The Pollination Project Foundation

06/01/2026

Meet our newest grantees!

From Victorville to Port-au-Prince, from Lake Forest to Brazil — four people turning compassion into action. They're teaching youth to build businesses, preserving a vanishing Haitian craft, saving dogs from emergency euthanasia, and pushing to end the mass culling of male chicks in Brazil's egg industry.

Different causes. The same belief that one person with a clear vision can change things.

Welcome, Consulia, Andji, Natalia, and Liane. 👏

Hope Paws Support Fund

05/31/2026

When girls in rural Uganda got the menstrual products and health education they'd been denied, everything shifted.
Kisubi Denis founded Give Hope Uganda with a simple belief: community-led solutions change what's possible for girls. With support from The Pollination Project, his team launched Empower Her to Speak! bringing menstrual products to 100 girls, reaching 200+ girls and community members with puberty and reproductive health education, and sparking open conversations that broke down stigma.

In this video, Denis shares what happened when teachers, girls, and boys came together to build real support.

https://zurl.co/Va3FC

Meet Kisubi Denis, founder of Give Hope Uganda, and hear how a simp...

05/29/2026

05/28/2026

500 million people worldwide lack access to menstrual products. Girls miss school. Women lose income. Dreams are deferred, not for lack of talent, but for lack of a pad.

This World Menstrual Hygiene Management Day, we celebrate the hundreds of grassroots leaders across 120+ countries who are challenging period poverty head-on, fueled by seed grants from The Pollination Project.

From Pad Banks in rural Gambia to menstrual health workshops in Nepal, from reusable pad training in Nigeria to mentorship programs in Zambia — your donations go directly into the field, supporting changemakers who are turning dignity into action.

Read the full story of how seed grants become dignity 👇

https://zurl.co/asEyd

On World Menstrual Hygiene Management Day, we celebrate the grassroots leaders who prove that a single seed grant can spark a movement for menstrual dignity.

05/27/2026

Introducing Sharon Natukunda and the Empower Her Skill Project, Kampala, Uganda.

Some of the most powerful change in the world starts not in boardrooms or government halls, but in communities, led by people who refuse to look away from the problems right in front of them.

Sharon Natukunda is one of those people.

A social entrepreneur, business coach, environmental advocate, and founder of Green Homeland Community Based Organisation, Sharon spent years working closely with vulnerable women and girls in Kampala. What she saw stayed with her: girls missing school regularly because they lacked access to sanitary products, and women navigating period poverty without support or solutions.

So she built one.

With the backing of grassroots philanthropy, Sharon is now leading the Empower Her Skill Project, a practical, community rooted initiative that trains vulnerable women and girls to produce reusable sanitary pads. Participants receive support on skills training and mentorship, allowing them not only to meet their own menstrual health needs with dignity, but also to generate income by producing and selling reusable pads within their communities.

The project directly tackles school absenteeism caused by lack of sanitary products, builds long-term economic independence for women, and promotes environmentally sustainable alternatives to disposable pads, all at once.

This is grassroots philanthropy at its most meaningful: identifying a local leader with vision, deep community roots, and a concrete plan, and giving her the support to bring it to life. Sharon holds a Bachelor's Degree in Administrative and Management Science and brings expertise in environmental education, clean energy, menstrual health, and women's economic empowerment to everything she does.

The Empower Her Skill Project is a reminder that real, lasting impact grows from the ground up, and that the right investment in the right person can transform an entire community.

We are proud to stand behind Sharon and the work ahead. 🌿

05/26/2026

A seed grant grant. One bold vision. 297 people reached. 123,000 animals impacted.
John Nyambane turned a seed grant into a registered nonprofit, trained women farmers in plant-based agriculture, and launched a food systems leadership program across 11 Kenyan universities. This is what grassroots philanthropy looks like in action. 🌱
Read his story ➜ https://zurl.co/pwP1P

TPP helped John Nyambane launch Ethical Transformation Impact, training farmers in plant-based agriculture and reaching 297 people and 123,000 animals across Kenya.

05/25/2026

It's Monday! Time for 4 new grantees, four changemakers from , , , and the working at the intersection of inclusion, access, and community care.

From sensory-friendly family nights in to disability storytelling in , their projects remind us that the most powerful change often starts close to home.

Welcome!!

05/23/2026

Every day, changemakers around the world are doing quiet, essential work, the kind that often goes unnoticed and underfunded. At The Pollination Project, we believe that even a small seed grant can spark something extraordinary.

Rhonda Farrell, founder of Adaptive Care for Disabled Farm Animals in Franklin, NC, reminds us why this matters. Her work focuses on the daily, hands-on care that animals with disabilities need to live stable, comfortable lives, the kind of long-term commitment that most funders overlook.

That's exactly where TPP steps in. Our seed grants reach grassroots leaders like Rhonda at the very beginning of their journey, when a little support can make the biggest difference. Since our founding, we've funded thousands of projects across the globe, each one rooted in compassion, community, and the courage to act.

But we can't do it alone. Every donation, no matter the size, helps us plant more seeds of change.
👉 Support our mission today: https://zurl.co/Uwsxu

Together, we can keep turning small seeds into lasting impact. 🌱

05/20/2026

He lost his beloved buffalo as a child. That pain never left him. It drove him across 8 districts, to nearly 1,000 doorsteps, and into the hearts of communities across Madhesh Province, Nepal.

Meet Aayush. Watch what one act of trust made possible. 🎥

05/19/2026

Every student deserves someone who believes in their future. Aime Ishimwe knows this because he once was that student, navigating the road to higher education in rural Rwanda with no mentor, no guidance, and no roadmap.
So he built one.
With a seed grant from The Pollination Project, Aime launched Career Compass, a student-led initiative that sends university mentors into rural classrooms across Huye District. The results? 1,756 students reached. Three school partnerships. Two student-led career clubs meeting weekly. A College Application Handbook in the hands of teenagers who had never seen one.

"Many students have the potential to succeed but lack exposure, guidance, and the confidence to pursue opportunities."

This is what happens when you trust a young changemaker with a small grant and a big vision.

Read the full story 👉 https://zurl.co/Dtk7L

We helped Career Compass reach 1,756 rural students in Rwanda with mentorship, career guidance, and scholarships.