GrantStation International Insider - March 2021

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COVID-19 Related Funding

Current COVID-19 funding opportunities are available on our website.

Global Funding Opportunities

Competition Seeks to Reduce Waste and Consumption
No Waste Challenge
The No Waste Challenge, an initiative of What Design Can Do in partnership with the IKEA Foundation, seeks innovative solutions to reduce waste and rethink the entire production and consumption cycle. Designers and creative entrepreneurs around the world are invited to submit innovative solutions to reduce waste and to re-design systems of extraction, production, and consumption to be less destructive, or even to make them restorative. Designers are asked to respond to one of the following global design briefs: 1) Take Less, focused on inspiring the use of fewer natural resources and consuming more mindfully; 2) Make Better, focused on making products and materials that are kept in use or regenerate natural systems; and 3) Handle Smarter, focused on using waste as a resource or disposing more responsibly. The Challenge also offers additional tracks for participants in six major cities. Winning teams receive a prize fund of €10,000 each and participate in a six-month-long global development program to further strengthen and scale up their projects. The deadline for submissions is April 20, 2021. Visit the Challenge website to review the global and city design briefs. 

Grants Promote Veganism Across the World
VegFund
VegFund empowers vegan advocates worldwide through grant funding and supporting effective outreach that inspires people to choose and maintain a vegan lifestyle. Support is provided to vegan activists, both individuals and nonprofit organizations, who promote messages and behaviors that are 100% plant-based and free of animal exploitation. Funding is available in the following areas: Community Events grants cover one-time events or activities that last one or two days and are designed to reach the non-vegan public about vegan and plant-based living. (Due to safety concerns regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, VegFund is not approving grants for in-person events at this time.) Community Events grant applications are accepted on a rolling basis. Special Project grants support longer-term projects, including mentored campaigns and vegan challenges, humane education and other school outreach, long-term advocacy projects, and learning tools such as curriculum development, video series, and training modules. Online Campaign grants support individuals and organizations that wish to carry out vegan advocacy using an online platform, such as social media or a website, to run an online challenge or other digital marketing campaign. The upcoming application deadlines for Special Projects and Online Campaigns are April 15, July 15, and October 15, 2021. Visit the VegFund website to start the online application process by signing up for an account.

Funding Available for Research Into Online Child Safety
End Violence Against Children: Tech Coalition Safe Online Research Fund
The Tech Coalition Safe Online Research Fund, an initiative of End Violence Against Children and the Technology Coalition, aims to tackle online child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEA). Grants ranging from $20,000 to $250,000 are provided for research that will expand knowledge of online CSEA and explore the most effective measures for preventing it. Supported research should increase understanding and provide application of 1) efficacy and impact of online CSEA deterrence and prevention interventions and frameworks; 2) evolving technology; 3) well-being, collaboration, and support; and 4) policy and legal considerations. Applications are accepted from nonprofit organizations, including research institutes, academic institutions, civil society organizations, non-governmental organizations, and international organizations. The deadline to apply is April 11, 2021. Visit the End Violence Against Children website to download the request for proposals and apply online.

Prize Honors Individuals Improving the Food System
World Food Prize
The World Food Prize is awarded for a specific, exceptionally significant, individual achievement that advances human development with a demonstrable increase in the quantity, quality, availability of, or access to food through creative interventions at any point within the full scope of the food system. Fields of achievement include, but are not limited to the following: soil and land; plant and animal science; food science and technology; nutrition; rural development; marketing; food processing, packaging, and storage; water and the environment; natural resource conservation; physical infrastructure; transportation and distribution; special or extraordinary feeding programs; social organization and poverty elimination; economics and finance; policy analysis and implementation; and public advocacy. The impact of the achievement must be measurable, quantifiable, or otherwise demonstrated either in terms of reduced poverty, hunger, or suffering, or enhanced health, nutrition, or quality of life and well-being. An award of $250,000 is presented to the winner. The nomination deadline is May 1, 2021. Visit the World Food Prize website to learn more about the nomination procedure and submit a nomination.

