Deadline: 31-Dec-21
The Right Sharing of World Resources (RSWR) is pleased to launch the seed grants to small grassroots organizations to implement women-led, income-generating projects.
RSWR gives grants to small, grassroots women’s groups that do not have access to other adequate funding. The grants are for micro-enterprise, self-employment projects. They help with seed money and training so that a group can begin a revolving loan fund for members to take loans to begin their own small businesses. It is important to them that the women work together in self-help groups and use the RSWR resources to help themselves grow into independent and strong groups.
Goals
RSWR is a Quaker organization supported primarily by the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in the United States. RSWR has two main goals:
- Provide grants for women in the developing world to begin small income-generating businesses so that they may help themselves and their families out of poverty.
- Help Quakers in the United States learn about the negative effects of poverty in the developing world and the negative effects of materialism in North America.
Funding Information
- Up to US $5,500 for a one year project.
- Each group may receive only one grant.
What types of projects does RSWR support?
RSWR supports income-generating, self-employment projects for poor women who are members of a self help group. The project must include a revolving loan component. They believe that small scale income-generating projects offer a means of establishing self sufficiency to very poor people. By requiring that the project include a revolving loan program, they can multiple the impact of the grant as the funds are revolved many times to many different women within the community.
Eligibility Criteria
- In Sierra Leone, all groups must be self-directed by the women beneficiaries themselves.
- The leadership and management must come from within the group.
- The group cannot be formed or managed by outside coordinators.
- Additionally, the group must be registered with the local authorities and have a bank account, and the signers on the bank account must be three women who are members of the group.
- Groups should be less than 20 years old and have an annual budget of less than $4,000.
- RSWR accepts proposals from the Eastern and Southern Provinces of Sierra Leone from July 1 to December 31.
For more information, visit https://rswr.org/proposal-criteria-and-guidelines
