Cooperation Programs

Tolerance Grants Initiative: Overview

The Tolerance Grants Initiative aims to promote greater understanding among different religious and ethnic groups in Russia.

Tolerance grants foster greater inclusion and appreciation of ethnic and religious diversity. They DO NOT promote the exclusion of one group or the promotion of one group over others. A religious affiliation does not prevent an organization from participating in the program as long as the project does not promote any particular religious group, confession or its tenets.

The Tolerance Grants Initiative supports projects that include participants from different conflicting segments of a community working together to improve relations.

Good projects will demonstrate an understanding of some of the underlying causes of local animosities and present a plan for addressing those causes to reduce conflict. Excellent proposals will not only reduce conflict but encourage cooperation and good relations. The Tolerance Grants Initiative encourages applicants to look for and build upon the values shared among groups and members of groups.

Proposals must contain accurate and well-developed implementation plans and clear explanations of how the project goals will be achieved. Complete projects will be given preference over individual activities such as conferences, publications, or round tables. A complete project involves a sequence of coherent events, logically interwoven and linked in time, designed to achieve specific goals within a particular time frame, focusing on target audiences, and leading to concrete and measurable results that will directly benefit the local community.

This initiative does NOT support:

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