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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!

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Knowledge Hub

This is a 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 five editions we collected many good practices - get inspired!

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Posted on 24/02/2023 by Paulina Kamyk

Community Foundations – THANK YOU!

It seemed improbable, but today marks one year since Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. It was Community Foundations in countries neighboring Ukraine, but not only Ukraine, that were often the organizations that immediately responded by bringing aid to refugees from Ukraine and for the past 12 months have been caring for them and helping them organize […]

Posted on 24/01/2023 by Kaja Petryka

News from our friends

Our friends from Făgăraș Research Institute conduct a research on The visibility of community foundations’ work on building sustainable communities. The study they are conducting aims to enable community foundations (CFs) and community foundations support organizations (CFSOs) to understand how they are strengthening the sustainability of local communities in their countries. Furthermore, they also aim […]

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Posted on 23/01/2023 by Kaja Petryka

“GCLS FOR UKRAINIAN REFUGEES” GRANTEES

Let us present 11 community foundations that received grants in the “GCLS FOR UKRAINIAN REFUGEES” II grant round – a special program created within the Global Challenges Local Solutions framework – to support community foundations dealing with refugee crisis caused by war in Ukraine. These community foundations will use the grants for such activities as: […]

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Posted on 30/11/2022 by Kaja Petryka

GCLS FOR UKRAINIAN REFUGEES SPECIAL GRANT ROUND IS OPEN

A special GCLS Grant Round to support community foundations dealing with refugee crisis caused by the war in Ukraine is OPEN now! With the decision of the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, a funder of the Global Challenges Local Solutions European granting program, which is operated by the Academy for the Development of Philanthropy in Poland, […]

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Posted on 26/07/2022 by Paulina Kamyk

“GCLS for Ukrainian Refugees” grantees

Let us present 15 community foundations that received grants in the “GCLS FOR UKRAINIAN REFUGEES” grant round – a special program created within the Global Challenges Local Solutions framework – to support community foundations dealing with refugee crisis caused by war in Ukraine. This round was organized due to the decision of the Charles Stewart […]

Posted on 09/06/2022 by Paulina Kamyk

Let’s glocalize – community foundations driven by SDGs spirit!

17 global goals > 17+ local solutions > 17 posters > 17 tests-inspirations to take! For 17 weeks, we are presenting a series of 17 posters prepared within the GCLS Knowledge Hub under the motto: “Let’s glocalize – community foundations driven by SDGs spirit” Each poster refers to one Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) and contains […]

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