Empowering community leaders to create lasting change on their own terms.
Cultivate provides online training, coaching, and organizational support for grassroots leaders and organizations working to address poverty and injustice through locally-led solutions.
Who We Serve
Community Leaders
We work with local leaders around the world who are committed to addressing the biggest challenges facing their communities.
Build your skills in leadership, community development, fundraising, and organizational management through our Empowerment Training Program. With online courses and personalized coaching, you’ll gain practical tools to address poverty and injustice and create lasting change in your community.
Organizations, Foundations & Social Allies
We help organizations, funders, and social allies strengthen their approach to social change and build more equitable partnerships that shift power to communities.
Our Transformative Generosity Program offers Localization & Partnership Assessments, training, and consulting to help you put your commitment to equitable, locally-led change into practice.
Local Leaders Have the Solutions. They Need the Opportunity to Thrive.
Communities around the world are filled with people who understand their challenges and are already working toward solutions. Yet many local leaders face barriers created by limited access to training, resources, and equitable partnerships.
Cultivate exists to change that. We equip local leaders and organizations with the skills, confidence, and support they need to create sustainable change from within their own communities.
A Different Approach to Social Change
🌱 Locally Led
People closest to the challenges lead the solutions.
Partnership Over Dependency
We help shift relationships from dependency to mutual, equitable partnership.
🌎 Accessible & Inclusive
We make high-quality training and support accessible to leaders around the world.
💡 Practical & Transformative
We combine practical skills with reflection on power, culture, and the systems that shape social change.
What Becomes Possible When Local Leaders Have the Tools to Thrive
Community leaders gain the skills, confidence, and support to break cycles of dependency and create lasting, community-led change.
Organizations, funders, and partners gain the tools and perspective to embrace localization & community-led development and build transformative, trust-based practices that empower local organizations.
What People Have to Say About Us
Ready to create more equitable, locally-led change?
Whether you’re a community leader looking to strengthen your skills or an organization seeking to transform your approach, Cultivate has a pathway for you.
What's Happening at Cultivate
New Resource
Networking to Find Potential Donors for Fundraising
Learn how to expand your fundraising network and connect with potential donors through the relationships you already have.
This practical resource shows grassroots leaders how to identify potential supporters, build warm connections, and turn introductions into meaningful relationships — without starting by asking for money. You’ll also get simple, actionable steps for networking both online and in person.
Upcoming Event
Celebrating 10 Years of Cultivate
Tuesday, October 20
6 - 8 pm
Broken Clock Brewing, Minneapolis
Since 2016, Cultivate has had the privilege of learning alongside local leaders and organizations around the world, equipping people with practical tools to create lasting change in their own communities.
But Cultivate’s story has never been ours alone. It has been shaped by the donors who invested, the volunteers who gave their time, the partners who opened doors, the participants who trusted us to walk alongside them, and the many friends and supporters who encouraged us along the way.
Join us for an evening of gratitude, stories, good food and drinks, gifts, and plenty of time to reconnect and celebrate all that we’ve been part of together.