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The Kiisi Trust Fund is a donor-advised-fund managed by TrustAfrica in Nigeria. The Trust Fund, which had its genesis in the environmental rights struggle of the Ogoni peoples in the 1960s, is a grantmaking fund dedicated to the benefit of the Ogoni people in Rivers State, and gives out small grants for education, health, community development, skills development, women’s programs, environment, and other benefits for the Ogoni people and their communities.
TrustAfrica is an Africa-wide grantmaking foundation that is dedicated to fostering democratic governance and equitable development and works principally through collaboration and partnership with like-minded institutions and donors. It is incorporated in the United States as a 501(c)(3) taxexempt organization and has a location agreement with the government of Senegal. It has program presence in several African countries, maintains partnerships with several of Africa’s leading institutions, and has built a formidable reputation as a strategic grantmaker and an effective convener. Since 2006, TrustAfrica has supported well over 300 cutting-edge projects in 35 countries, with a focus on some of the most challenging countries which are often unreached by traditional funding institutions. TrustAfrica has a core staff from different countries, based in Dakar, Harare, Johannesburg, and Monrovia, and now has staff presence and a network of program advisors and consultants in all the sub-regions of the continent, as well as peer reviewers in over 20 African countries.
