Deadline: 01-Dec-24

The ProVeg Grants program offers expertise and support to high-potential organisations that are focused on transforming the food system.

ProVeg Grants is a credible and trusted platform through which philanthropists can support diet-change organisations and initiatives around the world.

The ProVeg Grants program is accelerating the transformation of the food system by providing support for organisations involved in this vital work. Since 2019, ProVeg International has provided more than 500 grants to organisations and individuals in over 70 countries. They provide both financial support and assistance with capacity-building.

Funding Information

• ProVeg Grants offers financial support of between $5,000 and $50,000 per year.

Benefits 

• Access to more than 200 experts
  • ProVeg Grantees receive access to the network of more than 200 experts who work in the food-system-transformation space.
• One-on-one consultations
  • They provide one-on-one consultations with grantees, providing advice about organisational structure, strategy, impact initiatives, and other key facets of their work.
• Resources and support
  • They provide numerous other resources, in the form of reports, research, webinars, and events throughout the year.

Intervention focus

• Applicants must be individuals or organisations focused on food-system transformation, and looking to implement one or more of the following interventions:
  • Schools & University Engagement
    • Reaching young people at an early age, either through making their meals more plant-friendly, or educating them directly on the benefits of plant-based diets.
  • Influencing Dietary Guidelines
    • Encouraging decision makers to provide dietary recommendations that cover the broad spectrum of plant-based diets and help to meet health and climate goals.
  • Healthcare Interventions
    • Engaging with healthcare professionals to implement plant-based nutrition in healthcare.
  • Food Industry Events
    • Accelerating and empowering innovative food technologies by bringing together key stakeholders in industry-oriented events.
  • Corporate Engagement
    • Working with businesses, decision makers, and institutions to develop, provide, and promote healthy, compassionate, and sustainable plant-based options.
  • Corporate Rankings
    • Campaigning using rankings in order to raise public awareness about companies’ plant-based products
  • V-Label
    • The V-Label is an internationally recognised, registered seal for labelling vegan and vegetarian products, and a trusted resource for consumers. By becoming a regional V-Label partner, you can bring in steady, reliable revenue, as well as providing a useful tool for connecting with and supporting plant-based businesses.
  • Labelling Restrictions
    • Campaigning against labelling restrictions.
  • Political Outreach
    • Working with governmental and intergovernmental agencies, NGOs, and researchers to create plant-forward policies and practices.
  • Movement Building
    • Working to support other NGOs, alliances, advocacy groups, and communities in relation to food-system transformation.
  • Challenge Campaigns
    • Supporting individuals or teams to reduce their consumption of animal-based products through fun and engaging challenges.
  • Veg Festivals
    • Inspiring and educating the general public to adopt a vegan lifestyle through in-person events.
  • Public Outreach & Social Media
    • Providing inspiration and support to help reduce and eliminate animal-based products from people’s diets.

Eligibility Criteria

• They prioritise proposals from outside the United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, Czechia, Poland, South Africa, Spain, Belgium, Nigeria, Malaysia, and the United States.
• They do not support individuals and organisations who conduct work to improve the welfare and conditions of farmed animals.
• They prioritise organisations that are led by and meaningfully employ women, people of colour, and other marginalised people.
• Grantees must align with the ProVeg Grants programme’s safe-space and respectful-workplace values.

Ineligibility Criteria

• Animal welfare reforms or welfare campaigns
• Animal farming or other animal use
• Projects that use animal-based products (animal-based food, leather, etc.)
• Projects or organisations that benefit, support, or are impartial to animal farming or other exploitation of animals
• For-profit companies
• Food banks, hunger relief, or food expenses
• Gardening projects
• Book production
• Animal rescue or care

For more information, visit ProVeg International.

Deadline: 03-Dec-2024

Pivotal, a Melinda French Gates organization, launched Action for Women’s Health Program, a $250 million global open call that will fund organizations around the world that are improving women’s mental and physical health.

This initiative seeks to open access to funding streams to organizations and groups that historically have not had access to them.

Subject Areas

• Health
• Gender Equality

Funding Information

• Flexible funding between $1 million and $5 million USD

Eligibility Criteria

• Eligible organizations serve women and have a record of improving women’s mental or physical health. They should center equity in their approach and be poised to scale their work to strengthen the health of more women. Organizations from around the world are invited to apply.
• For the Open Call, an organization eligible to serve as the Applicant Organization, must have as its main purpose to improve women’s health (except in certain instances, where the Open Call will support a unit of the Applicant Organization, such as a fiscally sponsored project or a large program or center, focused on improving women’s health). The following types of organizations are eligible to submit Applications:
  • An entity based in the United States and/or U.S. Territories that has received a tax determination letter from the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) that it is exempt from federal income tax as an organization
  • A nonprofit organization for a fiscally sponsored project, provided that the nonprofit organization is an entity based in the United States and/or U.S. Territories
  • A U.S. tribal government treated as a State pursuant to IRC Section 7871
  • An entity that is recognized under the law of the applicable jurisdiction as a non-governmental organization, a higher education organization, a charitable organization, a not-for-profit organization, or similar-type entity that is not a for-profit organization or government agency

