Our Charitable Giving
Making life better for kids
Tribe formalized its charitable giving after its first full year of business and has consistently contributed 10% of annual net profits to charitable organizations that benefit kids and young people. The organizations below are some we’ve been honored to support.
- Girls and young women in Kenya
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Tribe’s first major charitable donation was to build a library and classroom for a school in Kenya founded by our friend Lornah Kiplagat. Lornah is an elite runner holding four world records. One of the first things Lornah did with her early race prizes was to buy a piece of land on which she later built her High Altitude Training Center. The Center provides a boarding school program for girls and also trains them to be competitive runners. Most of the girls end up with full scholarships to join the running programs in American universities.
Lornah’s husband Pieter Langerhorst describes their work as “helping Kenyan girls find a way out of the cycle of poverty. If these girls weren’t at our school, they’d be married very young to a man with several wives and spending their days chasing goats and fetching water.”
learn more about the school - At-risk kids in the Blue Ridge Mountains
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Tribe also gives funds each year to Open Arms of Blue Ridge, a residence program for at-risk children removed from their homes due to parental drug use or other issues. Meth abuse has been a growing issue in the Blue Ridge area over the past several years, and many of these kids were removed from homes where meth was preventing parents from being able to care for their children.
learn more about Open Arms - After-school academics for kids in downtown Atlanta
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Emmaus House and the Study Hall are located in Peoplestown, one of the very poorest neighborhoods in Atlanta. Tribe has contributed funds to Emmaus House over the years and in 2010 expanded giving to include the Study Hall as well.
learn more about Emmaus House learn more about Study Hall - Study abroad program for Tarheels
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Tribe was able to make an early contribution to the Julia Preston Brumley Travel Scholarship in American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Julia was a childhood friend of Tribe President and CEO Elizabeth Cogswell Baskin. She and her husband George Brumley, also an old friend of Elizabeth, died way too young in a plane crash in Kenya, along with their two beautiful children and other family members. Julia studied abroad as a college student at UNC, and after graduation, she and Elizabeth travelled together in Europe. We hope Tribe’s gift helps other young people have the experience of living in another country.
learn more about the scholarship