Niwano Peace Foundation Grants for Local Community or Social Activities

Deadline: 30 April 2015
Open to: individuals or organizations worldwide
Grant: 1,000000 yen (around USD 10,000) per grant

Description

The Niwano Peace Foundation promotes inter-religious understanding and cooperation. It also strives to strengthen cooperation among people actively making continuing efforts, in a religious spirit, to achieve a peaceful society. The Foundation makes grants in order to provide active encouragement for activities undertaken in a religious spirit and conducted in such a way as to invite broad social participation. Grant applications will be received twice in the year. Grants will run for one year from 1 August 2015 or 1 November 2015. 

Categories:

1. Social activities based on a religious spirit: Activities for individual and community welfare and peace, both physical and spiritual, based on a religious spirit that emerges from reverence for God, Buddha, or other universal spiritual reality;
2. Grass-roots activities deployed in a local community: Activities to vitalize local communities through interdisciplinary workshops and meetings with particular emphasis on collaboration by groups and individuals from diverse organizations and religious groups.

Eligibility

• Individuals or organizations worldwide;
• All nationalities;
• Any group which has been in continuous existence for a reasonable length of time is eligible to apply, whether or not it is legally incorporated.

Grants

A total of 10 million yen will be available for grants in 2015. The number of successful applicants will be decided in accord with the merits of the applications. The maximum amount for Activity Grants 1,000,000 yen (USD 10,000).

Application

Fill in the application form. Return the completed application form in hard copy by post to the foundation only after making sure that all details have been filled in appropriately. Do not include any additional sheets of papers not specifically requested. Applications by e-mail, fax or delivered in person will not be accepted.

(Mr.) Waichi Hoshina,
Program Officer Niwano Peace Foundation
Shamvilla Catherina 5F, 1-16-9 Shinjuku Shinjuku-ku,
Tokyo 160-0022, JAPAN
Tel: 81-3-3226-4371
Fax: 81-3-3226-1835
E-mail: npfgrant@npf.or.jp

For more information please visit the official website.