Mutual Capacity and Development Grant(MCDG)

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Mutual Capacity Development Grant (MCDG)

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The Mutual Capacity Development Grant helps fellows develop skills and gain knowledge that advance their professional, intellectual, and personal development while simultaneously enabling them to help improve the capacity of the MF Network to which they belong. Specifically, the grant covers investments in training, education, conferences and workshops or other learning activities in line with the MF’s Guiding Principle or strategic criteria.

Some illustrative examples of possible supported activities are:

* Courses or other types of training on topics such as team management, cross-cultural communication, distance learning, writing and editing, budgeting, Web design, fundraising, etc. that the grantee can use to grow individually and support one of his or her roles in the MF (e.g. workgroup mentor; Solution Group; Symposium organizer, speaker, or facilitator; volunteer publications editor; website development, BOD rep., Project Group leader, etc.)
* Content training that can be applied to MF activities such as in the symposium theme or project group.(For example, taking a comparative film course for a Project.Culture member to increase the impact of the MF global film festival.)
* Presenting a paper or participating in panel or talk at a local or international conference, seminar, or workshop on a subject related to the MF’s mission and activities, such as comparative discussion of a global issue, intercultural topics, international education, or drawing from specific MF experiences.

Groups (including TTs as members) as well as individual fellows can apply for this grant.

Award Criteria and Requirements

In order to successfully apply to the MCDG, the grantee has to meet the following criteria:

* Produces tangible and measurable benefit for both the grantee and MF community.

Support for activities in the applicant’s field of study are welcome provided there is a clear and direct relationship or application to the MF’s activities or Guiding Principle. Pure training in one’s field or profession is not sufficient, in and of itself, to qualify.
* The activity must contain thematic relevance to either the MFs Guiding Principle or one of the six strategies in the current Strategic Plan

(see appropriate section of the strategic plan document).
* Administrative Criteria and Requirements.

The grantee must carefully review the MF Grant Policy prior to completing their application to this grant. All Applications to this grant must adhere to the MF Grant Policy which governs all grants.

Budget

Please download the MCDG Budget Template, complete and upload it with your application.
Application Information

Application window (I-2008): 01-April - 01-May
Application window (II-2008): 01-October - 01-November
Amounts of Grant: min. US$ 250 - max. US$ 2,500

To fill in your application, please go to:
http://fd2.formdesk.com/mf1/MCDG_I-2008
(password: opendoor)

For inquiries contact the Education Program Area of the Grant Committee at:
Education_PA@meltonfoundation.org

temporarily under this grant Campus-2-Campus Grant temporarily under this grant

Award Criteria and Requirements

The criteria of the Campus-2-Campus Grant are in line with the MCDG criteria. In addition, the main intention of this grant is to either:

1. establish exchange treaties among the Melton Foundation campuses.

or

2. study at another MF university thus strengthening the bonds between the visiting fellows and the host campus as a result of the visitor(s) actively participating and integrating in the host campus life and the activities of its MF program.

Application Information

Application window 2008: rolling application until 15-April
Amounts of Grant: min. US$ 250 - max. US$ 1,500

To fill in your application, please go to:
http://fd2.formdesk.com/mf1/Campus-2-Campus_I-2008
(password: opendoor)

For inquiries contact the Education Program Area of the Grant Committee at:
Education_PA@meltonfoundation.org