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Become our partner

We work alongside our network of over 300 partner organizations representing minority and indigenous communities in over 60 countries.

Here you can find information about our partnership process and what to expect every step of the way.

We start a new formal partnership in one of three ways:

We are approached

A minority and indigenous led or minority and indigenous rights focused organization facing discrimination, exclusion, persecution or climate injustice asks us to work with and support them. 

We are not a grant making organization on a large scale. Instead, if a potential partner approaches us and we decide to work together, we co-design an intervention that we mutually believe will make a difference in their community. We then seek funding for that work together. This means we are not in a ‘funder: grantee’ relationship but rather have a more equal partnership where we work closely together and report to a funding organization who is a third party.

We work with partners whose aims and values match ours. We seek to ensure we can add value to the partner’s work through our knowledge, contacts and experience, and where the partner’s work fits well with our strategy. Our support to partners is never solely financial.

If a potential new partner approaches us, we check whether the potential partnership duplicates existing work. If it does, we will not take it forward. We will also assess whether our  values, skillset and strategy are a good fit with those of the partner. If so, we will normally co-create potential interventions and then see if we can jointly apply for a suitable source of finance. Depending on how well we know the partner and how high their level of experience is, sometimes we submit the application in our name and then grant the funding to the partner. However, sometimes the partner applies, secures the funding, and then sub-contracts us to support them to do the work, where needed.

The need for support to those facing discrimination in the world today is sadly very high. As a relatively small organization, we unfortunately cannot help everyone who approaches us. However, we will consider any approaches and will reply even if we cannot help immediately or at all. 

Although we normally prefer to work with minority and indigenous-led organizations or those squarely focused on tackling minority and indigenous rights issues, we do sometimes involve a consortium of organizations which brings together not only minority and indigenous community involvement and viewpoints but also other important skills, influence, contacts or resources. As a condition of our work with wider-focused or majority-led organizations, we will expect such partners to be extremely sensitive to giving space and listening properly to the minority and indigenous led organizations in any consortium, and to offer opportunities to transfer control to them over time. 

We approach an organization

We become aware of serious minority or indigenous rights abuses in a country and we reach out to see whether we can find a suitable organization to work with to tackle this together.

In this case, the need for the work is identified by our own staff or contacts. We carefully approach the situation and assess partnership possibilities in a way that ensures any intervention is locally owned and as sustainable as possible. We also aim to ensure that such interventions address the real needs of minority and indigenous communities and will not make things worse. It is rare for us to begin work in this way and we do not respond to external calls to do so.

Through open calls

We publish an open call for proposals that allows organizations working in a particular country to apply for a piece of work that they have designed.

Occasionally, as part of large programmes we issue open calls for proposals from small minority and indigenous led organizations. These are normally small or micro grants. All calls are published on this page.

It is quite common for an open call to follow a training programme and may be designed to allow trainees to put into practice some of what they have learnt. Sometimes, we may build upon a small grant by working with a grantee to design a follow up or new piece of work together (as described above) and seeking funding for that.

If you ever have a concern or a complaint about the way anyone associated with Minority Rights Group has treated you, please contact us. Any feedback will be independently and, as far as possible, confidentially investigated. We want to hear from you if you are unhappy about anything in our relationship.

So we have now gone through all the steps and agreed to become formal partners… exciting! Now what? 

Some organizations sometimes ask us to sign a pre-teaming agreement and we are happy to do that. The last thing we want to do is to steal the ideas of people we want to work with! But we don’t expect our partners to routinely sign such agreements and we don’t have a template that we use. If this is important to you, you can tell us why and we can use a text you have used before or agree the text between us. 

During the design process, you should discuss with your Minority Rights Group contact, how any management and administration percentage will be split between organizations, how your essential staffing, office and governance costs can be met and whether there might be any expectation for you to contribute towards any match funding that the funder we are applying to might require. Regarding covering your administrative costs, we have prepared some useful information here. If you want to learn more about our approach to match funding, you can find more information here. However, the rules vary according to the funder so these are general guidelines. If your contact at Minority Rights Group gives you different advice, you will need to follow that. 

