The International Foundation Grant Program – United States

Deadline: 15-Mar-2024

The International Foundation is offering grants to US-based non-profit organizations who partner with poor communities in the developing world to improve their health, education and incomes, while strengthening local capacity to sustain their benefits.

Program Focus

They believe each of their priority program categories are linked by the overall goal to benefit an entire region. While grants are awarded to some organizations focused on one category, they look for partners who take a more holistic, community-based approach and are committed to delivering positive and sustained results.
- Agriculture
  - They support projects working toward agricultural sustainability in developing countries that suffer from the impact of population growth and climate change, poor technology, and policy and management issues. These projects help smallholder farmers with crop management, storage, timely market information, mobile phone-based training services, savings and loan programs, and resource acquisition.
- Education
  - They support programs that extend the reach of national education systems to remote and undeserved areas. This includes remedial education, access to technology resources, teacher training, and extracurricular projects. They also support formal and informal education programs in information technology and vocational skills in both rural and city communities that prioritize women and girls.
- Environment
  - They support projects designed to address air and water pollution, climate change, soil degradation, exploitation of natural resources, biodiversity loss, deforestation, desertification, and ocean acidification. The grants focus on projects that ensure water quality and access, WASH (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene), and eliminating vector-borne diseases and exposure to toxic chemicals.
- Health
  - They support community primary health programs as well as maternal and child health care. They also support programs that provided general health education including hygiene, family planning, and birth control. Finally, they support programs that extend the reach of healthcare to remote regions and sectors of countries while also working to extend the reach of national health systems.

Funding Information

Grant amounts do not exceed $50,000.

Geographic Focus

Eligible organizations must be based in the United States and serving people and communities in developing countries in one or more of the following regions.
- ‍Latin American & The Caribbean
- Africa
- South & Southeast Asia

Eligibility Criteria

In addition to addressing one or more of the social impact priorities and delivering these services in their geographic areas of focus, eligible organizations must also be able to demonstrate compliance and alignment with all of the following attributes.
- Headquartered in the United States
- Certified as a 501(c)(3) organization
- Guided by a well-developed strategic plan with a proven theory of change and sound execution plans.
- Deliver social impact results that are measurable and that have broad and lasting impact.
- Possess a deep understanding of the context of the local communities and regions being served.
- Document clearly quantified grant objectives and provide reports on such measures.
- Execute self-sustaining programs that don’t require external intervention and that are designed to scale.
They fund only one proposal from an organization during each calendar year. Before another grant proposal can be funded, they must receive an end of project report including a financial summary.