2023 Impact Report

FLINT

OUR VISION

Bring half a million people out of poverty by 2033.

OUR MISSION

See great humans break cycles of extreme poverty and dependence, creating flourishing families and communities that make the world a brighter place.

OUR METHOD

Lasting solutions come from local problem-solvers. We go only where invited and start by listening to each community to understand strengths, needs, and solutions.

Local community leaders already doing good work in the area are taught to lead and multiply Flint’s training and coaching workshops.

These workshops fill in the gaps in mindset, networks, and skills needed to learn to build sustainable income streams and flourish for generations to come.

All of Flint’s training and continued coaching are FREE to attendees because of our amazing Generosity Partners.

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Together, we can help half a million people... poverty.

To our generous community,

Only four years ago we launched Flint Global with a vision to help the poorest people on the planet build permanent ladders out of the pit of poverty.

Thanks to you, over 76,000 youth, adults, and children have been impacted with improved well-being through our programs in the last four years. More specifically, thousands of cycle-breaking businesses and jobs have unlocked new realities for individuals and families who can now afford healthy food, secure shelter, healthcare, clean water, and generation-transforming education.

2023 was a year of momentum and the beginning of our new vision to bring half a million people out of poverty by 2033.

We now know that it is possible, but only through the collective effort and global collaboration of an ambitious community of change-makers.

Thank you for joining us on this journey. We can not wait to see what is possible together.

With heartfelt gratitude,

Travis Trull Founder & Executive Director

About FLINT GLOBAL

WHO WE ARE

Flint Global is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit currently working in 11 countries. We exist because we care about the poorest people on the planet. From parents who do not know how they will put food on the table tonight to orphaned youth who are trying to figure out how to stay off the streets, we help people in need build the ladder they need to permanently climb out of poverty.

How? Flint’s remarkable local program leaders on the ground provide contextually customized hands-on education and coaching.

Our team includes 44 international program managers, coordinators, trainers, and coaches living in their home countries across Latin America, Africa, and India.

Flint’s U.S. team of 10 represents over 60 years of combined experience personally living in the countries where we work. In addition to linguistic fluency in Spanish, Swahili, French, and other languages, this life history provides unique insight and practical experience for designing and implementing healthy, relational, and highly effective solutions.

Simply put, we train and coach people to acquire and maintain jobs or build businesses to break out of extreme poverty. New skills and mindsets allow people to sustainably pay for healthcare, clean water, nutritious food, education for their children, secure shelter, and to ultimately unlock the door to a new future.

Specific programs include: (1) Our Thriving Skills program, a 10-month life and employment skills program helping orphaned youth successfully transition to independence and adulthood; (2) Growth Mindset workshops, helping people recognize internal and external barriers and opportunities; (3) Adaptive Farming, enabling the rural poor to utilize their most readily available resource more productively for both food and business; and (4) Practical Business Skills, enabling people to build businesses that sustainably provide for their families and uplift their communities.

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THE FLINT GLOBAL PROCESS: FROM LISTENING TO THRIVING

A FOUNDATION OF GENEROSITY

A caring community with a shared vision for flourishing donate to make Flint workshops and coaching possible and free of cost to those in need.

LISTENING & PLANNING

Flint starts in conversation with local leaders. We listen to the strengths and needs of each community and tailor a solution together.

TRAINING & COACHING

Flint’s local team members lead training events, workshops, and coaching sessions as participants develop the abilities they need to replace cycles of poverty with flourishing and generational thriving.

IMMEDIATE IMPACT & CONTAGIOUS MULTIPLICATION

LOCAL LEADERS, LASTING SOLUTIONS

Flint works collaboratively with local leaders. We assist, train, and coach leaders as they implement our programs within their own communities. Our tools and processes are internalized into the community and can be used long after we are gone.

New abilities make it possible for participants to increase their household incomes and finally be able to feed their families, send kids to school, have secure shelter, and pay for health care on a long-term basis. As neighbors witness the change, they ask for help, and program participants become trainers and coaches themselves, multiplying transformation throughout their communities.

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2023 HIGHLIGHTS

ODS CASHEW BUSINESS

Flint collaborated with partner ODS to launch a mid-size cashew processing business in southern Tanzania. As this business grows it will be able to fund all of ODS's work helping break cycles of poverty and will provide a $13,000 loan fund that can be dispersed to the ODS network of 900+ entrepreneurs.

THRIVING SKILLS GRADUATES

100% of Thriving Skills graduates from Fundamor in Cali, Colombia, have broken the cycle of poverty by securing steady employment within 6 months of graduating. This directly changes the lives of 68 of their family members and many generations to come.

