Application Process
If you’re interested in applying for one of the below grant schemes please register your interest through the grant request form on the bottom of this page. We can’t accept application requests via email anymore.
Action Grants
- Grants >10k EUR, on average 15k EUR, up to 20k EUR.
- Either we scouted you, a social movement comrade suggested you, or you reached out to us and we decided to invite you to apply.
- All grants applications are submitted through our own grants management system, and candidates are invited to write us via our email.
- If there is alignment in values & selection criteria in theory, we schedule a call to meet and assert that there is alignment lived in practice.
- We receive expressions of interest on a rolling basis.
- The expression of interest (EoI) application (first phase) includes 7 main questions for you to answer, namely about your group, your approach to systemic change and what activities you are looking to fund.
- 5 Activist Council members review this EoI on a rolling basis (waiting time approx. 3 weeks).
- If successful, you submit a full application.
- A minimum of 3 council members and 2 team members review the final application.
- There is a deliberation process every 2 months where team & council discuss application evaluations as well as the political/local context of the applicant & other important information worth sharing. (we want to manage expectations while being transparent, the success rate at this stage is 90%, so high, but there are always a few who don’t make the cut).
- If the deliberation process results in a hung jury, we will ask the applicant to answer additional questions and we’ll conclude the decision-making process through email after reviewing the answers internally.
- We have 5 Action grant decision making calls a year, and a lot of grant requests to process. For those who get to apply, waiting time between the first exchange with our team and the applicant receiving the final answer is approximately 5-6 months.
Reflex Grants
- Grants <9k EUR, on average 5k EUR, down to 1.5k EUR.
- Either we scouted you, a social movement comrade suggested you, or you reached out to us via email and we decided to invite you to apply.
- If there is alignment in values & selection criteria, we send you a reflex application form (if there is alignment uncertainty we may also schedule a call with you).
- You submit the reflex application through our grants management system.
- The team evaluates your application & replies within 2 weeks. We can sometimes accommodate very urgent requests by responding in less than two weeks if the urgency is warranted by you in the application (e.g. for a quick local mobilisation/direct action).