Chidi Koldsweat is the Founder/ CEO Donors for Africa Basis. At this world growth agency, she works actively with governments, funding Establishments, the personal sector, philanthropy organisations, NGOs, and social affect leaders to interrupt the cycles of poverty in Africa.
Her core competence is offering enterprise and social options in sustainability for social entrepreneurs. She has skilled over 5000+ social affect organisations throughout Africa, raised over $30m in direct and oblique funding, and reached over 51,000 particular person accounts, offering weekly data to the event neighborhood.
Chidi launched the primary ever digital African Social Innovators Bootcamp in 2019 and since then has strengthened the capability of over 120 civil society and entrepreneurs from 30 African nations serving to them to collectively elevate over $850,000 in funds. She closed a worldwide partnership with Meta working with Donors for Africa to scale affect to communities in Anglophone West Africa.
Koldsweat additionally launched African Ladies in Growth Function-a programme centered on telling the tales of African girls working solely in growth who’re reworking their communities and nations individually, globally, or as an organisation.
Chidi was drafted into the African Youth Entrance on COVID-19, launched by The African Union (AU) Workplace of the Youth Envoy and the Africa Centre for Illness Management & Prevention (Africa CDC). She participated in and coordinated regional digital consultative periods with younger folks from completely different components of Africa, discussing the affect of COVID-19 and making suggestions to Africa governments. She contributed to coverage briefs offered to steering committees of the African process power and the AU paper on COVID-19, highlighting the affect on youth and the way forward for Africa we would like.
Chidi has over 14 years of expertise working in well being, gender (girls and ladies in management, enterprise, and politics), organisational administration, and sustainability. She holds a management certificates in Worldwide Organisational Administration from the College of Geneva and a Grasp’s in Historical past & Worldwide Relations from the College of Lagos.
Koldsweat is a recipient of a number of awards. In 2014, CEO World gave Chidi an award as a finalist, Africa’s most influential lady in administration, enterprise & public service (civil society class). In the identical 12 months, she was chosen by the Chinese language Embassy to take part within the three weeks cultural alternate programme underneath The Chinese language Affiliation for Worldwide Understanding. In 2013, she turned a Important Voices Lead Fellow and was nominated amongst the 100 unseen girls altering her world. In 2011, she was amongst Africa’s 25 most excellent rising girls leaders underneath the Moremi Initiative for Management (MILEAD).
