Integrated Set of Baixada Maranhense Projects

This amendment provides Baixada with an additional year and $101,000 to strengthen its community foundation model and its fundraising capacity.

This includes increasing training opportunities for youth, promoting the development of new community tourism routes, promoting more engagement with RedColaborar members, and organizing new calls for proposals in the territory where Baixada works. As part of the amendment, Baixada is mobilizing an additional $93,100 in counterpart funding to the grant agreement.

Website Blurb: Community philanthropy in Brazil is expanding through the efforts of small groups of committed organizations such as Instituto Comunitrio Baixada Maranhense (Baixada), a community foundation in the poorest state in Brazil, Maranho.

At the IAF, we strengthen the ability of local organizations to unlock additional public and private resources for long-term development.

Our grantee partner Baixada works to advance community philanthropy in the region of Baixada Maranhense in northeastern Brazil by mobilizing resources for local community organizations and projects, organizing ongoing vocational training programs, setting up testing laboratories to promote agricultural and technological innovation, and fostering networks of community organizations.