United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) Youth Solidarity Fund 2025/2026 for Innovative Youth Projects (USD 25,000 in seed funding)

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Application Deadline: 15 August 2025, 11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time in New York.

Applications at the moment are open for the 2025/2026 United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) Youth Solidarity Fund. The Youth Solidarity Fund (YSF) offers seed funding to youth-led organizations devoted to fostering peaceable and inclusive societies. YSF helps initiatives, designed and developed for and by younger individuals, that show revolutionary and efficient approaches to intercultural or interfaith dialogue. In addition, YSF provides capacity-building and mentorship assist to strengthen challenge implementation and improve organizational growth.

Eligibility Requirements

To be eligible, making use of youth organizations want to satisfy each one of the next standards:

•  Be youth-led: a majority of the positions and decision-making roles throughout the group are held by men and women between the ages of 18 and 35;
• Be a non-profit, non-governmental group (besides for nationwide youth councils) registered in the nation of operation as a charity, belief, basis, or affiliation;
• Be formally registered and operational for a minimal of two years previous to the deadline for functions with funding base and challenge implementation (working in June 2023 or earlier);
• Be registered and function in one of the aforementioned international locations;
• Have a democratic governance construction and decision-making mechanism, together with consultative processes in formulating priorities and insurance policies;
• Have a capability to show correct and constant monitoring, analysis, and record-keeping of their actions, together with challenge analysis experiences and monetary accounts;
• Have a gender perspective/steadiness mirrored in their employees, beneficiaries, and actions;
• Have no adherence to or affiliations with violent ideologies or antagonism in opposition to any explicit nation, tradition, faith or perception system, ethnic group, gender, and so on.; and
• Did not obtain funding below previous editions of YSF or didn’t obtain assist via the Intercultural Innovation Hub.

Note: If you utilized for YSF in the previous however weren’t chosen, you’ll be able to apply for YSF once more.

Type of initiatives:

Youth Solidarity Fund offers seed funding to excellent initiatives selling intercultural and interfaith dialogue. It awards grants of as much as USD 25,000 for the implementation of chosen initiatives that show revolutionary and efficient approaches to intercultural and/or interfaith dialogue and advance the mission of UNAOC. Proposals linked to implementation of the next frameworks/insurance policies are significantly inspired:

• Projects that assist the implementation of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 2250 (2015), 2419 (2018) and 2535 (2020) on Youth, Peace and Security in connection to intercultural and interfaith dialogue;
• Projects that assist the implementation of the Security Council decision 1325 (2000) and the ten subsequent Security Council resolutions on Women, Peace and Security by enhancing girls’s participation in battle prevention and mediation processes.
• Projects that assist the implementation of the United Nations Secretary-General’s Plan of Action to Prevent Violent Extremism, and the Pilar I of the UN Counter-Terrorism Global Strategy (A/RES/60/288) by selling intercultural and interfaith dialogue as a prevention software;
• Projects that assist the implementation of the United Nations Plan of Action to Safeguard Religious Sites by selling respect for different religions and cultures, the precise of human beings to observe their religion in security and peace, and efforts to fight extremist ideologies and narratives;
• Projects that assist the implementation of the United Nations Strategy and Plan of Action on Hate Speech by addressing the problems and their impression on younger individuals.
• Projects that assist implementation of the General Assembly decision 66/167 in addition to Action 18 (c) of the Pact for the Future by combating racism and eliminating discrimination, xenophobia and spiritual intolerance, and all kinds of intolerance and discrimination from our societies and selling interreligious and intercultural dialogue.

Application Procedure:

Interested organizations can apply via the shape under. To view the shape, you’ll need to register for an account.

To be thought of full and legitimate, the application bundle should embody the next and be submitted via the web application system accessible under.

• The application kind, accomplished and authorized by the applicant’s group;
• A duplicate of the registration certificates of the applicant’s group;
• A duplicate of the statutes/by-laws of the applicant’s group;
• An organizational chart depicting the ages of key decision-makers throughout the group;
• A biography of the present Executive/Managing Director, exhibiting the date of delivery (one web page most);
• The resume/CV of the challenge coordinator (two pages most);
• An image or scan of the challenge coordinator’s passport identification web page. If the challenge coordinator doesn’t have a passport, add his or her nationwide identification card.

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) Youth Solidarity Fund