The P&G Alumni Foundation is a network of over 35,000 P&G alums around the world. Through their grants program, they support projects that focus on economic empowerment and employment.
Applications for $10,000 – $25,000 are due by May 11, 2024. A member of the Foundation must be actively and meaningfully involved for at least one year. Funding is typically for specific project costs, but small organizations with revenue of less than $250,000 may be considered for operating expenses.
Eligibility
Applicant
This grant is open to 501(c)3 nonprofit organizations and organizations outside the United States with their country’s equivalent designation. They must have been in existence for at least 2 years.
Alum
A P&G alum is anyone who has received at least one paycheck from P&Gm whether it was for an internship, part time, or full time work. There is no minimum amount of time that the individual has to have been employed by P&G.
Program Focus
The Foundation funds projects and organizations that focus on:
Job skills development and vocational training
Business-related education and training
Entrepreneurial or business ventures viable in local communities
The Coca-Cola Foundation is investing in change around the world through grants and sponsorships of transformative ideas and institutions. More than $1.5 billion have been given to organizations focused on complex global challenges.
Currently, the Foundation is focusing on six Impact Areas: Sustainable Access to Safe Water, Climate Resilience and Disaster Risk Preparedness and Response, Circular Economy, Economic Empowerment, Hometown, and Employee Giving. Requests for funding can be submitted at any time.
Eligibility
This grant is open to 501(c)3 nonprofit organizations in the United States and international groups with an equivalent designation in their country.
Allowable Expenses
Grant funds may be spent on:
Salaries and benefits
Consultant fees and expenses
Administrative expenses
Other
The Foundation typically does not fund:
Individual scholarships
Programs primarily focused on nutrition, weight loss, or physical activity
Movies and television
Website development
Concerts or other entertainment type events
Local sports teams
Impact Areas
Sustainable Access to Safe Water
This area funds programs that present solutions for the 2 billion people globally who lack safe drinking water.
Climate Resilience and Disaster Risk Preparedness and Response
This impact area supports projects that help vulnerable communities adapt to the effects of climate change as well as providing direct relief to those impacted by natural disasters.
Circular Economy
A circular economy is one in which products are reused rather than disposed to alleviate the accumulation of plastic waste, in particular, in the world’s waterways. Grants in this area fund solutions to the 12.7 million metric tons of plastic that pollute our water each year.
Economic Empowerment
This impact area focuses on education, workforce development and entrepreneurship opportunities for disadvantaged communities.
Hometown
Hometown projects build a more inclusive community in Coca-Cola’s hometown of Atlanta, Georgia. This is done through civic engagement, arts and culture, economic empowerment, education, and youth development.
Employee Giving
Coca-Cola employees in the United States donate both time and money in the communities where they live and the Foundation matches that support.
The Trust for Mutual Understanding supports direct exchanges in the arts, the environment, and the intersection of the two between professionals in the U.S. and the 28 countries in their region. Exchanges may be in person or virtual.
Initual inquiries are due each year by May 1st or November 1st. If invited, full proposals will be due August 1st or February 1st. There is no minimum or maximum award, but current grantees received $5,000 – $173,000.
Eligibility
This grant is open to 501(c)3 nonprofit organizations working with professionals in Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, or Uzbekistan.
Exchanges may take place between professional artists and designers, art managers and curators, primarily in the visual and performing arts. Potential activities include:
Artistic collaborations
Performances in conjunction with lectures or workshops
Curatorial research projects
Historic preservation projects
Arts management programs
The Environment
Exchanges may take place between environmental activists, conservationists, researchers, and scientists, especially those focused on presevation, environmental law, species conservation, and sustainable development.
Potential activities include:
Facilitating better international communication and networking
Joint events, conferences, and workshops
Collaborative research projects
Collaborative actions, projects, and programs
Intersection of Arts and the Environment
Projects that focus on the intersection of arts and the environment will receive priority consideration. Potential activities include:
Collaborations in which artists and environmentalists learn and draw inspiration from each other
Activities led by native communities focused on the interconnection of art and the environment through the lens of Indigenous knowledge
This program is open to small and medium sized entrepreneurs providing services to low-income customers in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Businesses should be working in a field such as:
“By 2030, achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and end open defecation, paying special attention to the needs of women and girls and those in vulnerable situations.”
Business Criteria
The Coalition is looking to work with businesses that meet these criteria:
Emerging & Frontier Markets – Serving low-income customers in Africa, Asia, and Latin America
Scalable – Connected to the full value chain of sanitation service delivery and ready to scale up their business model
Innovative/ Replicable – Product or service is original and inventive and/or can be duplicated in other places
Applications for Educational and Humanitarian grants are due by April 24, 2024. In 2022, the average grant was over $8,500. Projects with an international focus will receive priority consideration.
Grant Types
Educational
Educational grants support projects that increase awareness of potential jobs in the aviation industry with the goal of inspiring youth to pursue those careers.
