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ACIAR (Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research)
ACIAR (Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research) is a statutory authority that operates as part of the Australian Government's development cooperation programs. The Centre encourages Australia's agricultural scientists to use their skills for the benefit of developing countries and Australia. Focus areas include meeting rising demand for animal protein, improving the productivity and efficiency of food crop and forestry systems, better environments from better agriculture, and linking farmers to markets. ACIAR supports researchers in Australian institutions, partner country institutions, and government organizations, or International Agricultural Research Centers. ACIAR focuses its activities on developing countries in five regions: Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands, Southeast Asia, North Asia, South Asia, and Southern Africa.
Action for Nature: International Young Eco-Hero Awards
Action for Nature encourages young people to take personal action to nurture and protect a healthy environment on which all life depends. The organization’s International Young Eco-Hero Awards recognize the individual accomplishments of young people (ages 8-16) whose personal actions have significantly improved the environment. The program supports young Eco-Heroes from around the world for their outstanding accomplishments in environmental advocacy, environmental health, research, or protection of the natural world.
Aga Khan Foundation
The Foundation's geographical spread currently encompasses activities in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Canada, India, Kenya, the Kyrgyz Republic, Mozambique, Pakistan, Portugal, Switzerland, Syria, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Uganda, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. Most Foundation grants are made to grassroots organizations testing innovative approaches in the field. The major areas of focus are health, education, rural development, civil society, and the environment.
Air Products Corporate Contributions Program
The Air Products Corporate Contributions Program provides support to nonprofit organizations in those communities around the world where the company has a significant employee presence or investment. The company’s grantmaking categories include education, community and economic development, health, environment, and safety.
Air Serv International
Air Serv International provides services to humanitarian organizations working overseas. Air Serv International’s primary objective is to provide safe, reliable, and cost-effective air transport to humanitarian agencies involved in relief and development—and to immediately respond to and operate in difficult and dangerous environments.
AngloGold Ashanti Social Responsibility
AngloGold Ashanti Limited is a global gold producer with operations on four continents. AngloGold Ashanti's areas of focus in the field of corporate social responsibility encompass ethics and good governance; occupational health and safety, including HIV/AIDS; labor practices; environmental matters; and community relationships.
Annenberg Foundation
The Annenberg Foundation exists to advance the public well-being through improved communication. As the principal means of achieving its goal, the Foundation encourages the development of more effective ways to share ideas and knowledge. Areas of interest include education and youth; arts, culture, and humanities; civic and community; health and human services; and animal services and the environment. The Foundation's environmental grantmaking is currently done through an initiative that includes an invitation-only process. The Foundation supports organizations in the United States and globally.
Austrian Development Agency
The Austrian Development Agency (ADA) seeks to reduce global poverty, safeguard peace and human security, and preserve the environment. ADA works together with selected partner countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and South Eastern Europe. The areas of activity in the South are water and sanitation, rural development, energy, the promotion of small and medium-sized enterprises, education, and the promotion of good governance. ADA supports partnerships with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) with a seat in Austria or in cooperation with Austrian NGOs.
Autodesk Charitable Giving Program
The Autodesk Charitable Giving Program provides cash grants and software donations to organizations located in communities where company employees live and work, including locations in Asia, Canada, Europe, and the United States. Areas of interest include arts and culture, education and technology, environment, sustainability, and health and human services.
Beneficia Foundation
The Beneficia Foundation's mission is to enhance the quality of life through conservation of the environment. The Foundation favors programs that are innovative, catalytic, address unmet needs, and strive towards self-sustainability. Priorities include inventory, protection, and stewardship of high priority ecosystems (especially tropical and marine); creation of economic incentives for the conservation of biodiversity, both marine and terrestrial; and policy and legislation. The Foundation focuses on Biodiversity Hot Spots (in the U.S. and internationally).
Blacksmith Institute
Blacksmith Institute's vision is a clean planet for the world’s children. The Institute supports people and organizations that are intent on solving specific pollution-based environmental problems, with a focus on problems in the least developed countries. The Institute supports pollution remediation activities and also works with governments and local nongovernmental organizations to raise awareness about pollution, create a sound knowledge base on environmental quality through monitoring and research, and strengthen legislation and legal frameworks to curb polluting practices.
