The third and final installment of $10,000 of a multi-year, unrestricted grant will advance Cooperative for Education’s mission of increasing access to education in Guatemala. The organization seeks to break the cycle of poverty through its education programs.
Portfolios 2019
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Education
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Education
Cooperative for Education
Giving Back to Africa
Giving Back to Africa received the third installment of three-year, $30,000 unrestricted grant. The organization seeks to educate and empower young people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, enabling them to become agents of change in their community and country. The grant allows the organization to continue investing in education and community service with their Congolese partner organizations.
GoodWeave International
GoodWeave International works to eradicate child labor in the global supply chain, and is launching an ambitious strategic plan to emancipate 30 million children from labor by 2025. An Unrestricted grant of $10,000 will help offset the costs necessary to essential and effective operations during the period of growth.
Nurturing Minds
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.
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 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
Shared Interest
A one-time, flexible grant of $10,000 will assist Shared Interest in scaling its transformational banking model on a regional level. The organization has benefited over two million lives since its founding.
Opportunity International
Opportunity International seeks to end extreme poverty by empowering individuals to work their way out of poverty through programs focused on financial services and assistance. The second installment of a $20,000, two-year grant will go towards the organization’s Philippines LIFE program, which focuses on economic asset transfers, life skills coaching, and small business training.
Strategies for International Development
A two-year grant of $20,000 to Strategies for International Development, a nonprofit that helps poor farmers graduate from poverty by helping them build successful farm businesses that increase their income, will help support a new regional training strategy in Alta Verapez, Guatemala. This new strategy will help train community leaders to provide community assistance and mobilize community engagement through fairs and civic meeting spaces.
Trickle Up
A nonprofit focused on helping people in extreme poverty and vulnerability advance their economic and social well-being, Trickle Up partners with governments, global institutions, and local organizations to drive change. A two-year, $40,000 grant will go to ongoing training, monitoring, and management oversight for its technical assistance program across Burkina Faso, Chad, Mauritania, Niger, and Senegal.
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 needy 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. 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. The organization will also continue to develop its family planning app.
Environmental Management
CoCoDa
Through its dedication to cooperating in projects for democratic, community-based social and economic development in Central America, CoCoDa seeks to build strong relationships and communities between people in the U.S., El Salvador, and Nicaragua. Receiving the second installment of a three-year, $21,000 flexible funding grant will assist CoCoDa in experimenting with new fundraising efforts and planning future programs.
Servant Leadership
Thousand Currents
Thousand Currents received the third and final installment of $10,000 of a multi-year, unrestricted grant. The organization supports grassroots leadership and indigenous movement building around the globe.