GrantStation International Insider - February 2023

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Special Funding Opportunities

Current funding opportunities for COVID-19 and Ukraine are available to the public on our website.

Global Funding Opportunities

Support Available to U.S. Nonprofits Assisting the LGBTQ+ Community Worldwide
HCAI Fund (Health Care Advocates International LLC)
The HCAI Fund, the charitable program of Health Care Advocates International LLC, seeks to grow the number of organizations that share HCAI's mission to end discrimination and promote healthy lives for the LGBTQ+ community. The Fund provides financial support for these groups, particularly those that address basic needs, safety and wellness, stigma and discrimination, equality, and education. Grants are awarded to U.S. 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations working anywhere in the world to address one or more of the following areas for members of the LGBTQ+ community: 1) basic needs support and assistance, including for homelessness and food insecurity; 2) substance abuse that impacts other treatments and care; 3) equality in any facet of community life (work, housing, education, and access to healthcare); 4) mental health support and services; 5) stigma and discrimination; 6) HIV/AIDS education, prevention, and support; or 7) advertising/marketing or similar services that specifically support the program for which the grant is being requested. Applications are accepted from January 1 through March 31 and July 1 through September 30, annually. The application guidelines and the online grant submission form are available on the Health Care Advocates International LLC website.

Projects Leveraging AI to Address Climate Change Funded
Climate Change AI: Innovation Grants
Climate Change AI is a global initiative to catalyze impactful work at the intersection of climate change and machine learning. Through the Innovation Grants program, Climate Change AI supports research projects that leverage AI or machine learning to address problems in climate change mitigation, adaptation, or climate science, or that consider problems related to impact assessment and governance at the intersection of climate change and machine learning. Projects are expected to result in a deployed project, scientific publications, or other public dissemination of results, as well as the publication of a documented dataset or simulator. Applications must include a principal investigator who is affiliated with an accredited university in an OECD member country. There are no eligibility restrictions on co-investigators, and multi-country and multi-sectoral collaborations are encouraged. The project submission deadline is March 1, 2023. Visit the Climate Change AI website to review the call for proposals.

Awards Honor Innovative Housing Solutions
World Habitat Awards
The World Habitat Awards are given annually to recognize and highlight innovative, outstanding, and sometimes revolutionary housing ideas, projects, and programs from across the world. The Awards are open to projects from around the world that focus on affordable and adequate housing; have taken action to address the climate emergency; are in progress or have been completed in the last ten years; are taking steps to promote diversity, equality, and inclusion; and have been designed or delivered in close collaboration with the residents and local community. Two Awards of £10,000 are given annually. Any type of organization working in the field of housing can enter the competition, including non-governmental organizations, charities, foundations, government entities, academic institutions, and United Nations programs. Applications must be submitted by March 12, 2023. Visit the World Habitat Awards website to enter online.

Grants Target Education, Economic Empowerment, Climate Impact, and Crisis Response
Cisco: Global Impact Cash Grant Program
Cisco's Global Impact Cash Grant Program supports nonprofit and non-governmental organizations worldwide that address a significant social problem. Grants ranging up to $75,000 are provided to organizations and programs that focus on at least one of the following investment areas: crisis response, access to education, economic empowerment, and climate impact and regeneration. For education, crisis response, and economic empowerment proposals, support will also be considered for proposals that address environmental sustainability within the context of these investment areas. U.S. nonprofit organizations and organizations outside the U.S. with equivalent nonprofit status are eligible to apply. Organizations must serve an audience greater than 65 percent economically underserved relative to the average standards of the target geography. There is no deadline to apply. Visit the Cisco website to learn more about the investment areas and start the online application process by taking the eligibility quiz.

