Find Better Funding Opportunities. Build Stronger Applications.
Africads helps mission-driven organizations move from finding a grant to deciding whether it fits, preparing the evidence, developing the application and strengthening the systems needed to manage funding.
Looking for funding opportunities? Get free grant alerts →Where are you in the funding journey?
Africads and GrantsWriterAI do not award grants or guarantee funding.
Africads has worked with more than 70 organizations through assessment and capacity-development work, informing how we think about funding readiness, program design, evidence and application quality.
Before You Apply, Know What You’re Walking Into.
Use Africads’ free grant tools to answer the questions that often determine whether an application is worth pursuing—before your team spends days writing it.
Decide
Is this donor or opportunity actually worth pursuing?
Get Ready
Is your organization, program and evidence strong enough?
Prepare
Are your timeline, budget and application inputs realistic?
Review
Are there serious weaknesses before submission or award?
Includes 9 free tools covering donor fit, funding readiness, program fundability, evidence, budgeting, application planning, proposal review and award capacity.
GrantsWriterAI Workspace
Your Evidence-Grounded Grant Development Workspace.
GrantsWriterAI helps nonprofit teams turn organization knowledge, donor requirements, current-project evidence and supporting documents into stronger grant applications—while helping surface missing information and reduce unsupported claims or inconsistent figures.
One Journey. Different Tools for Different Decisions.
Africads is designed so your team does not have to start from zero every time a funding opportunity appears.
Find funding
Receive curated grant opportunities and funding intelligence.
Qualify the opportunity
Use the free Toolkit to examine donor fit, readiness and fundability.
Build the application
Use GrantsWriterAI to structure and develop grant documents.
Check before submission
Identify proposal, budget, evidence and application weaknesses.
Build institutional capacity
Use AFRI and Africads support to strengthen the systems behind funding.
Move From Self-Checking to Evidence-Based Funding Readiness.
The free Toolkit helps teams identify possible gaps. AFRI™ goes deeper by assessing organizational funding readiness against actual evidence and identifying priority capacity-development needs.
- Governance and institutional integrity
- Programme design, MEL and evidence
- Financial controls, safeguarding and risk
- Leadership, delivery and donor acquisition capacity
- Prioritized strengthening roadmap
Organizations assessed
Africads’ assessment and capacity-development experience gives us practical exposure to recurring funding-readiness, program, evidence and institutional-capacity gaps.
AFRI™ does not guarantee funding, certify an organization or replace donor due diligence.Three Ways Africads Helps Beyond the Free Tools.
You do not need to buy every service. Start with the area that is limiting your organization today.
Grant & Funding Support
Human judgment for important funding decisions and applications.
- Funding Opportunity Review
- Funding Readiness Assessment
- Grant Proposal Review
- Application development support
Nonprofit Growth Systems
Build the visibility and donor communication systems around your mission.
- Google Ad Grants
- Websites and SEO
- Email marketing
- Donor acquisition and digital fundraising
Capacity Development
Strengthen people, processes and systems so growth does not depend on one grant writer.
- Training and workshops
- Funding systems
- Organizational strengthening
- Partner and network programmes
What Organizations Say About Working With Africads.
“Africads helped our church secure the Google Ad Grant, launch a professional website and expand our online reach.”
Stacey WangaDeliverance Church“Michael combines fundraising expertise with the ability to turn complex information into compelling stories.”
Michael KiraguBell Consultants“Africads helped us secure the Google Ad Grant, redesign our website and strengthen our email and lead-nurturing systems.”
Steve KariukiMaji na UfanisiNeed a faster starting point?
Browse Africads templates, guides, funding resources and practical nonprofit tools.
Start With the Free Africads Grant Funding Toolkit.
Use it to think through donor fit, organizational readiness, program fundability, evidence, budgets, application planning, proposal quality and award capacity.
Already preparing an application? Build it with GrantsWriterAI →