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Instructions for applicants
Please read through OUR Eligibility Criteria BEFORE USING THE ENQUIRY FORM:
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If you believe your project may be eligible for FCF funding based on the above Eligibility Criteria, please fill out the Enquiry Form below (please note that if your enquiry does not meet our Eligibility Criteria, we may not respond)
FCF will reach out to enquiries and help you to work out whether FCF is a good fit for your project
The FCF Secretariat will work with you to prepare the application documents (found in the application packs below)
The application is submitted to the FCF Grants Committee
We have quarterly application rounds, the deadlines for which are the third week of March, June, September and December
The Grants Committee meets quarterly to review applications for five-year grants
One the project is approved by the Grants Committee and a donor has been identified, FCF disburses the first three months of funds
Each quarter, your project will submit a brief activity report and budget of how the grant was spent
FCF checks the forest is intact using Starling Verification and approves the next quarterly payment to be transferred
Once per year, you will submit an annual report of how your project used the previous year’s funds
The Grants Committee reviews and re-approves projects on an annual basis, they can also request specific or random field visits
If you are unsure about whether you reach the eligibility requirements, we encourage you to still reach out to us using the Enquiry Form below - we are working to be more flexible to the country and contexts where forest stewards are practicing.
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(Please note, all documents are currently in English, Spanish and Indonesian but we are working to get them translated into Portuguese and French - coming soon!)
Applicant Enquiry form (Please read eligibility criteria above before enquiring)
Please note the eligibility requirements in the form below (and in the documents above). If the project is clearly ineligible, we will likely not respond to the enquiry.