About The Foundation
Samuel Olutuyi Foundation (The “Foundation” or “SOF”) is a non-profit organization established in 2016. The foundation, named after the founding chairman, Pastor (Dr.) Samuel Olagoke Olutuyi is incorporated with the Corporate Affairs Commission under the Company and Allied Matters Act of Nigeria.
The Foundation is not a fully grant-making organization, rather an operating foundation that designs and initiates its own programs to support its mission. Most of the foundation’s grants are also part of its self-initiated programs.
The solutions we create go beyond short-term charity. Our solutions are carefully executed to provide lasting and long-term solutions to the challenges that face our communities. Our solutions and support for education, health and entrepreneurship are creating vibrant communities that ensure people are able to exit the cycle of poverty.
Over the past years, our solutions have reduced poverty through the provision of microcredit to petty traders and provision of grants to apprentice through our apprenticeships grant. Our educational grants as well as our Water for Education Project (WAFEP) ensures access to quality education, especially for the girl child. Our investments in education help children in our communities move towards a bright future.
To achieve our goals, we engage in partnerships, both traditional and strategic corporate partnerships that seek to promote and not alter our mission. In our collaboration and investments, our mission and core values are our priority, making sure that the people and communities we support feel the impact of our investments.
We maintain a lean and core team that develops strategy and ensures effective management of resources, implementation, and evaluation of programs, partnerships, and investments
Our Vision
Shaping the future by improving lives and creating a just and equal society.
Our Mission
Samuel Olutuyi Foundation improves lives by initiating and supporting programs that enhance access to quality education, with a focus on the girl child education, boost health and wellness, advance civic orientation and engagement, and empower entrepreneurs with a focus on the ‘Womanpreneur’.
Our mission leads with putting others first and that’s why our creed is taken from Martin Luther King Jnr’s quote “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others?”.
Our Values
Samuel Olutuyi Foundation will carry out its functions with the following core values:
– Maintain a commitment to doing good for the whole
– Express belief in our faith and the instruction to love our neighbour as ourselves.
– Act with honesty and honour without compromising the truth.
– Put others first
– Act with Integrity and transparency in all our operations
Our Work
Samuel Olutuyi Foundation’s work focuses on four key areas of Education, Health, Civic Engagement, and Entrepreneurial Support and Development that create opportunities for everyone in our communities to live a better life.
All our programs and initiatives are designed to make life easier and bring stability to the lives of people in our community. Our programs and projects are grassroots-focused, thus enabling us to reach the most vulnerable.
Our strategic partnership ensures that we find lasting solutions to the problems that bedevil our communities, inequality in education, inadequate support for apprentice and entrepreneurs especially petty traders, poor health and wellness information, and the huge gap in civic engagement.
Our work is carried out with a focus on solutions. This is also done with a flexible approach that allows us to apply what we learn from every program or strategy. We also carry out our work through collaborations with other organizations. Our impacts are measured by the actual growth and development of the lives and communities touched.