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The Global Challenges Local Solutions (GCLS) grant competition is the first European competition that connects community foundations with the Sustainable Development Goals at the local level. The program is financed by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and implemented by the Academy for The Development of Philanthropy in Poland.  Over the course of six editions of […]

If we want to change this world for the better, we have to learn to share different resources. This is the best answer to the problems that harass mankind! But sharing resources is not easy. In the eternal dilemma – to be or to have – for millennia we as humanity have been betting on […]

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 […]

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 […]

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: […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]