Talk about philanthropy! HREA was founded in 1996 by Amnesty International and the Netherlands Helsinki Committee to educate and train individuals in human rights principles and practices. It has offices in Boston and Amsterdam, but its action center is in cyberspace, because HREA believes the web is the optimal platform and medium for advancing human rights. They provide long-term courses, occasional workshops, an innovative distant-learning program and above all their multilingual website — in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish. The key to their success has been to identify a niche — the need and opportunity to provide and/or disseminate educational and training materials and curricula to human rights workers of all kinds, in all places, via a central website. Human rights organizations post their materials on the website, for universal accessibility and global empowerment of the cause. By 2003 they were receiving 500,000 hits monthly, and today that is over two million, from every country on Earth, with 1.3 million downloads last year of full-text education, training and resource materials. By now their alumni are working throughout the world’s human rights networks — on national human rights commissions, national and international courts, the leading human rights organizations, and the networks of human rights observers in conflicted zones like Darfur, Liberia, and Nepal. Their staff have been elected or appointed to leadership positions on major international boards and councils in the human rights field. HREA has been recognized by the Office of the United Nations’ High Commissioner for Human Rights, and was nominated by the Dutch government to receive the biennial UNESCO Human Rights Education Prize in 2006. The leverage of your investments in HREA, for the toilsome struggle for human rights around the world, is unbeatable.