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The stories behind the grants
Fanuel Masunda, Green Corridors for Pollination and Ecosystems Revival, Masvingo, Zimbabwe
The grant has helped us bring the community together and work with a common goal. It has also boosted our confidence by showing the village people the little resources we can use to achieve a lot as long as we work together.
Kandhasamy Antonysamy, Nursery Promotion, India
The TPP project has helped me reassure myself to work for the clean and green and healthy environment. I am glad that with the seed money given by TPP, my team members and I are able to raise nurseries and provide trainings to the Dalit women to help raise them.
Nicole Javorsky, Cubs for Coping, Queens, New York
The TPP Impact Grant has made a huge difference for Cubs for Coping by helping us reach more people and donate more handmade bears for people in need. Without the grant, we also wouldn’t have been able to afford incorporating in New York and getting 501c3 status from...
Purity Wanjohi, Mazingira Safi Initiative: Community Based Litter Management System, Nairobi, Kenya
On a personal level, it has given me more reasons to dream and has made me have hope in humanity. The fact that TPP donors decided to fund our work remains very humbling. Lack of funds does stifle many people's dreams and to have total strangers on the other side of...
Jean Paul Ambeazieh, Economic Empowerment of Single Mums and Widows Through Sustainable Integrated Farming, Cameroon
The grant has increased our level of commitment and responsibility. We have been more committed to our dream thanks to the facilitation of the grant, and we were more responsible ensuring what we had approved was implemented for the benefit of our target population....
Rosalind “Pozzie” Lott, The HeartBeat Music & Education Institute, Los Angeles, California USA
We started this journey using our own personal savings and a vision. Change makers like The Pollination Project made a way for this vision and our workshops to have a huge impact on the youth in the greater Los Angeles area. I would like to simply thank The...
Kehli Berry, 1 Shine Youth Services, Compton, California, USA
We are so grateful for the Grant; it has helped us in so many ways. We want to continue our efforts in youth development and have been working tirelessly towards the goal of youth development in the city of Compton. We are making a positive change, one child at a time.
Aimee Dunkle, The Solace Foundation of Orange County, California, USA
The TPP seed grant definitely made a difference to our team. It provided us with the means to promote our project. We had absolutely no funding prior to this grant, and it had a huge impact on our ability to move forward.
Lawrence Sumulong, The Last of Us, Arkansas, USA
The seed grant was the catalyst that allowed me to start the entire project and finish a significant first chapter in an ongoing and longer story. It also allowed me to come in without a set deadline and complete freedom to explore the community without any pressure...
Janine Roberts, Ukama Community Foundation NPC, South Africa
The TPP grant has made a HUGE difference in running our project. We have been so blessed to be able to ensure that we have not run out of food at all in the year and additionally managed to buy extra catering equipment. The support of the social media that TPP has...
Elizabeth Roesler, The Heart of Lubbock Community Garden, Texas, USA
The Seed grant has empowered us to amplify our outreach efforts by providing a more aesthetically pleasing and functional garden. In order to sustain the future of our organization and create deeper roots with the city and community, we needed additional...
Jamie Boban and Dana Overman, Kaga: create, South Dakota, USA
This grant was truly the "boost" or "spark" that our organization needed! Building trust within the Native American community is incredibly important. The Pollination Project provided so much more than just creative/artistic supplies for Native American Youth; you...
Kathleen Kane, Compassionate Connections: The Intersectional Feminists for Animals, California, USA
The grant made a difference to myself and the others in the collective because we wouldn't have been able to have a kind of a jumping off point from which to begin our collective. It is also amazing to know that there are organizations out there like The Pollination...
Michelle Churches, Caritas Garden, Michigan, USA
TPP made this project possible. Without the funds, I would not have been able to create a garden for nature or people. This is a very poor community.
Jennilie Brewster, True Feelings, New York, USA
The Pollination Seed Grant made a huge difference to me on a personal level. When I received the grant I had just initiated a writing workshop, at Coler Specialty Hospital, for a group of residents who rarely attend the facility's enrichment activities. Most of the...
