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Collaborative Learning Initiative Program

  • Organization: Issroff Family Foundation
  • Type: Other
  • Location: Global
  • Funding: Fully Funded

The Collaborative Learning Initiative is designed to strengthen leadership and organizational capacity among early-stage NGOs and community-based organizations working in education. Its purpose is to equip leaders with the skills, networks, and strategies needed to improve outcomes for children and youth in East and Southern Africa. Participants engage in weekly executive-level learning sessions with sector experts, structured peer-to-peer mentoring, and facilitated leadership meet-ups. Activities include developing a comprehensive 3 to 5 year strategic plan, professional fundraising training, governance workshops, and cross-cohort convenings to expand sector connections. The program emphasizes collaboration, emotional support, and context-relevant solutions, giving leaders the tools to amplify their organizational impact. Benefits - Weekly learning sessions with experts in finance, HR, governance, fundraising, and strategy - Structured peer mentoring and alumni learning sessions - Facilitated in-person leadership meet-ups and cross-cohort convenings - Strategic networking support and introductions to funders - Eligibility for conference stipends and site visit travel grants - Comprehensive 3 to 5 year Strategic Plan developed during the program - Lifetime alumni engagement with sector leaders

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Collaborative Learning Initiative Program

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Opportunity type
Other
Funding
Fully Funded
Location
Global
Deadline
Rolling

About this opportunity

The Collaborative Learning Initiative is designed to strengthen leadership and organizational capacity among early-stage NGOs and community-based organizations working in education. Its purpose is to equip leaders with the skills, networks, and strategies needed to improve outcomes for children and youth in East and Southern Africa.

Participants engage in weekly executive-level learning sessions with sector experts, structured peer-to-peer mentoring, and facilitated leadership meet-ups. Activities include developing a comprehensive 3 to 5 year strategic plan, professional fundraising training, governance workshops, and cross-cohort convenings to expand sector connections. The program emphasizes collaboration, emotional support, and context-relevant solutions, giving leaders the tools to amplify their organizational impact.

Benefits

  • Weekly learning sessions with experts in finance, HR, governance, fundraising, and strategy
  • Structured peer mentoring and alumni learning sessions
  • Facilitated in-person leadership meet-ups and cross-cohort convenings
  • Strategic networking support and introductions to funders
  • Eligibility for conference stipends and site visit travel grants
  • Comprehensive 3 to 5 year Strategic Plan developed during the program
  • Lifetime alumni engagement with sector leaders

Who can apply

  • Lead a legally registered NGO or community‑based organization (2–8 years old)
  • Operate with an annual budget of $25,000–$200,000
  • Organization must directly benefit children and youth through education
  • Live in or near the community served
  • Work full‑time with at least 2 additional staff members
  • Commit 5+ hours per week to sessions and assignments
  • Willing to develop a 3–5 year strategic plan during the program
  • Working (full-time or part-time)
  • Running a project or organization

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Good to know

  • +Money flows to the participant's organisation: strategic mid-year and end-of-year grants, conference support stipends, site visit travel grants, plus funder connections
  • +Eligibility is unusually precise: leads a not-for-profit as Executive Director, lives in or near the community served, at least two additional full-time team members, organisation 2 to 8 years old, budget 25,000 to 200,000 dollars, based in Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Malawi or Zimbabwe
  • +Concrete deliverable: participants graduate with a three to five year strategic plan, plus weekly executive sessions
  • +Time commitment stated honestly up front: at least five hours a week for a one-year programme
  • +Small cohort of 15 to 20 leaders, with lifetime alumni engagement

Worth checking yourself

  • !The closing date could not be confirmed on the organisation's own pages. This listing shows no deadline, which does not mean applications are open indefinitely. Check the official page before you plan around it.
  • !The APPLY button is not an application. It is an expression-of-interest form, and the form itself says submitting it does not guarantee acceptance
  • !No application deadline exists to publish. Recruitment starts around April in the year before the programme year, so a young leader should expect to wait rather than apply now
  • !The applicant must be a sitting Executive Director of a registered NGO with staff and a budget. Most of LOT's audience will not be eligible
  • !Geographically restricted to seven countries in East and Southern Africa
  • !The grant amounts are not quantified anywhere

What we could not confirm

  • ?Deadline

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Collaborative Learning Initiative Program
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