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April 02, 2013
Small grants make big differences globally
This slideshow is part of an occasional series about the community foundation field and the Mott Foundation’s role in supporting and strengthening it. The series reports on what is occurring in Mott’s major geographic focus areas — Central/Eastern Europe and Russia, South Africa, and the U.S. — as well as providing information about how the field is expanding globally. Mott’s goal is to inform the public about the latest trends in the community foundation field in advance of its 100th anniversary year in 2014.
Around the world — Costa Rica, India, Vietnam, Zimbabwe and elsewhere — local organizations are pooling the knowledge and experience of its residents to improve their communities. In many of these places, the work is partially funded by small grants from the Global Fund for Community Foundations (GFCF), a Johannesburg-based grantee of the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.
For more than three decades Mott has funded organizations, initially in the U.S. and now globally, that help develop and strengthen the community foundation field. The work of several GFCF-supported organizations in a variety of countries is highlighted in a new slideshow.
Whether the nonprofit group is working in rural Zimbabwe or urban Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, the principle of mobilizing local resources to meet local need remains the same — and it aids in building a strong civil society sector.