GrantStation International Insider - October 2024

Application deadline: October 31, 2024
Geographic scope: Global, with an emphasis on low- and middle-income countries
Description: Takeda's Global Corporate Social Responsibility Program aims to help build healthcare systems that are more resilient to the impacts of climate change on vulnerable communities. Through the 2024 call for proposals, Takeda will accept proposals for four- to ten-year projects that center sustainability and equity in initiatives to support resilient health systems. Funding is available through three proposal tracks: The Climate-Resilient Healthcare Infrastructure track makes targeted investments in healthcare infrastructure and delivery systems to ensure they remain resilient and adaptive in the face of climate-related challenges. The Health Workforce Preparedness track seeks to build a pipeline of skilled healthcare professionals trained to identify, prevent, and manage health risks associated with climate change. The Health Technology Innovation track aims to develop and scale technological solutions that address gaps in healthcare delivery and diagnosis for climate-vulnerable populations to improve efficiency and reach of services in vulnerable areas. Eligible applicants include U.S. nonprofit organizations, organizations outside the U.S. with equivalent nonprofit status, non-governmental organizations, charities, foundations, and intergovernmental organizations.

Application deadline: The annual deadlines are March 14 and October 31. (Applicants must first complete the online eligibility quiz.)
Geographic scope: United States and global
Grant amount: The average grant is approximately $2,500. 
Description: The goal of the D'Addario Foundation is to help provide as many children as possible with access to an extraordinary musical education. The Foundation awards grants to community music education organizations globally. Eligible applicants consist of U.S. 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations and registered international charities which offer free or affordable music instruction where students are participating multiple times per week (4 hours total, at a minimum), throughout the academic year, and for as many consecutive years as possible throughout their primary and secondary education. The Foundation prefers not to provide cash support solely for the purchase of instruments or equipment, although it offers in-kind donations in the form of D’Addario & Company products.

Application deadline: December 9, 2024
Geographic scope: Global and the United Kingdom
Description: The mission of the Petplan Charitable Trust is to promote the health and welfare of animals in the U.K. and beyond. The Trust awards grants to animal welfare charities and scientific institutions both in the U.K. and abroad for the benefit of the health and welfare of dogs, cats, horses, and rabbits. Through the Welfare Grants program, the Trust supports charities committed to animal welfare. Grants to human charities will be considered when it can be clearly demonstrated that the grant will enhance or give support to the animals’ best interests. Registered charities are eligible to apply. Charities operating in the U.K. will be given priority, but on occasion applications from charities working overseas will be considered, providing they are registered in the U.K. (Applications for Scientific Grants will open in the autumn.)

Application deadline: Applications will be accepted from November 1, 2024, to January 6, 2025.
Grant amount: Seed Grants: $25,000 each; Growth Grants: $100,000 each; and Seeding the Future Grand Prizes: $250,000 each
Description: The Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge, hosted by the Institute of Food Technologists and initiated and funded by the Seeding The Future Foundation, seeks to inspire and support passionate, diverse, and multidisciplinary teams to create game-changing innovations that will help transform the food system to be more sustainable, make healthier diets more accessible, and empower consumers to make choices benefiting both personal and planetary health. Initiatives should focus on at least one or two of the following domains: safe, nutritious food for a healthy diet; sustainable, regenerative practices; and improving equitable access, affordability, and attractiveness, and empowering more conscious consumer behavior. The Challenge will provide three levels of awards to incentivize transformative food system innovations at different stages of their development: Seed Grants, Growth Grants, and Seeding the Future Grand Prizes. Applications are accepted from scientists, engineers, innovators, entrepreneurs, and multidisciplinary teams across non-governmental organizations, nonprofits, social enterprises, universities, research institutions, and small and emerging for-profit enterprises.

Application deadline: November 21, 2024
Geographic scope: Primarily Africa
Grant amount: A total of $10 million is available through this call. 
Description: The International Alliance for the Protection of Heritage in Conflict Areas (ALIPH) is an international cooperation initiative that supports projects that protect and rehabilitate cultural heritage threatened or damaged by conflict or climate change in vulnerable countries. Through the current call for proposals, which prioritizes projects in Africa, funding will be provided to projects addressing the intersection of climate change and cultural heritage across three categories of projects: 1) protection, conservation, and rehabilitation; 2) capacity-building and knowledge transfer; and 3) actionable research. Successful proposals will integrate at least one of these types of initiatives, with priority given to projects integrating more than one of the themes. (Projects within ALIPH’s traditional mission that fall outside the priority themes for this call will also be considered, including those focused on climate change in other areas and conflicts worldwide.) Eligible applicants include non-governmental and civil society organizations, heritage protection institutions, private organizations, universities, and research centers.

