Civic & Social Organization · Community and Lifestyle
Size
51 - 200 employees
Stage
Other
founded in
2010
Spark offers a dynamic model for community organizing and granting. The process taps into the knowledge and imagination of communities in need. Spark works with local facilitators (often university students or NGO leaders) with connections to under-resourced communities. With Spark's guidance, the facilitator organizes a series of meetings where the community develops a project proposal. Spark arranges for comments on each proposal from field advisers. When proposals are well developed, we help fund them with a microgrant of around $5,000. Rather than come up with ideas to help a specific community from the outside.