There are a number of donor agencies that provide small-size micro-grants to NGOs in poor and developing countries. These grants are extremely flexible and also easy to apply and win them. The size of these grants mostly depends upon the type of donor agencies which is offering them. Large international donors can refer small grants to any amount below US $50,000 but a few small and medium-sized NGOs prefer to call grants between $1000 and $10,000 as small grants.
Small grants are flexible because they are mostly one-time funding. NGOs do not have to wait for next funding installments as donors usually release the complete amount at first instance itself. Secondly, this type of funding does not require extensive reporting and complex analysis of project success. You only need to submit a short annual report on the achievement carried out by the funded project.
Small grants are also very easy to apply. There are no full length proposals, no stages of applications and no complicated log frames to be done. Usually, proposal formats are less than 5-10 pages which can be developed quickly by small and grassroots-based NGOs.
Some donor agencies when giving out such grants also do not make it mandatory for applicant organizations to be legally registered in their area of operation. In fact, this type of grant opportunity is best suited for small and informal groups and associations that have not yet registered legally. Even new NGOs can apply for such funding as there is little need to prove long project experience.
Keeping in view the advantages of small grant money, we have developed a list of foundations and other types of donors that regularly offer small grants to NGOs around the world. Some of these donor agencies have deadlines – so organizations have to carefully look at the dates before applying to them. Some other donors accept proposals round the year. Also, they mostly fund to address specific problems or areas of intervention.
In this guide, we have covered foundations like the Rufford Small Grants Foundation, the Nederlands Albert Schweitzer Fund, United Nations Trust Fund, Fondation Ensemble’s Small Grants Fund and more. Click on next to continue reading.
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so far has been difficult to get funds for our small local NGO, noble cause elder care and support is dedicating to help the poorest and potentially vulnerable older people!
NGO “MDNZ” is NGO from Mitrovica, Republic of Kosova which work on the civil society development. The focus of the MDNZ is youth especially youths from rural areas, community as a marginalized group, women focused on young women and the important are is the environment protection. We as NGO working from 2000 till now and we are very interest to have financial support from the donor that have the objectives that MDNZ work. Also MDNZ hope that will find a support from the people that think that together can change the world.
Best regards
MDNZ staff
Mitrovica, Kosovo
Am a Ugandan with a registered NGO empowering the rural community economically looking for funding organization.
Kiwalabye Richard
Zambian age 24years old. Am working with Plastic shop plot on 193, freedom way P.O. BOX FW02 Lusaka. I could be happy to find a donor or the grants for my project am doing because it help a lot of young people and the will benefit for it. The name of the project is LYCO which stand for Life of a Youth Christian Organization. It’s mission is to bring instruction (discipline) to young people through the word of God, provide support to Orphans, to support disadvantage youth, to support young people in education and to empower young people to start small businesses.
Thank you.
am thinking of starting an ngo in Ghana…. i need someone or an organization to partner with
We shall be grateful if our organization, CISEAP – SIERRA LEONE get better directives on how to win the heart and confidence of Donor organizations to fostering the implementation of community self driven projects to better the lives of vulnerable children, women and young girls for a sustainable world. we need fervent support from viable organizations working towards human development around the globe.
Douffi Kamara
Executive Director – CISEAP SL
I am the Director of a none profit organization that is Confident Children out of Conflict is local organization that transforms the lives of disadvantaged children. Confident Children out of Conflict is effective and well-run local non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are best placed to respond to the needs of those we serve.
Founded in 2007 and based in Southern Sudan.
With life skills through their talents here in South Sudan, we will be grateful if you can give us support to implement the projects we have,
Hello,
im teacher in Albania and want to cowork with my colleagues and 2 psychologist, work with roma comunity, with pupils that leave the school, thinking different activity and learning. I have worked before with this target group, and i want to do something interesnting… Is there any possibility to have some suport in educations?
we are an NGO working for needy and poor of the village people of District Lakhimpur and Dhemaji Of Assam. Our objective to help orphan and street children in case of basic needs and sending to school sourounding areas. we need help for fund in order to implement various activities. Thank You….
