CTII is one of 70 organisations chosen from over 4000 applicants across the continent of Africa to take part in the 3rd New Africa Fund cohort. We are now eligible to benefit from their AIFG: the Africa Impact Fundraising Grant.
Our achievements, including the YIIP Schools program, and an effective 2025 year with dialogs and interfaith and intercultural social events, caught the eye of the NAF. The AIFG model meets all funds raised up to $5000 US with matching donations, putting the onus on us to own and manage our fundraising. The last cohort raised 70% of its money from inside the African continent, making it a largely indigenous endeavor.
March is the “challenge month” in which we as the CTII focus on our funding goal. All funds raised in March will qualify for the matching AIFG grant. And as we are aware this is also Ramadan, and the season of Lent: a time of renewal through reflection, discipline and giving.
Venture philanthropy such as that of the NAF, seeks to use many of the venture capitalist’s tools, like matched funding, but with an outcome of social impact rather than profit.
Previous grantees known to us include the late Imam Muhsin Hendricks’s Al-Gurbaah, the only South African organisation in amongst a continent-wide range of NGOs.
As we see it, funding is an extension of what we do already… the creation of community across faith and cultural boundaries. Via dialog and friendship we seek to bridge divides and create new common ground for the fulfillment of the ubuntu spirituality that is at our heart.
Funding is one expression of our interdependence, where resources are brought together for the common good; this good includes our talents, our time, tithes/treasure, and crucially our ties – the connections with others and the being part of a network.
(We have started a BackaBuddy crowdfunding campaign before we knew about our being chosen for the NAF and it remains active, however we are targeting the New Africa Fund over the month of March).
If you care about interfaith and intercultural connection, please consider how you might be part of our challenge.
Commit to communicating with 5 people over March with a possibility of raising funds for CTII and its programs through them or via them to other potentially interested partners. Take time to explain how our unique organisation creates dialog, builds community, and promotes interfaith and intercultural education with a strong youth focus.
- See yourself as an empowered part of our resourcing and fundraising. Include yourself!
- Commit time to building long-term interfaith and intercultural relationships.
- Share your ties communicating with anyone you feel might be interested in the CTII.
- Be a direct giver of treasure – your money or tithes, or invite others to give.
- Offer your talents through creative expressions of interconnectedness and network building.
Contact us if you are interested and not already part of our community.