The organizations are engaged in a variety of projects to help their communities. The Board reviews proposals for both local and international projects.
Proposals are due by late spring each year and funding takes place once a year.
They believe that local people should play an integral part in the use and care of local natural resources. TWP's programs are specifically aimed at finding the balance between the needs of the environment and the needs of people in the 21st century. The Skills Exchange Program provides hearing Kenyan teachers with an education in Kenyan sign language, deaf culture awareness, and a co-teaching experience with a deaf American, to be applied and integrated into their teaching practices. The initial goal is to place 41 teachers in the deaf school and have them carry on the training they received by instructing and educating other teachers. The goal of the project is to help curb forced child labor by demonstrating that with an investment in education poor children can improve not only their lives but also the prospects for the larger community.