At Firelight, we strive to raise enough funding to support our grantee-partners for up to seven years because producing tangible and measurable results in the social sector takes time.…
Strengthened by Firelight’s flexible and core grants, CBO Kwa Wazee helps children and their caregiving grandparents overcome a range of risks. Child protection.…
Grant requirements should be simple, flexible, useful, and support community-based organizations. : For example, proposal templates should support broader goal-setting and planning with the community —…
where she managed a grant portfolio across East Africa and supported fundraising strategy and donor communications with major international funders, including the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation…
Insights from Firelight’s 2024 All-Grantee Survey. Kevin Obura and Ronald Kimambo. June 9, 2025.…
Grants in 12 African countries. Mission & Vision. History. Values. Donors. Vision and Mission. Our vision.…
She has extensive experience in Public Policy, Community and Institution building, Philanthropy, Fundraising and Developmental Grant-making.…
Throughout all our initiatives and grant cycles, we gather data and learnings alongside our community-based organisation (CBO) grantee-partners to demonstrate how they use the community-driven systems…
Soon after the start of the pandemic in 2020, our CBO grantee-partners in Malawi let us know that their communities were struggling from economic hardship, lockdowns and other downstream effects – shocks…
There are multiple opportunities to engage youth at different levels in program design: Grant Proposals: Funders can require their applicants to demonstrate that children and youth-led groups have been…