We are a young NGO based in South Africa which focuses on children and youth headed households and the empowerment of women. The objectives are to provide support to them holistically and assist them to be productive and independant individuals. We are seeking donations of any form to realize our course. Any information will be of assistance at this point.
what we will do as a professional in social science those people who are sitting on the corner, those who fear and can not speak,whose strength and power needs to be build up.
Please send us a list of foundations that provide small grants to NGOs
we are an NGO in bhawalpur’ we are working for education and poor female. i arrang different semaniras . like dengue and tetnus
we help and guide us and donate us bcoz we desrve
shumaila jaffar
president
alhaya welfare & development orginaztion
We are project that run for students school fees
dear sir/mam i run a private ngo in a village where people have nt even gas facility ,they cook meal on firing up small wood pieces. they are facing deplorable conditions and our government does not provide any thing to this village, i can show u pics and i invite u once visit my village. thanks
ADEG newly Established Local NGO Based in Dolo, Gedo, Somalia looking for new partnership From International Ngos, UN, and grants Foundation around the Globe to work with the communities to improve the socio-economic status of the local community through positive programming perspectives coupled with sustainability and ownership of programs.
i work for a an ngo that is focused on repositioning nigerian youths for the eradication of unemployment in nigeria, which organizations or foundations can support our venture.
The South SudanWater Iinitiative is a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating and motivating people to care for and about Water Resources Development and Management.
The Mission of SouthSudanWIN is: “To enable the people of Southern Sudan to efficiently and effectively manage their water resources after a decade of civil war, SSWIN seeks to enhance regional capacity in Integrated Water Resources Management through training, education, research and outreach by harnessing the complementary strengths of the region.”
SWIN shall pursue the following objectives:
a.To strengthen the overall human and institutional capacity of the water sector in the South Sudan in order to contribute to the wise use of water resources.
b.To stimulate regional cooperation in the field of education in Integrated Water Resources Management.
c.To increase the accessibility to training and education in Integrated Water Resources Management for participants from the Region.
d.To stimulate, regionalise and strengthen research in the field of Integrated Water Resources Management in the Region.
The Southern Sudan Vision for Water, which defines the “Equitable and sustainable utilisation of water for social, environmental justice, and economic benefit for Present and future generations” as the desired future, shall be a policy guideline of South SudanWIN.
We hope and expect a grant that will help us to implement our objectives.
With best regards,
Gabriel Gore
SSWIN coordenator
Juba, South Sudan
Routes2Roots, an NGO based in Delhi, saw a very humble beginning 9 years back, with a vision, a big vision to bring the world closer and bridge the cultural and social gaps that are in the hearts and minds of the people from different countries. Roues2Roots aims at promoting Cultural Diplomacy across the world, and has hosted several cultural events in more than 12 countries and 30 cities promoting people to people understanding for sustainable PEACE. We provide platforms to artists and performers to display the culture and heritage of our country India for the masses at large to understand the beauty and grandeur of the roots that our TODAY belongs to.
EVENTS and ACTIVITIES like Dance shows, Cultural Exchange between India and many other nations like Russia, China, South Africa etc. also hosted Music festivals and Theater plays in India bringing in artists from Pakistan. Student Exchange program “Exchange for Change” between school students (age group of 10-15 years.) from India and Pakistan.
Siddharth Khosla,
Executive (Operations)
Routes2Roots NGO
R-19, LGF
Hauz Khas Enclave
New Delhi,
INDIA
I was looking for NGOs on peace building when I stumbled upon your organization. We have a young NGO, Youth and Students Advocates for Development Initiative, YSADInitiative and we are looking at organizing a programme for the year 2014 to commemorate the one hundred years of Nigeria as an entity. We are looking at events like dance shows, music festivals and would love to leverage on your experience in this area by way of collaborating with your reputable organization.
Nwagbara, Obinna Eze Chijioke
Chairman, Board of Trustees
HEAL THE WEAK CHILDREN FOUNDATION is a nonprofit able organization, trying to put a smile to the millions Ghanaian’s who are helpless and become hopeless.
