Deadline: 18-Nov-2022
The Community Foundation Northern Ireland is inviting applications for its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Fund to support community and voluntary organisations who wish to explore and or enhance diversity, equity and inclusion within the group and its community.
Supporting organisations to think about how best Equity, Diversity and Inclusion can be addressed enabling everyone in the community to realise their potential.
Purposes
- Diversity: Involving people from a range of different social and ethnic backgrounds and of different genders, sexual orientations, etc.
- Equity: Fairness or justice in the way they treat people.
- Inclusion: Providing equal access to opportunities and resources for people who might otherwise be excluded or marginalized.
Priorities
- They want to prioritise projects that:
- Assist in making organsiations management structures, policies, decision making, activities and programmes reflective of the diversity they have in the society.
- Assisting organisations to Identify the barriers and provide solutions to improve diversity, equity and inclusion within their organisation
- Demonstrate a commitment to implementing the solutions, reflecting greater diversity, equity and inclusion in their organisation
Funding Information
- They will offer grants ranging from £500 to £1,000
What they will fund?
- Whilst the Foundation prefers to receive applications seeking support based on lived experience, examples of what could be funded include:
- Diversity Equity and Inclusion Training for management committees and volunteers
- Review of policies and procedures to identify levels of diversity and develop an action plan to update these policies and procedures Developing a group/organisation Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Action Plan
- Explore how diverse communities can be involved in the design and delivery of programmes and activities
- Community analysis to identify how diverse community is and what could be delivered to support those diverse communities
- Explore a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Community Leadership Programme
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicant Must:
- Be constituted and based in Northern Ireland
- Have an active committee and current bank account
- Have financial records and present accounts to your AGM
- Have at least two cheque signatories who are unrelated
- Have an income of £250k or less
For more information, visit Community Foundation Northern Ireland.
For more information, visit https://communityfoundationni.org/grants/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-organisational-development-fund/