Deadline:
As soon as possible
Location(s)
Worldwide
Overview
The Global Fund for Children selects grantee partners based on their demonstrated potential to produce sustainable improvement in the lives of vulnerable children and youth and to serve as a resource or model for other organizations.
Details
The Global Fund for Children finds and invests in small, locally led organizations that transform the lives of the world’s most vulnerable children.
By providing grassroots organizations with a combination of flexible cash grants and capacity-building services, we help them achieve their goals and maximize their impact. The result: strong grassroots organizations that are transforming children’s lives, their communities, and civil society as a whole.
GFC’s model can be summarized in three steps: Find, Fund, Strengthen.
Opportunity is About
Eligibility
Candidates should be from:
Description of Ideal Candidate
Prospective grantee partners must meet the following eligibility criteria to be considered for our support.
Appropriate size and stage of development
With rare exceptions, a prospective grantee partner’s annual budget should not exceed $200,000. In most cases, new grantee partners have budgets in the $25,000 to $75,000 range. Our aim is to identify organizations at a relatively early stage in their development.
Direct involvement with children and youth
Prospective grantee partners must work directly with children and youth. We do not support groups engaged exclusively in advocacy or research. (We do, however, support organizations that perform both advocacy and direct service.)
Capable management
Prospective grantee partners must have systems and processes for ensuring responsible management of funds. At a minimum, an organization must have basic accounting and reporting systems as well as phone and email access.
Local leadership
Prospective grantee partners must be led by individuals who live and work in the community. We prioritize organizations whose leaders were born and raised in the community. We do not fund the local offices or affiliates of national or international organizations.
Legal status
A prospective grantee partner must be registered with the local or national government as a nonprofit organization. If the political context makes legal registration unfeasible, the organization must demonstrate nonprofit equivalency. We do not provide start-up funding for the creation of new organizations.
Dates
Deadline: As soon as possible
Cost/funding for participants
We make yearly, unrestricted cash grants of $5,000 to $30,000 over a 3- to 7-year period.
Un-save Opportunity
Internships, scholarships, student conferences and competitions.
