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Dear Europeans, good news: the second grant round is open! If you have the idea for a project connected to Sustainable Development Goals, apply for the grant up to 15,000 USD.

Here comes our brochure about the first grant round! You have to read it! It is filled with best practices and a lot of good energy. Get inspired! Download GCLS brochure What is it about? All the stories collected in the brochure prove that change comes from the bottom up. Local communities across Europe are […]

Need some inspirations? Ideas for projects including SDGs? Or just want to read about passionate local activists? You have to visit our website absolutely!   Here you can find the best practices from our 1st grant round projects!    

We encourage you to read the paper about the relation between Sustainable Development Goals and private non profit institutions. It’s really worth reading, a lot of good examples of local organizations activities. LINK

Hungary is struggling with a challenging political situation, the environment for NGOs is getting worse, the civil society space is shrinking. Are there any positive signs? We encourage you to read the article written by one of the Hungarian NGOs leaders – Tamás Scsaurszki. Growing Ambition in a Shrinking Space: Hungary’s Community Foundations after the […]

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DAFNE and EFC has carried out a study which analysis the regulatory and political challenges philanthropy is facing and elaborates ways forward that European donors and foundations can apply to work jointly with EU institutions and national governments towards a single market for philanthropy.   Download report

Equal Pay International Coalition, Scaling Up Nutrition, Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety these are only three form plenty great initiatives that are described on The Partnerships for SDGs online platform. It provides global engagement for multi-stakeholder partnerships and voluntary commitments from all stakeholders devoted to support the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals You can use […]

Grants have been distributed, projects are being implemented, but we would like to keep you updated about our Program. Within our grant competition we have asked our applicants what do the understand by local community responsive to global challenges? How, in their opinion, should it operate? See what they told us. We theoretically know that everything […]