Grants Awarded

2008

The Global Fund for Community Foundations is pleased to announce the results of its latest round of grants, our fifth round to date. Grantees include a community foundation initiative in Nigeria’s oil rich and conflict-ridden Niger Delta, Romania’s first two community foundations, a local community-based environmental fund in Baja California, Mexico and an emerging community foundation in Russia’s remote Far East region.

• Europe and Central Asia
• Latin America and Caribbean
• Middle East and North Africa
• South Asia
• East Asia & Pacific
• Sub-Saharan Africa

Europe and Central Asia

Community Foundation Movement (Foundation Ziedot), Latvia - New!
US$ 15,000 towards salary costs, peer learning and national community foundation conference.

Local Community Development Foundation Stip, Macedonia - New!
US$ 12,000 to strengthen the capacities of this new community foundation through peer exchange and consultant support (from Slovakia / Czech Republic) and through matched funds for grantmaking.

Cluj Community Foundation, Romania - New!
US$ 15,000 to engage in start-up activities, including establishing systems, board development and local resource mobilization.

Odorheiu Secuiesc Community Foundation. Romania - New!
US$ 10,000 to engage in programme start-up activities.

Astrakhan Community Foundation, Russia - New!
US$ 10,000 for institutional development activities (including development of grantmaking programme, local resource mobilization and operating costs).

Baikal Community Foundation, Russia - New!
US$ 7,000 towards an urban-based grantmaking initiative aimed at raising the foundation’s profile in Ulan Ude (capital of Republic of Buryatia).

Public organization “Centre of Social Initiations “RYNDA” of Plastun settlement”, Russia - New!
US$ 15,000 for start-up activities for this emerging community foundation based in Russia’s remote Far East (including peer exchange to Tyumen Community Foundation, operating costs and grantmaking).

Charity Fund “Community of Revda”, Russia - New!
$10,000 for a peer exchange and organizational development activities.

Komunitná nadácia Bardejov, Slovakia - New!
US$ 7,000 for board development and strategic planning and grantmaking strategy development (with technical support provided by Presov Community Foundation).

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Latin America and Caribbean

Ciudad Viva, Santiago, Chile - New!
US $10,000 for exploration activities aimed at establishing the viability of Ciudad Viva repositioning itself as a community foundation.

Fondo Acción Solidaria, A.C. (FASOL), Baja California, Mexico - New!
US $20,000 to this Mexican community based socio-environmental fund to develop its capacity in building a local fundraising base.

Latin American Center of Human Economy, Local Development Program (CLAEH), Montevideo, Uruguay - New!
$15,000 to continue exploration, dissemination and pilot activities around the introduction of the community foundation concept in Uruguay.

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Middle East and North Africa

Dalia Association, Palestine
US $15,000 to pilot a grantmaking and local fundraising programme in Saffa Village.

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South Asia

Sainik Foundation, Delhi, India - New!
US $10,000 to seed the community foundation concept through the mobilization of village community-based funds in Pauri district (Uttarakhand State, Himalayas).

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Sub-Saharan Africa

Pro-Natura / Rivers State Community Foundation, Port Harcourt, Nigeria - New!
US $9,195 for an exchange visit by trustees of the emerging Rivers State Community Foundation to the Community Foundation for Northern Ireland.

Greater Durban Community Foundation, South Africa - New!
US $10,000 for planning activities associated with repositioning the GDCF as fully functioning community foundation.

Greater Rustenburg Community Foundation, South Africa - New!
US $15,000 for technical assistance to review and redefine GRCF's grantmaking strategy.

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