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Kenne Kuete Virginie, Livelihood Support And Empowerment Of Marginalised Widows In Belo-Kom, Cameroon
The Pollination Project is the best partner every individual with an impact driven project needs to realize their dreams. Their grant process is very empowering and inspiring. They follow up with their applicants at the beginning of the application stage before they...
Mukasa Nassar, Ugapads: Reusable Sanitary Pads Project, Uganda
TPP is such an amazing partner who believes in change makers, regardless of their status. I wholeheartedly recommend all future grantees with a passion for making a difference in the world apply for a TPP grant. When it comes to implementing the project, TPP provides...
Dr. Joan Kanja, Solar Radios For Educating Marginalized Communities, Kenya
If you have a project in mind that can create positive change in the world, however small, do not hesitate to send your application to The Pollination Project. Rome was not built in a day, and every penny counts towards achieving the big picture at the end. Without...
Jasmine Saavedra, Regenerative Design For Change Makers, Oakland, CA, USA
The grant allowed us to do our pilot training in Oakland, with some of the Bay Area's leading change makers. This pilot allowed us to test our methodology and receive much needed feedback to finesse our offering before bringing it on the national Change Makers Tour...
Dr. Christi-Nevada Winrow, STREAMS, Baltimore, MD, USA
This grant provided the spark we needed to not only support our pilot programs but also provide a means to obtain additional funding...We were better able to serve the community with the resources and expose them to activities that integrated STEM with the outdoors....
Magdaline Chepkemoi, Digital Literacy for Rural Youth in Uasin Gishu County, Kenya
The Pollination Project grant has enabled me to network with fellow grantees. When I traveled to Chicago for the Mandela Fellowship, I met a TPP grantee and we connected so much. It not only provides you with funds but also links you to the entire network. Once you...
Gulcan Yayla, Kodluyoruz, Turkey
The grant allowed us to reach more participants and rethink our training model. Therefore we can say that the Pollination Project helped Kodluyoruz take off as a fully developed project. The application process was carried out without any complications, which is a...
Maureen Ochieng, Inuka Na Gunia Farming Project, Matungu, Kenya
TPP is a great organization that is willing to support small projects like ours. We are in a rural area and we are not on the internet...Some of us are not computer literate...all we have is a dream that one day we shall achieve our desired goals and help end world...
Oladapo Okunade Olanrewaju, Hand-Pump-Well-Water-System, Ilado, Nigeria
The seed grant made a great difference to me and to those who benefitted from the project. The villagers' lives have changed now that they have access to water. I used to travel with water when going on medical missions to these villages, however, with the help of the...
Aria Sa’id, Kween Culture Initiative, San Francisco, CA, USA
The grant was our first acknowledgement from an institution, which is important for public service projects...The grant, to be completely honest, gave me a reinvigoration of hope in this effort when I had sort of lost it. Being a transgender woman anywhere in the...
S. MEENA N.Venkatesan Natesan, Prevention Of Malnutrition And Enhancement Of Family Income Through Gardening, Palamalai, India
Thank you so much to The Pollination Project for supporting us and our tribal women with this grant...We created a sustainable financial platform and the tribal women were able to engage in sustainable and organic horticulture activities. The Pollination Project team...
Tah Kennette Konsum, Oku Children’s Education And Welfare Empowerment Center, Oku, Cameroon
Through The Pollination Project grant, we developed new social impact seeds to plant for the future of our community. The grant has made an impact on our community leadership and enabled us to build a network of trust, which we intend to develop even further for...
Evans Barasa Okumu, Bodaboda Safety Riders, Busia, Kenya
TPP has contributed immensely to making my dreams a success. I provided skills to the unskilled, and formed a financial savings account to liberate poor bodaboda riders from financial constraints. These are milestones.
Lucy Kinya, Tangini School Garden Project, Taveta, Kenya
This amount of money would never have been raised by our impoverished community. TPP has eased a big burden and enabled this food production project to become a reality.
Ijeoma Nmeregini , Diabetes Self-Care Education Project In Nnorie, Nigeria
The Seed Grant from the Pollination Project was officially the first international grant that Be-In-Health Foundation received and it went a long way in giving shape to our work, a face to our name (Be-In-Health Foundation) and what we do. We are better structured and...
