What is it all about?

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 5th Grant Round of the Global Challenges Local Solutions Program is now officially closed. Sign up for our newsletter to be up-to-date!

Key elements

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!

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

News

Posted on 08/07/2021 by Paulina Kamyk

Grantees of the 5th GCLS Round

Meet 9 Community Foundations which are the recipients of grants in the 5th Round of Global Challenges Local Solutions European Grant Competition. Congratulations to ALL and good luck with your projects! Quartet Community Foundation (UK) Community Donation Fund Sliven Foundation (Bulgaria) Ferencvaros Community Foundation (Hungary) Wiltshire Community Foundation (UK) Veronica Foundation (Czech Republic) Community Foundation […]

Posted on 01/07/2021 by Paulina Kamyk

Post-Covid World – sharing experiences

Last month, the representatives of a few Community Foundations from Slovakia, Croatia, Romania, Serbia, Bulgaria and the UK met online and had a long chat about their experiences of last year and a half – difficulties, challenges but also hopes and lesson learnt for the future. See the summary of a bunch of thoughts and […]

Posted on 30/04/2021 by Paulina Kamyk

THE 5th Grant Round IS NOW OPEN! YOU CAN APPLY

This is your chance – join our program to make a change! We are happy to announce that the CALL FOR APPLICATIONS in Global Challenges Local Solutions 5th Grant Round has been opened! the Call for Applications lasts from April 30 until May 23, 2021 the projects should be performed in the period of July-December […]

Posted on 27/04/2021 by Paulina Kamyk

GCLS webinar: A RECIPE FOR A HEALTHY PLANET

On 22nd of April we celebrated an International Earth Day … but do we really can fully celebrate? What is the condition of the Earth we are living on? What should we do to improve it? It is certain that we must act fast – both at the local and global level. JOIN THE WEBINAR […]

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 […]