Deadline: 8-Aug-22

The Elton John AIDS Foundation is accepting concept notes for Robert Key Memorial Fund (RKMF) to address violence, stigma, and discrimination towards sex workers at-risk or living with HIV.

The Fund welcomes proposals that use an intersectional approach to address particularly marginalised communities of sex workers, such as LGBTQ+ sex workers, male sex workers, migrant/refugee sex workers, sex workers who use drugs, and young people involved in sex work.

Priorities

• Community based Organizations: The RKMF will prioritise Community Based Organisations or Community Led Organisations who have a deep understanding of the context in which they work and that have built strong relationships with the communities they seek to serve. The RKMF will prioritise smaller, local organisations and therefore through the RKMF, organisations will only be eligible to apply if their annual income is equal to or under USD 500,000/GBP 400,000 (or equivalent to USD 500,000 in local currency).
• Innovative or particularly impactful solutions: The RKMF will prioritise solutions which demonstrate innovation or are particularly impactful. Proposals should aim to address gaps or build existing evidence about effective interventions by applying them in new ways. The RKMF is looking to support proposals that can highlight why the approach proposed is the most effective way of addressing the problems/issues identified.
• Focused on Key Communities: At the Elton John AIDS Foundation they focus on the most marginalised populations that are so often left behind and excluded from mainstream HIV response efforts. The RKMF 2022 will focus on supporting proposals that serve sex workers (people who sell sex and people involved in sex work referred to collectively as sex workers in this document). The Fund welcomes proposals that use an intersectional approach to address particularly marginalised communities of sex workers, such as LGBTQ+ sex workers, male sex workers, migrant/refugee sex worker’s, sex workers who use drugs, and young people involved in sex work.
• Sustainable Solutions: The RKMF will prioritise solutions where sustainability has been built into the design of the programme and the organisation can demonstrate how the benefits of the programme will outlast the life of the grant.
• Community Driven: The RKMF will prioritise interventions where the applicant can demonstrate how community members have been involved in the design, implementation, and monitoring of the proposed solution. Community-led responses will be prioritised.

Funding Information

The RKMF is looking for concept notes for up to $50,000 for evidence informed projects implemented in eligible countries, between 12 and 24 months in length.

Eligibility Criteria

• Implementation Location: Interventions must be implemented in one or more of the below countries (for this round of RKMF funding).
  • Asia: India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines
  • Sub-Saharan Africa: Botswana, Cameroon, Eswatini, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Senegal, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
• Organisational strengthening: Organisations can allocate up to 20%/$10,000 of the funding requested for organisational strengthening, building the capacity of leaders, staff training, and mental health support for staff. These costs will need appropriate justification in the concept note narrative.
• Type of Applicant: Ineligible entities include individuals and governments. No organisation may financially profit from implementation of project activities. Profit is defined as any amount in excess of allowable direct and indirect costs. The Fund is looking for concept notes from communitybased or led organisations, with an annual income of USD 500,000/GBP350,000 (or equivalent to USD 500,000 in local currency) and under. Multiple organisations can apply as a consortium, however the roles of the various organisations in the consortium must be clearly demonstrated in the concept note.
• Registration and Bank Account: The applicant must be a registered entity and must have an active organisational bank account. However, if you are an unregistered organisation, they will consider your concept note if a fiscal agent (that is a registered organisation) applies on your behalf (the fiscal agent must pass the Foundation’s due diligence checks before any funding is awarded).
• Completeness and Language: All Application information and supporting documentation must be submitted in English; they are unfortunately unable to process any proposals submitted in any other language. Online submissions must be completed in full to be considered eligible for review; incomplete submissions will be considered ineligible. Applicants must be ‘submitted’ on the Foundation’s online system to be considered.
• Eligible Costs: The Foundation is open to supporting all costs that are justified in relation to achieving project goals. However, grant funds cannot be used to purchase or procure essential medicines (e.g., antiretroviral therapy) or to pay government employee salaries.

For more information, visit https://www.eltonjohnaidsfoundation.org/funding/

Deadline: 29-Jul-22

The Call For Proposals for the third annual Quantum Ten Equity in Education International Conference is now open.

