MFMC Grants to Support Advocates of Climate Change Mitigation

About

The Minor Foundation for Major Challenges has announced two grant opportunities that supports communication projects which advance the transition to a low carbon economy.

MFMC supports projects that support urgent, large-scale transformation, with a focus on changing policies and practices in public or private institutions. The foundation’s priorities for the 2019-2023 period are to:

• encourage and support innovation in climate communication

• increase the number of voices and narratives in climate advocacy

• help strengthen social and political movements that open up for radical change

• concentrate on supporting European proposals

Grant Categories

MFMC traditionally announces calls in two different categories: Large and Small grants.

• Small Grants: In this call for applications it is possible to apply for smaller grants of up to EUR 10,000.

• Large Grants: In this call for applications the foundation is looking for projects above EUR 10,000 – typically in the range of €20,000 to €200,000, although larger projects may be considered.

Eligibility

Funding Criteria

• They will fund projects which:

  • encourage and support innovation in climate communication and/or

  • increase the number of voices and narratives in climate advocacy and/or

  • help strengthen social and political movements that open up for radical change

  • They mainly focus on European projects.              

• They won’t fund projects which:

  • have a purely local focus

  • are about implementing community-level projects such as forest conservation, tree planting, climate change adaptation

  • target the general public with climate-related information

  • are from an individual: they only fund organisations who have some kind of formal existence, such as charities, associations etc.

Post Date: November 06, 2023