Solidarity Fund for the Future 2024 – Turkey

Deadline: 12-Sep-24

The Support Foundation for Civil Society is accepting applications for the Solidarity Fund for the Future 2024.

The 2024 term of the Solidarity Fund for the Future is being implemented under the coordination of the Foundation and in cooperation with Paribu, in order to support the projects of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that contribute to the well-being of adolescents and young people affected by the earthquakes, following the earthquakes that occurred in Kahramanmaraş on February 6 and severely affected the surrounding provinces.

With the Sustainable Social Responsibility Programs Strategy Document, Paribu aims to structure the support provided for immediate needs due to force majeure in local and international areas within a sustainable mechanism and at the same time to be an example of change. It prioritizes the implementation of the studies in this field in line with the goals of No Poverty and Quality Education from the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

In the 2024 period, the Solidarity Fund for the Future will support projects of NGOs that focus on the well-being and development of adolescents and young people affected by the Kahramanmaraş earthquakes, aiming for their “well-being” in different areas such as education, environmental conditions, participation in employment, participation and relationships, culture and arts, health, and sports.

Applications for this round of the fund are expected to focus on at least one of the following approaches to supporting the well-being of adolescents and young people affected by earthquakes:

• Increasing access to the right to education and preventing school dropout,
• Supporting youth participation in employment,
• Improving access to health services,
• Providing access to safe shelter opportunities,
• Increasing participation in cultural and artistic activities,
• Facilitating access to sports activities,
• Strengthening participation in social life.

Funding Information

• The total amount of the grant to be distributed to NGOs within the scope of the Solidarity Fund for the Future for the period of 2024 is 2,400,000 TL.
• The applying NGO can request a maximum of 600,000 TL from the grant program.

Eligibility Criteria

• Organizations with legal personality that meet the following application criteria can apply for the grant program:
  • Associations, foundations, non-profit cooperatives and other non-profit organizations established in Turkey,
  • Organizations that directly target adolescents and young people with the outputs of project activities
  • Organizations with experience, institutional capacity and vision in the relevant field,
  • Organizations that commit to participate in capacity building activities based on areas of need to be mutually determined within the scope of the Fund.

For more information, visit Support Foundation for Civil Society.