Commonwealth Foundation Grant 2019-2020 (GRANT £200,000)

The Commonwealth Foundation is seeking applications for the Commonwealth Foundation Grant 2020!

With more than 2.3 billion citizens, the Commonwealth offers a potentially huge set of ideas for the advancement of societies. The Foundation believes in the power of stories and narration for social change and will grant grants for creative approaches that have the potential to influence public discourse.

The selection process is highly competitive and the selected projects will have been designed to undertake work that has the potential to lead to one or more results in the Foundation’s strategic logic model.

The Commonwealth Foundation program teams participate in the configuration of the call for proposals approach. An internal review process, which includes a long list of the Grant team followed by a shortlisting process that involves all teams in the program, prepares a final list of applications that are then submitted to the Grant Committee. Final decisions on which projects to support are taken by the member states represented in the Foundation’s Grant Committee.

  • Country: Not mentioned
  • Financial coverage: Fully Funded
  • Eligible Regions: Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Brunei Darussalam, Cameroon, Canada*, Cyprus, Eswatini, Guyana, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, New Zealand*, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Seychelles (Please check the official link for further details)
  • Deadline: January 9, 2020
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    Eligibility Criteria :

    • The applicant and, when applicable, partner(s) are registered not-for-profit civil society organisations (CSOs). The applicant and, when applicable, partner(s) must be registered in a Commonwealth Foundation member country and the project should take place in an eligible Commonwealth Foundation member country. A list of countries eligible under this call is available at Annex one.
    •  The application is for funding for a maximum of £50,000 per annum
    • The applicant is applying for funding for a maximum of four years
    • The applicant does not have an existing grant from the Commonwealth Foundation at the time the application window is open.
    • The average of the applicant’s total income over the last two years is less than £3m
    • The project must address one or both the Commonwealth Foundation’s outcomes
    • The applicant will provide the following documents as part of the application:
      • completed logic model using the Commonwealth Foundation template
      • a copy of the organization’s registration certificate (Check the official link for details)
      • a copy of the organization’s most recent audited accounts (it must include both the accounts and the opinion of the external auditor who has certified them; it should not be older than December 2017) (Check the official link for details)
      • a copy of the registration certificate for all partner organizations
    • Australia, Canada & New Zealand are eligible to apply but project activities must be implemented in eligible countries in this list that do not have asterisks beside them.

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    Benefits :

    The Foundation offers grants of up to £200,000 over four years in support of innovative project ideas and approaches that seek to strengthen the ability of civic voices to engage with governments and that have the potential to improve governance and development outcomes through their active participation.

     

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    Application Process:

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    • All applications must be submitted online through the British Academy’s FlexiGrant, Grant Management System (GMS). 
    • Before starting the online application, applicants should confirm that they meet all eligibility criteria. 
    • Carefully complete the application form and submit any documents as required. 
    • Late applications will not be accepted, make sure to apply before the deadline. 

    BA Leverhulme Small Research Grants Deadline: 

    • The deadline to apply for the BA Leverhulme Small Research Grants 2026 is 27 May 2026, 17:00 BST. 

     

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