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The Global Innovation and Education Fund
Help us train and build influential leaders in struggling communities around the world.
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Project Summary
Project Challenge
Project Solution
Impact
Reports
Project Summary
Education is one of the fundamental factors of production, it raises peoples productivity, creativity and promotes entrepreneurship. These are all key factors to breaking the poverty cycle and developing communities which is why we have put so much focus onto mentoring, training and providing opportunities to young, passionate and aspiring individuals who wouldn’t otherwise have access to these resources. A gift to this project is something special as we work towards tackling all 17 United Nations SDGs by 2030.
Project Challenge
We believe that curious, passionate and dedicated young people are the key to our future. As we work on over 65 projects globally we come across young people that we know would make the most amazing ambassador within their community for actioning change and tackling the UN SDG’s. However, due to Poverty, Education and many other factors, they are never presented with an opportunity to break their current life cycle and educate, learn and develop themselves to fulfil this potential.
Project Solution
A gift that will change the world. Our aim for this fund is to break down the barriers of funding for inspirational and potential future influencers of struggling communities. Running projects around the world we are able to identify aspiring young individuals that with support and training could become ambassadors for change within their community. Therefore we aim to fund training programs, internships and seminars that are being held nationally to help grow these ambassadors to lead future change.
The solution to all the global issues is simple, education and empowerment. This project aims to select, recruit and then breakdown the traditional barriers for aspiring young people that would never usually be able to enter training programs, attend conferences or join an apprenticeship within their own Country. By providing course fees, family support, travel bursaries, mentors and access to technology to allow these youths to train and return as ambassadors for tackling the issues locally.
Impact
This project is a long term project but with the potential to put a stop to all 17 global issues including inequality, unemployment, hunger, poverty and much more. We are building an army of young people that have taken your gift and broken the traditional cycle of life that faced them within their community. These ambassadors will help promote education and support other projects to tackle the issues within the community and build opportunities for others to learn and educate.
Reports
Project Report | Oct 6, 2026
Slowed down, but still moving
By William Day | Impact and Operations Officer
Dear friends, donors, and interested people, The past few months have been quiet for this project’s funding page, but Action Change and our partner projects still innovate and educate every day! I’ve recently been in touch with many of our partners to find out what training they need to help move their project forward: some need marketing training, some need fundraising and others need help with leadership and governance. This goes to show how often there’s only so much money alone can do, knowing how to use it in the most efficient way possible to benefit the maximum amount of people is vital. This fund allows us to distribute valuable skills training to people in areas where this wouldn’t otherwise be possible, enabling them to move one step further down the road to sustainability. We are hoping to give this project a boost into the new year via our end-of-year 2026 Impact Advent Calendar campaign which can be found on our website. Thank you so much for your support.
Project Report | Jun 9, 2026
A New Era for Global Innovation
By Tyrone Bennett | CEO of Action Change
Greetings to our wonderful Global Changemakers family!
We are absolutely buzzing to share how this project is completely rewriting the rules of community development across the globe!
If you have been following our journey, you know that over the last fourteen years, this initiative has been nothing short of revolutionary. When we first started out, your donations funded local community members to join general volunteering and capacity-building programs. But over the last few years, as we shifted toward making grassroots programs completely self-sustaining, this project rapidly evolved into our absolute flagship strategy!
Instead of just helping one person upskill for a new personal career, we pivoted to handpicking highly driven, passionate community members worldwide and providing them with full scholarships to become the actual leaders and changemakers their neighborhoods need. The results have been mind-blowing! This exact approach has allowed us to completely hand over more than a hundred projects to local communities, and they are still running successfully today under local leadership!
The hundred and ten thousand dollars raised by our ninety-nine past donors has directly allowed those hundred-plus projects to become fully sustainable, creating a massive ripple effect that impacts over two hundred and fifty thousand people globally. That is real, life-changing impact!
But here is the honest reality: that initial pot of funding is now almost completely empty, which is exactly why we are jumping right back into fundraising with everything we have got! To keep pushing this door open, we face a bit of a hurdle. Out of our amazing network, we don’t currently have any regular monthly donors on the books for this scholarship fund.
Because we rely entirely on one-off donations at the moment, our ability to award new scholarships has to be quite ad-hoc. We raise funds hard, deploy them to a student, and then start from scratch all over again. Imagine if just a small handful of our ninety-nine past supporters felt able to set up a small regular gift of five dollars a month. It would completely change the game, giving us a predictable heartbeat of funding to map out long-term training programs for our next line of candidates with total confidence! If a monthly gift isn’t in the cards for you right now, no worries at all! You can still be an absolute superstar for free just by sharing our link and story with your friends and family.
This brings us straight to a major save the date that we are incredibly excited about!
The GlobalGiving July Bonus Day is officially locked in for July fifteenth and sixteenth! During this special campaign, any unique donation you make up to a hundred dollars will receive a fantastic matching boost from a generous bonus funding pot. It is the absolute best way to stretch your support further, help us refill the pot, and empower the next local leader to transform their community from within.
We are so grateful for your belief in this vision and for helping us build a global army of changemakers. We could not do this without you!
