Empowering Visionary Changemakers with Seed Funding for Global Transformation.
$1000
GRANTED EVERY DAY
CHANGEMAKERS
COUNTRIES ACROSS THE GLOBE
Seeding a community
of #changemakers
The Pollination Project is a collaborative Foundation that offers seed funding ranging from $1,000 to $10,000. Our network of sixty five grant advisors and five country coordinators, each an expert in their respective fields, leads our funding decisions.
This participatory grantmaking process aligns with our ethos of empowering individuals on the front lines to effect positive change within their communities, cultures, and countries.
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.
At TPP, we believe in people, so we invest in people.
#Heartivist
of the week:
Laicey Gibby-Brown: Final Strike Collaborative
Location: USA
Laicey Gibby-Brown works in theater production on Broadway and – after many years of watching the immense amount of waste left behind after theater productions ended – she decided to create Final Strike Collaborative. This organization aims to rescue discarded theater materials from their landfill fate and turn them into new and amazing creations, giving them a second life.
In 2024, Final Strike Collaborative will organize a series of workshops at their art studio where the community can participate and learn how to reuse everyday materials to create furniture or decorative items. In order to make this happen they reached out to The Pollination Project
“To me, the value that comes with this grant, though, goes deeper than its monetary value. Just knowing that people outside of our organization heard about our efforts and believe in our cause enough to invest in us means everything to me. It’s proof that I’m not alone in my efforts to make positive change, and motivates me to keep striving towards our goals for Final Strike to help the community, and change the entertainment industry for the better.”
ShiftHappens: Our Blog:
The stories behind the grants
A Second Life for Theater-Disposed Materials in New York
By 2050, the worldwide waste is expected to be 3.40 billion tonnes, according to The World Bank. “We are strongest when united together towards a cause. If we, as a global community, use our voices and take intentional action together, we can enact real, tangible,...
Fright for Future: A Motivation to Help our Planet
Air pollution causes 6.7 million deaths a year, according to WHO. “Our environment is really being affected by humans, but we have the ability to change the trajectory of our future. In order to do that we need to take action now collectively, we don't have time to...
A Garden of Peace and Wellbeing for Pollinators and People
Through pollination, bees provide one-third of the food we eat, The National Wildlife Federation. “What concerns me the most is the state of things we are leaving for our children and grandchildren. We too often make decisions that are short-sighted and only good...
“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 Lava Mae
Find out how a small donation of $1000 helped launch a successful national model for homeless services. The Pollination Project makes small startup grants every single day of the year- all over the world.
A look behind the scenes
#helpthehelpers
Discover the power of early support for changemakers!
🔶 This video highlights how vital our role is in empowering these inspiring individuals at the start of their journey.
By providing faith, strength, and credibility, we help them unfold their potential and create meaningful change.
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⭐ This holiday season choose to support The Pollination Project Foundation and make it possible for innovative changemakers from around the world to develop powerful solutions to the challenging issues facing their communities. Thank you!
#changemakers #philanthropy #grant #grantmaking #change #makeadifference #humanrights #youthempowerment #education #healthforall #environment #thepollinationproject #helpthehelpers
🐮 THE IMPACT OF A TPP GRANT 🐮
2018: Animal Justice Project`s first grant funded the UK`s "Campus without Cruelty" campaign, targeting Nottingham universities to end animal use in education.
2020: A new grant supported the "Expired" campaign, creating a website (buff.ly/47KCZaT) and social media graphics, reaching 100k+ people. The campaign exposed a UK beef megafarm, garnering 6,058 petition signatures, peaceful demonstrations, and media attention, promoting veganism.
2022: Filming at Berryfields beef `mega-farm` and Bath Soft Cheese farm exposed animal welfare issues, raising significant public awareness and sparking national debates
Animal Justice Project impact so far:
➡️ 99,599 petitions signatures
➡️ 7,162,591 Social media impressions
➡️ 13 animal sanctuaries partnered with
➡️ 1,400,000 views of their videos
@animalchangemakers
#Vegan #AnimalRights #RespectAllLife #animaljustice #animalwelfare
🌍🙌 Happy World Volunteer Day from The Pollination Project! 🌍🙌
Today, we extend a huge, heartfelt THANK YOU to all the incredible volunteers who are the backbone of our mission. 🌟💚 Your dedication, compassion, and selfless service are the reasons we thrive and succeed.
