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“Working with vulnerable children is a concerted effort.
It needs a lot of hands to be put together, and a lot of ideas.
The orphan problem does not only belong to people with orphans.
It is everybody’s problem.”

Community Leader, Zambia

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An endowment covers most of Firelight’s administrative expenses, uniquely positioning Firelight to bring 100 percent of donations from individuals to grassroots groups serving children affected by HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Throughout Africa, thousands of community-based organizations are addressing the needs of children and families made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS. Often operating on a shoestring with a great deal of volunteer support, community-based groups are the frontline response to the needs of children affected by HIV/AIDS. But very little funding is reaching this grassroots level, leaving these organizations chronically under-funded and over-stretched.

To address this serious funding gap, we are re-conceptualizing and reinvigorating our fundraising efforts in order to increase our grantmaking. With higher funding levels, we would be able both to lengthen and multiply our support of community-based organizations in Sub-Saharan Africa—the epicenter of the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

We would lengthen our support by:

Giving many more multi-year grants. We know that one-year grants are not always long enough for important project work to be completed. They also place an administrative burden on us as well as on our partners. Although we already make multi-year grants and repeat one-year grants as a matter of course, giving more two- to three-year grants would allow us, together with our partners, to pursue a concerted and strategic programmatic and learning agenda. The lessons learned from these longer-term strategic partnerships could benefit not only our grantees and the children they support, but also those outside of these partnerships.

We would multiply our support by:

Offering more Monitoring, Evaluation & Technical Assistance (META) grants and training workshops. Providing more capacity building assistance to partners would allow them to provide better support to children, families, and communities affected by HIV/AIDS.

Targeting support to organizations that advocate for children’s issues in African countries in order to raise public awareness around these issues that can help foster lasting social change.

Publishing important findings and lessons from our work to educate and broadly disseminate the knowledge and tools necessary to help ensure children’s survival and well-being.

With nearly a decade of experience building grassroots partnerships and fostering leadership among funders and experts on children and HIV/AIDS, Firelight is well-positioned to deliver vital support directly to community-based organizations in Africa, and to leverage this support by persuading other funders to do the same.

Please join with us in this challenging and important fundraising effort by becoming part of our growing network of supporters.

Firelight Foundation is a participating member of Aid for Africa, a unique partnership of nonprofit organizations serving families and communities throughout Africa. For more information, click on the Aid for Africa button above.

Donations made to Firelight are tax-deductible to the full extent of U.S. Internal Revenue Service regulations. All donations will be acknowledged in writing within three weeks of the date of donation.

For more information, please contact development@firelightfoundation.org or +1-831-429-8750.

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