Grantee Database

This database contains a representative list of grants approved since 2004. Grants appear alphabetically by organization name, with most recent grants first. Unless otherwise specified, grants are for general operating support.
296 results found

Kitovu Mobile AIDS Home Care, Counselling and Orphans Programme

Masaka

for a program that teaches organic farming techniques to AIDS orphans in Uganda

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2005
Grant Amount: $60,000

to train orphans/teenage school drop-outs in sustainable modernized farming skills, and to provide individual group/family counseling to the target groups to address short and long-term psychosocial problems in Uganda

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2007
Grant Amount: $23,000

Kivulini Women's Rights Organization

Mwanza

For a program that seeks to curb domestic violence through economic empowerment of women in Tanzania

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2004
Grant Amount: $64,000

to build capacity of four community-based organizations to scale up and replicate innovative social entrepreneurship women's groups, and prepare the leaders of those groups to train and mentor other women in the future in Tanzania

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2008
Grant Amount: $25,000

Kulika Charitable Trust Uganda

Kampala

to promote sustainable agriculture among poor women farmers in three districts of Uganda through specialized training, credit, and extension

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2006
Grant Amount: $121,000

to promote sustainable agriculture among poor women farmers in four districts of Uganda through specialized training, credit, and extension

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2009
Grant Amount: $30,000

to promote sustainable agriculture among poor women farmers in Uganda through specialized training, credit, and extension

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2010
Grant Amount: $112,000

l'Institut d'Economie Rurale

Bamako

for the project Integrated Management of Millet Head Borer to Increase Pearl Millet Production in the Sahel (GIMEM)

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2009
Grant Amount: $247,000

for the project An Be Jigi II: Enhancing Bioavailability of Iron and Zinc in Varieties of Sorghum and Pearl Millet Consumed in Mali

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2010
Grant Amount: $80,000

for the project Improvement of Fonio Productivity in Partnership with Farmers in the Sahelian and Northern Guinean Zones of Mali

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2010
Grant Amount: $148,000

for the project, Enhancing Fonio Potential to Intensify Production Systems in the Sahelian and Northern Guinean Zones of Mali

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2013
Grant Amount: $108,000

for the project Agro-ecological Intensification of Sorghum and Pearl Millet-Based Production Systems in the Sahel Through Agroforestry: Linking Farmers' Knowledge to Process-Based Science

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2013
Grant Amount: $73,000

l'Institut D'Economie Rurale

Bamako

for ALIVE and Nutritious Cropping Systems: A Participatory Approach to Legume Intensification and Variety Enhancement. Partners: Ramadjita Tabo (ICRISAT-Niger), Boubacar Traore (IER), Eva Weltzien-Rattunde (ICRISAT-Mali).

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2006
Grant Amount: $420,000

Land Stewardship Project

Minneapolis MN

for an exploratory study to assess status of the field and need for developing a shared narrative about domestic and international agroecological farming and sustainable food systems

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2012
Grant Amount: $20,000

Legacy Foundation

Ashland OR

to establish a network of women briquette producers and trainers to support briquette microenterprises throughout Uganda and Tanzania

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2008
Grant Amount: $152,000

Liana

to facilitate building of rainwater harvesting and drip irrigation structures to ease women's workload and diversify crop options for improved food security and cash income in Tanzania

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2006
Grant Amount: $30,000

to support farmer groups in building rainwater harvesting tanks and drip irrigated kitchen gardens to reduce women's workload for water procurement and increase food production in Tanzania

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2008
Grant Amount: $62,500

to co-fund, together with the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, a project of livelihood and environmental improvement by rainwater harvesting in Mwanga, Tanzania

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2012
Grant Amount: $25,000

Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources

Lilongwe

for the project, Safe and Effective Pesticidal Plants for Agro-Ecological Intensification of Legumes

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2013
Grant Amount: $100,000

Living Goods

Sausalito CA

to help pilot a program of Community Health Promoters earn money by providing basic health education and essential health commodities to the Minnesota Initiative Foundations poor in Uganda

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2008
Grant Amount: $50,000

Lutheran World Relief, Inc.

Baltimore MD

For a sustainable agriculture, natural resource management, and livestock husbandry program for women in Uganda

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2004
Grant Amount: $60,000

Makerere University

Kampala

for the project Towards Increased Agricultural Productivity and Food Security in East Africa Through Capacity Building in Agroecological Intensification

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2009
Grant Amount: $92,000

for the project Promoting Production and Utilization of Grain Amaranth for Improved Nutrition and Health in Uganda

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2009
Grant Amount: $313,000

for the project Improving Food Security Through Participatory Development of High Yielding and Pests Resistant Cowpea Varieties in Uganda

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2009
Grant Amount: $385,000

for the project Improving Food and Livelihood Security in the East and Horn of Africa Using Multiple Stress Tolerant Sorghum Cultivars

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2010
Grant Amount: $126,000

for the project, Improving Food Security Through Participatory Development of High Yielding and Pests Resistant Cowpea Varieties in Uganda

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2013
Grant Amount: $113,000

Mangrove Action Project

Port Angeles WA

for a coastal and inland fisheries resource conservation program in Cambodia

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2007
Grant Amount: $120,000

to support community capacity building, coastal resources management, and ecological mangrove restoration in Koh Kong province, Cambodia

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2010
Grant Amount: $80,000

to build the capacity of local communities in Koh Kong and the Tonle Sap Region in climate change adaptation for food security

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2012
Grant Amount: $90,000

Matumaini Mapya

Bukoba

to build the capacities of Tanzanian widows to assert their legal inheritance rights with community support, to plan income earning activities, and get legal aid as needed

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2005
Grant Amount: $25,000

for an income-generating, microcredit, and legal rights advocacy project for widows and orphans in Tanzania

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2007
Grant Amount: $75,000

Mbarara Zonal Agricultural Research and Development Institute

Mbarara

for the project Enhancing Sustainable Productivity and Utilization of Chickpea in the Banana Farming System of Uganda

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2009
Grant Amount: $249,000