The European Environmental Funders Group is undertaking an exciting initiative aimed at identifying the main European environmental funders and mapping out their grants and operational programmes expenditure. The project builds on a pilot mapping conducted in 2007. The long term goal is to establish as detailed a picture as possible on the state of European independent funding for environmental issues with a view to better supporting the information needs of funders active in this field, improving coordination and facilitating the identification of potential partners.
The project will cover European public benefit foundations and corporate funders in EU-27 and EFTA countries, both EFC Members and non-Members. Environmental funding is defined broadly and concerns domestic as well as international expenditure, including grants and programmes. The result will be a report presenting and analyzing key findings, as well as a series of maps highlighting the distribution of grants and programmatic expenditure.
The project seeks to gather grants level data that is comparable to that of resource tracking initiatives undertaken in Canada, the USA, Australia and the UK in order to enable comparison across different world regions.
Foundations and corporate funders active in the environmental field are invited and encouraged to take part in this project and contribute to building tools that will support environmental funders as well as the environmental field in Europe.
How can you contribute?
1. Complete this short form about your foundation
2. Submit the list of your environmental grants/expenditure for 2009 or the most recent year available by 30 October 2010. Please include data on as many of the fields below as you can:
• Grantee name
• Purpose or short description of the grant
• Grant amount. Please indicate currency if other than €
• Year of approval
• Duration of the grant
• Other type of financing (if not a grant: such as loans, guarantee,
quasi-equity, etc)
• Grantee country of location
• Final beneficiary country/region (if not provided in the grant
description)
• Final beneficiary target group (if not provided in the grant
description)
Foundations that operate own programmes should submit a list of own programme expenditure that covers the same fields as above.
3. Tell us who else within your network/country should be contacted and included in the mapping project.
The group will be happy to receive an output from your grants management system in whichever electronic format and language it is available. If you maintain the same level of data in English and another language, we would appreciate to receive the output in English.
If you are concerned about confidentiality, rest assured that the EFC will treat your financial information with utmost care and respect for your request to keep it confidential. The report and maps will feature only aggregate data. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you would like to discuss this issue in greater detail.
Information shall be sent by 30 October to Sevdalina Rukanova (srukanova@efc.be) or Marilena Vrana (mvrana@efc.be) at the EFC Secretariat.
Thank you for your cooperation!
About the European Environmental Funders Group:
Aims to provide a European-level platform for foundations active in the field of environment, sustainable development and climate change to exchange information and practice, identify areas of common interest, and design collaborative initiatives to address them. Further information: www.efc.be/environment