ORGANIZATION HIGHLIGHTS

1st U.S. Program & Partnership Harvest Hands CDC in Nashville

Received Candid’s Platinum Seal of Transparency

Flint Donor Trips Colombia, Nepal, and Kenya

3rd Annual 24-Hour Relay Successfully Raised $54,000 to Support Thrivings Skills Programs

Presented at the United Nations Water Summit

Launched First Program in Nepal in Partnership with Agape Asia

FOUND Collective Launched 100% of Profits to Flint Global

New Website

Added a Development Coordinator to the team

Successful “The Great Chase Race” 5k with Manna Global in Cookeville, TN

Sourced Flint Coffee from Kenya in Partnership with Emmanne Ministries in Kenya and roasted by Thriving Skills participants at Harvest Hands CDC in Nashville

Featured in Colombian Press: TV and Senate

Joined by Sheryl Crow & Blessing Offor, Hosting a Benefit Dinner and Concert at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum that raised over $1 Million in 3-Year Donations & Pledges

And Many More!

Giving

SUPPORTERS

COMMUNITY

Our supporters are the heartbeat of our organization. Every gift, large and small, came together to create lasting change for thousands of individuals and families.

$973,119

TOTAL RECEIVED IN 2023 ACTIVE FLINT SUPPORTERS*

THE SPARK

The Spark is Flint’s community of monthly and regular givers. Their consistent giving allows us to make bold plans for the future.

$213,857

GIVEN BY THE SPARK COMMUNITY

FAN THE FLAME DINNER

140

$1,048,000 572

RAISED IN GIFTS & 3-YR PLEDGES

In October 2023, the generous Flint community gathered at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum for an inspiring evening and benefit concert by Sheryl Crow with Blessing Offor

470+

SPARK MEMBERS* IN ATTENDANCE†

To the amazing and generous supporters who make this work possible, we give a warm and heartfelt thank you! We are incredibly grateful to belong to a community of people who give so graciou

*Households †Individuals

2023

28,782

14,217 3,085 14,565 674+ 966+

WHAT IS IMPACT?

PEOPLE IMPACTED

DIRECT IMPACT*

INDIRECT IMPACT**

TRAINING PARTICIPANTS†

BUSINESSES DEVELOPED‡

ADDITIONAL NEW JOBS / JOB PLACEMENTS§

Every Flint program is built upon a Scope of Work with a clear logic model including specific outcome goals and a plan for monitoring and reporting. We gather diverse data from each partner program to (1) assess the effectiveness and reach and (2) highlight improvement opportunities. Regular reports include, among others, the following data:

†Number of participants

*Number of people who benefit from the outcomes of our program participants

§Number of jobs created and ‡businesses developed Stories of impact (featured weekly in Friday Four emails!)

$959,052

2023 OPERATING COSTS

COST PER PERSON IMPACTED $33

85%

DIRECTLY TO PROGRAMS OVER THE LAST 3 YEARS

Each program has specific metrics tracked throughout the year to measure success. We also prioritize input from local stakeholders and beneficiaries to ensure that local problem-solvers guide our work.

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Stories of IMPACT

“I now consider myself a job creator for myself and other women. My tea shop is generating income, and my savings are kept in our VSLA group savings box monthly. I am now paying myself and other women who are helping my business. The follow-up business coaching has helped me to add cake making to my business, and this innovation has also increased my income. May God bless you Flint Global and AWACE for raising our hope again from the IDP camp."

Rebecca's story exemplifies the broader impact of our Growth Mindset, Practical Business Skills, and VSLA workshops. Our workshops transform women's self-perception and capacity to generate income, even while living in an Internally Displaced People’s (IDP) camp. And she’s not alone.

Flint’s work in partnership with AWACE trained 783 participants in South Sudan, affecting 4,307 people. 247 women in 7 communities saved nearly $92,000 together, fostering economic growth in female entrepreneurship, adaptive farming, and education.

Flint’s implementing partner Jovenes En Camino (JEC) supported Roberto in launching his on-campus hair-cutting business, catering to the foundation's children. Little by little, he saves and prepares for an independent venture, attributing his clear vision of the future to Flint’s Thriving Skills program.

In November 2023, the program graduated 16 students, directly impacting 60 peers. Of these students, 14 have already worked partial or fulltime jobs or internships, paving the way for a secure lifelong income that will break the cycles of poverty and abandonment.

