Deadline: 7-Dec-22
The WWF Nedbank Green Trust is offering grants to innovative projects that help solve some of the biggest social and environmental challenges in South Africa.
The Trust funds organizations that are developing innovative and transferable solutions, in partnership networks, that have the potential to catalyze (ignite and enable) change in South Africa from an undesired state to a desired state as defined by the Trust strategy. Therefore, all applicants must have a clear theory of change/ change logic for the solution proposed, relative to other actors, relative to the Trust strategy.
Objectives
To promote the conservation of nature and ecological processes through the preservation of genetic, species and ecosystem diversity, through ensuring that the use of renewable natural resources is sustainable, and through the promotion of actions aimed at reducing to a minimum pollution and the wasteful exploitation and consumption of resources and energy.
Eligibility Criteria
The WWF Nedbank Green Trust is interested in projects that offer:
- Differentiated or unique ways to unlock a stuck problem
- Tangible impacts and outcomes based on agreed change logic
- Scaling, catalytic, potential: Viability (impact beyond funding period), future funding, demand for the solution, scaling mechanism
- Environmental outcomes contribution as guided by the WWF Strategy
- Relevance to big social issues
- People Centered solutions
- Gender considered solutions
- Visibility potential
- Evidence of support from the receiving environment (letters of support)
- WWF Environmental and Social Safeguards Framework
What They Do not Fund?
The Green Trust Will Not Normally Consider Support For:
- Solutions with no potential that are not different or unique and do not unlock a stuck problem
- Solutions that have no scaling potential (not catalytic)
- Profit generating organizations who will gain competitive advantage through the Trust funding
- Conduit organizations which are not the end users of the project funds.
- Initiatives which focus on ex-situ conservation activities with little implications for wild populations, e.g. captive breeding, rehabilitation or welfare of individuals.
- Core support for organizations and the purchase of capital equipment, including buildings, fencing and vehicles.
- Salaries, except as an integral part of a Green Trust supported project.
- Socio-economic development projects without a core environmental outcome.
- Production of books, videos or films, except as an integral part of a Green Trust supported project.
- Attendance at and travel to workshops, conferences and symposia or the costs associated with convening these events, independent of existing Green Trust supported projects.
- Individual bursaries and scholarships, independent of existing Green Trust supported projects.
- Expeditions and eco-trips, such as overland trips to raise awareness or funds for conservation.
- Advertising campaigns.
- Academic studies which are not a significant contribution to an environmental outcomes’ solution
For more information, visit https://www.greentrust.org.za/funding/