Applications Invited for GFCF Grants to Foster Community Philanthropy

About the Organization

The Global Fund for Community Foundations (GFCF) is a world, digital group with a small group, headquartered in Johannesburg. We have been working with the worldwide neighborhood philanthropy discipline since 2006, and are all about constructing networks with like-minded organizations that see the facility of people-led growth.

About the Grant

We present small grants aimed toward stimulating and help the event of neighborhood philanthropy organizations all over the world. Beyond the monetary facet, grantmaking additionally serves as a means to construct relationships with particular person organizations, study and help their work and to assist join them into the rising international neighborhood philanthropy motion.

In our grantmaking, we strive to strike a steadiness between consolidating relationships with longer-term grant companions and persevering with to add new organizations into our community. Our annual grantmaking relies upon to a big extent on the sources we now have been ready to mobilize from donors. We don’t no maintain an open name for functions yearly however eligible organizations are welcome to submit inquiries all year long.

From 2020 – 2022 we centered a lot of our efforts and sources on supporting our international community of neighborhood philanthropy companions as they responded to COVID-19, each within the brief and longer-term. Our grantmaking was directed in direction of companions’ efforts to reply to rapid wants, but in addition to give you the option to begin wanting forward in direction of bigger efforts to result in long-term change, i.e. to #BuildBackBetter.

Most of our grants are aimed toward strengthening particular person organizations as trusted and efficient grassroots grantmakers that may harness each native and exterior sources. Sometimes our grants have a selected geographic or challenge focus.

In the 2023/2024 monetary 12 months, we made 73 grants to 63 neighborhood philanthropy organizations and 4 people throughout 30 international locations. The whole quantity of grant funds disbursed was £1,419,803.

Grant Size

Grants are usually within the vary of U.S. $7,000 – $20,000 (dimension will depend upon annual price range, nature of actions and whether or not the group is already identified to the GFCF).

Grants are usually for an preliminary interval of 1 12 months (follow-on funding could also be potential).

Participation in a studying community / grantee convening could also be a situation of the grant.

Eligibility

Is your group:

• A neighborhood philanthropy group?
• A neighborhood basis?
• A ladies’s fund?
• An environmental fund?
• A nationwide public basis?
• A grassroots grantmaker?
• Any different form of group that identifies with the idea and observe of neighborhood philanthropy?

Are you curious about:

• Shifting energy and management nearer to communities so that folks have larger say – and the chance to act – when it comes to driving their very own growth?
• Recognizing, valuing, rising native belongings and sources as a central pillar of community-owned and community-led growth?
• Piloting and demonstrating new approaches – whether or not round governance, decision-making, native useful resource mobilization – that construct native company and foster new sorts of participation and possession?

Does your group:

• Serve a selected neighborhood, whether or not geographic, challenge or identity-based, and see it as a supply of information, belongings, relationships and company?
• Use grantmaking as a deliberate growth technique, which devolves energy and sources to teams and organizations your neighborhood, since you imagine that one of the best choices and actions are rooted in and formed by native expertise and data?
• Work to construct an area tradition of giving (philanthropy) and co-investment inside the neighborhood you serve, whether or not as a technique for flattening energy, rising an area help base or constituency for neighborhood points, growing civic participation and horizontal accountability?
• Seek to construct belief, networks and connections inside, throughout and past the neighborhood/ies you serve?
• Seek to deal with, interact in, construct help for advanced, unpopular or minority points inside your neighborhood?

Are you based mostly in:

• Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Central and Eastern Europe, or Latin America and the Caribbean

How to Apply

Eligible candidates are welcome to submit an idea observe (both to data@globalfundcf.org) or by means of our on-line type. In order not to waste your time, check right here to see in case your organisation is eligible.

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