At some point in the early stages of working together (sometimes at the design stage, sometimes when funding is confirmed and for all but the smallest grants), we will ask you to complete a Partnership Agreement and Partner Assessment Template (PAT). The partnership agreement is a general document that describes how we will work together but it does not concern delivering any specific programme work or contractual obligations. It covers our mutual expectations of those we work with to treat every person equally and with respect, and to act both professionally and responsibly. If we receive a complaint from a member of your staff, from a trainee or from another partner organization, that you have acted in ways that don’t live up to human rights norms or to our standards, we will initiate a discussion with you. We will expect your organization to take appropriate and prompt action against any individual or individuals involved who are found to have behaved inappropriately. 

You will also need to complete a PAT which we use to identify both the strong and less developed elements of your organizational set up. This allows us to ensure that we do not overwhelm you with demanding new programmes or give you too much extra responsibility too early on. It also allows us to see where there might be opportunities for us to learn from you or vice versa. There are several sheets within the PAT excel document and depending on the programme work you are co-designing with us, you will complete the grants < £5k sheet, or the grants >£5k sheet. You also need to complete the information sheet. In some cases, for larger grants we may visit you to understand your organization better and to conduct a capacity assessment. In this case, we may fill out the PAT together during this visit.

Once funding is confirmed, we will ask you to sign a contract. This will set out the activities you will complete, the activities or non-financial support that MRG will provide, the results we hope to achieve, any financial support we will provide and the budget for how it will be spent. We need to vary the exact terms of the contract depending on the size of the grant as well as the expectations or requirements of the funder. However, to get a general idea, you can see one sample contract for grants under £5k here, one sample contract for a larger grant to an organization with a turnover under £60k a year here, and one sample contract for a grant over £60k here. 

The contract will explain when you need to report to us. You will need to submit both narrative and financial reports. There will normally be a kick-off meeting, especially for larger grants and for new partners, where we will talk through some ‘dos and don’ts’ and you will be able to ask questions and clarify anything that you don’t understand. If we don’t have that meeting, (or if we do but a query arises later and you are unsure about anything), please do reach out to your Minority Rights Group contact and ask. It is much better to clarify things at the beginning than to get to the end of your activities and to find that you have not recorded everything you need to report to us about. As with the contracts, our reporting formats do vary according to the size and type of programme and what funders need but a fairly standard example is here (financial) and here (narrative). 

MRG will almost always want to review and approve both narrative and financial reports on one phase of work before we send the next tranche of funding. But, at the same time, we know some organizations won’t have cash in the bank to continue working (also bearing in mind that sometimes banks can take a while to move the money). If this is going to hold up the work or make things very difficult for you, let us know and we will see what we can do to find a solution that works best for both of us. 

We love it when you send us photos of your work and sometimes we can use them in our media or social media work or on the website. However, to do this we need the people in the photo to give their signed permission. We won’t normally use photos of children so try not to take photos where individual children can be recognised. 

You should not use Minority Rights Group’s logo on the front cover of a report, film, website or other output unless we have had an opportunity to check and approve the content. We are often happy to co-publish with partners and we know that our reputation for authoritative and quality-controlled content can help gain an audience, but we first need to be sure that we know what is being said. When our logo is used on a front cover, we would normally have been involved in the data collection and will need to be sure that we are comfortable with and confident about methods and contents. However, to ensure transparency, you may, if you wish, include our logo inside any report that we have financially supported with a disclaimer that we contributed funding for it but are not responsible for the contents. Please discuss this with your Minority Rights Group contact, giving reasonable notice before the publication deadline in order to agree the wording, placement etc. 

MRG will ask you to subscribe to our newsletter. This is because opportunities for partners to carry out advocacy, submit evidence, attend training or apply for funding are regularly included, and it is an efficient way for us to contact you. The newsletter is currently only available in English, but we hope that you will be able to use online translators to access the contents regardless, and many of the links will take you to materials produced in other languages. It is also great – if it is safe for you to do so – if you can follow Minority Rights Group on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube. Consider whether it is appropriate and useful to tag us when you are posting on your own social media channels and we will share your content with a wider audience, if we can. 

