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Empowering local leaders to bring hope to their communities.

Partnering with churches and investors to support initiatives that create deep and sustainable impact.

05/29/2026

🎯You probably gave to something last year and never heard about it again.

This is not that. 🤍

When you support Northbound’s More Than Soccer work, you get a front row seat to something that is actually finishing what it started. ⚽

Last month on the pitch at Furaha Field, four local leaders became the first ever certified coaches of the More Than Football curriculum.

🎓 A full year of mentorship, shadowing, and commitment led to this moment.

These are not people who showed up when it was convenient. They carried this alongside full lives and full-time responsibilities and finished what they started. 🤍

And now those four people are the proof that this model can be handed to the right local leaders in any community willing to do the same work. 🌍

Then they turned around and ran an entire tournament for 130 children🙌

The team that mentored them for a full year stood on the sidelines on purpose, because that was always the goal. Build something, hand it back, and leave. ✅

Your monthly gift keeps this program moving. 🌍 Training the next group. Handing it back again.

That is what your giving looks like here.

Become a monthly partner at the link in bio. 🤍

04/27/2026

Question for you: How far would YOU walk for clean water? 💧

In Rimuka Village, Zimbabwe, the answer has been “as far as it takes” for generations. Distance. Season. Luck.

That’s what determined whether 350 people had water.

Until someone in Northbound’s giving community said yes.

A well is coming to Rimuka Village. 70 households will have clean water within walking distance.

Mothers will have hours returned to them. Children won’t miss school from waterborne illness.

And the ripples will spread for years.

We’re waiting for the rains to subside so drilling can begin. But today, we celebrate what’s coming. 🇿🇼

👇 Drop a 💧 if you believe clean water is a right, not a privilege.

SAVE this post to remember Rimuka Village when the well is complete—we’ll share the update!

Want to fund the next well? Join our monthly Ripples donors. Link in bio.

04/17/2026

In Kenya, new desks at means 50 more children can attend school.

Kawangware is one of Nairobi’s oldest informal settlements, and CCP Academy has been offering quality education in a place where most children don’t have access to it.

As they continue to grow and expand, the problem wasn’t staff or space. It was furniture. The school is ready for more students. They just need a place for them to sit.

That sounds modest until you understand what a desk in Kawangware actually means:

Nearly every student at CCP graduates high school.

One in three goes on to earn a college degree. 🎓

There is no comparison statistic for other children in Kawangware, because children there don’t graduate high school.

They don’t make it to college.
Except here.
Except when someone like you says yes.

Each new seat represents a family with a brighter future. You provided that. 💚

One desk. One student. Ripples of change across generations.

Want to be part of the next project? Become a monthly Ripples donor. Link in bio.

Education

04/15/2026

In Tanzania, 24 children at Ushirika wa Neema just got real mattresses.

The local community had donated bunk beds to the home—a generous gift. But the children were still sleeping on thin foam mats. Nothing dramatic, nothing crisis-level. Just the slow, grinding toll of not quite enough.

Someone in this community learned about it and said yes without hesitation.
24 new mattresses were delivered, and the staff described what happened next: pure joy.

The children couldn’t stop showing them off. “Come see my room!” they’d say to every guest who walked through the door. Running from bed to bed, pointing, beaming with pride.

It wasn’t just about comfort. It was about dignity. About having something that’s truly theirs. Something new. Something that says: you matter.

That pride—that sense of worth—will ripple through everything else.

How they show up at school.
How they see themselves.
How they believe in their future.

24 children. 24 mattresses. One yes that keeps rippling. 💙

That’s what Ripples does—small acts of generosity that create impact far beyond the initial gift.

Want to create more ripples? Consider becoming a monthly Ripples donor. Link in bio.

03/10/2026

What if a soccer field could change the future? ⚽️

Not just for one child.
For an entire economy.

Here’s what most people don’t know:
Gender inequality costs sub-Saharan Africa $95 billion every single year.

In Tanzania, 80% of women work—but almost none have access to capital, networks, or a path out of poverty.

The gap between them and economic freedom? $1.7 billion.

But here’s what we also know: 94% of women in the C-suite were athletes.
pipeline to leadership doesn’t start in a boardroom. It starts on a playing field.
And when you give a child access to football + education? Their lifetime earning potential increases 23x.

This isn’t theory. This is happening right now in Arusha, Tanzania.

At Furaha Field, every child plays free. 100% donation-sponsored.

Girls get equal time.

Women are learning leadership through sports.

And an economy is shifting—one generation at a time.

