Lightup Impact

Early stage gender, health & development social organizations in our network struggle to secure seed funding due to the lack of credibility, visibility and traction. Development funding is often channeled to established social organizations who have already proved the quality of the work that is implemented. So how can we help early stage organizations to kick-off and increase their impact?

We develop programs that give credibility, access to seed funding and partnership opportunities to our member organizations. We prove their credibility not only by reviewing their documents and impact reports but by hands-on experience in implementing projects with them. Only founders who are part of our community can apply to enter our programs and will have the chance to collaborate with us on development & research projects. Seed funding for such projects is provided by joint crowdfunding campaigns with our member organizations or via collaborations with business partners.