Deadline: 13-Dec-2024
The Rethink Ireland has launched the Impact Fund for Munster to foster a sustainable and inclusive future for the Munster region by investing in innovative projects that address interconnected social and environmental challenges.
The fund supports the inclusion, involvement and recognition of the diverse communities of the Munster region and strives to empower communities that tend to be left out of conversations.
Through the environmental focus, the fund will support projects that tackle issues such as biodiversity loss, food system deficits, overconsumption, pollution, climate inaction, ensuring that inclusion is at the heart of these projects, and that nobody is left behind. Through its social focus, the fund will address the social needs of marginalised and vulnerable groups within the region, including championing the inclusion and integration of neurodiverse peoples and communities through innovative approaches.
Funding Information
- The Fund offers a package of cash grants and non-financial supports to the value of €59,000 for up to 8 projects, to help them expand and increase their social and/or environmental impact.
Non-Financial Supports
- The non-financial supports will include:
- a place on Rethink Ireland’s Accelerator Programme
- bespoke business and capacity building supports designed in consultation with the successful projects on topics such as strategic planning, maximising your impact, communications, storytelling and fundraising.
- Access to Rethink Ireland’s networks.
Eligibility Criteria
- This fund is open to organisations that have a not-for-profit legal form, e.g. a company limited by guarantee, a co-operative, trust, charity, and other voluntary organisations that meet the following criteria:
- Projects must meet both Rethink Ireland’s criteria and the specific criteria for the Impact Fund for Munster 2024 Fund, as set out below:
- Rethink Ireland Criteria
- The project must address a critical social or environmental issue
- The project proposed must be innovative in an Irish context
- The project must be based on the island of Ireland and must make its main impact in the Republic of Ireland
- The project must have potential and a desire to scale or replicate in Ireland (it may also have potential internationally, but this is not a requirement)
- The project must provide evidence that it is up and running, or has been tested at least in a minimal way.
- Applicants must come from an entity that has a not-for-profit legal form, e.g. a company limited by guarantee, a co-operative, trust, charity.
- Impact Fund for Munster 2024 Core Criteria
- Support the sustainable development of Munster communities through either social and/or environmental innovations,
- Achieve their social impact primarily in Munster- projects must directly work with, and for Munster communities.
- Advantageous Criteria
- Promoting Neurodiversity: Projects that specifically focus on supporting neurodiverse individuals in Munster through innovative services, or projects. This includes initiatives that are led by neurodiverse people or meaningfully consult neurodiverse service users.
- Leadership/ Stakeholder Engagement: Projects that are initiated, designed, and implemented by or in close collaboration with the communities they intend to serve. This ensures that projects are responsive to local needs, build community capacity, and foster a sense of ownership and empowerment.
- Green Transition: Organisations that have a positive effect on Ireland’s Green Transition through their activities/interventions. This criterion applies if the organisation tackles issues related to the environment and green transition, such as carbon reduction, biodiversity, sustainable agriculture, pollution and/or the just transition.
- Rethink Ireland Criteria
Ineligibility Criteria
- They can not apply:
- Applicants under 18 years of age
- Commercial companies, sole traders and individuals
- Any staff member from Rethink Ireland and their family members. Family members include siblings, parents, spouses or civil partners or children.
- Individuals
- Statutory or public bodies, companies limited by shares and organisations that are state bodies or agencies that are not registered charities
- Any consultant currently working with Rethink Ireland
For more information, visit Rethink Ireland.