Kosmos 2015 Seed Grants
The Kosmos Seed Grant Application Phase in now closed. Recipients will be announced in early April. Applicants, thank you for your participation and all your efforts to make a better world.
Kosmos is pleased to announce a new grant-giving initiative. Two Kosmos Seed Grants of $2500 each will be awarded in early 2015 to individuals or organizations that are working to advance ‘transformation in harmony with all Life’.
The microgrants program, intended to be ongoing, is being developed in recognition that social change often begins with small acts in out-of-the-way places, by people working at the edge of transformation.
HONORING KOSMOS ORIGINS
“We needed just $2500 to print the first issue of Spirituality & Reality. It was 2001 and three of us from Africa, Asia, and North America shared a common concern to shift material to spiritual values at the United Nation to realize its mission of world peace. We had tried workshops, lectures and caucuses. Now we needed a tangible journal with lasting value that we could distribute globally. Lifebridge Foundation stepped forward with $2500 and made this possible.” – Nancy Roof, Kosmos Associates Founder
By 2003 the original founders had moved on to other projects except Nancy Roof who renamed the award-winning journal Kosmos. That initial grant empowered Kosmos to grow into the journal it is today. In honor of this generous act, the Kosmos Seed Grants initiative was formed.
Guidelines for applicants are as follows:
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Any individual or organization working toward social change may apply.
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Projects should have a stated duration, with clear objectives and expected outcomes.
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Applicants should describe a clear and direct use of the funds and the impact it will have (i.e., not in funding general operations or overhead costs).
We will favor proposals aligned with our stated mission: “to inform, inspire and engage individual and collective participation in local and global transformation in harmony with all life.” The most compelling proposals will be those that set forth a sound plan with a strong potential for success.
Possible uses of a Seed Grant:
- offer a transformational art or gardening project in your community
- organize and promote a symposium or panel
- create a public awareness campaign
- develop a sharing project such as a tool bank or farmers’ market
- start a film festival
- offer workshops
- and many more!
Please review our website and specific areas of focus for further inspiration. Selected and short-listed projects may also benefit from featured coverage by Kosmos Journal and Kosmos Online.
The deadline for submission is February 14th, 2015 and awards will be announced in early March.
We wish to share information regarding our organisation to your kind consideration. Ours is a non profit making organisation working in Chittoor Dist of AP India since 1998 on wards. Ours main activities creating awareness on education, food security to pwds, promotion of environment and other socio economic development activities in the project area. we also organised various awareness camps to the benefit of rural poor women and others in the project area. we wish to submit an application for organizing
awareness camps to sensitize the community in the project area with your support. Hence we request you to provide an application cum guide lines in this regards
You can access the application form here:
https://www.kosmosjournal.org/programs/seed-grants/
Thank you for your interest.
Kosmos Team
Thanks for this important grant that promotes social change. As Uganda Action to Support Development Alliances (UASDA) we are grateful because we believe in empowering our communities to make decision that will change their lives through engaging in productive ventures like agriculture food chain.
Let us send a proposal
We are an NGO dealing with health and safety for the benefit of schools and the community at large. There are so many motorcycle accidents and this is all because of the lack of training and that is why we decided to start this charity to help our natives at risk.
We do feel that our organization is working towards advancing ‘transformation in harmony with all Life’.
Hello
I am in the process of registering an Association to be comprised of indegenous people on the Island of Guadalcanal. Agriculture and self sufficiency has been the strength of these people and in recent times economic progress and entry of capitalism had seen these people being left behind.
We can do with seed grant for procurement of agriculture tools so that the people can support efforts in food production so that surplus can be supplied to markets.
You can access the application form here:
https://www.kosmosjournal.org/programs/seed-grants/
Thank you for your interest.
