Preasonable : Ongoing opportunity
The Waitt Foundation is seeking applications for its Rapid Ocean Conservation (ROC) Grants Programme.
ROC Grants provide small grants with a quick turnaround time for solutions to emerging ocean conservation and protection issues. This complements the Waitt Foundation's existing large grants programme and responds to conservation opportunities, supports high-risk ideas at a low financial cost and engages small local NGOs on a global scale.
Themes
The grants will fund projects related to the Waitt Foundation's mission to support sustainable fisheries and marine protected areas (MPAs). This includes sub-themes of:
- Scientific Research - This includes projects in the natural sciences or social sciences.
- Politics - It includes opportunistic projects around single windows of public policy, such as preparing policy analyses and supporting expert efforts to inform decision-makers about upcoming government actions.
- Management - Includes application and infrastructure support.
- Communications - It includes raising public awareness and involving stakeholders, including publicity by a 501(c)3 group around a public policy moment.
Financing Information
- Proposals for grants of up to US$ 20,000 will be reviewed monthly.
- Project duration - 6 months
Eligibility criteria
- As long as you are affiliated with a non-profit public charity (or equivalent in your country of residence), you can apply for funding.
- They do not provide emergency funding through the ROC Grants programme.
- The ROC Grants programme only provides grants to applicants who have public charity status.
- They do not provide subsidies to support thesis projects.
- Although your project may have been turned down previously, you can resubmit an application for funding at any time.
- They do not provide funding in support of previously approved donations and cannot provide ongoing funding for any project.
Evaluation criteria
- Urgency of Funding - How quickly the project needs to start in order to achieve maximum effectiveness.
- Conservation Impact - Magnitude of the ecological, socio-economic and political benefit.
- Scale of Impact - Geographical area and likelihood of applicability/replication elsewhere.
- Feasibility of Implementation - Based on the socio-economic and public policy context.
- Organisational Capacity - Size of adequate human capital and experience to carry out the project.
For more information, visit https://www.waittfoundation.org/roc-grants
