Deadline: 24-Jun-23
The Light A Single Candle (LASC) Foundation is now accepting applications for its International Grant Program that keeps hope alive through sustainable solutions to poverty.
Light A Single Candle is a private foundation dedicated to the relief of poverty through effective partnerships that target:
- Food support, food security and food sustainability
- Microbusiness and economic development
- Development of individuals, families, and communities toward self-determination and an improved standard of living
Founding Principles
- Food and economic sustainability are basic to all poverty solutions
- They are motivated by the faith in God, but not limited to faith based initiatives
- The best work will be the result of strong, long term partnerships
- Effective solutions will be rooted in local residents and leadership of the community; will bring knowledge, expertise and training to bear on any problem; and will be strategic and sustainable
- They will strive to do no harm in the support of the people they seek to serve
Focus Areas
- Projects to be funded will address one of the following LASC Focus Areas:
- Food support, security, and sustainability: this may include emergency feeding and starvation relief; subsistence farming, backyard farming, or soil improvement initiatives; sustainable and regenerative food programs (ie…aqua farming, greenhouse gardens, beekeeping, fruit tree planting and baking)
- Social Entrepreneurship & Microdevelopment: food related community based initiatives that address poverty, increase income, teach new skills, provide training, and create individual, family and community economic opportunities.
- Poverty relief: Development of individuals, families, and communities toward self-determination and an improved standard of living. (ie…access to clean water and improved sanitation practices; housing development, animal husbandry)
- By personal invitation from LASC
Eligibility Criteria
- Recipient organization must be a not for profit USA based 501 (c) (3) public charity as defined by the Internal Revenue Service code.
- Projects to be considered must be located within the following countries: Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, or Nicaragua.
- Recipients must have staff and/or partners on the ground and include local community in the project development and implementation.
Note: Organizations they do not fund – Light a Single Candle Foundation does not fund schools, churches, healthcare entities & initiatives, governments or governmental agencies, for profit organizations, individuals, or any non-501(c) (3) USA based charitable organization.
For more information, visit LASC.