Local Changemaker Grants from "ici. here together."

You must develop ideas and measures to achieve the following goals: "Celebrating and strengthening voluntary work" and "Promoting equal collaboration within your own organisation". 

These ideas will be assessed on the basis of the following criteria:

• Focused
  The organisations clearly show which specific ideas and measures they will apply to achieve the main objectives.
• Ambitious and careful
  The ideas are ambitiously planned out and carefully thought through.
• Realisable
  The measures are realistic and can be implemented on time.
• Participation
  Members of the organisation are actively involved in the planning and implementation.

• Individuals or for-profit organisations
• Public organisations without a non-profit partnership
• Private and public schools
• Organisations and projects based abroad

All criteria can be found here in the information sheet.
 

The Changemaker Grants from "ici. here together." are aimed at non-profit organisations that are committed to integration or living together in the areas "Here together in everyday life" and "Growing up multilingual here, together".

The Changemaker Grants must be used in such a way that they help you to achieve two main objectives:

Celebrating and strengthening voluntary work

• Better supporting volunteers and appreciating their work
• Defining who coordinates and is responsible for volunteering
• Strengthening the skills of volunteers

Promoting equal collaboration

• Critically scrutinising structures and processes
• Making information accessible to all
• Promoting diversity in decision-making groups and enabling greater co-determination

• Contributions for rental costs or ongoing material costs
• Ongoing project activities that were not developed as part of the Changemaker Grants. You can submit such projects here.
• Projects that include pure communication measures without a clear connection to the object of the funding
• Research, medical services, congresses or school activities (e.g. school camps)
• Projects that pursue ideological, undemocratic or unethical goals
• Projects of no social relevance that only pursue an organisation’s internal objectives

As a first step, the "ici. here together." project team will check whether you meet the criteria.

The jury, consisting of representatives from all language regions, then discusses all applications that do fulfil the criteria. It selects 10 to 15 projects to be sponsored by "ici. here together.".

The members of the jury have expertise and experience in the areas of integration, migration, participation, anti-discrimination and volunteering. We make sure that different perspectives are represented on the jury.

The call for applications will run from 27 January to 21 March 2025.

The financial support and accompanying programme will run for three years from May 2025 to the end of 2027.

You will be notified in May 2025 via the Migros Commitment application portal.

A Changemaker Grant amounts between CHF 60'000 to CHF 150'000, which is paid out over a period of three years (2025 - 2027).

• Participation in the kick-off event on 22 May 2025 (mandatory)
• Organisation of exchange opportunities and workshops and providing advice aimed at supporting the ideas around the topics of "Celebrating and strengthening voluntary work" and "Promoting equal collaboration within your own organisation".
• The programme management of "ici. here together." will visit you once a year.