“I thank God for the Flint Global Thriving Skills program. I am now more sociable, and I have more empathy with people. I am also in the process of opening a bank account and am creating the habit of saving.

Thanks to the program and JEC, I learned how to commute daily to the San Juan Bosco Vocational Training Center where I trained as a barber technician. I am very grateful that they helped me learn in a technical workshop in an area I like and that they support my talents. This has motivated me to keep moving toward my dream of leaving the foundation with tools for life come true.”

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IMPACT

IMPACT NUMBERS BY COUNTRY AND CONTINENT

FLINT PROGRAMS PROVIDED

At Flint we know each place we work has unique resources and challenges. So when we’re invited into a community, we collaborate with local leaders to curate a program targeting local needs. With our Toolkit, we design initiatives to tackle local challenges and create sustainable change in each community. While our Toolkit is ever-evolving to maintain the highest standards and respond to user feedback,

our core curricula are: Thriving Skills, Growth Mindset, Practical Business Skills, Adaptive Farming, and Village Savings and Loan Association Training. These essential and transformative skills are taught and implemented by local coordinators who do contextualized training and follow-up coaching that leads participants to longterm success.

Program IMPACT

15 PARTNERS IN 11 COUNTRIES

Colombia Atrapasueños

Casa de la Chinca

Fundamor

Honduras

Jovenes en Camino

India/Nepal Agape Asia

Fact Foundation SWAN

Rwanda RDMM

Sierra Leonne MFA

South Sudan AWACE

Kenya

Jimani Collections

Tanzania ODS TDMM

Uganda PEACE

United States

Harvest Hands Community Development Center

TYPES OF PROGRAMS

THRIVING SKILLS

Life and employment skills for older orphans transitioning to independence.

MINDSET TRAINING

Learning how mindset determines choices and behaviors and learning to develop a growth mindset.

PRACTICAL

BUSINESS SKILLS

Developing a business mindset, a strong business plan, and a profit-management system to grow a business while serving others.

ADAPTIVE FARMING

Learning regenerative farming practices for profitable farming year after year.

VSLA

Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) provide simple savings, financing, and insurance mechanisms for lowincome individuals who lack access to banking services.

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Participants: 308

Total Impacted: 1509

Implementing Partners: Atrapasueños

Casa de la Chinca Fundamor

Carolina Patiño is Flint’s Thriving Skills

Thriving Skills

COLOMBIA

Flint’s Thriving Skills program focuses on personal and professional skill development and employment connections for older orphans imminently transitioning to independent living. Thriving Skills Colombia began with seven students in Cali, Colombia, in June 2021 thanks to the funds raised at Flint Global’s 1st Annual 24-Hour Relay three months earlier. Since then, the program has grown significantly, and has graduated over 320 students across Colombia, Honduras, and Guatemala.

In 2023 our local team and implementing partners in Colombia worked directly with 4 child protection homes and 1 alternative care home serving 119 young people in total. Flint also helped implement the Karuna Project to provide robust after-school education programs to 189 under-served children.

Program Coordinator living in Cali, Colombia

*Students

The Flint team has helped me become a better person. It taught me how to improve my relationships, manage my emotions, and treat other people well. The classes also helped me create a resume, find employment, and learn how to behave in the workplace. I have also learned how to manage my own money which allows me not only to help myself but others as well. I hope to be an example to others. I am 18 years old and completed one year of the Thriving Skills program.

- Mayra

Thriving Skills

HONDURAS

Flint's partnership with Jóvenes en Camino, a residential protection home for boys, completed its second full year in 2023. There were 16 graduates: 12 students from the home and 4 students from lowincome families in the community. Most students also graduated from vocational training courses, opening doors for future job opportunities.

14 of 16 students acquired temporary or full-time paid work before graduation. Several students are now ready to participate in Flint's entrepreneurship program in 2024. Most importantly, students reported greater confidence in their skills and knowledge by 70%. Additionally, with 43 classes and field trips throughout the year, the leadership team witnessed significant growth in students' social skills and ability to navigate life outside the home as they traveled to the city and committed to their workplaces.

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Before I didn't have a plan or a vision for where I wanted to go. I didn't know what I wanted. But the program has helped me to see where I want to go and what I really want to accomplish in life. It has helped me a lot. I have reflected a lot in the program, and now I know what I want.

-Yimi

U.S.A. Thriving Skills

The work Flint is doing around the world can also meet some great needs in our own backyard in Middle Tennessee. We are proud to become part of the solution with our Nashville neighbors.

