The Pollination Project Foundation

06/23/2026

What can $500 do? In Saboti Ward, Kenya, it put seeds in the ground, tools in the hands of 160 households, and nutritious food on the tables of 1,280 people. With a TPP seed grant, Wamalwa Murefu Juma of Bountiful Gardeners for Africa helped a whole community shift toward plant-based eating — and proved that healthy food doesn't have to be expensive. 🌱
https://zurl.co/1Gqt6

06/22/2026

It's Monday! Time to meet four new grantees joining The Pollination Project family.

From the ranches of rural to the campuses of , from the neighborhoods of to the wheat fields of — each of them is building something rooted in their own community, their own experience, and their own vision of a more just world.

✴️ Mariana Quiroz (Mexico) is a vegan activist and animal rescuer running a trap-neuter-return program to protect 28+ free-roaming dogs near her ranch in Amecameca — and to keep them safe from retaliation.

✴️ Diana Mulekye (Kenya) is training University of Nairobi students to champion plant-based and indigenous foods through workshops, food demos, and direct cafeteria engagement with Plant Power Africa.

✴️ Danni Lin (China) is a wheelchair user and disability rights activist who equips disabled women in Shanghai to audit accessibility barriers in their own neighborhoods — turning lived experience into grassroots change.

✴️ Fikadu Bayu (Ethiopia) grew up in the farming communities he now serves. He's training 25 smallholder households in regenerative soil management and building a network of Climate-Smart Mentors in Arsi Negele.

We're so proud to support them. 💛

06/20/2026

Last weekend, one of Brazil's largest coordinated mobilizations against live animal exports brought activists to the streets in more than 29 cities across the country. The Pollination Project was proud to support three grantees contributing to this nationwide effort, helping fund demonstrations, strengthen coordination, support local organizers, and expand public awareness about the realities of live animal export.

The movement's driving force was the commitment and leadership of activists and organizations across Brazil. From Belém to Porto Alegre, from Brasília to Rio de Janeiro, citizens stood together to say that animals deserve better.

Together, these efforts generated more than 1.1 million views and reached over 500,000 Instagram accounts. This is grassroots action at scale.
Read the full article: https://zurl.co/ndrLf

06/19/2026

marks the moment freedom was finally delivered to those who had been denied it. It is a day of celebration, of remembrance, and of reckoning with the distance between a promise and its fulfillment.

At The Pollination Project, we believe that freedom is not only a legal status — it is the ability to lead, to create, to shape the future of your own community. It is what we see every day in the changemakers we fund: grassroots leaders across 120+ countries who are building schools, protecting land, defending rights, and planting seeds of possibility where systems have long fallen short.

Many of those leaders are Black women and men, working in communities shaped by generations of inequity, choosing to show up anyway — not waiting for permission, not waiting for someone else to fix it.

Today we honor them, and we honor the spirit of Juneteenth: the stubborn, radical belief that freedom deferred is not freedom denied forever.

The work continues. And so do we.

06/17/2026

What if the most powerful investment in a child's future isn't a scholarship, but the skills to understand money, create value, and earn ethically, before they ever enter the workforce?

That's the question driving Dorcas Ayodele, founder of the Plethora Literacy Club in Abuja, , and a first-class graduate of Agricultural Engineering who built her financial foundation not in a classroom, but through early lessons from her mother and a bold decision to spend a gap year learning digital skills. Those skills became her livelihood. That discipline became her blueprint.

Plethora Literacy Club brings that blueprint into schools. Through practical, age-appropriate activities, students develop savings habits, explore entrepreneurship, discover digital tools like Canva, and even turn waste materials into products they designed themselves. The goal is simple and radical at once: to reach young people while their habits, values, and ambitions are still taking shape.

In communities where financial pressure arrives early and support often arrives too late, Dorcas is building something different. A program where curiosity meets skill, and where students grow up knowing they have real, ethical pathways forward.

With a seed grant from The Pollination Project, Dorcas and the Plethora Literacy Club are growing from one school in Abuja toward something much larger.

06/16/2026

What does a TPP seed grant look like in action? In Bamenda, , it looked like 85 adolescent girls and young women gathering to talk about food, justice, and their own power to lead change. Ndum Charlotte Ayeah and the Association of Adolescent Girls and Young Women Cameroon built the Girls for Green Plates initiative from the ground up, in a conflict-affected region, with limited resources and extraordinary determination. Read their story.

🔗 https://zurl.co/JjnPR

06/15/2026

Meet our newest grantees.
❇️ Khalid is training students in to save lives with first aid.
❇️ Dorcas is teaching kids to earn, save, and build.
❇️ George is mapping the politics of animal welfare reform in .
❇️ Yishan is turning a forgotten garden in into a classroom rooted in nature.

Four countries, four ideas, same shared belief: change starts at the community level.

06/14/2026

When a seed grant meets a bold vision, something real grows.

John Nyabwari Nyambane Jr. of Ethical Transformation Impact in Kenya says it best: TPP's early support turned a concept into a functioning initiative with measurable impact, opening doors to strategic partnerships and long-term sustainability.

This is why we do what we do. 💛

Read more stories like John's at https://zurl.co/mIiGQ

06/10/2026

She grew up watching the women around her carry everything: children on their backs, worry in their eyes, and not enough food on the table. Then she became one of those women.
Clara Onyango is a young mother, a survivor, and a community health specialist who has spent ten years working alongside adolescent girls and young mothers in Rachuonyo South, . She knows what it means to wonder what her child will eat tomorrow. Her daughter is nine, the exact age of the children Seed Toto exists to protect.

In Rachuonyo South, a mother may wake before dawn, feed her child whatever is left, and walk into a day that asks everything of her. Fresh vegetables are a luxury she calculates against rent. Through Clara's organization, Abide & Live Foundation, Seed Toto meets her exactly where she is.

The project equips 20 of these mothers with organic kitchen gardens, growing traditional vegetables like amaranth that are rich in iron, Vitamin A, and folate, the nutrients their children are most deficient in. 100% organic. Near-zero recurring cost. Sustainable from the soil up.

Children eat fresh greens daily. Surplus reaches the market. School fees get paid. And every participant becomes a peer mentor, spreading impact at no extra cost. Nutrition, economic empowerment, and dignity, growing from the same soil.
This is not a solution designed from a distance. Clara stepped back into the corner where she once stood and built something she wishes had existed for her.

The Pollination Project is honored to support Clara and Seed Toto with a seed grant, because the most powerful change often starts with one woman who decided her community's story could be different.

06/09/2026

In a small Ukrainian village, librarian Yulia Honyshnuk had a vision: transform a quiet room of aging shelves into a lifeline for a community living through war.

With a $490 seed grant from The Pollination Project, she did exactly that. A smart TV, a router, rechargeable lamps for power-outage nights, board games, craft supplies, and a whole lot of heart. In one grant period: 15+ events, 190 people reached, a youth club meeting three times a week, and 30 students trained on cybersecurity and cyberbullying.

The library of Haliivka is now a cultural hub, a safe space for youth, a gathering point for the elderly, and a home for the displaced. All of it born from one person's belief that her community deserved more.
Here is her video
https://youtu.be/OQoP_w-M2qA

Read Yulia's story 👇
https://zurl.co/Lchbe

In Haliivka, a small rural village in Ukraine's Zhytomyr region, li...