British Foreign and Commonwealth Office
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has a range of program funds which aim to support its work to deliver the strategic priorities. The Global Opportunities Fund (GOF) aims to promote action on global issues in areas of strategic importance to the UK. The GOF focuses on crime prevention, peace, the environment, sustainable development, human rights, economic governance, the Islamic world, drugs prevention, energy, and climate change. The Conflict Prevention Pools (CPP) were set up in 2001 to enhance the effectiveness of the UK's contribution to conflict prevention and management. There are two Pools. The Africa Conflict Prevention Pool (ACPP) covers Sub-Saharan Africa, while the Global Conflict Prevention Pool (GCPP) covers the rest of the world. The Public Diplomacy Fund (PDF) is a resource for Posts to undertake public diplomacy activity in support of their local public diplomacy objectives and the UK's International Strategic Priorities (ISPs).
Cadbury Schweppes Society and Environment Programs
Cadbury Schweppes, a major international beverage and confectionery group, focuses its charitable giving on the areas of education and enterprise, health and welfare, and environment in communities in which the Corporation has a presence. Cadbury’s investment can be a mixture of money, the time and skills of its people, and gifts in kind.
Captain Planet Foundation
The Captain Planet Foundation supports hands-on environmental projects for youth in grades K-12. The Foundation encourages innovative programs that empower children and youth around the world to work individually and collectively to solve environmental problems in their neighborhoods and communities.
Cargill Corporate Contributions Program
Cargill's grantmaking mission is to foster economic, social, and human development in each of the communities where Cargill has a business presence to help people achieve their full potential as individuals and as contributing members of society. The Cargill Citizenship Fund regional, national, and global partnerships in the areas of nutrition and health, education, and the environment. Cargill also supports employee-led Cargill Cares Councils to facilitate and promote local community involvement in locations in Asia, Africa, Europe, and North and South America. These councils partner with local nonprofit and charitable organizations.
CCL Corporate Donation Program
The CCL Corporate Donation Program provides support to nonprofit organizations that serve communities where company facilities are located in Asia, Canada, Europe, Latin America, and the United States. The company's grantmaking areas of interest include social services, health, education, and the environment.
Christensen Fund
The Christensen Fund believes in the power of biological and cultural diversity to sustain and enrich a world faced with great change and uncertainty. They focus on the “bio-cultural” – the rich but neglected adaptive interweave of people and place, culture, and ecology. The Fund’s mission is to buttress the efforts of people and institutions who believe in a biodiverse world infused with artistic expression and work to secure ways of life and landscapes that are beautiful, bountiful, and resilient. The Fund focuses its grantmaking on the interface between natural environments and human cultures, primarily working with peoples and communities variously known as "indigenous", "tribal," and "minority," and the landscapes with which their cultures, histories, and artistic expression are so connected. Areas of interest include sustainable development, cultural awareness, music, dance, biodiversity, education, global warming, agriculture, horticulture, and race relations. The Fund serves the Greater American Southwest, Central Asia and Turkey, the Rift Valley of Ethiopia and adjacent areas of Northern Kenya, Northern Australia, and Melanasia.
Coca-Cola Foundations
Local Coca-Cola Foundations around the world work to improve the quality of life in company communities. Projects supported largely assist in the areas of education, environment, and community development. Of particular interest to the Foundation are children and youth. Foundation programs support scholarships for aspiring students, encourage and motivate young people to stay in school, and foster cultural understanding. The Foundation provides support for programs in Africa, Eurasia, the European Union, the Americas, and the Pacific.
ConocoPhillips Corporate Contributions Program
The ConocoPhillips Corporate Contributions Program primarily supports nonprofit organizations in company communities, including international locations. Areas of interest include education, civic and arts, safety, social services, and environment.
Dale and Edna Walsh Foundation
The Dale and Edna Walsh Foundation partners with effective nonprofit organizations to meet human need and promote the common good worldwide. The Foundation's areas of interest include health, community services, relief organizations, education, environment, arts and culture, and Christian ministries. Applying organizations must be located in the continental United States, but may serve populations worldwide.
