Firelight Foundation
For Support To The International Education Funders Group
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Amount$40,000
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Program
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Date Awarded11/7/2016
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Term36.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Program
Overview
This grant will provide support to the International Education Funders Group, an affinity group of more than 90 foundations making grants to education in the developing world. The International Education Funders Group will help members improve the effectiveness of their philanthropic efforts by providing opportunities for networking, peer learning, and collective action.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.firelightfoundation.org
Address
216 Mount Hermon Road
Box 103-E, Scotts Valley, CA, 95066, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for community-based research on early childhood development in Tanzania
Firelight finds, funds, and strengthens catalytic community-based organizations (CBOs) working with their communities to address important systems for women and children in southern and eastern Africa. A critical aspect of Firelight’s work is centering and amplifying the perspectives, insights, and analysis of community stakeholders who are most affected by key issues. This grant supports research examining the intersectionality of women’s agency and choices with early childhood development realities and initiatives in Tanzania. Guided by an intersectional Global South feminist approach, and centering the perspectives, analysis, and thought leadership of community-based co-researchers, Firelight will collaborate with CBOs and research institutions to gather, make sense of, and build contextually grounded knowledge about how women’s agency and choices are affected by and affects early childhood development realities and initiatives in Tanzania, Malawi, and Zambia.
