Grant funding can kickstart entire organisations, uplift communities and create powerful social change. However, there comes a time when each grant eventually comes to an end. Grants are almost always fixed term arrangements meaning organisations need to suitably prepare to either replace funding or … [Read more...] about Fundraising Essentials: Grant Exit Strategies
Fundraising Essentials: Outcome Funding
Grantmaking over the past thirty years has changed dramatically. From the early days of small trusts and foundations supporting local organisations to today where giant multilaterals like the World Bank making strategic investments in every corner of the world. The rise of corporate foundations as … [Read more...] about Fundraising Essentials: Outcome Funding
Call for Proposals: New Horizons for Seniors Program (Pilot)
Deadline- 13 November 2013 Proposals are accepted for New Horizons for Seniors Program (Pilot) which aims to provide support networks and resources as well as community interventions, and/or projects that address intergenerational learning. The goal of this program is to provide information to … [Read more...] about Call for Proposals: New Horizons for Seniors Program (Pilot)
Fundraising Essentials: Grant Fundraising Strategy Checklist
For some reason, the word fundraising strategy often strikes fear in to many a fundraiser. Could it be that in a world of ever stricter targets and more competition that distilling all those different targets into one document is just plain intimidating? Whatever the reason, it is time to throw the … [Read more...] about Fundraising Essentials: Grant Fundraising Strategy Checklist
UNGEI’s Good Practice Fund for Girls’ Education and Gender Equality
Deadline: 30 November 2013 The United Nations Girls' Education Initiative (UNGEI) has announced a call for proposals for the Fund for Documentation of Good Practice in Girls' Education and Gender Equality. The Fund seeks to provide an opportunity for good practices to be systematically documented … [Read more...] about UNGEI’s Good Practice Fund for Girls’ Education and Gender Equality
A List of Foundations that Provide Small Grants to NGOs
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 … [Read more...] about A List of Foundations that Provide Small Grants to NGOs
Rufford Small Grants Foundation
Rufford Small Grants Foundation is a UK-based charity that offers Rufford Small Grants for nature conservation projects in developing countries. It has given more than 2000 grants in 137 countries. The Rufford Small Grants Foundation provides a staged funding process with five different types of … [Read more...] about Rufford Small Grants Foundation
United Nations Trust Fund Small Grants Programme
Every year, the United Nations announces a call for proposals under its Small Grants Programme for the Second International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples of the United Nations Trust Fund on Indigenous Issues. The Fund gives priority to projects focusing on the Programme of Action of the … [Read more...] about United Nations Trust Fund Small Grants Programme
Fondation Ensemble’s Small Grants Fund
The Fondation Ensemble’s Small Grants Fund to support actions implemented by small organizations in areas of Water, Sanitation, Sustainable Agriculture, Renewable Energies, Eco-habitat and Biodiversity Conservation. Under this Fund, the Foundation funds projects implemented by small organizations. … [Read more...] about Fondation Ensemble’s Small Grants Fund
Small Grants for Purchase of Nature
The IUCN National Committee of the Netherlands (IUCN NL) is accepting project proposals for the Purchase of Nature (SPN), which provides funds for the purchase and protection of threatened wildlife habitats and vulnerable ecosystems. Financially supported by the Dutch Postcode Lottery (NPL), the … [Read more...] about Small Grants for Purchase of Nature
