Eligibility Requirements

Currently the Fund makes grants to human rights organizations based in the following countries: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, India, Pakistan, Mexico, Guatemala, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Burundi, Thailand, and the Philippines. The Fund aims to provide funding for human rights organizations over the longer term.  To that end, we maintain a long-term focus on specific countries and regions where we believe strategic grant-making can make a difference in advancing human rights protections over time. 

The Fund encourages applications from organizations that:

• Demonstrate leadership, innovative approaches, and significant long-term potential to have an impact on policy at the local or national level.
• Demonstrate organizational commitment to human rights.
• Whose activities involve and/or are led by the beneficiaries.
• Are interested in building relationships with other human rights organizations.
  

In all countries, women-led human rights organizations are strongly encouraged to apply.

The Fund will not be accepting unsolicited proposals from organizations based in Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, India, Pakistan, Algeria, Morocco, or Tunisia in 2012. Updated information as to future open calls for proposals will be posted in November/December 2012.

For human rights organizations based in Guatemala, Mexico, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, the Philippines, or Thailand, updated information will be posted in May/June 2012.

THE FUND FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS DOES NOT SUPPORT: stand-alone conferences, individuals, businesses, scholarships, fundraising events, university-based research, government agencies, micro-credit programs, construction of roads, bridges, buildings, wells or medical facilities, or activities directly or indirectly intended to support candidates for political office.

THE FUND ALSO DOES NOT PROVIDE GRANTS FOR service delivery development projects unless they are part of a broader human rights program.  For example, the Fund generally does not support literacy training, vocational training, or social/psychological/medical services, unless these activities are part of an integrated strategy to provide the recipients of these services with human rights education and with tools to defend and demand their rights.