What is Growing Voices?
Growing Voices is an online forum that uses interactive communication tools in connecting international donors to a diverse network of community based projects. The goal is to cultivate individual relationships that inspire soluble solutions through accessibility and accountability. Working from the ground up, Growing Voices hopes to redefine how we confront and manage a broad range of international issues that plague our world today.

What are the main goals of GV?
Ultimately our focus is on enhancing communication at the micro level. Broadening communication and forging strong connective systems generates opportunities for organizations and communities worldwide to create and share solutions to global issues.
GV creates a direct line of support between donor and recipient, which addresses issues of accountability and promotes a humanistic approach to giving. We hope that by providing a network geared towards a respectful informational exchange, gifting, and no fee volunteering, you will be inspired to participate in change at the grassroots level.

How do I know my donation is going directly to the organization featured?
Growing Voices is dedicated to maintaining transparency throughout the donating process. Providing the web user with the opportunity to customize their donation with tangible items contributes to accountability. In addition, promoting lines of communication (Skype) between all parties allows for stronger bonds to develop as well as better oversight of transactions. Growing Voices’ staff maintains communication on a regular basis as well as yearly visits to all project locations.

What are the criteria for an organization or project to be featured on GV’s websites?
Growing Voices’ adheres to the following amendments before nominating projects or organizations for representation:

• Growing Voices supports inter-religious harmony. In keeping with this ideology, we will not endorse any religious based organizations.
  
  
• Growing Voices will focus on grass roots organizations or community projects that are staffed primarily by persons living within the host state.
  
  
• Growing Voices supports small, community organizations and not large IGO’s or NGO’s.
  
  
• Growing Voices will focus equally on all nations and issues and will not discriminate based upon the economic or political status of that state.
  
  
• Growing Voices will not discriminate against race, sex, age, religion, beliefs, customs, class or sexual preference.

How does GV choose locations and issues of focus?
Growing Voices focuses on maintaining a balanced representation of all states as well as all issues. Community projects and or grass roots organizations are nominated by staff and then voted on by the Board of Directors before being featured on our website.