Project Report | Feb 4, 2026
Uniting communities for sustainable development
By shayle Havemann | Project leader
Introduction We believe that curious, passionate and dedicated young people are the key to our future. As we work on over 65 projects globally we come across young people that we know would make the most amazing ambassador within their community for actioning change and tackling the UN SDG’s. However, due to Poverty, Education and many other factors, they are never presented with an opportunity to break their current life cycle and educate, learn and develop themselves to fulfil this potential Report This project is a long term project but with the potential to put a stop to all 17 global issues including inequality, unemployment, hunger, poverty and much more. We are building an army of young people that have taken your gift and broken the traditional cycle of life that faced them within their community. These ambassadors will help promote education and support other projects to tackle the issues within the community and build opportunities for others to learn and educate. A donation of £25 funds a 2 our sustainability seminar. Thank you for your support______________________________________________________________
Oct 17, 2025
Our Young Leaders Are Ready-Let’s Open the Door
By Ricardo Prue | Scholarship Ambassador
Community Member From Nepal Back Home Teaching
Dear Friends, Family & Our Amazing Supporters from Around the World,
Since launching our International Scholarship Program, your support has helped create global changemakers—young leaders who returned home and launched local initiatives in education, climate, and social justice. These aren’t just success stories. They’re proof that access changes everything. With ver 94 iniatives setup from our Scholarships we can really say that this program is the key to fighting all global issues!
But like many programs, this one was hit hard by COVID. While the program never stopped, we simply haven’t had the funding to award many scholarships in recent years. And yet, our connection to the communities we serve has never been stronger.
Through our work with over 40,000 community members across more than 90 community programs, we meet brilliant young minds every day—full of heart, grit, and vision. We know their names, their dreams, and their potential and all they need is handup to learn and gain the skills to put dreams into action.
And that’s what makes this program different: We don’t just fund applications. We handpick and invest in real people we know.
These are youth who have already shown leadership in the toughest conditions—supporting their peers, starting local campaigns, and volunteering in community programs. They don’t just want to attend an event—they want to bring solutions back home and go to programs where they learn and equip themselves with new skills to implement real change.
And now, as our grassroots work expands across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, we have a list of powerful candidates ready to rise. All they need is that one opportunity to represent their community on the global stage.
So today, we’re reaching back out to you—the people who believed in this program from the start. The ones who understand that when one young person gets a chance, entire communities benefit. Please help us share our story, our project, setup a little fundraiser and help us promote the true amazing beauty of this program to our friends and family so we can come together and make real change!
Thank you for helping us keep the door open—quietly, persistently, and with purpose. Now let’s push it wide again.
Global Changemakers Team
Education is one of the fundamental factors of production, it raises peoples productivity, creativity and promotes entrepreneurship. These are all key factors to breaking the poverty cycle and developing communities which is why we have put so much focus onto mentoring, training and providing opportunities to young, passionate and aspiring individuals who wouldn’t otherwise have access to these resources. A gift to this project is something special as we work towards tackling all 17 United Nations SDGs by 2030.
We believe that curious, passionate and dedicated young people are the key to our future. As we work on over 65 projects globally we come across young people that we know would make the most amazing ambassador within their community for actioning change and tackling the UN SDG’s. However, due to Poverty, Education and many other factors, they are never presented with an opportunity to break their current life cycle and educate, learn and develop themselves to fulfil this potential.
A gift that will change the world. Our aim for this fund is to break down the barriers of funding for inspirational and potential future influencers of struggling communities. Running projects around the world we are able to identify aspiring young individuals that with support and training could become ambassadors for change within their community. Therefore we aim to fund training programs, internships and seminars that are being held nationally to help grow these ambassadors to lead future change.
The solution to all the global issues is simple, education and empowerment. This project aims to select, recruit and then breakdown the traditional barriers for aspiring young people that would never usually be able to enter training programs, attend conferences or join an apprenticeship within their own Country. By providing course fees, family support, travel bursaries, mentors and access to technology to allow these youths to train and return as ambassadors for tackling the issues locally.
This project is a long term project but with the potential to put a stop to all 17 global issues including inequality, unemployment, hunger, poverty and much more. We are building an army of young people that have taken your gift and broken the traditional cycle of life that faced them within their community. These ambassadors will help promote education and support other projects to tackle the issues within the community and build opportunities for others to learn and educate.
Project Report | Oct 6, 2026
Slowed down, but still moving
By William Day | Impact and Operations Officer
Dear friends, donors, and interested people, The past few months have been quiet for this project’s funding page, but Action Change and our partner projects still innovate and educate every day! I’ve recently been in touch with many of our partners to find out what training they need to help move their project forward: some need marketing training, some need fundraising and others need help with leadership and governance. This goes to show how often there’s only so much money alone can do, knowing how to use it in the most efficient way possible to benefit the maximum amount of people is vital. This fund allows us to distribute valuable skills training to people in areas where this wouldn’t otherwise be possible, enabling them to move one step further down the road to sustainability. We are hoping to give this project a boost into the new year via our end-of-year 2026 Impact Advent Calendar campaign which can be found on our website. Thank you so much for your support.
