Deadline: 31-Jan-23
Europe Foundation is pleased to invite Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), registered and operating in Georgia.
Europe Foundation’s mission is to empower people to effect change for social justice and economic prosperity through hands-on programs, helping them to improve their communities and their own lives. Its programs equip CSOs and individual civic activists to define and achieve outcomes of enduring benefit to themselves and their communities.
Funding Information
- The analysis of projects funded by the Foundation in previous years showed that the majority of project budgets varied from GEL 50,000 to GEL 65,000, a range that enabled grantees to successfully achieve project goals and objectives. The Foundation recommends the applicants to take into account this condition when preparing project proposals.
- Grant funds may be used only for the activities directly related to implementation of a grant project. Grant funds cannot be used for covering organization’s on-going expenses, construction expenses, purchase of real estate, or covering the applicant organization’s debt.
- Europe Foundation cannot support:
- Projects of humanitarian nature;
- A particular political party (however, it may fund the work that includes all parties on issues like electoral processes if activities are transparent and fair);
- Activities related to lobbying for partisan purposes (except of the advocacy for issues that bring about public and social good);
- Religious activities;
- Capital construction projects for commercial purposes;
- Court cases and disputes of a grantee, unless they are related directly to the primary objectives of the project;
- Military projects of any kind;
- Funding for: micro-credit, small business loans, start-up capital for entrepreneurs;
- Non-applied academic research;
- Proprietary market research;
- Scholarships or travel grants for academic study;
- Purchase of medical equipment.
Selection Criteria
- Grants will be awarded to projects demonstrating the following:
- Degree of compliance with the objectives and conditions of Open Door Grantmaking Mechanism;
- Effectiveness of project methodology, including a results-oriented, feasible, and needsbased action plan ensuring wide participation of citizens in identification and addressing of salient local issues;
- Scope of project impact;
- Engagement of relevant stakeholders in achievement of project objectives;
- Sound analysis of internal and external risks and efficient methods of risks mitigation;
- Proper analysis of gender and minority considerations, to ensure equal participation and access of men and women, as well as representatives of different minority groups to project activities and products to influence decision-making processes;
- Organization’s capacity to implement a project as demonstrated by:
- relevant qualifications of the involved personnel and/or experts,
- past experience of project implementation in relevant issue areas, and
- capacity to manage a grant;
- Cost-effectiveness of the project;
- Sustainability of a project (please note that sustainability can refer to activities, structures, knowledge, and outcomes that result from project implementation).
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