Poverty and prosperity Grant

About this grant

The Chocolonely Foundation supports projects and organisations that contribute to prosperous cocoa-growing communities in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana, facilitate systemic change, and challenge the status quo. The foundation focuses on funding initiatives that address three main impact areas: strong, resilient and inclusive cocoa communities (through education, infrastructure, decent livelihoods, climate resilience, health and wellbeing); poverty and prosperity (fostering diverse local organisations and businesses, facilitating collaborations, encouraging innovative pilot projects, and providing seed funding to local organisations); and enabling environments in cocoa-growing communities (empowering youth and amplifying unheard and underrepresented voices). The foundation was established in 2008 and is primarily funded by a dedicated 1% of Tony's Chocolonely's annual turnover. It operates as an independent organisation with its own board making funding decisions, focusing on activities that fall outside the direct cocoa supply chain.

Eligibility

Projects must directly contribute to the advancement of the Chocolonely Foundation's mission and fall within one of its three impact categories of action. The approach must be demonstrably effective and/or innovative. The results achieved by the project must be freely available to the public. The initiative's geographic scope must focus on Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire, concentrating on communities where Tony's works in partnership with cocoa cooperatives and cocoa farming communities.

How it's scored

The foundation's board meets regularly to assess project proposals and decide on long-term strategy. Evaluation is based on alignment with the mission and impact categories, demonstrated effectiveness or innovation of the approach, and commitment to making results freely available. Specific scoring weightings and detailed panel composition processes are not disclosed on this page.

Key requirements

• ✓Applicant must be a local organisation or business based in Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire
• ✓Project should align with building diverse local economic landscape and enterprise development
• ✓Willingness to collaborate and participate in facilitated partnerships

Recent past awardees

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Funder contact

The notice names a programme contact you can speak to before applying.

Frequently asked questions

Who can apply for Poverty and prosperity?

Eligibility covers organisations in GH, CI; nonprofit, social-enterprise, sme, startup, community-group. See the eligibility criteria above for the full conditions.

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