Deadline: 4-Aug-21
Applications are now open for the Energy for Generations Fund to maximize the impact of their investment by taking a more strategic approach to effect change.
Focus Areas
- Suicide Prevention: They will fund services and projects working to promote positive mental health and to build capacity, skills and training to make effective suicide prevention interventions. They have a particular interest in funding programmes with a focus on youth suicide and positive mental health promotion for young people.
- Homelessness: They will fund services and projects benefiting homeless people and those at risk of homelessness.
- Education: Proposals are invited from the following:
- Early years and early primary schools projects focusing on literacy and numeracy;
- Secondary level proposals promoting science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM);
- Adult education return-to-education programmes aimed at those long-term out of work.
Funding Information
- Each year the Fund awards €1 million in direct funding through a quarterly fund to charities working in the area of suicide prevention, alleviation of homelessness and education access and support.
What they don’t support?
The ESB Energy for Generations Fund does not support:
- Individuals and individual fundraisers
- Third party fundraising (e.g. fundraising events)
- High risk ventures
- Retrospective funding
- Community counselling services
- Single school applications and school completion projects
- Overseas work
Eligibility Criteria
- The proposed projects should:
- Be informed by evidence and focused on outcomes
- Provide tangible and local benefits
- Be sustainable after ESB funding ends
- Leave a lasting legacy in local communities
- The project must be located within the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland.
For more information, visit https://www.esb.ie/acting-responsibly/community-stem-and-the-arts/esb-corporate-responsibility