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This Foundation Open Grants for Education, Homelessness, Health and Environment

Deadline: 31-Jan-24

The DWF Foundation is inviting applications for its grant program with an aim of providing funds, resources and mentoring support to help individuals, groups and communities to achieve their full potential.

The DWF Foundation was founded by DWF. The vision is to encourage all if the people within DWF and to work together as a catalyst for change. The DWF Foundation will provide funds, resources and support to help communities achieve their full potential.

The DWF Foundation is at the heart of DWF, supporting DWF’s values and culture of contribution. Each of DWF’s offices has its own CSR committee, driving fundraising for the Foundation. The DWF Foundation takes an innovative approach to its philanthropic efforts working with DWF’s people to achieve more. DWF’s people support the Foundation’s charitable work through fundraising, volunteering, team challenges, mentoring and pro bono initiatives.

Themes
  • To help focus their work, measure their impact and support the efforts of the business the DWF Foundation will focus their work in the following areas. These complement their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) work.
    • Education
    • Employability
    • Homelessness
    • Health and wellbeing
    • Environment and sustainability
Funding Information
  • The Foundation does not have a minimum grant size but the majority of their grants will fall under £5,000.
  • Due to the funds they have available the DWF Foundation will not fund multi-year grants.
Eligible Countries
  • Location in which DWF Foundation welcomes applications from countries in which DWF has a presence.
    • Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Qatar, Spain, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom and United States.
Ineligible Countries
  • DWF also has associations with other law firms in the countries below but DWF Foundation do not currently fund in these locations: Singapore, South Africa and Turkey.
Eligibility Criteria
  • The DWF Foundation will welcome applications from registered charites only. Applications are welcome from charities working in countries in which there is a DWF presence.
  • N.B. On the application form please include your countries appropriate registered charity or not for profit number.
  • Other than by country they do not have any other geographic restricitions for example, your project does not need to be within a certain distance of a DWF office.
Ineligible
  • The DWF Foundation will only fund charitable causes. They are not able to fund the following areas of work:
    • Academic research
    • Activities for which a statutory body is responsible
    • Activity taking place in school time that are a statutory responsibility.
    • Animal welfare
    • Evaluation which is not related to the funded work
    • Every day running costs and core salaries

For more information, visit DWF Foundation.