Grace Cares Incorporated

Our mission is to partner with local heroes and communities on small-scale community development projects that make a difference by empowering people to improve their lives. We do this with respect to local cultures and traditions. This is accomplished by helping to build healthy, educated, just and productive communities. GRACE Cares provides expertise, funding, and support for health, education, peace and social justice, cultural preservation, and economic development projects.

GRACE Cares, Inc. is a Vermont non-profit corporation and an IRS 501(c)3 Public Charity. GRACE Cares was founded in 2002 by Ken Giancola, Zoe Kopp and T Namaya, and is run by volunteers. Our Board of Directors has management, development, education, and healthcare experience in over seventy countries.

These experiences led to the recognition of the value of community as an integral part of a healthy world. Globalization, population increase, and economic expansion often apply pressure to once healthy communities without always providing the accompanying benefits. Especially in the case of rural communities, traditional living arrangements, medicine and education are often lost before the “modern” alternative is available. Frequently, the answers to present problems can be resolved by returning a community’s traditional strengths. Supporting a school, building a well, or having community meetings on healthcare can serve as a rallying point and social catalyst for a community.

Over the past decade GRACE Cares has partnered with communities in the US and abroad on projects that improve quality of life, provide necessary services, and preserve or rediscover cultural traditions. GRACE Cares uses income generated through donations, fundraisers, and grants to fund small projects with big impacts.

Current Projects Include:

Project Hearts DR focuses on projects related to health, education, and economic development to empower the community of Baitoa to improve their lives.

Lucknow Project provides salaries for full time teachers serving more than 1000 students and three different schools in rural India.

TROLL Trust is an ongoing effort to meet the educational, nutritional, hygiene, and housing needs of children in southeast India.

Mayan Traditional medicine funds a study and health education program.

B4 Peace Project promotes discussion on peace and human rights through art in the US and around the world.

The Kali to Kali or "Village to Village" Project is the newest project and helps support children in villages across Pakistan by teaching english, math, science, and basic prentative health care practices. 

Learn more about our Successes and Current Projects at www.gracecares.org