Applications Invited for Free Rivers Fund Emergency Grant

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About the Organization

The Free Rivers Fund (FRF) originated from the minds of three international kayaking activist. Dan Yates (UK), Rok Rozman (SLO) and Bernie Steidl (AUT) were all engaged in a different struggle against hydropower projects that were threatening the free flowing creeks and rivers of their homes. The idea was to give financial support to those who spend their free time protecting rivers from being dammed. With all three founders being grassroots activist, they have experienced with how vital even small funding is for running a campaign successfully. And how time consuming it is to raise those funds. The Free Rivers Fund intends to help here.

Our intention is for the process to be as easy as possible for small grassroots projects to access money to help cover their costs. We don’t want projects to waste time on applications and forms and rather use that time to reach their conservation goals.

About the Grant

Free Rivers Fund’s aim is to help small initiatives and we especially want to get them started. This is why we were never completely satisfied with our concept of having only one application phase per year. What, if someone had to kick off a project, say, in August? But thanks to the large support we received in 2019, we were now able to set up a fund for urgent action projects. So, from 2020 on we offer our new “Emergency Grant”. Everyone can apply for it with just an e-mail – all year round. The purpose is to help initiatives that have just formed in order to prevent a dam. In other words, the grant’s target group is way smaller than that of our ‘regular’ grants and we’ve set up some rules:

Requirements: You can apply, if

• your project aims at direct action against a proposed dam.
• your project is new.
• your project is run by a single person, a group or a newly formed organisation. If you are an established organisation, then please stick to the regular application period.

How to Apply

To apply, please send us an e-mail summarising your issue.

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