For Funders & Grantmakers

Giving From the United States

ThriveWorks Ghana is a sponsored affiliate of UrbanPromise International, a US 501(c)(3) which serves as our fiscal sponsor. Gifts made through the UrbanPromise International giving page are received by that US charity and are tax-deductible in the United States to the extent allowed by law. Your receipt comes from UrbanPromise International rather than from us, which is what makes the deduction available to you.

That route works for one-time gifts, monthly giving, donor-advised fund grants and most US employer matching programmes, which is usually the difference between a gift and a doubled gift. If your employer matches, search for UrbanPromise International as the recipient and reference ThriveWorks Ghana.

Legal Standing, In Full

Thrive Works LBG, operating as ThriveWorks Ghana, is a company limited by guarantee, incorporated on 23 January 2023 under Ghana's Companies Act, 2019 (Act 992), registration number CG005450123. Our constitution bars any distribution of income or property to members, which is the Ghanaian equivalent of the non-distribution constraint a US funder expects to see.

We hold a letter of recommendation from the Department of Social Welfare, Bono Region, dated 10 January 2024. We are registered with the Ghana Revenue Authority and SSNIT, the national pension scheme, and remit to both monthly — meaning our staff are employed on the books, not paid informally.

Governance and Financial Control

The organisation is governed by an Executive Council, with a Company Secretary and an appointed external auditor.

Since June 2024 we have produced monthly budget-against-actual reports, in both Ghana cedis and US dollars, with a written variance explanation for every line, without a gap. We know that is an unusual cadence for an organisation our size. It exists because it is the only honest way to answer a funder who asks what happened to a specific line six months after the grant closed, and we can produce those reports on request during due diligence.

Safeguarding

We work with minors, so safeguarding is a condition of operating rather than a policy shelf item. Our full Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy — covering personnel vetting and how any young person, parent or staff member raises a concern — is published in full and downloadable, not summarised.

What We Can Evidence, and What We Cannot Yet

142 youth trained since 2022 across Building & Construction, Textiles & Apparel, Personal Care, Technology and Entrepreneurship, with 90 graduates to date. Informal follow-up with graduates who consent to stay in touch shows about 85% continuing their education or putting their skills to work, in income or personal use.

We call that figure informal deliberately. It comes from graduates who chose to stay in contact, which is a self-selected group, and it is not a controlled study. Formal outcome tracking at three and six months post-graduation is being built through a new beneficiary management system, alongside our registration with Ghana's Data Protection Commission.

We would rather show you a real number with its limitations attached than a rounder one you cannot check. If your due diligence needs the underlying programme data, ask and we will share what exists today.

What It Costs Us Per Young Person

$298 per beneficiary. That is the figure our own books produce, drawn from the same monthly budget-against-actual reports, in cedis and dollars, that we have run without a gap since June 2024. We would rather publish it than make you ask for it.

Read it alongside the model, though, because the comparison is easy to get wrong. That figure buys an apprenticeship that runs up to three years, with tools, continued mentorship and post-graduation monitoring — not a seat at a two-week workshop. Against organisations reporting cost-per-participant on short courses, a number like ours should look higher per head and cover far more per person.

Restricted grants are reported against this same line, so you can see what your specific funding moved rather than a blended organisational average.

What Your Funding Actually Builds

We already own our main capital asset: a 16-machine computer suite in Abesim, purchased in June 2024, where digital skills training has run in house ever since. Because the room and the machines are already ours, a grant pays for instruction, materials, mentorship and follow-up rather than rent.

Funding can be restricted to a specific programme — technical skills training, entrepreneurship development, mentorship and career coaching, or the alumni network — and we will report against that restriction in the same monthly budget-against-actual format we already run. If you intend to restrict a grant, talk to us before you submit, so the restriction maps onto a real cost line instead of one reverse-engineered after the award.

Why We Fund Years, Not Workshops

Apprenticeships run up to three years, with continued mentorship, tools and monitoring after graduation. A two-week course does not move a young person in Sunyani into durable work, and we would rather serve fewer youth properly than report a large attendance number. That is the trade-off built into our cost base, and it is the honest thing for a prospective funder to know before comparing us on cost-per-participant against organisations running short courses.

Start a Conversation

For foundations, corporate giving programmes, churches and institutional partners, the fastest route is a direct message to our team — it reaches the founder, and we answer every one. Tell us what you fund, what evidence you need, and your timeline, and we will tell you plainly whether we are a fit.

Email: [email protected]
USA: (215) 253-7658    Ghana: 020 9970 207
Post: P.O. Box 370, Sunyani, Bono Region, Ghana