Regional Funding Opportunities

Support for Climate Mitigation and Adaptation Efforts in Developing Countries
Green Climate Fund
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is dedicated to helping developing countries reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and enhance their ability to respond to climate change. GCF's work aims to support paradigm shifts in both climate mitigation and climate adaptation efforts. Focus areas consist of the following: agriculture, forestry, and other land use; buildings, cities, industries, and appliances; ecosystems and ecosystem services; energy; health, food, and water security; infrastructure; livelihoods of vulnerable communities; and transportation. GCF provides investments in the form of grants, loans, equity, or guarantees. Support is provided to a wide range of organizations, including private, public, non-governmental, sub-national, national, regional, or international bodies. In order to access funding, institutions first need to become accredited. Applications for accreditation are accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis. Visit the GCF website to learn more about the accreditation process.

Award Recognizes Journalists from North Africa, the Middle East, and the Gulf
Samir Kassir Award for Freedom of the Press
The Samir Kassir Award for Freedom of the Press rewards journalists from countries in North Africa, the Middle East, and the Gulf who have distinguished themselves through the quality of their work and their commitment to human rights and democracy. Candidates must submit an opinion article, an investigative article, or an audiovisual report centered around one or more of the following topics: rule of law, human rights, good governance, the fight against corruption, freedom of expression, democratic development, or citizen participation. The Award is open to nationals of the following countries: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. Eligible articles and audiovisual news reports must have been published in one of these countries or in a European Union member state. Cash prizes are awarded. Completed applications with all submission materials must be sent by April 1, 2021. Visit the Award website to learn more about the regulations and registration process.

Grants Benefit Disadvantaged Populations in Selected Countries
Drosos Foundation
The Drosos Foundation is committed to enabling disadvantaged people to live a life of dignity. The Foundation's geographic focus consists of Switzerland and Germany in Europe; Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria in the Middle East; and Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia in North Africa. Thematic priorities consist of promoting life skills, creative skills, and economic independence. Requests for funding may be submitted at any time and should be directed to one of the Foundation's regional offices. Details on the thematic priorities and contact information for the regional offices are available on the Foundation’s website.

Funds for Organizations Promoting Entrepreneurship in Central America and East Africa
Argidius Foundation
The Argidius Foundation promotes the growth of small and medium sized enterprises in East Africa and Central America in order to improve the lives of the poor through increased income generation. The Foundation funds projects and organizations located in East Africa or Central America, with a focus on Kenya, Uganda, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua, that support business and revenue growth, have social and environmental benefits, have a potential for poverty reduction, and include robust partnerships. Applications may be submitted at any time. Funding guidelines are available on the Foundation’s website.

Government Funding Opportunities

Efforts to Promote Social Cohesion in Europe Honored
Council of Europe Development Bank
The CEB Award for Social Cohesion recognizes a project that addresses pressing social issues and makes a significant contribution to social cohesion in an innovative and effective way. The project may be an advanced project idea or be in the early stages of implementation, but it must impact beneficiaries in a Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB) member country. A prize of €25,000 is awarded for the implementation or expansion of the winning project. Individuals, organizations, and micro-enterprises based in a CEB member country are eligible to be nominated. The nomination deadline is April 12, 2021.

Funds to Combat Corruption and Bolster Journalism in the Pacific Islands
Department of State
The Promoting Investigative Journalism and Anti-Corruption Efforts in Pacific Island Countries program will support a regional project that strengthens investigative journalism and anti-corruption efforts across the Pacific Islands. The closing date for applications is April 14, 2021.

Tracks to Success
Feature articles focused on a particular grantmaker or philanthropic trend

International Remittances and the Nonprofit Sector
by Sid Davis

When workers abroad send part of their earnings to family back in their home countries, these transfers are known as remittances. Payments of this type have been growing rapidly in recent years, and are immensely important not only to the people who receive them, but to entire economies.

