Formerly African Visionary Fund, African Collaborative powers local solutions for lasting change, investing in African-led orgs w/ critical, multi-year funding.
Joined December 2020
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Spark Health Africa doesn't just measure clinics and vaccination rates. They work on the culture underneath them, the part that determines whether a health system actually holds. Meet Richard Chivaka and Spark Health Africa. @sparkhealthAFRO 🎧
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Of the 18 funding-desert countries in our pipeline, 11 are francophone and 10 are in West Africa. A funding landscape that works for Africa has to reach all of it.
Join us close the gap: l1nk.dev/bvdkhnh
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At 8 yrs old, Nice Nailantei Leng’ete escaped FGM. In 2021, she founded Kenya’s Nice Place Foundation to save girls from child marriage and FGM. @NicePlaceFound
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Real change doesn't happen overnight, and it rarely fits in a report. Nice Place Foundation is proof of what patience and trust can build over time. @NicePlaceFound 🎧
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During Ghana’s 2024 elections, @penplusbytes tracked disinformation campaigns targeting first-time voters. Their response: train youth in media literacy and partner with newsrooms on real-time fact-checking.
Read the full story: africancollab.org/blog/penpl…
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We're #hiring a Director of Development & Partnerships and a Finance & Accounting Manager.
Help us spread the word. Full details are below.
We’re #hiring! Could it be you, or someone you know?
Two remote, full-time roles:
• Director, Development & Partnerships
• Manager, Finance & Accounting
Starting January 2027 or earlier. Apps are shortlisted on a rolling basis, so don't wait!
Apply: africancollab.org/careers
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Young people haven't given up on democracy. They just need a way back in. Meet Penplusbytes. @penplusbytes🎧
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For generations, indigenous women in North Kivu had almost no voice in decisions about their own future. Let Us Stay Alive is changing that, one relationship at a time. 🎧 africancollab.org/partners-a…
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We’re #hiring! Could it be you, or someone you know?
Two remote, full-time roles:
• Director, Development & Partnerships
• Manager, Finance & Accounting
Starting January 2027 or earlier. Apps are shortlisted on a rolling basis, so don't wait!
Apply: africancollab.org/careers
A group of women in Zimbabwe needed a school for their kids. So they built one, mixing the mortar themselves.
Meet Africa Book Development Organisation. @africabookorg🎧
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The real barrier wasn't menstruation. It was land, and who's allowed to own it. Nathan Okiror explains how Imagine Her found its focus. 🎧
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6,500+ legal interventions. One lawyer's answer to justice delayed. Meet Nelson Olanipekun and Citizens' Gavel. @citizen_gavel 🎧
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"People are not waiting to be saved." — @AttiWorku at the 10th East Africa Philanthropy Network (EAPN) Conference in Addis Ababa.
African communities already have the knowledge and leadership. The question is whether funding systems trust it.
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"Tuwindi" means to make known. Hawa Coulibaly on how it all began. @tuwindi 🎧
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AI is already in education. The question is which child it's being built for.
Nafissatou Sene reflects on ethics, equity, and what it really takes to center children in how AI is built.
Read more: ow.ly/fp1H50ZHqrl
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"We are there before you come to us. And when you leave, you leave us there." — Marcel Cirhuza, founder of Fountain of Hope Africa.🎧
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The future of sustainable African development is African-led. Welcome, Cohort 5! youtu.be/yWuE8nO-aMI?si=B3vD…
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Introducing our 5th cohort of partners 🌍 🎉
We now have 45 partners across 15 countries.
Meet them and share the love! africancollab.org/cohort5
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Local leaders from across East and Southern Africa. Bold ideas, deep roots.
Doris Kamathi, joined a panel at the Issroff Family Foundation's CLI convening. She shares what she took away on our blog. ow.ly/CTL050ZfiTr
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