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Call for Applications: L’Oréal Fund for Women 2024

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

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