Barbara Allimadi, New Uganda Training and Organizing Working Group, Uganda
The grant has enabled us to train more community leaders. We were able to spend longer periods of time with them as we had the funds to provide refreshments, therefore, managed to tackle many issues affecting their communities.
Amir Samad Samandi, Summer of Service (SOS), Texas, USA
The funds allowed us to make critical investments in our program, but the support from the TPP community has been priceless.
Samy Santana, The Pollinator Pathway, California, USA
Without this grant, we could not have invited the science classes to document the effects month by month of converting planting areas from non-flowering shrubs to native flowering plants that support different important species of pollinators. The work funded by this...
Elizabeth Klosky, NY is a Great Place to BEE: Educate – Legislate – Populate!, New York, USA
It was incredibly encouraging to receive the funding for NY is a Great Place to Bee! Not only did it make the work possible, but it also gave everyone who worked on the project the understanding that the project was worthwhile and worth continuing to work towards.
Mary-Justine Todd, Women’s Crisis Care International, Bahrain
The impact grant for TPP has made an incredible difference in the work of Women’s Crisis Care International (WCCI) because it allowed us to secure a safe community space to welcome victims for abuse. I am continuously honored to be supported by TPP as they continue to...
Abongta Moncha, Empowering Women and Promoting Education (EWAPE) Project
The Pollination Project grant has given me the opportunity to experiment new ways of tackling social change problems within rural communities. It has given a new impetus to the way women economic empowerment projects are implemented within the Bafut Subdivision in the...
Amanda Bernal Carlo, One Million Trees to Rescue Water of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Pueblo Bello, Cesar, Colombia
TPP could be the first step in the direction of getting a huge project done. The profile of donors to the TPP is quite inspirational and can help in acknowledging the effort of a group of people who want to make a difference in any part of the world by uniting the...
Marther Lutomia Nangalama, Strengthening the Economic Status of Women, Kenya
These were the first funds I have received, and they have enabled me to see that I can do something and make a difference in other people's lives. I have been able to use my project to reach out to these women if it weren’t for TPP.
Anne Pollack, Crossing Point Arts, New York, USA
TPP continues to be an endless source of inspiration, community, and is a profound example of how to change this world into a more humane and just place. Immense gratitude to TPP family! I feel like I am part of the family for all the goodness and support I continue...
Laure Ferguson, Tutoring for Success, Los Angeles, USA
The seed grant made a tremendous difference to me, my staff, and our work we do in the community. In the past, we had limited educational resources options, which made it a slight challenge to accomplish desired outcome in the time frame allotted. Now, we are able to...
Dejah Powell, Get Them to the Green, Chicago, USA
The grant has inspired and motivated me even more to follow my passion of bringing about social change and teaching young people more about environmental issues that we are all affected by. The support from TPP simply shows that someone else supports this vision that...
Lucky Mwachi, Join the Pipe, Uhuru Park, Nairobi
The TPP grant has helped me gain personal fulfillment by being part of something that has made a difference in the lives of Nairobi residents and the environment. It has also helped me learn how to coordinate a project in a better way.
Madalenas Nepal, The Vagina Monologues 2016 – Workshops and Production, Kathmandu, Nepal
This was the first time we ever applied for a grant, which showed we were successful and could realize many of the activities we aspired to throughout the year. You did not only give us a lot of confidence by partnering with us, but you allowed us to implement a lot...
Jillian Jordan, Great Seed Bomb
The fact I could say that The Great Seed Bomb was a Pollination Project grantee and the boost that gave me to keep going was priceless. I could not have funded event or organized volunteers properly without validation through the Pollination Project grant. This event...
Youth Are Rising in CA
In the midst of today's political turmoil, numerous California youth communities are taking action to generate community health, justice, and resilience. Through our newest program, Youth Rising, we are supporting powerful youth on the ground like the Semillas...






