Ineligibility Criteria

• The following are examples of parties that are not eligible to apply as the Applicant Organization on the Application:
  • A for-profit, LLC, or B-Corp organization.
  • Educational entities such as schools, with the exception of entities of higher education where the main purpose of either the entity or one of its departments, schools, or centers is improving women’s health. Other schools (e.g., religious, charter, private, or public primary or secondary schools, junior colleges, etc.) are not eligible to apply.
  • A 501(c)(4) or 527 organization.
  • An individual.
  • Religious institutions.
  • Government agencies (other than state universities and U.S. tribal governments treated as a State pursuant to IRC Section 7871), including national or local governments, inter- governmental bodies, and regional cooperation agencies (including UN agencies).

For more information, visit Pivotal.

Deadline: 04-Dec-2024

The Spencer Foundation has launched the Small Research Grants on Education Program to support education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education.

This program is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, method, or location. The goal for this program is to support rigorous, intellectually ambitious and technically sound research that is relevant to the most pressing questions and compelling opportunities in education.

Funding Information

• Budgets up to $50,000.

Duration

• Projects proposed may not be longer than 5 years in duration.

Eligible Projects

• They are open to projects that utilize a wide array of research methods including quantitative, qualitative, mixed-methods, ethnographies, computational modeling, design-based research, participatory methods, and historical research, to name a few.
• They are open to projects that might incorporate data from multiple and varied sources, span a sufficient length of time as to achieve a depth of understanding, or work closely with practitioners or community members over the life of the project.

Eligibility Criteria

• Proposals to the Small Research Grants on Education program must be for research projects that aim to study education. Proposals for activities other than research are not eligible (e.g., program evaluations, professional development, curriculum development, scholarships, capital projects, software development). Additionally, proposals for research studies focused on areas other than education are not eligible.
• Principal Investigators (PIs) and Co-PIs applying for a Small Research Grant on Education must have an earned doctorate in an academic discipline or professional field. While graduate students may be part of the research team, they may not be named the PI or Co-PI on the proposal.
• The PI must be affiliated with a non-profit organization or public/governmental institution that is willing to serve as the administering organization if the grant is awarded. The Spencer Foundation does not award grants directly to individuals. Examples include non-profit or public colleges, universities, school districts, and research facilities, as well as other non-profit organizations with a 501(c)(3) determination from the IRS (or equivalent non-profit status if the organization is outside of the United States).
• Proposals are accepted from the U.S. and internationally, however, all proposals must be submitted in English and budgets must be proposed in U.S. Dollars.

For more information, visit Spencer Foundation.

Deadline: 28-Feb-2025

Nominations are now open for the Virchow Prize to honor significant contributions towards “health for all” in the entire breadth of global health through groundbreaking research, innovations, achievements and long-standing engagement.

Eligibility Criteria

• Eligible are individuals, institutions, or organisations from all fields who, in one or more of the following aspects:
  • have made outstanding contributions to improve global health, be it through scientific, societal, technological, political, or economic innovations, and by applying concepts of social, educational, behavioural, environmental, economic, commercial and/or policymaking-related determinants of health;
  • have significantly contributed to the attainment of the United Nations 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development Goals, with special attention made to SDG 3 “Good Health and Well-Being for All” and its intersectionality with others of the 17 SDGs;
  • have developed and/or implemented health-improving innovations or interventions, governance, and policies with the potential for broad impact on equity;
  • have identified and addressed systemic factors leading to increased prevention measures and improved access to medicines, vaccines, therapeutics, or treatments;
  • have contributed to the advancement of research or led to the discovery of disease origins, treatment or prevention which impact global health;
  • have significantly contributed to increasing global cooperation and inclusivity in addressing holistic approaches to global and planetary health challenges.
• The work recognized by the Virchow Prize must rest on a fundament of human rights, solidarity, and equity and be rooted in research and academic values.
• Neither active Members of the Virchow Foundation for Global Health Board of Trustees, Executive Board, and Council, nor active Members of the Virchow Prize Committee are eligible for the Virchow Prize.

