by Sylvia K. Ilahuka, Writer & Editor On the African continent, infrustructural inadequacies make mobility a challenge — for everybody, and that much more so for people with physical disabilities. The lack of affordable well-constructed assistive devices further heightens this problem, and well-intentioned donations from abroad prove not very helpful…

by Gladys Onyango, Director of Program Learning & Impact We recently wrote about what we are doing to become (and remain) the best partner to our grantee-partners based on what we learned from our 2023 Grantee Perception Report. The most significant theme emerging from the GPR is that our unrestricted…

by Sylvia K. Ilahuka, Writer & Editor Earlier this year, we conducted a listening exercise to hear from our grantee partners about the impact and their satisfaction with our funding and services. This was our second such survey, the first having been in 2018; once again we engaged an external…

by Sylvia K. Ilahuka, Writer & Editor We mentioned a Donor Salon in the previous article and you may be wondering what that is. Within the philanthropy sector, there is an abundance of resources offered to doers (such as our Active Partnership package), and it’s seldom thought that donors might…

by Sylvia K. Ilahuka, Writer & Editor August is Black Philanthropy Month! This article is us sliding in under the wire to address an issue that isn’t confined to just one month, but is an ongoing reality for many members of our community. Fundraising is the bane of many an…

A very, very brief recap by Sylvia K. Ilahuka, Writer & Editor July came and went and our highly-anticipated Annual General Meeting finally happened! Several months of preparation and three days of activity are best summarized by these three words: It. Was. Awesome. The city of Kigali saw over 600…

by Gladys Onyango, Director of Program Learning & Impact Safeguarding policies are essential to ensuring organizations are committed to running safe organizations and programs that actively promote and protect the welfare of their constituents and the communities they work with. …

by Sylvia K. Ilahuka, Writer & Editor Books serve as a portal to the world, but when that world is overwhelmingly foreign to the reader, then it can be difficult to relate to the content. This pertains particularly to readers in the non-Western world, especially the African continent which is…

Introducing the 2023 Cohort of the African Visionary Fellowship by Sylvia K. Ilahuka, Writer & Editor It is no secret in the philanthropy universe that Segal Family Foundation is home to a sweet portfolio of excellent African organizations. Our partners embody various aspects of our values while putting in the hard work of serving their communities, and they look…