African Community Foundation Support Network

About this grant

This project will strengthen connections, promote knowledge generation and enhance the credibility of community foundations across Africa through a continent-wide network. The network will facilitate collaboration, peer learning and the exchange of experience, while generating research, case studies and practical tools that strengthen the movement’s visibility, identity and standards of practice. The Initiative for Community Advancement, a South African community foundation established in 2018, has demonstrated the transformative role that community foundations can play in advancing locally led development through sustained commitment and community-driven action. Over the past year, the initiative has helped build an emerging network of community foundations in Southern Africa. Building on this work, the project will expand the network to include community foundations across the continent, fostering shared learning, collective action and stronger locally rooted philanthropic institutions that support sustainable community development.