Being Ecosystem Catalyst Call for Proposals: Funding Bold Ideas for Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing 2024: (Deadline 28 August, 2024)

Being is now accepting proposals for the Funding Bold Ideas for Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing. 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.

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.

Eligibility

Each applicant must meet the following criteria in order to be eligible for consideration for this RFP:

• Organizations must be legally incorporated (or the equivalent) and based* in any country in order to be eligible to apply for funding through this RFP* and
• Only organizations implementing their project in at least one of Being’s 12 priority countries (Colombia, Ecuador, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Morocco, Pakistan, Romania, Senegal**, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Vietnam) will be considered; and
• Organizations must meet all other eligibility requirements set out in this RFP and FAQ found on the Grand Challenges Canada website and Being website.

Preference will be given to eligible organizations according to the following order of criteria (1 being the most preferred):

• Youth-led organizations based* in one of 12 priority countries. This includes organizations in which fifty percent (50%) or more of the individuals in key leadership positions (such as senior management, Board of Directors, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer) are youth 35 years and under.
• Organizations based* in one of Being’s 12 priority countries.
• Organizations based* in a low- and middle- income country that are collaborating with a locally-based organization in at least one of Being’s 12 priority countries.
• Other eligible organizations.

The following are ineligible:

• Individuals
• Sole proprietorships
• Unincorporated trusts and partnerships
• Government organizations
• United Nations country offices

Deadline: 28 August, 2024

Application

Applications for proof-of-concept and transition-to-scale funding opportunities will be accepted on a rolling basis. This means that applications are continually accepted and reviewed at specific intake periods until the total funding allocated for each opportunity has been awarded.

Applications for the ecosystem catalyst funding opportunity will be accepted in a single intake period, closing August 28th, 2024.

To apply for funding, applicants MUST use the online application form provided, which is ONLY accessible via Grand Challenges Canada’s Fluxx Portal.

Click here to apply.

For more information, visit Being.