MRG promises to do its utmost to keep your data confidential and safe and we will ask you to do likewise. For instance, if you attend a training event organized by us, we will ask you to understand that other participants may be facing a very severe security situation, similarly at times our staff may be at risk, and we ask that you do your utmost to keep data about their interactions with you password protected or on secure channels. There are many organizations who support NGOs who may come under threat, such as Frontline Defenders, Protect Defenders, or CSO Lifeline. You have the right to ask us to share with you the data that we hold about your organization, and we will always do so (after taking some time to collect and check it). If you want to do this, you can write to your Minority Rights Group contact, [email protected] or use the complaint button if you prefer. 

We really hope that all your security precautions will be effective and that you will never face threats or reprisals as a result of your work with us. But if this does ever  happen. If it is safe to do so, please reach out to us and we will see what we can do to help. We know that our partners take risks to try to advance the cause of equality and human rights and if you face difficulties as a result, we will do what is within our power to mitigate any negative effects. 

If you ever have a concern or a complaint about the way anyone associated with MRG has treated you, please contact us. Any feedback will be independently and, as far as possible, confidentially investigated. We want to hear from you if you are unhappy about anything in our relationship. We can’t always solve every problem, but we will investigate and learn for the future and try to do better for both you and others.

When our funded joint work comes to an end, that does not need to be the end of our relationship.

Firstly, we sometimes design a future phase of work and if we are successful in getting funding for that, our joint work will restart. We would like to be able to offer some continuity between funded work, in the form of continued strategy sharing, joint advocacy and mutual support without any direct grant support. This might depend on the staff time available to us. Sometimes we can, sometimes we cannot. It might also depend on the emergencies happening around the world and and the resulting calls for our help.

Sometimes though, we feel that we need to work less with one partner or community and so we don’t design a ‘next phase’ of our joint work or seek funding for it. This might be because a particular problem has been successfully resolved by a community. But other times it might be because your organization has the resources to work independently. We only really succeed when organizations we have supported can sustain the effort and continue progressing towards equality without our support. Even in these cases, we will want to stay in touch with you. We will aim to tell you about opportunities that could benefit you and involve you in global and collective efforts such as influencing UN-wide processes.

External opportunities

We publicize funding, learning and influencing opportunities that we believe might be interesting for our network.

This opportunity expires on 2 April 2024

African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) is a Pan-African feminist fund that envisions a world and a continent where gender justice, freedom and equality are achieved for all. They launched their ten-year strategic framework, Lemlem, in 2023, a framework which centres movements and takes an inclusive approach to feminist funding in Africa. They know that feminist activists and movements are central to social justice work that ensures women, girls and gender-diverse persons across Africa enjoy equal rights and opportunities. They recognize the diversity of the feminist and women’s rights organizations and movements and want to be part of the cultural evolution of feminist organizing on the continent, ensuring they reach all parts of the movement.

In this call for proposals, AWDF prioritizes applications from a diversity of feminist and women’s rights organizations (WROs) led by historically marginalized and minoritized groups, e.g. refugee and displaced women, indigenous women, gender diverse persons, women with disabilities, among others. To ensure language diversity, they will prioritize applications from organizations and networks working in French, Portuguese and Arabic-speaking countries across Africa. They are also inviting applications from organizations and networks in diverse geographies, including North Africa, the Sahel and the Horn of Africa.

  • The Open grant call is open to organizations and networks led by women, girls and gender-diverse persons that have been registered and working in Africa for at least three years. Their 2023 organizational budget should be less than USD 150,000.
  • The Kasa! Initiative grant call is open to organizations and networks led by women, girls and genderdiverse persons that have been registered and operating in Ghana, Nigeria and/or Senegal for at least three years and whose 2023 budget is less than USD 150,000. The initiatives proposed should focus on addressing sexual violence. Please note that the Kasa! Initiative is focused on sexual violence.
  • The Komboa grant call is open to women and gender-diverse-led organizations and networks. They especially encourage organizations and networks operating in Southern and Central Africa to apply.
This opportunity expires on 22 April 2024

The Delegation of the European Union to North Macedonia launches a call for proposals under the Thematic Programme on Human Rights and Democracy, the successor of the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR).

This thematic programme is aligned with the priorities of the EU Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy and with the Multi-annual indicative programming for the Thematic Programme on Human Rights and Democracy.