Kosmos Team
Thank you for this opportunity, at Believers World Mission we work to raise generations of men and women who will come into their God given inheritance realize their potentials and natural resources and use same by going out to reach all sections of the world both near and far, by: Evangelizing, Teaching and Preaching Caring for both spiritual and physical well being of members and adherents to have a decent living and sense of dignity as human being. We are interested in your call for proposals. Presently we are working in a remote area of kaduna state (Nigeria).
this 2015 we are working towards changing peoples attitude by making creative in the area of music, drama, cultural festival etc. can we apply
Thank you once again
Ogwuche Abel
CAN WE APPLY?
we work toraise generations of men and women who will come into their God given inheritance realize their potentials and natural resources and use same by going out to reach all sections of the world both near and far, by: Evangelizing, Teaching and Preaching Caring for both spiritual and physical well being of members and adherents to have a decent living and sense of dignity as human being.
You can access the application form here:
https://www.kosmosjournal.org/programs/seed-grants/
Thank you for your interest.
Kosmos Team
I am interested in promoting girls Education in my remote valley of Hindukush and will submit application if I qualify..
Karim
You can access the application form here:
https://www.kosmosjournal.org/programs/seed-grants/
Thank you for your interest.
Kosmos Team
Our organization, will be pleased to apply for the Kosmos grant n order to move our program forward.
Any information requested will be provided for the processing of our application.
thank you
Best regards,
Ajecy
You can access the application form here:
https://www.kosmosjournal.org/programs/seed-grants/
Thank you for your interest.
Kosmos Team
Thanks to KOSMOS for this huge contribution to social change. Launching a call of this nature translates into strengthened capacity many hands, hearts and heads around the world to be able to do something positive towards social change.
Thanks big time.
HOPE HOUSE FOUNDATION
“You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give.’ Ever stopped to wonder if its time to give back to society, but not been able to understand how?”
– Winston Churchill
please send me the apply-form for the call for proposal 2015
je vous prie de m´envoyer le formulaire de demande de subevention pour l´appel d´offre projet 2015.
Serait-ce possible d´envoyer 1, 2 ou plus de projets? Au Mali nous avons de nombreux petits projets qui cadre bien avec vos modalités de financement.
Je vous remercie pour une reponse.
Dr. Denis Coulibaly.
You can access the application form here:
https://www.kosmosjournal.org/programs/seed-grants/
Thank you for your interest.
Kosmos Team
we are an organisation working in Zambia called Association for Land Development our focus area of work is awareness raising in land rights and advocacy in land related laws in zambia to be pro poor.
Dear Sir/Madam,
Thank you for the call you presented. from the 24 years experience and observation as I have been working as community based development program, I have an idea rolling in my mind and already tried to make head and tell. I have written down it.I will send to you for possible support from you.
Please send me e-mail address and contact person in this regard.
Blessings!
Tamirat
You can access the application form here:
https://www.kosmosjournal.org/programs/seed-grants/
Thank you for your interest.
Kosmos Team
Greetings!
I seen materials these are encouraging as we have been involving in communities to bring changes.
With regards!
Mr. Surya Prakash Rai.
Executive Chief: ETSC.
Po.Box-18, Hetauda, Makwanpur, Nepal
Phone: 057-523375 Fax: 057-526915 Cell: 9819259624
Email: etscnepal@yahoo.com
Web: http://www.etscn.org.np
Thank you
I’m the national chairman of an Non Government Organization that foster Education and Englsih language, we are known under the name of EEFY that means Education and English for You, we are in Cote d’Ivoire, how could us take advantage of your Opportunity or are we eligible to this Grant? Thank you in advance.
Totin
You can access the application form here:
https://www.kosmosjournal.org/programs/seed-grants/
Thank you for your interest.
Kosmos Team
It is a new funding opportunity those who like to transform the society through information sharing and dissemination, there is hardly nobody supporting this area of work
Reach Out Cameroon (REO), headquartered in Buea is a women and youth centred organization that supports under privileged groups within communities on health issues, wealth creation, and provides capacity building to vulnerable and marginalized communities and also re-instates the rights of those deprived from theirs like women and children in minority communities.
I wish to find out if my organisation and country is eligible for funding from your prestigious organisation.
You can access the application form here:
https://www.kosmosjournal.org/programs/seed-grants/
Thank you for your interest.
Kosmos Team
We are in the process of starting an NGO to help treat, rehabilitate and integrate Mentally sick persons in our district. We already have a constitution, but not yet registered. Can we apply for these “Seed Grants?”
Outreach Scout Foundation is a local registered Malawian organisation interested in applying for seed grant. The organisation is working with Area 23 police station in the areas of victim support interventions GBV.
