Chinwe Effiong

March 2022 - Bridge Partners is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Chinwe Effiong as Chief Program Officer at GlobalGiving.

GlobalGiving is the largest global crowdfunding community connecting nonprofits, donors, and companies in nearly every country. With over 31,000 projects in 175+ countries, 10,000 local nonprofit partners, more than 350 corporate sponsors, and 1.4 million individual donors, they help nonprofits from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe (and hundreds of places in between) access the tools, training, and support they need to be more effective and make our world a better place.

Dr. Effiong was most recently Assistant Dean for the Global Youth Advancement Program at Michigan State University, where she was responsible for leveraging MSU expertise to identify and scale new opportunities for global youth education, entrepreneurship and empowerment initiatives. Before joining MSU, Chinwe served as CEO of Junior Achievement (JA) in Africa, where she provided strategic direction and oversight for JA operations across sub-Saharan Africa.

Prior to JA, she was the Director of Programs for Discovery Channel Global Education Partnership and spent for several years as Country Director for Nigeria and Regional Director for East and West Africa at Africare, a Washington, D.C. based, international development organization, addressing a wide range of development needs across the continent of Africa.

She holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Delaware and a B.A. in English and Literary Studies from the University of Calabar, Nigeria.