United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) Youth Solidarity Fund 2025 (up to $25,000) – YOA

Deadline: August 15, 2025

Applications are invited for the UNAOC Youth Solidarity Fund 2025. The United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) invites youth-led organizations from eligible international locations to apply for the eleventh version of the Youth Solidarity Fund (YSF). YSF helps tasks that promote peace and social inclusion by enhancing mutual understanding, respect, and collaboration throughout borders, cultures, faiths, and beliefs.

Established in 2008, YSF was initiated in direct response to requires motion made by younger civil society leaders the world over, who emphasised the significance and necessity of establishing funding mechanisms for youth-led organizations. As the worldwide agenda more and more acknowledges the function of younger folks in peace, growth and safety issues, it’s essential to hear and reply by providing funding and partnership alternatives.

The funded tasks are each youth-led and youth-targeted, concentrating on people aged 18 to 35 years. While the principal beneficiaries of these tasks are younger folks, the impression usually resonates all through whole communities, involving spiritual and political leaders, policymakers, instructional establishments and media organizations.

Funding

• YSF gives seed funding of up to USD $25,000 to implement impactful youth-led tasks that advance intercultural and interfaith dialogue and are aligned with the mandate and mission of UNAOC.

Eligibility

• Open to youth-led organizations registered and operational for a minimum of 2 years in a single of the eligible international locations;
• Registered youth-led organizations with tasks solely developed and managed by youth.

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

• Be youth-led: a majority of the positions and resolution-making roles inside the group are held by ladies and men between the ages of 18 and 35;
•  Be a non-revenue, non-governmental group (apart from nationwide youth councils) registered within the nation of operation as a charity, belief, basis, or affiliation;
• Be formally registered and operational for a minimal of two years prior to the deadline for functions with funding base and mission implementation (working in June 2023 or earlier);
• Be registered and function in a single of the eligible international locations;
• Have a democratic governance construction and resolution-making mechanism, together with consultative processes in formulating priorities and insurance policies;
• Have a capability to display correct and constant monitoring, analysis, and document-conserving of their actions, together with mission analysis reviews and monetary accounts;
• Have a gender perspective/stability mirrored of their workers, beneficiaries, and actions;
• Have no adherence to or affiliations with violent ideologies or antagonism towards any specific nation, tradition, faith or perception system, ethnic group, gender, and many others.; and
• Did not obtain funding beneath previous editions of YSF or didn’t obtain assist by means of the Intercultural Innovation Hub.

Application

To be thought-about full and legitimate, the application bundle should embody the next and be submitted by means of the net application system:

• The application type, accomplished and licensed by the applicant’s group;
• A replica of the registration certificates of the applicant’s group;
• A replica of the statutes/by-legal guidelines of the applicant’s group;
• An organizational chart depicting the ages of key resolution-makers inside the group;
• A biography of the present Executive/Managing Director, displaying the date of start (one web page most);
• The resume/CV of the mission coordinator (two pages most);
• An image or scan of the mission coordinator’s passport identification web page. If the mission coordinator doesn’t have a passport, add his or her nationwide identification card.

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

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For extra info, go to UNAOC Youth Solidarity Fund.