The purpose of this conference is to expand upon understanding of the Q10 framework, theories, and practices, and move ‘beyond talk’ about equity in education. This conference strives to transform practice by taking an action-oriented approach to intentionally integrate the elements of the Q10 framework. Your presentation should advance learners’/attendees knowledge of the elements of the framework to systematically sustain equity in their learning communities.

The Quantum 10 (Q10) is a fusion of 10 different theories, frameworks and practices that together focus on enhancing educational equity. Each can stand alone, however, when they are integrated, they create a strong synergy that can go far beyond their individual potential and become an empowering, holistic approach to address systemic inequities in education.

The conference will be held in person in the beautiful city of Phoenix, Arizona on December 5-6, 2022. They will offer virtual and asynchronous sessions for our international audience and for those who cannot attend in person.

Strands

The theme of this year’s conference is Beyond Q10 Integration: Cultivating a Sense of Belonging. The strands for this year’s conference include:

• Q10 International Design of Instruction: UDL and Inclusive Practice: This strand will focus on integrating elements of the Q10 into curricula, classrooms, and the school site as a whole. Presentations may focus on providing educators, curriculum coordinators, and administrators with the best practices and strategies for the intentional integration of Q10 elements in various learning environments and will feature UDL and inclusive practices.
• Trauma- Informed Practices to Foster SEL, Well Beign, Resilience, and Self-Care: This strand will focus on how trauma might manifest in behaviors. Presentations will guide participants on a journey of recognizing the signs, symptoms, and impact of trauma and include strategies to address them. Presentations may address trauma for students and/or adults involved in education.
• Cultural Responsiveness: Cultivating a Sense of Belonging: This strand will focus on understanding social justice in the educational system. Presentations may focus on Q10 integration, self-reflection, recognizing bias, and ultimately implementing actions toward more culturally responsive practices in their schools and community.
• Adaptive Leadership– Cultivating and Sustaining a Sense of Belonging for All: This strand will focus on building the capacity of leaders and designing professional learning using the integration of the Q10 elements. Presentations may include models for helping leadership inspire adaptive change in educational systems using an innovative and intentional implementation of the Q10 elements.
• Authentic School, Family, and Community Engagement: This strand will focus on the importance for family/community to be knowledgeable and engaged through the use of Q10 elements. Presentations may include methods and systems using the integration of the Q10 elements to inform and co-create authentic family/community y relationships.

Eligibility Criteria

This conference is open to anyone who is ready to move ‘beyond integration and into cultivating a sense of belonging. This conference strives to reach K-12/higher education educators, students, administrators, local/state leadership professionals, school board members, service providers, school counselors, accessibility officers, and mental health workers, those involved in opportunity and continuation schools, family members, caregivers, and community members.

For more information, visit https://q10equityineducation.com/2022-call-for-proposals/

Deadline: 20-Jul-22

World Bank Group (WB) has launched a poetry competition to showcase the importance of education and access to quality learning for young people in Western and Central Africa.

Applicants can share a creative, inspiring, and artistic 1-minute video of yourself reciting YOUR ORIGINAL POEM for the chance to get featured on their social media channels.

Through poetry, show and tell us how can education unlock you potential and/or impact your community?

A new World Bank regional education strategy for Western and Central Africa outlines priority areas, guiding principles, and policy options to support countries in increasing access to education and improving the quality of learning over the next three years. The strategy focuses on the common challenges within a highly diverse region and covers all the sub-sectors of education, including formal and informal, technical, and vocational education, as well as higher education. It prioritizes interventions based on the potential to make the most significant impact within a three-year timeframe, building on lessons learned and best practices from the region and across the world.

Eligibility Criteria

• A citizen of a Western & Central African member country (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of Congo, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Ghana, Equatorial, Liberia, Guinea, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, The Gambia, Togo)
• You must be between 18 and 35 years old
• They strongly encourage diverse, untraditional, and unheard voices to enter this competition
• Bank staff including its consultants and their immediate family members, contractors and their employees are not eligible to participate.

For more information, visit https://wb.forms.fm/youthactonedu-spoken-word-competition/forms/9300?

