Being Ecosystem Catalyst Call for Proposals: Funding Bold Ideas for Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing 2024

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About Being Ecosystem Catalyst Funding for Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing 2024

They are seeking Ecosystem Catalyst proposals from mental health organizations, social enterprises, research institutions, consortiums, and others who work with decision-makers, public sector representatives, community advocates, public and private funders, young people, and other key stakeholders in Colombia, Ecuador, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Morocco, Pakistan, Romania, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Vietnam.

Being is looking to fund bold prevention and promotion ideas that address the early drivers of mental health and wellbeing for the most underserved 10- to 24-year-olds. Being seeks to fund innovative solutions that meet the context-specific upstream drivers of young people's mental health and wellbeing along with ecosystem-level efforts that address the broader systemic barriers that hinder sustainable implementation and broader integration of mental health and wellbeing promotion and prevention initiatives.

• Sponsor Organisation: Being

Benefits of Being Ecosystem Catalyst Funding for Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing 2024

Funding Details

Ecosystem Catalyst (EC) funding aims to build supportive environments that create the right conditions for mental health initiatives to grow and succeed. Funding between $200,000 CAD and $300,000 CAD will be awarded to projects that can address country-specific barriers to scaling youth mental health initiatives, such as limited legislation, evidence, coordination, and demand.

Being Ecosystem Catalyst Funding for Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing 2024 Requirements

All legally incorporated (or the equivalent) organizations based in any country can apply for funding through this RFP. Please note: Only organizations implementing their project in the 12 priority countries, Colombia, Ecuador, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Morocco, Pakistan, Romania, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Vietnam, will be considered.  

Preference will be given to eligible organizations based on the following order of criteria:  

1. Youth-led organizations (50% or more of staff in key leadership roles are youth aged 35 and under) based in one of 12 priority countries.  
2. Organizations based in one of Being’s 12 priority countries.   
3. Organizations based in any low- and middle-income country partnering with a local organization based in at least one of the 12 priority countries. 
4. Other eligible organizations. 

Application Date and Process

All applications will involve a two-stage application process:   

1. Completing a screening questionnaire and submitting a project summary (stage one); and   
2. Submitting a full project application (stage two). Only those applications that pass screening (stage one) will be invited to submit a full application (stage two). 

Please note: Applications will only be accepted through their online application form only accessible via Grand Challenges Canada’s Fluxx Portal https://gcc.fluxx.io.New users must register for an account on Fluxx at least 7 days before an intake deadline.  

Application Deadline

21 August, 2024

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