The 2023 North Macedonia Country Report notes that the legal framework for the protection of fundamental rights is largely in line with European standards. However, numerous challenges remain to be addressed, including recommendations from European and international human rights bodies. The European Commission acknowledges the role of civil society organizations in playing the role of watchdogs and their participation in the decision-making process on key laws, including the laws on prevention and protection against discrimination and on prevention and protection against violence against women and domestic violence. The civil society organizations significantly contributed to ensuring the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms, especially with respect to assistance provided to the most vulnerable categories.

The global objective of this call for proposals is the promotion and protection of:

  • human rights and fundamental freedoms;
  • democracy;
  • the rule of law in North Macedonia.

The specific objective(s) of this call for proposals are:

  • Advancement of rule of law and democratic institutions;
  • Protecting and empowering individuals; and
  • Safeguarding freedom fundamentals, including harnessing the opportunities and addressing the challenges of new technologies.
This opportunity expires on 22 March 2024

The Center for Civilians in Conflict (CIVIC) invites civil society organizations, journalists, and/or research institutes and think tanks to express their interest in contributing to CIVIC’s new annual Protection of Civilians trends report. Submissions may take any number of forms (e.g. analysis based on qualitative or quantitative research, illustrative datasets conveyed through compelling visuals, original articles, or photo-essays) but should help tell the story of the Protection of Civilians (POC) in 2024 (the 25th Anniversary of POC), including how protection concerns for civilians are evolving and how sub-national, national and multi-national actors are responding to these concerns.

CIVIC will select and provide small grant funding for 3-5 submissions from individuals or organizations. Submissions may take any number of forms (e.g. short form analysis based on qualitative or quantitative research, illustrative national or sub-national datasets conveyed through compelling visualization or infographics, short original articles and essays, or photo-essays) but should help tell the story of the state of Protection of Civilians in 2024. Each submission should fit within at least one of the main report categories (Prevent, Protect, Recognize, Amend). Submissions need not include original research conducted for this project but should reflect original analysis or include a creative process that generates novel insights or reflections from existing data. (Submissions must cite the source of all data and information used.)

Awarded parties will be able to work independently but are expected to inform CIVIC on their final choice of medium, methodology, and the data used in the production of the final submission and should expect a process of collaboration with CIVIC to edit the submission for inclusion in the report. Full attribution will be given to the author and each source of the contribution in the final report, and contributing parties will be invited to participate in public and private dissemination activities. Pro-bono submissions aligning with these categories are also invited.

This opportunity expires on 15 April 2024

Are you a changemaker with a bold vision? Are you a non-profit with an experienced team equipped to receive large-scale philanthropic support? Is your idea a proven concept that aspires to create a better world?

Audacious looks for ideas that cover a wide range of issues, from global health and climate change to social justice and education.

Each year, Audacious sources ideas through its open ideas survey and from a global network of partners and donors. Ideas can be submitted throughout the year, and they are reviewed on a rolling basis.

This opportunity expires on 21 March 2024

ERIAC partnered with Marché du Film and ImpACT Lab to enhance Roma representation in film. This scholarship opportunity for a Romani producer includes workshops at Cannes Film Festival 2024, fostering international co-production and impactful film creation.

The organizers are seeking emerging talents with industry experience to multiply knowledge within the ERIAC network. The initiative promotes diversity, sustainability and future developments in the film industry.

The successful applicant will have to act as a multiplier of the knowledge and share their learning in the frame of a network meeting held for ERIAC membership at a later point. The applications will be evaluated by an international Jury consisting of industry professionals.

This opportunity expires on 20 March 2024

The Z Zurich Foundation Scholarship 2024 will allow 30 young leaders working on prevention-focused mental well-being projects, adaptation-focused climate resilience projects, or projects enabling social equity through education, employability or entrepreneurship solutions, to participate in the One Young World Summit 2024, which takes place in Montréal, Canada, from 18 – 21 September.

This opportunity expires on 27 May 2024

The global objective of this call for proposals is to strengthen the role of civil society in promoting transparent and participatory governance, democratic reforms and human rights.

This call for proposals is divided into four lots, each with its own specific objectives and priorities.

