Fund for Hope Grantees
| Organization Name | Project Title | Location | Project Summary |
| Action For Direct Impact | Food Through Backyard Project | Uganda | Training community members about backyard gardening. The crops and vegetables will be a source of food as well as income through selling surplus harvest, contributing to both food and financial security. |
| Ventures for Sustainable Community Development | Micro Loans to People who have Lost their Jobs During COVID-19 Pandemic | Uganda | Micro lending project which will provide loans to young business owners impacted by the pandemic. Loans will be given for two months at a 5% interest rate. Interest will be used to fund additional loans for other business owners for a sustainable loan program. |
| Ventures for Sustainable Women Empowerment (VESWE) | Making of Washable Reusable Cloth Face Masks | Uganda | Young women will be taught how to make reusable/washable cloth masks which will then be sold at affordable prices. The income made from the sale of the masks will be re-invested into the manufacturing of re-usable sanitary pads, aprons and hair covers. Access to sanitary pads is often a barrier that prevents young women from attending school. |
| CUPED Corp | Project Triage | Milwaukee, WI | Grant funds will be used to develop a youth led COVID-19 mental health response. The project requires the development of a platform that will provide a peer led support service to address social isolation through a website, app and hotline. This will be specifically geared towards young people of color and young people of color in the LGBTQ+ community. |
| The Unique Foundation Gambia | Supporting the Most Vulnerable People Cope with COVID-19 Pandemic | Gambia | Support for families in the form of training on how to grow food in homes in small spaces and addressing food security among children and youth who may be homeless. |
| Project Beanstalk/United Roots | Typo Trauma | California/United States |
Typo Trauma is a video game meant to teach players what to do when their loved ones are suffering from stressful situations that cause anger, anxiety, and depression. In the game, players get to help a variety of characters including a wizard who is nervous about a job interview, and a werewolf who is afraid to come out as gay to his pack. The game uses a dialogue based battle system that was carefully designed using the emotion color wheel, in order to show people things like: -How powerfully their words & actions can affect others |
| Asociacion Civil Voluntario Global | Virtual Community Garden Experience | Argentina | Building a community that defends healthy food, security and food sovereignty by pivoting programming and teaching 40 families how to sow seeds from a communal perspective. Focused on critical thinking and community building, the project includes seed distribution, virtual trainings and socially distanced home visits. |
2020 McGinnity Family Foundation Grantees
| Organization Name | Location | Project Summary | |
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Uganda | Employing youth to collect rice, timber coffee and plant foliage and make into cooking briquettes as a solution to curb unemployment and save the environment. | |
| Art and Global Health Center Africa | Peri-urban Zomba/Blantyre – Malawi | Mind Zone: a project aimed at breaking the barriers and stigma that exist around mental health of young people which uses participatory research and performances and will provide findings and feedback to the local university and government for effective strategies on handling mental health. | |
| African Justice4Peace Association – AJA | Donga Mantung – Cameroon | Rehabilitation, training and skill development for young mothers to promote economic independence. | |
| Gems of Madagascar | Village of Ambalafeno – Madagascar | A youth-led project to improve the lives of children in a small village of Madagascar through the furnishing of new classrooms built by the Colorado non-profit, Gems of Madagascar. | |
| Le Flambeau Foundation, Inc. | North Haiti | This project aims to build multi-generational stakeholders in the reforestation of Haiti via education and the application of agricultural best practices – impacting 6,000 residents in Bouyaha, a small farming community in the North of Haiti. | |
| Milwaukee Riverkeeper | Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
The creation of tool-kits for middle and high school students and teachers to support classroom and school-wide initiatives that work to reduce single-use plastics. A collaborative of college students working on campus sustainability projects will also be established to promote the sharing of best practices and resources across campuses. This project is funded by the Walsh family in loving memory of Patricia Colloton-Walsh. Patricia was a longtime Milwaukee educator and a dear friend of the McGinnity family. |
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| Mukuru Clean Stoves | Siaya, Kenya | Training young women in western Kenya on the production of improved cookstoves resulting in employment as Mukuru Clean Stoves artisans. | |
| Rural Environmental Sustainability Initiative | Kampala, Uganda | Installation of 5 bio gas systems in rural homes to act as clean cooking energy demonstration sites and points of adoption of clean cooking practices in rural homes. | |
| Running Rebels Community Organization | Milwaukee, Wisconsin | Young people from Running Rebels will work with youth leaders to create and lead a campaign that highlights safe driving as a way to combat reckless driving in Milwaukee which has reached epidemic levels. | |
| Solidaridad Internacional Kanda A. C. | Oaxaca, Mexico | Building support networks for violence prevention among girls and teenagers in the area surrounding the largest dumpsite in Oaxaca, Mexico through storytelling, reading and other activities. | |
| Sunrise Movement Chicago | Chicago, Illinois | A youth-led movement to stop the climate crisis and create millions of good jobs in the process. Through the People of Color Leadership Training, they hope to build the capacity of young leaders of color, to ensure that they are engaging and organizing everyone to address environmental and social justice issues. | |
| Take a Step Women Assocation | Hoima District, Uganda | Improved clean energy project – supplying young people with inventory to start small scale enterprises. | |
| Tierra Grata | Montes de Maria Region, Bolivar State Colombia | Provide access to energy for rural families through solar energy systems and increase their quality of life and productivity. |