Deadline: 9-Jul-22

The Teach A Man To Fish is seeking applications for Trash to Cash Challenge, a new programme developed to encourage young people to become eco-preneurs: to do some good in the world and develop life skills through a short business challenge with an environmental focus.

Funding Information

• There are 4 prizes worth USD $1,200 in total. In addition, every participant that completes the submission form by the deadline will receive a Certificate of Participation!
• The first three prizes will be awarded by a judging panel based on the evidence in the submission form, so make sure to include photos!
• The Public Choice prize will be given to the video with the most ‘likes’. Videos must be less than 2 minutes and must be posted in the participants’ social media in public mode (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or TikTok) using the hashtag #TrashToCashChallenge. The video must show the waste you collected, how you created it and how you sold it.
• There are 4 prize categories:
  • Most trash converted into products: USD 300 (awarded by judging panel).
  • Most creative repurpose of waste: USD 300 (awarded by judging panel).
  • Most sales made: USD 300 (awarded by judging panel).
  • Most social media ‘likes’ on video: USD 300 (public choice). For the ‘likes’ to be counted, you must include up to 20 link(s) in the Submission Form of the video posted on your own social media platforms (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and TikTok).

Eligibility Criteria

• The competition is open to every young person around the world under 25. You can participate individually or as a team of up to 5 people with friends, classmates or siblings.
• Adult supervision is strongly encouraged for younger participants!
• Entry is free of charge.
• The competition is open to all young people, aged 25 or younger, in any country.
• Young people can participate individually or in teams of maximum 5 students.
• The participants must be 25 or younger, but teachers of all ages are welcome to support the participants.

For more information, visit https://www.teachamantofish.org.uk/trash-to-cash.html

Deadline: 24 July 2022

The Aspire Coronation Trust (ACT) Foundation’s Changemakers Innovation Challenge is now open for non-profits and social enterprises across Africa who are using various technological /digital tools to create innovative social solutions.

This Challenge is conceived by ACT Foundation as a response to the impressive work of community nonprofits, businesses and social enterprises in Africa who are leveraging technology/ digital tools to create social change in their communities. Research shows that most nonprofits using technology/ digital tools to drive projects and develop communities are coming ahead in the world and also creating lasting impact.

Grant funding will be awarded to the 3 winners of the Changemakers Innovation Challenge. The Award grant will be given towards scaling of the innovative solutions across different communities.

Focus Areas

• Health Technology
• Environment Technology
• Entrepreneurship Technology
• Leadership Technology

Eligibility Criteria

• The Changemakers Innovation Challenge is open to only nonprofits and social enterprises in Africa. For social enterprises, the innovative solution submitted must not be towards for profit ventures.
• Organizations must submit social solutions within the Foundation’s key focus areas, namely; Health, Entrepreneurship, Environment and Leadership.
• Nonprofits or social enterprises must be registered with the government agency in charge of organizations’ registry in their respective countries.
• All submissions must be innovative solutions that use technology/digital systems as major tools for the community impact. Show evidence of claim through provision of web links, Videos, Pictures and other online presence.
• Organizations must have been in existence for at least two years.
• All submitted social solutions must be at the growth stage and must have been tested/implemented and have direct beneficiaries. Evidence of claim through pictures, news releases, etc. must be documented and shared during the application.
• Submitted innovations must have been implemented within the past two years. Pilot innovations will not be accepted.

For more information, visit http://changemakers.actrustfoundation.org/

Deadline: 30-Jul-22

The IdealMe Enrichment Foundation is offering the Award for youth who is leading efforts to create a positive change in local communities and/or around the world.

The IdealMe Enrichment Foundation supports leadership and positive change in the continued promotion of Excellence through Education, Technology, Art, and Emotional Intelligence.

IdealMe offers affordable and free consultations, workshops, seminars, counselling, life-coaching, Talk2Alex, online courses and virtual interactive workshops.

Award Information

• The IdealMe Enrichment Foundation will award $500 in 2022.
• The winner will be announced on September 20, 2022 (International Peace Day).

Eligibility Criteria

Please nominate an outstanding youth between the ages of 10 to 24 in the category of Humanitarian Activism are eligible to apply.

