The PaperSeed Foundation is currently accepting applications from emerging community-based organization for its educations grants. The grants will strengthen educational opportunities for children and young people in underserved and resource-lacking communities around the world.
The foundation believes every child, regardless of race, creed, or country, deserves quality education and the possibility of a strong future.
Grant size generally ranges from $5,000 to $25,000 USD. Organizations will be eligible to seek additional funding once initial grant period has been completed satisfactorily.
Eligible Countries: China, Guatemala, India, Kenya, Nicaragua, Philippines, United States.
Thematic Areas
Foundation provides funds for capacity building, training, management support and projects that fall under the following categories:
- Deeper Learning for All: providing computers and books for libraries, creating school tutoring centers, funding for essential teacher training, life skills education, and specifically developed programs to keep girls in school, such as scholarships, reproductive health education and/or providing sanitary napkins.
- Creative Learning: starting or expanding programs in music, arts and sports.
- Cultural Awareness: ensuring the young people are aware of their own cultural heritage, and that of others.
- Environmental Education: starting or expanding programs that inform the next generation of the importance of the environment.
- Sound Structures: construction of classrooms, computer labs, libraries, school sanitary facilities, hand-washing stations and kitchens; solidifying existing structures with reinforced windows, ceilings and cement floors.
Eligibility Criteria
- Emerging community-based organizations with an annual budget of less than $250,000 USD. Though we occasionally fund larger organizations, we prefer to support organizations that have not previously received substantial international support with catalyst grant funds and generally fund organizations with an annual budget below $150,000 USD.
- Run by local leaders who live and work in the community. We give preference to leaders who were born and raised in the communities they are seeking to transform.
- Involved in directly providing services to children and young people that strengthen education.
- Legally established organization or school in country of operation (or reasonable explanation why registration has not been possible).
- Sustainable, long-lasting initiatives or projects that will create lasting impact after PaperSeed ceases to be directly involved; we do not provide funding for ongoing operational costs.
- Management Structure with established systems and processes that ensure responsible management of accounting and reporting.
Applicants can apply through Grant Inquiry Forms via given website.
For more information, please visit http://www.paperseed.org/apply-for-grant/.