Spark MicroGrants

Spark MicroGrants is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that enables communities to organize and make progress, primarily focused on East Africa.

A Spark community in Rwanda begins their meeting.
Spark MicroGrants
TypeNon-profit organization
IndustryInternational development
FoundedJuly 2010
HeadquartersKampala, Uganda
Key people
Sasha Fisher (Founder)
Websitewww.sparkmicrogrants.org

History

Since July 2010, Spark MicroGrants has worked to put families facing poverty in the driving seat of local change. Spark’s key innovation is the Facilitated Collective Action Process (FCAP), a series of curated village meetings paired with a seed grant where families in villages facing poverty plan and launch initiatives that matter from schools to farms. On average 64 women and men, young and old, work together and take action together. Since 2010 Spark has enabled over 170 villages to drive change through the FCAP across five countries with 91% project sustainability and 94% of villages continuing the process, meeting and taking action. Today Spark curates a community of practices to elevate the FCAP and support networks around the globe to use and develop the FCAP for their contexts, such as with the Government of Rwanda on a national decentralization program, with a legal empowerment network in West Africa and on a progressive refugee integration strategy in Uganda.

Spark MicroGrants began its work in Rwanda in 2010 today the Spark process is used across Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Ghana.

Spark has been touted as the organization that will change the way aid is distributed to more rapidly build a world with dignity.

Board of directors
  • Sasha Fisher, Executive Director
  • Andy Bryant, Executive Director of the Segal Family Foundation
  • Allison Devore
  • Tom Fry
  • Jonathan Jackson, Chief Executive Officer of Dimagi
  • Stacey Faella
  • Sandra Wijnberg
  • Kara Weiss

Media coverage

In 2011, Spark MicroGrants was featured in Forbes magazine,[1] and was a semi-finalist in the Buckminster Fuller Challenge.[2]

Statistics

Spark MicroGrant's model has been used to support 160+ community partners across Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Ghana to launch local projects, with the support of foundations and private donors.[3]

See also

References
  1. Susan Adams (11 July 2011). "Saving the World on a Shoestring: Spark MicroGrants". Forbes.
  2. "Challenge | The Buckminster Fuller Institute". challenge.bfi.org. Retrieved 2018-11-27.
  3. http://www.sparkmicrogrants.org/our-projects/
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