Alumni Project Fund Archives | Operation Groundswell

24 Jan Breaking Ground and Building a Brighter Future with Tzibal

Posted at 21:27h in OG Headquarters, Alumni Project Fund, Central America

Eco-bricks. Bottle Bricks. Recycled bottles stuffed with inorganic trash. This is what brought OG to a small indigenous Q’eqchi Maya community by the name of Tzibal. Working alongside a grassroots organization, our 2011 Guatemala team helped to construct new school rooms for the community....

03 Jan Everything You Need to Know About the Alumni Project Fund

Posted at 18:28h in OG Headquarters, Alumni Project Fund

Every year, our Alumni Project Fund provides kick-starter grants to ignite solutions to some of our world’s most pressing problems. We've put together a couple of videos to tell you everything you ever wanted to know about the Project Fund but were too afraid to...

12 Dec It All Starts with a Cow: 2016 Alumni Project Fund Winner

Posted at 20:52h in OG Headquarters, Alumni Project Fund, Alumni Network, East Africa

This is a story of a badass group of women in Kenya leading the charge to create change within their community. Pamoja Tuinuke, a farmers empowerment program based out of Nyeri, was united and founded by women-led self-help groups spread across thirty-eight communities to address local...

14 Apr 2015 Alumni Project Fund Winner

Posted at 18:47h in OG Headquarters, Alumni Project Fund, East Africa

Operation Groundswell’s Alumni Project Fund was created to support our alumni in their quest to create positive change around the world, while continuing to engage with OG and our global community. This year, our Alumni Project Fund Committee received yet another batch of strong proposals for...

30 Jan Revisiting Ubuntu Blocks

Posted at 02:45h in Alumni Project Fund

Written by Bryan Adams, OG Alumni, Haiti 2012. With the support from Operation Groundswell's Alumni Project Fund, the Ubuntu Blocks Project in Port-au-Prince has established a processing facility to efficiently produce the recycled polystyrene building blocks used in housing construction. In order to provide blocks to ongoing residential...