Ireland Funds grants round to open this month
Howard Lake | 6 January 2015 | News
The Ireland Funds next grant round, which last year supported 126 projects, will open again for applications later this month.
The Ireland Funds will be running a number of grants workshops this month and next month for those interested in applying for a grant. Last year there were two grant rounds, a small grants programme which ended in late February and a Flagship programme for larger projects which closed in April.
The Ireland Funds’ giving fits into the overall Promising Ireland Campaign which supports work in the fields of cross community, education, culture, youth, ‘forgotten Irish’ and the promotion of philanthropy.
Average grants under the small grants round are €5,000 while the Flagship programme last year gave up to €75,000.
The Ireland Funds’ largest area of fundraising activity is in the United States but the Funds also has chapters in Canada and Britain which, while giving under the same general criteria of the Promising Ireland campaign, have their own particular emphasis.
Guidelines for the Canadian and British chapters can be found on the Ireland Funds website.
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.