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WHERE TO FIND SPONSORS AND GRANTS

Below you will find a selection of websites to be monitored on a permanent basis. Take the opportunity!

Funds:

Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation The foundation offers annual grants to young and talented artists. No deadline for application process.
National Endowment for Democracy The organisation actively supports initiatives that promote democracy, cooperation and citizen participation. Applications are decided quarterly.
Foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future” (Germany) The foundation supports projects that pursue to historical themes.
Foundation for supporting local events (Slovakia)
International Visegrad Fund Priority areas: cooperation in the field of culture; scientific cooperation and research; education (seminars, summer schools); youth exchanges; Poland-Slovakia-Ukraine and Hungary-Slovakia-Ukraine transfrontier cooperation programmes; tourism promotion.
Konrad Adenauer Foundation Cooperation areas: supporting democratic development, building a civil society, upholding free mass media and consolidating democratic institutions.
Friedrich Ebert Foundation Activity areas: international cooperation and European integration; democratisation and civil society; labour relations and social dialogue.
F. Naumann Foundation for Freedom Cooperation areas: the democratic structure and effective organisation of political parties and party youth unions; communal policies; information about the EU and NATO, discussions on the rule of law system of government; support of Ukrainian mass media; promotion of economic reforms.
Local Cooperation Fund (Finland)
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
Ford Foundation (the USA)
MacArthur Foundation
Global Fund for Women
Carnegie Corporation

Programmes:

Youth in Action Priority funding areas: European Voluntary Service; youth exchanges; trainings and networking projects. Europeans for Peace is the a programme intended to prompt aimed at schoolchildren school and youth groups aged of between 14 to and 21 years old to gain a critical vision awareness of history and today’s contemporary issues, to build cross-border cooperation with peers and intergenerational dialogue on war and peace.
Region in Transition (RITA) Focus funding areas: systemic changes; social policy and education system; development of local self-governance and local communities; development of NGOs and entrepreneurship; human rights; cultural heritage; environmental protection, etc.

Embassies that actively support organisations / projects / initiatives by offering grants:

European Commission Main information is available in the languages of EU member countries, while more detailed information is available in EU working languages: German, English and French.
Council of Europe It focuses on numerous areas including democracy, human rights and gender equality. The website always contains information on funding priorities for a given year, so try to find it and take it into account when applying.

The following websites could be helpful for international partnerships and finding education and funding opportunities: