Toy Bird Positive Impact Funding is a neurodivergent-owned company dedicated to serving innovative non-profits and small companies who are looking to create opportunities for youth and young adults from marginalized communities. Our ideal clients focus on diverse youth advocacy and support. Some common themes of our grants, PPM, and venture capital proposals include organizations specializing in technology fields such as data science, data governance & cybersecurity, AI, application design or development, multimedia design and communications, and engineering. However, we are open to supporting any diverse youth-serving business or non-profit organization.
Our preferred funding strategies focus on ethical and sustainable tech and design-based education, diverse youth career readiness or professional development, job certification, re-skilling or up-skilling. Education or job training involving multicultural, multilingual, diverse functional needs and neurodivergent populations. Initiatives that promote diverse youths’ holistic healing, wellness, financial stability and well-being.
Our values center on DEIAB principles, creativity, and positive societal impact. We envision a society where all youth and young adults have the guidance and mentorship to achieve their unique goals for a brighter future.
Founder, Dr. LaToya Hinton decided to become a grant writer and financial planning consultant for social enterprises because she worked in the non-profit and small business leadership spaces and found that long-term external funding was a new concept for many founders.
She hopes that Toy Bird Positive Impact can empower social enterprise founders to build strategic long-term partnerships with each other and private funding organizations.
Hinton holds a PhD in Education from the University of Arizona. She has served as a grant writer, educational researcher, part-time professor, instructional designer, UX/UI research and communications team lead, and non-profit board member.
Toy Bird Positive Impact’s Current Social Enterprise Partnerships
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