USAID/Tanzania Grants towards Caring for Children and Empowering Young People (C2EYP)

Deadline: 19 November 2014

The United States Agency for International Development Mission in Tanzania (USAID/Tanzania) anticipates a five-year cooperative agreement for a project entitled Caring for Children and Empowering Young People (C2EYP). The project targets the most vulnerable children (MVC) and young people, orphaned and vulnerable children (OVC).

Under this project, USAID seeks to enable more MVC and other young people to access services for improving health, nutrition, education, protection, livelihoods and psychosocial well-being. For achieving this, the project will build the capacity of caregivers to provide care and access to services for their children and young people. The program also seeks to improve and expand age-appropriate service utilization for children and young people, especially hard-to-reach children.

USAID is focusing the project in seventeen regions, divided preliminarily into five zones.

1. Lake: Geita, Tabora, Kagera, Mara, Mwanza, Simiyu
2. Southern Highlands: Mbeya, Rukwa, Ruvuma, Katavi
3. Central Dodoma: Dodoma, Iringa, Njombe, Singida
4. Coastal: Dar es Salaam, Unguja
5. Northern: Arusha

USAID/Tanzania intends to provide $65 million in total USAID funding for the life of the activity (five years). The period of performance anticipated is five (5) years.

Program Objectives

• Families are strengthened economically to provide for the needs of their children.
• Parents, caregivers and communities are skilled to provide healthy, safe and nurturing environments for vulnerable children.
• Increased most vulnerable children (MVC) utilization of age-appropriate essential services.
• Approaches for the most hard to reach vulnerable children.

Themes of the program

1. Facilitate the use of a Continuum of Care and well-functioning case management and referral system
2. Increase Public Private Partnerships (PPPs)
3. Local Ownership and Capacity Development
4. Address Gender and Gender-Based Violence (GBV)
5. Safeguard Children
6. Disability
7. Technology

Eligibility criteria

• Applicants must be from Tanzania.
• Any type of organization, large or small, commercial (for-profit) firms, faith-based, and non-profit organizations in partnerships or consortia, are eligible to compete.
• Potential new partners are encouraged to apply.

For more information visit grants.gov and search for funding opportunity number USAID-TANZANIA-14-000002-DRAFT-RFA.

International Food Relief Partnership (IFRP) Program: USAID Grants for US Organizations

Deadline: 2 December 2014

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is seeking applications (proposals for funding) from U.S. non-profit organizations for the production, packaging, and stockpiling of shelf-stable, prepackaged commodities to be distributed under the International Food Relief Partnership (IFRP) program. Any commodity that meets the requirement and appropriate for any beneficiary group in the developing world including families, displaced persons, adults, school children, HIV/AIDS patients, and moderately malnourished children can apply for it.

USAID anticipates awarding up to three grants for a total of up to $6.5 million per year. The grants may be awarded for up to three years each. Anticipated award date is around January 2015. The period of performance is three years, with up to two optional one-year extensions.

Grant types

1. Commodity production, packaging, and stockpiling grants
2. Transport, delivery, and distribution grants

Eligibility criteria

• Applicant must be a U.S. based non-profit entity.
• Applicant must have an ability to obtain the ability and capacity to produce a minimum of $1 million worth of metric tonnage of commodity within the first six (6) months of the award.
• Applications from potential new partners are encouraged.
• Applicants are encouraged to submit separate applications for each commodity that has a different nutritional content. There are no limits to the number of applications an organization may submit.
• Preference will be given to organizations that will provide non-federal funds in an amount equal to fifty (50) percent of the amount of funds received under the grant.
• Applicants must submit both technical and cost proposals.

How to apply?

• Applicants must complete both direct entry and document upload portions of the application in order to be considered for funding.
• Emailed, faxed and hard copy applications are not acceptable.
• Applicants should retain for their records one copy of the full application and all attachments which accompany their application.

For more information visit grants.gov and search for funding opportunity number 2015-IFRP-RFA-0001.

The Jerome Foundation’s Film and Video Grant Program

Deadline: Rolling

The Jerome Foundation operates production grant programs for individual film and video artists who reside within five boroughs of New York City and Minnesota. These programs serve artists who work in the genres of experimental, narrative, animation, and documentary production. It does not support installation, new media, or interactive work, which are subsidized in other Foundation programs. It also does not support commercial, industrial, informational, or educational work.

The Jerome Foundation has a good track record of supporting filmmakers in New York and Minnesota with innovative artistic sensibilities. From JF:

The Jerome Foundation’s Film and Video Grant Program is a production grant program for individual film and video artists who work in the genres of experimental, narrative, animation, and documentary production. Applicants must reside in one of the five boroughs and must be emerging artists whose work shows promise of excellence.

Deadline: Rolling

NYC Film, Video, and Digital Production Grant Program

There are no deadlines for New York City residents to apply. Applications may be submitted at any time during the year. The Foundation ordinarily schedules three review rounds per year. Please allow up to five months for review. To start a new online application, login or create a user login and click here.

Sample Proposals and Budgets

Applicants may download the booklet below for helpful program information and samples of successful proposals and budgets from past applicants.

New York Film, Video, and Digital Production Application.pdf

2014 Minnesota FVDP Application.pdf

FV Sample Proposals.pdf

Around ¥150 Million of Nature Conservation Fund for Developing Countries

Deadline: 10 December 2014

The Keidanren Nature Conservation Fund (KNCF) invites grant applications from group or organization in the developing countries (particularly Asia Pacific) for nature conservation projects.

The KNCF awards around ¥150 million each year for the nature conservation projects. One year projects beginning 1 April 2015 and completing by 31 March 2016 will be funded. In case of multi-year projects, grant applications must be made each subsequent year. Projects are supported for maximum three years.

Eligibility Criteria

Organizational Eligibility – A group or organization should meet all of the following three conditions

• A group capable of making appropriate reports, as requested by the Fund, regarding progress in implementing the funded project and its financial status including budgetary matters and settlements of account.
• A group with corporate status or a similar level of public trust.
• A group with a record of at least three years of carrying out nature conservation projects.

Project Eligibility – Projects should meet all of the following four conditions

• Projects purpose should be nature conservation in developing countries, particularly in the Asia Pacific region. Priority is given to projects for preserving biodiversity.
• Projects expected to receive appropriate levels of cooperation from the host governmental agencies, related international organizations, nongovernmental organizations, and the local citizenry.
• Projects that do not serve the special interests of any specific corporation or individuals.
• Projects that will be carried out by persons with sufficient scientific expertise, or with the advice and cooperation of persons having such expertise.

Note: Interested applicants should request an application for assistance form and they will be provided a web URL in their email address from where they can download the application for assistance form.

For more information, please visit Keidanren Nature Conservation Fund.