To our grantees, grant advisors, and every individual involved in the extraordinary projects we`ve had the privilege to fund - your volunteer spirit is the driving force behind our impact. You`re not just volunteers; you`re change-makers, community builders, and rays of hope in a world that desperately needs it. 🌱✨
Because of you, we`ve seen dreams turn into impactful projects, ideas blossom into reality, and communities transformed by the power of volunteerism. You prove that together, we can pollinate the world with kindness, one act at a time. 🐝🌸
Let`s celebrate the power of volunteerism today and every day. Thank you for being the heart of The Pollination Project. Here`s to many more years of empowering communities and nurturing positive change, hand in hand! 🌏❤️
#WorldVolunteerDay #ThankYouVolunteers #ThePollinationProject #CommunityImpact #VolunteerPower #ChangeMakers #Gratitude
⭐ Meet our HEARTIVIST of The Week, Jaidacyn Mikal Madrigal. ⭐
Jaidacyn is a writer, and environmental and animal rights advocate, who is currently working as a Marketing and Fundraising Coordinator for SanDiego350, a climate action nonprofit in San Diego, California; she is also the founder of the innovative project “Fright for Future.”
When Jaidacyn learned about the environmental crisis, she thought that all of that information should have been available for her and everyone else at an earlier educational level so people could be more aware of the situation and help our planet. Jaidacyn was 17 years old when she watched the video, “The Hidden Costs of Hamburgers” and decided to become a pescatarian; two years later she became a vegetarian, and then a year later, she decided to become vegan.
Since Jaidacyn finished college, she has worked in two, nonprofit environmental organizations and wrote a children’s book to inspire awareness for the younger generations.
Jaidacyn started the project Fright for Future in 2021, in an outdoor park in Washington state, all by herself, with the hope that people would be aware of the environmental crisis we are facing and also find solutions they could implement in their everyday lives, as well as organizations they could join to help our planet.
“Fright for Future is a haunted maze of true terrors bringing scary issues like climate change, pollution, and animal rights to light during Halloween, using the holiday to educate people at a fun event,” explains Jaidacyn.
Want to know more about this event and project? Read the full article in our blog [link in bio]
#frightforfuture #environmentalcrisis #youthactivism #helpthehelpers #seedthechange
🌟 "There are two ways to live your life. One is as if nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is." - Albert Einstein ✨
At The Pollination Project, we stand firm in the belief that each committed changemaker is a miracle in their own right. They possess the power to create astounding transformations within their communities, turning the ordinary into something extraordinary.
Let`s embrace the miraculous in everyday life and be the change we wish to see! 💫
#MiraclesEveryday #helpthehelpers #BeTheChange 🌍 #thepollinationproject #inspiringquotes
Today is the World AIDS Day.
Our solidarity and gratitude goes to all those incredible changemakers committed to challenge the spread of AIDS/HIV in their communities that we had the privilege to support in all these years.
They are showing us that education, women and girls` empowerment, and specific healthcare programs are essential tools in HIV prevention.
The pictures are from our grantee Here`s LIFE Community BASED Organization , a non profit Organization that supports orphans and widows affected and infected by HIV/AIDS in Mathare and Njiru slums of Nairobi County.
#worldaidsday #hiv #aids #hivawareness #aidsawareness #hivaids #aidsday #awareness #hivstigma #st #hivprevention #hepatitis #hivpositive #stass #mentalhealthawareness #worldhepatitisday #reducingstigma #communityoutreach #kenya #hivadvocate #hiveducation
Meet Kris Rogers, our Heartivist of The Week ⭐
Kris, a dedicated community advocate with a background in education, founded the Riverside Garden in 2016 to create a shared green space in her neighborhood. With the garden`s expansion in 2022, she envisioned a new project: a pollinator garden.
This garden was designed to support local bees and other pollinators through specially crafted pathways. To bring this vision to life, the Riverside Pollinator Project was launched, aiming to install a variety of plants in the easement area of the community garden. However, to fully realize this project, Kris needed financial assistance and applied for a grant to fund the initiative.
“What concerns me the most is the state of things we are leaving for our children and grandchildren. We too often make decisions that are short-sighted and only good for us personally, not necessarily good for the environment. But I am hopeful because many young people are concerned about the environmental issues we have created for them. And if anyone can figure out how to create a good future for us all, it is our young people.”
Read her full story on our blog [follow the link in bio]
#heartivist #pollinators #savethebees #environment #communitygarden #philanthropy #grants #thepollinationproject #wichita
As the world gathers at #COP28, the call to address climate change and environmental degradation has never been louder. This event is not just a meeting; it`s a crucial opportunity for decisive action in our fight against these global challenges.
Over the past 11 years, The Pollination Project Foundation has funded nearly 800 grassroots projects focused on environmental conservation and regeneration. These changemakers and their courage and commitment underscore the impact of grassroots initiatives in driving meaningful environmental change. It`s a clear message to global leaders: communities are ready to act; they are ready to protect and regenerate our environment. The question is, are our leaders ready to respond with the same urgency and commitment?
COP28 is not just another conference; it`s a critical moment to transform commitments into action. It`s time for bold decisions that echo the determination of grassroots movements like those supported by The Pollination Project Foundation.