Criteria

The winner will be chosen based on the following criteria:

• Impact – Showing efforts in giving back to their community.
• Leadership – Displaying strong leadership and innovation skills.
• Resiliency – Exhibiting abilities to pursue their goals despite having any challenges.

For more information, visit https://idealmefoundation.org/humanitarian-award-2022/

Deadline: 1 August 2022

The Numun Fund’s Seed, Grow and Sustain Grants Program is now open to support initiatives, collectives, groups and organisations with a focus on feminist tech activism in the Larger World, aka the Global South.

The aim of Numun Fund is to seed and sustain feminist technology infrastructure for movement organising, and they understand digital technologies to be an important part of movement infrastructure. Numun Fund draws on the breadth and depth of knowledge that already exists in social justice and feminist movements, and works to shift power and resources to feminist and women/trans-led groups, organisations and networks who engage with technology in their activism.

Types of Grants

• The “Seed, Grow & Sustain” grant is a multi-year, flexible grant open for application by initiatives, collectives, groups and organisations with a focus on feminist tech activism in the Larger World.
• The grant is between USD5, 000 – USD100, 000 for a period of 2 years, depending on where the group is in the life cycle of organised activism. The grant is flexible and can be used for general support and/or projects, and it is their vision and intention to have it open for renewal.
• Seed: USD5, 000 – 10, 000
  • This is to seed the work of emerging collectives or initiatives on feminist tech. The idea is to provide resources to support activism that is new, or may have been exploratory, passion-projects and/or driven by volunteers.
• Grow: USD10, 000 – 50, 000
  • This is to support the growth of groups or initiatives that have been working together for at least 2 years, in formal or informal ways, and who would like to deepen or expand their networks, communities, strategies, initiatives or activism.
• Sustain: USD50, 000 – USD100, 000
  • This is to contribute to the sustainability of feminist tech groups or organisations by providing general/core and flexible funding that can be directed or adapted to internal organising needs or strategising towards emerging context shifts.

Ways of organising

• Organisations, collectives, co-ops, initiatives, projects or groups with feminist tech as a key issue in your activism, advocacy and/or approach to change (see below how they understand feminist tech).
• Your group can be legally registered, formally organised, unregistered or have an identity primarily online (such as a web project).
• Your group can be new, emerging, established or experienced, depending on where you are in the lifecycle of organising.
• Your group can be a feminist-focused, and/or women-led programme within a larger human rights or digital rights organisation.
• At minimum, you are a collective of two as they understand organising and activism to be powered by connection and collaboration.
• Your organising is led by the communities whose realities and priorities it aims to meet or represent.
• Your organising comprises of communities who have historically been and continue to be subjected to discrimination, oppression, exploitation and/or exclusion, or is in close connection with movements led by them (e.g. indigenous, women, afro-descendant, migrant, refugee, LBTQI, young people, people with disabilities, women living in rural communities, sex workers). While they have named certain communities here, they are conscious that oppression works in many different ways in different contexts, and they encourage you to apply if your activism, organising or project is reaching historically marginalised communities in your context.

Eligibility Criteria

• This grant prioritises application by organising and leadership that is located in the Larger World. They understand this both in terms of territory, as well as in politics, and primarily from the framework of resource disparity, exploitation, exclusion and colonialism. This is an intentional decision due to the exponentially larger resources available for groups based in the Global North, meaning Western Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand.
  • Larger World organising and leadership includes those based in:
  • West, Central, East and Southern Africa
  • Southeast, South and East Asia
  • Southwest Asia and North Africa, and across Arabic-speaking countries
  • The Caribbean
  • Latin America
  • Pacific Islands
  • Eastern Europe and Central Asia; and
• Indigenous communities and migrant communities based anywhere in the world.

Please note: Although they have tried to be specific in establishing these criteria to make things as clear as possible, if you believe (based on the politics identified here and their stated goals) that your initiative/collective/group/organisation should be eligible, but you do not feel included by these criteria, they invite you to apply anyway, and let us know in the “additional comments” section your reasons for thinking so.

For more information, visit https://numun.fund/apply/