FUNDING for Small Community Foundations or Support Organizations
The Worldwide Initiative for Grantmaker Support (WINGS) Global Fund for Community Foundations makes grants of up to $50,000 USD to emerging and developing community foundations or support organizations in developing countries. Most grants are between $5,000 and $30,000. Grants are usually meant to develop the capacity of community foundations or other local philanthropic institutions that are grantmakers and that raise funds from local sources. The WINGS Global Fund focuses on developing countries.
WINGS Global Fund for Community Foundations indicates on their web site that, “The Fund recognizes that communities need not always be geographically defined” and lists women’s organizations and environmental groups as two examples of the types of grant-making foundations they would be willing to support. Although they do not list local disability-oriented grant-making foundations as an example, their concept of “community” seems to be defined in such a way that these, too, could be considered under their criteria.
The WINGS Global Fund for Community Foundations has three deadlines for funding applications each year. The last of these deadlines for 2007 has passed. The deadlines for 2008 will be February 29, June 13, and October 25.
See their web site to find out if your community foundation or support organization might be eligible for funding support. Review their “overview and eligibility“; descriptions of what they fund; instructions for “how to apply“; their “selection criteria“; “frequently asked questions“; and their list of “eligible regions and countries“, all accessible from their left-hand navigation bar.
Their web site is located at: http://www.wings-globalfund.org/apply-overview-eligibility.php
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