scale refugee center within hours of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. They have plans to return to their original mission, but until the war is over the get a few hours of sleep each night serving their northern neighbors in need.
Fly Fishing Collaborative
Mobilizing the fly fishing community to create sustainable solutions to poverty and human trafficking problems all around the world.
Bucky Buchstaber | Est. 2014 | Worldwide
Fly Fishing Collaborative was started by our friend Bucky to mobilize the world’s fly fishing community to use the skills they have to provide women and children the protection and healing they need from the injustice of sex-trafficking. According to United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), human trafficking is the world’s third largest enterprise after drugs and weapons. Over 2 million children are affected annually and studies show that children caught in sex trafficking are victimized by 100-1500 perpetrators each year.
The goal is to build sustainable Aquaponic Farms which provide resources to women and children who would otherwise become currency, literally needing to sell themselves as a livelihood, in a broken world.
Happy Home
Caring For children with physical &, mental disabilities, orphans, widows, beggars, the homeless and the destitute.
Roshan & Tiffany | Est. 2006 | India
Happy Home was started in 2008 by Rose and Roshan. Together with his wife, one of India’s Roshan gave up his career to start and run a home serving children who are abandoned on the streets of India … simply because of their disabilities. This is their 24/7 full time job, and they wouldn’t have it any other way.
Kingdom Home
Ending child sex slavery through prevention by providing a safe place to live for children at risk of entering the sex trade in Uganda.
Matt & Ashley Boyd | Est. 2019 | Uganda
In certain places of Uganda, up to 10% of children are trafficked and 1 in 10 children are orphans. This is where Kingdom Home comes in and makes a difference. Their mission is to end child sex slavery through prevention. A place where children’s basic needs are met and are safe.
Kingdom Home was started in 2018 by Matt & Ashley Boyd. Kingdom Home began with one house of 36 girls ages 6-14. They currently have 4 homes. One boys’ home and 3 girls’ homes. It’s their goal to open more homes to help any and all children at risk. 1 in 10 children in Uganda are orphans. Uganda has the world's youngest population with 78% under age 30. In some areas of Uganda, up to 10% of the children have been trafficked.
It’s their goal to open more homes and help any and all children that are at risk.
Love Does
Educating children living in conflict zones and empowering them to break the cycle of war and build a culture of peace.
Bob Goff | Est. 2002 | Worldwide
Over 15 years ago, a wildly successful lawyer named Bob quit his job to fight for human rights & provide education to children in conflict zones.
He’s done this well and is now an Honorary Consul to Uganda, New York Times bestselling author and the most spontaneously fun guy we know.
MamaBaby Haiti
Providing a safe place for Haitian women to receive free, compassionate and respectful care at the hands of skilled midwives.
Est. 2010 | Cap-Haitien & Lascahobas, Haiti
59% of Haitians live on less than $2.44 a day. Where mothers have no choice but to choose between food or a safe place to give birth. Out of the whole western hemisphere, Haiti has the highest infant and maternal mortality rate. And MamaBaby Haiti is here to change that and give hope.
MamaBaby was started in 2010 to help the women of Haiti receive compassionate and respectful care, in the hands of talented midwives. So far there are two birthing centers, health clinics and a midwifery school. It is a place where everyone is welcome and there is singing, rejoicing, happiness and hope.
Remember Nhu
Committed to ending child sex slavery through prevention by identify and saving those children who are at risk of being sold.
Carl Ralston | Est. 2005 | Worldwide
In many countries around the world, sex trafficking is accepted. Where families sell their children to make more money. 1.2 million children are being sold into the sex trade every year with a high death rate, meaning there is more of a demand for more children. Remember Nhu is working towards ending sex slavery one child, one home, one family at a time through prevention.
They have 109 homes, 16 countries, where 1,650 children are being protected from being sold into the sex trade. To today, Remember Nhu has protected over 2,200 children from entering the trade.
Restore Haiti
Empowering communities to rise from a culture of desperation to one of restored hope and self-sustainability on the island of Haiti.
Gerald Lafleur | Est. 2010 | Jacmel, Haiti
All of Haiti is still recovering over a decade later from the 2010 earthquake which killed 160,000+ residents. One town in the south was hit particularly hard, so we’re partnering with our friends on the ground to bring, housing, sustainable food and education.
One man from the neighboring island of Antigua has made it his life’s mission to restore hope in Jacmel, Haiti.
Restoration Ministries was started in 1999 by Jean Gerald Lafleur to bring hope to his neighboring island of Haiti. He has worked tirelessly to bring education, housing, a daily feeding program and more to a community of people who don’t see a bright future. One of his greatest accomplishments is opening a house to give love and compassion to over a dozen young girls without families. They are educated, fed, taught life skills and loved by a few ‘house-moms’ who live there with the children.
Jean has spent the last two decades traveling the globe to advocate for his friends in Jacmel, and now it’s our turn to get behind him. His resilience has given us all the ambition we need to help restore Haiti.