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2O23
USAID: Fifteen Foundations Endorse Donor Statement on Supporting Locally Led Development
Alliance: Peer dialogue: Funding the future of Africa
Devex: The philanthropic funders giving ‘well-being support’ to grantees
Devex: 5 innovative approaches to funding in philanthropy
KT Press: First Lady applauds Segal Family Foundation work in empowering people, communities
Devex: Trust-based giving won’t relieve all nonprofit challenges, per report
Devex: How the Segal Family Foundation became a top funder in Africa
Aid, Evolved podcast: Andy Bryant of Segal Family Foundation
2O22
News Ghana: African philanthropists call for shifting practices in their operations
The Council on Foundations: The State of Global Giving by U.S. Foundations (page 72)
Devex: Adeso aims to spin $5M Scott grant into endowment, web platform
Center for Effective Philanthropy: In Their Own Words: Funders Share Stories of Change
2O21
Marie Claire UK: The 2021 Future Summit: here’s how you can join key changemakers for a day of inspiring talks on Africa’s dynamic future
TRUE Africa: These New Perspectives on Africa Will Open Your Mind
Stanford Social Innovation Review: Principles for Effective and Empowering International Philanthropy
Bridgespan: Disparities in Funding for African NGOs
Alliance: African Visionary Fund: playing the game to change the game
Devex: How funders can drive more money to African entrepreneurs
Alliance: Pooled funder African Visionary Fund commits $1m in core support to African-led organisations
The Guardian: Aid spending in Africa must be African-led – it needs a Black Lives Matter reckoning
2O2O
Ventures Africa: Future Summit 2020: Re-Engineering Africa’s Future
Ventures Africa: Urbanisation, Africa’s Biggest Future Opportunity
CNBC Africa: Post-COVID-19: How to build solutions for locally led entrepreneurship initiatives
TRUE Africa: Why You Should Attend This Online Summit
The New Times: When local heroes join a country to combat a health threat
The Nation: Innovate: The Case for Local Leadership in the Face of COVID-19
EdWell: 65 Foundations & Investors Who Fund Education Ventures in Africa
CNBC Africa: How start-up companies are navigating the COVID-19 environment
TwentyThirty: What Leadership of the Future Could Look Like
2O19
KTN News Kenya: Segal Family Foundation on building an equitable community of visionary organizations
What Donors Want podcast: What Grantees Want
The New Times: Rwandan startups tipped on innovation
CNBC: Segal Family Foundation launches innovation incubator to nurture Africa’s young inventors
Skoll: Balancing Power Dynamics in Philanthropy
Devex: How funders are fighting philanthropy that is ‘top down, closed door, expert driven’ (mention)
Devex: Local entrepreneurs on funding access: ‘The system is broken’ (mention)
Stanford Social Innovation Review: Three Ways to Improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Philanthropy (mention)
2O18
What Donors Want podcast: A Conversation with Andy Bryant, Segal Family Foundation (read transcript here)
The Council on Foundations & Foundation Center: “The State of Global Giving by U.S. Foundations: 2011-2015.” (page 30)
National Center for Family Philanthropy: How Segal Family Foundation is Deepening Impact with Grantees through Scalable Technology Platforms
Forbes: Four Lessons From an Accidental Philanthropist on Running an Impactful Foundation
2O17
Zodiak Malawi: 21st Century Generation with Martin Segal
Huffington Post: Rays of Sunshine: A Sustainable Social Enterprise featuring The Nyaka AIDS Orphans Project and Musana Community Development Organisation
Huffington Post: Partnership Is More Than a Buzzword featuring GlobeMed, Komera, and Young 1ove
Huffington Post: The African Visionary Fellowship: Why We Built It & Why You Should Support It
How Matters: Avoiding the Black Hole: What happens when funders focus less on themselves and more on grantees
Huffington Post: Social Impact Incubator: Disrupting the Status Quo in Malawi featuring Tingathe
Huffington Post: The Key to Securing Self-Sufficient Futures for Street Kids featuring Pepo La Tumaini and Jitegemee
Huffington Post: Imagining a World with No Gender Gap featuring Parc des Jeunes Entrepreneurs and Women in Technology in Uganda
Huffington Post: At the Forefront of Their Own Change featuring FVS-AMADE Burundi and Spark MicroGrants
Huffington Post: How Community-Led Models Can Lead to Scalable Solutions featuring Lwala Community Alliance and Building Tomorrow
Huffington Post: Can Adolescent Health Education Support Marine Conservation? featuring Blue Ventures and Projet Jeune Leader
Huffington Post: Health for All at the Epicenter of the Global Mortality Crisis featuring Hope Through Health and Muso
Huffington Post: Champions of Social Change featuring Kabubbu Development Project and Nyaka AIDS Orphan Project
Huffington Post: “I Never Imagined Using Dance To Reach Street Kids” featuring MindLeaps and Jitegemee
Huffington Post: Top 6 Ways to Join an African Rising featuring The African SOUP
Huffington Post: How to Survive Climate Change in Rural Uganda featuring Komera and Village Enterprise
2O16
Huffington Post: The Power of Collaboration: Lighting Up Rural Schools in Kenya featuring We Care Solar
Huffington Post: Passionate About Potential featuring Village Enterprise
Huffington Post: Paying It Forward in Tanzania featuring AfricAid
Huffington Post: How Do You Help Girls Make Healthy Reproductive Decisions? Engage The Parents featuring Organic Health Response and Moving the Goalposts
Huffington Post: A Good Connection: Girls’ Schools in East Africa Collaborate for Computer Lab Access featuring WISER and SEGA Girls School
Huffington Post: A Soap Opera for Change featuring Population Media Center
Huffington Post: Sustainability and Active Participation: At the Heart of Improving Lives featuring Dandelion Africa and Rafiki wa Maendeleo Trust
Huffington Post: Designing Mother-Centered Solutions in Uganda: A Maternal Health Network for Vulnerable Women featuring S.O.U.L Foundation
Huffington Post: Success: The Transforming Power of Belief in Yourself featuring Livelyhoods
Huffington Post: Beyond Vertical Solutions: Partnering for Transformational Impact featuring Lwala Community Alliance and Village Enterprise
Huffington Post: Why Communities in East Africa Need To Be Drivers of Their Own Change featuring Spark MicroGrants
Huffington Post: Breaking Down Barriers in Sexual and Reproductive Health Reporting in Africa featuring Reach a Hand Uganda
Huffington Post: Technology in Classrooms Benefit Those Who Need It Most featuring Lwala Community Alliance, Nyaka AIDS Orphans Project, Rafiki wa Maendeleo Trust, and Jifundishe.
