Grants

Grants

Individual applications

• The Foundation’s Board of Directors meets once a month in order to evaluate applications received from individuals.

• Applicants are sent information on the outcome of the board meeting in writing. For successful applications, grants are provided against invoices, which the Foundation will pay up to the height of the grant provided. Previously paid invoices are not reimbursed.

• The Foundation does not provide grants for motor vehicles, disabled-access adaptations to flats and private houses, or for certain physical therapy aids.

Submitting the application:

• Any individual 18 years or older may apply for a foundation grant.

• The application must be submitted in writing and signed by the applicant.

• The application must contain the reason why the applicant is asking for support.

• For the purchase of materials or services, applicants should indicate the price, the percentage they can finance themselves, and any grants promised from other sources (such as such as health insurers, regional or municipal government, companies or other foundations).

• The application must contain contact information: mailing address, telephone or mobile phone number, e-mail address.

• Applications for grants from the Education Fund are submitted using a special form. This form and detailed information on required appendices are published on the above-mentioned Foundation website under the Education Fund programme.

• The cover letter should indicate whether and when in the past the applicant has applied for a grant from the Committee of Good Will – Olga Havel Foundation, and how the application was settled.

Additional requirements:

• Certification stating the previous year’s total family income and the number of family members; if the family or individual is living on government welfare payments, it is enough to indicate this fact in the application.

• A copy of a recent medical report on the applicant’s state of health or decisions by governmental bodies on the provision or denial of aid, as well as court decisions or other documents which may be important for assessing the application.

• The Board of Directors evaluates organisations’ grant applications as part of regularly announced calls for applications. The deadline for grant applications for each relevant programme can be found on www.vdv.cz.

• Foundation grants are provided against signed invoices or partial invoices, which the Foundation pays up to the height of the approved grant.

• Grants for covering organisations’ operational costs are provided only in exceptional and properly substantiated cases.

• The Foundation does not provide loans or assistance for clearing debts, or for the purchase of real estate.

Submitting the application:

• The application is submitted by filling in a form whose template can be found for each programme.

• The application must be submitted in writing and signed by the organisation’s statutory representative.

• The cover letter should indicate whether and when in the past the applicant has applied for a grant from the Committee of Good Will – Olga Havel Foundation, and how the application was settled.

• 1 copy of the organisation’s registration (only when applying for a grant from the Committee of Good Will – Olga Havel Foundation for the first time or if there has been a change in the organisation’s activities since the last application).

• 1 simple project budget.

• For applications for the reimbursement of investment expenses, 1 copy of an extract from the real estate register.

• If the applicant is not the organisation’s statutory body, 1 copy of a document entitling the applicant to act in the organisation’s name (power of attorney).

• 1 annual report for the most recent accounting period (we prefer electronic format or a link to a web page where the report can be found).

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