Nomination Criteria

• A nomination for the Virchow Prize is considered valid if it is submitted by a person who falls within one of the following categories:
  • Members of national assemblies, national governments and supranational parliaments as well as current heads of sovereign states which have signed the Charter of the United Nations
  • Secretary-Generals, Director-Generals and Executive Directors of United Nations organisations and institutions as well as of other intergovernmental organisations and assemblies
  • Members of scientific academies
  • Presidents, rectors, directors of universities, research institutions, and foreign policy institutes
  • Laureates of the Virchow Prize
  • Laureates of the Nobel Prizes, the Lasker Prize, the Gairdner Awards, the Robert Koch Prize, the Emil von Behring Prize, the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize, and equivalent international awards
  • Former members of the Virchow Prize Committee
  • Former advisers of the Virchow Prize Committee
  • Citizens otherwise accepted by the Virchow Prize Committee to submit nominations
  • Self-nominations are not considered

Selection Criteria

• Each year, no more than three candidates – individuals, organisations or institutions – will be awarded the Virchow Prize, granted by the Virchow Foundation.
• Final selection of the laureates will be proposed following the vote by the independent Virchow Prize Committee. Within the selection process, the Virchow Prize Committee will elaborate from all nominations a short list of candidates. Expert reviewers and advisers may be invited by the Virchow Prize Committee as part of the selection process.

For more information, visit Virchow Foundation.

Deadline: 15-Jan-2025

Applications are now open for the Prince Talal International Prize, which is awarded annually by the Arab Gulf Programme for Development with the aim of inciting and encouraging innovation and creativity in human development.

The idea of the Prize is stemmed from AGFUND’s approach to enhance development performance and support key development projects in order to achieve the goal of sustainability and investment in people.

Stemmed from AGFUND’s approach to enhance development performance and support key development projects, the overall objective behind the Prize idea is to contribute to the efforts aiming to achieve sustainability in development and investment in people. In this sense, Prince Talal International Prize has become a leading mechanism to identify successful development projects, reward them and disseminate their innovative ideas to best contribute to the improvement of development work. It is also an innovative approach and a strategic instrument to exchange successful experiences to strengthen the mechanisms of development cooperation and project funding with special emphasis on the most prominent factors that militate against development and affect the vulnerable groups, particularly women and children in developing countries. These include poverty, social exclusion, socio-economic marginalization, education and health.

Objectives

• Prince Talal International Prize for Human Development aims to:
  • Support the distinguished efforts aiming at the promotion and enhancement of human development concepts.
  • Disseminate the successful project experiences.
  • Highlight the best practices, which aim to improve the living conditions of the poor and disadvantaged with particular emphasis on women and children.
  • Enhance the exchange of experiences and develop better mechanisms to find solutions to the problems of poverty, marginalization and socioeconomic exclusion of vulnerable groups.

Focus Areas

• AGFUND believes in the sustainability of human development and poverty alleviation and struggles to enable vulnerable groups (women and children, people with special needs, displaced people and refugees etc) to exercise their civil rights in their communities and lead a dignified social and economic existence with improved living conditions. AGFUND focuses in the following areas:
  • Early Childhood Development: Children and women are the two categories targeted by AGFUND in its efforts to support and finance human development projects in developing communities.
  • Women’s Empowerment: A significant conviction in AGFUND methodology is that many development deficiencies in Arab communities are caused by absence of women participation in community development.
  • Civil Society Development: AGFUND realized that civil society is the right hand of governments not only in development, but also in mustering idle economic and human resources and powers, in engaging all societal categories in this process not leaving anyone under poverty and deprivation.
  • Education: Education is the catalyst of change, which is the basis of sustainable development. AGFUND depends on the quality and penetration of education to qualify, train and make manpower up to modern life requirements.
  • Financial Inclusion: AGFUND Microfinance Unit (AMU). The Mission of this Unit is to build the capacity of MFIs in the region, specifically Microfinance Banks.

Prize Information

• Prince Talal International Prize for Human Development carries cash amount of US$ 1,000,000, certificates of recognition and trophies. The prize amount is allocated for the winners of the Prize in its four categories as follows;
  • First category prize:
    • Amount: (US$ 400,000)
    • Specified for projects implemented by UN agencies or international and regional NGOs.
  • Second category prize:
    • Amount: (US$ 300,000)
    • Specified for projects implemented by national NGOs.
  • Third category prize:
    • Amount: (US$ 200,000)
    • Specified for projects implemented by governmental bodies (ministries and public institutions) or social business enterprises.
  • Fourth category prize:
    • Amount: (US$ 100,000)
    • The Specified for projects initiated, funded and/or implemented by individuals.

Eligibility Criteria

• The Prize shall be handed over to the heads of the winning organizations in an annual ceremony, to which representatives of the local and international development organizations located in the hosting country, development experts and specialists, diplomats, and media representatives are invited.

For more information, visit AGFUND.

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Deadline: 14-Nov-24

The Water Research Foundation is inviting you to participate in Understanding the Practices, Policies, and Impacts of System Development Fees and Upgrade Requirements Program.

