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Tobi Agurkis | community programs, education, healthcare, mental health, nutrition, partnership trip, technology literacy, travel, women's empowerment, zambia

Spark Signature Travel Experiences: The 2023 Educator Empowerment Initiative

For over fifteen years, Spark Ventures has brought travelers to our international and local partners in Zambia, Nicaragua, Mexico, and Chicago to see our work in action. Spark’s Signature Travel Experiences are culturally empowering, mutually beneficial, and focused on lasting impact. At...

25 August

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Gwyn Thomas | #inspired, community programs, healthcare, nonprofit, organization, public health, report from the field, spark, spark ventures

Staying Connected: An Update From Spark Ventures And Our Partners

A message from Spark Ventures' Executive Director, Kristin Schrepferman: Dear Friend of Spark, My thoughts are with all of you, your families, and people around the world who are struggling during these difficult times. Our lives have changed and we face challenges we...

27 March

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Christina Schutz | #girleffect, business development, education, healthcare, partnership trip, public health, social good, spark ventures, travel, women's empowerment, zambia

Global Service Award Winner: Heather Duncan

At this year’s Fall Gala, we honored a very special member of our Spark family with our first ever Global Service Award. This award recognizes individuals whose service to the Spark Ventures community has gone above and beyond in unique and inspiring ways. For the...

24 October

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Christina Schutz | business development, education, healthcare, non-profit, nonprofit, partnership trip, social good, spark, spark ventures, travel, zambia

How Zambia Shaped His Identity: Quinn Leach

For the past ten years, North Park University has partnered with Spark Ventures and Hope Community School. Every May, North Park students travel to Ndola to facilitate a 3-day health clinic for the students of Hope School. The clinic is meant to assess and treat...

19 September

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Gwyn Thomas | #graduation4all, #inspired, business development, community programs, education, healthcare, nicaragua, non-profit, nonprofit, organization, partnership trip, spark, spark ventures, travel

Las Tias Update

One year after the political demonstrations erupted in Nicaragua, Las Tías is stronger than ever! We spoke with Candida, one of Las Tías' directors, to gain some insight into what life was like in the midst of the unrest and what's happening now that it's...

19 March

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Gwyn Thomas | #girleffect, #inspired, Art, Business, business development, community programs, education, girls, healthcare, non-profit, nonprofit, nutrition, public health, social good, spark ventures, women's empowerment, zambia

Introducing W.O.W. – Twapia’s Women of Worth!

The community of Twapia continues to be impacted across generations. We are excited to introduce you to W.O.W., Twapia's Women of Worth! W.O.W. The Women of Worth, “W.O.W.”, Group was formed to fulfill nutritional, healthcare, emotional and social needs of Twapia’s elderly women and to help them...

20 February

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Amanda Diiulis | community programs, education, healthcare, news, public health, spark ventures

Investing in Education Through Healthcare

A bi-annual clinic is an incredibly critical piece of the work we support through our local partner in Zambia. Providing basic healthcare services to the students and staff at Hope Community School is part of our work to empower them with the resources and opportunity...

25 January

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Allison Pecorin | community programs, education, healthcare, nutrition, public health, report from the field, zambia

A New Kitchen for Hope Community School

Mr. Thompson Silungwe has always taken great pride in his work. But now, thanks to a generous grant from the Dewan Foundation, he can do what he loves with greater efficiency and care than ever before. “You ask, ‘what is my favorite part of the job?’”...

31 August

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Spark Ventures | Art, business development, education, girls, healthcare, nicaragua, nutrition, Photography, public health, report from the field, socent, social enterprise, social entrepreneurship, spark ventures, women's empowerment, zambia

The Spark Story, Now on Instagram

Our Director of Social Impact Investments, Lucy Jodlowska, also happens to be our in-house photographer extraordinaire. Thanks to her incredible skills, you are able to see our work in action in vivid detail - and since she's in the field so frequently, we get lots...

09 June

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Spark Ventures | community programs, education, healthcare, nicaragua, nutrition, partnership trip, public health, socent, social enterprise, social entrepreneurship, social good, spark ventures, travel, zambia

Why Travel With Spark?

Over the last seven years, Spark has developed a world-class impact travel program, hosting over 300 participants on trips to Nicaragua and Zambia. What do we mean by "Impact Travel"? 1. A first hand look at Spark's international impact investing via our business driven philanthropy model 2. Volunteering...