Innovative Solutions that Create Lasting Change
In a rural South Asian community where most families cannot afford school, a villager named James suggested beekeeping. Seven farmers trained, hives are multiplying and each new one creates jobs.
The Gift of Generosity
When Tony Parmer inherited the family estate, the money felt like a weight. Planned-giving help from One Collective turned that anxiety into a plan to give now and later to young women escaping oppression.
Creating Opportunity Where the Need is Great
A lending library in Bayugan, Philippines, online business training in a Middle East city, a bilingual abuse-awareness task force in Elgin, Illinois. Three local answers to a pandemic that deepened need.
Creating Opportunity When the Need is Great
In a Middle Eastern city creating half the jobs it needs, Caleb and Jessica launched online business training early when lockdowns loosened startup rules. Sarah, jobless for seven years, now supports her family.
Opening the Door for Lasting Change
Kimberly was selling drugs at nine and in prostitution at twelve so her sisters could eat. In Quito, Ecuador, she found Debbie’s ministry, and during lockdown she helped deliver food to women no one else remembered.
Seeing What’s Possible Through the Ways of Jesus
Doug Landro noticed Roma pastors left out of a prayer breakfast in Uzhhorod, Ukraine. From a trash cleanup to a donated X-ray machine, how one Catalyst’s network grew into an alliance of thirty groups.
The Difference You Make Around the World
Haya fled war in the Middle East and was labeled a refugee everywhere she went, until she reached a One Collective ministry in Europe. Her thank-you shows what your giving means to one person.
The Impact of Generosity
Tim and Becky Obendorf have given to One Collective for over a decade, and Tim serves on its board. Why they expect giving to produce real, accountable results, and what a visit to South Africa settled.
The Spark that Creates Lasting Change
In Chibolya, Zambia, an elderly market trader named Libby offered six acres of land to restore hope in her community. How New Hope Farm, and Libby’s care for a young mother named Charity, began.
Lasting Change in the Lives of the Oppressed
Pastor George opened his church in Koukaki, Athens to refugees and then did not know what came next. With One Collective, the church now feeds 130 neighbors twice a week and helps young people find work.
“We Believe in What You Do”
Diane and Bill Campbell visited Cambridge, South Africa to see what their giving had done. Why they shifted from supporting a worker to funding Catalysts who draw out gifts already in the community.
Shared Vision & Sustainable Ministry
When 2018 protests forced American staff out of Masatepe, Nicaragua, Leonel and 25 Nicaraguan colleagues kept every project running. Brandon Weidman on why building local leaders first made that possible.
Listening to Local Leaders
Leaders in Masatepe, Nicaragua asked what Jesus would do as mayor of their town. Beto’s Coffee Co, built with artisan Don Beto Flores, is one answer: a social enterprise that grew from a few jobs to national renown.
Tables Instead of Walls
In one of Fresno, California’s poorest neighborhoods, youth whose parents fear deportation hosted a Love Feast and invited the police captain. Nancy Donat on choosing a table over a wall.