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Seeding a community
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The Pollination Project Foundation empowers passionate volunteers across the globe by providing the critical funding they need to uplift their communities, cultures and countries. Recognizing the untapped potential of frontline changemakers, we bridge the gap in resources with grants up to $500. These small yet powerful investments have shown us that even modest support can ignite significant impact. Our dedicated team of 75 grant advisors and 5 country coordinators, all experts in their fields, guide our funding decisions to ensure every dollar fuels meaningful change.

Beyond financial support, The Pollination Project Foundation assists grantees in taking their initial steps towards fundraising and offers first belief in their mission. Additionally, we offer capacity-building workshops, mindfulness retreats to prevent burnout, and resource navigation to ensure that our grantees’ work achieves tangible goals. For farm animal advocates, we are able to offer large initial capital and follow on funding of up to $10,000.

At TPP, we believe in people, so we invest in people. 

The impact

of a seed grant

Daniel Ruto: Empowering Women for Climate Resilience with Sustainable Homesteads

Location: KENYA

The project is equipping women with the skills to combat climate change and food insecurity by focusing on sustainable agriculture, leadership training, and community-driven solutions.

The Pollination Project grant enabled the establishment of a solar-powered demonstration center and seed bank for indigenous seeds, empowering women as ambassadors of change. The grant laid the foundation for sustainable impact, fostering resilience through social enterprises and leadership training. 

In recognition of his impactful work in climate action and community empowerment, Daniel was honored with The Diana Legacy Award in October 2024

ShiftHappens: Our Blog:

The stories behind the grants

“We’re very grateful for the Pollination Project’s support. This organization was the first (outside of our first supporters) to believe in our mission.

As a result of this grant, we have gained credibility in the refugee community and will be able to continue to grow and work towards achieving our mission.”

Linnie Pawlek, Financial Literacy For Refugees
Colorado, USA

Profiles in Compassion: The Story of Black Girls Dive

Find out how a small grant helped launch a an eco-step, ocean-science-based STEM program that supports girls as young as nine, following them through when they go to college. The Pollination Project makes small startup grants every single day of the year- all over the world.

A look behind the scenes

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🌍 Empowering Women, Fighting Climate Change 🌱
With help from The Pollination Project, Dan Ruto is training women in Bomet, Kenya, to lead on climate resilience. 🌳
Honored with The Diana Legacy Award 2024! 🏆
This is just the beginning. ✨ Read more on our website [link in bio]

#ClimateAction #WomenEmpowerment #Sustainability #TheDianaAward #SocialImpact #Leadership #GreenFuture
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✨ "Every child deserves to see the world clearly." NEW PROJECT ✴️
In Mushin, Lagos, Vision Care for Kids is bringing this dream to life by improving the eyesight of children aged 6-16 in underserved communities. With the support of one of our seedgrants, this school-based initiative is set to:

👓 Screen 150 school children for visual impairments.
👓 Provide eyeglasses, eye drops, and essential medications.
👓 Train 20 community healthcare workers and teachers in eye care awareness.

Through community engagement, school-based interventions, and education workshops, this project aims to reduce childhood blindness and promote early detection of vision problems, giving every child a brighter, clearer future.

We’re proud to support this incredible work that’s transforming lives - one pair of glasses at a time. 💛

#EyeCareForAll #VisionCareForKids #ThePollinationProject #ChildHealth #CommunityImpact #BetterFuture #MushinLagos
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✨ "Every child deserves to see the world clearly." NEW PROJECT ✴️
In Mushin, Lagos, Vision Care for Kids is bringing this dream to life by improving the eyesight of children aged 6-16 in underserved communities. With the support of one of our seedgrants, this school-based initiative is set to:

👓 Screen 150 school children for visual impairments.
👓 Provide eyeglasses, eye drops, and essential medications.
👓 Train 20 community healthcare workers and teachers in eye care awareness.

Through community engagement, school-based interventions, and education workshops, this project aims to reduce childhood blindness and promote early detection of vision problems, giving every child a brighter, clearer future.

We’re proud to support this incredible work that’s transforming lives - one pair of glasses at a time. 💛

#EyeCareForAll #VisionCareForKids #ThePollinationProject #ChildHealth #CommunityImpact #BetterFuture #MushinLagos
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🌍✨ Monday Sharing ✨🌍
The smallest acts of kindness can create waves of change. 🌱💛
What’s one small way you can make the world a better place this week? 🌟
Whether it’s a kind word, a helping hand, or a moment of generosity—every action matters. Drop your ideas in the comments! 👇💬

🧡 Tag someone who inspires you to take action!
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📚 Education for All! 📚
Access to knowledge is a right, but many children lack the resources to learn beyond the classroom. Seeing this gap, educator Kafilat Olanrewaju took action! She founded the KOA Education Foundation and created free public libraries for underserved communities.
With support from The Pollination Project, her initiative is growing—giving students books, digital tools, and a safe space to learn.

✨ Discover how this project is transforming lives! Read more on our website—link in bio 🔗📖

#EducationForAll #FreeLibrary #KOAEducationFoundation #ThePollinationProject #EmpoweringStudents #TransformingLives
@koaeducationfoundation
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Gratitude shifts our focus from what’s missing to what’s abundant. 🌱💛
Pause. Breathe. Reflect. What are you grateful for today? 🌍💫
Drop a comment and let’s create a ripple effect of positivity! 👇💬

#MondaySharing #Gratitude #KindnessMatters #SmallActsBigImpact #ThePollinationProject #BeTheChange

🧡 Tag someone who inspires you to live with gratitude!
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✨ Big change starts with a single spark! ✨
When Annalise Hoopes founded The Changemaker Project, she believed in the power of young people to change the world. With the support of a Pollination Project grant in 2018, TCP took off - empowering students to tackle social and climate justice issues with creativity and purpose.

