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GRANTMAKING PROGRAMME

Zeroing In: Migrants and mobile populations

We regret to inform you that the application period for this grant programme has now closed. Please email GileadZeroingIn@cafonline.org if you have any queries.

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Background

Gilead Corporate Giving | Gilead recognises that patients and communities often face challenges in accessing the best possible care, and we know that passion for scientific discovery alone — and that Gilead alone — cannot solve these challenges. This is why, through our global corporate grant programmes, we support patient advocates, healthcare professionals and nonprofit groups around the world that work tirelessly in local communities to improve people’s lives day after day.

Gilead supports organisations partnering to advance the goals of our corporate giving mission: to improve healthcare access, eliminate the barriers to healthcare encountered by underserved populations and advance education among healthcare professionals, patients and community members.

 

Programme and purpose

The overall ambition of the programme is to contribute to the efforts of organisations that are helping to improve the health outcomes of mobile and migrant populations across Australia, Canada and Europe (ACE). Zeroing In: Migrants and Mobile Populations supports community-led initiatives focusing on three programmatic pillars outlined below.

Prevention

Supporting projects focused on developing and scaling HIV prevention measures and technologies for migrant populations living with, being at risk of or affected by HIV.

HIV initiatives that could be funded by this programme include, but are not limited to:

  • Distribution of preventive measures and technologies.
  • Outreach prevention programmes.
  • Culturally appropriate HIV prevention programmes.
  • Community-based prevention navigation initiatives
  • Other innovative prevention approaches.

 

Education and awareness

Supporting education, advocacy and awareness initiatives to increase health literacy and address stigma and discrimination to facilitate access to HIV prevention, testing and care.

HIV initiatives that could be funded by this programme include, but are not limited to:

  • Outreach health literacy educational programmes awareness campaigns.
  • Culturally appropriate stigma reduction campaigns.
  • Mentoring and peer learning/support initiatives.
  • Stigma reduction campaigns for care professionals.
  • Programmes engaging with key stakeholders to be better understand the opportunities to support migrant populations living with, being at risk of or affected by HIV.  

 

Testing and linkage to care

Supporting testing opportunities, facilitated access to care and navigators to address the barriers to accessing testing and quality care for migrant populations.

HIV initiatives that could be funded by this programme include, but are not limited to:

  • Initiatives supporting healthcare services navigation e.g. intercultural mediators.
  • Programmes facilitating access to information about health systems and health entitlements.
  • Outreach testing programmes.
  • Programmes focused on linkage to appropriate care.
  • Programmes facilitating access to care.
  • Other programmes addressing the barriers to accessing care such as translating key documents or promoting culturally appropriate care delivery.

Selection criteria

To be selected for the Zeroing In: Migrants and Mobile Populations Programme, you will be asked to demonstrate:

  • Proposals are aligned with at least one of the programmatic pillars: Education and Awareness, Prevention, Testing & Linkage to care.
  • Projects will be delivered in at least one of the countries in-scope (see below for details of eligible countries).
  • Proposals must set out clear programme objectives and implementation plans.
  • Proposal budgets are reflective of proposed activities.
  • Organisations have the competencies and resources to roll-out the proposed project.
  • Projects indicate long-term sustainability.
  • Collaborative programmes between partners have a shared vision for success.

 

Grants and support available

This programme will award £4m to eligible charitable organisations across the ACE region. There are 3 tiers of funding available to choose from depending on your organisation size and focus area:

 

Development Funding

Scale-up Funding

Innovation Funding

Grant size

£15,000 - £99,999

£100,000 - £400, 000

£15,000 - £50,000 (year 1)

£30,000 - £100,000 (year 2)

Duration

Up to 2 years

Up to 2 years 

Up to 1 year, with opportunity to scale for another year

Summary

Funding to support community-based initiatives focused on improving the health of migrant populations, to develop, run or strengthen existing programmes.

Funding to support larger organisations and programmes focused on achieving impact at scale for migrant populations.

Funding to allow organisations of all sizes to test new approaches and initiatives for up to a year, with the opportunity to unlock further funding to adapt or scale pilot activities for another year.

Costs

Project costs – up to 60% 
Core costs - up to 30% 
Monitoring, evaluation and dissemination of learnings - up to 10%

Project costs – up to 70% 
Core costs - up to 20% 
Monitoring, evaluation and dissemination of learnings - up to 10%

Project costs – up to 60% 
Core costs - up to 30% 
Monitoring, evaluation and dissemination of learnings - up to 10%

Min annual income for grant holders

Approx £45,000

Approx £300,000

Approx £45,000

Requests

Proposals must demonstrate alignment with either:

• Prevention
• Education and awareness
• Testing and linkage to care

Proposals must also demonstrate:
• A community-led approach

Collaborative proposals developed jointly by a consortium of at least two organisations are also strongly encouraged to apply.