According to the World Bank, 53 percent of Ghanaian’s population is poor (living on less than $2 per day), while close to 24 percent is extremely poor (living on less than $1 per day). These families are “food insecure,” meaning they cannot meet even their most basic nutritional needs for some or all of the year.
Because of this extreme poverty which has led to hunger, many things are going wrong in Ghana. Presently, very few Ghanaian’s are educated and many children stop schooling before they reach the age of twelve. Can a little child read and learn with empty stomach? We he goes to school naked? With what will he write in school? Really many Mexican families are poor and below what we know as poverty level, with nothing to EAT, more or less talking about school.
We are seeking for a help with donor to support with our mission and to see that the Children are well taken care of in our rural area, our new Blog will tell http://www.htwcf.blog.com.
God bless,
Yours Faithfully,
Charles Appiah
Founder/Ceo
Heal The Weak Children Foundation.
Pakistan is one of eight countries worldwide that spend less than 2% of GDP on education. Public spending on education, a vital input for improvement in access and quality, is mere 1.5% of GDP. Farhan Memorial Welfare Organization Registration no. 1537 (FMWO) decided to launch its Orphan Children’s Support Program in Pakistan,Karachi for providing quality education to underprivileged children, through a network of schools. To meet the quality standards and continually provide access to poor orphans is a challenge for which FMWO requires support of donors.
Education can and will transform the lives of young children. Poor orphans without an access to better education and care are vulnerable to child labour and other social ills. Support through this project will save 100 orphans and keep the hope alive for many others. This support would encourage larger communities to develop a habit of giving for good, take care of children especially orphans.The reality is that every day there are hungry orphans within our reach in Asia, but we don’t have the funds to help them.One orphanage Director told us this year that he has had to turn away over 90 orphans because they had no way to care for them.
Please Make Your Donation’s
AASHRITA
We are Mumbai based NGO named as Aashrita and we are working for Women Empowerment and fighting with crime against women in our country. We have the tradition in which women were worshiped and today the society has downgraded to the level that women are raped, sexually harassed and sexual violence is done against them. Whenever a crime against women takes place in any big city like New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore etc, then the media of our country comes out with full strength and citizens of our country also join such protests and movements. But they forget that there are many small cities and villages where cases happen but don’t come into limelight. We are fighting against all crimes against women and in each and every city/ town/ village of our country. Support us by becoming the Volunteer for our NGO or by donating to our NGO. There will be a donation page where one can get the details about donations.
This group is the official group of Non Government Organisation Aashrita. Aashrita works for Women Empowerment and fights with crime against women like rape, dowry, domestic violence, sexual harassment, eve-teasing, female foeticide and gender discrimination.
We need your support!
Thank you!
Aayush Punj
Manfire Sanitation is a pre-registered non-governmental organisation currently based in the town of Chitungwiza in Zimbabwe, approximately 30 km south of Harare(Zimbabwe’s capital city). The organisation consist of 20 full time members. The organisation has been doing cleaning up exercises in many major roads of Chitungwiza and according to cholera and typhoid pandemic, we are appealing for financial or borehole drilling machine or chemicals or any alternative source of clean water support. We are ready to respond in any queries you may have in this matter and thanking you in advance in your endevours in assisting the underprivilleged.
Thank you
Timothy Antonio
(Executive Chairperson)
Kateregga Nuruh Says:
We do appreciate the kind support you are giving to the poor people.
Foundation for Children of Prisoners is a new NGO that was founded by social workers working in prisons and have served 16years. As we were executing our activities, we discovered that children of prisoners are tortured physically, psychologically by relatives,communities as a result of the crimes committed by their parents. So social workers came up to advocate for the rights of the children of prisoners.
We need your support to fight for the plight of children of prisoners who in some cases are not regarded as vulnerable because their parents are alive.
Thanks
NURU
MAGAGULA ORPHANS CARE ORGANIZATION was established in 2012 at Magagula ward in songea district,Ruvuma region, It working with seven villages.Its objective to help orphans and street children in case of basic needs and sending to school surrounding area.we need help for fund in order to implement this programs.