Preamble
Outreach Scout Foundation (OSF) direction in Malawi is based on and stems from the Partnership Vision, Mission, Core Values and culture that will permit the achievement of Transformational Development focussed on rights of the Child, good governance, and social justice, HIV and AIDS and public health in the program area. A deliberate focus is on partnerships to strengthen or enhance the relationship between OSF and all other partners.
Registration
Outreach Scout Foundation (OSF) is a local non-governmental organization established in 2002 but registered in 2004 under the government of Malawi Trustee’s Incorporation Act 1962. The organization is also registered with the Council for Non -Governmental Organization in Malawi (CONGOMA)
Our Vision
Malawi with well empowered young women and men in development
Our Mission
OSF exists to provide optimal framework condition to vulnerable young women and men in rural communities through promoting SRHR, Child protection/ Rights of Children, human rights, environmental protection, Social Justice, Good Governance, HIV/AIDS prevention through community participation.
Dear Kosmos
Thanks for effort in trying to help the globe
Joshua
our organisation, will be please to apply for the kosmos grants in order to improve and move our program forward, because we are interested in advancing and promoting girls child education in our remote community Bauchi state North east Nigeria.
Best regards
comfort
dear sir,
we are a ngo named initiatives in development, empowerment, awareness,soceity, I D E A S, AT tiruvuru, krishna dt, andhra pradesh, india. we work with street children, orphan children any child with any difficulties. we also work for women who are victims of violence and conducted court of women progrmme. however we are happy that call for proposals kosmos 2015 seed grants for social change. we want to create awareness to young people through conducting camps where children learn harmony with nature, and respect nature etc. i appreciate your initiative to involve many NGOs for world peace and harmony. congrats to the kosmos team.
avvari shouri, india
Thanks a lot for this call of proposal.
I am heading a local organization called ARIPA,it Mission is to reach the locals with information on poverty reduction through the use of the local resources available and the use of the land for production particularly on vegetables growing and other cash crops,our vision is a free poverty community.Can we apply for this opportunity?
Regards
Clement Ayuku Emmanuel
Women Initiative for Self(WISH) is a pro-poor women and child development organization working for the development,empowerment and protection of women and children living in ‘hard-to-reach’ poor communities of rural post conflict Liberia.
We are initiating a project titled ‘Ebola Orphans Reintegration and Education Project’ to help 150 children orphaned by the outbreak of Ebola virus disease in Liberia, West Africa reintegrate into communities and schools without discrimination, marginalization and exclusion.
The cost for this project is 25,000.00 United States Dollars.
We would like to solicit your funding support for this project. Please provide us with basic information in this direction.
Thanks to COSMOS for this great opportunity.This is an organization called Community Initiative For Life Transformation In Sierra Leone(C.I.L.T.S.L). This is a Community Based Organization that positively help in transforming the lives of less privileged children or orphans, vulnerable people and youth through Education, Agriculture, Health and Micro-Grant Finance in order to minimize poverty in our operational areas and Sierra Leone at large, when funds are available.We therefore wish to submit application in support of our initiatives by awareness raising campaign on alleviation of poverty in our operational communities.
Hello, thanks so much for all you do.
Am in Uganda, East Africa.
Am i eligible to apply?
Hope to hear from you.
Regards.
Thank you for your interest in the Seed Grant program. Yes, you are eligible to apply.
We are an NGO our thematic areas are health, education and poverty and recently we are dealing with health safety for the benefit of rural poor community at large.
As so many reports and case study proved that a child dies every three seconds in Pakistan, mainly from easily preventable and treatable causes such as pneumonia, diarrhea, measles and neonatal conditions. It was shown that there were many deprived sections, especially women and children, who find it difficult to access health services in rural areas. In poorer areas, this leads to underdevelopment, poverty, hunger, disease, and is associated with high birth rates associated with higher maternal and neonatal mortality rates. CSDP is decided to start health awareness campaigns at field level with the support of IHeal Pakistan (which is a strong component of CSDP working on health issues across the rural, neglected areas) with an aim to bring people back to the Public Health System and provide essential and quality health services.
Regards