The Pollination Project Foundation

09/01/2026

A decade ago, Sahas Foundation built its first gender, sexuality, and reproductive health curriculum for adolescents in Delhi-NCR. A seed grant helped keep that vision alive during a critical early year.

Ten years later, Sahas has reached 6,706 adolescents, trained 225 teachers, sensitized 180 police personnel, and empowered 1,000 women across nine states and union territories in India.

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https://zurl.co/NFlQC

08/31/2026

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08/27/2026

Meet Jess Carroll, Director of Operations at The Pollination Project!

✴️ What draws you to operations, and how did that path lead you to The Pollination Project?

Early in my nonprofit career, I kept seeing organizations doing vital, world-changing work get held back by the business operations side of things. I decided to go back to school to obtain my MBA with one goal in mind: to help organizations that help animals run better. Operations is where that clicks for me. It isn't the flashy part, but it's the behind the scenes work that lets a mission-driven team deliver on its mission. That thread runs through everything I've done, from working in the vegan food tech space to helping other nonprofits. I've known of The Pollination Project for over a decade, so I was thrilled when a position popped up that aligned so closely with my skills!

✴️ What's the most rewarding part of building that behind-the-scenes structure?

The most rewarding part is quieter than people might expect. It's the moment I solve a pain point for someone on the team by bringing clarity to a process, removing a bottleneck, or taking something off their plate through an automation. This work gives them more time to support grassroots changemakers. So in a way, every problem I solve behind the scenes turns into more energy going straight into our programs work and the people we exist to serve.

✴️ How does your personal commitment as an animal advocate show up in the way you approach your work at TPP?

I went vegan over 20 years ago after seeing a documentary about how remarkable farm animals are. I learned that I didn't need to contribute to their suffering to live a healthy life, and began exploring careers to help animals. TPP and I share the same deeply held values in creating a more compassionate world. When your colleagues care about the same things you do, the work feels less like a job and more like a shared purpose.

Fast Five 👇👇
🔸 Go-to vegan comfort food: Pancakes
🔸 Tool you rely on to stay organized: https://zurl.co/hc8iz
🔸 A tiny joy in a busy week: Sunset walks
🔸 Current read / podcast: Rich Roll podcast
🔸 A value you bring to this work: Authenticity

08/25/2026

When war forced Evgenii Selikhov's neighbors to flee for Georgia, he saw a quiet crisis hiding behind the headlines: diabetic refugees running out of insulin, caught between paperwork and pharmacy bills they couldn't afford. So he built something simple and fast, a way to get life-saving medication into people's hands before the wait turned into a tragedy.

A small seed grant from TPP helped him do exactly that. Curious how one grassroots idea kept treatment within reach for seven people through the hardest months? Read the story
https://zurl.co/bNacT

08/21/2026

Meet Monika Pozek, Dance as a Shared Language

Monika Pozek has spent the past 15 years building an inclusive dance network across Europe, working with mixed-ability groups to make performance accessible to different bodies and untrained dancers alike. She's a choreographer, teacher, and founder of the Meet Share Dance Association (2012) and (2018), a dance company built with eight dancers with and without disabilities.

Since 2012, Monika and international partners have run the annual MeetShareDance workshop festival, now in its 11th edition across 8 countries. Her work keeps evolving, blending performing arts with digital innovation and community practice.

"Dance is the language and my work tries to speak some of them," she says.

Monika has served as a Grant Advisor for The Pollination Project since 2022. Asked why she chose this role, she shared: "To have the opportunity to read new creative ideas, as I believe that through art, culture, and education we can make our world a nicer place."

08/18/2026

A broken bike chain deep in the Pamir mountains once meant real danger, with no help for miles. Thanks to a Pollination Project seed grant, Tatiana Nushtaeva opened a women run cycle repair station that now gives travelers tools, safety, and a warm welcome, while creating new income opportunities for local women. Read her story.
https://zurl.co/vtVYI

08/14/2026

Meet Jean-Marie Zihalirwa Kavali, Grant Advisor for Economic Development in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Jean-Marie brings over 20 years of experience in rural development to his work with The Pollination Project. Before joining our Grant Advisor team, he served as senior planning, management, and monitoring advisor at Grenier pour le Développement Intégré au Bushi, a community-based organization in Congo Kinshasa. He uses a theory of change approach to help build strategic plans, project proposals, and results-oriented monitoring systems for grassroots organizations.

Jean-Marie's connection to TPP runs deep. He became a TPP grantee in 2018, then joined the Grant Advisor team in 2022 to help expand compassion, peace, and equitable development around the world.

"Eager to expand compassion, peace, and equitable development worldwide, I became a TPP grantee in 2018. I joined the TPP Grant Advisor team in 2022 to contribute further to these goals."

08/12/2026

When The Pollination Project supported the West Acholi Spinal Injury Association-Gulu , a spark of possibility turned into a movement of inclusion. The grant made it possible to repair sports wheelchairs, rehabilitate a basketball court, and launch adaptive sports that have transformed the lives of persons with spinal cord injuries in Northern Uganda. More than 250 people have since gained not only access to sport, but renewed confidence, community connection, and better health.
https://zurl.co/EI0OF

Promoting Adaptive Sports for Persons with Spinal Cord Injury, empowering over 250 people with disabilities to improve their health, confidence, and social inclusion through inclusive sports.