The proposer should evaluate the pros and cons of different financial methods of collecting funds from developers and evaluate the differences in pay-as-you-go approaches vs. depreciation accounting and ratemaking practices. Proposers should, at a minimum, investigate the following four methodologies:

• Buy-In Approach: New customers pay a set amount per connection equal to the equity in the utility system attributable to existing customers.
• Incremental Cost Approach: New customers pay their embedded share of expansion cost per connection.
• Combined System or Hybrid Approach: New customers must pay the cost of their proportionate share of existing capacity (buy-in) and new capacity available to serve new growth (incremental).
• No Fee Approach: The utility collects no direct system development fee, and the costs are spread across the existing rate base or state/federal funding is used to fund development.

Objectives

• Outline which states have state-enabling legislation that dictates what they can do with system development fees.
• Investigate the different system development fee methodologies utilized by utilities and their impact on their existing ratepayers and new customer base.
• Evaluate the pros/cons of different methods of collecting funds from developers.
• Evaluate the differences in pay-as-you-go approaches vs. depreciation accounting and ratemaking practices and how this impacts the magnitude of development fees collected and practices used in the community to validate that the funds collected are used for growth related assets.

Funding Information

• The maximum funding available from WRF for this project is $175,000. The applicant must contribute additional resources equivalent to at least 33% of the project award. For example, if an applicant requests $100,000 from WRF, an additional $33,000 or more must be contributed by the applicant. Acceptable forms of applicant contribution include cost share, applicant inkind, or third-party in-kind that comply with 2 CFR Part 200.306 cost sharing or matching. The applicant may elect to contribute more than 33% to the project, but the maximum WRF funding available remains fixed at $175,000.
• The anticipated period of performance for this project is 18 months from the contract start date.

Expected Deliverables

• Research Report
• Literature Review
• Case Studies
• Utility Survey Results
• Webcast
• Other optional deliverables may include, but are not limited to:
  • White paper
  • Conference presentations

Eligibility Criteria

• Proposals will be accepted from both U.S.-based and non-U.S.-based entities, including educational institutions, research organizations, governmental agencies, and consultants or other for-profit entities.
• WRF’s Board of Directors has established a Timeliness Policy that addresses researcher adherence to the project schedule. Researchers who are late on any ongoing WRF-sponsored studies without approved no-cost extensions are not eligible to be named participants in any proposals.

For more information, visit WRF.

Deadline: 02-Dec-2024

The International Trans Fund (ITF) is excited to announce that the 9th grant cycle is now open.

The ITF funds trans-led groups working to benefit the trans community and contributing to trans movement building.

Priorities

• The ITF priorities in this funding cycle are to:
  • Fund a diverse collection of groups, inclusive of various identities, strategies and issues, languages and regions.
  • Reach trans communities facing greater levels of marginalization (e.g. racism, classism, ageism, ableism, misogyny and so on).
  • Support trans-led organizations who work intersectionally and whose work contributes to social and economic justice, trans movement building and the liberation of trans people.

Grant Types

• The ITF has two grant types:
  • SEED Grant (1-year):
    • General support and/or project grant.
    • For organizations not previously funded by the ITF.
  • THRIVE Grant (1-year):
    • General support grant.
    • Exclusively for trans-led organizations previously funded by the ITF in good standing.

Funding Information

• SEED Grant
  • Grant amounts: $10,000 to $25,000 USD/year.
• THRIVE Grant
  • Grant amounts: $25,000 to $50,000 USD/year.

Eligible Activities

• The ITF supports a wide range of movement building activities, which can include awareness raising events, direct action, educational seminars, trainings, support groups, media projects, political advocacy, resource development, art and activism collaborations, community-based research, community spaces, skills sharing courses, leadership or personal development programs, educational campaigns, demonstrations, mobilizing communities and many other activities.

Eligibility Criteria

• To be eligible for funding groups must be meet the following criteria:
  • Trans led; Trans people are in decision-making roles, including setting the organization’s strategic and financial priorities and Trans people make up 75% of the group’s staff, and Board, spokespeople, and/or decision-making body. If not, groups must demonstrate how trans people make budget, organizational and strategic decisions.
  • Operating budget under $100,000.
  • Group of people (i.e. Not an individual).
  • The main focus of work is to benefit the trans community.
  • Contributes to movement building, not just providing direct services.

Ineligibility Criteria

• The ITF does not fund the following:
  • Individuals.
  • Organizations that are not led by trans people.
  • Organizations that do not do work specifically to benefit trans people or communities.
  • Groups, collectives, and networks with operating budgets above USD $100,000.
  • Groups and projects that only provide direct services to individuals without contributing to movement building in some way.

For more information, visit ITF.