About WIN | Worldwide Impact Now

Who we are

Above all else WIN is an expanding international network of Western activists and ethnic minorities collaborating in common cause. This includes professionals in the fields of law, business, education, the performing arts and visual arts. It also includes grassroots ethnic minority leaders and youth activists in both America and Burma, as well as in-region Western ex-patriots in professional fields. A “community of purpose”.

WIN’s founders are an American husband-wife team supported by networks of family and friends, as well as an advisory board of non-profit organization founders with backgrounds in university education and the performing arts. WIN’s founders’ have backgrounds in International Affairs, Strategic Planning, Conflict Resolution, Education, Business and Professional Athletics. WIN is an Illinois-registered 501 (c) (3) non-profit based in Southern California with forward offices in Southeast Asia.

MISSION 

To engage, enable, empower and emancipate man, woman, youth and child through individual and communal development in the spirit of selfless service to mankind.

Broad Aims 

1 Empower servant leaders as agents of change for their people
2 Promote cooperative human networks locally and globally to meet needs
3 Create opportunity for youth, young adult and youthful minded to serve others

imperative

Invest in leaders who have earned the trust of their people
Incentivize cooperation among conflicting factions
Invigorate networks to focus in common cause on critical needs
Inspire youth leadership to make a difference for their people
Invisibly complement and supplement what others are doing
Innovate and lead wherever the need is greatest

Worldwide - focus by region

Ethnic minorities, refugees and pro-democracy activists in Burma
Former-warring tribal region in Kenya
At-risk families and orphans in Mexico border region near USA

METHOD

Sustain trusted relationships with local leaders
Combine resources from diverse sources to invest at community level
Provide a continuum of training, equipment and advisory services
Promote cooperation among aid organizations, donors and private enterprise
Integrate the strengths of diverse partners for the good of all

Open Invitation

We invite active participation by those who seek to find an expression for their talents and passions in making a difference for oppressed people in WIN’s focus regions. It is our expressed purpose to help find opportunities for you.

Sincerely, Tim Heinemann, WIN