We act with integrity in all of our interactions.

• We value respect and care and demonstrate it in all of our interactions with each other, with our grantee-partners and with all other stakeholders.

• We treat all others as equals.

• We give others the benefit of the doubt.

• We trust and verify.

• We are honest and truthful while giving and receiving constructive feedback.

• We respect and value others’ skills, experience, time, constraints and input.

We are humble and we act with humility. 

• We recognize the limits of our experience, knowledge and skills – both individually and collectively.

• We hold ourselves accountable for our shortcomings and mistakes.

• We are empathetic, we listen genuinely and take time to seek to understand each other’s capacity, circumstances, situation.

• We think deeply, broadly and critically about our assumptions and our decisions.

We seek action, growth and impact through learning and listening.

• We seek evidence and learning for action and impact – not punishment.

• We learn together - with each other, with our grantees and with others.

• We are always growing and learning. We update our learning with new information, research, and knowledge from local and global resources and experiences.

• We understand that failure and mistakes are part of learning and growth.

We are inclusive.

• We are open and transparent and share our processes, our decisions and our knowledge whenever we can.

• We are inclusive, participatory and collaborative in our information gathering, our discussions and decision processes, aiming to meaningfully taking others’ knowledge and expertise into account.

• We celebrate difference.

• Our processes are thoughtful, step by step, and involve in-depth discussion in search of a common goal.

We are accountable.

• We are responsible for our commitments to ourselves and others, we are planful and we take action in a timely manner.

• We are responsive in a timely manner as needs and circumstances require.

• We are good stewards of others resources and encourage our grantee-partners, our consultants and advisors to do the same.

• We act with intentionality, asking “is this in the best interest of the group, of our shared goals and our common vision?”

• We are transparent with each other, with our grantee-partners and with other stakeholders.

We seek to strengthen each other.

• We are understanding and supportive of each other in thought, word and action.

• We seek to build others up – we openly share knowledge, skills and expertise in order to help others grow.

• We see strength and capacity in everyone.

• We care about each other and respect each other’s humanity.

• We are collegial.

We are focused.

• We are focused on our grantees – CBOs serving children in Southern and Eastern Africa.

• We are focused on areas where needs for children are the greatest and community can be the most helpful.

• We are focused on producing the best work we can and the greatest impact that we can – for our grantees, our donors, each other.

• We are focused on raising the money that is needed to help our grantees today and in the future.