Thank
FRANCO MAPUNDA
Thank you for helping to encourage small business to grow in rural areas. In our rural areas, a lot of farmers find it difficult to access grants from donor agency to transport their agricultural products to companies who needs them. Pls can it be possible to assist us in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria? I am the president of United women co-operative society in Ikot Oku Usung, Ukanafun, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. Thanks.
Nice to have your support, to enable the new NGOs grow well and their Programs implemented in time.
I am looking for anyone who can help me to build center for the children in midlands gweru .We are very happy to hear from you. I GOT MY PVO NUMBER IN OCTOBER Anyone willing can help. I WANT TO ESTABLISH CHILDREN S HOMES AND TEMPERARY FEEDING FOR THE OVC To empower youth ,orphans and vulnerable children with skills that will help them start income generating projects in an effort to sustain development chage as well as their welfare
We are very happy to hear from you. Also I am the founder and executive director of OSDA (Organization for Social-welfare and Development Action). OSDA is the new founded Ethiopian Resident Charity Organization.
III. Organizational Overview
Vision statement :-
To see better lives of impoverished children, families and Communities in which they realize their full potential in societies
Mission statement :-
To contribute a sympathetic role in achieving lasting improvements in the quality of life by helping them to develop resources for their livelihood and social righteousness
Core Values:-
Some of the core values to which OSDA is committed are:
Commitment to the respect of basic human values and dignity, solidarity, encourage and empower the poor and the disadvantaged groups in the society,
Support and empower the poor and the disadvantaged groups in the society.
-Result
-Integrity
-Team work and Participatory decision making
-Accountability
-Transparency and honesty
-Partnership
-Team spirit and integration,
-Purpose of the Organization
-The overall Purpose of the Organization for Social welfare and Development Action ( OSDA) is to realize the improvement in the lives of impoverished children, families and Communities by helping them to develop resources for their livelihood and social righteousness
The overall goals are:
To serve children, families and Communities to break out of the cycle of extreme poverty and into a cycle of self – reliance
To support and facilitate community initiatives and self help efforts towards sustainable development in order to overcome poverty and pursue justice
It’s over all engagement and operational area.
The organization is newly organized registered as Ethiopian Resident Charity. The organization certified operational areas are mainly 3 regions: Oromia, Benshangul Gumuz and South Nation Nationalities and Peoples Regional State (SNNPR). It has a legal permission to operate in any locality of the above mentioned regions.
Therefore, please let me know how to join to work together.
Thanks,
Chernet Tunta
Executive Director
CEPREFA is a local non profit organization in Burundi .Its main objective is to promote a wife who is in good health; responsible and autonomous.So; we need grant for building a health center.
Best regards.
Im Busisiwe Ncapayi from Masabelane Education for Life Group in Eastern Cape, who like to apply for this grants how can we get an application forms?
SKY FOUNDATION is established in 2012 is a cross disability Organization based in Kancheepuram DIST, TamilNadu at INDIA. We address key disability issues with initiatives in the folloeing areas prevention rehabilitation employability and advocacy.
is it easy to access funding purposely for the payment of school fees to learners and provision of scholastic materials in rural communities?
I am the Executive Director of an NGO in the Ashanti Region of Ghana and working in six districts.The Intervention area is working with the Key population.Can we apply for funds to support?.
This is nice and it is encouraging. For our countries to develop like Uganda, we need to invest in Education such that citizens are equipped with the skills that can sustain them without begging and pestering the Government and in the end peace will prevail in Africa. For God and my country.
We are an NGO working for Rural Women can we apply for the said grants if yes how can we go forward !
Thanks
Mizan
We are very happy to hear from you. Also I am the founder and executive director of OSDA (Organization for Social-welfare and Development Action). OSDA is the new founded Ethiopian Resident Charity Organization.
