Heifer International is a non-governmental organization (NGO) that has influenced the lives of millions of families in 46 countries around the world for nearly 70 years. Their long-standing mission is to work with local communities to end hunger and poverty by caring for the earth through sustainable practices. Heifer International seeks to achieve these goals by providing families with capital in the form of livestock, seeds, grains and trees. Livestock and crops provide food for personal consumption and provide a reliable long-term source of income for families. These transfers also empower women who now have the opportunity to work and contribute material goods to their families. With the new source of income, families can improve the standard of living of their families and that of their communities. Heifer International provides beneficiary families with training and preparation to work with the supplied goods. The organization educates beneficiary families on more sustainable and productive forms of agriculture. The benefits recipient families receive extend to the community at large through Heifer's “Passing on the Gift” initiative and information sharing. With the “Passing on the Gift” initiative, recipients become donors when Heifer International provides recipients with imported pregnant livestock, such as a dairy cow. The first female offspring of their cow is donated to another less fortunate family. The organization offers regular insemination services to beneficiaries so that dairy cows continue to regularly produce large quantities of milk and offspring. Heifer International believes that households receiving asset transfers will be... middle of paper... ...group for control households in treatment villages and a treatment group for treatment households in treatment villages . Transfers of assets such as dairy cows and agricultural crops do not show their full potential return on investment in a shorter time frame. While the family may experience immediate changes resulting from the increased availability of milk from dairy cows or eggs from chickens, other changes such as the harvest of agricultural crops or the supply of milk from more dairy cows raised occur over a long period of time. longer. The Heifer resource transfer has immediate impacts and long-term results and therefore, to capture both impacts, the study must be conducted over the long term (over five years), while immediate data collection and analysis can take place in a shorter time frame (after one year of program).