KickStart International
Kerry Rodgers is an experienced professional with a diverse background in nonprofit leadership, program management, and the arts. Currently serving as Chief of Staff at KickStart International since February 2025, Rodgers has previously held senior roles including Senior Advisor and Co-Executive Director at Farming Hope, and Program Manager for Citizen Philanthropy at Salesforce. Notably, Rodgers co-founded Give A Day Global, a nonprofit organization aimed at empowering travelers to effect positive change in communities. Additional experiences include managing social impact programs at Airbnb, participating in the Stanford-affiliated StartX accelerator, and contributing to art education as an instructor at Menlo School. Kerry Rodgers holds a BA in Individually Designed Major, Art & Philosophy from Stanford University and an MFA in Studio Art from Claremont Graduate University.
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KickStart International
KickStart’s mission is to get millions of people out of poverty quickly, cost effectively and sustainably. KickStart creates opportunities for poor, rural, entrepreneurial farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa to make money and offers a permanent solution to address the deepest root of poverty; lack of income. KickStart designs and mass markets simple, money-making tools that open up business opportunities for poor smallholder farmers. MoneyMaker brand, human powered, irrigation pumps are the most widely used of these products and provide an ideal and environmentally friendly solution that will quickly enable poor farming families to access water and grow crops. These low-cost ($35 and $100 USD) pumps are sold in local retail shops (KickStart works with factories, shippers, distributors and dealers to ensure that our pumps are made widely available and accessible to poor communities and in rural areas), and once purchased, enable farmers to move from rain-fed farming to irrigated agriculture at which point they can grow crops year-round and sell their crops at a profit during the dry season when prices are high. With increased income, they lift themselves out of poverty and improve their quality of life by being able to access: plentiful food, clean water, education for their children and healthcare for their families.