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Partnerships for Impact
We make a lasting impact through strategic collaborations with other foundations and donors who are eager to support individuals working on the front lines. Our partnerships cater to donors who prefer writing substantial checks, as well as those who seek to witness the immediate effects of their contributions.
Working with us for Funders
Foundations and donors can engage with us in two ways. First, we accept pass-through funding to channel resources to the most deserving hands on the ground, recognizing the fundamental importance of strengthening leadership on the ground to catalyze change. Our strategic partners nourish the front line leaders through TPP.
Second, we serve as a top-of-the-funnel resource for larger funders, ensuring that exceptional changemakers and projects receive the attention they merit. After we collect reports from our most successful grantees, we offer connections to future funding opportunities.
10 Billion Strong
Climate Change
10 Billion Strong works for long-term sustainability through a portfolio of programs which create opportunities for young people across the world to learn, connect, and act on critical environmental issues. The Pollination Project Foundation provided them with seed funding in 2019.
Since 2019, 10 Billion Strong has worked with emerging leaders in 93 countries across six continents. They have guided 155 master trainers to utilize their curriculum to catalyze leaders in their local communities. Their 7,555 Green Leaders Academy participants are trained to address environmental challenges. These leaders have inspired over 30,234+ environmental actions including community cleanups, advocacy campaigns, and tree plantings.
The Leaders Readers Network
Education
Chris McGilvery is an educator, connector, and kindness crusader. He served as grant advisor at The Pollination Project and he is a grantee himself.
Since receiving his first grant from The Pollination Project his organization the Readers Leaders Network has been featured in the New York Times and other national media. They have provided over 267,541 books to students in need, leveraged over 437,500 volunteer hours, impacted more that 53 school districts and trained and mentored 2,952 middle school, high school and college students.
Chris has said, “I vividly remember receiving my first grant of $1,000 with TPP in December 2013. I finally realized someone believed in my work. It gave me the motivation, inspiration, and love to keep going…I don’t think I would be able to be where I am today without the love of so many at TPP and the financial support. The grant allowed us to engage more community partners and sponsors, donors and volunteers for our cause.”
Black Girls Dive Foundation
STEM Education and Planet Resilience
Black Girls Dive Foundation (BGDF) establishes space and opportunity to empower young ladies to explore their STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) identity through marine science and conservation, and SCUBA diving. BGDF is a designated 501c(3), volunteer-based, educational non-profit organization founded in 2017 in Maryland. Currently, they have local chapters operating in Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware and Georgia.
The Pollination Project was BGDF’s first check and offered vital first belief. You can check out their TPP Story here and a great news story on them on their website.
FarmSahel
Economic Empowerment
FarmSahel is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization with a mission to unlock the potential of Sahel communities in Africa to achieve economic freedom through sustainable permaculture. They teach regenerative agriculture to smallholder subsistence women farmers of Burkina Faso, and supply them with agricultural input to help transform non-renewable agriculture into regenerative permaculture systems and enable higher growth yields through social equality. All FarmSahel’s activities focus on the end goals of improving food security and soil fertility with an emphasis on community-based, participatory methods.
Their Founder and Executive Director is not only a TPP grantee but also one of our grant advisors. Since receiving their TPP grant Farm Sahel has planted over 1000 trees, brought clean drinking water to a community of 5,000, increased food production by 56% and created 10 Cooperatives.
Animal Welfare Observatory
Animal Welfare
Animal Welfare Observatory (AWO), based in Spain, one of the largest agricultural producers in Europe, is dedicated to improving living conditions for farm animals. Their mission is to achieve agreements with companies, institutions and stakeholders that positively impact the greatest possible number of animals, working under the principles of effective altruism.
The Pollination Project Foundation gave them their first check and first belief. Through that initial grant AWO was able to pass legislation that requires surveillance cameras be placed in all slaughterhouses. They have now scaled to 25 employees and are doing work on behalf of animals throughout Europe.
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