Applications Invited for Funding Bold Ideas for Youth Mental Health in 12 countries
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About the Organization
Being is a world psychological well being initiative envisioning a world the place younger folks really feel effectively and thrive. We work with younger folks to enhance their psychological well being and wellbeing by analysis, innovation and ecosystem constructing, with a concentrate on prevention and promo Colombia, Ecuador, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Morocco, Pakistan, Romania, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Vietnam.
About the Grant
We want to fund daring prevention and promotion concepts that handle the early drivers of psychological well being and wellbeing for essentially the most underserved 10- to 24-year-olds, with a concentrate on city and peri-urban settings.
Being’s funding priorities have been guided by domestically pushed nation analyses and consultations with youth, policymakers, native organizations and psychological well being consultants. We search Proof-of-Concept and Transition-to-Scale options that handle the context-specific drivers of younger folks’s psychological well being and wellbeing.
We strongly encourage purposes from, and can give desire to, youth-led organizations based mostly in the 12 countries.
Available seed and transition-to-scale funding: –
Proof-of-Concept (POC) Funding
We’re seeking to fund modern concepts to deal with the prevention and promotion of psychological well being focused to younger folks aged 10-24 in 12 precedence Colombia, Ecuador, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Morocco, Pakistan, Romania, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Vietnam. POC funding as much as $250,000 CAD will probably be awarded to early-stage initiatives that may implement, check and refine options to country-specific private, social, and/or environmental elements impacting younger folks’s psychological well being and wellbeing in one of many 12 countries.
Transition to Scale (TTS) Funding
We’re seeking to fund examined psychological well being promotion and prevention approaches concentrating on younger folks aged 10-24 in Colombia, Ecuador, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Morocco, Pakistan, Romania, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Vietnam, with optimistic outcomes and vital potential to attain excessive affect. TTS funding between $300,000 CAD and $1,500,000 CAD will probably be awarded to assist examined psychological well being promotion and prevention approaches that align with country-specific priorities alongside their scaling journey to assist catalyze their sustainability and affect.
Eligibility
All legally included (or the equal) organizations based mostly in any nation can apply for funding by this RFP.
Only organizations implementing their undertaking in the 12 precedence countries, Colombia, Ecuador, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Morocco, Pakistan, Romania, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Vietnam, will probably be thought of.
Preference will probably be given to eligible organizations based mostly on the next order of standards:
- Youth-led organizations (50% or extra of employees in key management roles are youth aged 35 and beneath) based mostly in certainly one of 12 precedence countries;
- Organizations based mostly in one of many 12 precedence countries;
- Organizations based mostly in any low- and middle-income nation partnering with an area group based mostly in at the least one of many 12 precedence countries;
- Any different eligible organizations.
How to Apply
Applications for Seed and Transition-to-Scale funding alternatives will probably be accepted till Tuesday, June 24, 2025, at 2:00 P.M. ET (6:00 P.M. GMT).
All purposes will contain a two-stage application course of:
Completing a screening questionnaire and submitting a undertaking abstract (stage one); and
Submitting a full undertaking application (stage two) Only these purposes that move screening (stage one) will probably be invited to submit a full application (stage two).
Applications will solely be accepted by our on-line application type solely accessible by way of Grand Challenges Canada’s Fluxx Portal https://gcc.fluxxfff Existing customers ought to login to their account and new customers should register for an account by Tuesday, June 17, 2025 at 11:59 P.M. ET (3:59 A.M. GMT).
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