The Pollination Project Foundation

10/14/2026

Meet Sol Guerrero, one of TPP’s Grant Advisors for Arts & Culture, based in Argentina.

As a psychiatrist, researcher, and dramatherapist, Sol works at the intersection of arts, mental health, and community practice. She develops creative spaces where people can explore emotions, strengthen resilience, and build collective care through artistic expression, and her research and teaching focus on how arts-based practices can contribute to wellbeing and social transformation.

“I chose to serve as a grant advisor because I deeply believe in the power of community-led initiatives. Many meaningful transformations begin with small ideas and committed people. Supporting those initiatives through thoughtful funding decisions is a way to amplify voices, creativity, and collective care.”

Give some 🧡 and 🙏 to Sol !

10/13/2026

Cédric Andriamananarivo Doriens grew up close to farming communities, and today he’s helping one of them bring degraded land back to life. 🌱

With a TPP seed grant, the agricultural engineer launched an agroforestry project in Tsiatosika, Madagascar, planting 1,200 native, endemic, fruit, and crop seedlings across one hectare. More than 99% survived. Ninety community members learned agroforestry and nursery management in the field, and the first harvest of coffee, clove, and cabbage brought in about $900 in income.

A new community nursery will keep the planting going across surrounding farms.

Read the full story 👉 https://zurl.co/59wT3

10/12/2026

Grassroots change in a single emoji. What’s yours?
Drop it in the comments and tell us why if you’d like.

10/09/2026

Shreyansh Srivastav grew up in a small village in Uttar Pradesh, , watching children around him, curious, resilient, and full of potential, go without the spaces and opportunities they needed to thrive. That gap became his life’s work.

Now based in New Delhi, he co-founded Adhigam Youth Foundation and created Apna Aangan, which means “Our Courtyard,” a community learning and creativity space for children and youth living in an underserved migrant settlement in Delhi. Many of these children had nowhere safe to read, play, or simply be kids. Apna Aangan is changing that by offering a community library, art and theatre workshops, storytelling sessions, literacy and English support, life skills education, and youth-led mentorship. Young community volunteers are trained to lead activities and mentor younger children, making the project sustainable and rooted in the community it serves.

Grassroots philanthropy works because it trusts people closest to the problem with the tools to solve it. Shreyansh knows his community because he chose to stay, to listen, and to build alongside it. A seed grant from The Pollination Project is helping Apna Aangan become a place where children can dream without limits and young people step into leadership.

10/06/2026

Can you build muscle without meat? 💪🌱

In many fitness circles, strength has long been linked to animal protein. GIST Kenya set out to shift that belief by working with the people others trust most for health advice: local trainers, athletes and gym owners.

With a TPP seed grant, they trained 10 fitness champions in Kisumu and reached over 10,000 people through fitness events, webinars and live cooking demonstrations showcasing affordable, local plant proteins. Now they're preparing to grow a Powered by Plants Champions Network and new community toolkits.

Read how a small grant helped spark big conversations about health, animal welfare and climate action 👇
https://zurl.co/BKv9E

10/05/2026

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09/29/2026

Meet Evita Afungfege, one of our Grant Advisors for Animal Protection! Evita is a writer and conservation advocate who uses film and children's media to promote wildlife protection and compassionate communities. She's the author of Gimla: Fall of MOBOXO, a conservation folktale comic created as a learning resource to support grassroots animal protection initiatives in Cameroon and beyond. Thank you, Evita!

09/28/2026

Ever had an idea that could change your community, but the funding felt out of reach? That's exactly why we exist. Tag a friend who'd start a nonprofit in a heartbeat, if only money weren't the barrier. 💚

09/28/2026

✨ A rare opportunity: join a live conversation with Tania Singer, one of the world's pioneers in the science of compassion.

For more than 30 years, Tania has studied what happens in the brain when we care for others. Her work, including landmark experiments with the monk Matthieu Ricard, revealed something every changemaker needs to hear: empathy, when it turns into distress, can lead to burnout. Compassion draws on a different brain network, one linked to warmth, connection and positive emotion. And it can be trained.

Her research also found that this practice takes root most deeply when done together, in pairs, rather than alone.

For grassroots changemakers who give so much of themselves, this is a chance to hear directly from the scientist behind these discoveries and learn how to keep caring without burning out. 💛

📅 Monday, September 28
🕢 7:30 AM Pacific (4:30 PM CEST)
🎙️ In conversation with Menka Sanghvi

Save your spot: https://zurl.co/kHBBX

Can care be trained? Tania Singer has spent more than thirty years putting that question to brain scanners, and her answer is yes. She learned it in experiments with Matthieu Ricard, the French biologist turned Tibetan monk often called the world\'s happiest man. Lying in a brain scanner, watching f...

09/25/2026

Every changemaker starts with a dream. Too often, what stands in the way is the distance between the idea and the first step.

On World Dream Day, a look at how The Pollination Project helps close that distance every day of the year. A seed grant awarded daily since 2013. First belief in ideas that no one else has backed yet. Guidance from Grant Advisors, many of them former grantees. And support that continues after the funds arrive, from capacity-building workshops to first steps in fundraising and retreats that help prevent burnout.

7,000+ changemakers in 120 countries have turned a dream into action this way.

Discover how TPP helps dreams become change 👇
https://zurl.co/AoR19