Deadline: 30-May-2025
Submissions are now open for the Ford Environmental Grants Program.
Categories
- Biodiversity conservation and recovery: Projects linked to the protection, recovery, and conservation of ecosystems and their flora and fauna.
- Food Security: Organic farming projects and those linked to sustainable ecosystem management that are strategic for the availability, access, and consumption of healthy food in vulnerable communities.
- Waste Management: Projects that contribute to reducing, reusing, recycling, and recovering waste generated in communities and generate a citizen culture of proper waste management.
- Renewable Energy: Projects that promote the use of energy sources based on renewable natural resources (sun, wind, water, plant or animal biomass) as a way to contribute to the fight against climate change.
Eligibility Criteria
- Projects submitted for Ford Environmental Grants must meet the following profile:
- be led by legally constituted non-profit organizations with their own bank accounts
- demonstrate a positive community impact
- explicitly contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
- include environmental education actions as part of their intervention
- have the support of public-private partnerships that give it sustainability
- Only projects already in the implementation stage and demonstrating relevant preliminary results will be selected. New projects or ideas that have not yet been started will not be considered.
- Only projects currently underway in Puerto Rico, Panama, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, and Guatemala will be accepted.
- Projects that won in the previous edition of the call for proposals are not eligible. Projects that have won the program in previous years may be submitted and evaluated by the jury.
For more information, visit Ford.
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