Deadline: 05-Sep-2022

The Personio Foundation has launched applications for its Grants that provides financial and strategic support to exceptional organisations working in the fields of Climate Action and/or Education.

The Foundation support outstanding teams with innovative and scalable solutions to tackle the most pressing challenges in their fields and thereby foster innovation for People and Planet.

Focus Areas

• Special Focus: At Personio Foundation they are particularly interested in organisations with innovative, scalable solutions to address climate change and education.

Funding Information

• They offer unrestricted, multi-year grants between €50k and €100k per year.

Benefits

• Financial Support: They offer unrestricted, multi-year grants between €50k and €100k per year. They encourage their portfolio organisations to use their grants to improve the operational setup of their organisations, invest in their people and HR processes as well as furthering their impact through their projects.
• Strategic support: Personio Foundation provides non-financial support to the organisations in their Impact Portfolio. They readily share their experience of building a successful software company, Personio and the expertise of more than 1,500 Personio employees. Depending on the needs of the organisation, they facilitate these connections.
• Personio software: They offer all portfolio organisations the possibility to use Personio HR Management and Recruiting software free of charge in order to be able to spend more time on people and less time on manual processes and tasks.
• Co-development of the Impact Accelerator: Personio Foundation believes that people are the single most important asset for an organisation to grow, to innovate and to have impact. Their Impact Accelerator aims to offer a dedicated hub for HR professionals working in non-profits and/or social enterprises to help strengthen their HRM expertise and support them in finding solutions for their HR challenges. Portfolio organisations will get access to the beta version of their program and directly help co-develop the programme with them.
• Networking: They want to build a community of outstanding purposeful organisations that are connected through their portfolio. This will include on- and offline events, shared community channels and demand-based exchange possibilities.

Eligibility Criteria

• Geographic Focus: They support organisations globally.
• Eligible Organisations: Official non-profit status necessary.

For more information, visit https://www.personio.foundation/impact-portfolio/