Fundraising Database
Fundraising Database
Below is a list of grant opportunities that may be good sources of funding to support regional activities and provide funds to regional networks, like ECSAPHA and RASPAF. While some opportunities have flexible funding criteria, many are program or issue-specific. Therefore, you need to be creative and strategic when applying for funds - this will likely involve applying for issue-specific grants to support work within ECSAPHA and RASPAF.
AusAID
Grant(s): Africa Regional Small Activities Scheme (ARSAS)Description: ARSAS is a flexible grants program administered directly by AusAID office in Pretoria. Funding is available to selected activities in Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Criteria: Supports community-based activities being implemented by non-government organizations that promote sustainable economic and social development. The sectoral focus of the scheme is: (i) Community health initiatives, including HIV/AIDS, water and sanitation; (ii) Education and training; (iii) Economic and social initatives; (iv) Environmental awareness and natural resource conservation; (v) Agriculture and food security; (vi) Promotion of women’s activities; and (vii) Promotion of skills development and employment of youth.
Funding Range: USD $5,000 to USD $35,000.
Website: www.ausaid.gov.au
African Economic Research Consortium (AERC)
Grant(s): Several, including ‘Reproductive Health, Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction in Africa’Description: AERC is GDN’s regional network partner for Sub-Saharan Africa. AERC aims to strengthen local capacity for economic policy research in Sub-Saharan Africa. The AERC’s activities are managed by a Secretariat based in Nairobi, Kenya.
Criteria: AERC provides research grants to conduct research on a limited number of pertinent themes, such as poverty, income distribution and labour markets.
Funding Range: Up to USD $12,000
Website: www.aercafrica.org
Bernard van Leer Foundation
Grant(s): Thematic ProgrammesDescription: A private foundation promoting overall development of young children (ages 0-8 years) growing up in circumstances of social and economic disadvantage. Grantmaking is organized in two programs - Country Programmes, which focus on selected countries in Africa and the Thematic Programmes, which centre around a set of themes, including in Africa, family and community strengthening/support and capacity-building for organizations.
Criteria: Eligible countries for future grants currently are Brazil, Colombia, the East Caribbean region, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Israel, Kenya, Mexico, Morocco, the Netherlands, Peru, Poland, South Africa, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, United States of America and Zimbabwe.
Funding Range: n/a
Website: www.bernardvanleer.org
Additional notes: BvLF does its grant-making to selected partners and rarely accepts unsolicited proposals. However, organizations interested in funding may submit a brief outline of the request.
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Grant(s): Global Health, Community Health SolutionsDescription: Community Health Solutions -The foundation makes one-time grants to implement community-based, short-term initiatives related to the foundation’s priority diseases and conditions.
Criteria: Priority diseases: acute diarrheal illness, acute lower respiratory infections, child health, HIV/AIDS, malaria, malnutrition and undernutrition, reproductive and maternal health, tuberculosis, and vaccine-preventable diseases.
Funding Range: USD $25,000 to USD $500,000
Website: www.gatesfoundation.org
Additional notes: The foundation will periodically issue requests for proposals to encourage the pursuit of a specific approach to solving a problem. First determine whether your proposal fits under one of their current RFPs. Each RFP has its own guidelines and deadlines. If your project does not fall under one of their current RFPs, but aligns with their grantmaking priorities, you can submit an LOI.
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
Grant(s): South Africa / Special Initiatives InternationalDescription: The program’s goals are to contribute to a healthy civil society in South Africa and internationally by strengthening the non-profit sector and building a participatory democracy, especially at the local level and with an emphasis on women’s participation. The Foundation provides support for capital development and endowment only when these activities grow out of existing work with Foundation-funded projects or serve a programmatic purpose.
Criteria: Proposals should be submitted to the Foundation at least four months before the start of the proposed grant period.
Funding Range: USD $15,000 to USD $250,000 annually
Website: www.mott.org
CORDAID
Grant(s): Health and Well-being sectorDescription: As of 2007 CORDAID will concentrate its strategic funding in four sectors, one of which is Health and Well-being. Within this sector their priorites are focused on making basic health care affordable and accessible to the poorest, support communty efforts to be able to mangage for themselves, lobby to draw policymakers’ attention to the shortage of medical personnel and the issue of caring for the most vulnerable members in society. This is reflected through their three programmes: 1. Access to Health Care 2. Care for the most vulnerable groups 3. Resilience against HIV/AIDS
Criteria: Regional funding will be considered but on a case by case basis, depending highly on the application (quality) and type of activities proposed. Program focus is different by country within the Health and Well-being sector. For Example, Uganda focus is on programme 1. and 2., but in Zambia and Malawi focus is on 1. and 3.
