2019 Call for Proposals – Selected Projects
After a thorough evaluation process, BrazilFoundation announces the results of the 2019 Call for Proposals: 40 organizations in 15 Brazilian states will receive grants, and 10 previously-funded organizations will receive renewed support.
A total of R$ 1,770,000 will be dispersed for the organizations to develop and execute their projects. This year’s Call for Proposals was by invitation only, where we invited organizations that were mapped by BrazilFoundation or recommended by our network of partners to submit proposals. This year, in addition to funding the traditional thematic areas of Education and Culture, Health, Human Rights and Civic Engagement, and Socioeconomic Development, we will also be funding two new areas: Socioeconomic Inclusion for the Formerly Incarcerated, and Advocacy for Philanthropy to improve regulation in the social sector.
The selected initiatives will receive financial investment, technical support, mentoring, scholarships to participate in the ABCR Festival – the country’s largest fundraising event – and access to other forms of funding such as our leadership exchange program for knowledge exchange.
Funds for this Call for Proposals were made possible through partnerships with EM Fund, Katia Francesconi Charitable Fund and through the supporters of the galas in New York, São Paulo and Minas Gerais. In the second semester of this year we will launch a public Call for Proposals.
Other lines of support in 2019:
Partnership for Minas Gerais and Baixo Guandu
In partnership with Fundação Renova, BrazilFoundation launched a public Call for Proposals for organizations, cooperatives and collectives that promote socioeconomic development and entrepreneurship in eastern Minas Gerais and Baixo Guandu, Espírito Santo. A total of R$ 738,197 will be invested in 13 initiatives from six cities in this first phase of the partnership. A second Call for Proposals is planned to take place in the second semester of this year.
Brumadinho Call for Proposals
BrazilFoundation also launched a Call for Proposals to support initiatives in the Brumadinho region and contribute to its recovery and socioeconomic development in the medium to long term. The selected projects will be announced on April 15, 2019.
For questions, please contact us at: edital@brazilfoundation.org.
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Below is the list of projects to receive funding through the 2019 Call for Proposals:
Programmatic Area:
Advocacy for Philanthropy
1. ABCR – Associação Brasileira de Captadores de Recursos
São Paulo, SP | Advocating to improve philanthropic legislation for CSOs
2. WINGS
São Paulo, SP | #LiftUpPhilanthropy | Developing a support system for a thriving philanthropic sector in Brazil
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Education & Culture |
3. Associação Franciscana de Defesa de Direitos e Formação Popular
Poá, SP | Centro de Cultura e Defesa de Direitos Humanos Uneafro Brasil – Educação para Mudar a Vida | Mobilizing and preparing youth and adults from peripheral communities for higher education
4. Associação Ballet Paraisópolis
São Paulo, SP | Ballet Paraisópolis – Construindo Sonhos | Ballet and contemporary dance for children and adolescents from peripheral communities
5. Associação de Promoção Humana Divina Providência – Unidade Cidade dos Meninos São Vicente de Paulo
Ribeirão da Neves, MG | Cuidando de Quem Cuida | Professional training and empowerment for socially vulnerable populations
6. Associação Primeira Chance
Fortaleza, CE | (in partnership with EM Fund) Elos para Construção da Cidadania | Helping keep low-income youth in school and improve their family and community relationships
7. CAP – Reynaldo Gianecchini
Birigui, SP | Projeto Giane: O Amor tem Pressa | Developing the skills of children and youth through education, art, sports and entrepreneurship
8. Centro De Educação Para o Trabalho Virgílio Resi (CEDUC)
Belo Horizonte, MG | Aprendizes e Mídias: Impulso Educativo | Refining the digital skills of youth and adult CEDUC students
9. Instituto Fazer Acontecer
Salvador, BA | Fazendo Acontecer a Educação com o Esporte | Training educators to use sports as an inclusion and socialization tool for children and adolescents
10. Instituto Manda Ver
Maceió, AL | (in partnership with Katia Francesconi Charitable Fund) MandaVer Comunidade | Improving the organization’s infrastructure so they can provide cultural and sport activities for children and adolescents
11. Oficina Escola de Lutheria da Amazônia – OELA
Manaus, AM | Lutheria na Amazônia – Sons da Floresta | Teaching youth in the Amazon how to make, maintain and restore musical instruments with forest materials
12. Onda Solidária
Santana do Deserto, MG | Transformação Jovem – Comunidade Solidária | Engaging young leaders to discuss topics like gender equality, bullying and sexuality in their communities
13. Projeto Roda Viva
