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* Please note: All grants have been allocated for 2024 and 2025
Who can apply for funding?
New charitable partners must be a registered charity, have a clear mission consistent with EGF’s objectives, support urgent elephant conservation projects, allow visits to their projects by EGF members, and keep EGF informed of the impact of the activities through regular reporting. The applicant must submit a grant application. Read on for more details.
What are the criteria for funding?
EGF intends to be as flexible and accommodating as possible when reviewing applications and to take into account as many different factors as is reasonable when assessing the merit of a suggested project. To support this and to try to streamline the application process, the review process is kept comparatively simple.
However, EGF does receive many more applications for support than grants could possibly be provided, so please find below some criteria and guidelines which would be useful to bear in mind when submitting an application.
How much of the cost of a proposal will EGF cover?
EGF will consider awarding grants to fund up to 100% of the cost. However, EGF will consider funding part of the cost of a proposal where the total cost is shared with one or more other funders; and encourage applicants to seek funding for their proposal. If a grant covers part of the cost of a proposal, EGF may require the applicant to provide details of the other funder(s) and the funding that they have secured or applied for (including any loans or other commercial funding).
How long will EGF take to consider grant proposals?
EGF may take up to 3 months to decide if they will award a grant or not.
Language: Applications must be submitted in English.
Currency: Budgets must be submitted in Euros.
Content: Text provided in an application should be kept concise and clear, with clearly stated quantitative goals, aims and methods. When writing an application, please bear in mind that there is only so much text which the EGF's trustees are capable of reading. Priority will be given to those projects that are written as clearly and precisely as possible.
In situ conservation: Generally, EGF is primarily interested in providing support to in situ conservation work in the field. However, the importance of ex-situ work (analysis, research, etc.) is also recognised, and so a few grants may be given to projects which focus on ex situ conservation work.
Core costs: EGF will not contribute to the core running costs of an organization or administrative overheads, and yet does recognise that sometimes support salaries, stipends, per diems and project-related living costs can be a vital part of in situ conservation work.
Species: EGF supports projects which focus on the conservation of elephants.
Grants for continuation: EGF is happy to provide continued support for a project which had previously been supported, which is now completed, and for which EGF has received all required reporting by the time of the respective submission deadline.
Process: Applications must be submitted through EGF's online application.
Throughout this application, we ask that you limit most text fields to a specific number of words. This is to aid our team in reviewing applications. If you strongly feel that further explanation is required for some questions, you are welcome to enter the URL of any relevant document (e.g. a PDF file) that you have uploaded to a website. For more information, please also check our FAQs.