Darwin Initiative
The Darwin Initiative is a small grants program, administered by the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), that aims to promote biodiversity conservation and sustainable use of resources around the world. The Initiative supports capacity building, training, research, work to implement the Biodiversity Convention, and environmental education or awareness. The Foundation also offers fellowships and the Darwin Scoping Awards, which support travel to a host country to enable UK institutions to develop a Darwin project application in collaboration with host country partners. Eligible host countries include developing countries, non-European-Union member states, and all UK overseas territories.
Diageo Foundation
The Diageo Foundation provides charitable donations, matches employee fundraising in the UK, and provides longer-term social investment in areas where the Foundation feels it can make the most difference. The Foundation focuses its grantmaking in the following programs: Skills for Life, working with the unemployed or disadvantaged people to help them find worthwhile work or start new business ventures; Water for Life, supporting projects that protect the environment or improve access to safe drinking water in developing countries; and Local Citizens, supporting employees in community activities and responding to disasters with emergency relief.
Earthwatch Institute: Earthwatch Research Program
Earthwatch Institute engages people worldwide in scientific field research and education to promote the understanding and action necessary for a sustainable environment. Through its Research Program, Earthwatch supports 130 to 140 field research projects with grants, and provides roughly 4000 volunteer field assistants to scientists doing research around the world in the biological, physical, social, and cultural sciences. Areas of interest include sustainable management of natural resources, climate change, oceans, and sustainable cultures. The Research Program welcomes proposals from advanced scholars and professionals of any nationality, covering any geographic region. Earthwatch is particularly interested in supporting typically under-represented groups, such as early career scientists, women in science, and developing country nationals.
General Motors Foundation/Corporate Contributions Program
General Motors and the GM Foundation support a variety of activities in the communities where GM does business throughout the world. The company’s giving categories include education, health and humans services, civic and community affairs, arts and culture, environment and energy, and diversity.
Global Environment Facility: Small Grants Program
The Global Environment Facility's Small Grants Program aims to deliver global environmental benefits in the areas of biodiversity conservation, climate change mitigation, protection of international waters, prevention of land degradation (primarily desertification and deforestation), and elimination of persistent organic pollutants through community-based approaches. Support is provided in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Arab States, Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States, and Latin America and the Carribean.
Global Fund for Women
The Global Fund for Women is committed to a world of equality and social justice and supports women's groups that advance the human rights of women and girls. The Fund makes grants to seed, strengthen, and link women's rights groups based outside the United States who are working to address human rights issues that include ending gender-based violence and building peace, ensuring economic and environmental justice, advancing health and sexual and reproductive rights, expanding civic and political participation, increasing access to education, and fostering social change philanthropy. Types of support include general support grants, travel and event grants, and organizing meeting/event grants.
Global Greengrants Fund
The Global Greengrants Fund makes small grants to grassroots groups around the world working to help people protect the environment, live sustainably, preserve biodiversity, and gain a voice in their own future.
Google Grants
The Google Grants program supports nonprofit organizations that help the world in areas such as science and technology, education, global public health, the environment, youth advocacy, and the arts. Applications are accepted from U.S. nonprofit organizations, as well as organizations in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Google Grant recipients receive three months of in-kind advertising through Google AdWords.
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
The Graham Foundation offers grants to individuals and institutions in support of activities focused on architecture and the built environment, generally activities that lead to the public dissemination of ideas through publication, exhibition, or educational programming. Support is offered to projects around the world.
Hershey Foods Corporate Contributions Program
Hershey Foods Corporation supports a wide range of nonprofit organizations, primarily in its plant communities, which include several locations in Canada; Sao Roque, Brazil; and Guadalajara, Mexico. The company’s giving categories include education, health and human services, civic and community affairs, arts and culture, and the environment.
Holcim Foundation
The mission of the Holcim Foundation is to select and support initiatives that combine sustainable construction solutions with architectural quality and enhanced quality of life beyond technical solutions. The Foundation encourages sustainable responses to the technological, environmental, socio-economic, and cultural issues affecting building and construction.
Intel Public Affairs International
Intel Corporation is committed to maintaining and enhancing the quality of life in the communities where the company has a major presence. The corporation’s primary giving focus is education. Intel supports education through grants for programs that advance science, math, and technology education. Intel is also committed to the responsible use of natural resources, and funding for environmental programs will be considered. Intel will support additional programs that improve the quality of life in its site communities.
