WE AIM TO BRIDGE THE GAP OF ACCESSIBILITY BETWEEN COMMUNITIES AND DONORS

Acting as an umbrella non-profit to Zambian-run organizations in Macha

THEORY OF CHANGE

WE BELIEVE IN LOCALLY LED INSTITUTIONS

Project1151 prioritizes the voices and decisions of leadership within our international partnership and connection to Macha, Zambia.

Macha is a rural community with various institutions which have worked tirelessly in community organizing efforts and have left a meaningful impact within the region and beyond.

There is currently no platform available where donors can learn about and contribute to these local institutions and the programs they are instituting.

The goal of Project1151 is to bridge the gap of accessibility between potential donors around the world and the organizations whose work in Macha they’re interested in supporting.

We aim to accomplish this by partnering with these trusted organizations and providing a website with ample information both regarding the work happening on the ground and the ways additional funding can expand and develop the work further.

Our hope is that through this umbrella nonprofit we will provide donor accessibility for our partnering organizations in their work -which in turn, is helping to empower their local leaders of tomorrow.

OUR ROOTS

MACHA HAS A RICH AND ONGOING HISTORY OF COLLABORATING WITH COMMUNITIES IN NORTH AMERICA

Through partnering with local institutions, visitors have built meaningful relationships with local residents and have sought to remain connected to people and the community at large.

One of the goals of P1151 is to help facilitate ongoing international connectedness between visitors, potential donors, and the Macha community.

SOCIAL IMPACT STATEMENT

WE REIMAGINE HOW AN INTERNATIONAL NON-PROFIT CAN COLLABORATE AND CREATE EQUITABLE PARTNERSHIPS

We identify equitable partnerships as working honestly alongside our partners and trusting their local leaders to make decisions and use funding how they find most valuable.

We are reimagining how international non-profits operate because too often, western based nonprofits have historically centered and prioritized the voices and influence of their funding sources. In doing so, they lost sight of how an honest and equitable partnership should operate.

We believe locally led partners are independently accomplishing their goals and missions within their approach to ministry and programming.

Project1151 will provide an avenue to help partners receive both international and domestic funding.

Our collaboration is rooted in a strengths-based approach that recognizes the value in connecting donors with like-minded organizations that are doing work they find invaluable.

Project1151 acts as a portal that provides Zambian run institutions a platform on a collective website that facilitates both ongoing donations and special project donations to be made.

SUCCESS METRICS

OUR GOAL IS TO SUPPORT EXISTING INSTITUTION BUT REMAIN INDEPENDENT OF ONE ANOTHER

We’ve ensured that our partners have an already established accountability structure in place and we value and prioritize their feedback.

There are ways in which quantifying data helps measure the impact donations are having, yet regardless of those numbers, our ongoing dialogue and definition of success prioritizes local Zambia partner participation and inclusion.

COLLABORATION OPPORTUNITIES

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We are grateful for those financially supporting our ongoing partnership with local institutions that are equipping, mentoring, and empowering the leaders of tomorrow in Macha, Zambia.

At Project1151, we exist to re-imagine the nonprofit model by centering the decision making + leadership of our partner organizations as they operate educational, social, medical, research and athletic programs.

There’s a long standing connection and history for many of our board members and those working on the ground in Macha, Zambia. Our mission statement informs who we collaborate with and within the process of approving new partnerships, P1151 requires that an already established accountability structure is operating to provide transparency + trust.

We are deeply committed to centering the perspective of local leaders + authority figures as Project1151 continues to partner with the Macha community.

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BUILDING TRUST

BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS
FOR 10+ YEARS

What is now known as Macha Sport + Learning Project was initially introduced to the community as a branch office of an already existing US based Christian organization.

As programming evolved in Macha, it became apparent that collaboration between the U.S. and international office was unbalanced.

Decisions about ministry happening on the ground in Macha were disproportionately being made by a board of directors in the US office that had little connectedness to the culture + community within Macha.

The local ministry and leadership in Macha felt increasingly uncomfortable with an outdated model that operated under the assumption that donors should control how funds are managed cross-culturally.

As leadership within the rebranded Macha Sport + Learning Project sought to gain autonomy from their parent organization, they recognized a prerequisite for a more independent + locally run arrangement would be to establish a new funding avenue, and thus Project1151 was launched.