Project Support Partners LLC:  Is a Social Enterprise that provides outsource services to The Humanitarian Network and its members and supporters.  PSP uses partner providers for certain services like funding, shipping, and sourcing.  It insures that projects and programs receive the requested assistance.  Earned income from its activities are used to support The Network and its member's programs and projects.

Project Support Center: The Project Support Center assists Network Partners find the resources they are seeking by utilizing other Network Partners.

The Humanitarian Network: The Humanitarian Network is a nonprofit enterprise which provides informational services to Network Partners. If Network Members and Partners are in need of finding partners for projects, short or long-term funding of their projects, sourcing goods and services, domestic or international shipping, or any need involving "commerce", they are then linked to the Project Support Center for assistance.

1. If the needs are to find partners for projects, the Network can provide referrals to service clubs, faith-based groups, or other non-governmental organizations.

2. If the need is for funding a specific project or long-term sustainability, the partner will be referred to one or more Funding Partners for assistance.

3. If a Project Partner is in need of shipping support, they can be referred to a number of Network Partners who may be able to provide low-cost shipping through the Network Co-op Shipping Program, a military connection, the Adm. Jeremiah Denton Foundation, or backhauling through Old Dominion Freight. The Project Support Center also can provide shipping-specific funding programs to raise the necessary funds to pay for shipping.

4. If a Network Partner is looking for goods services or specific needs, such as ambulances, fire trucks, sanitation vehicles, computers, books, medical supplies, food, agricultural seeds, or whatever, Project Support Center will either provide a Network Partner which has access to whatever in needed, or source the products through the on-line database of suppliers.

Foundation Services:  Often a project may not have gone through the expense of establishing a non-profit foundation do, in large part, to the increased cost of doing so. The Humanitarian Network can provide the services of Hands Across the Sea Foundation (501-c-3 tax exempt foundation), which will act as the  depository for the Project Partner to collect and distribute donations whereby those who donate will receive proper tax deduction for their donation.

Resource Providers and Suppliers-NGO's and others:  The Network maintains a large listing of on-line suppliers. Some are simply suppliers with large inventories of goods at favorable prices which can be purchased for specific project needs (The Network has Funding Partners which can assist in providing easy-to-implement programs to raise the money required), other suppliers may be service organizations that have accumulated merchandise and are looking for partnerships to distribute the goods for little or no cost other than covering their overhead. There are more than 1000 quality resources in The Network database for all project needs.

Program and Project Funding Partners: Network Partners create, develop and implement sustainability programs for members.  Whether the need is short-term, project specific, or long-term sustainability, the funding resource available are amply qualified to assist. The various programs available range from "products to sell", Gala Event Hosting, travel incentives, instant impulse-donation programs, residual income programs, seasonal fundraising programs, on-line merchandise catalogues, on-line auctions, and quality merchandise for club/district/project auctions. Margins on most fundraising programs vary from 35-60%, and in most cases, our Funding partners do most of the work! For specific programs social enterprises and cause marketing may be used.

Faith-based Groups: A large number of organizations involved in humanitarian aid and disaster relief projects are faith-based organizations. As we have discovered over the years, most are open to partnering with service organizations and/or civilian-military project initiatives which may offer engineering capabilities. Most faith-based groups have achieved non-profit recognition, which make them good candidates for partnerships. Many faith-based groups have resources which only need to be nurtured to help fund projects of mutual interest.

Service Clubs: Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions, Knight of Columbus, Sertoma, just to name a few, can make great partners for any project. These organizations have been raising money for international and local service projects for over a hundred years. They also have member organizations in most countries around the world which enables projects to develop reliable support in-country for a project. Most of the service clubs have access to some foundation matching grant programs, though with today's changing economic paradigm, many have fallen on hard times and will be using the next few years to recover. However, all-in-all, service clubs have a lot of energy, that once motivated, can result in a powerful fundraising partner.

Strategic Partnerships: The Humanitarian Network continues to align itself with strategic partners. Strategic partners have recognized The Network as an essential tool to help develop their programs. As our list of Strategic Partners grows, so does The Network's ability to provide strong partner relationships for all Network Participants.

The Network has been, and will continue to be called upon to meet with Strategic Partners to develop long-term agendas. These partnership often have a strong base from which to build and may include political connections; large support bases from which to raise money; transportation solutions; engineers from which to draw upon for projects needing construction services; vast resources to put into projects, and excellent advisory and supervision capacities.

What most Strategic Partners DON'T HAVE, is access to in-country personnel to support their efforts and insure project ownership once their portion of the project is completed. This is quite typical with all civilian-military project initiatives and with Project HOPE International, which provide numerous goodwill programs abroad but have little or no non-government contact on the ground with whom to turn over ownership once the project is developed. This is seen in well-drilling, hospital/school construction, and other important projects, which may sadly dissipate once the program completed. Having non-government partners to provide teacher and school supplies for school; doctors and medicines/supplies for the hospital; maintenance on the water-producing wells; and other "ownership" needs, will produce lasting results.

