Nurturing Minds, a nonprofit that transforms lives and communities by educating Tanzania girls, received $10,000 in operating support for the Sega Girls School, a boarding school for girls in Tanzania. While at Sega, scholars receive career coaching, life schools programming, environmental stewardship opportunities, entrepreneurship training, in addition to their rigorous coursework.
Portfolios 2019
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Education
Livelihoods Development
Grassroots Healthcare
Environmental Management
Servant Leadership
Emerging Nonprofit Initiative
Discretionary Funds
Education
Nurturing Minds
ProLiteracy
A $10,000 grant to ProLiteracy, a nonprofit that develops and promotes adult literacy learning, content, and programs to increase adult literacy rates worldwide, will support its African Women’s Health Literacy Project. As part of this multi-year project, ProLiteracy is co-developing participatory health and literacy manuals with trusted NGO partners in Liberia, South Africa, and Rwanda.
Building Tomorrow
Building Tomorrow is a nonprofit organization bringing access to inclusive, transformative education to children in underserved areas. A $10,000 unrestricted grant will advance its overall mission of bringing education to Ugandan students. The organization reaches over 102,000 students daily and aims to improve primary education country-wide.
Livelihoods Development
KickStart International
KickStart International is a social enterprise focused on lifting millions of African farmers out of poverty by helping them to establish profitable businesses. The $10,000 grant will be flexibly allocated towards strategic activities designed to mobilize and engage stakeholders across 16 countries and develop increase buy-in around the power of small-scale irrigation solution.
Grassroots Healthcare
Smiles Forever
A nonprofit organization that provides more than 37,000 children and adults with free oral hygiene services and education, Smiles Forever received a $30,000, multi-year grant to complete Phase II of its research pilot focused on demonstrating the effectiveness of silver diamine fluoride in Bolivia. The organization hopes to dramatically increase access to oral hygiene care in rural areas through the findings of this project.
Hesperian Health Guides
A nonprofit health information and health education source, Hesperian Health Guides supports individuals and communities in their struggles to realize the right to health. It develops easy to read materials that are produced in many languages. The $30,000, multi-year, flexible support grant will cover ongoing publication of several projects over two years. The organization will also continue to develop its family planning app.