Regional Funding Opportunities

Strategic Litigation Support Bolsters Digital Rights in Europe
Digital Freedom Fund
The Digital Freedom Fund supports partners in Europe to advance digital rights through strategic litigation. Grants support strategic litigation on digital rights in Council of Europe member states that contributes to advancing human rights in the digital context. Strategic litigation is defined as having an impact beyond the parties involved in the case and bringing about legislative, policy, or social change. Thematic focus areas consist of: 1) advancing individuals' ability to exercise their right to privacy; 2) protecting and promoting the free flow of information online; and 3) ensuring accountability, transparency, and adherence to human rights standards in the use and design of technology. The Fund also welcomes applications for projects that fall outside these general thematic focus areas if they can contribute to advancing respect for human rights in the digital sphere. Types of grants include pre-litigation research and litigation track support. Applications for the current call for applications are open until February 28, 2023. Visit the Digital Freedom Fund website to review the call and complete the eligibility check prior to applying.

Prize Incentivizes Green Energy Solutions in Africa
Milken-Motsepe Innovation Prize Program
The Milken-Motsepe Innovation Prize Program is a series of multi-year, multimillion-dollar prize competitions and programs to advance technological solutions that accelerate progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with a spotlight on Africa. Currently, the Program is offering the Milken-Motsepe Prize in Green Energy to incentivize entrepreneurs who have ideas for solutions to advance progress toward SDG 7 by expanding access to reliable, affordable, and sustainable electricity in Africa. Winning teams will demonstrate the ability to deploy distributed green energy solutions at scale in Africa, with the goal of dramatically expanding access to reliable electricity. Applications are open for the Design Round, in which each team submits their designs and business models. Twenty teams will be selected to advance to be semi-finalists and will receive $20,000 to test their ideas. (Additional awards are made in the Semi-Finalist Round and Finalist Round, with the winning team receiving $1,000,000.) Anyone is eligible to register regardless of age, geographic location, or any other factor. Participants can be single individuals or a team of individuals, including formally incorporated businesses. Design Round submissions will be accepted from March 1 to March 29, 2023. Visit the funder's website to learn more about the Milken-Motsepe Prize in Green Energy.

Social Justice Organizations in the U.K. Supported
Civic Power Fund: Community Action Fund
The Civic Power Fund seeks to help community organizers and campaigners who are tackling injustice and exclusion in the U.K. Alongside nationwide infrastructure support, the Fund also focuses grassroots organizing support on three areas: North Manchester, North Wales, and Hampshire and Surrey. Through the Community Action Fund, grants ranging from £2,500 to £20,000 are provided to U.K.-based grassroots organizations that are building the power of their community and campaigning for long-term change. Organizations should be rooted in and accountable to their community, hoping to achieve long-term change on issues affecting the lives of their community, addressing injustice by building the power of their community, lacking the resources to take their vision to the next level, and seeking to build a larger us and resisting the politics of division. Priority is given to organizations led by people with lived experience of the injustice they are trying to overcome. The deadline to apply is February 26, 2023. Visit the Civic Power Fund website to fill out the online questionnaire.

Call Boosts European Efforts to Tackle Disinformation
European Media and Information Fund: Boosting Fact-Checking Activities in Europe
The European Media and Information Fund, established by the European University Institute and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, is dedicated to supporting fact-checking and media literacy initiatives, as well as fundamental research projects, with a view to addressing the phenomenon of online disinformation in Europe and promoting, in particular, a more resilient and fact-based digital information ecosystem. The Boosting Fact-Checking Activities in Europe call for applications supports projects from independent fact-checking organizations which play a key role in limiting the negative effects of disinformation on the public discourse and democratic processes. Grants range up to €55,000 for urgent actions designed to increase coverage, depth, and speed of fact-checking activities by organizations that commit to producing regular flows of fact-checks. Funding of up to €80,000 is provided for scale-up projects, including freelance collaborations within newsrooms or the integration of state-of-the-art technologies for content verification and media and social media monitoring. Individual entities or organizations in a consortium located in the EU, EFTA, and United Kingdom are eligible to apply, including fact-checking and media organizations, nonprofit and non-governmental organizations, research centers, and educational institutions. In the context of the ongoing Russia – Ukraine conflict, this call also supports collaborations with fact-checking and media organizations or journalists operating in Ukraine. Though Ukrainian organizations are not eligible as funded partners, costs pertaining to such collaborations, namely subcontracting costs, will be considered as eligible. Applications will be accepted until February 28, 2023. Visit the Fund's website to download the call.

