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The stories behind the grants
Art as a Bridge to Healing
An art-based mental health initiative supporting marginalized children and youth. Creative therapy, community care, and volunteer efforts helped nurture emotional healing and inspire long-term growth.
Turning Waste Into Resilience: Strengthening Sri Lanka’s Farms
A community-led biochar initiative in Sri Lanka is strengthening soil health, improving crop resilience, and transforming sustainable agriculture with support from The Pollination Project.
Cultivating Change Through Green Spaces
Empowering communities through sustainable gardening, Sandra Tusiime of Kichini Gardeners Initiative inspires youth and women in Uganda to grow food, protect the environment, and build a greener, healthier future.
Restoring Strength Through Adaptive Sports
Promoting Adaptive Sports for Persons with Spinal Cord Injury, empowering over 250 people with disabilities to improve their health, confidence, and social inclusion through inclusive sports.
Why We Give: Empowering Dignity Through Care
Thanks to a grant from TPP, the Why We Give Project secured storage for over $100,000 in hygiene supplies, reaching more than 2,000 people affected by wildfires and hardship, turning compassion into lasting community care.
Blooming Together: A Canvas of Creativity and Community Transformation
A community art project that engaged children from SOS Village Agadir in creating a collaborative mural celebrating unity, creativity, and hope.
Sow and Soar: Growing Women’s Leadership Through Climate-Smart Farming
Sow and Soar empowers women farmers to lead climate-smart, sustainable change in their communities with support from The Pollination Project.
Funding Change: 117 Human Rights Projects
From 2021–2025, The Pollination Project funded 117 grassroots initiatives advancing human rights and dignity worldwide, including 19 in 2025 alone.
Voices of Change: Building a New Model of Justice
ROOT Legal’s Voices of Change program is reshaping justice through healing, dignity, and empowerment, made possible by early support from The Pollination Project.
Opening Doors Through Education
From 2021–2025, TPP supported 214 grassroots education projects – 33 in 2025 alone – expanding access and opportunity for learners worldwide.
Pads, Power, and Possibility For Girls in Uganda
With our support, young volunteers in Uganda are transforming menstrual health by producing reusable pads, educating girls, and breaking harmful taboos.
Planting Seeds of Creativity and Confidence in Brazil
The Moleques do Bem initiative gave children the chance to explore art, storytelling, and entrepreneurship. In just one month, the project sparked creativity, built confidence, and showed how grassroots organizations can transform lives with the help of small grants.
Dancing Without Barriers: How a Micro Grant Sparked Inclusive Arts
Deaf Can Dance brings Deaf and hearing participants together through inclusive dance, made possible by a micro grant from The Pollination Project.
Compassion Rising: Protecting Girls from FGM
Through a Pollination Project micro-grant, community leader Sheila Wambui Njogu empowers parents, youth, and local leaders in Kenya to end female genital mutilation (FGM), promote dignity for women and girls, and inspire grassroots change for equity, compassion, and planetary health.
Restoring Sight Through Community Care
The Rural Eye Care initiative brought free screenings, glasses, and medications to nearly 1,000 people in underserved communities. What began as a grassroots effort is now growing into a sustainable vision for long-term rural eye health.
A Language Bridge to Leadership: Sahel Women English Connect
Sahel Women English Connect (SWEC) empowers displaced women and girls from Cameroon’s Sahel region through free English classes, leadership, and digital literacy training. The project fosters confidence, communication, and community-led change.
Freedom from Domestic Violence in Rural Albania
Empowering rural Albanian women and girls to break free from domestic violence through education, support, and community action.
For the Dogs: A Lesson in Compassion
Project Humane Nepal educated 3,800+ students in Kathmandu on compassion for stray dogs, supported by a Pollination Project seed grant.
Wings of Hope: Protecting Hummingbirds Through Storytelling
A documentary series, supported with a seedgrant, exploring the conservation challenges faced by three species of hummingbirds, each with its own unique story.
One Farmer, One Contract: Strengthening Coffee Communities in East Lombok
A grassroots initiative empowering Arabica coffee farmers in East Lombok through training, equipment, and direct trade contracts for sustainable livelihoods.
The I-CARE Campaign: Restoring Sight and Empowering Communities
I-CARE combines community-driven outreach, medical collaboration, and culturally tailored education to address the issue of cataract-related blindness.
Margarita: A Story of Strength and Second Chances
Margarita is a short documentary capturing the journey of a Maya mother in Xela, Guatemala. After leaving school at 11 and facing years of hardship, Margarita found a path forward through education and community.
Building Harmony Across Cultures Through Music
Voces del Lago is a youth-led community chorus in Guatemala using music to foster intercultural understanding and empower indigenous voices.
My art, my opportunity to undertake
A youth-led initiative in Bluefields, Nicaragua, that empowers aspiring artists through training in entrepreneurship, artistic development, and collective business planning to enter the local creative economy.
Bright Beginnings Library: A Place to Read and Grow
A seed grant brings books, hope, and a lasting culture of reading to a rural Nigerian school through the creation of the Bright Beginnings Library.
Environmental Education Program in Tamil Nadu: Fostering a Love for Nature
A bird conservation and wetland preservation program that brought 87 students into direct contact with their local ecosystem.