In early 2023, we were introduced to Harvest Hands Community Development Center, an organization working for economic development and healthy living among youth in South Nashville. They invited us to come alongside the great work they are already doing and agreed to be co-creators in adapting a Thriving Skills program contextualized for Nashville.

In August we launched our first domestic program with 10 teens participating in Harvest Hands’s employment program. Each week, we join Harvest Hands facilitators and students to learn and practice skills like budgeting, healthy habits, and interviewing for a job.

We are excited to be growing this new program, and in 2024 we look forward to partnering with more Tennessee organizations to complement great work and maximize our collective impact.

Emmanne Ministries

Flint’s single-origin coffee came from Emmane Ministries in Theri, Kenya. Emmanne works in community with local farmers to improve farming practices and invest in the Theri coffee co-operative.

Flint Global + Jimani Collections Our coffee was roasted by students at Humphreys Street, the social enterprise of Flint’s partner Harvest Hands, providing economic oppurtunity, mentoring, and education to vulnerable youth in Nashville, TN. Harvest Hands

Profits from our coffee went toward equipping vulnerable women, men, and children in developing countries through Jimani Collections and other Flint programs.

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Participants: 646

Total Impacted: 4,484

Implementing Partners: Agape Asia Fact Foundation

INDIA & NEPAL

Flint's work in India began in 2020 and continues to grow each year. Our four partnerships largely focus on generating sustainable incomes for vulnerable individuals and those who promote social or spiritual good within their communities. Through growth mindset, entrepreneurship, and vocational training and coaching, Flint and our partners equip participants to become business owners and community change-makers.

2023 Program

Changing a life means changing it for good. In India, our teams helped over 250 people find improved employment through our Practical Business Skills program. That means fathers are home with their families and no longer travel to find work. It means vulnerable women are free to provide a good life for their children and escape cycles of dependency.

Businesses Developed: 115

Additional Jobs Created: 251

Even in our dreams we never dreamt that we would have these skills one day.

- Flint Practical Business Skills Trainee

Arjun Thomas is Flint’s Program and Partnership Coordinator living in India & Nepal

KENYA

Jimani Collections is a Flint Global social enterprise based in Nairobi, Kenya, producing high-end, handmade jewelry for international markets while creating employment and providing entrepreneurship classes for women from at-risk communities.

2023 Program

This is Jimani Collections’s second year under Flint Global’s umbrella, and together we are empowering underprivileged women and artisans in Nairobi, Kenya. In 2023, Jimani graduated and initiated two comprehensive entrepreneurship classes focusing on small business start-ups and holistic life courses. Topics included Health, Spiritual Life, Counseling, and Parenting. These classes serve as a source of healing for students who enter the program. Jimani has made significant strides in the Kenyan market, advancing its overarching goal of offering full-time employment and improving market access for the artisan partners it serves.

I came to Jimani so wounded, so broken, but I found healing. It has really helped me in my relationship with my children and how I relate to them and other people. It has also helped me to love myself for who I am for what God has given

me. My desire, my hope and prayer is that this class will continue to impact lives in the way it has impacted my life.

-Hellen Hope

RWANDA

Flint's adaptive farming work began in Rwanda in 2021 with RDMM. Peter Nzamutashya and Venuste Nyirimbabazi are the local leaders who are the driving force behind our shared efforts to improve the livelihoods and food security of people across Rwanda.

2023 Program

Participants: 25

Total Impacted: 1,608

Implementing Partners: RDMM

Businesses Developed: 6

2023 was a big year for Flint's work with RDMM. Flint trainers primarily worked with seven key leaders who aim to become trainers themselves in order to multiply impact. 25 leaders participated participated in an agribusiness training event. Additionally, as part of our program 18 district leaders have been perfecting their agriculture methodologies and starting fledgling agribusinesses.

Although thieves are disturbing us and causing us to harvest before maturity, we recognize that our harvest is very different from those who are stealing. Our neighbors are hungry and their challenge to produce food is causing them to steal. We will continue the work of adaptive farming as it is a big step toward fighting hunger in our community.

-Augustin Ngandahimana and Jean Baptist Miruho

SIERRA LEONE

Since our founding, Flint has worked alongside our partners at Muwasa Farmer’s Association (MFA) to increase crop yields and food access for people in Sierra Leone through Adaptive Farming. Over the last 2 years, MFA has significantly increased its crop production and income from agribusiness.