The time for action is now. We urge our leaders at COP28 to take a stand and commit to a sustainable future. It`s now or never.
#cop28 #climatechange #environment #sustainability #nature #globalwarming
🔸 We trust them, encourage them, and support them 🔸
With your help we will continue to support changemakers all over the world making a big difference in their communities.
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Until the end of the year, we will match all the donations up to $25,000. Thank you!
❇️ THE IMPACT OF A TPP GRANT ❇️
The Black Girls Dive Foundation, founded in 2017 by mother-daughter duo Dr. Nevada Winrow and Taylor-Symon Winrow, is an eco-step, ocean-science-based #STEM program that supports girls as young as nine, following them through when they go to college. There are few women in STEM and even fewer minority women, and this program is the first of its kind fighting to empower young Black women to find a home in the STEM workforce.
In 2017, the organization received their first grant supporting their STEM program in Maryland. In 2019 and 2020 TPP followed up with an impact grant. Today, we are happy and proud to see the impact of our grants :
✴️ New Chapters in Georgia, New Jersey, and Delaware.
✴️ Partnerships with Federal Agencies such as NOAA.
✴️ Served over 245 youth including girls from Cook Island, Samoa and Fiji.
✴️ 200+ STEM classes provided.
✴️ Led domestic and international SCUBA capstone expeditions to Key Largo, Florida; Egypt, and Bahamas.
This Giving Season, we ask you to consider donating to The Pollination Project Foundation. Your contribution will make it possible for innovative changemakers like Dr. Nevada Winrow to develop powerful solutions to the challenging issues facing their communities.
GIVE TODAY https://thepollinationproject.org/donate/
#givingtuesday #helpthehelpers #supportactivism #womenempowerment #education #give #donate #seedthechange #STEM #girlsinstem #blackgirlsdive
In the past 11 years, The Pollination Project Foundation has empowered over 5,000 extraordinary individuals, leaving an indelible mark on their communities and the world.
However, countless other changemakers are out there, needing just a bit of belief and support to take flight.
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By choosing to donate to The Pollination Project Foundation, you make a real difference: every dollar counts, and we will match all donations up to $25,000.
Your contribution is powerful — every $1,000 helps another extraordinary activist make a difference.
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✴️ Visit https://thepollinationproject.org/donate to make your impact today! [Link in bio]
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Help us continue to support changemakers all over the world!
Donate to The Pollination Project Foundation and make it possible for innovative changemakers to develop powerful solutions to challenging issues facing communities around the globe.
We will match all the donations up to $25,000.
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Thank you 🧡
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🧡 HELP US CONTINUE TO SUPPORT OUR CHANGEMAKERS 🙏🏽
Stefania Prandi, an Italian journalist, received her first grant in 2016 for her project “Oro Rosso, The other side of farmland“. This project exposes the sexual harassment of immigrant female workers in Italian agriculture. These women, from countries like Romania, Bulgaria, Poland, Nigeria, and India, work across Italy. Thanks to the grant she got from the Pollination project, she was able to start this work in Sicily and then to find more funds to continue the investigation in Morocco and Spain. Now this is a huge and an important project with an international exposure.
✴️ 2019 Diederichsen (Germania), winner
✴️ 2019 Henri Nannen Award (Germania), winner
✴️ 2018 Georg von Holtzbrinck Preis (Germania), winner
✴️ 2018 Otto Brenner Preis (Germania), winner
✴️ 2018 Deutsche Reporterpreis (Germania), finalist
✴️ 2018 Medien Lowin (Austria), finalist
She received another grant in 2019 for “The Consequences,” exploring domestic violence in Italy and its media portrayal. This project, turning into a book and a photo exhibition, challenges narratives on violence against women.
Stefania`s work has won several awards, including the ND Awards` Bronze Star and being a finalist at Shoot The Face.
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Support The Pollination Project Foundation this Giving Season to empower global changemakers like Stefania tackling important issues.
Donate here https://thepollinationproject.org/donate/
#internationaldayfortheeliminationofviolenceagainstwomen #nomoreviolence #womenrights #genderequality #givingtuesday
Chris McGilvery is an educator, connector, and kindness crusader. He served as grant advisor at The Pollination Project and he is a grantee himself.
In 2013 Chris received a grant for his Give More Hugs project, which later evolved into The Leaders Readers Network , a nonprofit dedicated to equalizing access to quality education by empowering teachers and students to serve their community. Every year, they provide books, school supplies, leadership development, and encouragement and support to students in need.
In 2020, TPP awarded LRN an Impact Grant. As of today, Chris’s organization is making a big difference:
✅ 267,500+ books distributed
✅ 76 teacher ambassadors
✅ 437,500 youth volunteer hours
✅ 53+ school districts served
✅ 3,000+ trained+mentored middle school, high school, and college students
✅ featured in the New York Times
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We desperately needs compassionate leadership and lasting change, and together we have the power to inspire hope, possibility, generosity and action in people.