Application deadline: November 3, 2024
Geographic scope: Developing countries
Grant amount: Up to $20,000
Description: D-Prize seeds new ventures that distribute proven poverty interventions. The Prize supports ventures that scale distribution of an already proven poverty intervention in the developing world. Challenges focus on the themes of health, water, agriculture, livelihoods, energy, public services, and education. Applicants can also propose their own challenge related to distributing proven poverty interventions to those in need. Grants are awarded to entrepreneurs launching new organizations, including for-profit ventures, non-governmental organizations, and charities. Support is provided to organizations in any low- or middle-income country where extreme poverty still exists. Individuals and teams are eligible to apply. D-Prize is also open to any business model (for-profit, nonprofit, and everything in between). Existing organizations applying to D-Prize should have operated for no more than 18 months and raised no more than $30,000 in outside funding.

Application deadline: None for letters of inquiry
Geographic scope: India, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, and the following U.S. communities: Greater Bay Area and Orange County, CA; Boulder County and El Paso County, CO; and Olmstead County, MN
Description: Western Digital supports a wide range of nonprofit organizations in Western Digital's company communities, including specific locations in the U.S., as well as India, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand. Funding is provided in the following areas: STEM education for underrepresented and underserved K-12 youth (or K-16 youth in the U.S.), hunger relief programs, and environmental conservation, preservation, and education initiatives. U.S. nonprofit organizations and public schools as well as non-governmental organizations based outside the U.S. are eligible to apply. Outside of the United States, preference is given to organizations offering programs or services in proximity to Western Digital offices and facilities.

Application deadline: November 8, 2024, at midday GMT, for preliminary applications
Geographic scope: Outside of the U.K., Western Europe, and North America
Grant amount: Up to £150,000
Description: The British Library's Endangered Archives Programme, with funding from Arcadia, facilitates the digitization of archives that are in danger of destruction, neglect, or physical deterioration. Grants are provided to identify, digitize, and make available online material on any theme or aspect of culture from any part of the world outside the U.K., Western Europe, or North America. Examples of supported archive types include rare printed sources, manuscripts, visual materials, pre-existing audio recordings, and other objects and artefacts. Pilot Project Grants (up to £15,000), Major Project Grants (up to £60,000), and Area Grants (up to £150,000) for projects larger in scale and ambition are provided. Individuals affiliated with an educational institution, research institution, archive, or similar nonprofit institution are eligible to apply. 

Application deadline: October 31, 2024
Geographic scope: U.S., Canada, Latin America, and the Caribbean
Description: The Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act Grants program funds projects promoting the conservation of neotropical migratory birds in the United States, Canada, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Grants help partners protect, research, monitor, and manage bird populations and habitat throughout birds' entire migratory life cycle, as well as to conduct law enforcement and community outreach and education.

Application deadline: December 2, 2024
Geographic scope: Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, The Gambia, Tunisia, and Zambia
Grant amount: Grants range up to 20,000 euros.
Description: UN Tourism and TUI Care Foundation have issued the Colourful Cultures call for proposals focused on empowering local artists and artisans, particularly women and youth, in rural tourism destinations across selected African countries. The aim is to increase the capacity of artists and artisans to tap into the tourism economy, enhance their visibility in tourism destinations, and improve the availability of support services in rural areas. Applications are accepted from civil society and non-governmental organizations presenting projects that benefit artists and artisans in rural tourism destinations in Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, The Gambia, Tunisia, and Zambia.

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Webinar date: October 7, 2024, 2:00 to 2:45 PM Eastern Time
Description: As your grant programs grow, you have an important decision to make: Should you hire an external grant professional or do the work yourself? This isn’t always an easy choice. It can be hard to effectively evaluate both the benefits and drawbacks. During this free TargetED, Alice Ruhnke will help you weigh each option so your organization can move forward with a decision.

Webinar date: October 9, 2024, 2:00 to 3:30 PM Eastern Time
Description: From start to finish, your proposals must tell a strong, consistent story. However, accomplishing this across the unique sections of an application is not always straightforward. During this webinar, Alice Ruhnke will walk you through a systematic process to apply to all your grantseeking efforts in order to reduce the stress related to proposal writing. She’ll introduce a planning tool that can be used again and again by your organization, saving you time and energy in your grantseeking efforts. (This webinar is part of the series The Power of 3: Fuel Your Mission With Successful Grant Proposals.)

Webinar date: October 28, 2024, 2:00 to 2:45 PM Eastern Time
Description: It’s always a good idea to have matching funds for your projects or programs—even if a funder doesn’t require it. When you include matching funds, it demonstrates to funders that they are not the only one with “skin in the game.” It shows you already have support from other stakeholders. During this TargetED, Alice Ruhnke will show you how to secure matching funds to increase your success in winning grant awards.

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