Rio de Janeiro, RJ | (in partnership with EM Fund) Roda de Saberes | Building a community library and space to hold prep courses for adolescents to enroll in technical schools
14. Serta – Serviço de Tecnologia Alternativa
Ibimirim, PE | O Campo é o Meu Lugar | Fostering entrepreneurialism in rural youth and facilitating farm succession planning
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Socioeconomic Development |
15. Associação dos Produtores Orgânicos de Iranduba – APOI
Iranduba, AM | Transição Agroecológica no Assentamento de Projeto de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Cachoeira | Supporting settler families and farmers to transition to sustainable methods of agriculture
16. Associação de Defesa Etnoambiental Kanindé
Porto Velho, RO | Casa de Farinha | Improving the safety and efficiency of local flour production to increase incomes
17. Associação Comunitária e de Produtores Rurais Santo Antônio do Mamori
Careiro, AM | Aprender Fazendo | Expanding an association’s practices to create income generation opportunities for local family farmers
18. Associação Querubins
Belo Horizonte, MG | Mão na Massa | Culinary training for youth from peripheral communities for jobs and a better life
19. Associação SOS Amazônia
Rio Branco, AC | Melhorar a Gestão para Conservar Mais | Implementing a compliance program and diversifying funding sources for the organization
20. Associação Zagaia Amazônia
Manaus, AM | Economia Criativa e Soluções Financeiras | Fostering an indigenous artisan women’s supply chain to increase incomes
21. BlackRocks
São Paulo, SP | (in partnership with EM Fund) BlackRocks | Formalizing the organization to better support young black entrepreneurs and increase their reach
22. Fundação Almerinda Malaquias
Novo Airão, AM | Ateliê das Crianças e Adolescentes | Environmental education for children and adolescents in the Amazon forest
23. Instituto CrediPaz
São Paulo, SP | CrediPaz | Providing credit to microentrepreneurs in disadvantaged communities to promote their inclusion
24. Instituto de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Mamiraua
Tefé, AM | Centro Vocacional Tecnológico | Supporting local leaders to conserve the Amazon and improve life for traditional communities
25. Suraras do Tapajós
Santarém, PA | (in partnership with EM Fund) Mulheres Indígenas do Baixo Tapajós: Fazendo Arte e Gerando Renda | Training indigenous women to make jewelry for income and to preserve local culture
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Health |
26. Associação Médicos do Mundo
Curitiba, PR | Médicos de Rua, Mais do que Saúde | Providing health and legal services for people and animals living on the street
27. CENEP – Centro de Educação Popular
Nova Palmeira, PB | Geração de Bem Estar Social e Prevenção na Saúde | Encouraging practices like healthy eating, meditation and acupuncture for wellness and illness prevention
28. Fundação Benjamin Guimarães – Hospital da Baleia
Belo Horizonte, MG | Portal Hospital da Baleia | Building a website to share research and health services for thousands of patients in MG
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Human Rights & Civic Engagement |
29. Ação Educativa
São Paulo, SP | Cultura, Identidade e Projetos de Vida | Improving conditions for justice-involved adolescents by training professionals in the institutions that serve them
30. Associação de Justiça Restaurativa Passarela Alternativa
São Paulo, SP | Escola de Moda Alternativa | Education and professional training for justice-involved girls and presently and formerly-incarcerated women
31. Estamparia Social
São Paulo, SP | Estamparia Social | Professional training in sewing and printmaking for the formerly-incarcerated population
32. Gerando Falcões – Programa Recomeçar
São Paulo, SP | Projeto Recomeçar | Professional training and psychological services for the formerly-incarcerated and their families, supporting their return to the workforce
33. Grupo Cultural AfroReggae
Rio de Janeiro, RJ | Agência de Empregos Segunda Chance | Promoting the professional and social re-entry of the formerly-incarcerated by providing them guidance and creating awareness among society
34. Instituto Ação Social Pela Paz
São Paulo, SP | Sistematização do Projeto Semeando Sonhos – Despertando Possibilidades | Supporting the re-entry process for the formerly-incarcerated through dialogue on professional planning and personal healing
35. Instituto de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Amazônia Mais
Manaus, AM | Rede de Guardiões da Floresta | Training a citizens network to use technology to denounce environmental crimes in Amazonas state
36. IDBR – Instituto Identidades do Brasil
Rio de Janeiro, RJ | Programa Sim à Igualdade Racial de Bolsas de Estudo | A scholarship program to promote the employment and inclusion of Afro-Brazilians from peripheral communities
37. Instituto Minas pela Paz
