Peacebuilding Grant Program
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Deadline: Rolling
Grant amount: Unspecified amount
Fields of work: Peacebuilding
Applicant type: Government Entity, Nonprofit, Indigenous Group
Funding uses: General Operating Expense, Project / Program
Location of project: Preferred: Afghanistan; Iran, Islamic Republic Of; Israel; Palestine, State of Other eligible locations: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Bahrain; Cyprus; Egypt Show all
Location of residency: Anywhere in the world
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Note: Staff members actively identify organizations that are well-positioned to meet programmatic goals. While we remain open to unsolicited requests, applicants should be aware that the likelihood of an unsolicited request becoming a grant is low.
Peacebuilding Program
Numerous and complex factors drive threats to global peace and security. From crises of governance between nation states and their citizens to environmental threats, weapons flows, and violent conflict—the effects of which transcend borders—the magnitude of today’s challenges requires systemic approaches. In light of unchecked xenophobic nationalism, the mass displacement of people, and weakening multilateral institutions, civil society has a critical role to play. A new generation of leaders is urgently needed to adapt existing frameworks for conflict transformation to address human security needs.
As the world evolves rapidly toward a multipolar reality in which a growing array of actors pursue their interests from positions of political and economic power, multilayered strategies are needed to create the conditions for just and durable peace. Local communities are best placed to diffuse conflict and mediate its prevention and resolution. Policy choices in the United States and other influential countries also remain critical to correcting the structural inequities and injustices that drive and exacerbate conflict. As isolationist tendencies and pressures on transnational alliances grow, promoting local resiliency and strengthening effective mechanisms for international and regional policy collaboration are essential for promoting nonviolence and cultivating peace.
The Fund believes that conflict transformation requires long-term strategic investments and a diverse constellation of actors to advance justice and equality. The Peacebuilding program aspires, therefore, to strengthen grassroots constituencies for peace and to promote innovative policy efforts that address drivers of conflict and are grounded in the realities and perspectives of affected women, youth, and local communities. The program focuses on conflicts that have a disproportionate influence on global insecurity and violence and in which the United States has a significant involvement.
Goal: Advance Just and Durable Peace
The Fund pursues the following interrelated strategies with respect to conflicts in the wider Middle East, focusing on Afghanistan, Israel/Palestine, and the U.S.-Iran relationship.
Strategies:
- Supporting innovative and collaborative approaches to and policies for conflict prevention and transformation at the multilateral, regional, and national levels.
- Strengthening constituencies and political will for conflict transformation and durable peace.
You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website.
Eligibility:
- To be eligible for a grant, organizations should be tax-exempt or seeking support for a project that would qualify as educational or charitable.
Ineligibility:
- What We Do Not Fund
- Support for Individuals
- We do not provide grant support to individuals, including funding for education, health care, and travel to or attendance at conferences.
- Meetings, Publications, and Films
- We do not generally support meetings, publications or films, including documentaries, through its grantmaking, unless directly related to a Fund-supported project. Learn more about the use of The Pocantico Center for conferences.
- Phased-Out Programs
- The Fund strives to be a strategic funder in carrying out its mission. As such, we evaluate our grantmaking regularly and phase out lines of grantmaking as appropriate. No funding is available for phased-out programs. For more information about the RBF’s past grantmaking, visit the Past Programs page or see the Grants Search.
- Capital Expenses
- We do not award grants for capital expenses, including the construction and renovation of buildings.
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