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Public
Welfare Foundation's Human Rights and Global Security program
is seeking letter-if-inquiry (or proposals) from grassroots
community-based organizing efforts in the following areas.
International
Human Rights:
Support to efforts to promote and protect economic, social,
political and civil rights and to promote the development
of democratic institutions, with a particular focus on efforts
in El Salvador, Haiti, Mexico and South Africa.
Countering
Hate-Motivated Activity and Discrimination:
Support to U.S. community-based efforts that address hate-motivated
activity and discrimination directed at people because of
their race, religion, gender, sexual orientation or national
origin, and that understand the connection between various
forms of hate and discrimination, and the necessity to address
these problems comprehensively.
Immigration
and Refugees:
Support to community based program that provide services to
and advocate for immigrants and refugees to the United States.
Global
Security:
Support to programs that provide information and public education
on reducing weapon systems, eliminating biological and chemical
weapons and land mines and restraining the spread of nuclear
arms.
The Foundation
believes that the people who are most affected by a problem
are also the ones who are most likely to be able to develop
and impliment effective solutions to resolve it.
The Foundation
believes that there are strengths and resources in every community
that can both improve life for people there and offer models
and policies for solutions to similar problems in other communities.
Too often
lacking are the commitment and the resources to make sure
that those voices are heard.
For more
information about the Public Welfare Foundation and funding,
guidelines can be found on it's internet website at www.publicwelfare.org
or by calling 202-965-1800.
Questions
specific to the Human Rights and Global Security program should
be directed to Joe Wilson.
The
8th of May Group
The 8th of May Group in London has a limited sum of money
to distribute in small grants (up to a maximum of GB =A3500.00
each), to support groups, projects, or organisations that
directly address oppression based on sexual orientation and
sexual identity in Southern Africa.
Applicants should also demonstrate an understanding of the
connections between sexual orientation, gender and other forms
of social inequality. Projects prioritised by the 8th of May
group will embrace inclusivity and reflect the diversity of
the geographic region in which they do their work. Applications
must be received by 17h00 on 30th September 2000.
WHO
CAN APPLY?
1. Only groups, and not individuals, are eligible to apply;
groups can be of variable size.
2. Groups must be based in Southern Africa.
3. Groups must be doing work on issues effecting lesbians,
gay men, bisexuals, and transgendered people.
4. Groups must have been active for at least one year prior
to January = 2000.
5. A group which has been active for less than one year may
apply if it demonstrates how a grant will help to build the
group's capacity to sustain activities over the long-term.
WHAT
DO WE FUND?
We particularly encourage and prioritise the following applications:
1. Proposals which strengthen a group's ability to organise.
Organising May be defined as building infrastructure and communications,
including appropriate technology, between group members or
with non-group members at a local, national, regional or global
level, as well as between groups operating within the same
region (e.g. internet access, photocopying/fax machine etc).
2. Specific projects such as poster production, workshops,
outreach work, counselling, and other group work.
HOW
MUCH DO WE GIVE?
Grants range in size up to a maximum of GB =A3500 (five hundred
pounds sterling). Each application will be considered on its
own merits, and accordingly will be awarded a partial amount
of the total sum requested, or the entire sum for which application
was made, or no funding at all.
HOW
DO WE DECIDE?
All proposal applications are reviewed and discussed by the
8th of May Group executive committee with reference to the
guidelines mentioned above. The decision of the awarding committee
is final. It will communicate its reasoning to the applicant
but there is no obligation on the awarding committee to enter
into any detailed correspondence concerning its decision.
Applications for funding must reach us by 17h00 on 30th Spetember
2000. All applicants will be notified by mail of funding decisions
within three months of the deadline for applications (by 31st
October 2000).
WHAT
DO WE EXPECT?
Any group awarded a grant will receive a written agreement.
A report detailing how the money was spent is due within a
month of the grant expiring. Failure to produce a report will
jeopardise future requests for funding with the 8th of May
group and affiliated organisations.
HOW
TO APPLY:
Write a letter of application answering the questions listed
below. We are looking for brief answers. Your application
should be no longer than three pages in total. What is the
name and address of your organisation? Who should we contact
within the organisation? What are your bank account details?
What is your organisation trying to achieve? How do you plan
to do this? Who are your members, and how many are there?
What resources do you have at present and how did you get
them? What projects have you done recently? What are your
current priorities? What are your regular activities? How
do you see your organisation developing? How will this funding
help you? Details of funding: How much money do you need?
