We incubate so many start ups and social enterprises at USIU Africa, and we are excited to see MoFund Africa taking a different approach to philanthropy and empowering locally led solutions.

MoFund and its work is what Africa needs to unlock this funding quagmire that African founded social enterprises never seem to get out of. Fundraising is so difficult and tedious, and time consuming for so little results with condescending grant makers, and others who make the process excruciatingly difficult.

Fundraising is a daunting task, and genuine African founded and led initiatives struggle with the right donor speak, and receive limited support in resource mobilization for their work. Its exciting to see the approach taken by MoFund in trust building that removes the barriers to successful fundraising and increases direct grant making

Why is it that only 0.2% of total aid coming to Africa is going directly to African led and founded organizations? Why is it that localization is now slowly being interpreted to mean locally registered international organizations? The only way to strengthen local organizations is through building trust with grant makers who are more than willing to collaborate, but have burnt their fingers one too many times while at it. I hope MoFund can make a dent in rebuilding that trust, one grant maker at a time.