WHERE TO FIND SPONSORS AND GRANTS

Funds:

• Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation The foundation offers annual grants to young and talented artists. No deadline for application process.
• National Endowment for Democracy The organisation actively supports initiatives that promote democracy, cooperation and citizen participation. Applications are decided quarterly.
• Foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future” (Germany) The foundation supports projects that pursue to historical themes.
• Foundation for supporting local events (Slovakia)
• International Visegrad Fund Priority areas: cooperation in the field of culture; scientific cooperation and research; education (seminars, summer schools); youth exchanges; Poland-Slovakia-Ukraine and Hungary-Slovakia-Ukraine transfrontier cooperation programmes; tourism promotion.
• Konrad Adenauer Foundation Cooperation areas: supporting democratic development, building a civil society, upholding free mass media and consolidating democratic institutions.
• Friedrich Ebert Foundation Activity areas: international cooperation and European integration; democratisation and civil society; labour relations and social dialogue.
• F. Naumann Foundation for Freedom Cooperation areas: the democratic structure and effective organisation of political parties and party youth unions; communal policies; information about the EU and NATO, discussions on the rule of law system of government; support of Ukrainian mass media; promotion of economic reforms.
• Local Cooperation Fund (Finland)
• Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
• Ford Foundation (the USA)
• MacArthur Foundation
• Global Fund for Women
• Carnegie Corporation

Programmes:

• Youth in Action Priority funding areas: European Voluntary Service; youth exchanges; trainings and networking projects. Europeans for Peace is the a programme intended to prompt aimed at schoolchildren school and youth groups aged of between 14 to and 21 years old to gain a critical vision awareness of history and today’s contemporary issues, to build cross-border cooperation with peers and intergenerational dialogue on war and peace.
• Region in Transition (RITA) Focus funding areas: systemic changes; social policy and education system; development of local self-governance and local communities; development of NGOs and entrepreneurship; human rights; cultural heritage; environmental protection, etc.

Embassies that actively support organisations / projects / initiatives by offering grants:

• European Commission Main information is available in the languages of EU member countries, while more detailed information is available in EU working languages: German, English and French.
• Council of Europe It focuses on numerous areas including democracy, human rights and gender equality. The website always contains information on funding priorities for a given year, so try to find it and take it into account when applying.

The following websites could be helpful for international partnerships and finding education and funding opportunities:

• Embassy of France
• Embassy of Canada
• U.S. Embassy
• Small grants programme of the Polish Embassy in Ukraine
• Cooperation development and democracy promotion projects of the Embassy of Lithuania in Ukraine 
• Goethe Institute support and scholarship programmes
• Polish-Ukrainian Youth Exchange Programme, National Culture Centre (Poland)
• Мladiinfo
• U.S.-Ukraine Foundation
• United Nations Global Compact

Grant applications are regularly updated on the following websites:

• gurt.org.ua
• biggggidea.com
• civicua.org
• theoryandpractice.ru/grants

Good luck!