Sasher Fisher and her organization Spark Microgrants help communities across Africa build communities from a grass-roots level.  Moving away from the common, but ineffective, prescriptive model of community development, Spark implements the community-driven model which leaves the decision making power to community members.  Helping communities only to organize, Spark provides a seed grant to initiate the community building process. 

In this episode, Jonathan and Sasha discuss grass-roots democracy and what lessons Americans can learn from abroad.