Call from Fondation Hachette

Description

1) Objective

The Hachette Foundation seeks to promote and support initiatives that improve access to reading and literacy for diverse populations. The primary goals include:

• Encouraging a love for books and storytelling across all age groups, particularly among underserved communities.
• Supporting innovative projects that enhance literacy skills or overcome barriers to accessing books.
• Empowering educators, libraries, and cultural organizations to foster a culture of reading and knowledge-sharing.
• Promoting the integration of digital tools and modern approaches to make reading more inclusive and engaging.

The Foundation supports associations and structures that use reading as a tool for the better insertion, inclusion and integration of people in situations of exclusion or rupture. Whether they are people with disabilities, detained, far from employment, precarious, illiterate, the Foundation supports projects that place the learning or relearning of reading and writing at the heart of their devices.

2) Eligibility

To benefit from the Foundation’s support, the Project Leader must meet the following criteria: work in one of the Foundation’s fields of action, namely: in favor of the promotion of reading, books, writing and more generally the French language to all audiences and in particular children, youth in the broad sense and audiences far from reading; be an association or a structure of general interest in the fiscal sense of the term; – have its registered office in France; be established and deploy its actions over a wide territory (at the regional, national or level of a large agglomeration…).

3) Location

Actions must take place in France or abroad (in the past they have mostly funded French speaking countries).

4) Budget

Grants may range from €10,000-€50,000.

5) Application

The application deadline is 14 February 2025. A full proposal must be submitted. All application templates can be downloaded at the given website.