The Allen Foundation applies its resources to projects, programs, fundraising and disbursements for the furtherance of improving the lives of underserved women and their families. Our committed mission is to focus resources towards those in need, while understanding that improving the well-being of the family betters their future and that of the community as a whole. 
The founders have worked in development for over a decade, including time with the United Nations Development Program in Central Asia and personal time in East Africa. "Women and their families in villages throughout the developing world need only a small amount of assistance to make a huge difference" and we can provide that assistance in the form of technical assistance and small financial and support arrangements. We have a group of field specialists who can assist communities to establish their own programs at the grassroots level.
Direct assistance from this project gets to those who will benefit most - the underserved - AIDS orphans; disabled children who need wheel chairs; women who have to sell goods, or themselves, on the streets to buy food for themselves and their families and to pay for school for their children. Once you have seen a smiling face over an unexpected meal, or provided a small entrepreneurial loan, you will never be the same again.