Deadline: 21-Jul-21
The Charities Aid Foundation is seeking applications for its Global Grants Programme to empower small, youth-focused non-profit organizations to make change happen by enabling them to increase their impact and operate at a greater scale.
Climate change and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are two defining challenges of the 21st century, each posing significant threats to health and sustainable development. Innovation is needed in order to face up to the climate and health challenges facing young people today.
Priorities
Step Up! Always receives a high number of applications and they are unable to support all eligible organisations which apply. In selecting applications, they will prioritise a project if it:
- Addresses nutrition
- Utilises technology or digital health solutions in an inclusive way
- Is innovative: delivering something different from which they can learn (an existing approach in a new setting linked to a particular need, or a totally new approach)
- Is youth-led (ie primarily youth managed/designed)
- Involves young people as advocates for change in their communities
- Is run by an organisation with an income and capacity to deliver a grant of this size
- Is from an organisation which has not yet been supported by a StepUp! grant
- Operates in a low or lower-middle income country or setting
Funding Information
Grants of up to US $10,000 will be awarded to support the delivery of approximately 20 projects which:
- Reduce NCD risk factors for young people while combating climate change through sustainable environmental solutions
- Address the needs of vulnerable young people (10-30 years old) in under-resourced communities
- Reach an appropriate number of young people according to the scale of the local need
- Can provide evidence at the conclusion of the project of what has been delivered, as well as outcomes and what has been learned
- Are managed by non-profits with an annual income of US$1 million or less
- Can be completed within a 12 month period, not starting before February 2022.
What they will not fund?
- Organisations that
- are not registered as charitable
- were established and registered after 1 January 2019
- discriminate or primarily promote political or religious viewpoints to their beneficiaries
- use the funds to make grants or donations to other organisations or individuals
- are unable to supply appropriate documents including charitable registration, governance and financial documents and personal details of trustees/directors
- Projects that
- are already funded through the Young Health Programme or StepUp!
- provide treatment, medical advice or pay for medicine
- benefit AstraZeneca’s commercial business
- last more than 12 months
- have already taken place or are planned to start before February 2022
- Grant requests for over US $10,000
Eligibility Criteria
- The fund is open to registered charitable organisations with strong experience of delivering effective projects which make health and environmental improvements in young people’s lives.
- Organisations must be ‘funding-ready’ and able to provide appropriate documentation (in English) to verify their organisation’s charitable status and financial situation.
- They will support organisations from under-resourced communities worldwide. These are likely to be in low-income or lower-middle income countries or settings.
- Organisations which have been funded previously by AstraZeneca are welcome to apply, but not for the same project that was previously supported.
For more information, visit https://www.cafonline.org/charities/grantmaking/astrazeneca-stepup#tab2