Applications open for L’Oréal Fund for Women

Deadline: 30-Oct-23

Applications are now open for the L’Oréal Fund for Women to support frontline organizations in their efforts to help women to get out of poverty, prevent domestic, sexual and gender-based violence against women.

The Fund focuses on supporting women and girls’ empowerment, particularly through projects in favor of social or professional integration and education. A specific attention is paid to refugee women and women with disabilities.

Applications to the L’Oréal Fund for Women will be held open until 2026.

Eligibility Criteria

• Relevance of the organization:
  • Grassroot non-profit or non-for-profit organization, of general interest, with official accreditation and eligible to philanthropic funds.
  • Organization that cannot distribute any part of its revenues to its members, directly or indirectly.
  • Organization with more than two years of official existence (unless the organization has a strong documented innovative   component responding to a specific need).
  • Organization with a minimum of 50 beneficiaries per year.
  • Organization operating directly (not providing only engineering or coordination of the project), without subcontracting to   local/smaller organizations.
• Nature of the activity/project for which the request is made:
  • The final beneficiaries must be highly vulnerable women or girls: In situation of poverty/underpriviliged (absence or lack of revenues, homelessness, single parent, Isolation in rural areas or in the suburbs, etc.), victims of violence, refugees or in situation of disability.
  • Beyond emergency relief, the activity focuses on women or girls’ empowerment, encouraging especially social and professional Integration, or access to education.
  • Activities can take the form of: a service, an instrument with a social purpose or a field operation.
• Scope:
  • The Fund is opened internationally and can support local or national projects/activities.
  • Projects can be in design/ideation phase, in implementation phase, or already in operation phase.

Ineligibility Criteria

• Nature of the activity/project for which the request is made: advocacy activities are not eligible.
• Ethics/Human Rights/environmental responsibility:
  • Activities or organizations that are in breach with internationally recognized UN standards, including Human Rights, Health Safety & Security, Labor rights, Anti Bribery and Corruption, Environment & Climate change, etc., especially:
    • Organization with negative liabilities (controversies).
    • Organizations or projects discriminating beneficiaries, based on gender, race, religions, beliefs (non-exhaustive list).
    • Activities with religious, political or military direct connection, content or goal.
    • Activities involving forced labour or child labour.
    • Activities having negative impact on the environment (carbon, biodiversity, water, etc.) or people’s welfare and livelihoods.
    • Activities having the potential to negatively affect Indigenous Peoples and minorities.
    • Activities or organizations that do not grant the right to self-expression, free association and collective negotiation to beneficiaries and employees.

For more information, visit L’Oréal Groupe.