  1. Support to CSOs and CSO networks towards increased abilities to monitor and actively participate in Montenegro’s reform processes.
  2. Support to small Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and civil society movements in different sectors, developing grassroots movements’ and local informal groups’ capacities through flexible financial support to third parties mechanisms.
  3. Support to different key stakeholders to contribute to local development in the North and central region of Montenegro.
  4. Support to different key stakeholders to contribute to local development in the South and central region of Montenegro.
This opportunity expires on 2 April 2024

ILGA Europe has launched a call for project proposals to support the groups and projects that address the intersectional impact of injustice, racialization, racism and specific harms affecting the lives of racialized LGBTI communities across Europe.

The aim of this programme is to address the intersectional impact of injustice, racialization, racism and specific harms affecting the lives of racialized LGBTI communities across Europe.

This opportunity expires on 24 March 2024

Peace Insight is looking for new content on the dynamics of local peacebuilding in contexts affected by mass atrocities and war, such as Sudan, Ukraine, Palestine and Israel.

Some of the questions they are interested in hearing about are how peacebuilding efforts prevent and respond to mass atrocities and what locally led pathways to peace remain available for peacebuilders to pursue. They will accept pitches covering past atrocities as well as current ones because articles on peacebuilding efforts responding to previous atrocities may offer lessons for peacebuilders today.

Rates: Peace Insight pays £170 for 800- to 950-word articles.

This opportunity expires on 21 March 2024

Are you a socially engaged artist or cultural practitioner whose practice envisions alternative, community-based models of climate justice for our planet? Then you should apply for the Mentorship Award: Cultural and Artistic Responses to the Environmental Crisis!

Join 12 artists and cultural practitioners (with ± 8-15 years of relevant professional experience) for a year-long programme to accelerate engaged community-based cultural practices that acknowledge the environmental crisis’s social, political and economic dimensions. The cohort is supported by four mentors, and each artist receives an award of €10.000 to work on the concept for a body of work they outline in their application.

Through this programme, we create an interdisciplinary platform to support critical artistic work, connect engaged practitioners, stimulate cross-disciplinary exchange, and centre non-hegemonic forms of knowledge to envision alternative models of climate justice worldwide.

Learn more about the programme and how to apply via the link below!

This opportunity expires on 1 July 2025

Digital Defenders provides civil society organizations with grants of up to €10,000 to be used to cover costs which will directly reduce the risk or impact of a digital attack. The funding covers activities for a maximum of four months.

This opportunity expires on 1 July 2025

The Lifeline Embattled CSO Assistance Fund provides emergency financial assistance to civil society organizations (CSOs) under threat or attack and rapid response advocacy and resiliency grants to support CSOs in responding to broader threats against civic space.

This opportunity expires on 1 April 2024

This opportunity can be of interest to organizations working on climate change, food sovereignty and economic justice in Africa, Asia and the Pacific and Latin America.

Thousand Currents supports grassroots organizations working on the issues mentioned above. They don’t publish calls for proposals but proactively look out for organizations to support. They are keen to broaden the pool of organizations they support and have launched a call for ‘partners’ under their Tactical Initiatives grant category. Tactical Initiative grants fund groups that are using one or more of the following tactics:

  • Strategic litigation
  • Popular education
  • Cultural production (including narrative change)
  • Campaigns to strengthen climate justice, food sovereignty, and economic justice movement work

Tactical Initiatives grants range from USD 25,000 to USD 250,000 and are one-time grants spanning over one to three years.

Through this open call for profiles, they hope to learn about groups they are not yet familiar with and deepen their understanding of the movement ecosystems across the Global South fighting for and sustaining economic justice, food sovereignty and climate justice.

This opportunity expires on 1 January 2025

The special Ukraine edition of the European Culture of Solidarity Fund is now open for considering cultural emergency requests and joint European actions to stand with Ukraine. The Culture of Solidarity Fund has already responded to some of the most urgent humanitarian needs of the arts and culture community in Ukraine, including the evacuation of archives and collections of cultural NGOs.

