Funding Your Program
A placement with The Humanity Exchange will be one of the most rewarding experiences of your life, and a true investment in your personal learning. In order to fund your program, beyond personal contributions, you can consider fundraising, grants, and scholarships to help finance your program. The program fee enables us to provide you with the highest possible level of support, ensure quality in our programming, and avoid burdening our partners with financial demands. To learn more about why we charge a program fee, read The Cost of Doing Good.
Fundraising
With careful planning, creativity, and commitment to your goal, you can fundraise enough to cover program fees, airfare, and more. Donors will be satisfied to know that their money has far-reaching benefits. They are enabling you to have an incredible learning and life-changing experience, and they are positively contributing to communities in need through your actions. All participants receive a fundraising kit when preparing to go abroad. It will provide you with advice, direction, and ideas for fundraising in your community. Furthermore, we recommend you to start a blog so that sponsors can see for themselves all of the great things you are doing. Meet Our Volunteers to see some examples.
Grants & Scholarships
For Everybody
The Global Fund for Children (GFC) and the International Center of Photography (ICP) jointly administer a fellowship program that sends promising photographers to developing countries to capture positive images of children.
The Glimpse Correspondents Program is open to talented writers and photographers, between the ages of 18 & 36, who will be volunteering abroad for at least ten weeks. The program includes a 600USD stipend, guaranteed publication, and other professional support.
Start searching for grants by viewing information at The Foundation Centre. You will find an index of granting directories. Find the granting directory most relevant to you, and head to your local library to start researching.
If you are a college or university student, check to see if your school has any financial support. A placement with The Humanity Exchange demonstrates ambition, leadership, and global citizenship. Often schools will support this financially. If you are earning course credit by doing an Internship Abroad with The Humanity Exchange, this increases the likleihood of financial support from your school.
If you are a working professional, ask your employer what they do to support volunteerism. Making them aware of what you are doing may encourage them to contribute financially to your endeavour.
For Canadians
The Students for Development Program provides 10,000 CAD for university students to complete a three to four month Internship Abroad. The placement must be focused on good governance, and students must be returning to full time studies in the fall.
For Scots
If you are over 18, earn £22,000 or less, and live in Scotland, ILA Scotland will provide you with £200 to learn something new. This can be directly applied to learning Spanish Abroad or learning French Abroad.