Shipping Partners: One of the biggest drawback of humanitarian aid and disaster relief projects is the need for efficient, low-cost shipping. many a project has died on the vine because of the inability to find cost-efficient shipping. The Network Shipping Partners include, Old Dominion Freight to assist in backhauling and relocating goods and supplies to ports of departure. These services are far below market pricing, and being a national carrier, there are few places they can not be of assistance.

The Military, in all its capacity is becoming a valuable provider of transportation for international service projects. Partnering with The Network to coordinate their projects with the needs of Network Partners, is continuing to open the door to low-cost transportation. An important note to make in this regard: Each department of the military, whether is it the Combatant Command or the NGBIA-State Partnership Program, operate on minimal budgets. There are also strict rules against the use of funds raised from outside fundraising ventures to provided added resources for their construction projects. However, when projects done in consort with outside groups, the partners are free to bring their assets bare as long as funds are not co-mingled. Since the civilian-military project initiatives are bare-bones, goodwill missions, usually done at the behest of the governments of the recipient countries or at the request of the US Ambassador who sets the agenda in-country for such projects, they really add impact to the program.

Potential Global Partnerships: Many of the members of The Network have global missions, but as stated above, they do not have reliable support in-country for many of their missions. The Network is current overlapping the scheduled agenda of several of the key partners which will then be matched with State Partnership Program events of projects, so that other Network participants will be able to find the help they need for their projects or to find programs of interest for their clubs.

National Guard Bureau of International Affairs State Partnership Program: Commonly referred to as simply "The State Partnership Program" , or SPP, this program is probably the most important program on which to capitalize. SPP came into being in 1993 as the Soviet Union dissolved to assist the burgeoning countries provide for their own self-defense and transition to democracies. The first countries to voluntarily enroll were the Baltic states, followed closely by the other Eastern European-Block countries.

Today, it involves 62 countries in Africa, Central and South America, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, and the South Pacific, partnered with 49 individual states. It is expanding by 1 or 2 countries each year and now often will incorporates NATO nations when conducting exercises or projects. The functionality of the program is to utilize partner-state assets to provide economic development, educational expertise, dental and medical exchanges, youth internships, agricultural technology exchanges, support the move to better the lives of the physically and mentally challenged, and about every conceivable need to help build better lives and lasting relationship between the partner state and the recipient country.

For the last several years we have been nurturing those relationships be incorporating non-governmental entities and with the advent of the Lithuania-Pennsylvania Comprehensive Pilot Program, will be incorporating the Chambers of Commerce of the Sister-Cities Program and members of the Diaspora (ex-patriots living in the US), with support of ethnic publications and other media.

Military-Civilian Project Initiatives: Like The State Partnership Program, the Combatant Commands, referred to as COCOM's are composed of six operational theaters of the US military.  They function in most cases and interact with other "treaty-organizations" (NATO, OAS, and others), to support projects outside the realm of military activity to improve the lives of developing countries. This has also become a two-way street in gaining support for Homeland Security issues. Again, like the SPP, the COCOM's usual connect with in-country personnel, has been government agencies and military. By broadening their program to now include civilian partnerships with NGO's, service clubs, and faith-based groups, these projects are becoming far more meaningful and insure the best use of USAID funds. Working with The Humanitarian Network, the program has taken another giant leap forward and with the ability to strategize at the highest levels of command, The Network is now becoming a full-partner in the project initiative scheduling.

Project HOPE International: Project Hope is one of the largest humanitarian organizations in the country. They are ranked on the Forbes Top 200 List along with other Network Partners such as the Salvation Army. Project HOPE provides much needed medical expertise to parts of the world that are generally in dire need.

Buy providing volunteer doctors, nurses, veterinarians, dentists and countless other healthcare practitioners, PH is able to travel the globe, often in joint partnership with COCOM missions, to deliver medicines and cutting-edge healthcare, while at the same time providing training for the healthcare establishment in the recipient country.

As full-fledge Network Partners, merging the deployment schedules of the SPP and COCOM's with that of Project HOPE, Network members would hard ever have to look outside The Network to find projects with which to partner. Overlapping the agendas of our strategic partners offers shipping opportunities, construction capabilities, technology exchanges, and a whole host of state, military, and government support for projects ranging from agriculture to education, and from safe water to helping the handicap. No project becomes to vast, and no idea need to be left on the table.

Adm. Jeremiah Denton Foundation: There are two "Denton Foundations". There is The Denton Foundation operated by USAID, and the Admiral Jeremiah Denton Foundation, both of which were fathered by Vietnam hero, veteran, and form US Senator form Alabama, Admiral Jeremiah Denton, RET. The Adm. Jeremiah Denton Foundation has become a strategic partner with The Network, for supporting key projects requiring no cost shipping for disaster relief, as was evidenced by the many shipments made during the relief efforts in the South Pacific and again in Haiti following the earthquake.

Moving forward with projects of their own design, the Adm. Jeremiah Denton Foundation will be providing Network opportunities for other Network members, to participate in specific projects being developed in the Philippines and water projects specifically designed to be prepared for emergency needs. Again, when overlapping their project agenda with those of the other strategic partnerships, opportunities for partnership participation from service clubs and faith-based groups in expanded exponentially.