This New Field Foundation report identifies key changes experienced by rural women and their organizations in Senegal due to the grant funding they received. It focuses on changes in women’s leadership and food security.
Read MoreIn March 2014, we invited funders interested in Africa to New York to attend our annual conference on “Funding in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities.” This report gives a flavor of the topics discussed and highlights from the presentations.
Read MoreThis conference report captures some of the diverse opinions, interests, ideas, and approaches that emerged from the AGAG Conference on “Funding Impact: Partnerships, Networks and Collaborations.”
Read MoreThis overview of funding by foundations based in the United States for health-related activities in Africa for the three-year period from 2000 through 2002.
Read MoreThis summary captures the key findings from a larger report that examines a sampling of grants from 2001 to 2005 to support health, basic education, and comprehensive programs for children and youth in ten countries in Southern Africa.
Read MoreThis summary report examined funding by forty-one American and two European funders for health and basic education programs for children and youth in ten Southern Africa countries between 2001 and 2005.
Read MoreThis summary report presents some of the key topics and points of discussion of the 2012 AGAG retreat.
Read MoreIn 2014, Bloomberg Philanthropies and the King Baudouin Foundation partnered with Foundation Center to create Equal Footing, a freely accessible web portal for information-sharing and collaboration among those who invest and work in Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and Burundi.
Read MoreIn 2011, the Hewlett Foundation awarded two grants to support grassroots innovations in improving children’s learning. Firelight Foundation and Trust Africa were the recipients of the grants, tasked to support organizations working to improve children’s early learning and highlight their approaches.
Read MoreCreated by the Foundation Center with support from the Bernard van Leer Foundation, the map provides information that can help foundations and other stakeholders to understand funding trends and funding gaps and to identify partners for collaboration.
Read MoreThis directory profiles a sample of the funders represented at the Africa Grantmakers’ Affinity Group Conference and Retreat held in Johannesburg, South Africa in 2008. It was compiled as a resource for participants.
Read MoreThis special report of the TAC/Section27 NSP Review has been researched and written because throughout 2012 and 2013 awareness of the scale of the health system crisis in the Eastern Cape and its adverse impact on patients and health providers.
Read MoreOver 13 years, the resources provided through the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria fund have saved an estimated 9 million lives and turned the tide against these terrible diseases in Africa and across the developing world. This report discusses the repercussions to global health if the fund is not replenished and work does not continue.
Read MoreThis 2015 report examines legislative environment for philanthropy in Africa. The report is by Southern Africa Trust and African Grantmakers Network (AGN).
Read MoreThe theme for the 2009 retreat, “Connecting Knowledge: Education, Health and Civil Society” explored the interconnection between education and health and the important role civil society plays in building strong communities. The retreat included presentations, panel discussions and small group work, as well as time for informal networking and meetings with colleagues.
Read MoreThis guide contains lessons from social investors in South Africa on how to communicate impact and how to communicate with partners, social investors and grantees.
Read More“Children’s Ebola Recovery Assessment: Sierra Leone” report details the impact of Ebola on the lives of children seven to eleven years old in nine districts in Sierra Leone.
Read MoreThe 2013 gathering was about changes – in Africa and in philanthropy. Neither has escaped the impact of dramatic shifts globally and locally in response to social, economic, and political trends. The discussions ranged from “big picture trends” in philanthropy and in Africa to specific changes affecting the field and adaptive responses.
Read MoreAs part of its strategic grantmaking to support women and their families to overcome poverty, violence and injustice in Africa, New Field focused part of its efforts on southern Senegal as it emerged from twenty years of conflict.
Read MoreThis 2014 study involved 379 rural women, 35 women’s organizations receiving community grants, and two evaluation consultants. Central to the process were 15 rural women whom World Education Senegal selected to be trained as journalists, proficient in conducting interviews, taking photographs and producing audio broadcasts for local radio stations.
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