This edition of the Fund will specifically support European cultural initiatives in the following areas:

  • Independent, alternative and inclusive information sharing in (digital) media that counters propaganda filter bubbles, fake news and the ongoing war ‘infodemic’
  • Safe cultural spaces that provide shelter in Ukraine or host artists, cultural workers and civil society activists forced into exile.
  • Artistic and cultural expressions that withstand the harsh realities of conflict and support shared imagination of a peaceful future for Ukraine and Europe.
This opportunity expires on 1 January 2025

The Open Technology Fund (OTF) is an independent non-profit organization committed to advancing global Internet freedom. OTF supports projects focused on counteracting repressive censorship and surveillance, enabling citizens worldwide to exercise their fundamental human rights online.

The Rapid Response Fund aims to resolve threats in a timely and comprehensive manner for individuals, communities, and organizations whose free expression has recently been repressed. To resolve digital emergencies, OTF offers both direct financial support as well as technical services from trusted partners to high-risk people and organizations, such as bloggers, cyber activists, journalists, and human rights defenders.

The Rapid Response Fund offers two types of support to organizations, activists, journalists, and other human rights defenders facing digital attacks and emergencies of various kinds:

  1. technological services from trusted service partners (Tierra ComunGreenhost, and Qurium Media Foundation),
  2. direct financial support for the many needs that available service partners cannot fulfil.

Deadline: OTF accepts applications on a rolling basis.

Grant size: Anywhere from $1 to $50,000 (for direct financial support).

Eligibility: Support is only available through the Rapid Response Fund when there is a clear and time-sensitive digital emergency in which an applicant is seeking short-term and urgent support.

This opportunity expires on 1 January 2025

Cisco, an American-based multinational technology conglomerate corporation, welcomes applications for Global Impact Cash Grants from community partners around the world who share Cisco’s vision and offer an innovative approach to a critical social challenge.

Deadline: Cisco accepts applications on a rolling basis.

Grant size: The maximum request amount for first-time grant recipients is USD 75,000.

Eligibility

Global Impact Cash Grants multiply the impact of eligible organizations around the globe with national or multinational operations. Before applying, invited nonprofits can determine their organization’s eligibility by reviewing the requirements below and the grant giving policies.

Organizational requirements

  • Organizations within the United States must be recognized by the IRS as tax exempt under Internal Revenue Code Section 501 (c)(3), and classified by the IRS as a public charity.
  • Organizations from outside the U.S. must provide information and documents to determine whether the organization is the equivalent of a U.S. public charity.
  • Organizations to be funded must serve an audience greater than 65 percent economically underserved relative to the average standards of the target geography.
  • Organizations and programmes must focus on at least one of Cisco’s social investment areas: crisis response, access to education, or economic empowerment.”
  • For each of these three investment areas, we will also consider proposals that address environmental sustainability within the context of that investment area. For example, we would consider funding an economic empowerment programme that specifically focuses on creating green jobs.
  • A nonprofit organization’s overhead is not to exceed 25 percent. (Organizations are occasionally exempt from this requirement; however, they must be exceptionally aligned with Cisco’s values and criteria, and they must clearly explain and justify their overhead costs. Exemptions to the requirement on overhead expenses are determined on a case-by-case basis.). Cisco Foundation does not tend to make grants to colleges and universities. In the case that such a grant may be made, Cisco Foundation does not support additional institutional overhead rates for colleges and universities.

Ineligible programmes and/or activities

All applications must be completed using Cisco’s online application form. Cisco will not consider incomplete proposals or paper-based applications.

Proposals in the following areas are not eligible for a Global Impact Cash Grant:

  • Miscellaneous exclusions: general operating expenses, other than directly associated with the programme itself; individuals; research programmes; membership-based activities; programmes that promote or serve one culture, race, religion, population group, or political viewpoint – rather than the community at large; religious, political, or sectarian organizations (Note: A direct service programme run by a faith-based organization may be eligible. See Cisco’s grant giving policies.)
  • Hospitals: private or public hospitals; hospital foundations; medical centers, research centers, etc. (Programs based in a hospital may be eligible; however, grant funds must go exclusively to direct service in the community, not to general hospital operating expenses.)
  • Healthcare: programmes focused on improving physical or mental health.
  • Schools and scholarships: private, public, or charter schools; school foundations, booster clubs, and/or fundraising organizations affiliated with a particular school; colleges/universities; scholarships, stipends or loans within a programme; and/or school-related activities such as field trips, research programmes, etc.
  • Events: athletic events, competitions, tournaments; conferences, seminars, workshops; festivals, field trips, or other recreational events; fundraising events or sponsorships (benefit dinners, walks/runs, concerts, sports teams, etc.)
  • Philanthropic: capital building funds, challenge grants, grant-making organizations (all other foundations including private foundations, family foundations, school foundations, etc.)

