Deadline: 14 March 2024
The WWF Nedbank Green Trust is seeking applications for funding to promote the conservation of nature and ecological processes through the preservation of genetic, species and ecosystem diversity, through ensuring that the use of renewable natural resources is sustainable, and through the promotion of actions aimed at reducing to a minimum pollution and the wasteful exploitation and consumption of resources and energy.
The Trust funds organizations that are developing innovative and transferable solutions, in partnership networks, that have the potential to catalyze (ignite and enable) change in South Africa from an undesired state to a desired state as defined by the Trust strategy.
Funding Information
- R 3 million over 3 years, dependent on the cost of producing the solution proposed.
What they look for?
- When they consider proposed projects, they look at the following:
- Is the proposed project catalytic and can it be scaled up to national level?
- Will it contribute to achieving the identified?
- environmental outcomes?
- Do people believe in the value proposition?
- Is it valuable, unique, innovative and transferable?
- Can/will the project be adopted by others?
- Will it be a valuable addition to the project portfolio?
Eligible Projects
- The Wwf Nedbank Green Trust is interested in projects that offer:
- Differentiated or unique ways to unlock a stuck problem
- Tangible impacts and outcomes based on agreed change logic
- Scaling, catalytic, potential: Viability (impact beyond funding period), future funding, demand for the solution, scaling mechanism
- Relevance to big social issues
- People Centered solutions
- Gender considered solutions
- Visibility potential
- Evidence of support from the receiving environment (letters of support)
Ineligible
- The Green Trust will not normally consider support for:
- Solutions with no potential that are not different or unique and do not unlock a stuck problem.
- Solutions that have no scaling potential (not catalytic).
- Profit generating organizations who will gain competitive advantage through the Trust funding.
- Conduit organizations which are not the end users of the project funds.
- Initiatives which focus on ex-situ conservation activities with little implications for wild populations, e.g. captive breeding, rehabilitation or welfare of individuals.
- Core support for organizations and the purchase of capital equipment, including buildings, fencing and vehicles.
For more information, visit WWF Nedbank Green Trust.
