Social Innovation Fund Ireland Early Childhood Fund

Call for Applications Social Innovation Fund Ireland are calling for applications from innovative projects or programmes in Ireland that focus on improving outcomes for children from prenatal development through to six years of age

An Application Partnership As part of the application requirements, applicants are asked to bring a donor along as a partner If the applicant is successful, we will uplift your donation by providing a 50% uplift on the funds raised by the applicant as well as delivering other supports such as training, impact measurement and capacity building.

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The Early Childhood Fund The Early Childhood Fund has been created by Social Innovation Fund Ireland (SIFI) in partnership with the Department of Rural and Community Development who provide match funding for all philanthropic funds raised by Social Innovation Fund Ireland, via the Dormant Accounts Fund. The Early Childhood Fund will provide critical support to projects and services who focus on families in Ireland who need the most help in achieving better outcomes for their children. As part of the application requirements, we are asking applicants to demonstrate that they have secured private or philanthropic funding for the duration of this fund. If the applicant is successful, we will match their donation by providing a 50% uplift on their funds, as well as delivering other supports such as training, impact measurement and capacity building.

Awards Offer Successful Awardees will receive: 50% uplift on funds raised by applicants (applicants must provide evidence to verify the private funding has been secured) Peer to peer networking and knowledge sharing Training workshops Impact measurement A platform for awardees to showcase their work at an awards event

Awards Offer please edit based on your ask Donation Request Early Childhood Fund Uplift Your funds per year No. of years Total donor funds SIFI Uplift (50%) per year SIFI total uplift for 3 years Total funds (Including donor and SIFI uplift) over 3 years €20,000 3 €60,000 €10,000 €30,000 €90,000 The Early Childhood Fund provides a total uplift to the €60,000 of €30,000 making a total fund of €90,000. This €90,000 is paid over the 3 years at €30,000 p.a (€20,000 donor funds and €10,000 SIFI uplift).

Testimonial from previous SIFI Education Fund Awardees "Our application to the Education Fund enabled us to approach new funders and having the uplift made it so much simpler to approach people. The uplift went not just to our project, but also to research and validation and this as much as the extra income made our donors so committed to the cause” Jonathan Doyle Citywise “The uplift has been hugely beneficial for us. We have been able to expand from four to six schools. Not only has the fund been financially beneficial but also the peer learning network has been a huge advantage, a huge learning to us and brought our thinking to a whole other level’’ Janice Mc Garry Aspire2 …...”the fund support has been fantastic, in terms of the training provided by SIFI around key elements, thinking through our entire approach from theory of change to modeling what our end game is going to be and how we are going to achieve social impact” Thomas Murray An Cosán

Richard Bruton, Minister for Education and Skills ‘My Department is very supportive of this initiative, and we hope that individuals and groups with solutions to this social issue will submit applications.’’ Richard Bruton, Minister for Education and Skills

About Social Innovation Fund Ireland Our purpose is to find and back the best social innovations in Ireland so that they grow and maximise their impact

About Social Innovation Fund Ireland Social Innovation Fund Ireland (SIFI) was created in 2013 by the Irish Government to stimulate philanthropy and to support social innovation. To date, we’ve opened funds tackling issues such in health, education, community resilience, tech4good and social enterprise development. We’ve raised over €11 million to supported 57 social innovations across Ireland. We are fast building momentum to become a significant force in helping attack social disadvantage and exclusion across a broad spectrum of Irish society.

Who we have worked with

SIFI Board of Directors Shane Deasy, Founder of BitBuzz Dalton Philips, CEO DAA Terrence O’Rourke, Chair of the Board, Enterprise Ireland Caitriona Fottrell, Director, The Ireland Funds Alf Smiddy, Director, Dalata Group Deirdre Mortell, CEO, Former CEO of One Foundation SIFI Board also includes: Gareth Morgan, Vice President, Google John Higgins, Former CEO Retirement Planning Council

Thank You Anne Dermody Anne@socialinnovation.ie 087 2593884 Padraic Vallely Padraic@socialinnovation.ie 085 1261085