Government Funding Opportunities

Grants Help Protect Women Facing Intersectional Discrimination
Department of State
Through the Leveraging Intersectionality to Ensure Zero Obstruction to Women’s Empowerment funding opportunity, support is provided to civil society organizations working to promote and protect the human rights of women who face intersectional discrimination based on multiple and overlapping social identities. Proposals should be focused on women from marginalized communities who face compounded discrimination and violence, as well as significant barriers to exercising their human rights, fundamental freedoms, and dignity. The application deadline is March 22, 2023.

Program Advances Religious Freedom in Mongolia
Department of State
The Promoting Inclusive Societies in Mongolia program funds projects that support religious freedom in Mongolia. The closing date for applications is March 7, 2023.

PathFinder: Featured Resource
A library of quality resources designed to help you develop your career path as a grants professional

The Secret Language of Maps: How to Tell Visual Stories with Data, by Carissa Carter. Ten Speed Press (2022)
Are you looking to enhance your understanding of data visualization? The book The Secret Language of Maps: How to Tell Visual Stories with Data may help you do just that. This book is a highly visual exploration of diagrams and data that helps the reader understand how maps are part of everyday thinking, how they tell stories, and how they can reframe a point of view. An embedded mystery story about a woman who investigates the disappearance of an old high school friend illustrates how to use different maps to make sense of all types of information. Readers will learn how to gather data, organize it, and present it to an audience.

Upcoming Online Education Trainings
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Unless otherwise noted, all Online Education Trainings are webinars,
are 90 minutes in duration, and are scheduled to begin at 2 PM Eastern Time.

Creating Grant Policies and Procedures
Many nonprofits get started quickly due to the immediate needs of their community, and, in the rush, overlook the development of policies and procedures. But if you don't have these documents when tensions or problems occur, your nonprofit will need to scramble to put something into place. That's why creating your grant policies and procedures before any challenges arise is vital. While policies and procedures are not usually submitted in grant applications, funders expect you to have these documents and to use them to guide your grantseeking efforts. During this TargetED, Alice Ruhnke will show you how having sound grant policies and procedures can set your organization up for success. That way you're prepared to apply for and manage your grants. The webinar will be held on Monday, February 13, 2023.

Improved Performance With Effective Evaluations
Performance evaluations are often an afterthought for many organizations. But evaluating performance is critical to shaping a productive and effective staff and board, as well as executive leaders. During this practical session, Mindy Muller will show you why performance evaluations matter and how to do them well so you can ensure your team is both acknowledged for a job well done and encouraged to improve and grow. The webinar will be held on Tuesday, February 14, 2023.

Creating a Written Fundraising Plan
Most organizations develop specific fundraising goals, but many never define clear strategies to accomplish them. In order to define clear strategies and create a fundraising plan that works, you need to identify the most essential data in your past and present. During this session, Mandy Pearce, owner of Funding for Good, will help you use essential metrics to develop the right strategies to fully fund your organization. You’ll walk away ready to replace fundraising fantasies with fact-driven processes. The webinar will be held on Wednesday, February 15, 2023.

GrantStation Announcements
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An Introduction to Our Research Specialist, Sid Davis

I was taught early to read books and play music, which can be good or bad, depending. Not taken too seriously, they can enrich one's life. I took them very seriously, which led to me wanting to live what I read and play what I heard. Those pursuits resulted in a lot of travel and many adventures, from volcano climbing in Guatemala, to aurora spotting in Iceland, to road tripping in Morocco, to island hopping in Greece. Along the way, like Lloyd Dobler in Say Anything, I realized I didn't want to sell anything bought or processed, buy anything sold or processed, process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed.

You'd think it would be hard to find jobs meeting such specific conditions, but it really wasn't. I cleaned windows, dug ditches (literally), worked in a law firm, wrote and edited for several publications, played a lot of music, worked in movies, then found a place at GrantStation, where we help organizations seeking funding achieve that goal. I work in GrantStation's U.S. database, researching and updating the records that our Members pore over for funding possibilities. I also write articles for the Insights Blog and Tracks to Success that I hope bring focus to issues important to grantseekers. I don't sell anything bought or processed, and that's important to me. If you ever want to discuss one of my articles, I'm always available via email.

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