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How to submit a grant request digitally

This article explains step by step how to submit a grant request to a participating funding organization.

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Written by Anne Mayer
Updated over 2 months ago

With our application and grant management system, funding organizations can submit their grant requests online via stiftungschweiz.ch. This article explains how to proceed as an applicant to submit a grant request to a participating funding organization - step by step from registration to final submission. Depending on whether you are submitting your grant request on behalf of an organization or as an individual, you will need to proceed differently.

Submitting a grant request as an organization

  1. Register on stiftungschweiz.ch as a Nonprofit.

  2. Complete your personal details.

  3. Search for your organization and apply for organizational representation if your organization is already registered on stiftungschweiz.ch. If it is not yet registered, skip this step.

  4. Select the ‘Free’ access option and confirm your e-mail address.

  5. If your organization is not yet registered on stiftungschweiz.ch, create your organization. You can find detailed instructions on how to do this in this article.

  6. After you have created your organization and finished editing the organization portrait, have it verified by us so that it can be published on the platform.

  7. Once you have created your organization, create the project on stiftungschweiz.ch for which you would like to submit a grant request and publish it as soon as you have entered all the details.

  8. Search for the funding organization to which you would like to submit your grant request, either directly via the search field above or via our ‘Search’.

  9. Submit your grant request. This article explains how to submit your application and how to manage your draft and submitted grant requests.

Please note: You can only submit your grant request once your organization has been published and you have published your project. You can publish the project in private mode for the grant request submission if you do not want it to be visible to all users of the platform.

Submitting a grant request as an individual

  1. Register on stiftungschweiz.ch as an individual.

  2. Complete your personal details.

  3. Select the ‘Free’ access option and confirm your email address.

  4. In your Profile, fill in your short biography under About me and your role under Personal detailsand add a document that is central to your grant request, such as your CV, on the right. To edit your role, click on the pencil icon on the right next to Personal details’.

  5. Search for the funding organization to which you would like to submit your grant request, either directly via the search field above or via our ‘Search’.

  6. Submit your grant request. This article explains how to submit your grant request and how to manage your draft and submitted grant requests.

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