Chidi Koldsweat is the founder and CEO, Donors for Africa Foundation, where she works to break cycles of poverty by strengthening the capacity of African Governments, philanthropy organizations, social innovators, NGOs, impact led businesses and social enterprises to access funds, achieve their vision towards the SDG’s and build sustainable organizations. Recently, her organization launched the Social Innovators Bootcamp, where 30 organizations were selected from over 232 applications to participate in a 3months Bootcamp and pitch competition, where they will access funds after. Donors for Africa has trained 315 nonprofits, raised over $49,000 dollars in funds for indigenous organizations, provided technical expertise to over 40 businesses and impact-driven organizations and continues to reach over 12 thousand people weekly via the organization’s learning platform where we share information on global development trends as well as the knowledge that can catalyze the impact of their work. With over twelve years of experience in the development space, working across sectors such as health, gender (women and girls in leadership, business, and politics), organizational management and sustainability strategy, she is a recipient of numerous awards and fellowships and continues to work to create long-term solutions that improves the lives of Africans through policy formulation and implementation.
You can speak to me about nonprofit management, strategy, growth, donor attraction, and retention, institutional management.