Here is a digest of competitions and grants for municipal and media NGOs. Our experts are open to cooperation with municipalities and ready to provide assistance in the process of drawing up and submitting a project application.
1. German Marshall Fund’s “Relief, Resilience, Recovery” grant programme. Current projects.
Priorities of the competition. Urgent needs of public activists and media professionals, as well as their families, including but not limited to:
- access to social, legal and psychological services;
- support for immediate/temporary relocation within Ukraine or to neighbouring countries (e.g. Moldova, Romania, Poland or other refugee-hosting countries), including assistance with transportation costs, temporary housing and seasonal equipment.
Who can participate? NGOs and independent media that are legally registered, located, relocated to and/or operate from Ukraine and neighbouring countries.
Grant amount: up to $25,000
Funding restrictions. Applications cannot cover food, construction/renovation or clothing costs. The share of expenses provided for in the budget to compensate the fees of members of the organisation’s team should not exceed 40%.
Project duration: 3-12 months.
Learn more: https://www.gmfus.org/urrr-call-proposal-and-applications
2. Recovery and straightening of the capacities of NGOs: German Marshall Fund’s “Relief, Resilience, Recovery” grant programme
Priorities of the competition. Addressing the urgent needs of NGOs to enable them to operate and continue to provide assistance to their beneficiaries. Within this direction, the following types of activities are provided, including but not limited to:
- digital maintenance such as replacement and/or purchase of new equipment, recovery and/or development of data storage and data security systems;
- access to psychological support and treatment services for staff and volunteers;
- legal support for those who find themselves in abusive situations, including human trafficking, bribery, etc.;
- institutional support for reimbursement of wages to the main team, rent for office premises (temporary relocation or permanent office), utilities and communication services;
- emergency preparedness, including training on data protection, first aid and survival skills in war/conflict zones;
- development of capabilities and practices that can prevent digital and physical attacks against NGOs and media organisations located in Ukraine and abroad.
Who can participate? NGOs and independent media that are legally registered, located, relocated to and/or operate from Ukraine and neighbouring countries.
Grant amount: up to $25,000.
Funding restrictions. Applications cannot cover food, construction/renovation or clothing costs. The share of expenses provided for in the budget to compensate the fees of members of the organisation’s team should not exceed 40%.
Project duration: 3-12 months.
Learn more: https://www.gmfus.org/urrr-call-proposal-and-applications
3. Recovery and straightening of the capacities of NGOs in the liberated territories: German Marshall Fund’s “Relief, Resilience, Recovery” grant programme
Priorities of the competition. Addressing the urgent needs of NGOs to facilitate recovery of their operation and enable them to continue to provide support to their beneficiaries. Within this direction, the following types of activities are provided, including but not limited to:
- promoting the development and support of organisations and their beneficiaries in the liberated territories, including supporting the recovery of access to administrative and social services;
- supporting organisations working on establishing communication and coordination with state and local self-government bodies for the reintegration of liberated territories;
- supporting organisations of internally displaced persons and local residents of liberated territories, including access to legal, social and psychological services;
- institutional support for reimbursement of wages to the main team, rent for office premises (temporary relocation or permanent office), utilities, and communication services;
- supporting the implementation of formal and informal safety training, including safety rules related to explosive remnants of war, in particular in the liberated territories.
Who can participate? NGOs and independent media that are legally registered, located, relocated to and/or operate from Ukraine and neighbouring countries.
Grant amount: up to $25,000.
Funding restrictions. Applications cannot cover food, construction/renovation or clothing costs. The share of expenses provided for in the budget to compensate the fees of members of the organisation’s team should not exceed 40%.
Project duration: 3-12 months.
Learn more: https://www.gmfus.org/urrr-call-proposal-and-applications
4. Media support: German Marshall Fund’s “Relief, Resilience, Recovery” grant programme
Priorities of the competition. Supporting the key role of the media, namely informing their audiences. Within this direction, the following types of activities are provided, including but not limited to:
- key support of urgent needs, including salary payments, temporary relocation expenses (rent, utilities), communication services and equipment, including laptops, cameras, microphones, etc.;
- supporting those who create media content with a variety of sources and formats of information reliability through on-the-spot reporting and fact-checking;
- monitoring and exposing malicious information actors, their narratives and methods of information dissemination;
- creating content aimed at diversifying the audiences and attracting new ones;
- development of recommendations to reduce the impact of fake news and misinformation;
- access to services for journalists, including psychological support, coaching, treatment and working through trauma;
- personal safety/survival skills training for journalists in war/conflict zones.
Who can participate? NGOs and independent media that are legally registered, located, relocated to and/or operate from Ukraine and neighbouring countries.
Grant amount: up to $25,000.
Funding restrictions. Applications cannot cover food, construction/renovation or clothing costs. The share of expenses provided for in the budget to compensate the fees of members of the organisation’s team should not exceed 40%.
Project duration: 3-12 months.
Learn more: https://www.gmfus.org/urrr-call-proposal-and-applications
5. Competition of travel grants for female activists and representatives of women’s/feminist organisations
Purpose of the competition. Ensuring the active participation of the women’s/feminist movement in national and international events (conferences, seminars, etc.) to increase the visibility of the movement, support the participation of Ukrainian women in the global feminist movement and promote the agenda of the women’s/feminist movement of Ukraine.
