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The Africa Hubs & Community Development Fund
What if the answer to Africa’s deepest needs wasn’t another aid program — but a crowd? A Giver Army showing up for the crowdless: praying, sharing, and giving together until whole communities are unlocked to flourish.
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173M
people in Sub-Saharan Africa face structural need
60%
of the world's remaining arable land is in Africa
100%
of grants made to vetted, qualified institutions
The Strategy in a Nutshell
One systemic problem. One repeatable solution.
The need across Africa isn’t one crisis — it’s a web of them. The answer isn’t a patchwork of programs. It’s an integrating model, built to multiply.
The Problem · Fragmentation
Hundreds of millions carry urgent need with no crowd behind them.
Structural hunger, youth without work, fragile health, and financial exclusion compound where churches, enterprises, and development efforts work in isolation. Isolated efforts cannot create system change — aid treats symptoms while root causes persist, and the crowdless have no platform, no network, no advocate.
The Solution · Convergence
Generosity Hubs — where coordinated sectors multiply impact.
Each hub converges what already exists into one ecosystem — economic anchor, sector support, and community development, anchored in the local church. When sectors coordinate, impact multiplies. Build one. Prove it. Measure it. Duplicate it region by region — every grant amplified by the Giver Army.
“You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion.”
— 2 Corinthians 9:11
The Crossroads
Every community faces two paths.
Africa will be unlocked by God to see its potential and reach for it — or trapped in a downward spiral to poverty and brokenness. This Fund exists to tip communities toward the way UP.
The Downward Spiral
Poverty and brokenness compound. Need stays invisible. Efforts stay fragmented. Generations inherit the spiral.
The Way UP
Communities unlocked to see their potential and reach for it — faith and development moving as one, sectors converging, fueled by a crowd that shows up.
This Fund exists to tip communities toward the way UP.
Why Africa. Why now.
The greatest need meets the greatest long-term opportunity.
The solution lies within the soil — and the people — of the continent itself.
1B
young people in Africa will be seeking work and purpose by 2050
$50B
of food imported into Africa each year, draining local economies
4%
of the global food supply is exported from Africa — the gap is the opportunity
The Solution — Built to Multiply
The Generosity Hub
Each hub is one repeatable unit of community transformation: a vetted, in-country partner network anchored in the local church. An integrating platform, not a new institution. The methodology is proven by the UP Movement and open to any aligned partner advancing holistic transformation. Design once. Duplicate region by region.
Build
Map the region, gather a vetted local partner network, and form a hub leadership team anchored in the church.
Prove
Activate an economic anchor and stand up holistic value chains that move the dial.
Measure
Track grants and holistic impact, story by story, against seven transformation metrics.
Duplicate
Document what works and send proven leaders to seed the next hub.
What a Hub Delivers
An economic anchor. Sector support. One foundation.
Transformation moves on three layers working as one — each measured, each aligned to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Agriculture & Economic Drivers
Productive land stewardship, value chains, food security, and local enterprise that unlock thousands into productivity and circulate wealth locally.
SDG 2, 8, 9
NextGen
Education, character formation, vocational readiness, and leadership pathways for Africa's youth.
SDG 4, 8.6
Healthcare
Preventive care, access, and resilient community health systems that reach the village.
SDG 3
Finance
Faithful stewardship, savings, capital formation, and household resilience — local finance, zero aid dependency.
SDG 1, 17
Healthy Roots
Servant leadership, dignity and ownership, flourishing relationships, and generosity — the relational soil transformation grows in.
SDG 16
Anchored in the Church
Faith is not a sector but the foundation that undergirds every layer — generosity is a gateway for the Gospel.
Every layer feeds both body and soul. Built once and proven, each hub becomes a sustainable, scalable, duplicatable model for holistic transformation.
The Transformation Flow
It starts with one person. It doesn’t stop there.
Value is created from the individual to the continental level, through 150km hub transformation zones. Restore a person, and you begin to unlock a continent.
Individual
A personal journey of transformation — spiritual, physical, emotional, mental, and professional.
Community
Clusters of families, clubs, and churches growing in unity, trust, and synergy by working together.
Hub
A 150km ecosystem where every sector converges — big enough to model the vision, small enough to unite local leaders.
Country
A network of hubs catalyzing national change — a subset large enough to shift a nation's trajectory.
Continent
Proven models spreading across nations, catalyzing untouched regions to engage and join in.
Restore the individual. Unlock the continent.
Movement-level scale figures reflect the UP Movement’s long-term projections, not commitments of this Fund. The Fund makes grants to qualified institutions; it does not promise financial returns.
The Model
One fund. Two engines.
Engine One
Capital
Contributions flow into a GiveSendGo Charities Giving Fund hosted at TrustBridge Global Foundation — international due diligence, expenditure responsibility, and in-country verification, so funds reach qualified institutions with integrity and speed.
Engine Two
Crowd
Every grant the Fund catalyzes mobilizes a movement of everyday givers — local and international — alongside high-net-worth donors, all converging on the same vetted problem-solvers. Major gifts open the door; the crowd walks through it.
Pooled funds transformed investing. Collaborative Giving Funds are transforming generosity.
Crowd Activation
Every member. Four motions. The same moment.
GIVE
Thousands of gifts compound the catalytic grant — the ripple effect in motion.
PRAY
The crowd intercedes for the community by name — spiritual capital first.
SHARE
The story travels through every member's network — viral, authentic, free.
RECRUIT
Invite the next giver into the Army — another line of hope for the crowdless.
Transparent, Story-Driven Impact
How we define winning
Every grant is tracked, quantified, and reported grant by grant — each hub measured against seven holistic impact metrics aligned to the UN SDGs.
Hubs launched & sustained
Generosity Hubs operating, measured, and ready to duplicate — the unit of multiplication.
Lives moved from crisis to stability
Household income growth, youth in education and enterprise, family flourishing, health, and local capital flow — tracked grant by grant.
Stories that mobilize the next wave
Documented testimonies that turn impact into invitation — the impact → story → giving flywheel.
Trust & Stewardship
Transparency is the foundation.
Independent 501(c)(3)
GiveSendGo Charities, Inc. (EIN 88-3776392) — an independent public charity, separate from GiveSendGo.com LLC.
Qualified institutions only
Grants made exclusively to vetted charitable institutions — never to individuals.
TrustBridge compliance rails
International grants administered through expenditure responsibility and in-country verification.
Grant-by-grant reporting
Every grant tracked, quantified, and published — measurable impact builds trust.
How to Give
Three pathways into the Fund
Give Through Your DAF
Recommend a grant from Fidelity Charitable, Schwab Charitable, NCF, or your DAF sponsor to GiveSendGo Charities for the Africa Hubs Fund.
DAF InstructionsTrustBridge GivingSpace
Give directly — including from outside the US — through the Fund's GivingSpace on the TrustBridge Global portal.
Give on TrustBridgeJoin the Giver Army
Become a monthly member at givesendgo.org — pray, share, and give with the crowd that shows up for the crowdless.
Be the CrowdDonor and member cause preferences are advisory; GiveSendGo Charities retains full charitable discretion over all grants.
Stay connected to the movement.
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GiveSendGo Charities, Inc. is a New Hampshire 501(c)(3) public charity (EIN 88-3776392), 167 South Broadway, Suite 5, Salem, NH 03079. GiveSendGo Charities, Inc. is an independent charitable organization and is not the same entity as GiveSendGo.com LLC; the two organizations share a brand name only. All grants from the Africa Hubs & Community Development Fund are made solely to qualified charitable institutions. International grants are administered in collaboration with TrustBridge Global Foundation under established expenditure responsibility procedures. Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.