Huffington Post: Recipe for Fighting Malnutrition: One Pot, One Hour, Four Colors featuring FVS-AMADE and Gardens for Health International.
Huffington Post: Small and Growing Businesses: Unique as the Stripes on a Zebra featuring Anza and African Entrepreneur Collective
Huffington Post: Giving Patients a Chance in Rural Uganda featuring Soft Power Health
Huffington Post: A Duty to Help One Another featuring Kitovu Mobile
Huffington Post: When Your Fate Is Decided by the Results of One Exam featuring Jifundishe
2O15
Huffington Post: Building a University Program in a Refugee Camp featuring Kepler
Huffington Post: What It Takes to Launch a Program in a Post-War Region featuring Educate!
Huffington Post: EmPOWERing a Nation Through an Energy Crisis featuring Shared Value Africa
Huffington Post: The Positive, Creative Power That Emerges When Ideas Are Shared featuring Rafiki wa Maendoleo Trust, Lwala Community Alliance, and Organic Health Response
Huffington Post: The Secret of Mali’s Ebola Response Success, and How It Could Transform Child Health featuring Muso
Huffington Post: The Only Road Out of Africa featuring The African SOUP
Huffington Post: What We Can Learn From Women Living in the “Saddest” Country on Earth featuring Hope Through Health
New Vision: Ugandan activist wins international award featuring ACODEV
Huffington Post: Building Resilience in Tanzanian Secondary School Girls featuring AfricAid
Huffington Post: More than the Power of Hope: Leaders with Persistence, Passion and Partnerships
Applause Africa: Segal Family Foundation Partners with Outstanding Organizations
Face2Face Africa: Segal Family Foundation Honors Leaders in African Development at Annual Meeting
Huffington Post: Start-Up Hubs Multiply in East Africa featuring Tugende and AFRIpads
Huffington Post: Let’s Have “The Talk”: African Youth Are Not Shying Away From Sex featuring Reach a Hand Uganda
Clinton Global Initiative: Segal Family Foundation: Redefining Efficient and Effective Philanthropy
2O14
Huffington Post: The Season of Giving Back featuring Powering Potential
Huffington Post: Co-Education: A Holistic Approach to Human Rights featuring Indigenous Education Foundation of Tanzania (IEFT)
Huffington Post: HIV Positive: Voiceless and Empowered featuring Africa HEART
Huffington Post: Can a Toilet Eliminate Sexual Violence and Protect a Girl’s Education? featuring Global Grassroots
Huffington Post: Caroline Can’t Wait featuring Sanergy
Huffington Post: Communication Across Continents
Huffington Post: Life-Changing Mini-Marts in Northern Kenya featuring The BOMA Project
Huffington Post: The HeartString: Counting Where it Matters for Maternal Health featuring Mother Health International
Huffington Post: Small NGOs Are the Core of Systemic Change featuring Education For All Children
Huffington Post: Heirloom Health Care for the Poor featuring Lwala Community Alliance
Huffington Post: A Little Less Talk
Huffington Post: African Women Entrepreneurs Leading the Way in Fueling Africa’s Economic Growth featuring Village Enterprise
Huffington Post: How Quarters Led to Clean, Safe Drinking Water in Uganda featuring ChangeALife Uganda
Huffington Post: Building a Community of Creative Collaborators
Huffington Post: Wiggle Room: Making a Case for NGO Partnerships featuring Kenya Education Fund
Huffington Post: The African Youth Movement for Social and Economic Prosperity featuring Angel’s Hub
Huffington Post: Social Impact Incubator Promotes Local Innovation in Burundi
Huffington Post: Reclaiming Philanthropy: Wisdom from Africa’s Philanthropists
Huffington Post: A Challenge to the African Philanthropists: Learn from our Mistakes
Huffington Post: Africa’s Youth: The Future to a Transformed Continent
2O13
Huffington Post: Family Planning: 3 Barriers Only Woman Understand
Huffington Post: Women’s Healthcare in Africa – An Urgent Monthly Need
Huffington Post: Barry Segal: Making a Difference in Africa
Forbes: The Case for Place-based Innovation
Fox News: Radio soap opera used to promote sex ed
Stanford Social Innovation Review: How one group of funders gets the most for the poverty-fighting buck
Sahara Reporters: Bill Clinton Addresses Foundation’s Work In Aiding Africa
PRweb: President Clinton to Deliver Key Note Speech at Segal Family Foundation Annual Meeting
Africa.com: Investing in Women and Igniting Economic Development in Burundi
New Vision: US foundation injects sh20bn for health support
Africa.com: Born in Burundi, This Angel of Africa Built A Village And Saved Thousands of Children
Trust.org: US group aims to boost Burundi family planning via soap opera
Newsweek: Social Change Through Soap Operas
2O12
Wall Street Journal: Support for Teenagers In a Village in Rwanda
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