 

In addition to the grant activities, grant holders may be invited to attend webinars. These webinars are aimed at supporting collaboration amongst grant holders, promote learnings and share best practice across organisations supporting migrant populations.

You can apply for a grant between £15,000 and £400,000 and are asked to apply for a size of grant that is proportionate to the size of your organisation and the programme you intend to deliver. Your grant request should be no more than 33% of your last filed income. If you are successful, up to 30% of the grant could be spent on core costs, 10% would be reserved for M&E and dissemination of learnings and 60-70% will be restricted to spend on project costs to undertake work to improve the health outcomes of key populations.

The core costs part of the grant will be yours to use as you think best, as long as it contributes to the mission and aims of the programme and is not used towards any line items that fall within the ‘Funding Restrictions’. We will ask you to tell us how you intend to use the funds and will ask you to report on the impact this has had on your organisation and your community.

Eligibility criteria

Your organisation must: 

 

  • Be registered and operating in one or more of the countries below:

Albania
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Canada
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland

France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Kosovo
Latvia
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Malta
Montenegro

Netherlands
New Zealand
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom

 

  • Be registered as a non-profit organisation. This includes registered charities and other registered non-profit organisations.
  • Apply for a grant no more that 33% of your annual income.
  • Request an appropriate level of funding according to your project needs.
  • Before you apply, please ensure that you can provide the required documentation in English. These include:
    • annual financial accounts,
    • governing documents,
    • personal details of your organisation’s directors and financial controllers,
    • a certificate of registration as a not-for-profit organisation, and
    • a recent (less than 3 months old) transactional bank statement. 

Funding restrictions

 

Funding exclusions include:


  • Payments made to individuals (including, without limitation individual health care providers, patient organisation representatives and/or government officials) or physician group practices
  • Organisations that:
    • Are not legally registered as charitable/non-profit.
    • Were established or registered as charitable after 1 December 2023.
    • Primarily promote political or religious viewpoints to the people they support.
    • Are unable to supply appropriate documents including those listed above.

The fund cannot be used for:


  • Expenditure which will have already taken place when the grant is offered.
  • Any grants, bursaries, sponsorship or financial donations to other organisations or individuals.
  • Capital equipment or significant items to purchase i.e. laptops or mobile phones.
  • Medications or purchasing of medications.
  • Direct medical expenses, including labs.
  • Existing deficits.
  • Basic biomedical research, Gilead-sponsored clinical research or clinical trials.
  • Projects that directly influence or advance Gilead’s business, including purchase, utilisation, prescribing, formulary position, pricing, reimbursement, referral, recommendation or payment for products.
  • Events or programmes that already occurred.
  • Government lobbying activities.
  • Organisations that discriminate on the basis of race, colour, gender, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity or expression.

How to apply

 

Application process

Our online application aims to provide an efficient, fair and transparent process.
Grant decisions will be provided by email in June 2025 with grant payments for successful applicants starting to be paid in August 2025 after our verification and due diligence processes.

To begin a new application form

  1. Click here to start a new application 
  2. Log in to CAF’s online portal with your email address and a password (or click ‘new applicant’ to register if you’ve not registered before)
  3. Complete a short series of eligibility questions

To resume an existing application 

To return to a partially completed or submitted form you will need to log in to your account here. 

Timescale 

The planned timescale which we aim to work towards is:

Application process open

 

Grant decisions
Introductory webinar
Payments
Learning webinar
Progress report
Impact and learning webinar
End of Grant report
Post-grant survey

1 December 2024 (9am GMT) - 7 February 2025 (23:59 in your local time)


Late June 2025 onwards
September 2025
September 2025 onwards
October 2026
November 2026
November 2027
November 2027
May 2028

If you have questions, check the FAQs below. If you need a more detailed answer, please email us in the first instance.

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You can be an NGO, non-profit, registered charity, or an organisation with a social mission that operates on a non-profit basis.  Applications will be considered from any organisation whose mission is exclusively charitable. 

Please ensure that you have uploaded signed, scanned copies of the required documents to enable us to verify your charitable purpose. These must be submitted as part of the application process. 

 

Yes. However, one organisation must take responsibility for completing the application, managing the funds and reporting on impact as lead partner. The leading applicant organisation cannot provide sub grants to the other organisations in the consortium. There should be a written Memorandum of Understanding between the organisations. The 33% funding limit will apply only to the leading organisation.

You need to apply through an organisation. We cannot provide funding to individuals.

Yes, however this fund is set up to support additional opportunities in the form of new projects. Gilead funding should not already be supporting the initiative for which you are applying. Any additional funding applied for through this programme must not exceed 33% of your total turnover.

No, expenditure must take place after the grant is awarded.

Grants will be awarded up to the appropriate level for each category in GBP£. Please note that grant decisions will be based on the merits of all applications received, as well as the total funds available. Part of the assessment will focus on the transparency and breakdown of project costs, and partial funding (should there be any ineligible costs in the budget) may be awarded in some cases. Please request an appropriate level of funding according to your project needs, and include a breakdown of your planned costs.