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🍁🧡 Happy Thanksgiving! 🧡🍁
🎥 This special video is a tribute to the amazing hearts and minds that make our work possible: our grantees, donors, advisors, and friends. Your dedication and support are the cornerstones of our journey. THANK YOU from the bottom of our hearts! 🙏
🎵 In the spirit of gratitude and unity, our talented grantee, musician Nimo Patel, has orchestrated a wonderful project. He`s brought together dozens of individuals from across the globe to craft a melody that resonates with our soul. It`s more than a song; it`s a celebration of our collective spirit and the countless blessings in our lives.
It`s a testament to what we can achieve together, a harmony of hope and joy.
Watch it on YouTube at https://youtu.be/sO2o98Zpzg8?si=q9re2WFSygv3Gvsz
#Thanksgiving #gratitude #givenow #sharegratitude
🧡 HELP US SUPPORT THE CHANGEMAKERS 🧡
In 2020 The Pollination Project Foundation supported “Every Animal”, a vegan animal rights organization in Ukraine founded by Tamara Human focused on vegan education and protecting animals. Tamara’s work centered on trying to change the world for animals by inspiring people to make positive changes in their everyday lives.
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The impact of this first grant has been very important:
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✅ 1,612 people registered for the Vegan Express course
✅ 20+ promotional posters in different cities in Ukraine
✅ 2 lectures about veganism
✅ 4 street outreach actions Cube of Truth
✅ A book for children published
✅ received EVA Grant from ProVeg
In 2022, when the war began, Tamara and her team adapted their work to benefit the lives of both animals and humans in a new way. She focused on trying to save lives by feeding hungry people, saving animals and bringing some much needed hope to refugee children in Ukraine. She applied for a new grant and TPP helped her with 3 more emergency grants for a total of $6,000.
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In the last two years of war, Tamara and her friends were able to:
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✴️ Open vegan kitchens in 7 cities in Ukraine
✴️ Send 900 parcels with vegan products to vegan soldiers
✴️ Distribute 75,000 free vegan meals - 200 meals a day
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And you? Are you ready to create positive change in our world?
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Together we can make it possible for innovative and dedicated changemakers like Natasha to develop powerful solutions to challenging issues facing communities around the globe.
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🟠 Join us and make a gift today! All donations will be matched to double the impact of your generosity. https://thepollinationproject.org/donate/ [also linked in bio]
In 2019, with our grant support, Carol-Ann initiated an 8-month program specifically designed for adults with disabilities. This program focuses on education, assistance with goal setting, and confidence building through engaging in outdoor activities.
Today, Destination Rehab has evolved into a vibrant, supportive community. It`s dedicated to fostering independence and enabling adults with neurologic diagnoses to experience the great outdoors, in Oregon and beyond.
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With an 11-year legacy, we`ve empowered over 5,000 extraordinary humans who have left an indelible mark on local, national, and global scales. These remarkable leaders, whom we call #Heartivists, have saved lives and forever changed destinies.
🔸 We trust them, encourage them, and support them.🔸
Join us today! Your contribution will help us to continue making a positive change in the world. Thank you!
We awarded a grant to United Community Nepal to help them providing over 215 children and youth and 185 young mothers with skills to use digital devices and search the internet.
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 215 children and 185 young mother!!
Binod Neupane is a community development expert with 13+ years of experience. He works on social, economic, and educational initiatives, particularly aiding underprivileged women and children. He founded United Community Nepal (UniCoN), a non-profit striving to improve lives in Nepal`s marginalized areas, emphasizing women and children. UniCoN offers tech support and training to empower rural and slum youth, women, and children.
You can read the full story of this project on our website.
We feel blessed and grateful for the opportunity to support with our grants incredible changemakers and heartivist like Binod every single day! 🙏🏽
Consider make a donation, no matter how big or small! Together we the power to inspire hope, possibility, generosity and action in people 🧡 [see link in bio]
🧡 In a world that desperately needs compassionate leadership and lasting change, you have the power to inspire hope, possibility, generosity and action in people. 🧡
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✨ Douala Youth Empowerment: TPP Grant Targets Hate Speech & Promotes Peace.
In Douala, #Cameroon, increasing hate speech and misinformation threaten peace, particularly among youth. This situation is worsened by social media`s role in escalating online attacks with dire real-world effects, such as defamation and violence.
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Ayuk Lawrence`s Save a Youth Outreach-Cameroon project, supported by The Pollination Project, aims to counter these issues. The TPP grant will enhance the project`s impact through enriched workshops, expanded activism, intensified sensitization campaigns, and strengthened peace-building clubs in schools.
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An important initiative in empowering Douala`s youth against hate speech, fostering peaceful coexistence. Stay tuned for updates on this transformative effort.
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