How to apply?

Application starts with the eligibility quiz. Eligible organizations will be invited to register and complete the online initial information form. If a Cisco grant administrator determines that your organization’s programme is aligned with Cisco’s mission, strategic approach, and objectives for grant support, you will receive an invitation to submit a full proposal with an invitation code to the online application.

This opportunity expires on 1 January 2025

The European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) has joined forces with ARCA Youth Agency for the Advocacy of Roma Culture and the Artists at Risk (AR) residency programme to offer an artistic residency for Roma contemporary artists, curators, and other art practitioners from Ukraine.

The applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, and the decision about the placement is made based on availability of hosting institutions.

The programme covers the cost of relocation, accommodation and a monthly allowance. The allowance rates are established by the programme depending on the cost of living at the location of the hosting institution. The programme is envisioned to accommodate up to ten applicants for a period of minimum three months.

ROMA Artists and Cultural Workers who are from or have permanent residency in Ukraine are eligible for

  • a 3-month AR-Emergency Residency Grant
  • hosting at an artist-in-residency within the Artists at Risk (AR)-Network

Application and submission

Complete and submit your application through this form.

Mention that you are responding to the call for Roma artists from Ukraine. The form requires that you fill in all mandatory fields (starred) and upload the required documents.

Applications can be submitted in all major languages, although English is highly recommended to avoid delays and extra costs for translation.

Please note that this form requires logging in with a Google Email account. This is necessary because the form uploads attachments to Google Drive, and you can modify your response afterwards.

This opportunity expires on 1 January 2025

Loop is looking for Governing Board Members as it is expanding into more countries, working in partnership with local organisations. The global platform for people to feedback on humanitarian and development services seeks exceptional people to help shape the direction of the organisation as it spreads globally to empower local communities to participate in discussions on the aid they receive from organisations.

Candidates are recruited on a rolling basis.

The purpose of the Governing Board is to ensure that the organisation is effective in working towards the achievement of its purposes, to harness the organisation’s resources to maximum effect and to uphold its core ethos and values in accordance with its legal and regulatory guidelines.

The duties of Board members fall into three main areas:

  1. To be an ambassador, advocate, spokesperson and representative of Loop
  2. To ensure Loop remains true to its founding purpose of being a neutral platform that raises the voices of people affected so that Aid can be delivered in an effective and timely manner
  3. To ensure sound management of the Charity

Currently, they are looking for leaders that come from:

  • Francophone Africa
  • South & Central America
  • South & Central Asia
  • The Netherlands (where Loop is registered)

And from the following areas of expertise:

  • Finance
  • Youth Representation
  • Diversity and Inclusion
  • Human Resources
  • A Refugee/Asylum seeker based in the Netherlands
This opportunity expires on 1 January 2025

Women First invites organisations to submit a profile form to indicate their interest in applying for funding from Women First International Fund. Candidates who we believe are a strong fit for our unique model of grantmaking will be asked to submit a full proposal for funding.

For new grants, Women First’s application process is a networked approach. Potential partners are identified through an extensive network of current and alumni grantee partners, peer funds, and advisors, as well as groups that they have met through regional and in-country networking opportunities.

Eligibility

  • Located in one of their current priority countries: Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, or India
  • Dedicated to improving the lives of women, girls and/or trans people, as evidenced by the group’s mission and/or activities. Groups’ activities should also indicate a significant focus on the economic empowerment of women, girls, and/or trans people.
  • Small and emerging organizations with little or no access to larger donors or institutional funding. We give priority to organizations that have annual budgets less than USD 50,000.

See full list here.

