The HOW Fund

Smiling Girl

"Investment in girls' education may well be the highest
return investment available in the developing world."

--Lawrence Summers

How We Work

The family seeks grassroots leaders who recognize the strength, courage, and capacity of women and girls, and who address a constellation of their needs with direct service projects. Specifically, the family wishes to:

The Family Supports

About Us

The Rabsey/Berlowitz family gives internationally through the HOW Fund it established at Tides Foundation, and through grants it makes directly. The impetus behind the family's giving grew from their two summers of volunteer work in Africa. As a result of these experiences in the field the Rabsey/Berkowitz parents and their three teenaged children became committed to the idea that empowering women and girls is the key to healthy, productive families and communities.

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