Our funding partners
Our work wouldn’t be possible without the generous and committed support of our wonderful funding partners. Below are just some of those who support our work alongside farming families in East Africa to tackle poverty and build sustainable livelihoods.
We’d love to hear from you to explore partnership opportunities that will create lasting change for rural farming communities. Please do get in touch with our Programme Funding team to discuss further: Programme.Funding@rippleeffect.org
Ripple Effect has been delivering dairy for development projects with the support of Jersey Overseas Aid since 2016. Working with dairy farmers to improve the food their cows eat, their health and wellbeing, and their milk production, the partnership has lifted thousands of farmers out of poverty and enriched and improved their diets. Beginning in Kenya, JOA now supports our work in several locations across Rwanda and Ethiopia. Of the 12,000 dairy farmers working with Ripple Effect in the Inka Nziza (“good cow”) project in Rwanda, 98% were food secure after three years.
We have partnered with The Starbucks Foundation since 2018 to positively impact women and girls in coffee-growing communities so that they can build brighter futures for themselves and their families. The Starbucks Foundation is currently supporting our work in Nyaruguru and Rwamagana districts in Rwanda, and in Bensa district in Ethiopia. Previous projects supported by The Starbucks Foundation have had a transformative impact on the lives of smallholder farming families through training in sustainable agriculture techniques, gender equality, women’s leadership and enterprise development. By the end of our Empowering Coffee Communities project in Rwanda (2021-24), 97% of households were food secure.
Our partnership with Riverford Organic Farmers began in 2010, grounded in a shared commitment to sustainable agriculture. Much of Riverford’s funding has been pledged to Uganda. From 2020-2023, Riverford supported the ‘Push-Pull’ initiative, so called after an innovative intercropping technique which helps eradicate pests, restore soil health and improve yields. Of the 400 participating families, 96% were food secure by project end. Today, Riverford’s donations are fully unrestricted, allowing us to direct funding where it's needed most – from tackling child malnutrition in Burundi, to improving equine welfare in Kenya.
Key partners
Flexible funding
Whilst many of the generous grants we receive tend to be designated for specific projects, we also value flexible funding. Unrestricted grants enable Ripple Effect to be community led in programme design and flexible in addressing community needs in different ways. Flexible funding also allows us to be agile in responding to rapidly changing situations in our programmes and innovative in piloting new initiatives.
We welcome conversations to explore opportunities for partnering with us in this vital and strategic type of funding.
Contact us
For more information or to explore a partnership with Ripple Effect, please do get in touch with us: Programme.Funding@rippleeffect.org
Project blogs
Read about the success of our Ethiopian ECCO project funded by The Starbucks Foundation.
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Find out what impact our Living with Wildlife project, funded by UK Aid Match, has achieved three years on.
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