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Every day, grassroots leaders across the globe bring us their dreams of a better world. Your gifts provide seed funding, ongoing capacity-building support, belief, and connection for these visionaries. Moreover, you are expanding a people-first, bottom-up approach to social change that is rooted in authenticity and inclusion.

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Grantee Stories

Amanda Cats-Baril and Anne McGuinness: United for Women’s Empowerment

In 2014 Amanda Cats-Baril and Anne McGuinness were working in Nepal in the humanitarian sector when they met and decided to found The WE United Project. Anne grew up in Kathmandu and returned home in 2011, the same year that Amanda moved to Nepal from New York. Both...

Using 3D Video Game Technology to Help Threatened Wild Bee Species

More than 42,100 of the world's species are threatened with extinction, according to the ICUN. “My hope is that all this amazing technology humans are coming up with will ultimately help us solve the problems animals are facing in the wild.” – Gabriel Packard,...

Engage Globally: planting trees to save a community

Northern Ghana is a region that faces many intersecting challenges: severe poverty, illiteracy, resource scarcity, a growing population, and job loss due to deforestation, just to name a few. In the face of all these circumstances, of what value is the simple act of...

Rodolfo Alvarez: Building ‘Eden’ in Guatemala

When Rodolfo was fifteen, he began volunteering at a summer camp called Viamistad. For the first time in his life, he was surrounded by people with disabilities, beginning to make many new friends and learning about their experiences. One of these new friends was...

“I Matter”: Uplifting the Voices of Youth Around the World

Isabella Hanson received her first Pollination Project grant for her work which focused on empowering girls when she was only nine-years-old. Then in 2020, at the age of 14, Isabella once again looked to empower and amplify the voices of youth, only this time it was...

Cameroon: Advocating for The Most Trafficked Mammal

Tens of thousands of pangolins are trafficked and killed every year, National Geographic. “It gives me hope when I see that other humans are gradually realizing that animals have feelings and every little effort counts. You don’t need billions to change the world,...

Assi Flaviurs’ Health and WASH Project Creates a Safer Future for the Children of Cameroon

For the 180 children and 10 staff members who constitute Bome Primary School in Bamenda in the North West Region of Cameroon, going to the bathroom safely and privately is a luxury. As they do not have access to safe and private toilets, for the past 5 years, they instead have had to rely on an old, open dilapidated tent next to their school.

Liquid Spine: Movement to Inspire Social Inquiry and Action

“Just like your spine connects your body together, the water connects us to each other. We need to appreciate the Earth, the water, the animals and come together in a way that sparks action and unity.” Katie Pustizzi, creator of Liquid SpineBorn on the Marshall...

Black Girls Dive: Empowering Young Women in STEM

This fall, the Black Girls Dive Foundation will observe its first young woman, Skye Garrett, go off to college to pursue a career in STEM. Attending Coastal Carolina University, Garrett is the first of many young Black women the foundation plans to empower for...

Malak Yacout: Beirut’s “The Volunteer Circle”

The evening of August 4th was like any other for Beirut-based Malak Yacout. Then, buildings around her began to shake, pink smoke filled the sky, and a deafening explosion felt more than 270 kilometers away rocked the city. Instantly, 300,000 people became homeless,...