Two of the foremost researchers in the area—Sabith Khan and Daisha M. Merritt—have collaborated on a book titled Remittances and International Development: The Invisible Force Shaping Community. For the second installment of GrantStation's ongoing partnership with ARNOVA, I had the opportunity to ask these two esteemed scholar-researchers about their book, and a few of the forces that characterize and shape the international remittance sector. Read more...

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Shareable Nonprofit Content Q&A Session
If you are looking for insights into how to create and take advantage of shareable nonprofit content, you might want to attend the free webinar "Shareable Nonprofit Content Q&A Session." Hosted by Firespring's director of strategic marketing, this webinar answers questions such as the following: How do we create content that people like and want to share on a budget and with limited time? What type of content does our audience care about? What role can content play in our nonprofit's strategy? This webinar will be held on Tuesday, March 16, 2021.

Upcoming Online Education Trainings
Live Webinars

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

Lonely at the Top and Bottom (NEW)
Have you ever asked yourself these two questions: "Do I feel lonely sometimes in my organizational work?" and "Why?" As research from Dr. Anthony Silard and Sarah Wright of the University of Canterbury in New Zealand has found, nonprofit leaders often feel lonely due to the stifling of three critical human motives. In the U.S., a recent Cigna survey of 20,000 Americans found that over three in five Americans are lonely, which has raised the decibels on siren calls of a "national loneliness epidemic." In this survey, over 60 percent of Americans acknowledged that they feel isolated from others and that their relationships are sometimes or always not meaningful. The "epidemic" designation has also been used in the UK, where former Prime Minister Theresa May appointed a Minister for Loneliness in 2018. May reached this decision on the heels of two studies that found that nine million UK citizens are often or always lonely and British children spend less time outside than prison inmates. As loneliness becomes increasingly ubiquitous, nonprofit organizations that reduce it—by detecting the three distinct motives Anthony will share with you in this session—will become in higher demand. You will learn about how lonely people act differently than people who are not lonely, and how these differences can derail healthy organizational functioning. We will also explore the determinants of leadership loneliness and how it differs from follower loneliness. Finally, you will develop some strategies to reduce both your loneliness and the loneliness of your staff, volunteers, board members, and donors. Be warned: you may never look at people management or fundraising the same. The webinar will be held on Thursday, March 18, 2021.

FREE Tour of the GrantStation Website
Join Jeremy Smith, Director of Communications Technology, and Kerry Glauser, Research Specialist, for a quick tour of the GrantStation website. This tour will cover all of the features in GrantStation.com, including navigation, search interfaces, and charitable database search criteria. This tour will provide tips on the most effective way to use all of the valuable resources the website offers, including the extensive funder databases that can help you identify the grantmakers most likely to fund your programs or projects. By using GrantStation's databases and resource tools, you can begin to develop a successful grantseeking strategy for the next 12 to 18 months. The webinar will be held on Tuesday, March 23, 2021.

FREE Webinar: Event Plans Shelved? Use Capital Campaign Solicitation Strategies to Generate Funds (NEW)
If you canceled events in 2020 and 2021 or if COVID-19 has negatively impacted your annual or project-oriented fundraising, consider capital campaign solicitation strategies to raise the large donations you need. By integrating capital campaign strategies into your fundraising efforts, you will set goals, identify prospects, create materials, and then educate, cultivate, solicit, and steward donor prospects at an appropriate level. CampaignCouncil.org President Kevin Wallace and consultant Melissa Sais will lead you through the process of using capital campaign solicitation strategies to advance your efforts and answer your questions in this free one-hour session. Going through this process may even prepare you, and your staff and board, to enter that capital campaign you have been considering. During the webinar you will: learn to translate the steps of a capital campaign into your everyday fundraising; identify the cohesive materials that will carry you through the effort; gain an understanding of the donors on whom to focus using data and research; and, learn new strategies to cultivate, ask, and steward those donors at an appropriate level and in a personal way. This webinar is designed to help small to medium-sized nonprofits that do not have major gift ($10,000+) fundraising experience or capital campaign experience. The webinar will be held on Wednesday, March 24, 2021.

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Editor: Diana Holder
Contributing Writer: Ashlyn Simmons