What is it all about?

Global Challenges Local Solutions Programe supports organizations and communities that try to solve global problems on a local level. We encourage you to get involved!

Key elements

Grant competitions

First grant round within European Fund with the aim of empowering organizations and communities that try to solve global problems on a local level has been conducted in June-September 2017. Find out more.

Donor-adviced projects

In addition to regular grant competition organized within European Fund, GCLS contains also other, local grant competitions organized as donor-advised projects. Find out more.

Venture Philanthropy

Within the GCLS Program we also promote venture philanthropy as a mechanism of supporting not-for-profit organisations to foster activities leading to self-sufficiency and sustainability in programmes and projects. Find out more.

News

Posted on 03/09/2018 by Kaja Petryka

II grant round is open!

Dear Europeans, good news: the second grant round is open! If you have the idea for a project connected to Sustainable Development Goals, apply for the grant up to 15,000 USD.

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Posted on 03/09/2018 by Kaja Petryka

Brochure

Here comes our brochure about the first grant round! You have to read it! It is filled with best practices and a lot of good energy. Get inspired! Download GCLS brochure What is it about? All the stories collected in the brochure prove that change comes from the bottom up. Local communities across Europe are […]

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Posted on 30/08/2018 by Kaja Petryka

Good practices

Need some inspirations? Ideas for projects including SDGs? Or just want to read about passionate local activists? You have to visit our website absolutely! Here you can find the best practices from our 1st grant round projects!

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Posted on 11/06/2018 by Kaja Petryka

PRIVATE NONPROFIT INSTITUTIONS: Foot Soldiers for the UN Sustainable Development Goals

We encourage you to read the paper about the relation between Sustainable Development Goals and private non profit institutions. It’s really worth reading, a lot of good examples of local organizations activities. LINK

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Posted on 28/05/2018 by Kaja Petryka

Hungary’s community foundation movement in the last days

Hungary is struggling with a challenging political situation, the environment for NGOs is getting worse, the civil society space is shrinking. Are there any positive signs? We encourage you to read the article written by one of the Hungarian NGOs leaders – Tamás Scsaurszki. Growing Ambition in a Shrinking Space: Hungary’s Community Foundations after the […]