2025 High Impact Program
This year, the Foundation's High Impact Program is supporting our existing partners that are experiencing unexpected funding gaps. Through carefully selected partnerships with established organizations, this program ensures that vital community projects can continue without interruption. The High Impact Program not only prioritizes meeting our partners' current needs but also exemplifies our broader commitment to flexible, responsive funding that can swiftly adapt to our partners' evolving challenges and opportunities.
Action for Ocean | $74,587
Action for Ocean is a nonprofit committed to restoring marine and freshwater ecosystems, promoting environmentally friendly and economically competitive aquaculture, and enhancing sustainable fisheries. These funds will enable AFO to continue their Coastal Livelihood Entrepreneurship for Adaptation and Resilience program, ensuring 225 women continue earning income through seaweed farming, accessing microloans, and building business skills.
Camino Verde | $60,000
Camino Verde is a nonprofit organization advancing regenerative solutions to deforestation, biodiversity loss, and rural poverty in the Peruvian Amazon. This emergency support will allow Camino Verde to sustain to sustain all key operational needs for the Rosewood Farmer Livelihood Program, including essential activities with local farmers and securing the seeds and equipment necessary to sustain our growing programs on the ground.
Fresh Life | $72,000
Fresh Life seeks support to stabilize and strengthen our sanitation service operations in Kisumu, Kenya, where their model provides critical daily services to low-income residents. This support will enable Fresh Life to sustain safe, reliable sanitation services for 20,000+ low-income residents in Kisumu, preventing disruptions across over 1,272+ Fresh Life Toilets in Kisumu alone. In addition, the funds will support the expansion of a waste processing and washing station.
Futuro | $53,814
Futuro supports small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and individual entrepreneurs in Mozambique, while maintaining a strong focus on low-income individuals and community groups. These funds will be used to establish a new branch of Futuro to maximize outreach in Namialo and Meconta. This brand will be a full infrastructure branch designed to provide a spectrum of financial services.
Fondo Mas | $33,000
The coffee-growing women of Chiapas face structural barriers to accessing productive credit, with high levels of poverty, without formal guarantees, and with limited access to financial information. This project aims to reactivate and consolidate access to credit and training for 100 coffee-growing women in four regions, ensuring the continuity of a comprehensive strategy that promotes their financial inclusion.
HIAS | $65,000
The Socio-Economic Support Program (SESP) is HIAS’ poverty alleviation initiative, which supports displaced families in achieving self-reliance. Using their funds, HIAS will be able to continue their program supporting displaced families by offering financial support, case management, service referrals, early cash assistance to stabilize basic needs, and ongoing coaching from staff to build sustainable livelihoods.
Skylight Ventures| $44,012
Skylight is a nonprofit organization providing interest-free micro loans to refugee entrepreneurs in the U.K., alongside financial literacy education and support. The project funds will directly replace a disrupted grant, enabling Skylight to set up a sustainable funding pathway and further develop their impact strategy. Skylight will also expand loan products to introduce an interest-bearing loan, and offer financial literacy training to 200 refugee entrepreneurs.
Swahili Honey | $22,239
Swahili Honey is a social enterprise focused on supporting smallholder beekeepers to produce high quality honey and beeswax for both local and international markets. Their grant will enable 300+ smallholder beekeepers to form 15 new Village Savings and Loan Association (VSLA) groups, enabling informal savings and access to credit, while also improving 3 existing honey collection centers to facilitate timely, fair, and digital payments for farmers.
Upendo Honey | $75,000
Upendo Honey is a social impact organic honey company based in Kigoma, Tanzania. Funds from the High Impact Project will be used to bridge part of this gap in the budget of our core activities to engage small-scale beekeepers, including organic certification for their products, distribution of buckets and other equipment to beekeepers, training, and technical field support.