Deadline: 4-May-21
The La Caixa Foundation is accepting applications for its Fighting Child Poverty Grant Program to help break the cycle of child poverty and promote projects that facilitate the integral development and the process of social inclusion of people in vulnerable situations, enhancing their capacities and promoting equal opportunities.
Areas of Action
Social and educational development of children and adolescents in vulnerable situations
- The purpose of this area is to promote projects that contribute to breaking the cycle of poverty, empowering childhood and adolescence and empowering the family as the axis of socio-educational action.
- For all these reasons, this call aims to prioritize the following priority lines:
- Basic social care: access to basic goods and services (food, hygiene, dining grants)
- Formal socio-educational support actions: school reinforcement, family support, parenting positive
- Non-formal socio-educational support actions: leisure and free time, transition projects to adult life
- Psychotherapeutic and emotional care
Social inclusion of people at risk of poverty and exclusion
- In this area they want to prioritize projects whose purpose are to facilitate comprehensive development and processes social inclusion of people in vulnerable situations, enhancing their capacities and favouring equal opportunities.
- Priority lines:
- Basic social care: access to basic goods and services
- Psychosocial care and personal empowerment from an inclusive perspective in the field family and community, influencing actions that favor the reduction of the feminization of poverty
- Accompaniment of homeless and / or homeless people in their process of initiating social inclusion
- Protection against situations of gender violence or the initiation / increase of addictive behaviours
Funding Information
- The requested projects must have a duration of 12 months and may be presented as projects:
- Individual: the amount requested may not exceed € 40,000.
- Partnerships: the amount requested may not exceed € 60,000.
- The amount requested may not exceed 75% of the total cost of the project. In the event that the project is selected, the entity agrees to contribute at least 25% of the total cost of the project according to the budget presented, regardless of the amount of aid granted.
- In the case of corporate foundations, the amount requested may not exceed 50% of the total cost of the project and the entity agrees to contribute at least 50% of the total cost of the project according to the budget presented.
Eligibility Criteria
- The entities that may submit to the call are:
- Non-profit entities
- Entities of the social economy whose statutes explicitly state, among the stated purposes, that its main objective is social interest or social cohesion
- Public administrations or entities that are part of the public sector will not be able to present themselves as managing entities of the project in this call, but as collaborating entities in a partnership project.
- The requirements for entities, both managers and partnerships, are:
- Be accredited in the new application of calls for proposals.foundationlacaixa.org and designate to a person responsible for the project.
- Be registered in the corresponding administrative registry, have the domicile in Spain and develop the project presented in Spain.
- Have your own NIF.
- Have statutes and have been in business for a minimum of one year, from its constitution.
- In the case of delegations, they may present themselves independently as long as they prove their autonomy. Formal, functional and organic. To do this, they must:
- Be recognized by the parent entity and have a minimum operating age as one year delegation.
- Have autonomous operation with respect to the parent entity, with its own structure and body of self government.
- Have its own budget differentiated from the parent entity.
For more information, visit https://fundacionlacaixa.org/en/social-calls-fighting-child-poverty