The Pollination Project Foundation

We empower local #changemakers through seed #grants, nurturing impactful leadership, strong networks, and collaborative systems for positive community #change.

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Meet Eric Anorrey . Eric is a Ghanaian development practitioner and social innovator, serving as Lead Advisor for Economic Development with The Pollination Project since 2022.

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A Pollination Project grant helped the West Acholi Spinal Injuries Association repair wheelchairs, rebuild a basketball court, and launch adaptive sports in Northern Uganda. More than 250 people have gained confidence, community, and better health. https://t.co/QiQyvy9nBC

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Meet Leandro Franz, Grant Advisor.

Brazilian economist, producer & writer (8 books, multiple literary prizes, one adapted into a play in Mozambique). Also a management consultant, film producer, and member of São Paulo's animal cause group in Effective Altruism.

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"Your support became even more valuable during the pandemic." A letter from Spandana, a 2019 TPP grantee, on what a seed grant can grow into years later. #FromSeedsToImpact

🔗 https://t.co/z36wWUlP7s

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Meet Maulid Mwinyikai, Grant Advisor for East Africa, based in Mombasa, #Kenya. From peer educator to theatre actor to founder of Kishoka Youth Organization, he's spent his career mobilizing youth around art, environment, and community change.
#grantadvisor

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Meet Fernanda Garcia Naranjo Ortega, Grant Advisor for Animal Protection since 2022.

She directs the anti-speciesist sanctuary "Granjita TyH" in Mexico.

"Struggles must be collective, each person contributing within their capabilities."

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From one rescued cat's story to 30 narrated #HumaneEducation videos for kids worldwide. See how a Pollination Project seed grant helped Julielani Chang build Kai's Kindness Library.
https://t.co/VUhDMOU0Po

#fromseedstoimpact #grassrootsphilanthropy

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4 new grantees. 4 ways to change the world.
🐷 Musical storytelling for animal rights — Costa Rica
📱 Intergenerational tech mentorship — Washington State
🥦 Food systems in Rio's climate plan — Brazil
🐟 Farmed animal welfare education in Chinese — USA
Meet them 👇

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14 years of funding grassroots changemakers with no strings attached. 120+ countries. Thousands of ideas turned into action. Happy birthday to us 🌱🎉
🔗 https://t.co/m0umIIvTw1

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Meet Shenika Jackson, PhD. Community Psychologist from Chicago. She received a TPP grant in 2016, joined as a Grant Advisor in 2017, and has spent nearly 15 years securing housing for veterans, jobs for formerly incarcerated people, and college pathways for Chicago teens.

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In Afghanistan, Rasheedudin Meraj is growing food security from the ground up. Seeds of Resilience brings kitchen gardens, tools & training to 30 vulnerable households in Laghman Province. 🌱 #FromSeedsToImpact #foodsecurity #philanthropy

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Applications are officially open. We fund grassroots changemakers worldwide with a solid idea and the drive to make it happen.
Apply: https://t.co/Fwxposup6e

#FromSeedsToImpact

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Shrishail Birajdar struggled to access books as a kid. Now his project, Reader's Sanctuary, has reached 200+ children in Pune, #India, with #storytelling and a growing library, thanks to a TPP seed grant. Read the story on our website 👇
https://t.co/4LC16Qb0st

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Welcoming 4 new grantees: Nja (#Cameroon), Rasheedudin (#Afghanistan), Mandee (#Washington State), and Thiago (#Brazil). Biodiversity, food security, animal care, and agroecology — all grassroots, all community-led. 🌱 #FromSeedsToImpact

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Four new grantees. Four communities. One belief: change starts at the grassroots. Meet the changemakers we're proud to support. #fromseedstoimpact #grassrootschange

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A seed grant. Two school gardens. 310 kids rethinking what belongs on their plate.
HOCPY Ghana's Francisca Anobila is teaching rural Ghanaian schoolchildren that vegetables matter as much as meat.
https://t.co/N6UUv0HSZL
#FromSeedsToImpact #plantbased

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Palestinian artist Noura Al Qasassia founded the Breathe & Paint Initiative in #Gaza, offering children and young women weekly painting workshops as psychosocial support and a space to heal. Art as resistance. Community as medicine.

https://t.co/EGkgqEU7Kc
#ArtHeals

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At 22, Hambeleleni Paulus is transforming a dormant garden in Katutura, Windhoek into a hydroponic lab, training 20 youth, growing 15kg of produce monthly, using 80% less water.
Support grassroots changemakers:
👉 https://t.co/Hg5feqziJC

#FoodSecurity #Namibia

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A bean that beats drought. 🌱 Equal Foundation used a TPP seed grant to train 50 Laikipia farmers in drought-tolerant bean farming, and the harvest is already multiplying.
https://t.co/oJ2Im9lklx

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Four new grantees. Four communities transformed. Shoes for children in Nairobi. Pollinator gardens in #Mexico. #Hydroponics in Windhoek. Art therapy in #Gaza. Meet the people.