We Give Seed Grants to Social Change Leaders
We believe in the power of people. Every day, all over the world, ordinary citizens are doing extraordinary things to make their communities and their world a better place.
On January 1, 2013, we began making small grants, every single day of the year, to community change makers working on important social change issues, spreading compassion and kindness wherever they are. Some have gone on to win international awards, gain media attention, and scale their projects on a global level.
Our grantees are a testament to the unbreakable human spirit that is still alive and well all over the world.
Every day of the year, we give a grant to changemakers across the globe.
Today’s Featured Grantee is:
Alexander Kedje and Priscilla Akorfa – Shape Lives Vocational Skills Training Center
In Hohoe in the Volta Region of Ghana many school dropouts, orphans, girls and young women do not have access to equipped facilities for training in valuable trade skills. As a result, they are deprived of various learning and income-earning opportunities that could improve their social status and living conditions. That is until Alexander Kedje and Priscilla Sraha of Shape Lives Team came in to design the Shape Lives Vocational Skills Training Center, a program designed to help these vulnerable population find their livelihoods by fighting discrimination and violence through education, skills education and employment opportunities. The grant will be [...]
The Seeds Blog:
Stories Behind the Grants
Today’s Featured Grantee is:
Alexander Kedje and Priscilla Akorfa – Shape Lives Vocational Skills Training Center
In Hohoe in the Volta Region of Ghana many school dropouts, orphans, girls and young women do not have access to equipped facilities for training [...]
The Seeds Blog:
Stories Behind the Grants
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Who has the ability to make a difference?
Every day The Pollination Project provides at least one small grant to a community led project around the world. Below are 14 of the latest projects we have been privileged enough to support. Just reading through the names of these project should give you a sense of what they’re all about: ‘empowering’, ‘tutoring’, ‘healing’, ‘dialogue’. These are extraordinary efforts and [...]
Testimonials:
What a $1000 grant can do
Daniel Lanfranco, FoCo Migrante, Santiago, Chile
Thank you very much for helping us (and every other project out there) stay alive, grow, expand, or begin. A world with more funding directed for projects that promote change, equity, and sustainability is needed. We need systems of networks that work for each other, and not systems that use and abuse vulnerable populations of our societies. So, again, [...]
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