Please note that EDGE Funder Alliance is not a funding organization, so we cannot review proposals from grantseekers. However, we can offer some helpful resources for fundraising,

The following websites contain listings of foundations and other organizations interested in international grantmaking:

• Latin America Donor Index
• Kabissa: Space for Change In Africa
• Funding Sources for Gender-Equality and Women-focused Projects
• The Synergos Institute
• The Grantsmanship Center
• The National Endowment for Democracy
• ProposalWriter.Com
• Africa Grantmakers’ Affinity Group
• Peace and Security Funders Group
• Worldwide Initiatives for Grantmaker Support
• International Human Rights Funders Group
• International Funder’s for Indigenous Peoples
• International Network of Women’s Funds
• Peace & Security Funder’s Group

A helpful funding research tool is the Foundation Center’s “Guide for Funding International and Foreign Programs” available for purchase at their website. Also available from the Foundation Center is The Guide to Proposal Writing, and its Spanish translation, Guía para escribir propuestas.

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Forging Alliances South and North (ForAL) publishes Impulsando el cambio social (Leveraging Social Change), a Spanish-language funding resource guide for grantseekers.

Women Thrive Worldwide offers an excellent guide to fundraising for community-based organizations, Funding Guide for Women’s Community-Based Organizations.

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Helpful Tips to Grantseekers

• Few foundations will respond to grant requests made by e-mail.
• Before seeking a foundation grant, first, look over the foundation’s website, grantmaking guidelines, and other related materials to see if there is a fit between the foundation’s grantmaking priorities and your programs.
• If there is a good match, then follow the proposal submission instructions outlined by the foundation in their grantmaking guidelines.
• Typically, you will first submit a “letter of inquiry,” which is a short document describing the nature of your work and the purpose of the grant request.

For Individual Grantseekers

• Foundation Grants to Individuals Online has detailed descriptions of thousands of foundation and public charity programs that fund students, artists, researchers, and other individual grantseekers. There is a small fee for a one-month subscription.

We regret we cannot offer you direct assistance but wish you great success in your work.