Build the skills and partnerships that help communities lead change
Cultivate provides online training, coaching, and organizational support for community leaders, organizations, and funders working toward more equitable, locally-led solutions.
Who We Serve
Community Leaders
Are you leading social change in your community? We work with local leaders around the world. Build your skills in leadership, community development, fundraising, and organizational management through our Empowerment Training Program.
With online courses and personalized coaching, you’ll apply what you learn to your own organization and community priorities.
Organizations, Foundations & Social Allies
We help organizations, funders, and social allies build more equitable partnerships that share power with communities.
Through our Transformative Generosity Program, we examine how decisions, resources, and responsibility are shared, then identify practical opportunities to strengthen local leadership and put localization into practice.
Local Leaders Have the Solutions. The Right Support Helps Them Thrive.
People closest to a community’s challenges often have the clearest understanding of what will work. Yet local leaders can face barriers to training, resources, and equitable partnerships.
Cultivate provides practical training, coaching, and organizational support so local leaders and organizations can strengthen their work and advance community-led solutions.
A Different Approach to Social Change
Locally-Led
People closest to the challenges lead the solutions.
Equitable Partnerships
We help shift relationships toward shared power, mutual responsibility, and local leadership.
Accessible & Inclusive
We make practical 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 Support to Thrive
Local leaders can build practical skills, strengthen their organizations, and advance the priorities of their communities.
Organizations, funders, and partners can strengthen their approach to localization and community-led development and build more equitable, trust-based partnerships.
What People Have to Say About Us
Ready to create more equitable, locally-led change?
Whether you’re a community leader strengthening your organization or an organization working to build more equitable partnerships, Cultivate can help you find the right next step.
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 - 9 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.
Upcoming Webinar
Your First Year-End Online Fundraiser
How to plan a simple yet successful year-end fundraising campaign when you're short of time.
Tuesday, November 3
10 - 11:30 am CDT