Africa Fundraising Incubator (AFI) Program 2026 – YOA

Deadline: August 14, 2026

Applications are open for the Africa Fundraising Incubator (AFI) Program 2026. The Africa Fundraising Incubator – AFI (beforehand known as the Africa Impact Fundraising grant – AIFG) is a multi-stage capability-constructing program designed by the New Africa Fund (NAF) to equip African organizations with the sensible expertise, assets, and institutional help wanted to construct sustainable funding pipelines, broaden their attain, and deepen their impression.

The program consists of the next:

• Online Training: Selected organizations will obtain specialised coaching within the foundational expertise wanted to run profitable small-donor fundraising campaigns.
• 30-Day Challenge Month: Participants will put their new expertise into follow by launching reside fundraising campaigns, with the OPPORTUNITY to obtain as much as $5,000 in matching funds from the New Africa Fund.
• Fiscal Sponsorship: To scale back administrative limitations, all collaborating organizations will obtain 12 months of free fiscal sponsorship.
• In-Person Training in Kigali, Rwanda: Top-performing organizations will probably be invited to an all-bills-paid, week-lengthy, in-individual boot camp centered on strengthening their fundraising and management expertise. This coaching consists of periods in monetary administration, advertising and marketing, communications, grant writing, donor analysis, cultivation and retention, particular person donor campaigns, and native fundraising methods.

Benefits

• Selected organizations will obtain foundational coaching on particular person donor campaigns.
• Selected organizations will take part in a 30-day fundraising problem, with as much as $5,000 USD in matching funds out there.
• All collaborating organizations will obtain 12 months of free fiscal sponsorship from the New Africa Fund, with the opportunity of extension.
• Top-performing organizations will probably be invited to per week-lengthy intensive workshop in Kigali to deepen their fundraising experience.
• Additional efficiency-primarily based fundraising alternatives will probably be supplied as this system develops.

Eligibility

• Only organizations registered in one of many 54 African Union member states are eligible to apply.

Application

Before you apply be sure you have collected the next paperwork to add as PDFs:

• Organization’s Registration Document
• Most latest exterior audit. If no audit is accessible add 5 months monetary statements for all accounts.

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to AFI Program.