Spring Development Initiative

1. Enhance the capacity of community leaders and, 2. Improve the lives of local communities.
We will provide economic opportunity to direct beneficiaries of our program and indirect beneficiaries of resulting community projects. Indirect beneficiaries will include farmers, artisans, NGOs, businesses, teachers, health workers, and private school and hospital owners.
We will improve lives by promoting behavioral and culture change, investing in local people and communities, and increasing the use of innovative, evidence-based strategies to achieve lasting results in governance, health, education, and enterprise.

Our approach supports positive social change by combining mentoring and partner development with direct community engagement. This methodology generates a multiplier effect – an indispensable component of all our programs – for maximum impact.
We want to see increased innovation, partnership and the use of research-based strategic plans by a critical mass of development stakeholders towards improving the quality of life in a community.
We will use a train-the-trainers approach. We will begin by engaging our partners directly, training, supporting and working with them. In the long run, we want the numbers of people engaged to increase as our partners go on to train, support and work with others. This method will facilitate a critical mass of people contributing to community development. The results will help to build a model for training volunteers and effectively implementing projects.

At this time, we are a volunteer-based organization with no paid staff but with very dedicated and qualified volunteers. Efforts are being made to increase our capacity by adding some paid staff. In the meantime, we are able to attract high-quality volunteers for specific projects from sites like Catch-A-Fire, TapRoot, VolunteerMatch, etc. Also, our committed board of directors have decades of professional experience in the private, public and non-profit sectors.

1. 2000 beneficiaries impacted for Global Youth Service Day with youth voter registration promotions, hand washing skills, food and other donations.
2. Over 500 impacted in 10 physical surveys, stakeholder engagements and community needs assessments completed.
3. 350 youth impacted by drug abuse awareness campaign.
4. 80 insecticide-treated mosquito nets donated and 98 adults and children de-wormed in Gombe, and Akwa Ibom.
5. 30 participants in a successful World Health Day 2018 social media campaign.
6. 2 scholarship beneficiaries and 10 recommendations for personal or career development.
7. Over 50 partners so far featured in The Partner monthly magazine.
8. 1 of 8 Ambassadors Small Grants proposals submitted to the US Embassy pre-selected for funding.
9. 26 Benue students activated as peace advocates.
10. 9 INEC Officers engaged and surveyed.