23rd Jun 2023
Sharing about KujaLink with Partners and Funders
23rd Jun 2023The success of KujaLink rests firmly on the quality and quantity of the partnerships we build with networks, partners, funders and individual organizations.
Since March 2023 we’ve worked with the Climate Justice-Just Transitions Donor Collaborative (CJ-JT) team to recruit and onboard to our platform local and national organizations around the world working for climate justice. This partnership has dramatically expanded our reach and increased the potential for meaningful connections between local and national civil society organizations and donors committed to supporting climate change initiatives.
Members of the KujaLink team traveled to Bonn for the CJ-JT Donor Collaborative retreat in June 2023. The meeting was a transformative experience for the KujaLink team. Through active participation in the co-design process, we gained valuable insights into the power of collective action and identified crucial gaps in philanthropy for climate justice. The outcomes of this retreat will shape our future strategies and engagements, enabling us to better support the resourcing of CSOs working on climate justice issues.
The KujaLink team, alongside other Adeso colleagues, have been invited to present the platform at two upcoming events. The first is the Partner Expo by the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Refugees Initiative, taking place on June 2023. The second is the 8th East Africa Philanthropy Conference, scheduled for June 28-30, 2023. These events provide us with valuable opportunities to showcase KujaLink, build new partnerships, and expand our reach.
We are developing plans for engagement with WINGS at their forum in October 2023 in Nairobi and the Shift the Power Summit in December 2023 in Bogota.
All about our new What’s New section
15th Jun 2023Welcome to our new What’s New page. We will provide regular updates on significant upgrades to the site as well as progress updates towards our goals.
We’ve been in the soft launch phase with the KujaLink platform since January 2023. Over the last 6 months we’ve made major upgrades to the site including revised organizational profiles pages, new search capabilities and a new member landing page. All of the changes came at the suggestions of our users and our community management team with the aim of making the registration and profile creation process simpler and improving the ability of users to find each other via the search functionality on the site.
In May we launched an educational webinar series with partners. These first webinars focused on improving the access to funding for groups working on Climate Change and Climate Justice with the Climate Justice-Just Transition Donor Collaborative and Youth-Led and Youth-Serving organizations with Global Fund for Children, Restless Development and CIVICUS. We will host our first Spanish language webinar in June 2023 and continue with both regional and global webinars through the end of the year.
Our goals, for the rest of 2023, are to continue to improve the current functionality of the site, recruit more organizations and funders to join the site and create profiles, expand our fundraising education offerings and work with funders to embed the KujaLink platform as part of their grantmaking processes. We are aiming for a public launch in early 2024.
Check back here for more updates and don’t hesitate to reach out to community@kujalink.org with any questions or offers of partnership!