DRK Foundation funds early-stage social impact organizations

"DRK Foundation funds early-stage social impact organizations solving the world’s biggest social and environmental problems using bold, scalable approaches.

Eligibility Criteria

1. Applicant Organizations:

a) are addressing an urgent or critical social or environmental problem in an innovative fashion and in a way that directly benefits underserved populations;

b) whose solutions work within existing systems, leveraging existing stakeholders, infrastructure, and incentives to grow their impact;

c) whose solutions can scale significantly, in that they can grow exponentially over time to directly impact a minimum of 10,000 lives within the next five years, and ambitions to grow well beyond that;

d) operating in our priority geographies of Africa, Europe, India, and the United States, although we will also consider opportunities in Latin America in select situations;

e) that are structured as independent nonprofit or impact first, mission-driven for-profit entities, including US 501(c)3 and its non-US equivalents, C corporations, B corporations, hybrid organizations, and fiscally sponsored organizations where there is a plan to spin out;

f) that have at least a growable stream of earned income revenues or plans to develop an earned income revenue stream in the immediate future;

g) that are developing solutions based on data and clear evidence of what works, and through their pilot(s) have a demonstrated ability to clearly and effectively measure their impact on underserved populations;

h) that are early stage, which we define as post-pilot and pre-scale.

2. Organizations may re-apply up to twice, no sooner than one year after a decline notification from DRK regarding any previous applications.

3. Submit an application through our website.

The core of DRK’s model is deep and extensive operational and technical support for each portfolio organization, both through a dedicated hands-on Board service role and specialist capacity-building resources across leadership and board development, organizational and fundraising capacity building, financial sustainability, and scaling strategy thinking.

DRK Foundation accepts applications year round (rolling basis)."

For more information please visit

https://www.drkfoundation.org/apply-for-funding/what-we-fund/https://lnkd.in/ewSu2gp

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