Deadline: 6-Apr-22
Applications are invited to apply for the WWF Nedbank Green Trust to fund innovative projects to help solve some of the greatest socio-environmental challenges in South Africa.
The trust’s mission is to be a leading, independent and sustainable funding entity for environmental conservation in Southern Africa.
The WWF Nedbank Green Trust was founded in 1990 by Nedbank and WWF South Africa. From the early days of conserving sea turtles and Kalahari lions to the more recent focus on climate change, water conservation and environmental leadership initiatives, the WWF Nedbank Green Trust has been there, providing support to environmental projects.
Objectives
The objectives of the Trust are:
- To maintain and enhance the integrity of South Africa’s ecological assets.
- To promote that ecological systems and their services underpin the social and economic wellbeing of South Africa.
- And to address the risks and opportunities posed by climate change by providing funding for innovative environmental conservation solutions through a diversified portfolio of projects with geographic, thematic and multi-organisational representation.
Funding Information
R 3 million over 3 years, dependent on the cost of producing the solution proposed.
What they are looking for?
When they consider proposed projects, they look at the following:
- Is the proposed project catalytic and can it be scaled up to national level?
- Will it contribute to achieving the identified
- environmental outcomes?
- Do people believe in the value proposition?
- Is it valuable, unique, innovative and transferable
- Can/will the project be adopted by others?
- Will it be a valuable addition to the project portfolio?
- Please include letters of support from the receiving environment or proposed beneficiaries of your project.
- Please ensure that your proposal clearly demonstrates how the change you are working towards will take place. Make clear the assumptions and facts you are basing your project upon and demonstrate how these, coupled with your solution, will lead to catalytic change.
What they do not fund?
The WWF Nedbank Green Trust will not support the following:
- Conduit organisations that are not the end users of the project funds.
- Initiatives that focus on ex-situ (off-site) conservation
- activities with little implications for wild populations, e.g.
- captive breeding, rehabilitation or welfare of individuals.
- Purely academic research not linked to trust projects or
- with little evidence of practical application.
- Core support for organisations and the purchase of capital
- equipment, including buildings, fencing and vehicles.
- Development of commercial, private conservation
- enterprises and/or private nature reserves.
For more information, visit https://www.greentrust.org.za/funding/