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Support makes the difference

Thank you for your support and interest!  Your gift to the Maasai Stoves & Solar Project of the International Collaborative makes all the difference, helping to improve lives, health, environment, and well-being of people living in difficult conditions in rural East Africa.

Your financial support, volunteer work, and sponsorship help keep this work alive. And as a 501 (c)(3) non-profit, non-government organization, your gift to us is tax-deductible. Thank you!

Contributions transform the lives of the people. With your support, their homes are healthier and many new opportunities are coming for a better life for women. They have safe water, and there are new educational opportunities for children, and a movement towards economic improvement for all. These are all in ways that conserve the environment and even mitigate climate change.

Support like yours allows the kind of community collaboration that brings new local leaders to the fore. These talented women and men will continue to sustain the Projects into the future, adapting and strengthening them as needs evolve.

 

Do you want to share your philanthropic ideas with us?  Do you need a custom plan or have questions? We invite you to contact Bob Lange directly at

[email protected], or by phone at +1 508-735-9176 for a confidential conversation about your interests. We can explore how they may fit the work of the Maasai Stoves & Solar Project and the International Collaborative.

Make a tax-deductible contribution to the International Collaborative for the Maasai Stoves & Solar Project

Support us! The International Collaborative of Science, Education, and the Environment (ICSEE) is a non-profit organization registered as a 501(c)(3) public charity in the United States and as a non-profit company in Tanzania (ICSEE(T).) Your gift is fully tax–deductible. We can also accept donations in the form of stock transfers. Please contact us directly for those arrangements.

You don’t need to be a Paypal member to make a contribution with your Visa or Mastercard. Do you prefer to mail a contribution? Send a check made out to International Collaborative (ICSEE) to:

Bob Lange, International Collaborative, Maasai Stoves & Solar Project, Office of Programs and Development, 705 Americana Drive   Unit 5A, Annapolis, MD 21403 USA

Support us–refer friends

Help the International Collaborative grow. Telling your friends about the work makes all the difference in the growth of our success. It is an important avenue for supporting this work.

If you choose to tell a friend about our sites or our products and services, we will ask you for your friend’s email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit our website. We retain this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral program.

Carbon credits and the Maasai Stoves & Solar Project

Because our stoves reduce wood use and women’s gathering labor by about half, and because the Maasai are so clearly in need of those benefits, our stoves are excellent candidates for generating  carbon credits. Read more.

Public information

As a non-profit organization, we prepare a 990 form every year. We can provide a copy for you, upon request.

ICSEE and ICSEE(T) Privacy Statement

Improving lives is our mission. The International Collaborative values and respects our donors’ right to privacy. ICSEE and ICSEE(T) do not share donors’ personal or contact information with any third-party organizations for purposes of solicitation.

This Privacy Policy applies to all users who sign up for services before May 23, 2018. Beginning on May 23, 2018, our new Privacy Policy will apply to all new users and all users in the EU/EEA member countries. At the International Collaborative for Science, Education, and the Environment, (“we” or “us”), including the Maasai Stoves & Solar Project, we respect and protect the privacy of all who use our website and services. This privacy statement provides details about how your personal information is collected and used by us. Personal information is any information that identifies you or would enable someone to contact you, which may include your name, email address, phone number and other non-public information that is associated with such information. It does not include aggregate information, anonymous information or any other non-personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies to the International Collaborative website and mobile applications.

International Collaborative privacy summary and contents

The summary below provides the key concepts of the full International Collaborative Privacy Statement. If you have questions, please click the links to view the complete text below.

Information collection and use by us

We are the sole owner of information collected on the Sites (including any metadata), except for content that you provide to us in connection with your participation. We collect information only as necessary to fulfill the purposes set forth in this privacy statement and we will only use this information as described in this privacy statement. We may combine any or all of this data with other information we collect about you.

In connection with your use of our services, if we obtain contact lists (including email addresses) we acknowledge your ownership rights in such contact lists and content. We will never sell or rent contact lists to anyone without your permission and will never use your contact lists or content for any purpose other than as described here.
We may use any of this information to offer and improve our services, to provide you with requested information, to do a better job of communicating about our programs, to communicate with you, or otherwise tailor our site and service offerings, or as otherwise described in this privacy statement.

We may aggregate and anonymize information received to produce reports on trends and statistics, such as mobile search trends, email open rates by industry, campaign best practices or the number of users that have been exposed to, or clicked on, our site or evaluated or purchased our products and services. Payment information that you provide to us, including credit card data, will be used only to facilitate payment for donations or specified services.

International Collaborative privacy and security

We employ reasonable technical, administrative and physical safeguards to protect the confidentiality and security of your personal information. We use industry-recognized technical safeguards, such as firewalls, and have adopted and implemented security procedures to protect your information from loss, misuse or unauthorized alteration. When we collect financial account information, such as credit card numbers, we protect its transmission through the use of encryption such as the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol.

Tracking technologies

Technologies such as cookies, beacons, tags and scripts may be used by us and our partners (including marketing partners and affiliates) as well as our analytics and other service providers. These technologies are used in many ways, including advertising, sales and marketing, analyzing trends, administering and improving the sites, tracking users’ movements around the sites (including point of entry), gathering demographic information about our user base, verifying login status, measuring the success of a particular marketing campaign, providing improved customer service, providing more relevant content, deterring or detecting fraud, and providing users with a customized experience. We collect information based on the use of these technologies on an individual as well as aggregated basis.

Choice/Opt-out

You have a choice about how we use your personal information to communicate with you, and you may opt out at any time by unsubscribing or changing your preferences.

Access to personal and storage of information

We take steps to ensure that the personal information we collect is accurate and up-to-date, and that you have the ability to access it and make corrections to it.

Third party links and information collection

Our website provides links to other websites. You may be asked to submit personal information to any of these sites. Because we do not control the information policies or practices of these third party sites, you should review their privacy policies to learn about how they collect and use personal information.

Children

Our sites and services are not directed to persons under 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18.

International use

ICSEE is  headquartered in the United States of America and in Tanzania. ICSEE(T) is headquartered in Tanzania. Personal information may be accessed by us or transferred to us in the United States from elsewhere in the world. By providing us with personal information, you consent to this transfer.

Accountability

The International Collaborative participates in and has certified its compliance with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and the Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework. ICSEE is committed to subjecting all personal data received from European Union member countries and Switzerland, respectively, in reliance on each Privacy Shield Framework to the Framework’s applicable principles.

Notification of changes

We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we decide to change this privacy statement in any material way, we will notify you so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.