International Development Research Centre
The International Development Research Centre (IRDC) seeks to help developing countries use science and technology to find practical, long-term solutions to the social, economic, and environmental problems they face. Support is directed toward developing an indigenous research capacity to sustain policies and technologies that developing countries need to build healthier, more equitable, and more prosperous societies. Research themes include environment and natural resource management; information and communication technologies for development; innovation, policy, and science; and social and economic policy.
International Diabetes Federation: Bringing Research in Diabetes to Global Environments and Systems (BRIDGES)
Bringing Research in Diabetes to Global Environments and Systems (BRIDGES), a program of the International Diabetes Federation, supports translational research projects in diabetes prevention and treatment to provide the opportunity to "translate" lessons learned from clinical research to people affected by diabetes. The program supports organizations and institutions throughout the world.
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation: International Program: Global Security and Sustainability
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s international grantmaking program focuses on global security and sustainability, and seeks to protect the security and well-being of people and the environment around the world. Specific areas of interest include conservation and sustainable development, human rights and international justice, international peace and security, global migration and human mobility, population and reproductive health, and universities in Russia and Nigeria. The Foundation funds work in about 60 countries, with special emphasis on four important countries in different regions of the world: India, Mexico, Nigeria, and Russia.
Kresge Foundation
The mission of the Kresge Foundation is to strengthen nonprofit organizations that advance the well-being of humanity. The Foundation provides grants to nonprofit organizations throughout the United States. Grants are also occasionally provided to international organizations. The Foundation primarily makes challenge grants to a wide range of nonprofit of organizations, including those in the fields of education, arts and culture, health, human services, children and youth, science and the environment, and public affairs.
Methanex Social Investment Program
The Methanex Social Investment Program is dedicated to improving the quality of life in communities where the company has production facilities, including Brussels, Belgium; Vancouver, Canada; Punta Arenas and Santiago, Chile; Aukland and New Plymouth, New Zealand; Point Lisas, Trinidad; and Teeside, United Kingdom. The focus is on supporting programs related to healthcare, science and technological research, the environment, and education.
Monsanto Fund
The Monsanto Fund supports nonprofit organizations in company communities throughout the U.S. and internationally, including locations in Africa, Asia/Pacific, Canada, Europe, and Latin America. Support is provided in the following areas: improving nutritional well-being through agriculture; science education; the environment; and community programs in company locations.
Nexen Community Investment Program
The Nexen Community Investment Program provides support to nonprofit organizations that provide important services in company communities, including communities in Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada; Columbia; Equatorial Guinea; Nigeria; the United Kingdom; and Yemen. Areas of interest include health and welfare, education and literacy, arts and culture, civic and community, environment, and sports and recreation.
Oak Foundation
Oak Foundation commits its resources to address issues of global social and environmental concern, particularly those that have a major impact on the lives of the disadvantaged. Program areas include climate change, human rights, homelessness, learning differences, marine conservation, child abuse, and women’s issues. The Foundation also has programs focusing specifically on Denmark and Zimbabwe.
Onaway Trust
The mission of Onaway Trust is to relieve poverty and suffering. The Trust provides support in many areas, including the protection of the environment; the support of children and adults with learning difficulties; the assistance of smaller charities whose aim is to safeguard sick, injured, threatened, or abandoned animals; and emergency relief for victims of disaster. The Trust focuses support on projects which center around indigenous peoples, environmental issues, or animal welfare.
Peace Child International: Be the Change!
Peace Child International seeks to empower young people to take responsibility for peace, human rights, and the environment through education, leadership development, and direct participation in the events that shape the world community. Peace Child’s Be the Change! program is a youth-led sustainable development action program that aims to empower young people around the world to "be the change they want to see in the world" (Mahatma Gandhi). Peace Child offers financial support and advice to young people to create and complete a variety of different projects that benefit their communities. Project outcomes must meet at least one of the UN’s Millennium Development Goals: eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, achieving universal primary education, promoting gender equality, reducing child mortality, improving maternal health, combating disease, ensuring environmental sustainability, and developing a partnership for global development. Individuals and groups of individuals under the age of 25 may submit projects; older individuals may be mentors or evaluators.