Eunita Atitwa, Pollinator Garden Of Matungu Sub County, Kenya
Thanks for accepting to fund young people like us. You gave my dream wings, and I am now ready to fly to new places and villages with pollinator gardens.
Aisha Flores, Buttercup STEAM Camp, Atlanta, GA, USA
The grant allowed us to integrate into the STEM community and work with more children by bringing increased awareness about our program. We have been a bit overwhelmed with the requests for our program. We definitely can say we have had a successful year and this...
Clare Hanrahan, Elder & Sage Community Gardens, North Carolina, USA
The TPP seed grant was awarded at the very early stages of our development of the gardens when we had no funds to begin with...Thank you. Your grant was timely and made all the difference in enabling us to get started. Seeing what we have been able to accomplish with...
Aikande Robert Nkya, Rise Up Girl And Make Up Your Dreams, Tanzania
I am thankful and super proud to be a grantee of the Pollination Project. You have saved the souls of our girls, as well as our young men and women in Kilimanjaro and most of the communities. We are now transitioning from a project to an organization, and we will...
Luke Ellison – You’re Hired
The main thing this grant did for us besides fund items and materials which help us in our work, is to give us experience on how to apply to a grant, deal with the expectations of receiving grant funding, and be responsible with things like budget amendments and...
Brandon Crawford, Youth Power Hour, Los Angeles, USA
Receiving the TPP seed grant has been a phenomenal experience . . . Receiving the grant gave me the self confidence to speak more about my work to others. Receiving it made me feel credible, and added more respect to my program in the community.
Tisha Marina-Bernard, I Choose Peace, Los Angeles, USA
The Pollination Project grant has allowed my vision to bring resources to youth and families dealing with bullying and mistreatment to life. The TPP grant encouraged me to see that other people believed in my dream as well and that I was on the right path. It gave me...
Rose Nakame, The Health Equity Voice, Uganda
The TPP Grant gave us authenticity among our stakeholders because it enabled us to obtain a website increasing visibility of our work but also, trust among our stakeholders. Secondly, the TPP Grant enabled us to develop some accountability structures...
Erica Fugger, Wake Up Oral History Project, New York, NY
I am very grateful to TPP for investing in projects and people that seek to have a positive impact on society. I have greatly enjoyed connecting with your compassionate affiliates and staff, and look forward to continuing to do so as the Wake Up Oral History Project...
Birju Pandya
Birju Pandya focuses on the nexus of finance, systems evolution and inner transformation. He has been involved in the Mobius ecosystem since 2014. Birju has years of experience working in the investment world, towards creative uses of capital and designing for...
Tara Matthews, Grants Manager
Tara is a Bay Area, California, native who has spent her life rooted in service and mission-driven work. This brought her to the Peace Corps where she spent 31 months in Uganda as a NGO Program Specialist. During her time in The Pearl of Africa she directed a national...
Angelica Jackson-Thomas, Journey Beyond, Maryland, USA
The Pollination Project is so aptly named; as it has germinated our organization because of what we were able to accomplish through the grant. We have attracted support through a Board of Directors, executive volunteer leadership team, and city and community...
Crista Valentino , CoalitionWILD, Jackson, WY, USA
A grant from TPP allowed us the support we needed to hire a web developer to design a new site that fit our needs...The application process was straightforward, and I appreciated that aspect since often times a lot of effort and energy is put into long and arduous...
Philanthropy Through Youth Eyes
I was 20 years old when I received my first Pollination Project (TPP) grant. As a sophomore in college, I had recently applied to the Clinton Global Initiative Conference and submitted a commitment to action for Get Them to the Green. The project? A week-long summer...
Every Piece Has It’s Part: Our Message to [YOU]th Applying for a TPP Seed Grant
You’re HERE. Reading this blog. Trying to figure out - “should I go for a Pollination Project seed grant?” [Hopefully] You’ve checked out the website to see the photos and videos of people doing the things they love, working with and for the people they truly care...