Funding Range: Ranges from 20 000 Euros to 500 000 Euros
Website: www.cordaid.nl
Additional notes: There is no defined format for the proposal nor deadlines indicated. However, as a guideline an application should have a division with an introduction, context and problem anayses, goal (s) with objectives, activities, and expected results with targets and beneficiaries defined.
DFID, Southern Africa Trust
Grant(s): Southern Africa TrustDescription: The Southern Africa Trust provides grants in a targeted manner that promotes regional civil society integration and strengthens the impact of the voices of the poor in policy dialogue. The primary focus of the Trust’s support of better policy processes will be to create the conditions to sustain and improve the livelihoods of the poor in a sustainable manner. The Trust therefore intends to support partner initiatives in the region that have an impact on improving the material conditions of the poor.
Criteria: (i) Relevance to regional-level priorities for poverty reduction; (ii) The ‘regional’ content of the proposal; (iii) Ability to show a link to policy processes and/or to policy opportunities; (iv) The extent to which the proposal driven by or linked to existing stakeholder organisation or action; (v) Contribution to building dialogue, networks, and/or alliances within interest groups or sectors in the region and/or to building dialogue, networks and/or alliances between different interest groups or sectors in the region; (vi) Inclusion of ways to engage meaningfully with ‘voices of the poor’ or enhance the participation of poorly-represented constituencies in its processes; (vii) Extent to which the organisation submitting the proposal has an existing regional-level presence, a mandate relevant to poverty reduction, and a policy-influencing agenda; (viii) Alignment of the activities proposed with Southern Africa Trust’s goals; and (ix) Innovation.
Funding Range: There are no restrictions on the total cost of programmes.
Website: www.southernafricatrust.org
Additional Notes: Only programmes whose terrain of activity is within the southern African region or whose activities will have a direct impact on the southern African region will be eligible.
ELMA Philanthropies Services (U.S.) Inc.
Grant(s): health, educationDescription: Aim is to improve the life prospects of Africa’s children and the families and communities that care for them, through sustainable efforts that build African capacity to relieve poverty, advance education, and promote health.
Criteria: The ELMA Foundation’s initial geographic priority area is southern Africa, specifically the countries of Angola, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Funding Range: unknown
Website: www.elmaphilanthropies.org
Additional notes: Unsolicited proposal are not accepted; therefore would recommend introducing your work to them and pursuing a relationship.
Firelight Foundation
Grant(s): HIV/AIDSDescription: The mission of the Firelight Foundation is to support and advocate for the needs and rights of children who are orphaned or affected by HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa. Firelight strives to increase the resources available to grassroots organizations that are strengthening the capacity of families and communities to care for children made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS.
Criteria: The primary geographic focus of grantmaking is Sub-Saharan Africa. Fireflight looks for: - Programs that directly serve the needs of vulnerable children; - Grassroots responses to needs that raise resources within the community; - Programs that demonstrate strong leadership and community ownership; - Organizations with a history of effective community action; - Programs where children take part in decision-making, advocacy, and leadership; and - Innovative responses to the situations of children affected by HIV/AIDS.
Funding Range: one-year grants of USD $1,000 to USD $10,000
Website: www.firelightfoundation.org
Additional notes: The Firelight Foundation is not currently accepting new grant applications. The Firelight Foundation will be accepting Letters of Inquiry again in July 2007. Please check back on this website for our updated funding guidelines, including information about how to apply for a Firelight grant and timing of our grantmaking cycles, to be posted in June 2007.
Ford Foundation
Grant(s): Asset Building and Community Development, Peace and Social JusticeDescription: The Ford Foundation is a resource for innovatice people and institutions worldwide. They goals are to: Strengthen democratic values; Reduce poverty and injustice; Promote international cooperation; and Advance human achievement. Ford has regional offices in Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya, and South Africa.
Criteria: Ford considers requests for grants, recoverable grants, loans and loan guarantees. Requests range from a few thousand dollars to millions of dollars and are accepted in categories such as planning grants, project support, general support and endowments.
Funding Range: Thousand to millions of dollars.
Website: www.fordfound.org
Additional Notes: Ford receives about 40,000 proposals each year and only makes about 2,500 grants.
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Grant(s): Research project fundingDescription: IDRC funds research activities that are designed to provide direct benefits to developing countries and their citizens.
Criteria: IDRC’s principal approach is to support projects and partnerships proposed by developing-country research institutions. IDRC is more likely to consider partnerships involving other developed countries when funding is available from other donors, provided the partnership is seen as a means of strengthening IDRC-supported research in developing countries.