You must request funding in GBP£. It is then possible to request payment in your local currency, however this will be calculated using the exchange rate from GBP£ on the date of payment. 

To counter potential currency fluctuation, please incorporate any anticipated currency fluctuation risk (which can be up to 10% of the total budget if needed) as a line in your budget breakdown, along with an explanation as to why currency fluctuation would negatively affect the final amount received.

 

We would expect your work plan to include key milestones and objectives, activities planned, outputs, and start and end dates. This information will be used to help us assess your planned activities and grant request.

Yes, please make sure you submit your application by midnight in your local time zone on 7 February 2025. 

Applicants can expect to receive notification of the outcome of the decision of the panel in June 2025. Timings will depend on the volume of applications received. This will be followed by the due diligence process.

If your project is selected, CAF will then ask you for documentation to complete the due diligence and verification checks. This is to ensure the grants meet legal requirements on international charitable donations. You must complete this stage before funds can be delivered. Documents may include:

  • a copy of your organisation’s governing document

  • a certificate of charitable/non-profit registration in your country,

  • most recent annual financial accounts a transactional bank statement from the last 3 months as proof of your organisation’s bank account, and

  • details of your Trustees/Directors’ full names, residential addresses and dates of birth.

Further information may be required in some cases, and you will be told of this if your project is shortlisted. 


 

This is likely to vary by country. Your governing document or equivalent evidence is the document that sets out the “rules” of your organisation. It could be your constitution, articles of association, bylaws, statutes, trust deed, articles of incorporation or other legal document, explaining the purpose of your organisation and how it works. It must include a charitable dissolution clause (i.e. what would happen to your assets if your organisation closes down).

Please note that the grant decisions will be based on the merits of all applications received, as well as the total funds available.

We want you to apply for an amount that is appropriate for your size of organisation and the activities you have planned. You can apply for a grant between £15,000 and £400,000. Please apply for a size of grant that is proportionate to your organisation’s size and your grant request should be no more than 33% of your last filed turnover. 

 

We are able to answer queries related to the Fund, the online application portal, and reporting requirements via the contact details below, but we cannot advise on how you should construct your proposal. 

Applications, along with supporting documentation and reporting, must be in English. Online translation tools can be used if needed to prepare your application and documentation. Please be reassured that your application is not assessed on your English fluency. 

We will select charitable organisations that most clearly meet the aims and priorities of the programme. All applications will be assessed for eligibility and strength based on a robust scoring matrix and framework.

This programme is specifically open to organisations based the countries listed. 

A portion of your grant (Development & Innovation grants up to 30%; Scale Up grants up to 20%) can be spent on the core costs outlined below. This allows you to be flexible and agile, to adapt to new realities and to develop greater resilience.

  • Facilities not acquired specifically and exclusively for the project (e.g., Foundation, Institute, or University headquarters)
  • Utilities for facilities not acquired for and not directly attributable to the project
  • Information technology equipment and support not directly attributable to the project
  • General administrative support not directly attributable to the project. Examples are as follows:
    • Executive administrators.
    • General ledger accounting.
    • Grants accounting.
    • General financial management.
    • Internal audit function.
    • IT support personnel.
    • Facilities support personnel.
    • Scientific support functions (not attributable to the project).
    • Environment health and safety personnel.
    • Human resources.
    • Library & information support.
    • Shared procurement resources.
    • General logistics support.
    • Material management.
    • Executive management.
    • Other shared resources not directly attributable to the project.
    • Institutional legal support.
    • Research management costs.
    • Depreciation on equipment.
    • Insurance not directly attributable to a given project.

Grant holders will be required to submit a progress report halfway after starting the project. After the completion of your project, we will ask you to complete a final report outlining how funds have been spent, what you have achieved, and the difference the funding has made. 

We will also contact you 6 months after the project has ended to determine the long-term impact of the project. 

 

The request for further funds will be incorporated into the end of grant report in Year 1 to balance the effort required by charities/non-profit organisations to submit their proposal.

Failing to provide supporting documents would mean that CAF will not be able to perform relevant due diligence checks. Therefore, applications without appropriate supporting documents will not be considered for a grant.

How your data is used

If you apply for this grant programme, you will be directed to CAF’s carefully selected service provider (Blackbaud) to enter the details of your grant application. Your data will only be used for the purposes of this programme. CAF will act as a data controller for the purposes of your data. Please refer to CAF's privacy policy and Gilead’s privacy policy for more information on how your data will be used. 

 

How to contact us

If you have any questions on the application process, please contact the Grantmaking team on 03000 123334 or email GileadZeroingIn@cafonline.org 

 

Date of preparation: November 2024
Job Bag Number: IHQ-UNB-6589

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