Over the last two years, we created on-demand trainings on succession planning and board strengthening to add to the portfolio of services we provide to our fiscally sponsored grassroots members. These trainings are designed to help grassroots organizations remain sustainable forces for good in their local communities. Our members have been sharing what they learned from the trainings and how they have improved their operations for lasting success. For example, 5 members have created emergency succession plans for the first time.

As a result, our educational programming has garnered interest from outside our membership network. With the increased interest in our trainings, we wanted to extend our impact to the larger community of international grassroots organizations serving children, families, and marginalized communities. We are proud to announce that we have launched a pilot program extending our educational programs to groups of organizations funded by trusted foundation partners. We have more than doubled the reach of our educational programs with this pilot.

The new organizations we are working with do impactful work in their local communities. One helps young women in Kenya escape child marriage and pursue education. Another helps communities provide healthy food to chronically malnourished children in Rwanda. Yet another provides business skills, access to markets, and funding opportunities to refugees in Malawi. These are just a few examples of the new organizations we are honored to support.

Each new organization will receive access to our online training platform for one year. Our trainings can be accessed by their leaders, teams, and boards of directors to create a deep well of organizational knowledge. They will be able to share our content summaries and use our tools, such as our Emergency Succession Planning Template, to prepare for a sustainable future. We will support their progress and track their results, as we look to scale up our impact without losing the relationship driven approach that has served us so well in the past.

Thank you to our generous donor community, the Segal Family Foundation, the Erik E. & Edith H. Bergstrom Foundation, and the Dorothea Haus Ross Foundation for making this possible.