III. Organizational Overview
Vision statement :-
To see better lives of impoverished children, families and Communities in which they realize their full potential in societies
Mission statement :-
To contribute a sympathetic role in achieving lasting improvements in the quality of life by helping them to develop resources for their livelihood and social righteousness
Core Values:-
Some of the core values to which OSDA is committed are:
Commitment to the respect of basic human values and dignity, solidarity, encourage and empower the poor and the disadvantaged groups in the society,
Support and empower the poor and the disadvantaged groups in the society.
-Result
-Integrity
-Team work and Participatory decision making
-Accountability
-Transparency and honesty
-Partnership
-Team spirit and integration,
-Purpose of the Organization
-The overall Purpose of the Organization for Social welfare and Development Action ( OSDA) is to realize the improvement in the lives of impoverished children, families and Communities by helping them to develop resources for their livelihood and social righteousness
The overall goals are:
To serve children, families and Communities to break out of the cycle of extreme poverty and into a cycle of self – reliance
To support and facilitate community initiatives and self help efforts towards sustainable development in order to overcome poverty and pursue justice
It’s over all engagement and operational area.
The organization is newly organized registered as Ethiopian Resident Charity. The organization certified operational areas are mainly 3 regions: Oromia, Benshangul Gumuz and South Nation Nationalities and Peoples Regional State (SNNPR). It has a legal permission to operate in any locality of the above mentioned regions.
Therefore, please let me know how to join to work together.
Thanks,
Chernet Tunta
Executive Director
Balah Isaac Daabel
I am the country Director for Farms Initiative Ghana a locally based NGO based in Tamale Ghana, we create platform for our farmers to market their products like sheanut , sheabutter, cashew nuts, Tubers of Yam, Cereals, Woods of Logs and any other farm products they produce.
Our outfit therefore deals and supply the following products in large quantities based on request, so any individual, organizations, Factories, Companies and Business Men and Women who are interested can contact us. Thank you.
People’s Development Foundation is a nonprofit volunteer group working in isolated areas of Nepal in the areas of Health, Education, Income Generation, Environment and sport and culture since 2008. Lately we are also focusing on in women empowerment. The impact of our volunteer effort in small rural villages of Nepal is amazing. If we received continuous support from you all, we are sure that our volunteer effort will bring tremendous different in the rural villages of Nepal. Please support us.
Hallo,
What about grass root Community Based Organizations can they still apply for the grants?
Thank you
Am working with NGO in Bangladesh and would like to start research work on impact of sandbar cropping on extreme poor people in char areas of Bangladesh. Regarding this need some funds/grants .If available funds/grants,please let me know how I can go forward?
we are very small ngo in malawi that is building group homes and a school with next to no funding
we take care of orphans and any young children that need assitance a funding grant would be amazing weather a once of grant or continued support please could you give send us more information
We are a NGo working in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand India from last 20 years , we are facing issues like medical facilities, Education, rural social and economic lack of development, unemployment and migration, Need support to fight and curb all the major issues
Chandra Shekhar Juyal
I am very glad to know about your existence and the great work you are doing . I have an incorporated
organisation that have not actually done well for lack of fund. This organisation is known and called
BROADMARK LIMITED,Our initial has been Advertising Production, through this effort we built some client but could not actually break even for lack of highly desired capital.
We are convinced that our new dream of food processing and spring water treatment and packaging
can become a reality through your NGOs.I am still studying how come in.We are living in the day when
trust only earned, every body seems to be a suspect. I am trusting God that we will sign in, in November
We are an NGO working for Upliftment of tribals and Women can we apply for the said grants if yes how can we go forward ???
Please, i am David Mukasa, executive director, Children’s Vision-Uganda sending my sincere thanks and requesting for the list of NGos to help us start filling in and submitting different grant application forms for funding.
We nee to implement different projects as working in far undeserved vulnerable communities of Uganda.
The services of the “fundsforngos.org” are praise-worthy. It would be highly appreciable if it could provide details of Grantmakers to Individuals, particularly for Professional Education. In fact, I need about US $15,000 in piece-meal or in installments in a span of 2 years for pursuing Chartered Accountancy Course from ICAI (India).