2023 Program

Participants: 15

Total Impacted: 2,637

Implementing Partners: MFA

Businesses Developed: 7

Communities in Sierra Leone have been slow to progress, so the country is now too-often neglected in the global development sector. Flint and MFA are patiently committed to bringing sustainable transformation to these communities. Individuals like Joe, Jenneh, James, and the farmers they work with are rising above their obstacles to bring lasting change. In 2023, MFA directly taught or introduced highly effective farming methods to over 2,500 people in Sierra Leone. MFA associates are multiplying their incomes while teaching others in their communities.

Our farmers are experiencing hope and joy and want to teach their neighbors what they are learning and help them to also have success.

- Joseph Lassayo, Executive Director, MFA

SOUTH SUDAN

Flint's partnership with AWACE launched in May 2022. Rhoda Yar Bol founded AWACE in 2017 to empower women and young girls in South Sudan. Flint was able to be a pivotal guide to help AWACE become the impactful organization it is today.

2023 Program

The program's success was recognized on a global scale, with the UN featuring it in South Sudan and the Netherlands' Committee for Disability Inclusion highlighting its impact.

Participants: 783

Total Impacted: 7,807

Implementing Partners: AWACE

Businesses Developed: 250

Additional Jobs Created: 314

Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) generated $92,000, boosting the local economy. 136 VSLA participants were trained in Adaptive Farming, enhancing agricultural practices and sustainability in the community.

186 individuals graduated from communitybased sociotherapy, promoting mental health and well-being.

250 girls actively engaged in girls' clubs, fostering empowerment and education.

I'm forever thankful to AWACE and Flint Global. I was worried this Village Savings and Loan Association (VSLA) would turn out like other unmonitored, unfruitful VSLAs, but I invested anyway. I was pleasantly surprised to receive $465 [from my investment] when our year ended. The coaching by AWACE sparked numerous business ideas, and now I am selling dry fish for a good profit. I can now pay school fees and my son is back in class. This opportunity has been the best since our 2020 flood displacement. I hope AWACE and Flint Global establish more VSLA groups in this IDP camp to assist vulnerable groups at the grassroots level. -Racheal Achol Garang

Participants: 1,183

Total Impacted: 9,294

Implementing Partners: TDMM

ODS

Businesses Developed: 229

TANZANIA

Flint has been building entrepreneurship skills and opportunities in Tanzania with TDMM since our founding in 2020, adding ODS in 2022. These partners have taught our Practical Business Skills and Growth Mindset trainings and launched a microloan fund to establish new businesses.

2023 Program

The people of Tanzania are smart, hardworking, and resourceful. Our simple but effective training ignites imaginations and shows opportunities that people didn’t know already existed. Our training and coaching sessions have reached over 1,000 individuals and kickstarted hundreds of successful business ventures over the past four years. Our trainees tell us that the sense of courage and accomplishment is just as impactful as the increase in income.

I lost my leg from diabetes, and I thought it was over. But at the Flint training they told me that disability is not inability. I can do anything to improve my life. I started this business and now am able to get food and other things I need.

- Yusuph Nakulonga

UGANDA

Flint has been working with PEACE in Uganda since 2021, providing entrepreneurship and regenerative agricultural training to South Sudanese women and children living in a refugee settlement.

2023 Program

52 women participated in a 2-day training providing technical and practical lessons. Trusted partner Joseph Edema was happy to work with these women who are determined to try new things. He was impressed with the participants, saying, "Women are the sole breadwinners in this community, and they are ready to learn at whatever cost." After the vegetable and irrigation training, the women were able to diversify their sales and become less dependent on consistent rainy seasons. Joseph also taught students in the refugee settlement about multi-story gardening, which will provide a beautiful and nutritious addition to the school.

This training is going to help me get enough food for my family... Now my family will lead a healthy life.

- Achol

Moving FORWARD

This is only the beginning. Together, we can help half a million people...

out of poverty.

OUR VISION IS TO HELP HALF A MILLION PEOPLE OUT OF POVERTY BY 2033.

And we want to invite you along for the journey.

There are several ways you can be a part of the good work happening through Flint every day:

Join us as a foundational generosity partner to launch this movement to the next level. People around the world are fervently asking us to bring Flint training and coaching into their communities. Help us say YES to new and deepening partnerships.

Become a monthly giver and join THE SPARK. Our community of regular givers is the bedrock that provides a solid foundation upon which all of this work can be planned and executed.

Travel with us! Join a Flint-led group trip to Rwanda or Colombia, or request a one-on-one trip to meet the people and see the work for yourself. We would love to have you join!

Sign up for our Friday Four email to receive weekly stories of how your generosity is transforming lives around the world.

Ready for next steps? Let’s have coffee. Email travistrull@flintglobal.org