RFP - Funding Bold Ideas for Youth Mental Health in 12 countries

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About the Organization

Being is an international mental health initiative envisioning a world where young people feel well and thrive. We work with young people to improve their mental health and wellbeing through research, innovation and ecosystem building, with a focus on prevention and promotion in 12 priority countries: Colombia, Ecuador, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Morocco, Pakistan, Romania, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Vietnam.

About the Proposal

We are 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.

Being seeks culturally sensitive and community driven approaches that account for the complex social and environmental factors contributing to young people’s mental health and wellbeing. Importantly, these approaches must take a person centered, rights-based approach, and must involve young people and people with lived experience of mental health challenges from the outset.

Three types of funding opportunities are available:

• Proof-of-Concept (POC) Funding  : POC funding up to $250,000 CAD will be awarded over 15, 18 or 24 months to early-stage projects that can implement, test and refine solutions to country-specific personal, social, and/or environmental factors impacting young people’s mental health and wellbeing in one of the 12 countries. 
• Transition-to-Scale (TTS) Funding : TTS funding between $300,000 CAD and $1,500,000 CAD over 12-48 months will be awarded to support organizations that align with country-specific priorities along their scaling journey to help catalyze their sustainability and impact. 
• Ecosystem Catalyst (EC) Funding : EC funding between $200,000 CAD and $300,000 CAD over 24 months will be awarded to organizations that can address priority barriers to scale, such as legislation, evidence, coordination, and mobilize demand for the scale-up of effective solutions in one of the 12 countries.

Eligibility

All legally incorporated (or the equivalent) organizations based in any country can apply for funding through this RFP. Please note: Only organizations implementing their project in the 12 priority countries, Colombia, Ecuador, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Morocco, Pakistan, Romania, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Vietnam, will be considered. 

Preference will be given to eligible organizations based on the following order of criteria: 

• Youth-led organizations (50% or more of staff in key leadership roles are youth aged 35 and under) based in one of 12 priority countries. 
• Organizations based in one of Being’s 12 priority countries.  
• Organizations based in any low- and middle-income country partnering with a local organization based in at least one of the 12 priority countries.
• Other eligible organizations.

How to Apply

Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis. This means that applications are continually accepted and reviewed at specific intake periods.

All applications will involve a two-stage application process:  

• Completing a screening questionnaire and submitting a project summary (stage one); and  
• Submitting a full project application (stage two). Only those applications that pass screening (stage one) will be invited to submit a full application (stage two).

Deadline to register for Fluxx to submit applications for current intake: April 23, 2024, at 11:59 p.m. EDT (3:59 a.m. GMT)

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