Phelps Dodge Charitable Giving
Phelps Dodge, through the Phelps Dodge Foundation, the Corporation, and subsidiary companies, supports organizations around the globe in communities where the company operates. Areas of interest include education, community safety and wellness, environment, community development, and arts and culture. Phelps Dodge also offers the Mini Grants for Education Program, which provides schools and teachers with an opportunity to apply for small grants to support programs for which funding is not otherwise available. The company has locations in Central America, Mexico, South America, Africa, Europe, and Asia.
Public Welfare Foundation
The Public Welfare Foundation is dedicated to supporting organizations that provide services to disadvantaged populations and work for lasting improvements in the delivery of services that meet basic human needs. While most grants are made to organizations in the United States, limited support is provided to organizations in other countries. The Foundation’s areas of interest include health, youth, reproductive health, human rights and global security, environment, criminal justice, and community development.
Ramsay Foundation
The Ramsay Foundation seeks to enhance education and to further culture in the widest sense. The Foundation focuses on institutions and organizations educating and serving children and young people up to the age of 20. Areas of interest consist of education and teaching, including methods of education and classroom teaching, environmental questions and natural sciences, schoolbooks and publications, and the implementation of special courses; and arts and culture, including music, theatre, literature, youth circus, and visual and performing arts. Approximately one third of all donations support organizations in Switzerland, one third in Europe, and one third in various countries around the world. In recent years the Foundation has been active in Western and Eastern Europe, Brazil, South Africa, India, the Ukraine, and the Middle East.
Rohm and Haas Company Contributions Program
The Rohm and Haas Company Contributions Program's primary focus is to improve the quality of life in Rohm and Haas communities by having a measurable impact on critical needs in each community and to improve the quality of science and math education internationally. Areas of interest include education, with a focus on K-12 science (including environmental science), technology, and math education; environment, with a focus on environmental education; civic and community; health and human services, with a focus on safety issues and disaster preparedness; and arts and culture. Contributions are made worldwide in locations where the company has a significant operating presence, including locations in Canada, Mexico, Latin America, Europe, Russia, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and India.
Rolex Awards for Enterprise
The Rolex Awards for Enterprise program rewards individuals of any age, nationality, or background undertaking groundbreaking work in any of five fields: science and medicine, technology and innovation, exploration and discovery, the environment, and cultural heritage. These fields are broadly interpreted to include a wide range of projects, provided that they expand knowledge of the world, improve the quality of life on the planet, or contribute to the betterment of humankind. The awards program is open to anyone of any age or country.
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB): Small Grants Programs
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) is a UK charity working to secure a healthy environment for birds and other wildlife, helping to create a better world for us all. The RSPB’s small grants programs include the Birdfair/RSPB Research Fund for Endangered Birds, the Africa Small Grants Program, which supports research and conservation work connected with African birds, and the Asia Small Grants Program, which supports research and conservation work connected with Asian birds.
Seed Initiative
The SEED Initiative inspires, supports, and researches exceptional, entrepreneurial, promising, multi-stakeholder partnerships for locally-led sustainable development in developing countries. The Initiative’s SEED Awards for Entrepreneurship in Sustainable Development is an annual international competition that supports locally-led, innovative, entrepreneurial partnerships that have the potential to make real improvements in poverty eradication and environmental sustainability.
Shell Foundation
The Shell Foundation believes that only by working in partnership with others can sustainable solutions be found to many of the long-term social and environmental issues in which the energy industry has a particular role and responsibility. The Foundation has moved away from being a traditional “reactive” or passive grantmaker towards taking a proactive approach in identifying strategic partners and in the development and design of the initiatives the Foundation wants to support. The submission of unsolicited project and funding proposals is no longer encouraged. However, the Foundation will engage with interested parties around new ideas, challenges, and concepts that address core areas of concern, including economic development, environment, including pollution, and access to world markets.
Stiftung Corymbo
Stiftung Corymbo, a Swiss foundation, supports and promotes a wide spectrum of social, cultural, and ecological projects at national, regional, and international levels. Areas of interest include social projects, human rights, education, health, ecology and the environment, biodiversity, art and culture, and the sciences.
Stockholm Environment Institute
Stockholm Environment Institute’s mission is to support decision-making and induce change towards sustainable development around the world by providing integrative knowledge that bridges science and policy in the field of environment and development. The institute supports programs for atmospheric environment, climate and energy, risk and vulnerability, sustainable development studies, and water resources.
