Our grantees regularly tell us they couldn’t have completed their education without the MMEG grant—whether they used it to pay tuition, conduct research, or cover daycare bills. MMEG offers one of the few education grants that has no restrictions on how the funds are used, nor an upper age limit.
We value our partnership with our grantees, but MMEG could not award all the grants we do were it not for a number of important partnerships with other organizations.
MMEG’s first partnership ever, since our formation in 1981 and continuing to this day, was with what is now called World Bank Family Network. WBFN is our physical and administrative home within the World Bank. World Bank families and staff were the first donors to MMEG and remain our primary source of individual donations—and volunteers—as well as supporting our annual fundraiser, the MMEG International Arts & Crafts Market.
Almost as long-lived is our partnership with the BankFund Credit Union. MMEG’s funds were deposited with BankFund early on, and to this day the credit union serves us not only in a professional capacity, facilitating all our transactions with MMEG grantees, but also in a very personal way via its dedicated staff volunteers and by collecting and exchanging foreign currency donations for MMEG. For many years, BankFund has also provided a generous donation towards one grant each in MMEG’s US-Canada and Trinity Washington University programs.
We were thrilled to receive a generous donation last month from the international consulting firm Ernst & Young (EY), which describes its purpose as “building a better working world.” The donation from EY will be allocated to fund one grant in our US-Canada program and two grants in our Trinity Washington University program
For the past several years, MMEG has benefited from agreements with South Africa’s Stellenbosch University, University of Cape Town, and University of Pretoria. Recognizing MMEG’s rigorous selection process, these universities have agreed to contribute 50% of the cost of grants issued to selected grantees from their schools.
Most recently, MMEG has signed an agreement with 1% for the Planet, which certifies nonprofits that contribute to vital strategies for our planet and future generations. 1% for the Planet has designated MMEG as an organization to which businesses can donate 1 percent of their revenue in support of a more sustainable future.
On March 6, MMEG will participate in the International Women's Day Agora, an event hosted by Yas Media featuring international female vendors and inspirational stories. We welcome this opportunity to talk about the exceptional women MMEG has supported.
We celebrate the women we support, and we are grateful to our partners who help us do so.
