Pledge to Humanity
Inspiring Youth to Become Compassionate Changemakers through Volunteering and Service Projects
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
We aim to address topics like social inequality, food scarcity, alleviating isolation among senior citizens, and providing school supplies for low-income students, in our communities.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Pledge to Humanity
Pledge to Humanity partners local youth with non-profit organizations throughout the Bay Area and through global initiatives.
Where we work
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of youth who volunteer/participate in community service
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Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Pledge to Humanity volunteers range in age from 7-18 and attend schools throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Pledge to Humanity values every human life as being the most important thing on the planet. To that end, we believe that every child should have access to education, health care, and clean water to have a better quality of life. It is our desire to meet these basic needs and offer them in a nurturing, healthy, loving, caring environment. Every child should have the ability to access these things and in turn enjoy a happy, productive childhood.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Through social media, fundraisers, events, ensembles, campaigns, and newsletters, we are able to bring awareness and bring the community together to positively affect the San Francisco East Bay. We utilize a local volunteer force of students, from elementary to high school age.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Pledge to Humanity is capable of reaching a large number of people in the community through our students groups, called Pledge to Humanity Kid's Clubs. These groups are able to serve an array of people, and address various social problems, through the school year, and through the summer during international missions trips.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
We measure our progress for this organization through quantifiable, impactful services within our community. Through these services listed below, Pledge to Humanity is able to see how it is making progress.
Since its inception in 2009, Locally Pledge to Humanity and its youth ambassadors have:
assembled and served over 12,000 sandwiches for local shelters;
collected and distributed over 1,500 jeans through school and community collections;
collected and distributed gently worn and new shoes, as well as Halloween costumes for local foster children;
collected and distributed hundreds of pairs of socks and thousands of pounds of candy for Blue Star Moms to send in care packages for our service men and women;
raised $7,000 for Nepal Rancho, $4,400 for Haiti, $6,560 to UNICEF and Red Cross, mainly through student fundraisers;
organized and participated in blood drives;
empowered the Stone Valley Leadership Class for the past 3 years to visit senior citizens and disabled students;
organized hundreds of 8th Grade Graduation Service Projects to serve meals at Glide Memorial as part of an all day immersion field trip;
collected and distributed over 3,500 toiletries for distribution to shelters and abroad;
written roughly 1,100 letters to soldiers over the past five years to be included in Blue Star care packages;
worked with public and private schools in the East Bay, including The Seven Hills School, Stone Valley Middle School, Monte Vista High School, San Ramon High School, Rancho Romero Elementary School, and Diablo Vista High School;
worked with local organizations including Generation Alive, The Wheelchair Foundation, Advance International Inc, The Pac-12 Conference, Raiders Football Foundation, Fremont Bank, Glide memorial Church, Moms Against Poverty, Loaves and Fishes, Families Without Borders, Blue Star Moms, and Americans for Philanthropy.
Internationally,
Since its inception in 2009, Pledge to Humanity has funded and built 28 schools in countries such as Kenya, India, and Ecuador as well as provided water wells, mobile medical units, and alternative income projects to the communities in these countries. The founder, Gaby Ghorbani, and Pledge to Humanity volunteers have visited all of these countries to ensure that the funds raised are being efficiently spent as well as to spend quality time with the people in the villages who are in need of support. Additionally, Pledge to Humanity has spearheaded community development projects in Mexico, Haiti, and China to help individuals and families living in extreme poverty.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To inform the development of new programs/projects, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We act on the feedback we receive, We share the feedback we received with the people we serve
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
We don't have any major challenges to collecting feedback
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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Pledge to Humanity
Board of directorsas of 02/19/2024
Gaby Ghorbani
Pledge to Humanity
Term: 2009 -
Natalia Ghorbani
Carrie Barlow
Beth Neely
Maggie Oetgen
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
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Equity strategies
Last updated: 10/30/2023GuideStar partnered with Equity in the Center - an organization that works to shift mindsets, practices, and systems to increase racial equity - to create this section. Learn more
- We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race.
- We ask team members to identify racial disparities in their programs and / or portfolios.
- We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
- We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
- We disaggregate data by demographics, including race, in every policy and program measured.
- We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
- We have a promotion process that anticipates and mitigates implicit and explicit biases about people of color serving in leadership positions.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.