Airbnb is happy to share the most recent recipients of Airbnb Group Fund grants, which embody greater than 160 organizations making a distinction in 30+ nations throughout six continents.
Launched in 2020, the Airbnb Group Fund is a $100 million initiative to immediately help native communities and the individuals who reside there. Every year, Airbnb donates to organizations which are supporting and strengthening communities world wide, together with donations made in partnership with native hosts in lots of of those communities.
Every year, we’re proud to companion with hosts to determine essential points and lots of the non-profit organizations to obtain donations. Airbnb hosts are deeply related to their communities and by involving them on this course of, we intention for the Fund to drive significant native influence. As in earlier years, hosts helped direct a majority of the donations.
Airbnb Group Fund recipients
This yr’s Group Fund grants had been directed to organizations centered on three challenge areas recognized by the Airbnb Host Advisory Board as essential to the worldwide host neighborhood: financial empowerment, environmental sustainability, and ending abuse and exploitation.
The next nationwide and regional organizations are amongst these receiving donations.
Organizations receiving donations within the Asia-Pacific area embody:
- Community Chest in Korea to advertise world citizenship by empowering younger Koreans to volunteer overseas and make a direct influence;
- Flourish Australia to reinforce its Girls and Kids’s Program, offering help to moms going through homelessness.
- RCF in Japan to help the restoration and preservation of cultural traditions within the Noto Peninsula, a area impacted by earthquakes early final yr.
Throughout Europe and the UK, organizations receiving grants embody:
- The Fondation du Patrimoine in France to help the preservation of endangered historic houses and buildings whereas creating financial alternatives for native communities within the French countryside.
- Safe Ireland to help their work to help survivors of home, intercourse, gender and sexuality-based violence.
- Women’s Aid to help their work to finish home abuse towards ladies and youngsters within the UK.
Grants directed to organizations throughout Africa embody:
- Afrilabs to help over 500 innovation hubs and hundreds of entrepreneurs throughout greater than 50 African nations.
- Digify Africa in South Africa to reinforce their mission to to bridge the digital divide amongst Africa’s youth and equip them with digital expertise to enhance their livelihoods.
- Global Give Back Circle to help financial empowerment and expertise growth for greater than 300 younger ladies in Kenya.
In Latin America, organizations receiving grants embody:
- Consejo Coordinador de Mujeres Empresarias in Mexico to allow coaching for the professionalization and formalization of ladies entrepreneurs in Jalisco so as to foster feminine management and promote sustainable financial growth.
- Fundación Renacer in Colombia to help the group’s work combatting human trafficking and exploitation.
- Instituto Alok in Brazil to contribute to the reforestation of an space equal to 200 soccer fields in Pará and the restoration of 70,000 sq. meters in Acre.
Grants directed to organizations throughout the USA and Canada embody:
Members of native Host Clubs, that are led by volunteer hosts, nominated native, community-based non-profit organizations making a distinction of their communities. Members of 85 Host Golf equipment – almost double from final yr – representing greater than 30 nations chosen organizations to obtain grants, together with Save Jeju Sea in South Korea; La Grande Casa in Italy; Yachana Foundation in Ecuador; and Paso del Norte Center of Hope in Texas.
Many recipients of Group Fund grants shared how the donation will help their work.
The Airbnb Group Fund in motion
Thus far, the Airbnb Group Fund has distributed greater than $36 million to non-profit organizations in almost 70 nations, with hosts offering enter every year. Organizations who beforehand obtained Airbnb Group Fund grants have shared how these donations have supported their work:
To study extra concerning the Airbnb Group Fund and this yr’s recipients, please go to the Airbnb Community Fund website.
This yr’s Airbnb Group Fund grants had been distributed from July 2024 via early 2025. Airbnb works with grantmaking companions to help due diligence and facilitate fee to many nonprofit grantees.
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