Projects We Fund

Entrepreneurial Projects

Traditional donor models often avoid employing local employees in key managerial positions, and therefore rarely support small, grass-root NGOs.
Traditional donor models often lack the capacity to critically evaluate entrepreneurial and venture projects.
Step Safe believes in empowering local talent and therefore provides seed funding for promising new projects devised at the local level by experienced NGO teams.

Smaller, local NGOs often have difficulty obtaining full project funding.
Traditional aid models do not have the capacity to meet the unique needs of small-scale projects.
Step Safe values these small-scale projects, as they often directly meet the needs of communities in poor countries.
Step Safe provides funding for small-scale projects.
Step Safe gladly partners with other funding sources to provide local NGOs the funds they need to 'fill the gap' in their project budgets.

Traditional donors are rarely able to offer local NGOs continual or overlapping grants on a long-term basis.
Changes in economic conditions, such as inflation, often are not accounted for when traditional donor agencies award funding grants.
Step Safe’s operating budget funding has been designed to allow local NGO partners to continue providing vital services to the poor between major funding grants.

Traditional donors often provide funding in the form of set grants.
Thus, institutional donors may not have the capacity to provide additional funding to local NGO partners when unforeseen local issues arise.
These circumstances could include civil unrest, natural disasters, or economic pressures such as sharp fluctuations in food and oil prices.
Our local partners have a special relationship with project beneficiaries and can best provide services in emergency situations.
Step Safe provides short-term emergency funding to its most trusted local partners to alleviate the suffering of the poorest of the poor, women and disabled individuals.