Who can participate? Although travel grants are personal, in order to ensure better coordination with the movement, we invite officially registered women’s NGOs from all regions of Ukraine, which are focused (according to their charters) on protecting women’s rights and/or promoting gender equality, are not affiliated with state institutions and political parties and are ready to take over the administration of the grant for their representative or activist.
Grant amount: up to CAD 3,000.
Application deadline: at least two weeks before the planned trip.
Learn more: https://uwf.org.ua/trevel-grants/
6. Support of educational projects, youth organisations and public initiatives for the recovery of Ukraine: German Marshall Fund’s “Relief, Resilience, Recovery” grant programme
Priorities of the competition. Supporting NGOs, including youth organisations, and recovery of their activities and support of their beneficiaries. Within this direction, the following types of activities are provided, including but not limited to:
- promoting the development and support of organisations that work on making and developing policies for shaping national memory and identity in the context of war and post-war recovery at the local and state levels;
- promoting the development and support of organisations, in particular, youth organisations, that work on the development and implementation of policies and projects for the recovery of Ukraine, especially at local levels;
- strengthening the capacity of organisations that work and/or are involved in the development, implementation and monitoring of plans and projects for the recovery of Ukraine at the local, regional and/or national levels, as well as contributing to the coordination of these efforts between NGOs and state institutions.
Who can participate? NGOs and independent media that are legally registered, located, relocated to and/or operate from Ukraine and neighbouring countries.
Grant amount: up to $25,000.
Funding restrictions. Applications cannot cover food, construction/renovation or clothing costs. The share of expenses provided for in the budget to compensate the fees of members of the organisation’s team should not exceed 40%.
Project duration: 3-12 months.
Learn more: https://www.gmfus.org/urrr-call-proposal-and-applications
7. Grant competition for organisational development
Priorities of the competition. Funds under this grant can be used to pay for the services of teachers, consultants, coaches or mentors. Services should be aimed at either strengthening basic organisational capacities or acquiring specific skills that allow CSOs to become more efficient, independent and viable.
Who can participate?
- organisations legally registered in accordance with the Law of Ukraine “On Public Associations” or in accordance with the Law of Ukraine “On Charitable Activities and Charitable Organisations”;
- organisations included in the Register of Non-Profit Organisations with an applicable non-profitability indicator (0032, 0034, 0036, 0038, 0048 only);
- initiative groups of citizens that provide a proper justification of the need for their organisational development. In this case, the grant payment is made to the account of the organisation that meets the requirements described in points 1 and 2. This organisation must act as a patron of the initiative group and meet all the conditions of this Invitation.
Grant amount:
- simple grant: up to $3,000;
- grant for external evaluation: up to $1,000;
- advanced grant: up to $10,000;
- grant for a group of organisations: up to $10,000;
- grant for an educational visit: up to $3,000;
- grant for participation in educational events: up to $5,000;
- grant for providers: up to $5,000.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/3ZCdVi9
8. Support of Ukrainian civil society and volunteer initiatives
Priorities of the competition.
- Priority 1. Support and development of public and volunteer initiatives responding to war-related challenges. Projects can be aimed at team development, increasing security, increasing the scope of activities, improving the standards and quality of teamwork, increasing the involvement of local population and/or IDPs in their activities, public outreach and developing fundraising campaigns, sharing best practices with other initiatives, training/workshops for volunteers/teams.
- Priority 2. Strengthening ties and cooperation between internally displaced persons and local populations of host municipalities. Projects must respond to the needs of internally displaced persons and be aimed at integrating IDPs into the life of local communities, strengthening social cohesion and developing interaction among the population of municipalities, including through volunteering, cooperation for the benefit of the community, training, active involvement of all residents in the decision-making process.
Grant amount: UAH 73,000
Application deadline: 28 May 2023 (23:59).
Learn more: https://gurt.org.ua/news/grants/86583/
9. Holding the Line is a competition to support volunteer and veteran initiatives
Priorities of the competition.
- Priority 1. Support of volunteers who help individuals and municipalities at particular risk: in the areas located at or near the front line, as well as in the liberated territories (those that survived the occupation).
- Priority 2. Support of volunteers who help individuals and municipalities in relative safety in the rear, receive and support internally displaced persons and other survivors.
Who can participate? Charities and public non-profits that can confirm their work experience before 2022 in the field of volunteer assistance to military personnel, veterans of the Anti-Terrorist Operation/Joint Forces Operation, civilians affected by the Russian aggression who reside in the front-line territories, internally displaced persons, families of the dead, etc.;
Grant amount: UAH 250,000 to 750,000
Project duration: up to 6 months
Application deadline: 23 May 2023
Learn more: https://gurt.org.ua/news/grants/77536/
10. Grants for non-profits under the Ukrainian Rapid Response Fund (URRF) Programme implemented by IREX
Objectives of the competition.
- Objective 1: Rapid, flexible means to help civilians and key civil society groups mitigate the worst effects of hostilities;
- Objective 2: Planning and coordination within the government; between government and civil society; and between government, civil society and external stakeholders to ensure a more effective response;
- Objective 3: Safe, secure and effective communication of resilience-related competencies among key stakeholders to mitigate the risks and effects of working in closed environments; and
- Objective 4: Disseminate conflict-related guidances among the population of Ukraine to support effective public response and promote personal safety.
Who can participate? Ukrainian NGOs with non-profit status.
Grant amount: the amount of funding will be specific to the approved projects.
Application deadline: 19 May 2023
Learn more: https://cutt.ly/F6Uhyvm