With more than 2.3 billion citizens, the Commonwealth provides a potentially huge pool of ideas for advancing societies.
The Foundation offers grants of up to £200,000 over four years in support of innovative project ideas and approaches that seek to strengthen the ability of civic voices to engage with governments and that have the potential to improve governance and development outcomes through their active participation.
The Foundation believes in the power of stories and storytelling for social change and will award grants for creative approaches that have the potential to influence public discourse.
The selection process is highly competitive and selected projects will have been designed to undertake work that has the potential to lead to one or more of the outcomes in the Foundation’s strategic logic model.
The Foundation’s programme teams are all involved in shaping the focus of the call for proposals. An internal review process, including long-listing by the Grants team followed by a short listing process involving all programme teams, prepares a final list of applications that is then submitted to the Grants Committee. Final decisions on which projects to support are made by the member states represented on the Foundation’s Grants Committee.
WORTH
- The Foundation offers grants of up to £200,000 over four years in support of innovative project ideas and approaches.
ELIGIBILITY
- You are a registered not for profit civil society organisation. CSOs may apply for a grant in partnership with another CSO. All CSOs involved in implementing a Commonwealth Foundation grant must be registered organisations and included as partners in the application. You and, when applicable, partner(s) must be based in a Commonwealth Foundation member country and the project take place in an eligible Commonwealth Foundation member country (Please see Annex 1 to the Guidelines)
- Your grant application is for £50,000 per year or less
- You are applying for funding for up-to 4 years
- Your project has not yet started. Applications must be for a completely new project, or for a new phase of an ongoing project. Grants cannot be used to co-fund projects that are mid-cycle.
- You do not currently have a grant from the Commonwealth Foundation
- The average of your total income over the last 2 years is less than £3 million
- Your project addresses one or both of the Commonwealth Foundation’s outcomes (see Guidelines).
- You will provide the following supporting documents as part of your application:
- egistration certificate for your organisation
- The most recent audited accounts for your organisation (they must include both the accounts and the opinion of the external auditor who has certified them; they should not be more than 2 years old)
- A complete logic model using the Commonwealth Foundation template
- Registration certificate for all partner organisations, if applicable
- * These countries are eligible to apply but project activities must be implemented in eligible countries in this list that do not have asterisks beside them.
DEADLINE: January 7, 2019
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