Funding for your project? Other Funding Resources

International (and other) projects do cost money. The good news is that there are many foundations or institutions which fund projects. The bad news is that you have to apply for funding to get the money - and this will take some of your time.

Besides this user-friendly Youth in Action programme, other funding opportunities for ethnic minority young women projects exist. However, a funder never funds a project 100%, so you will always need to rely on more than once source of funding. Or you could organise your own creative fund-raising activities.

> Find here more about fund-raising ideas and activities

The European Union has some other funding programmes:

• Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for Dialogue between Cultures www.euromedalex.org
• Lifelong Learning programme - If you are working with schools and 'formal' education (as opposed to non-formal education, as done in youth work) http://ec.europa.eu/education/
• Daphne: The Daphne programme aims at supporting organisations that develop measures and actions to prevent or to combat all types of violence against children, young people and women and to protect the victims and groups at-risk.The need for concerted worldwide action to defend human rights and to eliminate violence has long been recognised at different levels and in different waysSeveral measures have been taken along these lines, such as the 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child, the platform for action of the 1995 Beijing Conference, and the 1996 Stockholm Declaration and Agenda for Action at the first World Congress against the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children.
  At the second World Congress against the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, in Yokohama in December 2001, the Daphne programme implemented by the European Commission was acknowledged as a very useful tool.
  The Daphne programme is complementary to programmes that exist in the Member States of the European Union, especially in the way it focuses on the exchange of good practices about violence across the Union.
  Daphne represents the starting point of NGOs and voluntary organisations cooperation at EU-level in the fight against violence towards children, young people and women. It encourages NGOs to set up or reinforce European networks and helps them implement innovative projects, the results of which can be disseminated to other Member States and regions.
  In many cases, these organisations offer services which the public authorities do not have the power or the ability to provide. Society will only benefit from the expertise and experience of the NGOs if their ideas and programmes are disseminated throughout the European Community and shared with like-minded organisations in other Member States.

> More information about Daphne, click here.
> If you are looking for more information about European funding, you can contact the Eurodesk agency in your country

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Other players in the funders-world:

Besides the European Union, there are also other players around that give money for different types of projects. It is important to read their guidelines and adapt your project application to their approach.

• European Youth Foundation (Council of Europe): The EYF funds international youth projects (minimum 4 European partner countries).
• Solidarity Fund for Youth Mobility (Council of Europe): The Mobility Fund pays rail travel for disadvantaged groups participating in international youth projects.
• World Bank Small Grants Programme for local communities: The Small Grants Programme is one of the few global programmes of the World Bank that directly funds civil society organisations.
• The Soros Foundation is particularly active in Eastern and Central Europe and has specific grants for children & youth.
• There are funds for bilateral or multilateral youth projects between specific countries:French-German, Visegrad , German-Czech, German-Polish, Nordic countries
• Check with Embassies and Cultural Institutes from other countries: British Council, Alliance Francaise, Goethe Institute.

There is also private money available from foundations and companies. You can contact them for grants or to sponsor your project, if it fits their criteria.

> Find here an overview of foundations at Funders Online

> If you are looking for more on getting and managing money for youth projects, have a look at the T-Kit on Funding & Financial Management or the SALTO Toolbox

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