Grantmaking programme

Women First partners have the opportunity to receive up to six years of flexible funding (a mix of core and programmatic support) totalling USD 95,000. The grants are made through three stages:

  • Opportunity: 12-month commitment from Women First in the amount of USD 10,000
  • Investment: 3-year commitment from Women First in the total amount of USD 45,000
  • Leverage: 2-year commitment from Women First in the total amount of USD 40,000

Funding priorities

Women First has an active partnership grantmaking model. They are committed to providing more than just grant dollars and seek organizations who are just as excited as we are about collaboration. Grantee partners are expected to:

  • Implement on programmatic work within the thematic focus of women’s economic empowerment. The funding is flexible and they partner with organizations with whom they share goals to improve women’s livelihoods and financial independence.
  • Invest in capacity building, utilizing resources provided by Women First where appropriate and identifying other opportunities for organizational strengthening. Partners are encouraged to prioritize key areas for organizational effectiveness and growth. Partners must complete the Grassroots Organizational Capacity Assessment Tool to do this, and will have opportunities to participate in Women First-led capacity building activities.
  • Commit to measuring (and learning from) programmatic and organizational results.
This opportunity expires on 1 January 2025

Start Network is a membership-founded and membership-owned organisation made up of local, national, and international NGOs, which have come together under a common belief: that the changes we want to see in the humanitarian system cannot be achieved by any single organisation acting alone.

Why become a Start Network member?

  • access to fast and flexible funding, including rapid response funding and risk-based/anticipatory funding
  • belonging to a global humanitarian peer group, with opportunities to collaborate and build partnerships with a diverse community of organisations
  • advocacy and participation in global conversations: the opportunity to influence new approaches to humanitarian aid and improve their voice and visibility on global platforms
  • participation in locally created innovations that create local solutions to local humanitarian problems
  • training/organisational strengthening: opportunities for learning that help to improve ways of working.

How to become a member?

The new strategy for membership is for Start Network to evolve from a centralised membership organisation to a network of national and regional hubs. Each hub will manage its own membership, which will be made up of local, national, and international NGOs operating in the same country or region.

Currently, new members are taken in only from specific countries where there are existing or prospective hubs. The application process will vary for each hub but as a starting point, interested organisations can send an expression of interest to join a current or prospective hub by filling in the form on this page.

Existing or prospecting hubs:

This opportunity expires on 1 January 2025

The Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund (WPHF) has launched a Rapid Response Window (RRW) to address the funding gap on women’s participation in formal peace processes and the implementation of peace agreements. The WPHF RRW provides financing for strategic, short term and urgent services and initiatives led by women peacebuilders and women’s civil society organizations to increase women’s influence in national, subnational and international formal peace processes.

No deadline. The RRW is demand-driven and accepts submissions on a rolling basis.

Funding streams

Direct Support Stream up to USD 25,000 (this is not a grant and no funding will be provided to the beneficiaries)

The WPHF RRW or RRW INGO partners pay for costs directly so that the required service is provided rapidly. Once the WPHF RRW or RRW INGO partners pay for the service, the CSO/women peacebuilders use the service to support their work on women’s meaningful participation in peace processes or peace agreement implementation.

This includes logistical and technical support that would increase the likelihood of a woman CSO representative/woman peacebuilder to actively participate in or influence a peace process or the implementation of a peace agreement — such as the cost of childcare, access for persons with disabilities, interpretation needs, expert advisory support, travels arrangements, etc.

Successful applicants receive services, not a grant. Services will be purchased and arranged directly from the WPHF RRW Secretariat or one of its partners on behalf of selected applicants.

Short-Term Grants Stream (up to USD 100,000 – the CSO will receive funding)

The WPHF RRW works with a range of INGO partners to deliver rapid grants for women’s civil society organizations’ projects that address diverse barriers to women’s influence and participation in Track 1 or Track 2 peace processes, or the implementation of a peace agreement.

Organizations can apply for both Direct Support and Short-Term Grant at the same time. If you are applying for both, you must submit a separate application form using the appropriate templates.

Eligibility

Local or national civil society organization (especially women-led) seeking to increase women’s participation in a specific track 1 or track 2 formal peace process, or specific peace agreement monitoring and implementation mechanisms.

Women peacebuilders seeking to influence or participate in a specific track 1 or track 2 formal peace process or specific peace agreement monitoring and implementation mechanisms.

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