Aid Program for Social Initiatives Projects in Spain

Deadline: 23-Nov-21

The ”la Caixa” Foundation has announced Aid Program for Social Initiatives Projects to collaborate with non-profit organizations that develop their projects in Catalonia to promote initiatives aimed especially at people who are in a situation of social vulnerability and whose objective is to improve their quality of life and promote equal opportunities.

Focus Areas

The call includes six areas of action:

• Older people and challenges derived from aging
• People with disabilities or mental disorders
• Humanization of health
• Fight against poverty and social exclusion
• Socio-labor insertion
• Interculturality and social action

Modes

• Projects may be submitted in the following two application modalities:
  • Mode 1
    • An amount of up to € 40,000 may be requested .
    • The amount requested may not exceed 75% of the total cost of the project.
  • Mode 2
    • You can request an amount from € 40,000 to € 100,000 .
    • The amount requested may not exceed 50% of the total cost of the project.
• The amount requested in both modalities must be linked to the execution of a project with a duration of up to 12 months.

What can be Requested?

Aid can be requested for:

• Professional fees (contracted and external personnel)
• Training aimed at recipients, family members, professionals and volunteers
• Travel and transportation of the target people
• Management costs for volunteer staff, including travel
• Coverage of the basic needs of the target people
• Promotion of the project
• Acquisition or rental of equipment or material for the activities
• Adaptation or improvement of infrastructures
• Infrastructure rental
• Rent and supplies of the houses

Eligibility Criteria

• The entities that can present themselves to the call are:
  • Non-profit entities
  • Entities of the social economy that, among the purposes indicated in their statutes, include explicitly as its main objective social interest or social cohesion
  • Public administrations or entities that are part of the public sector and corporate foundations (business or banking).
• The requirements for entities are:
  • Be accredited in the new application for calls calls.fundacionlacaixa.org and designate to a person as the project manager user
  • Be registered in the corresponding administrative registry, domiciled in Catalonia and develop the project presented in Catalonia.
  • Have your own NIF
  • Have statutes and a minimum age of 1 year of activity, from its constitution
• In the case of the delegations of a parent entity, they may be presented independently, provided that prove their formal, functional and organic autonomy:
  • 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.

General Conditions

• The entities and delegations that submit projects to this call must develop them and be registered in the autonomous community of Catalonia.
• Entities and delegations with a current agreement in the Catalonia 2020 call and in the 2020 state calls of the Aid Program for Projects of Social Initiatives.
• Entities and delegations with a current agreement may also apply to this call in the state calls of 2021 of the Program of Aid to Projects of Social Initiatives of the”La Caixa” Foundation, but only projects other than the current agreement may be selected.
• Each entity or delegation may only submit one project to this call. In this sense, the projects presented by entities that maintain some relationship will have the same consideration,organic or functional.
• The minimum territorial unit for the delegations is the municipal level.
• In the case of delegations of the same entity, a maximum of one project will be selected per province in the whole of this call.
• If the entity collaborates with a social program of the ”la Caixa” Foundation, the project it presents in this call must be different in content, in recipients and / or in territory to the project carried outout for that program.
• The fact of presenting yourself to this call implies that the present bases are accepted. Interpretation the final requirements and clauses of these rules are exclusively those of the ”la Caixa” Foundation.

For more information, visit https://fundacionlacaixa.org/en/social-calls-catalonia