financial support

If you wish to submit a grant application to Stichting Kinderpostzegels Nederland, your project must meet a number of criteria regarding focus, activities and financing. In addition to these criteria there are a number of restrictions you should bear in mind.

criteria concerning focus and activities

• Children and their immediate interests should be central.
• The rights of the child should be the point of departure for the project.
• The main emphasis should be on integrating the children, e.g. enabling them to attend an ordinary school with other children.
• The project should focus on supporting children in their own neighbourhood and surroundings.
• The project should be rooted in the local community.
• Where possible there should be some participation by children and parents.
• Consultation, exchange of know-how and collaboration with local experts and with the authorities are essential.
• Projects, especially innovative ones, should aim to serve as an model to others.

financial criteria

• The applicant should also make some kind of contribution, possibly by supplying manpower.
• The project’s financial structure must be transparent, i.e. there must be a budget and a financing scheme available.
• It is important for the project to be sustainable. The application should explain how the project will continue after the grant comes to an end.

restrictions

• Emergency aid will not be considered for funding.
• Applicants from outside the listed countries are not eligible for funding, with the exception of applications for projects that have a regional or international effect.
• Kinderpostzegels does not grant money to projects that are the responsibility of the government.
• Kinderpostzegels does not provide any grants in the form of individual aid.
• Orphanages and residential homes, other than short-term shelters for reintegration and rehabilitation, are excluded.
• Kinderpostzegels does not finance any institutions with a profit motive. Fund formation is also not financed.
• Kinderpostzegels does not finance projects which involve curative medical care, formal education or judicial activities.
• Kinderpostzegels does not assist projects in the field of research.