Announcing our End of Year Grantees and Awardees!
Who is ready for a bit of celebration?! We sure are.
As we mentioned a couple weeks ago, we’re coming up on our 10 year anniversary! But, before we dive into the new year ready to get our party on we want to reflect on this past year and introduce you to our final list of grantees and awardees for 2017.
Even though the past year has been a particularly tough one with, you know… #45 and all, there is still a lot to celebrate in Kindle-land. What is shining most brightly for us, as it always does, is the impressive work of our grantees that are making the needed shifts in the world right now. Just like us, our grantees are cross-pollinators, making connections and effective collaborations across fields and sectors. They are unwavering in their commitment to advancing bright solutions and, as a group, they exemplify the kinds of unifying work we all need right now.
We’ve given out over 50 grants, awards, and gifts this year! This round-up of latest partners shows what can happen when you activate collaborative grantmaking and outside-the-box strategies that are built on trust and deep relationships.
Welcome to our 18 partners coming from our Steering Committee Flow Fund, the SpiderWeave Flow Fund, our Collaborative Donor Flow Fund, and our very own Kindle Project Fund. Need a little refresh on what all this Flow Funding is about? Click here.Â
To get to know more about each of these groups keep on reading.
If you’re as sparked by these groups as we are, please consider an end of year donation to Kindle Project so that we can continue to resource incredible work like this!
- identifying the core, shared human needs underneath their and others’ positions, strategies, and actions
- mediating for a solution that works for everybody. Parties mediate their own conflicts!
AYEISH works primarily at the intersection of capacity-building (workshops, coaching) and strategy. AYEISH is collaborating with Syrian NGO WIAM on a peace and unification initiative, and has pilots to support leaders in the U.S., in Congo, and elsewhere.
Photo by Dawn Paley
The mission of Fountain Heights Farms is to improve the quality of life for the current residents of the historic Fountain Heights community of Birmingham, Alabama, through long term land stewardship by community-led urban agricultural cooperatives focused on meeting the immediate and basic need for healthy fresh foods, and through culturally responsive community education and employment programs that support and inform urban agricultural initiatives in historically underserved areas of Birmingham, Alabama.
Our approach includes:
- Meeting community needs for healthy, fresh foods.
- Meeting community needs for flexible, self-guided employment.
- Meeting community needs for culturally inclusive and responsive education lead by people reflective of our community.
Kindle Project created the Indie Philanthropy Initiative in 2014 after having been trailblazing experimenters of Indie Philanthropy for over eight years. After incubating the Initiative since its launch, the Indie Philanthropy Initiative spun-off from Kindle Project to become its own independent project in early 2016. Kindle Project remains key friends, allies and a Core Partner to the Indie Philanthropy Initiative.
The project operates as a year-long global perspective and professional development program, that provides international exposure, while expanding each participant’s leadership capacity.
Currently, African-American men make up less than 1% of students who study abroad or receive international experience. In a more globalized society, LFW recognizes the imperative for young leaders to gain a broader understanding of the world and themselves.
LFW’s goal is to create a network of leaders whose development impacts their own lives, their communities, and the world; grooming the next generation of changemakers.
The mission of Fountain Heights Farms is to improve the quality of life for the current residents of the historic Fountain Heights community of Birmingham, Alabama, through long term land stewardship by community-led urban agricultural cooperatives focused on meeting the immediate and basic need for healthy fresh foods, and through culturally responsive community education and employment programs that support and inform urban agricultural initiatives in historically underserved areas of Birmingham, Alabama.
Our approach includes:
- Meeting community needs for healthy, fresh foods.
- Meeting community needs for flexible, self-guided employment.
- Meeting community needs for culturally inclusive and responsive education lead by people reflective of our community.
The mission of Fountain Heights Farms is to improve the quality of life for the current residents of the historic Fountain Heights community of Birmingham, Alabama, through long term land stewardship by community-led urban agricultural cooperatives focused on meeting the immediate and basic need for healthy fresh foods, and through culturally responsive community education and employment programs that support and inform urban agricultural initiatives in historically underserved areas of Birmingham, Alabama.
Our approach includes:
- Meeting community needs for healthy, fresh foods.
- Meeting community needs for flexible, self-guided employment.
- Meeting community needs for culturally inclusive and responsive education lead by people reflective of our community.