What is it all about?

Global Challenges Local Solutions Program supports organizations and communities that try to solve global problems on a local level. We encourage you to get involved!

Key elements

Knowledge Hub

This is a knowledge sharing section. We hope that you will find it resourceful while implementing projects based on SDGs. Check it out!

Grant competition

Our grant competition connects community foundations and Sustainable Development Goals on the local level. Within five editions we collected many good practices - get inspired!

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Posted on 15/10/2024 by GCLS

The 8th Grant Round is OPEN now

The 8th grant round of the Global Challenges Local Solutions Program is open NOW! As in previous rounds, the projects will focus on promoting and educating about either a few SDGs or all of them The application process If you want to apply, please read the GCLS 8th Round Guidelines and fill out 2 attachments: GCLS 8th Round […]

Posted on 30/04/2024 by GCLS

Meet the Winners of the 3rd Grant Round for Ukrainian Refugees

We’re pleased to announce the successful Applicants of the GCLS project for Ukrainian Refugees. Following a thorough evaluation process, we’ve chosen 8 organizations from 5 countries – Bulgaria, Germany, Romania, Poland, and Slovakia – to receive grants aimed at assisting Ukrainian refugees. Meet the winners: Bratislava Community Foundation Clementine Foundation Community Donation Fund Sliven Foundation […]

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Posted on 28/03/2024 by GCLS

Extending the deadline

Soon, many of us will be celebrating and taking a break. It’s not the time to rush and stress about deadlines. In response to this, we’d like to extend the recruitment period for the GCLS competition for Ukrainian refugees until April 7, 2024. We hope that as a result, all those who would still like […]

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Posted on 12/03/2024 by GCLS

GCLS FOR UKRAINIAN REFUGEES SPECIAL GRANT ROUND IS OPEN

A special GCLS Grant Round to support community foundations dealing with refugee crisis caused by the war in Ukraine is OPEN now! With the decision of the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, a funder of the Global Challenges Local Solutions European granting program, which is operated by the Academy for the Development of Philanthropy in Poland, […]

Posted on 12/01/2024 by GCLS

Download our graphics and start sharing information about SDGs on social media.

In today’s media-driven world, where it is challenging to maintain the reader’s attention, visual communication plays a crucial role in effective communication. That’s why we have prepared a package of graphics (post and story format) swith quotes related to individual sustainable development goals for you. Graphics with quotes about SDGs can serve as a pretext […]

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Posted on 30/11/2023 by GCLS

GCLS Ukrainian Round – Review of initiatives supporting Ukrainian Refugees

This year was a big challenge for Europe. The war in Ukraine and the continuous influx of refugees (5,000,000 refugees by 2022, according to UNHCR) made us launch a special round of competition to support local initiatives to help refugees. In this round, we supported 11 organizations from all over Europe. The organizations, in cooperation […]

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