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

The 4th Grant Round of the Global Challenges Local Solutions Program is now officialy closed. Sign up for our newsletter to be up-to-date!

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Knowledge Hub

For the last couple of months we have been developing a new knowledge sharing section. We hope that you will find it resourceful while implementing projects based on SDGs. Check it out!

Grant competition

Our grant competition connects community foundations and Sustainable Development Goals on the local level. Within three editions we collected many good practices - get inspired!

In May/June 2021 we are going to announce the 5th Grant Round of the Global Challenges Local Solutions Program. Sign up for our newsletter to be up-to-date!

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Posted on 09/03/2021 by Paulina Kamyk

GCLS webinar „Small steps towards Circular Economy”

“A perfect circular economy would be very difficult to implement, but we can do far better than we currently do. (…) We can start creating circular economy locally by small steps by reusing and repairing goods and extending their life time” says Andrzej Piotrowski – Waste Management Expert, Veolia Energia Polska S.A. Read the Expert’s […]

Posted on 08/02/2021 by Paulina Kamyk

Common goals constitute a community!

“Indigenousness” is a strength of community foundations, however it may also be their weakness. For many years a popular belief among community foundations was that they should focus on local challenges and needs; that only such problems are important. Such belief in no longer valid. Nowadays success of the community foundation often derives from clever […]

Posted on 16/10/2020 by Alicja Szczutowska

Meet the GCLS 4th Round Grantees!

We are happy to announce the 11 organizations that have been awarded the GCLS grant in the 4th round. You will hear about their great projects very soon! Bucharest Community Foundation – Fundația Comunitară Bucuresti Messina Community Foundation – Fondazione di Comunità di Messina The Snow Mountain Community Fund – Fundusz Lokalny Masywu Śnieżnika REVIA […]

Posted on 19/06/2020 by Alicja Szczutowska

The Call for Applications is now open!

We are thrilled to announce that the Global Challenges Local Solutions 4th Grant Round has been opened and you can submit your applications until 20th July 2020. Due to the hardships caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, we have changed some of the regulations, first of all we decided to reduce the required financial input to […]

Posted on 04/06/2020 by Alicja Szczutowska

GCLS Webinar II

“How to incorporate the SDGs into the work of civil society organizations? Practical experience of European community foundations addressing the SDGs” The second GCLS Webinar took place on 2nd June, it was created by the GCLS Team in collaboration with our former Grantees who presented their projects and carried out further discussion. We had the […]

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Posted on 26/05/2020 by Kaja Petryka

The second webinar in GCLS series is coming soon. REGISTER

How to incorporate the Sustainable Development Goals into the work of civil society organizations? Practical experience of European community foundations addressing the SDGs. On Tuesday the 2nd of June, we invite you to listen to some good practices for inclusion of the SDGs in the CFs’ activities shared by their representatives. We want to show […]

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