Partnership offer

Global Challenges Local Solutions

Problem

There are many challenges facing European society nowadays. Real sustainable answers to the biggest, most crucial social problems can be found and applied by starting on the local level, in other words by working bottom up. Community foundations play a key role in change on the local level – they support self-organizing, local citizens to responding to problems and challenges by leveraging local resources, such as social, human and financial capital. From our rich experience we know that social and human capital can be mobilised to great ends, but that financial support is essential, both for community philanthropy to thrive in a changing and competitive landscape, and to sustainably address social problems.

The Global Challenges Local Solutions Fund:

Solution

VISION

Local communities actively participate in the process of global problems resolution by running grass-root initiatives and supporting CFs and community philanthropy organizations. Thanks to such activities they

live in inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable communities.

MISSION

The Fund is a long-term grantmaking program, which will support community foundations and local philanthropic throughout Europe to address global challenges on the local level.

EXPECTED RESULTS

In the first three years (2017-2019), the Fund will: • Increase the knowledge and understanding of CFs about global challenges and their effects on the local

level in at least 50 local communities. • Provide 20-30 small grants to address these challenges.

• Create a database of at least 40 good practices.

During the first 3 years Global Challenges Local Solutions Fund focus on

3 main challenges that in our opinion are most relevant for Europe, based on the Sustainable Development Goals*:

Solution

Education for all

Solutions to ensure inclusive and equitable

education for all.

Sustainable cities and communities

Solutions to make cities

inclusive, safe and sustainable.

Refugees, population movement

Solutions to ensure diversity

and social inclusion.

*However, if there will be a need raised by the Fund’s Board members, partners, community foundations of other stakeholders we will take it into consideration and be open to implement a donor-advised project

focused on different global challenge.

Grant-making mechanism

The Fund will provide small grants to community foundations and local philanthropic

organizations throughout Europe for the purpose of identifying and implementing local

solutions to the above global challenges.

When fully developed, the Fund will have a grantmaking budget of $500,000 and will offer

annually 20-30 grants of $15,000 on average.

Solution

Market size

There are approximately 700 community foundations in 28

member countries of the European Union.

Under the V4 Community Foundations Maturity Program we have already

strengthened and financed projects by 35 community foundations

in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia.

Join us! The Global Challenges Local Solutions program needs your support. Become a partner and help us to build strong and sustainable local communities in Europe, capable of taking up global challenges on the local level.

Cooperation

We invite you to the group of European Philanthropy Investors, who do care

about challenges facing contemporary Europe. Program Global Challenges

Local Solutions offers a variety of cooperation forms:

• from the financial support (minimum contribution is 15 000€) ,

• by helping in popularization of the Program,

• to the implementation of joint regional and national projects (Donor-

advised Funds).

Terms of cooperation will be discussed individually.

• Joining a formative initiative and the opportunity to shape priorities for

community civic activism and change on community level across Europe.

• Launching new projects that reflect your institutional generosity and

philosophy, and pursuing ideas and dreams with partners across the

continent.

• Enhancing your institution’s social bottom line, strengthening public

perceptions of an organization that goes beyond its core business to address

pressing social issues.

• Working with other committed Europeans to increase citizen involvement in

public life and community activism.

• High profile for your institution through affiliation, participation and co-

branding.

• Accountability: annual and on-demand reports on the activities of the GCLS;

the Academy follows the highest standards of legal-financial compliance.

Being partners with GCLS means

About us

Since its founding in 1998, the Academy of Philanthropy has:

• Carried out more than 40 programs.

• Established 183 institutional partnerships.

• Issued some 90 publications.

• Awarded €10 million in grants.

• In 2015, allocated more than €1 million for grants .

Foundations, public agencies, international institutions and corporations that worked

with us in the years 1998-2015:

Who are we?

• We mobilise local communities

• We support socially responsible business

• We promote social engagement

• We promote innovative philanthropy

How do we change our world?

We organize:

• Poland’s oldest competition for corporate social responsibility – The Benefactor

of the Year

• Poland’s largest contest for civic leadership, run together with Newsweek - Civic

Leader of the Year

• The biggest campaign promoting celebrity activism – Charity Celebrities

• The biggest project engaging CEOs – Presidents’ Volunteer Coalition

• The biggest network of local activism centres - Act Locally

• The largest scholarship portal (over 5000 programs) – MojeStypendium.pl

• The first Polish crowd-sourcing platform for the 3rd sector – TuDu.org.pl

• The first Polish crowd-funding portal for young athletes – DamNaSport.pl

We inspire, we help others act!

The Academy’s GCLS Team

Kaja Petryka – GCLS Coordinator Marzena Kacprowicz – GCLS International Partnerships Tomasz Bruski – Financial Director, Academy of Philanthropy Paweł Łukasiak – President, Academy of Philanthropy

GCLS Program Board

Ulrike Reichart – Director of the Community Foundation

Team, Federal Association of German Foundations

Ewa Kulik-Bielińska – Chair, European Foundation Centre,

Director of the Stefan Batory Foundation

Mark Doherty – Operations Director, UK Community

Foundations

Thomas E. Wilcox – President, Baltimore Community

Foundation

Kaja Petryka, k.petryka@filantropia.org.pl Marzena Kacprowicz, m.kacprowicz@filantropia.org.pl

http://partnership.localsolutionsfund.org

Join us!