Who We Are
The Rabsey/Berkowitz family gives internationally through the HOW Fund, and through grants it makes directly. The impetus behind the family’s giving grew from their two summers of volunteer work in Africa. As a result of these experiences the Rabsey/Berkowitz family believes that empowering women and girls and addressing the needs of vulnerable children are the key to healthy, productive families and communities.
How We Work
Natasha Martin, Founder, GRACE USA
The family seeks grassroots leaders who recognize the strength, courage, and capacity of women and girls, and who address a constellation of their needs with direct service projects that:
- Assist girls and young women to pursue secondary and higher education, and provide livelihoods training in tandem with formal education
- Support women’s economic power through education, job skills, and microfinance
- Support women’s health through women’s health clinics and improved maternal care, including fistula prevention and surgery
- Address the emotional and physical needs of vulnerable children
- Help mothers and caregivers identify sustainable sources of healthy foods for the children in their care
Why We Matter/Why YOU Matter
The HOW Fund is a reflection of one family’s desire to help women, girls, and vulnerable children in the developing world. If you share this desire, please use the HOW Website resources to inform your own giving. Together we can help create a world where
- children won’t go to bed hungry
- girls can stay in school
- women can deliver their babies safely
- women are economically empowered to feed and educate their children
