2013

Happy birthday UN! Today, in 1945, the United Nations was formed to create an international agency to maintain peace and security, to develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and to achieve international co-operation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian issues. What can […]

  18 girls in school in 24 hours. Thank You. This past week, TPF celebrated the International Day of the Girl in a big way through two events with the same initiative. This goal was to educate girls in Turkey. In 24 hours, we have raised enough to send 18 girls to school for a […]

One of TPF’s partner organizations, Bogazici University has recently received top global status! According to rankings released by the Times Higher Education magazine, Turkey’s Boğaziçi University has shifted from 276th to 199th place and became the first Turkish university to rank among the world’s top 200 universities. Click here to read more.

Turkish Philanthropy Funds is an approved charity in the   Combined Federal Campaign CFC #36506 How you can help: 1.  PLEDGE to Turkish Philanthropy Funds using our CFC #37443 as a Federal civilian, postal, and military donor.  To request a pledge form, access a local CFC website, or donate online please use the Campaign Locator to find your […]

TPF had the opportunity to speak with Ms. Ayse Cihan Sultanoğlu, a member of TPF’s Advisory Board, and Assistant Administrator and Director of the Regional Bureau for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (RBEC) with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Ms. Sultanoğlu pointed out the wide gender gap that currently plagues Turkey, in […]

Dr. Rıza Sarıoğlu is a Turkish pediatrician who practiced and lived a majority of his live in the U.S. and is a great example of someone who used TPF to guide them in their philanthropic efforts in Turkey. Born in Turkey with seven brothers and sisters, Dr. Rıza Sarıoğlu studied at the only medical school […]

When NC Murthy’s Turkish wife, Canan, passed away last year, he knew how he wanted her name to live on. “She embodied the term girl power” he said about his late wife, who moved to the U.S. and became a successful entrepreneur. NC Murthy decided to build a kilim weaving workshop with Hisar Anadolu Destek […]