Embassy small grants
Our sources follow 3 embassy small-grant schemes for Palestine: Canada Fund for Local Initiatives (CFLI); Finland Fund for Local Cooperation (FLC); Japan Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGP). None has a call open at the moment. Amounts and dates below come from the calls we have recorded; the embassy's own page always has the current rules.
Run by Canadian embassies and high commissions, CFLI funds small projects designed and carried out by local organisations. Each post publishes its own call, priorities and deadline on Global Affairs Canada's site, usually once a year.
Finnish embassies support local civil society through the Fund for Local Cooperation and publish calls for proposals on finlandabroad.fi.
Japanese embassies fund grassroots projects by non-profit organisations and local bodies under GGP (Kusanone). Each embassy publishes its own guidelines and application period.
Most schemes open once a year and give a few weeks to apply. Prepare your registration documents and a short project idea now, read embassy small grants explained, and create a free profile to have open calls screened for your organisation.
