Purity Mumo is Head of Strategic Partnerships and Institutional Engagement at the East Africa Philanthropy Network (EAPN).
She leads the full scope of EAPN’s external-facing functions: partnership development, institutional engagement, communications, membership growth and stewardship, stakeholder relations, and the design and delivery of the Network’s convenings. Everything that shapes how EAPN is perceived, who it is connected to, and how it grows runs through her office.
On the partnerships and institutional engagement front, Purity identifies, cultivates, and manages relationships with foundations, development finance institutions, corporate philanthropies, government agencies, and multilateral actors. She is responsible for how EAPN positions itself in these rooms, what the terms of engagement look like, and whether those relationships translate into sustained investment in the Network’s mandate. On the communications and membership side, she oversees the Network’s public voice, its narrative strategy, and the experience of a growing membership base of foundations, civil society organizations, private sector institutions, and development partners across the region.
Purity brings over six years of experience across the development and philanthropic sectors, with particular depth in funder relations, institutional positioning, cross-sector coordination, and multi-stakeholder negotiation. She has built a reputation for understanding the dynamics that govern how institutions relate to each other, what moves a relationship from introductory to strategic, and how to hold complex partnerships together across competing priorities, timelines, and expectations.
She engages regularly with senior foundation executives, government officials, private sector leaders, regional integration bodies, and civil society actors across East Africa and internationally. The annual East Africa Philanthropy Conference, the Network’s flagship convening, is the platform where the full breadth of her work converges.
Purity is driven by a conviction that the strength of a network is measured by the quality of the relationships it holds and the trust those relationships carry. In a sector undergoing significant structural transition, she believes the institutions that invest in how they relate to each other will be the ones that endure.