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Overview
| Donor: | Nippon Foundation |
| Application procedure: | Full Proposal |
| Donor base: | Japan |
| Reference number: | - |
| Eligible applicants: | Non-Profit Organisation |
| Deadline: | ongoing |
Financial details
| Grant size: | Medium - up to $1,000,000 |
| Minimum grant size: | 30.000$ |
| Total available budget: | 20.000.000$ |
| Funding type: | Grants |
| Maximum grant size: | 1.000.000$ |
| Funding ratio: | up to 100% |
Sectors
- Disability
- Education
- Food Security
- Health
- Human Rights
Project Locations
Africa
Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe
America
Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela
Asia
Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, East Timor, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Qatar, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, West Bank and Gaza, Yemen
Europe
Albania, Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
Pacific
Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu
Description
1) Objective
The Nippon Foundation’s mission is social innovation. Together with more than 20 partner organisations in Japan and worldwide the Foundation is funding and assisting community-led efforts aimed at realizing a more peaceful and prosperous global society.
They support: (1) welfare, anticrime, and disaster preparedness measures, as well as local education activities; (2) social safety nets, train hospice care staff, support populations in disaster-affected areas; (3) education and foster care systems, children’s hospice facilities, and student volunteers; (4) the oceans and keep the seas safe; (5) medicine, education, agriculture, and disabled persons in the developing world (they focus in particular on the battle against leprosy and work to ensure the human rights of those with the disease); and (6) international symposiums, cultural and personnel exchanges, projects to share Japan with the world, and activities to foster the global leaders of tomorrow.
2) Eligibility
Eligible are non-profit organisations around the world (incl. educational and research institutions).
3) Location
They support initiatives worldwide with a focus on Asia.
4) Budget
Grant amounts range from $30,000 to $1,000,000 but there is no upper limit. In the grants programme, they fund app. 30 projects per year.
5) Application
There is no application deadline as such, and applications can be received throughout the year. If your organisation is interested in receiving grants from them, you can contact them via email before applying. Before undertaking the considerable time investment necessary to put together an application, please note that the competition for grants is extremely fierce, and the chance of any application receiving funding is slim.