-People looking for help for their community development projects
-Volunteers who want to learn new skills before offering their time abroad
-People seeking collaboration with like-minded groups

There’s plenty of good resources out there, and if you keep at it, you’ll find what you’re looking for. The following links are tried and true and will get you started.

Plenty Project Partners with Websites
Sister Organizations; Plenty Regional Offices
Soy and Nutrition Resources
Appropriate Technology for Small and Subsistence Farms
Crafts Marketing for Native Artisans
Health Care & Midwifery Training Resources
Permaculture, Alternative Energy and Building Workshops
Eco-Travel
Peace Action
Resources for Volunteers
Other Useful Links
Looking for Financal Help for Projects?

Plenty Project Partners with Websites

Belize
Toledo Ecotourism Association
Sustainable Harvest International
Maya Mountain Reasearch Farm

Liberia
Imani House International

Mexico
Huichol Center For Cultural Survival And Traditional Arts

Native Americans – U.S.
Pine Ridge/Slim Buttes Agricultural Development Program, SD
Rosebud Reservation, SD
http://www.tcsdk12.org/cmc/Lakota/rosebud_reservation.htm
http://www.rosebudsiouxtribe.org

Nicaragua
SoyNica

Guatemala
UPAVIM -United to Live Better

Dominica
Carib Reserve

Sister Organizations; Plenty Regional Offices

Alternativa Solidaria (Plenty Spain)
Plenty Canada
The Farm
Plenty Austin
Plenty Belize (Email)
Plenty Florida (Email)
Plenty West Coast (Email)
Plenty International Headquarters (Email)
More Than Warmth The More Than Warmth quilt project
provides a simple but direct way to help children understand
and respond to the world around them.

Nutrition and Soy

INTSOY (Email) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champlain; research and promotion of soy.
Tel: 217-333-6422
Food First Offers a wide variety of resources on world hunger and practical solutions
Malnutrition Matters Soy foods technology and training for NGOs and non-profits
John Robbins Author and researcher
Mark Messina Ph.D , Food Science, author of "The Simple Soybean and Your Health"
Louise Hagler Author and educator, Plenty soy consultant
Plenty Austin Contact for Plenty soy and agriculture technician Chuck Haren
SoyaDairy

Appropriate Technology for Small and Subsistence Farms

The Sustainable Village Includes product catalog for renewable energy and appropriate technology.
http://agronomy.ucdavis.edu/LTRAS/itech/
http://www.agroforester.com/
http://water.org/

Crafts Marketing for Native Artisans

Aid to Artisans Economic opportunities for artisans worldwide.
Fair Trade Federation Education, producer and member links.
International Federation of Alternative Trade Worldwide organization with 160 members. Education, producer and member links.
Ten Thousand Villages Large wholesale and retail seller of fair trade products.
SERRV Large wholesale and retail seller of fair trade products.

Health Care and Midwifery Training

Farm Midwives Training workshops on basic midwifery and more run by the Farm midwives. Also offers books and other resources for midwives.
Hesperian Foundation Non-profit publisher of books and newsletters for community-based health care. Their first book, Where There Is No Doctor, is one of the most widely used community health books in the world. Community-based health care workers outside the US can request copies of their books for free.
Clinica del Pueblo Free health care for Central and South American immigrants and their families in Washington DC.
INMED Low cost medical supplies for non-profits, shipped internationally.
Hillside Healthcare Center A non-profit agency providing free care to the people of Toledo District in Southern Belize.

Permaculture, Alternative Energy & Building Workshops

Ecovillage Training Center Permaculture, alternative building and more, located at The Farm Community
Solar Energy International
Fox Maple Traditional building workshops for indigenous communities and others.

Eco-Travel

Eco-travel Comprehensive list of sites and issues of interest to eco-travelers.

Peace Action

PeaceRoots Alliance
Working to remove the root causes of war.
Mothers Acting Up
MAU is a movement dedicated to mobilizing the gigantic political strength of mothers on behalf of the world's children.
Global Exchange
International "reality" tours, public education, and activism.
Adopt-A-Minefield Land mines left in conflict areas or placed to protect borders kill or maim one person every 20 minutes. This is an International Campaign to eliminate land mines.

Resources for Volunteers

See Plenty’s Volunteer Opportunities page
Florida Association of Voluntary Agencies for Caribbean Action Florida professionals can register with FAVA/CA to be placed on short term international assistance projects in their area of expertise.
Idealist Links to numerous international volunteer opportunities.

Other Useful Links

Sustainable Resources 2003 Annual conference on sustainable development and solutions to world poverty. Dialogue with many links to development organizations.
The Sustainable Village Offers an extensive list of sustainable development resources on all topics.
Poverty Relief, Human Rights and Peace Links. A wide variety of valuable links with detailed instructions on how to research the net for more. Compiled by Seth Leonard.
Conservation International
ITDG Publishing Over 4000 titles on worldwide development and environmental issues.

Are you looking for financial help for projects?

Plenty receives many requests from good groups and projects requesting financial support. However Plenty is not a funding organization, as our financial resources are generally tied to our long term partnerships. Instead of financial aid, Plenty aims to match material and human resources with the needs presented to us. The following are other funding leads you can try. We wish you lots of luck in your funding search.

Environmental Grantmaking Foundation
Publishes and sells a comprehensive annual directory of foundations that give environmental grants to nonprofits. Directories for prior years are half price.
The Foundation Center
Numerous publications including the Foundation Directory and Guide to Funding for International and Foreign Programs. Their website contains a searchable database of foundations and their areas of funding.