You’re not just funding a sport.

You’re funding the next generation of women who lead. 💙

Next stop: Kibera Slum, Nairobi Kenya 🇰🇪

Are you in?
🔗 Link in bio to join this work.

02/26/2026

Some of the most important conversations happen in the most unexpected places.

Our founder was at a baseball game at Fenway Park when he started talking to the person in the next seat about something close to his heart — a calling to bring soccer fields to East Africa. The man leaned over and said, I know someone you need to meet.

That someone was .

Months before, Madeleine had lost her husband, Michael G. Bloom, suddenly and unexpectedly. In her grief, she made a decision that would honor his life in the most beautiful way — she asked for donations instead of funeral flowers, and turned that love into a lasting, living legacy.

Today, Madeleine juggles a full-time career in Manhattan, serves as an ambassador for our More Than Soccer campaign, and gives selflessly to causes far beyond herself.

The grass growing on Furaha Field in Arusha is part of Michael’s legacy.

Madeleine didn’t just build a field.

She became part of a family.

One that stretches from Manhattan to Arusha, connected by a shared belief that children deserve a safe place to play, grow, and belong.

You are just one conversation away from something that could change your life — or better yet, the lives of thousands of children on the other side of the world.

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02/23/2026

Who taught you what it means to be a man? 🤔

In East Africa, conversations about masculinity are changing. ⚽️

Sport is being used as a tool to promote positive masculinity in boys and men, fostering emotional intelligence, empathy, and respect for gender equality.

For too long, traditional definitions of masculinity have left men isolated—unable to talk about struggles, pressures, or fears.

Expected to be providers and protectors without showing vulnerability.

But when men gather on a soccer field, something shifts. 💪

They’re building brotherhood.

Modeling healthy relationships for younger players.

Creating space for conversations that don’t happen anywhere else.

Soccer fields become gathering places where:
▪️Men mentor the next generation
▪️Fathers teach their sons about respect and teamwork
▪️Community leaders model positive masculinity
▪️Boys learn what healthy manhood looks like
▪️When men show up—not just to play, but to lead with integrity and care for their communities—everything changes.

The field becomes a training ground for strong and compassionate men.

Leaders who lift others up.🤜🤛

Who was that person for you? The coach, father figure, or mentor who showed you what leadership really looks like? 👇

02/19/2026

Who believed in you when you needed it most? 🤔

James is Northbound’s Childhood Development Director in Tanzania.

As a child, he couldn’t play sports because of an accident. But he loved soccer—loved watching it so much that he would sneak out after his parents fell asleep to watch games at a nearby sports room. ⚽️

When his parents found out, he was in big trouble. He thought that was the end of it.But then the sports room owner came to his parents.

He told them what a good kid James was. That his grades were top of his class. That he should be allowed to watch.

So his parents made a deal: keep your grades up, stay the best in your class, and you can go.

That motivation—that adult believing in him and advocating for him—is why James excelled in school. 💙

For young boys growing up in Tanzania and Kenya, safe spaces and positive mentors can be the difference between opportunity and the streets. Between believing in themselves and giving up.

Soccer fields become more than just places to play. They become places where coaches teach discipline and leadership, where older players model what’s possible, where boys learn they have value and potential, and where community members step in as mentors.

James couldn’t play the game. But the game—and the person who saw his worth—changed his life anyway.

That’s the power of intentional spaces.

Tag someone who believed in you when you needed it most. 👇

02/11/2026

What would you do if you had one hour just for yourself? No kids. No chores. 🤔

When you see adult women playing soccer in East Africa, you’re witnessing something radical.

Not because they can’t play. Because they were never told they could. ⚽️

Most of these women didn’t grow up playing sports. Between hauling water, caring for children, working jobs, running households—the idea of taking time just to play feels impossible.

Maybe even selfish.But here’s what happens when they do:

They’re not just kicking a ball around. They’re claiming space.
Building friendships outside their homes.
Laughing with other women who understand their lives. 💙

And their daughters? They’re watching from the sidelines, seeing something they may have never seen before—their mothers moving freely, taking up space, experiencing pure joy.

The research backs this up: Women who play sports develop stronger self-esteem and confidence.

They stay in school longer, delay pregnancy, and secure better jobs.

80% of female Fortune 500 executives played competitive sports growing up.

Leadership doesn’t start in a boardroom.It starts when a woman learns she belongs.

For the moms, teachers, and women reading this: when’s the last time YOU did something just for the joy of it?

👇 Drop a comment—we want to hear your story

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