What do you propose to use it for? What is the breakdown of
costs? Who will administer this money? When will the money
be finished (date)? Please give us the names of two people
who are not members of your organisation but who can tell
us about the work that you do, and how we can contact them.
Send the written application to:
8th of May group, 46 Calais Gate, Cormont Road, London SE5
9RQ, U.K. so that it arrives no later than 30th September
2000. If you have any further questions, write to us or else
contact us by emailing Oliverph@dircon.co.uk
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International
funders of gay and lesbian organisations
Alert (youth
groups only)
Contact Person: Maarten van der Drift
P.O. Box 16122
2301 GC Leiden
The Netherlands
The Astrea International Fund
116 East 16th Street, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10003
Tel. +212-529-8021
Fax. +212-982-3321
URL. www.astrea.org
(you can download application forms from this URL)
Eurasia Foundation
1527 New Hampshire Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Tel. +1-202-234-7370
Fax. +1-202-234-7377
eurasia@eurasia.org
European Human Rights Fund
70 Avenue Michel-Ange
B-1040 Brussels
Belgium
Tel. +32-2-734-9429
Fax. +32-2-7346831
Funding Exchange
Attn.: Grants Department
666 Broadway, Suite 500
New York 10012
Tel. +212-529-5300
Global Fund for Women (lesbian projects only)
2480 Sand Hill Road, Ste. 100
Menlo Park, CA 94025 USA
Tel. +415-854-0420
Fax. +415-854-8050
Heinrich Boll Stiftung
Att. Albert Eckert
Hackesche Hofe
Rosenthaler Strasse 40/41
Berlin D-10178
Germany
Tel. +49-30-285-34-201
Fax. +49-30-285-34-109
Eckert@boell.de
HIVOS
Proud
Sponsor of Behind the Mask
Raamweg 16
2596 HL The Hague
The Netherlands
Tel. +31-(0)70-376-5500
Fax. +31-(0)70-362-4600
Email: info@hivos.nl
URL: http://www.hivos.nl
Kimeta Society of Toronto
291 Ontario Street, Apt. 5
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M5A 2V8
Mama Cash (lesbian projects only)
P.O. Box 15 686
1001 ND Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Solidarity Fund XminusY
Keizersgracht 132
1015 CW Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel. +31-20-627-9661
Fax. +31-20-622-8229
Email: xminy@xminy.nl
Treshold Foundation
Attn. Drummond Pike
P.O. Box 29903
San Francisco, CA 94129
Tel. +415-561-6400
The Uncommon Legacy Fund (lesbian projects only)
150 West 26th Street, Suite 503
New York, NY 10001
Tel. +212-366-6507
Fax. +212-366-6509
War on Want
Room D63
37-39 Great Guilford Street
London SE1 OES
United Kingdom
Email: wow@gn.apc.org
Other more specialized funding:
International Human Rights Intership Program
C/o Institute of International Education
1400 K Street. NW Suite 650
Washington, DC 20005
Fax. +202-326-7763
(to do interships with other NGOs)
Hellman/Hammet Funds
Human Rights Watch
485 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10017-6104
(for writers awards only)
Lawyers Committee for Human Rights
330 7th Avenue, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10001
(funding for video equipments and other documentation tools)
Other resources to get for free for groups in developing countries:
Directory of European Funders of HIV/AIDS projects in Developing
Countries and Guide to Technical Support available to
HIV/AIDS projects in Developing Countries – published by the
UK NGO AIDS Consortium Fenner Brockway House 37/39 Great Guildford
Street London SE1 OES, United Kingdom
Tel. +44-171-401-8231
Fax. +44-171-401-2124
Email: ukaidscon@gn.apc.org
Funding Human Rights: An international directory of funding
organizations and Human Rights awards, published by
the Human Rights Internet
C/o Human Rights Centre
University of Ottawa
57 Louis Pasteur
Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5 Canada
Human Rights Institution Building: A handbook on establishing
and sustaining human rights organizations published
by The Fund for Peace in association with The Jacob Blaustein
Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights. To order copies
please write to:
The Fund for Peace
823 United Nations Plaza
Suite 717
New York NY 10017
Tel. +212-661-5900
Fax. +212-661-5904
Email: ffpeace@igc.apc.org
Generating Local resources: Case histories and methods for
supporting human rights organizations in-country from
the Fund for Peace Human Rights andbook Series: Sequel No.
1, published by the Fund for peace – see adress above.
(This list is provided with permission from the International
Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission.)
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