Strengthened by Firelight’s flexible and core grants, CBO Kwa Wazee helps children and their caregiving grandparents overcome a range of risks. Child protection.…
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.…
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…
Grants in 12 African countries. Mission & Vision. History. Values. Donors. Vision and Mission. Our vision.…
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…
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…
Grants Manager. Jim Laske joined the Firelight team as Program Associate for education initiatives in 2014.…