👉 Fast forward to today: nearly 2,000 young changemakers in 30+ countries have turned their ideas into real impact! ❗
@we_make_change_
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✨ Meet Our New Grantee: Healing with Food by Dr. Achyuthan Eswar ✨
In Karnataka, India, the leading causes of death—heart disease, stroke, chronic lung disease, and cancer—account for over half of all fatalities. These conditions are largely preventable through a whole food, plant-based diet and a healthy lifestyle.

Meet Dr. Achyuthan Eswar, a plant-based physician working to empower families in Bengaluru to embrace the healing power of food. Through his project, “Healing with Food,” Dr. Eswar is teaching communities how a plant-based diet, combined with exercise and stress management, can prevent and even reverse conditions like diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, obesity, and cancer.

Dr. Eswar’s passion for lifestyle medicine is deeply personal. Inspired by his parents and his own childhood dream to heal through food, his commitment grew even stronger after losing his mother to metastatic breast cancer—a largely preventable disease.

Through this work, Dr. Eswar hopes to help people live longer, healthier lives and create precious memories with their loved ones. Beyond personal health, a plant-based diet also has profound benefits for animals and the planet, making its impact truly transformative for generations to come.

#HealingWithFood #PlantBasedHealing #FoodAsMedicine #ThePollinationProject #LifestyleMedicine #PlantBasedLifestyle #HealthForGenerations @achyuthan.eswar @NutritionScience.in
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Why We Give, a mission of kindness by April Foster from the USA and a new grantee of The Pollination Project!
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April’s mission is clear: to combat hygiene poverty by providing CARE hygiene kits and essential items to unhoused neighbors and individuals in need. With the 1000 Acts of Kindness campaign, the goal is to distribute 5,000 hygiene kits before the end of the year—just in time for World Kindness Day and the holiday season.

This project was born out of April’s deep frustration with the growing homelessness crisis in Los Angeles. What started as buying hygiene products and snacks for unhoused neighbors in her own community soon evolved into volunteering with LavaMae, a nonprofit offering mobile showers to those in need and one of our first grantees. Recognizing the gap in resources - many shelters can only provide food or shower services but lack the budget for essential hygiene items - April decided to step up and fill that void.

Today, Why We Give is making a difference for countless individuals and families, with the support of one of our seedgrants.

Together, we can spread kindness, dignity, and hope throughout the city.

#WhyWeGive #1000ActsOfKindness #WorldKindnessDay #EndHygienePoverty #CommunityCare #ThePollinationProject
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On this International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we pause to honor the memory of six million Jews and millions of others who perished in the Holocaust. Their story reminds us that the seeds of hatred, when left unchecked, can grow into unimaginable tragedy. But within each of us lies the power to cultivate a different future – one nurtured by small, daily acts of courage, kindness, and service to others.

Today and every day, we remember by acting: replacing hate with love, apathy with compassion, and silence with service to all humanity.

#HolocaustRemembranceDay #NeverAgain #LoveOverHate
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When small grants create big ripples! We`re moved by these words from John Mwangi from Kenya, highlighting how The Pollination Project`s support goes beyond funding - it`s about believing in grassroots changemakers and their vision for community transformation.

Every grant plants a seed of change. 🌱

#GrassrootsChange #CommunityImpact #GrantMaking #SocialChange #PollinationProject
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🌍📚 On this International Day of Education, we celebrate the power of grassroots changemakers transforming learning around the world!

In classrooms, community centers, and informal spaces across 40 countries, The Pollination Project’s seed grants are planting the seeds of a brighter educational future. With 1,300 innovative projects funded, our micro-grant approach shows that even small investments can lead to extraordinary outcomes when entrusted to passionate visionaries.

From rural villages in Nigeria to bustling cities in the U.S., our grantees are reimagining what education can look like. They remind us that transformative learning doesn’t always depend on massive infrastructure or big institutions—it often begins with one committed teacher, a dedicated volunteer, or a determined student striving to uplift their community.

Together, we’re proving that no vision is too small and no dreamer too ordinary to create extraordinary change. 💡🌱

Let’s continue to nurture education everywhere—because every act of learning plants the seeds for a better tomorrow. ✨

#InternationalDayOfEducation #EducationForAll #GrassrootsChangemakers #heartivism
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NEW PROJECT ✨ Empowering Survivors in Mathare ✨
Meet Irine Ngata from Kenya, a new grantee of The Pollination Project! 🌍🧡

Her initiative, "Women Survivor`s Resource Closet", provides women and families escaping domestic violence with essential clothing and hygiene items, offering stability, safety, and dignity as they begin to heal.

In Mathare, where 4 out of 5 women face gender-based violence, this project will directly support at least 30 survivors, thanks to a seedgrant. Together, we can help restore hope and rebuild lives. 💪💐

Let’s celebrate Irine’s incredible work! 🙌

#WomenEmpowerment #SupportSurvivors #GenderEquality #ThePollinationProject #MathareVoices #Kenya #Heartivism #domesticviolence
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Every $1,000 we raise is another #changemaker we fund.