Call for Applications: L’Oréal Fund for Women 2024
The L’Oréal Fund for Women is a charitable fund launched in 2020 to support frontline organizations in their efforts to help women to get out of poverty, prevent domestic, sexual and gender-based violence against women.
The Fund focuses on supporting women and girls’ empowerment, particularly through projects in favor of social or professional integration and education.
A specific attention is paid to refugee women and women with disabilities.
Scope
- The Fund is opened internationally and can support activites/projects based locally or in another country.
- Projects can be in design/ideation phase, in implementation phase, or already in operation phase.
Summary of the Fellowship
- Type: Grant, Women
- Sponsor: L’Oréal Operations
- Funding Type: Partially Funded
- Eligible Countries: All Countries
- Deadline: October 17, 2024
Funding Information
Requests must be over €5,000 and under €300,000 (or multi-year support only).
Requirements for L’Oréal Fund for Women 2024
Relevance of the organization
- Grassroot non-profit or non-for-profit organization, of general interest, with official accreditation and eligible to philanthropic funds.
- Organization that cannot distribute any part of its revenues to its members, directly or indirectly.
- Organization with more than two years of official existence (unless the organization has a strong documented innovative component responding to a specific need).
- Organization with a minimum of 200 beneficiaries per year
- In France, structure able to issue tax receipt.
Nature of the activity/project for which the request is made
- The final beneficiaries must be highly vulnerable women or girls: In situation of poverty/underprivileged (absence or lack of revenues, homelessness, single parent, Isolation In rural areas or In the suburbs, etc.), victims of violence, refugees or in situation of disability.
- For structure based outside the EU, and in order for the territoriality exception to apply, the final beneficiaries must be women or girls in vulnerable, precarious ou emergency situations.
- Beyond emergency relief, the activity focuses on women or girls’ empowerment, encouraging especially social and professional integration or access to education.
- Beyond emergency relief, the activity focuses on women or girls’ empowerment, encouraging especially social and professional Integration, or access to education.
- Activities can take the form of: a service, an instrument with a social purpose or a field operation.
- The budget requested is consistent with need and doesn’t exceed 30% of the structure’s total budget.
- Applications may be for annual or pluri-year support (maximum 2 years).
- Other sources of funding have been obtained, applied for or identified.
- One year’s support must be requested for a first-time application or renewal of support
Ineligibility Criterias
Ethics/Human Rights/Environmental Responsibility
Activities or organizations that are in breach with internationally recognized UN standards, including Human Rights, Health Safety & Security, Labor rights, Anti Bribery and Corruption, Environment & Climate change, etc., especially:
- Organization with negative liabilities (controversies)
- Organizations or projects discriminating beneficiaries, based on gender, race, religions, beliefs (non-exhaustive list).
- Activities with religious, political or military direct connection, content or goal
- Activities involving forced labour or child labour.
- Activities having negative impact on the environment (carbon, biodiversity, water, etc.) or people’s welfare and livelihood.
- Activities having the potential to negatively affect Indigenous Peoples and minorities.
- Activities or organizations that do not grant the right to self-expression, free association and collective negotiation to beneficiaries and employees.
Application Documents
- Project description
- Accreditations of your organization (mandatory)
- Presentation of your organization
- Detailed budget of your project (mandatory)
- Last annual report of your organization (mandatory)
- Last annual budget of your organization (mandatory)
Deadline: October 17, 2024