Building Bridges To the Future Foundation Inc

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Building Bridges to the Future Foundation (BBF) helps increase the role and viability of civil society in conflict and disaster-affected developing countries by providing capacity building and small grants to grassroots groups and local organizations in order for them to become sustainable and effective. It accepts requests for assistance from groups wishing to develop programs to benefit people living in areas that are usually remote and outside the focus of large relief and reconstruction organizations.

Our ultimate goal is to assist in the creation of locally registered service agencies, and train local staff to manage their programs, with on-going assistance from BBF as necessary. We work closely with our local partner organizations in order to insure best practices in the areas of fiscal management, grants and contracts administration, and local/international government and inter-agency cooperation. To that end, BBF provides a portion of the local agency's operating expenses and administrative costs.

BBF also helps these organizations formalize and strengthen their relationships with community and governmental partners by working with them to coordinate with local governments, civic and business leaders, village leaders, large NGOs, and international organizations to identify and articulate local needs, develop local solutions, and pursue international funding opportunities.

The majority of BBF's programming assistance is directed to groups working in the areas of sustainable "green" agricultural livelihoods improvement, adult literacy, and the professional training and accreditation of local social workers.