Grants from Foundation for the Third Millennium

About this grant

The Foundation for the Third Millennium supports projects that emphasize helping people help themselves, particularly those with significant education and practical training components that show promise of becoming self-supporting. The foundation prioritizes projects meeting sustainability criteria encompassing social justice, economic stability, and ecological responsibility. The foundation believes that addressing the growing gap between rich and poor, environmental destruction, wars, and unsustainable resource consumption requires a change in consciousness coupled with active participation. The foundation works to support not only alleviating suffering but also reassessing and changing the structures that contribute to it. Projects must advance three concurrent sustainability elements: social justice, an economic system meeting genuine needs, and an intact life-supporting environment.

Eligibility

Organizations must be based in Switzerland, neighboring European countries, or the UK. Financial support for projects must be widely-based and secured for the project's duration, with at least half of the project's budget contributed by third parties. The foundation works exclusively with recognized organizations and maintains a cooperative approach, requiring constructive relationships with project managers and their organizations.

How it's scored

Applications are evaluated based on the foundation's support criteria, which applicants must review via a pre-check tool before submission. The evaluation considers alignment with the foundation's focus on helping people help themselves, inclusion of education and practical training, sustainability indicators (social justice, economic stability, ecological responsibility), potential for self-support, and evidence of dialogue and cooperation.

Key requirements

• ✓Projects must advance social justice, an economic system meeting genuine needs, and an intact life-supporting environment concurrently
• ✓Emphasis on helping people help themselves, with significant education or practical training components
• ✓Projects should show promise of becoming self-supporting and address structures contributing to suffering, not only its symptoms

Funder contact

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

Frequently asked questions

Who can apply for Grants from Foundation for the Third Millennium?

Eligibility covers organisations in GLOBAL; nonprofit, charity, social-enterprise, community-group. See the eligibility criteria above for the full conditions.