Van Tienhoven Foundation launches Small Grants Program 2025

Deadline: 31-Jan-2025

The Van Tienhoven Foundation for International Nature Protection has launched the Small Grants for the protection and conservation of threatened species and ecosystems across the globe.

Foundation Mission & Vision

• They are concerned about life on earth, the well-being and maintenance of the variety of living organisms and their living environment. Human beings play a crucial role as actor and factor in biodiversity. They see people as instrumental in mitigating the pressures of global change on the living environment and biodiversity.
  • They make small grants available to finance direct actions on species, ecosystem, and community managed nature protection that led to change in policy and practice.
  • They promote knowledge into the causes of threats and pressures on nature, in order to generate concrete actions that halt, counteract or mitigate these causes;
  • They strive to influence and collaborate with governmental, non-governmental organisations, communities, individuals, and other relevant stakeholders for the sake of the conservation of nature.

Funding Information

• Projects requesting a maximum budget of €10,000 euro from the Van Tienhoven Foundation and a total project budget of no more than €50,000 euro.
• Projects that have not started yet at the time of submission and with a project time span of two years maximum.

Eligible Projects

• The Van Tienhoven Foundation uses the following assessment criteria and prioritizes projects that:
  • Focus on threatened species and ecosystems and/or key biodiversity areas.
  • Aim to counter the human-induced causes for these threats, in order to have maximum conservation impact.
  • Are practical, hands-on and directly applicable in order to generate change.
  • Are initiated, owned or widely supported by local stakeholders, in order to ensure sustainability.
  • Are exemplary for a wider problem, serve as a catalyst for raising awareness and engaging other stakeholders.
  • Create leverage and can demonstrate that small grants and individual efforts can make a difference.

Eligibility Criteria

• They use the following eligibility criteria and only accept applications:
  • From not-for-profit organisations, that are registered as legal bodies (NGOs and scientific institutions). They don’t accept applications from government bodies, private companies or individuals.
  • Not-for-profit organisations must have a bank account in their organisations name, and able to receive international funds.
  • Only one application per organisation will be taken into consideration for each call for proposals. If an organisation has been given a grant before, a final report must have been submitted for any project previously supported by the Van Tienhoven Foundation. An organisation can be supported for a maximum of three times within eight years.
  • From organisations with a track record in species protection, ecosystem protection and/or community managed nature protection, that can be demonstrated by background documentation (e.g. websites, social media, annual and/or final project delivery reports).
  • Where actions are not part of a study leading to any academic title and/or aimed at delivering a book.

For more information, visit Van Tienhoven Foundation.