TrustAfrica
For Grants To Innovative Programs That Improve Children’s Learning In Africa
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Amount$180,000
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Program
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Date Awarded7/14/2015
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Term4.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Program
Overview
Trust Africa is an intermediary grantmaker based in Dakar that specializes in convening and building civil society movements for change around critical social development issues. With this supplementary grant, Trust Africa will provide up to five additional small grants under its Early Learning Innovations Fund to promising civil society programs. These programs are for improving children’s learning and will support the activities of a community of practice among its grantees and other education civil society organizations and networks in Senegal. Trust Africa will also design the next phase of the Fund based on the results of a formative evaluation.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.trustafrica.org
Address
Route de la Stele, lot 4 N° SR 12
Ngor-Almadies BP 45435, Dakar, Senegal
Grants to this Grantee
for support of the African Social Movements Baraza 2024
TrustAfrica is a pan-African foundation that supports diverse civil society organizations to advance systemic change in the areas of equitable development, democracy and governance, and African philanthropy. It was established in 2006 as a vehicle to mobilize resources required to support African agency in setting priorities and championing responses to the most pressing issues facing the continent. This grant will allow TrustAfrica to organize its third African Social Movements Baraza, a biannual, enlightening gathering of like-minded progressive social movement actors from several African countries. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for general operating support
TrustAfrica is a pan-African foundation that supports diverse civil society organizations to advance systemic change in the areas of equitable development, democracy and governance, and African philanthropy. It was established in 2006 as a vehicle to mobilize resources required to support African agency in setting priorities and championing responses to the most pressing issues facing the continent. TrustAfrica will pursue program development and consolidation as well as organizational development and strengthening to build on the organization’s strategic plan. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for Pan-African and Feminist Philanthropies Initiative
TrustAfrica is a pan-African philanthropic organization that seeks to strengthen initiatives that address the most difficult challenges confronting the continent and is focused on Democratic Governance, Equitable Development, and African Philanthropy. In partnership with Urgent Action Fund Africa, TrustAfrica will use this grant to facilitate the building of an ecosystem of pan-African and feminist philanthropies grounded in the principles of mutuality, self-determination, solidarity, and African agency. This grant will allow the partners to co-create and support shared infrastructure and mechanisms that serve, connect, and strengthen underrepresented constituencies and movements — by moving money and other resources — in their goal of advancing justice. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
