Organisational Development Grants to Think Tanks Eligibility Guidelines
Funds for NGOs Last date 1st July 2015
Activities:
Organisational Devp,Others
Eligibility Criteria
To be considered for an organizational development grant, your organization has to meet the following criteria:
be a legally registered independent organization in one of the nine countries listed above (In most participating countries think tanks are registered as not-for-profit citizen associations.)
be operational for no less than 24 months
be a multi-issue think tank as defined in the section “What kind of think tanks does TTF support?”
embrace an inclusive approach to policy-making, which implies making analysis publicly available and targeting a variety of public stakeholders
Undertake thorough and rigorous research, and develop thematic expertise, to inform public debates in a responsible and accurate manner and to position itself as a credible interlocutor for the government and other public actors.
Purpose and Priorities
A robust policy process is critical to building open society. It offers a venue for wide public participation, enables a discussion of ideas informed by evidence, and prevents attempts to establish a monopoly on truth. Strengthening such processes is critical to Open Society’s mandate of ensuring justice, advancing human rights, promoting transparency, and ending discrimination.
Out of the many participants in the policy process, the Think Tank Fund focuses on think tanks because they strengthen democratic processes by:
identifying political, economic, and social problems;
researching them in a nonpartisan and scientifically rigorous manner; and
providing policy alternatives that enrich public debate.
Think tanks are vital not only because they advocate specific remedies, but also because these remedies are informed by carefully accumulated and analyzed data, making them harder to ignore than emotional normative appeals or isolated instances of abuse. Our mission is to contribute to building strong think tanks that produce high-quality policy analysis, deliver it to a wide range of audiences to galvanize public interest and debate, and operate as sustainable and internally robust nonprofit organizations.
Guidelines
Download the full call for proposals document for further information regarding the application process.
Applicants should upload a brief concept paper of no more than four pages here to the Open Society Foundations Grant Portal.
http://www.ngoportal.org/store/files/organizational-development-grants-think-tanks-20150601_(1)-585.pdf
Other Funding Opportunities: Call for proposals in the field of Embedded Systems 2015 DST and VINNOVA ..............
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