Financial Support for Sustainability Projects Grant
In context
This call is open to non-profits, registered charities and social enterprises and 2 others. Funding is a grant. Coverage is read from the notice itself: any country. The funder accepts early-stage applicants.
This grant funds holistic sustainability projects that integrate social justice, economic stability, and ecological responsibility, with emphasis on self-help, education, training, and pathways to self-sufficiency. Eligible organizations pursue practical sustainability implementation across multiple dimensions.
About this grant
The Foundation for the Third Millennium (Stiftung Drittes Millennium) provides financial support for sustainability projects that emphasize helping people help themselves, particularly those with significant components of education and practical training with potential for self-sufficiency. The foundation prioritizes projects meeting sustainability criteria across three dimensions: social justice, economic stability, and ecological responsibility. The foundation addresses global challenges including widening wealth inequality, environmental destruction, wars, and unsustainable resource consumption. The foundation believes that dialogue is essential for project success and cooperates with recognized organizations to maximize effectiveness. Support is provided to projects with a holistic approach promoting environmental protection, health, social justice, and economic independence, delivered through cooperative relationships with organizations based in Switzerland, neighboring European countries, or the UK. All supported projects must demonstrate widely-based funding with at least half the project budget contributed by third parties.
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Eligibility
Organizations must be based in Switzerland, in neighboring European countries, or in the UK. Projects must demonstrate a commitment to sustainability across social justice, economic stability, and ecological responsibility. Projects should emphasize helping people help themselves with significant proportions of education and practical training, and show promise of becoming self-supporting. The foundation works only with recognized organizations and requires constructive relationships with project managers. Financial support for projects must be widely-based and secured for the project's duration, with at least half the project budget contributed by third parties.
How it's scored
The foundation uses a pre-check process and evaluates applications against support criteria available on their website. Applications are assessed based on the holistic sustainability approach (environmental protection, health, social justice, economic independence), the cooperative nature of the project relationship, and the widely-based financial foundation with third-party contributions of at least 50 percent of the project budget.
Key requirements
- ✓Holistic approach integrating social justice, economic stability, and ecological responsibility
- ✓Projects must demonstrate self-help, education, awareness-raising, practical training, and implementation components
- ✓Clear pathway to self-supporting operations post-grant
Funder contact
The notice names a programme contact you can speak to before applying.
Frequently asked questions
- Who can apply for Financial Support for Sustainability Projects?
- Eligibility covers organisations in GLOBAL; nonprofit, charity, social-enterprise, community-group, cooperative. See the eligibility criteria above for the full conditions.
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