Founded in 1944, Heifer International is a humanitarian assistance organization that works to end world hunger and protect the earth. Through livestock, training and "passing on the gift," Heifer has helped seven million families in more than 125 countries improve their quality of life and move toward greater self-reliance. Heifer helps build strong communities because each project participant agrees to pass on the gift of animal offspring, training, or skills to another family in need.

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David Auburn’s most recent work, the film The Girl in the Park, starring Sigourney Weaver and Kate Bosworth, which he wrote and directed, premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September, 2007. His plays include Proof (2001 Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award, and New York Drama Critics Circle Award), The Journals of Mihail Sebastian, and Skyscraper. His short plays have been collected in the volume Fifth Planet and Other Plays (DPS). His work has been published in Harper’s, New England Review, and Guilt and Pleasure; and he was a contributing editor to the Oxford American Writers Thesaurus. A former Guggenheim Fellow, he lives in New York City.