Opportunities
NYDA Youth Service Grant Competition
Opportunity closing date:
Tuesday, 30 June, 2015
Opportunity type:
Grants
The National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) has conceptualised the Youth Service Grants Competition. Which will call for entries from young people nationally who are currently involved in community work or those who have a concept/idea but require some funding to get the idea off the ground.
The main objective of the competition is for young people to develop poverty elevation, HIV and AIDS, alcohol and drug abuse related ideas which provide benefits to the community whilst developing the abilities of young people through service and learning. This is informed by an understanding that: young people are disengaged because of a sense of powerlessness and irrelevance as opposed to apathy or disinterest; overcoming this sense of powerlessness and irrelevance requires access to opportunities for participation as individuals as well as a generation; their sense of efficacy increases when they are connected to issues that matter.
The competition will assist in achieving the objective as young people be motivated to become pioneers of changing their communities through service. The Competition will target hundred (100) young people or youth organizations in all nine (9) provinces. The winners of the competition are expected to be represented in all provinces with a bias to rural areas. The winners of the competition will be expected to impact on one hundred (100) young people’s lives through their initiative or idea in their community giving us a total number of 10 000 young people reached through the competition. All applicants will be measured against a set criteria in order to determine the ultimate winning youth organizations or young people.
The NYDA Youth Service Grants Competition will this see 100 young volunteers winning R10 000 in funding to be used for their initiatives.Proposed intervention areas
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Fighting against poverty
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Fighting HIV and AIDS
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Fighting alcohol and drug abuse
The following criteria will be used by the committee to assess applications and award 100 young people or organisations with R10 000 in grant funding:
- Proposal relevant to any of the three (3) targeted health and wellbeing areas completed as per the NYDA entry form
- Clear action plan with sustainability plan of the project that should be implemented over a minimum period of a week and more.
- Clear budget breakdown and fundraising plan
- Outreach/ recruitment plan for the 50 young people that the project will impact on.
- Each proposal will be evaluated on one (1) of the identified health and wellbeing related areas of intervention as the main focus of the project
- Organisations or young people submitting a proposal inclusive of all the intervention areas will be disqualified.
Please note that all successful competitors will be liable to meet additional terms and conditions before the payment of prize money will take place.
The competition closes on the 30th of June 2015. No late or incomplete applications will be accepted. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Email and hand delivered applications will not be accepted. Applicants that would not have received any communication should consider their application unsuccessful. Please ensure that all your supporting documents are attached before clicking submit. All winners will have to recruit a minimum of 50 volunteers that they will implement the project with prior them receiving the prize.100 youth service grants to the value of 1 000 000 up for grabs, for more information, click here.
Enquiries
Call centre: 0800 52 52 52
Email: [email protected]
For more about The National Youth Development Agency, refer to www.nyda.gov.za.
To view other opportunities, refer to http://www.ngopulse.org/opportunities/other.
