Deadline: 21-Jun-22
Applications are now open for the Hasanah Special Grant 2022.
Objectives
- Enhancing school leadership and maximizing student potential
- Building Mental Health (MH) system capacity and raising awareness
- Providing continuous educational support to students and teachers due to the impact caused by the pandemic
- Supporting and empowering 7 identified communities that will see a sustained improvement in income and wellbeing through the Hasanah Community Based Approach (CBA) model
- Developing and enhancing community leadership (develop leaders who can self-organise and lead their communities in undertaking collective efforts to improve their quality of life)
- Empowering communities through livelihood programmes
- Improving the well-being of the community with the focus on mental health due to the impact caused by the pandemic
- Perak Sustainability – focus on restoration, conservation and protection of selected critical ecosystem linkages in Perak
- Plastics – focus on initiatives that reduce plastic waste in selected communities, schools and workplace areas
- Environmental conservation & restoration – building and enhancing the related supports to affected area/subject due to the impact caused by the pandemic
- Preservation and conservation of “endangered” textiles, creating an outreach and economic platform, and copyrights
- Continuous support for Arts and the artisans due to the impact caused by the pandemic
Focus Areas
- Education
- Community Development
- Environment
- Arts & Public Spaces
- Knowledge
Funding Information
- Depending on the duration and nature of each project, the grant amount they offer may vary. A maximum of RM2,500,000 can be awarded for projects spanning over three years, while pilot projects and shorter projects are eligible for a smaller amount.
- They focus on achieving long-term impact. To this effect, they provide two types of funding:
- Organisational Development Funding (ODF) aimed at strengthening their partners’ operations
- Programme Management Funding (PMF) aimed at supporting the sustainability of initiatives
What they look for?
- Full registration with the Registrar of Societies (ROS) or the Registrar of Companies (ROC) or the Trustees (Incorporation) Act 1952 for at least 2 years
- Audited financial accounts for the past 2 years
- Active efforts to drive positive change in the community
- Projects which give measurable results
- Ideas and initiatives which are replicable or scalable
- Long-term thinking and planning
- Potential to become a voice in policymaking
What they do no support?
- Individual sponsorships, including those for participation in workshops, seminars, or studies
- Projects which are not aligned with their focus areas
- Projects which promote political campaigns
- Purchase of equipment or purchase/renovation of buildings for commercial purposes
- Projects primarily aimed at charitable donations and profit-making activities
- On-going projects which are already funded by a Hasanah grant
- Faith-based activities
Eligibility Criteria
In order to be eligible for a grant, the applicant must:
- be legally and locally registered with relevant authorities (Registrar of Societies or the Companies Commission) in Malaysia or a registered company under the Companies Act 1965 for social enterprises or a registered organisation under the Trustees (Incorporation) Act 1952 (in selected cases, grants may be channeled to organisations registered in foreign jurisdictions but carry out programmes in Malaysia and impacting Malaysia);
- have been formed and registered at least two years prior to being considered for Hasanah’s grant award – if organisation was previously established under a different name and was operational for at least or more than two years under said name, applicant must provide evidence of such;
- have audited financial accounts for two consecutive years (over the past 3 years), or copies of acknowledgement receipt of 2 years annual report submission to Registrar of Societies or copies of 2 years income tax submission to Inland Revenue Board;
- be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the proposal and not be acting as an intermediary;
- track record of working with communities for the past 2 years;
- demonstrate capacity and structures in place to immediately commence the project;
- have an internal audit process for its annual audit.
- Other related eligibility criteria
- The applicant may be a co-applicant in another application at the same time
- Applicant can be a social enterprise – defined as organisations or registered companies whose primary mission is to support a social cause, and have a revenue source that is able to sustain their mission
- Public institutions and consultancy may apply as co-applicants with another CSOs as the core applicant
For more information, visit https://yayasanhasanah.org/hasanah-special-grant-2022/