Applicants must be registered nonprofits and may include:
Educational institutions
Youth organizations
Industry associations
Student associations
Museums
Humanitarian
Humanitarian grants support projects that use aviation resources to provide humanitarian aid and relief.
Applicants must be registered nonprofits providing assistance for:
Natural disasters
Human-generated disasters
Health-related crises
Allowable Costs
Grant funding must be spent on direct programmatic expenses with no more than 25% going to indirect organizational costs.
Funds may not be used for:
Capital projects
Scholarships
Promoting policies, military action, political activity, or religious views
Applications by Member States are due by April 24, 2024 at 11:59 PM CEST. Although there is no financial award, recognized villages will receive increased visibility on an international level and become members of the Best Tourism Villages Network. Villages that do not meet all the criteria to be recongized as Best Tourism Villages can become part of the Upgrade Programme.
Eligibility
Only UN Tourism Member States may apply for this opportunity. Each Member State may submit up to 8 villages that:
Have a low population density and a maximum of 15,000 residents
Have a landscape with an important presence of traditional activities such as agriculture, forestry, livestock, or fishing.
Share community values and lifestyle
Objectives
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The objectives of the Initiative are:
Reduce regional inequalities in income and development
Fight depopulation
Progress gender equality and women’s and youth empowerment
Promote rural transformation and strengthen traction capacity
Strengthen multi-level-governance, partnerships and the active involvement of communities
Improve connectivity, infrastructure, access to finance and investment
Advance innovation and digitalization
Innovate in product development and value chain integration
Promote the relationship between sustainable, equitable and resilient food systems and tourism
Advance the conservation of natural and cultural resources
Promote sustainable practices for a more efficient use of resources & a reduction of emissions and waste
Enhance education and skills
Areas of Evaluation
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USAID expects to build four public-private partnerships with up to $500,000 in grant funding plus an equal or greater amount of private sector resources. Concept Notes are due by April 15, 2024.
Eligibility
This funding opportunity is open to:
U.S. and non-U.S. nonprofit organizations
U.S. and non-U.S. for-profit businesses
U.S. and non-U.S. colleges and universities
Objectives
Objective 1
Support the sustainable growth and expansion of competitive internet service providers (ISPs) and related telecommunications infrastructure companies in emerging markets. Potential partners include:
ISPs
Network infrastructure & equipment providers
Financing partners
Objective 2
Support the sustainable growth and expansion of competitive and inclusive digital financial services in emerging markets. Potential partners include:
Financing partners
Service providers for the digital finance sector
Submission Process
Step One
Applicants must first send an email to digitalinvest@usaid.gov and copy pscp@usaid.gov. They are encouraged to do so as soon as possible. This email should include:
A 100 word essay summarizing the proposed partnership
A description of their business or organization
What they hope to achieve through this partnership
Why they’re interested in working with USAID on this project.
After review, the Digital Invest team may reach out to schedule an initial phone call.
Step Two
After the introductory call, the team will work with some applicants to discuss the potential partnership and refine the concept. From these discussions, they will invite certain applicants to submit a concept note. Only those who have already connected with and been invited by the team will be accepted.
Step Three
Concept notes must be submitted in the provided template by April 15, 2024.
The Dovetail Impact Foundation practices Christian stewardship by supporting projects in 35 countries that promote human flourishing. They currently fund through their Domestic Portfolio in Texas, Scale Portfolio, and Acceleration Portfolio.
Grants are by invitation only, but interested organizations may introduce themselves at any time.
Eligibility
Funding through the Domestic Portfolio is available to nonprofit organizations in Harris, Fort Bend, and Montgomery counties in Texas.
Funding through the Scale Portfolio is available to nonprofit organizations in Africa, India, and Southeast Asia, typically with an operating budget of $500,000 – $5 million.
Funding through the Acceleration Portfolio is available to nonprofit organizations in Africa, typically with an operating budget of less than $300,000.
Fundamental Principles
Dovetail looks for three fundamental principles in the organizations with which they partner:
The ability to accomplish a lot with a little
The potential to impact millions of people
A sustainable model of operations, not entirely reliant on private philanthropy
Ideal partners will also have:
A unique, well defined mission
A 3-5 year strategic plan
A business model that demonstrates increased efficiency over time
Evidence of impact or a plan to measure results
A strong, effective Board or the intention to establish one
Strong executive talent with a coachable spirit
Funding Limitations
Dovetail typically does not fund requests focused on:
The Arts
Disaster response
Higher education
Events
Endowments
Scholarships
Individual assistance, such as tuition or emergency aid
Projects can examine uses of AI to directly impact SDGs or cases when the impacts occur as side effects. Applications for $15,000 are due by April 1, 2024.
Eligibility
This grant is open to nonprofit organizations from anywhere in the world. Individual researchers must be associated with a nonprofit who can accept the funding on their behalf.
Allowable Expenses
Grant funds are unrestricted, with the sole caveat that only 15% may be used for institutional overhead or indirect costs.
Review Criteria
All applications will be reviewed based on:
Researcher’s track record
Quality of the evaluation outline
Likelihood of the research yielding valuable findings
