{"id":35064,"date":"2021-03-11T15:52:52","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T15:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafonline.org\/?page_id=35064"},"modified":"2024-06-11T09:34:41","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T09:34:41","slug":"what-we-fund","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rafonline.org\/en\/grants\/what-we-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"What we fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Romanian-American Foundation only funds those non-governmental organizations that share common objectives and meet the eligibility criteria.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>RAF uses two types of financial instruments:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Grants<\/strong>\u2013 non-repayable funds<\/li>\n<li><strong>Project-Related Investments<\/strong>(<strong>PRIs<\/strong>) \u2013 repayable grants (bridge PRIs, working capital, guarantees etc.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>GRANTS<\/h3>\n<p>Grants allow partner organizations to implement projects that serve both our partner\u2019s and RAF\u2019s mission and objectives. We identify creative partners with a sound program management experience and a strong track record, able to propose feasible ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the identified needs and opportunities, we award grants for pilot projects (aimed at testing a specific type of intervention), consolidation grants (continued funding for projects that demonstrated success in the pilot phase), capacity building grants (to help consolidate the organizations we work with), seed grants (initial capital for jumpstarting an organization) and communication grants that align with our common values.<\/p>\n<p>For more information regarding our grants, please see the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rafonline.org\/en\/what-we-do\/how-we-work\/\">HOW WE WORK<\/a>\u00a0section.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>PROGRAM RELATED INVESTMENTS (PRIS)<\/h3>\n<p>PRIs are financial instruments drawing their roots from the business sector, and are relatively new to philanthropy. RAF developed the PRI mechanism in order complement the existing grant mechanisms used by the organization to achieve its programmatic results. RAF also uses PRIs to expand its impact. The capital used in PRI is repaid, meaning that the invested funds are recycled into new charitable endeavors.<\/p>\n<p>Some of our partner organizations\u2019 initiatives may benefit from a PRI if they are in line with RAF\u2019s strategy and mission and if the candidate organization proves that it is capable of reimbursing the capital.<\/p>\n<p>This product is typically used to cover programmatic expenses in cost-reimbursable EU grants.<\/p>\n<p>When using this financial instrument, organizations that are PRI recipients adapt their daily operations (such as cash flow management) and consolidate their financial management capacity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA<\/h3>\n<p>Borrowers are selected on an invitation only basis.\u00a0 When selecting prospective clients for PRIs, RAF will target organizations that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>are Romanian registered non-governmental charitable organizations and\/or their social enterprises active in the fields covered by RAF\u2019s strategic priorities (rural economy, technology &amp; innovation, civil society &amp; philanthropy) and that can further RAF\u2019s mission in their respective field of activity.\u00a0 Individually owned business entities are not eligible to become borrowers.<\/li>\n<li>demonstrate a satisfactory income source over the relevant period in order to satisfy the cash flow requirements (probable agreements for partnership include projects with the Romanian Government for EU structural funds or other governmental funds; foreign governmental organizations; income generated from an economic activity run by the respective NGO).<\/li>\n<li>demonstrate the ability to use RAF\u2019s capital productively and repay RAF.<\/li>\n<li>do not use the funds directly or indirectly for lobbying or political purposes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Romanian-American Foundation only funds those non-governmental organizations that share common objectives and meet the eligibility criteria. &nbsp; RAF uses two types of financial instruments: &nbsp; Grants\u2013 non-repayable funds Project-Related [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9147,"parent":35020,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/ce-finantam.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-35064","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35064"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/rafonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36788,"href":"https:\/\/rafonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35064\/revisions\/36788"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}