Firelight Foundation
For Grants To Innovative Programs That Improve Children’s Learning In Africa
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Amount$1,225,000
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Program
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Date Awarded11/15/2011
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Term36.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Overview
The disturbingly low levels of learning reported by Uwezo in Tanzania present an opportunity to reexamine what is working in basic education, identify gaps in supporting children’s learning, and capture the collective and creative thinking of interested parties to identify innovative approaches for education. This grant would support the Firelight Foundation—which has a strong model for providing support to community-based organizations to improve the lives of vulnerable children and families—to implement a small grants program to improve learning in Tanzania. As part of this grants program, Firelight would support organizational development for its grantees, create peer learning networks, and work with district-level ministries.
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.
for developing an updated strategy based on their "Learning Journey"
Firelight Foundation is an intermediary grantmaker that provides funding, technical support, and organizational capacity building to African NGOs and community-based organizations concerned with family, youth, and children's education and development. This OE grant will support a strategy review refresh focusing specifically on Firelight Foundation's social change theory and organizational capacity building approaches and tools.
for strengthening monitoring and evaluation systems
This grant would help the Firelight Foundation improve the speed and effectiveness of its monitoring and evaluation by giving their grantees skills and resources for mobile data collection.