Tech Museum Awards
The Tech Museum Awards is an international awards program that honors innovators from around the world who are applying technology to benefit humanity. Each year awards will be presented in five universal categories; Education, Equality, Environment, Economic Development, and Health.
Toyota Foundation
The Toyota Foundation is dedicated to the goals of realizing greater human fulfillment and contributing to the development of a human-oriented society. Foundation support is aimed at identifying current problems in the areas of human and natural environments, social welfare, education, and culture.
UBS Optimus Foundation
UBS Optimus Foundation supports free access to education and healthcare for children and young people, seeks to promote a world in which all children go to school and are able to grow up in an environment free from violence and abuse, and supports medical and biological research in the fight against life-threatening diseases and the prevention of disease in general. The Foundation promotes projects all over the world, regardless of politics, religion, and ethnic background.
Virtual Foundation
The Virtual Foundation supports grassroots initiatives around the world. Areas of interest include environment, human health, poverty alleviation, and sustainable development, as well as capacity building for grassroots organizations. The Foundation tries to minimize borders and geographic restrictions, and actively seeks transboundary projects that increase cooperation among different ethnic groups and nationalities.
Volvo Adventure Award
The Volvo Adventure Award is an educational program that rewards environmental activities among the decision makers of the future. Teams of young people (ages 13-16) undertake environmental projects to improve their school or community environment. The projects are then published on the program’s website and the best projects will be selected for an all expenses paid trip to Sweden, as well as a cash prize.
Weizmann Institute of Science
The Weizmann Institute of Science, based in Israel, is one of the top-ranking multidisciplinary research institutions in the world. Noted for its wide-ranging exploration of the sciences and technology, the Institute gathers together 2,500 scientists, technicians, and research students devoted to adventuring into the unknown, and sharing a vision to better understand nature and our place within it. The Institute focuses on cancer, diabetes, the environment, and nanotechnology, and has faculties focusing on biology, biochemistry, chemistry, physics, and mathematics and computer science. The Institute has supporting networks in the US, the UK, Europe, Latin America, and Canada.
WestWind Foundation
The mission of the WestWind Foundation is to promote the protection of the environment and improve access to reproductive health care. The Foundation provides grants to environmental nonprofit organizations that work both domestically and internationally. The Foundation also supports nonprofits that promote reproductive health and rights globally, with a particular emphasis on Latin America and the Caribbean region.
Weyerhaeuser Family Foundation
The Weyerhaeuser Family Foundation supports programs of national and international significance that promote the welfare of human and natural resources. The Foundation’s areas of interest include arts; environment, conservation, and preservation; health; and international, with a focus on peace, agriculture, population planning, and enterprise development.
World Bank
The World Bank is a source of financial and technical assistance for developing countries around the world. The Bank offers an array of instruments including loans and grants to finance poverty-reduction and economic development efforts. Areas of interest also include education; empowerment, security, and social inclusion; health; economics; public sector governance; communicable diseases, including HIV/AIDS; and the environment.
World YWCA: Women and Development Fund
The World YWCA (Young Women’s Christian Association) advocates for peace, justice, human rights, and the environment, and seeks to raise the status of women throughout the world. The organization’s Women and Development fund provides seed funding to get small projects that concretely and creatively address women’s development needs off the ground so that they can be submitted to larger donors for continuation and expansion. Examples of project areas include income generation; adult education; literacy; primary healthcare; HIV/AIDS awareness; women's sexual and reproductive rights; economic, social, cultural, and labor rights; violence against women; and other projects that encourage women to be self-reliant. Examples of target populations include women in shanty-towns or rural areas; low-income workers; trade-unions; battered women; refugees, migrants, and internally displaced women; and other groups of women who are disadvantaged. National YWCA associations can apply for these funds for themselves, or on behalf of local associations. Projects developed in partnership with other organizations are also eligible for funding.
Yves Rocher Foundation
The Yves Rocher Foundation promotes eco-citizenship by supporting men and women who raise environmental awareness and lead preservation efforts. Areas of interest include eco-citizenship, environmental education, and nature preservation. The Foundation offers several awards and initiatives. |
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