Firelight Foundation

Firelight is a multi-donor public charity fund that raises money from foundations, individuals and institutions to support community-based organizations (CBOs) that are working with their communities to drive systems change for children and youth in eastern and southern Africa. Through a participatory system of grants, mentoring, convening, learning and reflection, Firelight invests in community-based organizations in Africa so that they can work with their communities to map their own shared areas of focus and their own priorities, determine their own definitions of need, opportunity, action, change, impact and success and work with their own communities to build and realize their shared visions of sustainable change and true potential for children, youth and community. Firelight also gathers evidence, leverages networks, and seeks to share the voices and realities of communities, children, youth and community-based organizations to influence a global practice of valuing and funding local community-driven systems change.