There are 3 (three) stages in Professional Chartered Accountancy Course of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI, India) – (1) CPT, (2) IPCC and (3) CA Final. Since, I have passed M.Com. (F&C), i.e., Master of Commerce in Finance & Control by scoring above 60% marks, I will get exemption from the First Stage, i.e., CPT and I need to complete just Two Stages – (1) IPCC and (2) CA Final, for completing the Professional Chartered Accountancy Course.
It is estimated that to meet the expenditure of (1) Registration/s Fees, (2) Examinations Fees, (3) Oral or Face to Face Mode Coaching Fees, (4) Purchase of Books, (5) Payment of Subscriptions to Journals, (6) Hostel Charges, etc., I need a Grant or Donation to the extent of UK £ 10,000 or US $ 15,000 in piece-meal or in installments in a span of 2 years.
However, hailing from a financially backward family and due to financial crisis of my family, I am not in a position to afford payment of fees for any of the Professional Course, like “CA (ICAI, India)”. In fact, I had to struggle like anything for reaching out or achieving my present educational status.
Thus, I am compelled to stretch my hand for external support from Philanthropists or Charity Organizations.
Am working with a local NGO in uganda and we would be more than happy to get funding from you for the transformation of lives and communities.
Nameyi Aggrey
thanks for the great work you are doing ,Community DEvelopmeny ORG forPWDs, it is a registered CBO on grass root we are in kamuli district Uganda we need to apply for small grant
We appreciate your funding program kindly let me know if NGO”S of Pakistan can take advantage of this funding opportunity ,
President at Najaat Welfare Foundation (Rgtd)
This would work if the eligibility conditions are flexible for the newly formed organizations to grow. The major problem is about truck record of the previous work, yet newly formed organizations may need financial support to put their ideas into action that would make a great change in the community.
Also it would be better to link with the applicant organization direct other than sending funds through the national coordinators who after words encourage corruption by recommending “ghost” projects to enable them use the funds by themselves.
Thanks for the update
please you are requested to avail information concerning individual funding in terms of education sponsorship in Uganda or Africa if accessible in your series. thank you for the current services.
Accept regards from the mail bearer. You are kindly request to include some details of individual funding to projects or education sponsorship if available, otherwise thank you very much for the work you do.
We are Catherine Foundation,Located in Tanzania,Arusha at Makanyaga street,Denafro Complex.
We are Non Profit Organisation whose Focus ison Women and Children s across the country,Tanzania.
Please Visit our website for more information and see if you can find any interesting with our organisation.
Regards
Catherine Foundation
please provide the lists of donors, foundations funding grants to rural communities in developing countries.
Dear Sir/Madam ,
Hope this find you in best of your health ! after that on the behalf of ‘Organization for Youth and Social Development-OYSD, I am requestng you that support OYSD in Basic Community Education and Youth Leadership program.
About OYSD.
Organization for Youth and Social Development (OYSD) is a provincial level non-governmental and non-profitable organization contributing towards right based social change and creates ideological and right based development in rural and urban societies of Balochistan Pakistan and specially engaged in youth development in the above areas from the period of its establishment since 2010. After two year of his successful and meaning activities OYSD has been registred under Volunteer Social Welfare Ordinance Act. 1961 and constituted an association in 2012 and registered under Social Welfare successfully.
Organization for Youth and Social Development (OYSD) is currently working with the concept of volunteerism and has took initiative within the above concept with youths of the few districts of the Balochistan and has always carried out challenging activities that are always unique in nature but the process should not limit to the creative project but they should aim at exploring new ideas for fresh initiatives that can be taken within the existing resources and help in making programs/ projects more yielding.
Best Regards
Director of OYSD
Thank you very much for this. As a Nigerian based in Lagos, I was not able to attend your online webinars. So this is the next best thing!
Dear Madam / Sir
We like to work with formed 300 women SHG in economically activities like Enyrtpremuership, Faderation, credit lnkages.
We need issue based support .
Samuhik Vikas Sansthan, Newai Distt. tonk ( Raj.) 304021
Web – samuhikvikas.org.in
What are the criteria of receive or apply find on that donars