Belo Horizonte, MG | Programa Pró APAC | Professional training and social integration for the APAC incarcerated populations
38. Instituto Papel de Menino
Franco da Rocha, SP | Padaria Escola Pão Nosso | Providing justice-involved youth professional training and cultural activities before and after their sentences to facilitate their growth and re-entry
39. Instituto Responsa
São Paulo, SP | Recriar e Inserir | Professional training and emotional and personal counseling for the formerly-incarcerated
40. Ong Ágatha
Aracaju, SE | FOPS – Formação Educacional e Profissional Social | Literacy, professional training and entrepreneurship for youth and adult incarcerated people in Sergipe
Renewed Support
In partnership with EM Fund:
41. Ame o Tucunduba
Belém, PA | Fala Tucunduba | Teaching young leaders to manage the region’s water resources and create local change
42. Cooperativa Social de Trabalho Arte Feminina Empreendedora (COOSTAFE)
Ananindeua, PA | Costurando Vidas | Artisanship providing professional development and income for formerly-incarcerated women
43. Instituto Projeto Sonhar
São Paulo, SP | Projeto Sonhar Famílias | Guidance, healthcare and income generation for families in Capão Redondo
44. Marginal, Coletivo
Rio de Janeiro, RJ | Institutional Support | Formalizing the collective and organizing the Escola Margem, the first school for community educators in the City of God
45. MMNEPA – Movimento de Mulheres do Nordeste Paraense
Capanema, PA | Um Novo Mundo é Possível: Mulheres pelo Fim da Violência | Training community leaders and articulating public policies to reduce domestic violence against women
46. Quabales
Salvador, BA | Quabales | Music as a tool for social transformation
47. Urece Esporte e Cultura
Rio de Janeiro, RJ | Construindo um Amanhã com Igualdade | Training public school teachers to teach students who are visually-impaired, promoting their autonomy and overall respect for differences
Minas Fund:
48. História em Construção
Belo Horizonte, MG | Morro Verde | Promoting education and integration through a community garden
49. Instituto Mano Down
Belo Horizonte, MG | Alfabetizar para Empoderar | Training teachers to improve literacy instruction to people with Down Syndrome
In partnership with Katia Francesconi Charitable Fund:
50. Casa Do Rio
Careiro Castanho, AM | Casa do Rio | Promoting sustainable development, income generation and identity in riverside communities
In partnership with Fundação Renova
Socioeconomic Development, Entrepreneurialism and Income Generation
1. Associação da Escola Família Agrícola de Camões
Sem Peixe, MG | Projeto de Fortalecimento Institucional | Supporting projects, workshops and encounters that can improve quality of life for rural families
2. Associação de Artesãos Mãos do Povo
Resplendor, MG | Arte de Viver | Training and supporting artisans in sales
3. Associação de Cooperação Agrícola 1 de Junho
Tumiritinga, MG | Renovação do Alambique “Mineira do Leste” | Acquiring new equipment for a distillery to produce better, more profitable products
4. Associação de Produtores Rurais do Córrego Mutum Claro
Baixo Guandu, ES | Massa dos Sonhos | Equipping an artisanal bakery for local producers
5. Associação de Produtores Rurais do Córrego Mutum Preto
Baixo Guandu, ES | Saúde na Cesta | Helping small rural farmers to sell high-quality produce at accessible, yet profitable, prices
6. Associação do Assentamento Cachoeirinha (AAC)
Tumiritinga, MG | Revitalização do Laticínio de Tumiritinga | Promoting technologies that can scale dairy product production for family farmers
7. Associação dos Agricultores Rurais de Ipaba
Ipaba, MG | Projeto de Irrigação por Gotejamento | Increasing family farmers’ productivity and sales to increase their incomes and improve local diets
8. Associação dos Catadores de Materiais Recicláveis Natureza Viva (ASCANAVI)
Governador Valadares, MG | Promoção Social na Gestão de Resíduos em Governador Valadares | Helping waste pickers improve their productivity and the safety of work conditions
9. Associação dos Pescadores e Amigos do Rio Doce (APARD)
Governador Valadares, MG | Projeto Surubim | Transferring technology to local fishermen to harvest and sell freshwater fish
10. Atelier Lar Doce Lar
Resplendor, MG | Atelier lar Doce Lar | Workshops on making artisanal goods to promote income and inclusion
11. Conselho de Desenvolvimento Comunitário do Barbosa (CCB)
Sem Peixe, MG | Fortalecimento da produção agroindustrial familiar da comunidade do Barbosa | Acquiring equipment to improve working conditions and market opportunities for traditional confectioners
12. Doces Artesanais Ilha da Fantasia
Baixo Guandu, ES | Produzindo Doces e Adoçando Vidas | Acquiring equipment to expand dairy-product candy confection, improve work conditions and reach new markets
13. Mimos da Mari
Resplendor, MG | Mimos da Mari | Expanding artisanal production and creating a network of women artisans to promote local economic development