Funding Range: n/a
Website: www.idrc.ca
Additional Notes: Strongly recommend that you contact a program officer working in your field to the most relevant program areas early on in your deliberations to ensure closeness of fit between your area of interest and IDRC’s program priorities.
Izumi Foundation
Grant(s): Africa grantsDescription: The Foundation strives to help the earth’s poorest people live healthier lives by supporting programs for infectious diseases, particularly neglected infectious diseases, in developing countries. We support collaborative efforts - the
International Trachoma Initiative, The Global Alliance to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis, the Measles Initiative, and others - that promote better health. The African countries in which the Foundation works are: Botswana, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.
Funding Range: up to $100,000
Website: www.izumi.org
Additional notes: The Foundation occasionally invites proposals from pre-selected organizations because the work of the organization is of particular interest to the Foundation.The Foundation actively encourages the participation of small NGOs and community-based organizations in its grantmaking process. Grants made to organizations located outside of the United States do not exceed 50% of the organization’s overall operating budget.
MISEREOR/KZE
Grant(s): Africa grantsDescription: Overseas development agency of the Catholic Church in Germany, it offers to cooperate in a spirit of partnership with all people of goodwill to promote development, fight worldwide poverty, liberate people from injustice, exercise solidarity with the poor and the persecuted, and help create "One World".
Funding Range: n/a
Website: www.misereor.org
New Field Foundation
Grant(s): West Africa fundingDescription: The purpose of these grants is to enable women and their families to re-establish and transform their lives and their communities in rural areas after years of devastating conflict in Casamance and the Mano River region.
Criteria: Applications from organizations and groups that are focused on, and preferably based in, Casamance and the border areas of the Mano River region. In order to be considered for a grant, the organization or group must have an annual income of at least USD $35,000, or have been in existence for two years. It must operate as a non-profit, and have the right to receive international funds, or be connected with a non-profit organization that can act as a ‘fiscal sponsor’ to receive international funds on its behalf.
Funding Range: USD $7,500 - $15,000
Website: www.newfieldfound.org
Tides Foundation
Grant(s): International Grantmaking CollaborativesDescription: Tides Foundation can work with a group of individuals to develop and administer an international grantmaking collaborative focused on a particular issue or geographic area. We can help you plan your grantmaking program and structure, and we can provide a legal and fiscal home for your project.
Funding Range: n/a
Website: www.tides.org
Additional notes: Tides Foundation does not accept unsolicited letters of inquiry, proposals or applications for funding. They may post open requests for proposals (RFPs) and/or calls for letters of inquiry (LOIs) related to a specific funding initiative or donor advised fund. For a list of current RFPs and LOIs, please visit the Grants and Impact main page.
Trust Africa
Grant(s): Funding PartnershipsDescription: TrustAfrica’s primary aim is to provide African organizations with the resources they need to address the continent’s most pressing challenges.
Criteria: Major grants for collaborative projects typically combine multiple strategies (like research, advocacy, dialogue, or creativity) and connect institutions from different countries and regions.
Funding Range: USD $25,000 to USD $500,000
Website: www.trustafrica.org
Additional notes: Trust Africa does not accept unsolicited proposals. TrustAfrica requests funding proposals from key organizations already working on the issues at hand. Our major grants for collaborative projects, which range from US$25,000 to more than US$500,000, typically combine multiple strategies (like research, advocacy, dialogue, or creativity) and connect institutions from different countries and regions. Suggest pursing a relationship with TrustAfrica.
Wellcome Trust
Grant(s): Global health research grantsDescription: Aim is to support biomedical health research and training in developing and restructuring countries.
Criteria: Global health research to be funded as part of the International Strategy should have a focus on one of the following: (i) public health research in communicable and non-communicable diseases and disorders, as well as health services research; or (ii) infectious diseases (including tropical and neglected infectious diseases, animal health, zoonoses and emerging infections). Applications can include elements specifically related to training and capacity building.
Website: www.wellcome.ac.uk/
Additional notes: As a researcher from a developing country, you may be eligible to apply for a fellowship or as a coapplicant with scientists based at a UK/Republic of Ireland institution on a collaborative project or programme grants application.
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Grant(s): Southern Africa GrantsDescription: Foundation grants focus on the seven countries of Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe. Across the region, the Foundation’s program strategies merge the following interests: strengthen leadership capacity; strengthen the capacity of communities; and organizational and institutional development and transformation.
Criteria: Generally, the Foundation gives priority to applicants from these targeted regions: United States, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Southern Africa – Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe.
Funding Range: Does not establishe (nor track) maximum or minimum dollar amounts
Website: www.wkkf.org