Foundation Funds: Development Policy Educational Work Domestically
Funding of development policy educational and informational work domestically (limited scope) for non-profit associations in East Germany and Berlin. Includes grants for learning and exchange trips between the Global South and East Germany/Berlin. Applications for project start in 2025 possible until 20.11.2025.
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Grant criteria
Funding objective
Support for development policy-relevant educational and informational projects within the country, particularly politically oriented campaigns and educational and exchange trips between countries of the Global South and East Germany/Berlin. The goal is to facilitate access for associations with limited resources and to reach new target groups in development policy education work.
Eligible expenses
- Accommodation, meals, and travel expenses (according to BRKG)
- Material costs (materials, services)
- Personnel costs (TVöD billing based on hours worked)
- Fees (BAköV scale)
- Administrative costs (up to 10%)
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Non-eligible expenses
- Art, sports, and cultural events without a development policy educational character
- Events for member recruitment or member meetings
- Empowerment or integration activities
- Training for application submission and fundraising
- Offers without thematic linkage between the Global South and North
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Eligible to apply
- Non-profit Organizations
Funding requirements
- Registered non-profit association (initial entry in the register of associations)
- Headquartered in Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, or Berlin
Documents required for application
- Application form domestic (pdf)
- Project description domestic
- Expenditure and income plan (Excel)
- Excerpt from the register of associations
- Copy of the articles of association
- Current tax exemption certificate from the tax office
- Job description (for personnel expenses)
- Program/schedule (for events)
- Visit program (for exchange trips)
- Table of contents/exposé (for publications)
- Funding confirmations from other financiers
Evaluation criteria
- Development policy relevance and thematic orientation
- Multiplicative effect and public relations
- Appropriate own contribution and co-financing
Description
The North-South Bridges Foundation supports registered non-profit associations in Berlin and the eastern German federal states with a 90% subsidy for development policy education and information projects within Germany. Funding is provided, among others, for school and extracurricular educational offerings, public awareness campaigns, as well as multiplier training on the contents of Agenda 2030 and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. To a limited extent, learning and exchange trips between countries of the Global South and eastern Germany/Berlin can also be subsidized to strengthen intercultural competencies and make global interconnections tangible. The programs are intended in particular to reach smaller associations with limited resources and to attract new target groups for development policy educational work.
For projects with a duration of up to twelve months, applications for project start from January 1, 2025, until November 20, 2025, at the latest, are possible. Eligible expenses include accommodation, meals, travel costs according to BRKG, material and personnel costs (TVöD billing), fees according to the BAköV scale, as well as project-related expenses in countries of the Global South. Administrative costs of up to 10% of the total costs can be claimed. Excluded are individual measures without development policy relevance, sports or cultural events without educational character, as well as offerings without thematic connection between the Global South and North. An appropriate own contribution and a clear multiplier strategy are important evaluation criteria to sustainably secure the impact on site.
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