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 —…
Yvette Kathurima is an African feminist, leader, and advocate for social justice based in Nairobi with over 15 years of experience in advocacy, gender programming, grant management, network coordination…
Grants in 12 African countries. Mission & Vision. History. Values. Donors. Vision and Mission. Our vision.…
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…
She has extensive experience in Public Policy, Community and Institution building, Philanthropy, Fundraising and Developmental Grant-making.…
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…
Grants Manager. Jim Laske joined the Firelight team as Program Associate for education initiatives in 2014.…
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…