Light a Single Candle Foundation: International Grants (US)

Deadline: 5-Apr-25

The Light a Single Candle Foundation is excited to announce its International Grants.

Focus Areas

• International Grants
  • 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

• International proposals must meet all of the following 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, El Salvador or Nicaragua.
  • Recipients must have staff and/or partners on the ground and include local community in the project development and implementation.

Ineligibility Criteria

• 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.