Project Report | Jun 9, 2026
A New Era for Global Innovation
By Tyrone Bennett | CEO of Action Change
Greetings to our wonderful Global Changemakers family!
We are absolutely buzzing to share how this project is completely rewriting the rules of community development across the globe!
If you have been following our journey, you know that over the last fourteen years, this initiative has been nothing short of revolutionary. When we first started out, your donations funded local community members to join general volunteering and capacity-building programs. But over the last few years, as we shifted toward making grassroots programs completely self-sustaining, this project rapidly evolved into our absolute flagship strategy!
Instead of just helping one person upskill for a new personal career, we pivoted to handpicking highly driven, passionate community members worldwide and providing them with full scholarships to become the actual leaders and changemakers their neighborhoods need. The results have been mind-blowing! This exact approach has allowed us to completely hand over more than a hundred projects to local communities, and they are still running successfully today under local leadership!
The hundred and ten thousand dollars raised by our ninety-nine past donors has directly allowed those hundred-plus projects to become fully sustainable, creating a massive ripple effect that impacts over two hundred and fifty thousand people globally. That is real, life-changing impact!
But here is the honest reality: that initial pot of funding is now almost completely empty, which is exactly why we are jumping right back into fundraising with everything we have got! To keep pushing this door open, we face a bit of a hurdle. Out of our amazing network, we don’t currently have any regular monthly donors on the books for this scholarship fund.
Because we rely entirely on one-off donations at the moment, our ability to award new scholarships has to be quite ad-hoc. We raise funds hard, deploy them to a student, and then start from scratch all over again. Imagine if just a small handful of our ninety-nine past supporters felt able to set up a small regular gift of five dollars a month. It would completely change the game, giving us a predictable heartbeat of funding to map out long-term training programs for our next line of candidates with total confidence! If a monthly gift isn’t in the cards for you right now, no worries at all! You can still be an absolute superstar for free just by sharing our link and story with your friends and family.
This brings us straight to a major save the date that we are incredibly excited about!
The GlobalGiving July Bonus Day is officially locked in for July fifteenth and sixteenth! During this special campaign, any unique donation you make up to a hundred dollars will receive a fantastic matching boost from a generous bonus funding pot. It is the absolute best way to stretch your support further, help us refill the pot, and empower the next local leader to transform their community from within.
We are so grateful for your belief in this vision and for helping us build a global army of changemakers. We could not do this without you!
Project Report | Feb 4, 2026
Uniting communities for sustainable development
By shayle Havemann | Project leader
Introduction We believe that curious, passionate and dedicated young people are the key to our future. As we work on over 65 projects globally we come across young people that we know would make the most amazing ambassador within their community for actioning change and tackling the UN SDG’s. However, due to Poverty, Education and many other factors, they are never presented with an opportunity to break their current life cycle and educate, learn and develop themselves to fulfil this potential Report This project is a long term project but with the potential to put a stop to all 17 global issues including inequality, unemployment, hunger, poverty and much more. We are building an army of young people that have taken your gift and broken the traditional cycle of life that faced them within their community. These ambassadors will help promote education and support other projects to tackle the issues within the community and build opportunities for others to learn and educate. A donation of £25 funds a 2 our sustainability seminar. Thank you for your support______________________________________________________________
Oct 17, 2025
Our Young Leaders Are Ready-Let’s Open the Door
By Ricardo Prue | Scholarship Ambassador
Community Member From Nepal Back Home Teaching
Dear Friends, Family & Our Amazing Supporters from Around the World,
Since launching our International Scholarship Program, your support has helped create global changemakers—young leaders who returned home and launched local initiatives in education, climate, and social justice. These aren’t just success stories. They’re proof that access changes everything. With ver 94 iniatives setup from our Scholarships we can really say that this program is the key to fighting all global issues!
But like many programs, this one was hit hard by COVID. While the program never stopped, we simply haven’t had the funding to award many scholarships in recent years. And yet, our connection to the communities we serve has never been stronger.
Through our work with over 40,000 community members across more than 90 community programs, we meet brilliant young minds every day—full of heart, grit, and vision. We know their names, their dreams, and their potential and all they need is handup to learn and gain the skills to put dreams into action.
And that’s what makes this program different: We don’t just fund applications. We handpick and invest in real people we know.
These are youth who have already shown leadership in the toughest conditions—supporting their peers, starting local campaigns, and volunteering in community programs. They don’t just want to attend an event—they want to bring solutions back home and go to programs where they learn and equip themselves with new skills to implement real change.
And now, as our grassroots work expands across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, we have a list of powerful candidates ready to rise. All they need is that one opportunity to represent their community on the global stage.
So today, we’re reaching back out to you—the people who believed in this program from the start. The ones who understand that when one young person gets a chance, entire communities benefit. Please help us share our story, our project, setup a little fundraiser and help us promote the true amazing beauty of this program to our friends and family so we can come together and make real change!
Thank you for helping us keep the door open—quietly, persistently, and with purpose. Now let’s push it wide again.
Global Changemakers Team
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