Trusts and Foundations
How Trusts and Foundations make a difference
Pierre Marie grew up in a farming family in Jérémie, Haiti, where agriculture paid for her education and sustained her household.
When illness interrupted her studies, she remained determined to build a future rooted in the land. Through training supported by ActionAid Haiti and local partners, Pierre joined over 200 young people learning grafting techniques to restore trees, improve harvests and generate income.
In a context of drought, political instability and rising food insecurity, many young people are hesitant to invest in farming. But grafting has given Pierre renewed hope. She can now transform inedible mango varieties into productive trees and offer services to neighbours for pay.
By equipping young women like Pierre with sustainable skills, ActionAid is strengthening livelihoods, promoting agroecology and ensuring farming knowledge is passed from generation to generation.
I thank the staff of ActionAid that showed me how to develop myself in my neighbourhood. Through their training, I may be broke today but tomorrow I no longer will be as long as there is work to do."
ActionAid Haiti work with a group of over 200 people including Pierre Marie, training them in how to graft crops and providing this service to farmers.
Jean Oscar Augustin/ActionAid
Emergency funding
Trusts and Foundations give generously to our emergency appeals every year, allowing us to work directly with women and girls to provide vital support and save lives. Typically, more women than men are killed by rapid onset disasters like tsunamis and earthquakes and violence against women and girls increases during all emergencies. We empower women to lead the responses and ensure their rights are protected.
Trust based investment
Flexible funds are the most strategic and innovative way to support ActionAid. Trusting us to allocate funds to priority areas shifts power, reduces costs and channels funds to urgent and harder to fund priorities, such as pilot projects.
By choosing to make an unrestricted donation you will be joining our small network of flexible funding trusts and the Players of the People’s Postcode Lottery to form an important pillar of our most strategic funding.
Flexible funding helps ensure funds are used to support the priorities of partners, women’s rights organisations and their communities while reducing the pressure on these agile but over stretched actors.
How we work with Trusts and Foundations
We build long-term relationships with trusts and foundations who support our work to achieve lasting change. We will work with you to identify how our work aligns with objectives of your Trust or Foundation and work together to make the biggest difference.
You will be able to see the difference your support is making through regular reports and updates as well as being able to engage with our work in various ways, including attending supporter events with ActionAid staff and partners.
Contact us
If you are trustee of or have a relationship with a trust and would like to find out more about ActionAid’s work or would like to donate to support our work, please get in touch on uk.foundations@actionaid.org or fill out the form below.
For funders based in Asia please contact Mayur Devolla on mayur.devolla@actionaid.org
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Page updated 18 February 2026
