2024 Grantees
Project Redwood’s current grantees include twenty-two organizations that received Project Grants and five organizations that received Impact Building Grants. These five are part of a pilot program that provided funds directed at maximizing long-term impact. The applicants carried out an extensive self-evaluation to determine best use of funds to strengthen their capacity and increase their effectiveness. The pilot will also provide information about methods in awarding Impact Building Grants that will be valuable in Project Redwood’s future grantmaking.
2024 Project Grants
Agape Heart International Organization (AHIO) - Supporting Refugees from War-torn Countries of South Sudan and Uganda
AHIO supplies humanitarian relief, health and hygiene training, education, and vocational training programs in the US and Africa. Multi-year Grantee
Asociacion Kantaya - Improving Education for Children in Peru
Kantaya offers children an additional learning program. Podera trains teacher assistant candidates with coaching and mentoring, leading to certification by the World Organization for Early Childhood Education. Multi-year Grantee
Building Our Lives Together (BOLT) - Empowering Proximate Leaders to Create Change
BOLT meets leaders’ needs through a community organizing curriculum, a strategic management curriculum, and a curriculum in navigating the local ecosystem in Philadelphia. Multi-year Grantee
Breaking The Chain Through Education (BTCTE) - Rescuing Trafficked Children in Ghana
BTCTE provides for education, vocational training, and related services including room and board, supplies, clothing and uniforms, transportation and medical for children rescued from servitude. Multi-year Grantee
Comer Campus -Tutoring for Academic Success
Located on Chicago’s South Side, this youth advancement organization invests in the life outcomes of thousands of young people annually through programs that integrate academics, enrichment and college/career preparation. Multi-year Grantee
Delta Education Collective – Creating a Viable Pathway to Education for Children in Nwoya, Uganda
Delta engages parents, students, educators, and community leaders to set school goals, implement action plans, mobilize participation, and achieve academic improvement. Multi-year Grantee
Girls Gotta Run Foundation (GGRF) -Supporting Girls and Mothers in Ethiopia
GGRF selects girls from low income families in Ethiopia as Athletic Scholars in an academic and athletic program that uses running as a tool to empower girls to become change makers.
New Grantee in 2024
Hatua Network - Preparing Promising Youth to Thrive
Hatua provides youth from low income families in Kenya with educational scholarships, mentoring on soft skills and links to professional networks with the goals of access to opportunity and the end of generational poverty. New Grantee in 2024
Hero Women Rising (HWR) - Job Training and Creation
HWR brings women in the Democratic Republic of Congo together to both master new skills and gain an appreciation for working collectively to make positive change in their communities and achieve sustainable income.
Multi-year Grantee
Juma Ventures - Job Skill Training and Employment
Each student receives basic job training and broader skills development including personal financial management and longer-term job search skills so each of these underserved youth are better prepared for long term employment. Multi-year Grantee
Kiwimbi International - Locally Run Libraries and Learning Centers
Kiwimbi partners with underserved communities to create locally run libraries and community learning centers, providing academic support for primary school students, math and English skills for middle school students and vocational training for young adults. New Grantee in 2024
Konexio - Job Training and Digital Skills for Refugees
A team of educators, IT professionals, and community volunteers have collaborated to create a streamlined path to employment. The program addresses 3 key problem areas: lack of skills, poor local economic conditions, and lack of access to the job market. Multi-year Grantee
Looma Educational Corporation (LEC) - Solar Powered Educational System
LEC supports education for Nepal’s children using Looma, an innovative, affordable, interactive audio-visual system “in a box” which uses solar power and makes educational content, libraries of material, and national curriculum available to teachers. New Grantee in 2024
MORTAR - Training and Job Creation
MORTAR, based in Cincinnati OH, aims to enable historically marginalized entrepreneurs to access the training and resources needed to start and run successful businesses, helping to create diverse communities.
Multi-year Grantee
OneVillage Partners (OVP) - Tackling Poverty and Creating Gender Equity
Using the Nurturing Opportunities for Women (NOW) Program, a picture-based education program and curriculum, illiterate or uneducated women learn basic financial principles. Multi-year Grantee
Project Hope and Fairness (PHF) - Helping Cocoa Farmers
PHF works with cocoa farmers across West Africa to help them build their capabilities and assume a more productive role in the vertically integrated cocoa bean processing and chocolate-making industry.
Multi-year Grantee
Resonate - Supporting Women and Girls in East Africa
Resonate partners with organizations and government departments in East Africa to provide workshops in skills and resources for women and girls who face poverty and lack of opportunity for social and economic advancement. New Grantee in 2024
S.O.U.L. - Training At-risk Rural Youth
S.O.U.L. serves over 14,000 Ugandans in 30 villages, utilizing a development-driven model that makes community members stakeholders in their own success. Currently, S.O.U.L.’s focus is on facilitating vocational training for youth. Multi-year Grantee
THRIVEGulu - Helping Refugees Heal
THRIVEGulu empowers girls with training in safety skills, sexual and reproductive health, peer-to-peer support networking, and is adding economic empowerment programming.
Multi-year Grantee
Women Initiating Success Envisioned Inc (WISE) – Reducing Recidivism among women
Through GED classes, basic financial education, coaching in managing life with a job and paycheck, and access to job opportunities, WISE helps give formerly incarcerated women a chance at a stable, fulfilling life after release. Multi-year Grantee
Youth and Child Visionary Ministries (YCVM) - Educational and Vocational Training
YCVM works in poverty-stricken Uganda to promote education for children, vocational skills for youth, and community development, in order for the populations to lift themselves above the level of subsistence living.
New Grantee in 2024
World Connect - Overcoming Unemployment Inequality
World Connect's founding principle underscores the belief that local leaders are in the best position to understand community needs and identify projects that can positively impact the lives of the residents.
Multi-year Grantee
2024 Impact Grants
Andean Alliance for Sustainable Development (AASD)
AASD supports agricultural projects that help farming communities high in the Andes Mountains through a program that consists of three key development phases: agroecology, business skill training, and networking and marketing. Multi-year Grantee
Educate2Envision International (E2E) - Expanding Access to Education in Honduras
Through a Youth Leadership Training program, the typical secondary school curriculum is enhanced by equipping students with 21st-century skills and practical, hands-on applications.
Multi-year Grantee
READ 718 - Improving Literacy
The Read 718 program utilizes a series of 10-week instructional cycles and has seen students gain, on average, 1.5 reading levels per cycle. Read 718 Remote, launched during the pandemic, extends the reach of the in-person programs. Multi-year Grantee
Somo - Job training and mentoring
Somo provides training, business advising, funding, and assistance with market access to entrepreneurs in low-income communities in Kenya. They also support a production facility and an SMS-based financial records system for their entrepreneurs. Multi-year Grantee
Tomorrow's Leaders NYC (TLNYC) - Education and Jobs for Over-age Students
TLNYC helps over-age left behind middle school and high students increase GPAs so they can advance their education and have prospects for productive employment opportunities in the future.
Multi-year Grantee