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 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 […]

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Posted on 25/01/2018 by Kaja Petryka

GCLS is on facebook!

Let’s join us, share your thoughts and news about your projects! Click to join 🙂

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Posted on 17/01/2018 by Kaja Petryka

Enlarging the Space for European Philanthropy

DAFNE and EFC has carried out a study which analysis the regulatory and political challenges philanthropy is facing and elaborates ways forward that European donors and foundations can apply to work jointly with EU institutions and national governments towards a single market for philanthropy. Download report

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Posted on 11/12/2017 by Kaja Petryka

Partnerships for SDGs

Equal Pay International Coalition, Scaling Up Nutrition, Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety these are only three form plenty great initiatives that are described on The Partnerships for SDGs online platform. It provides global engagement for multi-stakeholder partnerships and voluntary commitments from all stakeholders devoted to support the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals You can use […]

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Posted on 04/12/2017 by Kaja Petryka

What do you understand by local community responsive to global challenges?

Grants have been distributed, projects are being implemented, but we would like to keep you updated about our Program. Within our grant competition we have asked our applicants what do the understand by local community responsive to global challenges? How, in their opinion, should it operate? See what they told us. We theoretically know that everything […]

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