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IMPACT FUND

Mountaintop invests in individual leaders and organizations that are building human infrastructure in low income  communities worldwide. Our fund philosophy is to invest in extremely promising people and organizations that are early stage where an investment could be catalytic, and where there is a clear pathway to both scale and sustainability. To date, the impact fund has made grants and concessionary loans, but in the future we plan to diversify our investment strategies to reach a larger diversity of high impact leaders, build financial sustainability, and scale our impact.​

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Martin Luther King Jr. Institute (MALUKU Institute), a Partner Fund portfolio organization.

Funds are disbursed through two mechanisms: our Catalyst Fund (grants of up to $2,500 only available to current Fellows) and our Partner Fund (grants and loans of up to $15,000).

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Examples of organizations in our Partner Fund portfolio include United for Peace Against Conflicts International (UFPACI) in Côte D'Ivoire and Rohi Foundation in Cameroon.

 

  • UFPACI used our investment to establish the Social Dialogue and Leadership Academy, a leadership development school with a campus in Abidjan focused on peace-building and social entrepreneurship that is training emerging leaders to overcome ethnic tension, political polarization, and election violence across Côte D'Ivoire and West Africa. The Academy is currently working on establishing asynchronous learning opportunities and an online course to scale their impact.

  • Rohi Foundation used our investment to pay the accreditation fees to establish a university in Bamenda, Cameroon called Martin Luther King Jr. Institute (MALUKU Institute). The university has been operational for over a year and enrolls dozens of paying and full-scholarship students each semester in Bamenda. Thanks to matching grants from other partners, MALUKU is in the process of constructing a satellite campus with residential dorms. The university focuses on employable skills and transformational leadership development to cultivate a new generation of young people who will have the skills and mindsets to end the tragic civil war in the Anglophone region of Cameroon.

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Due to a limitation of funds, Mountaintop is not currently accepting unsolicited proposals. 

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